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THE CULTIVATOR. 
Young Men’s Department. 
(For the Cultivator.) 
EARLY IMPRESSIONS. 
The lendeney which the mind receives in early life, it inclines to follow in 
advancing years. Onr first impressions lake the deepest root, and seem al¬ 
most to become incorporated with our nature. Hence it is, that every indi¬ 
vidual is so set in his first opinions. Our early impressions would prevail with 
us through life, if our opinions could not be altered. But the mind can be af¬ 
fected, and the understanding influenced; therefore, our firstopinion of things 
can be changed and eradicated. The most powerful way, perhaps, to effect a 
change, is the influence of example. Many who, for a tune, possess a moral 
character, become out-casts from society, by associating with the bad. The 
school-boy, that is fond of mischief while at. school, generally commits more 
or less crimes during his life-time, unless changed by good examples, to mend 
his ways. The son of a slovenish farmer, unless his habits are altered, will 
follow his father’s ways, and iTecome a brother to Unthrifty. The child, 
that is nourished with ardent spirits in its infancy, will he laid in a drunkard's 
grave, unless the evil practice be abandoned. The agriculturist, by sleeping 
after sun-rise, will forma habit, which, if continued, wall be the means o'} 
losing the best part of his time, and the cause of a great deal of trouble, 
which might be avoided by early rising. Thus we sec the great importance 
of forming such habits, only, as will render us happy in life, and guide us 
smoothly through that short space of time which is allotted to man. Our 
early impressions have such a bearing upon our nature, that they can easily 
be discovered in old age. When the aged take a retrospective view of early 
life, it raises their ideas with youthful ardor, to the highest degree ol recollec¬ 
tion, and many impressions are brought to mind which were“formed in early 
life. It affords me high gratification, to see so great a number of young men 
engaged in tilling the ground, and receiving such impressions from agricultu¬ 
ral papers, that will render them agreeable in society, and the future glory of 
our large and rising country. Many there are, who pretend that education 
belongs not to the farmer. None will uphold this idea, who have made the 
least progress to the fair Temple of Fame, or else, in early life, received the 
erroneous impression, that none but the lawyer, doctor, merchant, and the 
rich idle man, could be educated to an advantage, or those who intended to 
follow these branches. George Washington, one of the greatest generals that 
ever unsheathed a sword, after gaining our independence, cultivated his firm 
with frugality. His early opinions followed him through all his battles; and 
he lived and died on his possessions, after severe struggling, for more than se¬ 
ven years. J. INGHAM. 
Manheim, Herkimer county. April 12 th, 1836. 
This is the prowess and these the hardy achievements which are to enrol 
your names among the great men of the earth. 
But how are yon to gain the nerve and the courage for enterprises of tins 
pith and moment? I will tell you:—As Milo gained that hoc signo vinces: 
for this must be your work, not that of your teachers. Be you not wanting to 
yourselves, and you will accomplish all that your parents, friends and country 
have a tight to expect. 
EDUCATION OF THE APPETITES. 
It must begin from the earliest infancy, long before the dawn of reason, and 
even anterior to the evolution of the moral sentiment. The rule on which it 
is conducted is a very simple one, applicable to all classes. It is to allow no 
child the indulgence of an appetite or propensity, other than what is required 
by its intuitive wants for its bodily support and health. Nothing is to be con¬ 
ceded by the whim or caprice of a parent to the imaginary wants of a child; 
for it must be constantly borne in mind, that every gratification of every sense, 
whether of taste, sight, sound or touch, is the beginning of a desire for its re¬ 
newal; and that every renewal gives the probability of the indulgence be¬ 
coming a habit;—and that fiabit once formed, even in childhood, will often 
remain during the whole of after life, acquiring strength every year, until it 
sets all laws, both human and divine, at defiance. Let parents who allow 
their children to sip a little of this wine, or just taste lha’t cordial, or who yield 
to the cries of their little ones for promiscuous food, or for liberty to sit up a 
little later, or to torment a domestic animal, or to strike their nurse, or to raise 
the hand against mamma, ponder well on the consequences. If they do not, 
often vain are the after efforts of instructors; vain the monitions from the pulpit. 
Their child is in danger ofgrowing upadrunkard, or aglutton, a self-willed sen¬ 
sualist, or passionate and revengeful; prompt to take the life of a fellow-being, 
and to sacrifice his own; and all this because the fond parents were faithless 
in their trusts. They had not the firmness to do their duty; they feared to 
mortify their child, and in so doing, they expose him in after life to be morti¬ 
fied by the world’s scorn; to wander an unloved, unpitied thing .—Journal of 
Health. 
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SELF-EDUCATION.— by william wirt. 
