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of Genius. —The pleasure diffused by the
compositions of inen of genius is often an affect
ing contrast to their feelings and situations. Poor
Henry Carev was considered one of the most suc
cessful of writers in that light and gay style that
is so enlivening to society. lie heard his songs
wherever lie went ; they were sang at every con
vivial meeting; they were rapturously encored to
crowded theatres; they were heard in every
street ; but their poor author was so utterly des
titute jitul broken-hearted that his mmd ga\C|
way, and in a moment of frantic despair lie put j
an end to Ins existence. One halfpenny v.as:
found in his pocket —all he had possessed ! Thus!
perished the man to whose humanity the estab-j
lishment of a fund for decayed musicians is ow-j
ing. It has often happened that the success
which is always certain to attend the efforts of j
genius came too bite, when he who languished
ibr it was in circumstances to make it more a
subject for melancholy musing than exaltation.
We have an affecting example of this in the ac
count of poor Tobin, the dramatist. YYoiii out by
cares and difficulties, he fell into a consumption,
and was ordered to a warmer climate. He was
on the eve of sailing from Bristol sot the W Ju
dies, when he received the unexpected intelligence
of the complete success of his comedy of the Ho
ney-Moon. It had been for such a length of time
in the hands of the manager that he had given it
up as lost, and had long ceased to think of it. It
had been most accidentally found and brought
out, to meet with unbounded applause ! Tobin
sailed, hoping to return with renovated health to
reap the advantage of his good fortune. The
weather became tempestuous, and the vessel was
driven into Cork harbor, while in the meantime
the comedy was acted every night to crowded
houses. But the author? —he lav dead in the
cabin of the ship. — Chambers’ Edinburgh Journal.
Vn remitting Kindness .- —A comedian went to j
America and remained there two years, leaving
his wife dependant on her relatives. Mrs. F tt,
expatiating in the green-room on the cruelty of
such conduct, the comedian found a warm advo
cate in a well known dramatist. “ I have heard,”
i,ays the latter, “ that he is the kindest of men;
and I know that he writes to his wife every pack
et.” “ Yes, he writes,” replied Mrs. F., “ a parcel
if flummery about the agony of absence, but he
lias never remitted her a shilling. Do 3'ou call
that kindness?” •* Decidedly r ,” replied the au
thor, u Unremitting kindness.”— Dublin Irishman .
Habits of the Native Newzcalanders. —They dis
like spirits, rather preferring wine or beer, but all
are inveterate smokers. They carry on a brisk
trade with the settlers, and formerly, before there
was much European cultivation, entirely sup
plied them with potatoes and other vegetables.—
Now, however, their chief article of sale is pigs,
of which they possess great numbers, self-fed,
principally on fern-root; these they drive from
house to house, and sell with great judgment and
acuteness. They also carry round bundles of
fire-wood ; baskets of potatoes, wheat, maize,
and melons; occasionally pigeons, parrots, and
fish; excellent flax lines, mats, well-plaited kie-j
kie hats and useful flax baskets. The proceeds
are now chiefly invested in blankets, prints, calico
and tobacco. They are good judges of what they
buy, examining everything minutely. The pur
chase of a blanket is undertaken as a grave busi
ness, requiring the advice of sagacious friends.—
Hurst house's Account of the Settlement of the New
Ely mouth.
Power of Fear. —For sometime after the cholera
broke out in Southampton, England, the prisoners
in the town gaol were quite healthy, and were
not aware that such a disease had appeared in
the town. At length two tramps, a man and a
woman were committed. The man immediately
gave some alarming accounts of the cholera in
the town to the other male prisoners, and very
shortly afterwards nine of the latter were at
tacked and required medical attendance ; hut the
most curious circumstance remains to be told :
For some cause or other the female tramp did
not mix with the female prisoners for two
after she was committed. Her fellow prisoners
were all this time quite healthy and unaware of
what had happened in the town and in the other
parts of the goal. As soon as she joined them,
however, she also gave some alarming accounts
of the disease in Southampton, and immediately
afterwards a number of the female prisoners were
attacked.
