Vol. 1.— No. li 



AND GARDENER'S JOURNAL. 



14:* 



THE REV ROBERT HALL. 



The laie intelligence from England announ- 

 ces the death of that celebrated divine, the 

 Re?. Robert Hall, of Bristol, March 7th ; the 

 most distinguished Baptist divine of the age i 

 the interment took place on the 9lh. It is stal- 

 ed by a gentleman long and intimately ac- 

 quainted with the late Mr. Hall, that he as 

 cended the pulpit, and preached his first ser 

 mon when about 15 ^ears old, attended by 

 his delighted Father. No wonder he should 

 have shone the most eloquent of preach 

 ers, when his extraordinary powers werelhu- 

 earlr developed. Mr. flail pieached extem- 

 pore, and was generally exact in the leugth 

 of time taken up with his sermons. In his 

 church was a clock opposite the pulpit, a ne- 

 cessary requisite to a preacher like himself ; 

 an hour glided rapidly, nut tediously to his 

 hearers ; but as soon as it was expired, he al 

 tvays closed his vivid, impassioned, argument- 

 ative, or impressive discourse; without an) 

 superfluous subdividing, or Spinning out, or 

 applying and improving in all the tediously 

 minute methods of mere school taught divini- 

 ty. He had more of the flowing fulness and 

 majesty of Cicero, than the dry technicalities 

 of schoolmen. Without a timepiece, hie ex- 

 uberance of thought would have prolonged 

 the exercises ol the sanctuary beyond the 

 limits usually appropriated to such services, 

 and would have thereby subjected his feeble 

 health to great exhaustion; and it was to e 

 conomize his bodily powers and prolong his 

 usefulness, that the Deacon, in a desk under 

 his pulpit, gave out the hymns, and officiated 

 during the sacrament of baplisn. Those only 

 who atlended upon his preaching during the 

 greatest vigor of bis mind, can feel and justly 

 estimate his fervid eloquence and astonishing 

 copiousness in prayer; it was in the exercise 

 of prayer that all the Iranscendant power and 

 zeal of his soul was poured forth, in supplica- 

 tioD before the throne of (he Eternal ; it was 

 like the bright and glorious visions of St. John; 

 with h'm, the contrite soul was elevated ''a- 

 midst the splendors and fruitions of the beatific 

 \ i6ion.'' 



silliman's journal. 

 The April number of this Journal contains 

 a number of valuable papers upon various 



branches of the arts and sciences, among otb 

 ers an article upon the " Protection of Per 

 sons from Fire," being an analysis of the Che- 

 valier Aldini's art of preserving from the ac 



lion of flame, &c. illustrated by three litho- 

 graphic plates. Also an article on the means 



of safety in steamboats; one on the use of 

 Carburelted hydrogen gas as fuel ; and a des 



cription of an economical steamboat; al) of 



which are quite apropos at this time. 



There arrived at the American Colony in 

 Africa, from 9th to 29th Jan. one ship, seven 

 brigs, and three schooners, besides vessels 

 belonging to the colonists. Among them was 

 a brig from France, a ship from Liverpool, 

 and three brigs and a schooner from the U. 

 States. Some of the colonists are said to be 

 worth from $10,000 to gl5,0OO. 



Mr. Letcher, who has been for so many 

 years an efficient representative in Congress 

 from Kentucky, and who had declined a re- 

 election, has consented to stand again It is 

 expected that he will ba re-elected without 

 Opposition. 



The Hartford Mirror says that a Fur Seal, 

 weighing more than an hundred pounds, was 

 caught in a small river setting up from the 

 ocean, and not more than thirty or forty miles 

 from Harlford, after the storm last week. 



Aiming the donations to the Ainei lean Col 

 oniKation Society, acknowledged in the Afri 

 can Repository for April, is one of $100 from 

 ex-President Madison. 



FOR GREEN BAY. 



The steamboat Sheldon Thompson is ad 

 vertised to leave Buffalo for Gieen Bay, on 

 the 4th of June, at 9 o'clock, A. M. 



MILITARY. 



At an election held at Seneca Falls on the 

 27th ult. Col. Joseph Petit, of Cayuga co. 

 was elected General of 2d Brigade ot Rifle- 

 men, in place of Blig. Gen. B Whiting, pro 

 moted to the office of Major General of the 

 Division. 



John W. Felder is elected to Congress,over 

 Mr. Preston, in Columbia, S- C- by a majori- 

 ty of 260. Mr. Felder is a decided anli-nul- 

 lifier. 



Philip M'Loskey, Esq. resigned the office of 

 President of the U.S. Branch Bank in Mobile; 

 Jonathan Hunt, Esq. was on the 8th inst. elec- 

 ted to fill the vacancy 



John Quincy Adams and family, have left 

 Washington, their winter residence, and re- 

 turned to Quincy, Mass. 



Henry Didier, Esq. of Baltimore, bearer of 

 despatches from our Government to Mr.Rives' 

 at the French Court, has arrived in town, 

 and sails to-morrow, in the packet ship De 

 HI. am, for Havie. — JV. Y. Mercantile Adv. 



The body of a young woman, supposed to 

 have been drowned, was found at Musser's 

 Fishery, in Chanceford Township, on the 

 I lib inst. She had on a calico frock, lace 

 hoots, white cotton stockings, fastened with 

 elastic garters, with silver clasps, and on her 

 fingers two rings, one of gold, the other a 

 metal unknown. She had no bead dress. — 

 There was notbmg about her person to give 

 any clue to her name. — York tiepub. 



UNITED STATES REVENUE. 



