The Alexandrian: A Commercial, Agricultural And Literary Journal

In corroboration of the article we inserted on Tuesday concerning gen. Ripley, we have authority to state that a gentleman who arrived in this town on Tuesday evening: saw the gallant general on the sixth instant, in New Orleans, at which time he was in good health.

The report of gen. R.'s death having gone the rounds of the different journals in the country, reminds us of the anecdote of the Irish barrister, who, when pleading the cause of a client who had entered an action of damages against an editor for erroneously publishing his death, remarked, "that no editor should in future publish any person's death without having it from under the man's own hand writing!"