And this leads me, gentlemen, to another remark, to which I invite yourat- 
tion. It is this;—The education, moral and intellectual, of every individual, 
must chiefly be his own work. There is a prevailing and fatal mistake on this 
subject. It seems to be supposed, that if a young man be sent, first to a gram¬ 
mar school, and then to college, he must of course become a scholar; and the 
pupil himself is apt to imagine that he is to be the mere passive recipient of 
instruction, as he is of the light and atmosphere which surround him. But 
this dream of indolence must be dissipated, and you must be awakened to the 
important truth, that, if you aspire to excellence, you must become active and 
vigorous co-operators with your teachers, and work out your own distinction, 
with an ardor that cannot be quenched—a perseverance that considers nothing 
done whilst any thing yet remains to be done. Rely upon it that the ancients 
were right— Quisque mete fortunes faber, both in morals and intellect, we give 
their final shape to our own characters, and thus become, emphatically, the 
architects of our own fortunes. How else should it happen that young men, 
who have had precisely the some opportunities, should be continually presenting 
uswith such different results, and rushing to such opposite destinies? Difference 
of talent will not solve it, because that difference is very often in favor of the 
disappointed candidate. You shall see issuing from the walls of the same 
school—nay, sometimes from the bosom of the same family—two young men, 
of whom the one shall be admitted to be a genius of high order; the other, 
scarcely above the point of mediocrity: yet you will see the genius sinking 
and perishing in poverty, obscurity and wretchedness; while, on the other 
hand, you wilj observe the mediocre plodding his slow but sure way up the 
hill of life, gaining steadfast footing at every step, and mounting at length to 
eminence and distinction, an ornament to his family, a blessing to his country. 
Now, whose work is this? Manifestly their own. They axe the architects ol 
their respective fortunes. The best seminary of learning that can open its 
portals to you, can do no more than afford you the opportunity of instruction 
but it must depend, at last, on yourselves, whether you will'be instructed or 
not, or to what point you will push your instruction. And of this be assured 
—I speak from observation a certain truth:—There is no excellence without 
great labor. It is the fiat of Fate, from which no power of genius can absolve 
youth. Genius unexerted, is like the poor moth that flutters around a candle 
till it scorches itself to death. If genius be desirable at all, it is only of that 
great and magnanimous kind, which, like the condor of South America, 
pitches from the summit of Chimborazo, above the clouds, and sustains itsel’t 
at pleasure, in that empyreal region, with an energy rather invigorated than 
weakened by the effort. It is this capacity for high and long continued exer¬ 
tion—this vigorous power of profound and searching investigation—this ca¬ 
reering and wide-sweeping comprehension of mind—and those long reaches 
of thought, that 
Pluck bright honor from the pale-faced moon, 
Or dive into the bottom of the deep, 
Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, 
And drag up drowned honor by the locks. 
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ARTICLES. 
N. York. 
June 18. 
Boston. 
June 15. 
Philadel’a. 
June 13. 
Baltimore" 
June 14. 
Beans white, bush. 
1 75.. 2 00 
1 87.. 2 25 
..1 75 
1 50..1 75 
Beef, best, cwt. 
7 00..10 50 
6 00.. 8 00 
7 00..9 00 
7 00..8 50 
Pork, per cwt. 
9 50..10 75 
12 75..13 25 
10 75 
8 00..8 50 
Butter, fresh, pound,. 
22.. 24 
20.. 27 
17.. 19 
20.. 31 
Cheese, pound, . 
9.. 11 
10.. 12 
10.. 11 
Flour, best, bbl. 
7 00.. 7 62 
7 00.. 7 37 
6 00..6 62 
6 75..8 25 
Grain—W heat, bushel, .. 
.. 1 44 
1 35..1 40 
l 38..1 50 
Rye, tlo. 
.. 83 
95.. 98 
82.. 83 
90.. 95 
Oats, do. 
48.. 53 
55.. 56 
43.. 44 
40.. 45 
Corn, do. 
.. 80 
78.. 92 
76.. 83 
77.. 80 
Seeds—R ed Clover, lb... 
10.. 11 
11.. 12 
10.. 11 
.. 12 
Timothy, bushel,. 
2 75.. 2 80 
2 75 
2 00..3 00 
2 50..3 00 
Wool—S axony, fleece, lb. 
50.. 75 
60.. 75 
70.. 75 
30.. 68 
Merino, lb. 
CO.. 65 
55.. 65 
67.. 70 
28.. 55 
1-4 and com. lb... 
40.. 48 
40.. 48 
45.. 50 
22.. 45 
Sheep,.. 
2 50.. 3 00 
Cows and Calves,. 
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15 00..30 Ofl 
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