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m i s, ci&%,a hx m_ 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. glilllilf ßll lT. 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— ® .... v 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 ,