The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1842-06-21
Albany.

Correspondence Of the Herald]
ALBANY, 18th June, 1872
Stagnaiion ia Trade, Sc.-DuA Times--7 roy-Nos
Stcamer-Dr. Lardn1 and his Lectures.
j. G.. BENNETT, ESQ.,
DEAR SIR
As usual, during the suspension of the legislature.
this place has fallen into IT'S wonted condition Of
sagnant duness, and added to all the rest there is
an almost total sagnation in commercial affair.
The lateness of the and the distress Of the
times have stopped the usual stream of visitors from
the south and east towards the Falls and Springs,
and the looks of the hotel keepers are blank and
gloomy Yankee Hill has been telling his stories,
and magnetiZing patients, but neither he nor be tier
artists from its habitua stupor this most
rElegmanc community which is totally Inaccessible
either through the understanding, the imagination
or the senses of the first two they have none, Of
the last, about much a community of snai,s
The same commercial prostration is visible in the
peter and neater city of Troy, remarkable in gene
raj fol- its thriving industry and we'll directed enter
prize. II now lies, as il were, the general sur
face, 4 stagnant and inert mass. Many Of he chief
factories with power caprble of giving fertility to
hundreds Of millions of capital, still a. the
grave, and their artizans seen lornging melsn
choly aid unemployed around the doors of their cot
tages. 1t is only within the last few days hat Bur
dcn's extensive iron works have been partially re
stored 10 activity, and with this exception almost
everything III the commercial world is Guiescen
The projectors OF the magnificent steamboa Troy
are preparing, on the trst improvement OF the tmes
to construct si more splendid steamer TO Ply be.
tween Troy and New York. Its length will be 80
feet, being Is feet longer Than the Troy; its lines
will be finer and better adapted for speed tran those
Of the latter vessel 1t will be propelled by pair Of
engines of enormous power with cylinders 4S
inches in diameter, and II feet in stroke Light
halls principle. which is imperfectlykapplied in the
Troy. will be fully carried out in the new vessel
there is little doubt that ,he will reduce the average
time between this place and New York to eight
hours, and perhaps even less
The duness oil Troy has lately been broken by
Dr. Lardner who, partly TO see the factories Of that
place, and the great canals in its neighbourhood,
and partly TO enghten the Trojans by his lectures,
isnow staying there. tits the singular good fortune
Of this scientific gentleman to see his objects and
his interests promoted by his enemies even more
ciectually than by his friends You will recollect
the favor done him in New York by the Rev. David
Hale & Co.. and in Boston by the Rev. DR.. Cantwcl
| Sleeper. The same kind office has been performed
| for him here by an unfedged bpeed named Gould
who has assailed the Doctor after til. Sleeper
| fashion, in the columns OF the Troy wing, endeayor-
ing, rs usual, to.carc way all decent people, and
tors audience (wlo, without il would have kept
| their DEPRECIATION within the usual limits) into
body Of enthusiastic partizans, and they accordingly,
bv Of be MIN az
and respectable citizens, conceived IN the most en-
comiastic terms, to which the Doctor has coolly
replied that he glad TO find that the Trojans con-
eur in opinion with the New Workers, Bostoninns
&c. &c. You vii! see this correspondence in the
Troy Budget. The matter however, has not ended
here. Among the Doctors partizans was the editor
of the latter journal, who accordingly took up the
cudgels in his favor, and rather more than insi
nuated that the biped before mentioned would have
done well to have remembered the policy usually
recommended 10 people who live in glass houses.
This put the bpcd upon hls mettle, and he put forth
an announcement copied pretty nearly from the Ian
guage addressed by the Hon. Tom Marshall to the,
Regular Amy" on Edwards's trial. The peace
full editor, however, had little taste for powder
and ball as the Regular Army" and with much
urbanity, declined the polite invitation, besides
which, il was urged by the Doctor that ii would be
very III natured thing TO deprive him of profit
able friend the biped and that was better that
the bped should be permitted to continue 10 murder
his mother tongue in Wing journal, than TO give
HIM an opportunity OF blowing out the editorial
brains of the Budget.
All this was followed, no doubt it was intend
ed 10 be, by flatterlng invitation TO the Doctor to
give second course of lectures here accompanied
with an assurance that the Hectors and Androma-.
ches OF this city were indignant at the attempt of
the blped TO dragoon them and that they would not
submit TO such drilling, and that 10 prove their
tempt for the biped, they would fill the doctors lee
ture room. The Judges now in session waited on
the Doctor to disclam all connection With the bi-
| ped, who it is limb Of the law, and TO ten1
| der TO him the gratuous use OF their court house
| for the lectures
1t is rumored that the Doctor has offered a hand
some per centage his receipts 10 the biped to
company him on his tour; and some go so far as to
saw that the whole affair has been got up by the Dr.
hinstlf, who, with the bped, is laughing in his
| sIccvr nj the Joke.
yours, very truly,
sT,risrios OF rpr sourp susp Flsnnnv.---No shsd