Gazette Of The United States

TROY, January 12.

How pleasing must it be to the scholar, the patriot, and the philanthropist, to see learning rise with our rising republic! to see the wealth extracted from the earth, by the toils of the husbandman, and collected from every quarter of the globe, by the enterprise of the merchant; not squandered in injurious luxury and idle show, to preserve the sons of America in inglorious ease; but much of it is devoted to the education of our youth. While we are enabled to contemplate our country, brilliantly illuminated by the rays of science, we should not pass unnoticed the rising village of Troy.

About seven years ago its site was covered with flocks and herds, and the very spot on which a school is now established, was then possibly occupied as a sheep-fold. The school consists of upwards of 160 scholars, directed by three masters, that do honour to their profession. Here is seen the child of poverty as well as those on whom fortune has shed her kinder influence. The man that has no children of his own to educate, adopts those of indigent neighbours. The bachelor devotes a small part of his fortune to the refining of society, which otherwise might be spent in corrupting it: He is here seen in his proper character, "The protector of the daughters of America."

Money thus used is like the water taken from the cataract, and taught to wander thro' the verdant field, its banks covered with flowers to decorate the lass, and its glebe with grass to gladden the heart of the swain.