Strange Discovery in the London Docks. —On
Wednesday a remarkable discovery was made in
the London Dock, whereby the body of a man
was found in a cask which had been in one of the
warehouses about five years. It appears that for
several days past a number of men have been
engaged in removing a quantity of spirit casks in
the Excise department of the London Docks, and
whilst one of the laborers was rolling a cask
along the stones, he had his attention drawn to a
rattling noise inside. He mentioned the circum
stance to one of his companions, and the\ r de
termined on opening the cask to ascertain the
cause of the mysterious sound. The head of
the cask was accordingly removed, and, to their
great astonishment, they discovered the skeleton
!of a human being, in a good state of preserva
tion, and from the condition of the bones the
deceased must have been in the cask many years.
A medical gentleman was called to see the re
mains, which were found to be those of a male
‘person, about thirty-five years of age. The gen
eral supposition is, that the cask, in question must;
* have been unshipped from some foreign vessel. —
| It was a rum cask, and had been empty a consid
erable period. The deceased is supposed to
i have been a foreign sailor. It is a singular fact
! that the whole of the teeth are entirely gone, and
no vestige of clothing could be found.
O ‘—
Literary Fertility . —In Weber’s Northern An-;
tiquities, we find the following instance of literary
application, which,, taking all circumstances into
consideration, is perhaps without parallel: Hans
Sacks was born in Nuremberg, in the year 1494 ;j
he was taught tlie trade of a shoemaker, and
acquired a bare rudimentaleducation, reading and j
writing ; but being instructed by the master-sing-
ers of these days in the praiseworthy art of poe
try, he at fourteen began to practise, and con
tinued to make verses and shoes, and plays and
pumps, bools and books, until the 771 h year of
iiis age. At this time he took an inventory of his
poetical stock in trade, and found, according to
Lis own narrative, that his works filled 30 folio
volumes! all written with his own hand, and
consisted of 4,200 mastership songs, 208 come
dies, tragedies and farces (some of which extended
to seven acts ;) 1,700 fables, tales and miscella
neous poems ; and 73 devotional, military and
love songs, making a sum total of 0,048 pieces,
great and small ; out of these, we are informed,
he culled as many as filled three massy folios,
which were published in the years 1558-01 ; and
another edition being called for, he increased this
to six volumes folio, by an abridgement from his
other works.
The Tranced Child at Bangor. —Readers prob
ably remember the story of the little girl at Ban
gor, who apparently died of cholera, but revived,
and said she had been to Heaven, where she saw
her mother, and where she was to go again on
Sunday. The Bangor Whig of the 12th gives
the sequel, as follows :
“ But I’m going to mother again at four o’clock,”
she quietly and softly said.
“ When, to-morrow?”
“ No, to-day.”
Mr. Warren attempted to turn her attention to
hopeful prospects of recovery; but the little suf
ferer was fast sinking away—the death-rattle was
heard, and she ceased to breathe, her pulse stop
ped, and the fixedness of death was impressed
upon her beautiful countenance. She was dead.
Mr. Warren looked at the town clock in the dis
tance from the window, for there was no clock in
the house, and it was four o’clock.
While pondering upon, to him, the singular
coincidences in this case, and about a half an
hour had passed, new signs of life appeared, and
again the spirit of the sweet girl returned. She
asked for water and said she was tired, and sunk
away into a quiet sleep.
Since then she has been gradually recovering,
but the elder sister, who watched her so tenderly,
and who would so willingly have accompanied
tier to live with her mother in heaven, was the next
day 7 taken with the cholera, and the following day
died and was buried.
