Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1842-03-12

Secretary of the Treasury.
To the Coilsctm offhe Custom House at
The n. V Tribune thus notices lecture re.
Gently delivered by Mr.. Mafitt in tina, city, on the
"Iife Of Genius"
MIR. NIamtrs Lecture.
We have rarely listened to more brilliant, and
never to less satisfactory, lecture than tha, Of
Prof. MArrirr delivered at the Tabernacle on
Wednesday evening, His subject was the Life of
Genius theme which man of Genius would
have made eloquent with beauty, with truth and
with power while in Mr. Maff,s discourse 1t
seemed merely to suggest the shadows of hollow
thoughts and to give occasion for fine modulations
of the voice and the sounding emptiness of un-
meaning words. Mr.. Msfiitt's delivery is always
graceful sometimes highly impressive, and gen.
orally good; on Wednesday evening it was more
chaste and less nured Ivy theatrical STARTS repul.
sive distortion of,he features, and gasping under.
tones of the voice, than usual. There are few pub
lie speakers who are heard with more pleasure than
he, and still fewer who produce real effect.
The of his lecture may be stated in few
words. He defined Genus-wilh more truth than
originaty-to be the power of Creating; and its
constituent parts, he said, ambition, hope q
love of the fitness Of things, the longing after i'm
mortality, benevolence sineuarity, and, most espe-
ciay, enthusiasm. Each of these parts in sue.
cession he made the theme of extended remark,
not in explanation, but by way of illustration and
ajornment. Some of his images were highly fam
cfu and beautiful but, without exception
which we can call to mind they rendered still more
obscure the meaning which at best was most ques.
tonabe. In apparent illustration of the definition
he had given, for instance, he said that Genius is
the molten cascade of yellow gold frnged with
the foam of gerng silver : and again, that it is
'the embodied angle of inspiration,' the angle of
ubiquhy-the bride of eternity In distinguishing
the eloquence of the pulpit from the eloquence of
the bar, he said that the former is the glory of
God clothed with the love that passes all under.
standng;' while the latter is the face of Moses
on the top Of Horeh on which no man can look |
bu, with shudder.' The immortal mind, he said.
-has a capacity TO be filled only with the glittering
spirit of the Universe Such expressions from !
his lecture might greatly multiply; there may /
be profound meaning in thcm-and we suppose
are bound to concede there is for they drew
down immense applause but if there be such .
thing as sound and fury signifying noihing,' we
humhly believe that these sentences, and indeed
the greater part of his lecture, embodied il per.
fectly man can do it. a portion Of the lecture
was an enumeration of the works Genius and ,
among hem he cIassed, without the slightest dis ,
elimination, the poems of Homer, the battle of
Waterloo, the labors of the Reformers, who 'bale ,
the clock of eternity pause while they could notch .
upon the centuries the impress of their master
minds : the steam engine of Fulton, the defence of
New o Orleans, the making of blade OF Damascus
and the unfurimg Of the American flag !y Mr. |
Ponset in the bood-deluged streets of Mexico |
lie told how Genius d~clIs among the stars how
it fills all time eternity and the grave; and how i,
is worshipped ly all nations--by every individual, .
and especially by Woman, who should never be
refused place in the Pantheon of the gods and |
whose bright eyes make man feel like god in !
their presence Ordinary language never serves !
Mr.. Mailitl's purpose hS never remembers al in
cident, but "a story arises his miud, and a
graduating student instead Of marrying lovely .
girl in the vicinity, was united in the holy bands
OF matrimony to one of the most charming nymPhs
of tie vale that embosomed the college,
The following statement shows the condition of
the Banks ef the city and county of Philadelphs,
except the Bank Of Pennsylvania and the Girard
Bank, as compared with the Banks ia inerios Of
the State.
Liabilities. City Banks Country Banks,
CIculatioa i.0G,s5s Is 5,2s2,596 6s
Post notes on nme ,029450 90 6l,3l5 co
Due deposi,ors 6,460,505 81 l,97l,l46 "a
Due other Banks s,G25,36 0s 724,O36, GO .
Dividends unpaid 5347l 81 I44lO3 IL .
Due the Com. l,4742S ll6,60l 81 .
RESOURCES.
Bills Discounted lO,O3O,702 G7 $685. rs O3 .
Specie l092,6S5 90 i62lI77 g. .