Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1828-05-13

INSTRUCTION OF TEACHERS. Mr.. Ste
phen Van RENSSELAER,, gentleman of great
wealth, and, as it is well known, Of cores
ponding liberality, has established semi
nary in Troy, N. Y, for the instruction of
school-teachers. He was unsuccessful in
an application to the Legislature for aid,
and finally resolved upon carrying the de-
sign into effect at his own expense. He has
given notice, that
On obtaining from the First Judge of any county
in the State certificate, according to certain pre-
scribed FORM any gentleman above the age OF eight
cen years may enter the seminary established at
Troy under the name of the RENSSELAER, School,
and there be furnished at the expense Of the founder
with instruction during the fall term ensuing, COM
mencing on the third Wednesday in July. The stu
dent will be supplied with all the substances neces-
sary for the performance of chemical experiments
with fuel lights, of chemical and philosophical
apparatus-access to the library, reading room, and
cabnet-the services of the school waiter, and all
other advantages of the seminary, free of expense
Board may be procured at the rate Of about 800 per
annum."
A noble appropriation. This is literally
the true use of riches.
ERRoRs OF THE ITPE. Deeply as we
can sympathize with brother editors when
we discover, as we frequently do, an unfor-
tunate perversion of their meaning by a SIM
pie typographical mistake, yet there is now
and then blunder at which we are con-
strained to laugh, sensible as we are that we
live in house of glass, end cannot throw
stones with impunity. The editor of the
NewYork Enquirer, in notice of the nu-
merous legacies bequeathed by Mr.. Burr, of
Vermont, lately deceased, to various institu-
tons, says, this man was butcher, and
had no relatives" Bachelor was doubtless
intended; and the mistake was made-the
butchery committed-by needless compost
tor. Or it may be that, as the editor has
lately been married, the word bachelor is
stricken from his vocabulary.
STATE OF THE SEASON. Man has been
said to be meteorologist by nature "plac-
ed in state Of dependence on the elements,
to watch their vicissitudes and anticipate
their changes is part of the labour to which
he is born" In a climate so changeable as
ours, it is matter Of universal curiosity, if
not of philosophical study, to watch the vi
cissitudes of the weather, and note the in
dications of the seasons, from year to year.
A writer under the signatue of 'Roxbury
Farmer who is well known to be Mr.. John
Lowell, has for more than dozen years
regularly given an account of the season,
and state of its forwardness in comparison
with preceding years, at least so far as it
respect. the towering of plants. We
copy from the last New England Farmer
the speculations of the 'Roxbury Farmer
on the present season:
From the unusual openness of the winter, and
the early promises OF spring, we were led to expect
an unusually forward state of vegetation. In the
Southern States this expectation was realized to their
cost. Late frosts, might be expected have blast
ed the hopes of the horticuturist and there seems
to be an apprehension that fruits will be cut off
1hese fears, however, are often prematurely ex-
pressed and nature Or the Providence of God often
proves more kind than the rash conclusions of men
from adverse appearances would seem to warrant
With US, the has been so far very suspicious.
Moderate cold has checked vegetation, and the in
valuable fruits for food and luxury have been so far
kept back, that we have reasonable ground of hone
that the succeeding season will be prolific beyond
any late example. The present season, compared
with the last six years which have been all early
ones, is by no means preeoce, or very early as the
following calendar will prove. repeat, that the re-
terence is made solely to my otcn place. and to the
same trees. Any difference, which may. and proba
bly, does, exist in other trees of the same sort does
not in any respect vary the question as to the com
parative forwardness of the season.