Quicksilver in China. —This metal—so exten
sively employed in medicine, in the amalgama
tion of the noble metals, in water-gilding, the ma
king of vermillion, the silvering of looking glasses,
the filling of barometer and thermometer tubes,
&c. —has hitherto been imported chiefly from
Spain, Germany and Peru. Now, however, there
is a prospect of its being obtained from China,
some es the provinces of which have been long
known to yield it in considerable abundance.—
One of the main novelties in the Chinese im
port consists in the mode of package, the metal
being simply poured into a piece of bamboo,
about a foot long and three inches thick having
each and firmly closed with resin. This rude
form or package is found quite as serviceable as
the iron bottle in which mercury is usually brought,
while it is lighter, and in every way more conve
nient for shipment. Specimens were recently
shown in the London market ; and from the re
munerating prices which they brought, it is ex
pected that renewed shipments of the article to
Europe will take place on an extensive scale.
A Runaway Bridegroom. —Rather an extraordi
nary scene took place on Wednesday in Hove
Church. In the course of the morning, three car
riages drew up in front of the gate, from which
alighted a bridal party —the bridegroom a gal
lant son of Mars ; the bride, a young lady of in
teresting appearance, and her mother, and some
female friends. The Rev. Mr. Kelly was in the
vestry, in readiness to perform the ceremony ;|
and one of two strangers came in to witness it.
One of these was a foreigner, and his presence
seemed to have an irritating effect upon the gal
lant bridegroom, for, upon seeing him, he very
unceremoniously came up to ’ him, asked what
business he had there, and, without waiting for a
reply, took the party by the scruff of the neck, and
kicked him out of the holy edifice ! He then pro
ceeded to eject the other stranger, and having
thus cleared the ground, he approached the bride
and demanded of her if she loved him ? The
young lady replied that she did. Ihe gentleman
recalled to her recollection that, some weeks be
fore, she had said her mother forced her into the
match, and after upbraiding her in violent terms,
he rushed out of theehurch, leaped the wall of the
churchyard, arid, taking no notice ofihe three car
riages in waiting to carry away the contemplated
“ happy couple,” ran home at full speed, leaving
the bride and her friends to ride home as they
came. —Brighton (Eng.) Herald .
Chinese Burial Place. —No people can possess
much veneration for the memory of their lathers
as the Chinese ; and the worship of their tombs
is by far the most solemn and apparently sincere
ceremonial in the shape of religious worship they
exhibit. In order to perform Us rites, men, (wo
men take no part in it) who emigrate to distant
lands often return, at much expense and trouble,
to the place of their birth ; and their fond cling
ing to the memory of the dead—more than love
for its institutions —is said to he the strong bond
that hinds the Chinese to their country. But
they have no consecrated place of interment, and
if they have any rite analogous to episcopal con
secration, it must be so simple and easily execu
ted as to have effect any where. At any rate,
they have no accumulation of graves in particu
lar enclosed spots ; they do not set apart a few
acres for that purpose and surround them with
walls, separating the silent tenants from the living
world, and forming a great prison house for the
dead. On the other hand, every one chooses the
spot he likes best for the final resting place of
those beloved. The country residents bury their
dead on their own land, very often close to their
own dwelling. The tombs are often of porphyry,
finished with some minute ehisellimts, and some
times in tolerable monumental taste ; placed on
rocky eminences, often in particularly picturesque
situations, under the shadow of cedars and cy
presses.
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THE BATTLE OF CHANGE.
BY CHARLES MACKAY.
Groat thoughts are heaving in tlie world's wide breast;
The time is laboring with a mighty birth;
The old ideas fall.
Men wonder up and down in wild intent;
A sense of change preparing for the Earth
Broods over all.
There lies a gloom on all things under heaven—
A gloom portentous to the quiet men,
Who see no joy in being driven
Onward from change, ever to change again ;
Who never walk but on the beaten ways,
And love the breath of yesterdays—
Men who would rather sit and sleep
Where sunbeams through the ivies creep,
Each at his door-post all alone.
II eedless of near or distant wars,
Than wake and listen to the moan
Os storm vexed forests, nodding to the stars —
Or hear, far off, the melancholy roar
Os billows, white with wrath, battling against the shore.
