The Alexandria Herald

ROYAL MUNIFICENCE.

"The king of Prussia, in honor of the great reformer, Martin Luther, has written a letter to M. Luther, inspector of taxes, at Schoenbeck, a descendant from Jacob, brother of Martin the Reformer, and making addition to his salary, and offering a provision for his eldest son, as a student, in the establishment at Halle."

An instance, is hardly to be found in the annals of history, of a man being thus honorably noticed by his government, merely on account of his relationship to one who had lived at the distance of three centuries before him--and one too, in whose plebeian veins there was never drop of blood akin to either royalty or nobility.

The great wicked men of that distant period--however exalted by rank, or however renowned for their prowess --are now scarcely remembered, remembered to be execrated.: while an individual of obscure birth and humble rank, but immensely a doer of good, is after the lapse of centuries, cherished in the memories of countless millions, and will undoubtedly be held in grateful remembrance, by still increasing millions from age to age, as long as the earth itself shall endure.