Du Buque visitor. [volume] (Dubuque, Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1836-1837, 1836-10-19

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beautiful, and ever welcome months of
i summer are gone, and months of Au-
t.'mn have begun to take their place.
our summer movements are fast clos
lng-our summer journeyings are pas
sing away-the travelling invalid and
belle Of fashion, now wend their way
homeward. Our merry meetings upon
Land and water, our annual visits, our
our assembled under the canopy Of
heaven, our sailing excursions, our
night wanderings-all will soon be O.
yer. To be sure, Niagara still will
thunder, and still here will be the
rushing of mighty waters from her
magnificent falls, but her music will be
music for herself alone. The multi
tude who have gazed in wonder upon
this mighty work of an Omnipotent
Architect, will soon be far Distant
Saratoga, too, that little world of folly
and Of fashion, where thousands con-
gregate to kill time, or else, perchance,
to WOO and wed-will soon be desolate.
Two months hence and the cap and the
cloak will take the place of our sum-
mer apparel. Our summer breezes will
be changed into Autumn winds-the
gay and pleasing attire of our green
fields and pleasant gardens will present
the forbidding GOODNESS of their own
peculiar desolation. Our trees will cast
off their foliage and their fruits, and
instead of the blossom and the rose,
the desert will appear. 'sThus passes
the glory of the world" But truce
to Autumn reflections. We gladly
change them for the life and hustle of
trade and business.
September, then, has come among
us. 1t is the time for trade, the signal
for business, the prelude to long mig hts
and short days, the time for balls and
parties, the time for work, and the
time for play,-the time for merchants
and clerks to rise early and retire late:
the time for our mechanics to work in
the evening and sleep in the morning;
the time for wooing and wedding; the
time to prepare for winter;-to buy
your fuel and make ready for stormy
days. 1t is the time to make money
and pay your debts; the time to study
and the time to make good bargains
the Tina to be honest, and the time to
speak the truth; the time to make
friends. and the time to do good. In
a word it is the time, oar time, the only
time. To our good mothers, grand
mothers, and daughters, improve it,
and to our perpetual motion business
men who neither sleep long nor slum-
Der long, our advice is not needed. To
the drones and sluggards that surround
us, we say, prepare for freezing time
and starving time, for bed Of ice and
snow, and for beggar's meal. TO the
drunkard, we say, keep sober, to the
sober, we sey, keep the bowl from the
drunkard. Our advice is for all, and
good to all, and he, whomsoever he
may qe, is criminal who will not take
tn Y. Erpress.
GENIUS AND MADNEss.-Pocts, and
those in whom the imaginative faculty
is inordinately developed, are particu-
larly liable to morbid affections of the
mind. Aristotle laid it down as max
i'm, that "Nulluan naagnuns ingeni-
una sine mirturu ins0ni9." This
philosopher carried the sentiment to SO
great an extent, that he affirmed no
poet was in possession of his opinion,
in case Of Marcus, citizen of SYRIA
cuse, who, when he had lost his senses,
became fine poet; but when, on re-
covering them, ceased to possess the
talent. 1t has been maintained, for 81
milar reasons, by the poet Dryden,
,sssa at
sna Great wit to madness nearly are allied.
md thin partitions do these bounds divide"
- e same rule applies to the extraor-
larry development Of any or all Of
mental faculties. In illustration of
sais we may mention the names of the
:. its Cowper, Collins, Tasso, and Ma
lunhiel Lee. It is also said that the il
Mifrious author Of the "Principia" was
n ntally afflicted when he wrote his
A shment on the Revelations. Lucre-
thsl was supposed to be insane when
' 6n al al composed the splendid work ode
avi3'm Nature" more particularly
those passages relating to death and
the state of the soul, in his third book.
Lord Byron frequently labored under
excessive exaltation of sentiment The
mind Of our sweet poet Burns, was
frequently influenced by decisions OF
the imagination. The late Mr. Hogg
appears to be somewhat similarly af-
footed Conhocles was accused before