The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-03-12

| GENIUS. There are some minds endow-
ed with bright peculiarly called genius.
1t may be defined the power of conceiving
and executing high designs. Not to one
departmental literature, the arts, the sci
ences, or of the wide field of invention, is
the power of genius confaed. Its sublime
touchings are found in that soul thrilling
sentence and God said let there be light,
and there was light; it is found all along
the pages of inspiration and arrives at its
Climax in the writings of the Revelator.-
There are sentences in those deep reveal
lngs OF earth's last days, ofheaven and hell,
that awaken deeper and more fearful tide
OF feeling than the cloudy pencil which
stretched the last judgment upon the can
vass, and bound in earthly colorings the
trumpetings, the storm, the terror, the wo,
the darkness of retribution, the light of ioy,
and the gatherings of an eternity of happi-
ness.
OehIus UuIIrTVs--l,~---l c=l -I,aes,ila, for
every passion becomes its servant it can
not be defined religion-for genius has ar
rayed the holy oracles with its most glori-
Gus things, and then retired to an humble
distance to give praise to the Mighty One
whose every work bears the impress of ce-
lestial genius. Yet genius derived its high
origin from him who is the perfection of
beauty. It's most splendid achievements in
the empire of mind are copies of the works
Of greater mind-and its proudest exhibi-
tons to the senses are limitations of the
works of him who made nature.
The world admire talent; they pour out
all their adulation upon it; they worship at
the shrine of human genius, and are filled
with its -idolatry yet what shadows will
pass over their admiration, If you point
them to a white cloud that curls gracefully
upon the dark outline of the beryl colored
sky, and tell them that God made that beau
tiful exhalation, and has laid it as living
picture upon the back ground of the hori-
zon There will be dead silence tongues
eloquent before, will be hushed, when the
minds eye is pointed to the genius of God,
and the heart is called on to love, and the
voice to applaud him; 1t is the darkest
shade which rests on the character of man
that he has eyes to see and adore all
beauty but that Of his Maker.
Zion's Herald.
Curious AGRICULTURAL FACTS. For
ty years since, lord Egremont's seat was
wild forest of 500 acres, covered with tnrze
and stunted timber, and not worth five
shillings (112 cts.) per acre. 1t now lets for
thirty shilIings (672 cts.) per acre. Ten
quartes Of oats $50 bushels) and FIVE (40
bushels) Of wheat, are raised on an acre of
land, on which sheep would have starved
before the enclosure. Little more than 30
years since, Clumber PARK, part OF old Sher-
was bT6dk, dfaafSH,n 5agQ9 S SeeEsss,
In 1850, improvement commenced, and the
heath disappeared. The duke Of New Cas-
tie built mansion and planted 1000 acres.
These 1000 acres now produce thriving
timber, of very large dimensions. The re-
naming 1000 yield excellent crops of diff
ferent grains and grasses. Besides 9TH
er live stock, the sheep fed on this for
est, a half century since perfectly barren,
amount annually to at least four thousand.
Upwards of six millions of acres Of waste
land in Britain, have been brought into cul
tivation within the last century-eleven
parts out of twelve in the reign of George
the third In the reign of Anne, 1888 a.
cres of George LIST, 1880; George I'd,
30l8,77S: George Sd, 5,686, 400; and
George 4th, Ito 1897 300S00 acres. The
fee simple of these six millions, at % years
purchase, has added 252,000,000t. or 81,
000,000,0G0 to the national wealth.
" Y .4I6ion.
IRvING's LIFE OF COLUMBUS. The Life
of Columbus by Washington Irving, is at
length completed, and is said TO be in Press
both in England and In this country
Messrs..G. & C. Carville, viii publish it in
this city early in March. The author has
been employed for years on the work, with
the most ample materials at hand, and the
best opportunities for ascertalning the an-
thenticity of every fact he has related
These advantages, together with the charm
of the authors style, and his power of hap
py arrangement, will no doubt make 1t one
Of the most interesting hooks of biography
which have appeared in the present CEN
tury. We could have wished no better for
tune for the memoirs of the great discover
er Of the new world, than that they should
he written by him whose works have diffus-
ed the fame of its literature IN the old.
NJ Y EUe. Post.
PoTAToEs. In Prussia the Potatoe is
cultivated with peculiar success;-as the
stalk grows, the earth Is heaped up, leaving
only three leaves at top the roots are thus
greatly increased, and the produce is said
to be astonishing.
TO raise early potatoes. Take the pota-
toes whole and cover them in horse litter Of
moderate warmth let them remain there
till they put forth shoots of or 5 inches in
length, which they will do in two or three
weeks; then take them carefully from the
litter, and put them perpendicular, and equa
with the surface, in light dry soil, witt
more horse dung. Ifthe seasonbe tolera
BILE they viii vegetate amazingly fast. Ii
cold countries, the last week in April, o.