The following is a statement of the United 



States Revenue, secured at this port for the 

 year 1830:— 



1st quarter, $2,287,045 68 



2d do 4,009,478 24 



3d do 4,781,128 33 



4tb do 3,934,906 04 



Total, $15 012,553 29 



In the year 1829, (be whole United States 

 Revenue arising from the customs was $22,- 

 681.965 91. For the year ending 31st Dec 

 1830,ihe Secretary of the Treasury in his Re- 

 port of Dec 15, estimated the revenue or cus 

 toms at $22,293,122 74, and of this sum near- 

 ly three Jburths have been secured at the port 

 of New York. It is pnbable that the actual 

 receipts of the revenue for 1830 will exceed 

 the estimates; but it is certain that the re 

 ceipts of the customs since the commencement 

 of the present year have very much exceeded 

 those for the corresponding period of last year. 

 Several reasons are given accounting for this 

 increase; among others that more importations 

 have been made from England during the 

 last two months, than anyone expected. It 

 is stated that English capitalists afraid of the 

 ■• signs" in England, are very anxious to send 

 out property here in the shape of manufac- 

 tures, and have the proceeds invested in A- 

 merican stocks. — JV. Y. Cour. 



The Liverpool Packet Company will con- 

 tinue their operations, and they have ordered 

 the keels of two first rate ships to be laid. — 

 The number of arrivals from foreign ports up 

 to the 20th ult. exceeded that far the same 

 time last year by fifty sis L 



COMMERCE l.F 1'IIIL ADLLrHI A. 



The Philadelphia Chronicle inlbrms us, that 

 the amount of duties at iliat port, for (be quar- 

 ter ending April 1, 1831, is estimated at one 

 million of dollars ; being an excess over the 

 corresponding quaiter of 1830, of $500000. 

 The duties for the prexent month, up to the 

 27th, amount to about $600,000. 



The same paper adds, that preparations are 

 making to build extensively, and the prc.s. 

 pect is, that mechanics' as well as every other 

 kind of business, will be in active and profita- 

 ble operation. 



The Boston Patriot says — Some persons 

 dressed as Indians, on Saturday night, went 

 upon South Boston Bridge, broke the chains, 

 letdown the draws and made the bridge pas- 

 sable The bridge bad been barricadoed by 

 vote of the proprietors, who did not I'ke to 

 keep the bridge in repair and accommodate 

 the public at their corporate expense. 



METEOROLOGICAL, TABLE* 



for the week ending April 30, 1831 . 



Observation? 



white frost 



2*10 inch 

 1-10 hick 



J3°TAe Barometrical and Thcrmometrical ohser^a- 

 lions arc registered at 10 o'clock A M. and P. M.,tehttfi 

 by a long series of experiments made fur the pvrpost, 

 show that time to give a nearer mean average of the 

 relative heat of a day than any other time. 



TO OUR FRIENDS IN THE "WEST, 



On the banks of the Canal, in and about Albany/. 



Twelve years ago, there came forth a host of Seeds- 

 men, with Cobbett at their bead, speaking great swell* 

 iug words — they promised mur.h — they performed noth- 

 ing. From a pijntiag of fifteen dollars, the present state 

 of one establishment will show what good seeds, goou 

 soil, and good cultivation will produce. 



For the accommodation of our customers as above, we 

 intend, 'ootbiug extra preventing) to open a Seed, Plant 

 and Flower Root Store, at No 347 North Market street^ 

 on the 6ih day of April next, opposite the building into 

 which the post office is to be removed on or before the 

 1st of May, witbin a few doors of the Museum, and within 

 pistol shot of the five banks. The business in Albany will 

 be conducted by one of uiy sons, and the store supplied 

 wiibthe same goods, and at the same prices at which we 

 sell in. New York. As we derive our supplies more or 

 less from every quarter of the globe, we think it will be 

 a facility to the agriculturist, as well as profitable to 

 the concerned. IftheytDiH keep pace with the ability, 

 and Providence smiles on the undertaking,! tee nothing 

 to prevent its arriving in a few years <o the same exten- 

 sive footing in Albany as the mother store in New York : 

 for, while the rich in our city purchase the fiVwers and 

 the blossoms, and the rivers and the '>cean carry our seeds 

 to every clime, so in Albany the taste wants only food, 

 and riches are already there in abundance : wbile the 

 caual conveys the seeds to the hake Superior, the great 

 Western Road will transport iheni lar towards the set- 

 ting sun- Nothing that guod seeds and attention tobus- 

 inesB can perform, will be wanting on our part to meet 

 the public expectation 



ap 16 31 G. THORBURN and SONS. 



SEED STORE. 



THE subscribers, in connexion with Mr. N. Goodecll, 

 Editor of the Genesee Farmer, have madofarrangemenle 

 to supply this village and the surrounding country with 

 every variety of Agricultural, Horticultural and Flower 

 Seeds, together with Fruit and Shade Trees.Grape Roots, 

 Flower Pots, Garden Tools, etc. Orders will be recei- 

 ved for Trees and other articles, from the following K u r- 

 series and Seed Stores :— Trince's. and Farmentier'e 

 Long Island; Floy's, Wilson's, Thorburn's, and A, 

 Smith and Co.'s, New York ; Buel's, Albany; and Lan- 

 dreth's, Philadelphia. Orders which are lift previous 

 to the 1st of April, will be filled as soon as the canal o- 

 pens. As the subscribers intend gradually io establish 

 an extensive Seed Store, they tiust that the friends of 

 Agriculture and Horticulture in this vicinity, will render 

 them all the facilities and encouragements in iheir power 



A NURSERY, under the control of Mr. Goodsell, is 

 now in progress, from which many first- rale Trees anA 

 Grape Viaes may be selected for this spring's transplant 

 ing, um 13 ROSS1TER and KNOX. 



