Vol. 1.— No. 40. 



AND GARDENER'S JOURNAL. 



315 



OPINIONS and TRUTHS. 

 A man who would raise himself above the com- 

 mon current of the world, must learn to govern 

 Ins passions. 



The passions of a successful public speaker is 

 borrowed for the occasion ; is mere stage effect; 

 otherwise the possessor could not so easily part 

 with it. When we see a public speaker melt un- 

 der the influence of his own feelings; 'tis adopted 

 for the occasion ; otherwise it would unman the 

 individual. 



When the fountain of man's tears is broken up, 

 he is in poor condition to lecture. 



A public instructor should therefore, guard a- 

 o-ainst being suddenly overcome by his sensibility. 

 Let him calculate to make impression on others, 

 never on himself. He has a duty to perform. — 

 He guides the solemnities, of the occasion, as the 

 helmsman guides the ship. 



Poverty, with weak minds, invites corruption, 

 and yields a passive compliance to the wickedness 

 of others. So, the man who can withstand the 

 assaults which dependance creates, upon Ins in- 

 tegrity, has a moral courage which belongs to few 

 only. 



It frequently happens, that a single stroke of 

 "■ood fortune, puts a man on the road to wealth, 

 honors, and political preferment, — as he grows 

 older,it is magnified more and more as a conspicu- 

 ous evidence of his judgment ; when thefact was, 

 in the first place, it was the result of accident. 



Any man who accustoms himself to reflection, 

 may improve his memory. It is the memory 

 which is the foundation and depository of learn- 

 ing. There are some whose minds are so com- 

 plicated as not inaptly to represent a tangled skein 

 of silk. They cannot unravel their thoughts.. 

 Such men should attend lectures : the mind can 

 sometimes grasp the geographical position and 

 topographical character of a country, when ex- 

 plained by a lecturer. 



In examining maps, let the learner turn his face 

 to the north. The writer of these hints, when his 

 eye first dwelt with youthful curiosity on the map 

 of Europe.the north was turned to the south. The 

 lapse of more than a third of a century, has passed 

 since that seemingly unimportant event, and the 

 iutpression still is vividly retained. 



Men ever pay homage to genius, when its pos- 

 sessor has plenty of the good things of this world : 

 but let one of his elbows peep out like a sentnel on 

 duty, the fellow is only a pedant, an imitator. 



Error, truth, falsehood, misrepresentation, are 

 synonymous terms with some political parties. 



Custom sometimes gives the name of poverty to 

 .i want of the superfluities of life. 



Poverty may fairly be said to have entered a 

 man's house, when he can obtain neither from his 

 labor or his credit, bread for his family. A con- 

 tented mind is a continual feast, we are told : — but 

 even this feast grows extremely unpalateable, in 

 such a case. 



It is said that a true bred lawyer never contents 



himself with one interpretation of a sentence 

 where another may be found. 



Letters on business, in which there is a studied 

 simplicity or an assumed elegance, ought to be 

 read twice before absolute confidence or unlimited 

 credence is created or granted. 



Men of scant abilities fill up very respectably 

 the measure of life, if they are only aware how 

 little sense they possess. They can assume a 

 smartness ; be particular to retail the latest news ; 

 or, if it is told by another, appear as though they 

 knew all about it. 



Great powers in man can only be profitably ex- 

 ercised on great occasions : so, it may easily hap- 

 pen, that he whose talents were equal to governing 

 states, heading armies, and leading the public 

 sentiment by the nose, rusts away by non-use ; 

 there being nothing splendid to bring him out. — 

 We frequently admire a powerful effort in the 

 Hall of Legislation, in which transcendant abili- 

 ties are developed ; in fifteen cases in twenty, that 

 is the last heard of him. He is loaded with praise 

 and honors, — all give way to him in his career: 

 alas ! the load is too heavy ; he sinks a prey to 

 some fashionable vice, the mortification of his 

 friends and regret of every Patriot. 



Sale of Real Estate. — Yesterday, H. Gay. 

 Master in Chancery, sold the 5 brick stores on 

 Carroll street, the property of late J. Bissell, jr. at 

 auction, as follows : — 



1st store, 

 2d " 

 3d " 

 4th 

 5th 



$6,550 

 5,500 

 5,000 

 4,200 

 2,550 



The stores covered 10G feet of ground in front, 

 the entire sales were $23,800, being $224 53 per 

 foot. 



