Alexandria Gazette, Commercial And Political

Wife and Home.--If a man be not happy in his own house, where shall he look for happiness? It is the proper theatre of a woman's glory; it is the just bounds of a man's felicity. He may indeed, wander in a fruitless search of extraordinary bliss; but the sole of his foot, like that of Noah's dove, will find no rest until returned to the ark of domestic tranquility. The peace he enjoys at home, entitles him to respect abroad, gives joy to his conversation, and adds vigour to his friendship. It is this, also, which consoles in calamity, and plucks out the arrow of ill-natured censure. Happy the man, who, with cool, determined indifference, can withdraw from the world's applause, and be the world's envy; meeting in the smiles of a wife gratification which the former cannot abate by its subtlety nor the latter embitter by its venom.