Deep on their troubled souls the shadow lies ;
And in that shadow come and go,
While fitful lightnings write upon the skies,
And mystic voices chant the coming wo,
Titanic phantoms swathed in mist and flame
The mighty shapes of things without a name,
Mingling with forms more palpibly defined,
That whirl and dance like leaves upon the wind ;
Then marshaling in long array their hosts,
Rush forth to battle ill a cloud-like land,
Thick phalanxed on those far serial coasts,
As swarm the locusts plaguing Samarcand.
Oh ! who would live, they cry, in time like this !
A time of conflict fierce, and trouble strange ;
When old and new, over a dark abyss,
Light the great battle of relentless change !
And still before their eyes discrowned kings.
Desolate chiefs„and aged priests forlorn,
Flit by—confused—with all incongruous things—
Swooping in rise and fall on ponderous wings—
While here and there amid the golden light,
Angelic faces, sweet as Summer morn,
Which gleam an instant, ere extinguished quite,
Or changed to stony skulls, or spectres livid white.
But not to me—Oh ! not to me—appears
Eternal gloom. I see a brighter sky,
1 feel the healthful motion of her spheres;
And lying down upon the grass I hear
Far, finr away, yet drawing near,
A low, sweet sound of ringing melody;
I see the swift winged arrows fly;
I see the battle and the combatants;
I know the cause for which their weapons flash ;
I hear the martial music and the chants, ,
The shock of hosts, the armor clash,
As thought meets thought; but far beyond I see,
Adown the abysses of the Time to be,
The well-won victory of the Right;
The laying down cf useless swords and spears ;
The reconcilement ardently desired
Os Universal Truth and Might—
Whose long estrangement, filling earth with tears,
Gave every manly heart, divinely fired,
A lingering love, a hope inspired,
To reconcile them, never more to sunder.
Far, far away, above the rumbling thunder,
1 see the splendor of another day.
Ever since infant time began,
There has been darkness over man ;
It rolls and shrivels up ! It melts away!
EFFECT OF SALT ON WHEAT.
The Rochester American of a recent date says :—Some of
our readers may recollect that last fall we mentioned an ex
periment made by Mr. J. Park of Gates, by sowing a barrel
of salt to an acre upon a summer fallow. The ground was
plowed once the preceding fall, plowed again in May, and salt
sown thereon as above ; and afterwards plowed twice before
seeding. On the Ist and 2d of September wheat was sown,
two bushels to the acre. The crop has just been harvested,
and Mr. P. is confident that it will yield forty bushels to the
acre. The berry lie considers to be equal to the finest En
glish wheat.
A gas has been invented in London which immediately
extinguishes fire.
A FRIESD OF TIE FAMILY
SAVANNAH, THURSDAY. NOvTihi,^
THE STEMSHIP CHEROKEE
Arrived on Saturday last bringing 170 Cabin andloos;
rage Passengers and a full freight. The passengers, f (
West left in one hour after her arrival.
THE LEGISLATURE
Convened at Milledgeville on Monday last, there w n?
ram of betli Houses present —Mr. Wolford, of
was elected President of the Senate; Mr. Glenn, of \\
Clerk; Mr. W L Rogers, of Telfair, Messenger, ;v ]
Asa 13. Mitchell, of Fayette, Door Keeper.
In the House Capt. John W. Anderson was elected Spe
and Mr. Harrison, of Stewart, Clerk.
The Governor’s message was delivered to both
Tuesday, at 12 M.
The New York papers state among the list of premium, -
! the annua) Fa ir of the American Institute, that our
low townsman, Mr. Win, Humphrey’s, was awarded,
ver medal 13 r the handsomest case of shells on exhibition
a diploma for a specimen of Alcohol, manufactured f l0!r
sour orange.
GRAND LODGEOF GEORGIA.
The Grand Lodge of Ancient York Masons, coninie-.
its annua! communication in this city on Tuesday last. *
craft is in a very prosperous condition, numbering ooeh
dred and sixteen Lodges, (thirty-four of which being r em
chartered,) were each represented.
At 11 o’clock on Thursday a procession of the Order, in
hering one hundred and sixty members, wns formed infr
of the Lodge in this city, and proceeded to the Presbyter,
Church, where, after appropriate singing and prayer, the foi
lowing Officers were installed for the ensuing year, viz:
Win. C. Dawson, M. W. Grand Master.
