Alexandria Daily Gazette, Commercial & Political

COMMUNICATION
It must be extremely gratifying to every
friend to the poor, and the lovers of natural
history, to find the rapid success that the
Museum has met with, established by the
Alexandria Washington Lodge, it being a
very short time since it commenced.

The gentleman who volunteered his services in the management of it, is indefatigable in his labors, and possesses that kind of
perseverance that will insure success.

I understand the establishment has met with friends every where, and that the collections have been beyond the most sanguine expectations. I observed with extreme pleasure
many relics that belonged to the former
Master of the Lodge, the illustrious Washington, than whom, if living, no one would be
more delighted to see this institution progress in the manner it is now doing, the object being to relieve the poor and needy, without any distinction whatever, and at the same time instruct his fellow citizens. His fondness for
institutions of that kind, is proved by his different donations to the Museum in Philadelphia and other parts of the United States
where the articles and his name stands recorded.

It is pleasing to find that no one that has
ever been established in America has been
more successful in its collections in the same
time. Many articles have been received from
gentlemen in Congress, and others promised
by members south of the Potomac.

The institution (as it will assist the history
of this part of America) bids fair to be useful
to the district, and highly honorable to its
founder.

It is expected, from the manner the collections are making, in a few months it will be a
place of fashionable resort, and where all may
receive amusement and instruction.

"Ask the beasts and they shall teach thee:
and the fowls of the air and they shall tell
thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare
unto thee, who knowest not in all these that
the hand of the Lord has wrought this? In
whose hand is the soul of every living thing
and the breath of all mankind."

Job XII.7, 8, 9, 10 verses.

It is said a respectable French gentleman
who has lately removed here, is at work on
an elegant and appropriate Painting, which he intends presenting to the Museum. A gentleman of the same profession, who has resided here many years, has kindly offered his
assistance, and is now engaged in ornamenting the room. In short, all classes of our inhabitants, the ladies in particular, appear to have the success of the Museum much at heart,
and have made many handsome donations.—
The smallest article from them, is received
with the most respectful thanks.

But few Books have as yet been collected.
The following are much wanted, which I was
informed would be very gratefully received,
either as donations or on loan, and the utmost
care taken of them: Goldsmith's Animated
Nature, Natural History Animal Biography.
Wilson's American Ornithology, Turton's
Linn of Insects, Buffon's Quadrupeds, Chambers Dictionary, Chambaud's do. American Encyclopædia, British do. Reeves'
lo. Kirwan's Mineralogy, Jamieson's do.
Thomas's System Chemistry, Accum's do.
Black's do. Medical Museum, Pike's Expedition, Ancient Magazines, Wonders of Nature
& Art—and any Books, ancient or modern,
that relate to Natural History, Agriculture, or
the Arts and Sciences.

CIVIS.