The Travel from Albany — Rail-Road Statis- 

 tics and Revenue. — The number of passengers, 

 arriving at and departing from Albany daily, is 

 not only much greater than is generally supposed, 

 but it is increasing in a ratio nearly incredible. — 

 Those coming in and going out at a single point, 

 will illustrate this remark. 



From the 10th to the 20th August, there were 

 1,986* passed over the Mohawk and Hudson rail 

 road, or an average of 180{ per day. 



From the 20th August to the 17th September, 

 four weeks, the aggregate number of passengers 

 on that road was 9,029; or an average, daily, of 

 322J. 



This is a revenue equal to $58,766 25 per an- 

 num. The expenses of the road are estimated 

 at $40 per day, or $14,600 per annum. Leav- 

 ing a net revenue of 44,166 25, or nearly 15 per 

 cent, per annum, or $300,000, for a single track. 

 The passengers by the canal and turnpike are es- 

 timated to exceed the number now passing on the 

 rail-road ; so that the actual number of passen- 

 gers to and from Albany in one direction, may be 

 estimated at not less than 600 per day. 



The above returns, it will be perceived, do not 

 include any part of the season of the influx at the 

 Springs, including that season ; with the Sara- 

 toga rail-road in operation (and that work is rap- 

 idly progressing); and with the general abandon- 



ment of othrr modes of travel and transportation, 

 which may be expected when the rail-road shall 

 be completed from one city to the other ; and the 

 number that will pass on the road will average 

 800 per day. 



This fact is not only a striking exhibit of the 

 number of persons arriving at and departing from 

 this city, but of the great and increasing income 

 of the rail-road company. — Alb. Arg. 



NEW- YORK MARKET, OCT. I. 

 From the N. Y. Daily Adv. of Saturday. 

 ASHES — In the early part of the week about 

 500 bbls of pots and 300 bbls pearls were sold 

 within our range, since then the market has been 

 dull, and our quotations, which we continue have 

 been only paid for retail lots. 



Pots lOOOlbs. 5 15 a 5 20 



Peal] s 5 35 a 5 40 



GRAIN — A number of cargoes of southern 

 wheat have arrived since our last, and sales have 

 been made of handsome James river (Va.) at a- 

 bout 122 cents, and fair Rappahannock at 116$ 

 cts. Several parcels of inferior remain unsold. ' 

 Western new has sold at 120 cts. Northern rye 

 has sold at 79 to 80 cents. Northern com at a- 

 bout 73 cts, and southern (poor) at 60 c. Oats at 

 45 cts. all of which are lower than the quotations 

 of last week. 



FLOUR — A fair demand has existed during 

 the week for the eastern states, the West Indies, 

 &c. and the supplies from the interior continuing 

 small, prices have been supported, particularly of 

 western. From the south the receipts increased 

 within a few days, and the demand for southern 

 flour is less than for that of this state. Rye flour 

 and coarse flour of every description are scarce 

 and high. We quote — 



New- York, supr. brl. 5 50 a 5 62 



Troy " 5 75 a 



Western " 5 75 a 6 



DIGHTON, MS. 

 This town is 4 miles from Providence, R. I. and 

 has 2 cotton Factories, running 3585 spindles 

 and 150 looms, and 130 hands employed. 



Botanic Garden at Calcutta. — This es- 

 tablishment has been placed upon a footing 

 surpassing any thing of the kind known in 

 Europe. The spot of ground is no less 

 than five miles in circumference, and up- 

 wards of three hundred gardnersand labor- 

 ers are employed in the charge of it; the 

 superintendence of it is under the care of 

 Doctor Wallich — a pupil of the celebrated 

 Horneman of Copenhagen. Some years 

 ago, the Doctor undertook a journey from 

 Calcutta to Nepaul for the purpose of en- 

 riching the vegetable stores of this superb 

 o-arden. His last excursion was to Ava, 

 immediately after the reduction of the Bir- 

 man Empire by the British Troops. The 

 collections he made of the rarest plants, 

 were added to those already deposited at 

 Calcutta. The mass was supposed to in- 

 clude from eight to nine thousand plants. 

 Botanical Miscellany. 



A bronze statue of Scotch granite, up- 

 wards of 4 tons weight, and 16 feet high, 

 was erected in Hanover square, London, 

 on the 16th ult, to the memory of the late 

 Rt. Hon, William Pitt, 