John Hunter, R. W. D. G. Master Dist., No. 1.
R L. Rodney, R. W. D. G. M. “• “ 2.
W. S. Rockwell, R. W. D. G. M. “ “ 4.
A. A. Gaulding, S. G. Warden,
Wm, K. Kitchen, J. G. Warden,
Leroy Patillo, S. G. Deacon.
L. C. Simpson, J. G. Deacon,
J. E. Welles, G. Treasurer.
Simri Rose, G. Secretary.
Rev. J. C. Simmons, G. Chaplain.
W. B. Fo ver, G. Marshall
Jno. Calvin Johnson, }
Wm. P. Brooks, > Grand Stewards.
C. F. W Campbell, )
D. E. Butler, Grand Pursuivant.
T. B. Daniel, Grand Tyler.
After which the Annual Address, was delivered bo fore <
Order and a large audience of ladies and gentlemen,
Robert 11. Griffin, Esq., of Savannah. This address \m\r
chaste and appropriate, abounding in beautiful allusions to’i
noble objects which Masonry had in view, in ministeringteth
distress and promoting the happiness and welfare of the!
ina race.
The Grand Lodge of Georgia is now divided into Four’
sonic Districts,from each of which a Right Worshipful Dr ‘
Grand Master is elected, who are constituted the Graniil/t
turers of the State, to whom is given in charge the dire
and making uniform the mode of work in their jurisdic <
The Ist and 2d Congressional Districts constitute the Ist &
sonic District See.---Macon Museum.
GEORGIA RAIL ROAD TUNNEL.
We have been favored with the following extract of ale”
from a gentleman of this city, now in Georgia, announcing!
completion of the Tunnel of the Georgia Rail Road.
“ Dalton, Gn., Oct. .31.
“I arrived here last night with a view of being preset ‘
the opening of the Railroad tunnel through the mountain v
tween this place and the Tennessee River. 1 learned. H
ever, that the public celebration of the event would not’ •*
place until to-morrow, and as my arrangements would notpf’
mit me to wait, I determined upon visiting it this mornk •
The distance from this place to the tunnel is about eight in
which we traveled over by 11 o’clock, and just ns we reacbf*
there, the two parties of workmen operating from the k”
site sides of the mountain, met each other vis a vis , nndt!
sent up a shout loud enough almost to rend the rocky ;
which they had just completed. The entire length of 1
tunnel is 1477 feet, and I went through it on a hand car, ti
ding a candle which served only to make darkness visitor
There is to be a great celebration and rejoicings to-niorro\’
FEMALE SARCASM.
Few things are more liable to be abused in society—
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daily by young ladies—than the gift of liveliness.
it gains present admiration while they continue youn.
pretty, but it leads to no esteem —produces no affection^
ried beyond the bounds of graceful good humor.
She, for instance, xvho is distinguished for the odd fr ?f
of her remarks —whose laugh is loudest, whose mot -
most piquant —who gathers a group of laughers around
of whom shy and quiet people are afraid ; this is a *
person who may be invited out—who may be thought
considerable acquisition to parties of which the ge er
prebium is dullness, but which is not the sort of person
to become the honored mistress of a respectable W ’
Table Talk.
FATAL ERROR IN OPENING OYSTERS.
T * •
Is it not strange that people persevere in custom?
in the first instance, by ignorance, and maintained D I
! prejudice ? For instance, in the matter of opening 0 ’
what a gross, and to the epicure, what a fatal blunder !i ‘
monger commits in seperating the fish from the unY
It he would take the trouble to inform himself on the
of the oyster he would find that it does not lose its !Y ‘
opened, but directly it is separated from the under sm
may prove this to his satisfaction, by touching the bea v
fish after he has opened it, and he will find
shrinking from the touch of steel. Let him,
future, cease to tormeut the epicure by sending b
oysters. They should come to the table fi* ro
shell, and so preserve all their delicious qualities-
Pork ,
