The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1849-12-12

the contrast OF judgment, since it antic-
ipates reflection. 1t has often been
acknowledged that precipitation Of
thought, as we'll as of speech. entails
very fatal consequences; and that the
man who, through life, can wisely steer
clear of this double Inconvenience, de.
serves the appelation Of happy. lie
thinks, and thinks again, before he lets
his tongue minge in the flow ofconyer-
sation, and consults his inmost self ere
he ventures to decide. Flo has also
learned by experience, that Nature has
its mask, Science its obscurities, the
World its artifces, and Merit it's enc
mics; and, he consequently never deter
mines, without having first deeply
searched into the matter. He lifts the
veil that unfolds each object, and dis.
covers that it would be madness to
judge too harshly and at first sight.
What would the result be, if we
trusted to our eyes only? Why, the
sun would be pronounced to turn
around the earth, instead Of the latter
enclrcing The orb of day.
The prcjudiccs of single mind can
easily be destroyed; but when they
have been reduced into cgular systems,
and found their way into social circles
formed to accredit them, there is no
remedy.
CONSOLATION FOR GENIUS no
man, who is in anything above his fcl-
lows, claim, as of right, to be valued or
understood: the vulgar great are com.
pretended or adorcd, because they are
in reality in the same moral plane with
those who admire; but he who deserves
the higher reverence, must himself con.
vert the worshipper.-The pure and
lofty life: the generous and tender use
|'of the rare creative faculty; the brave
! fendurauce Of neglect and ridiculc; the
ais.range and cruel end Of so much gcni-
Gus and 50 much vi.tue-thcse arc the
lessons by which the sympathies ofman.
kind must be cintcrcstcd, and their facul-
ties educated, up to the love of such a
character and the comprehension of such
an intelligence. Still the lovers and
scholars will be few: still the rewards Of
fame will be scanty and ill-protioncd:
no accumulation of knowledge or series
of experiences can teach the meaning
of genius to those who look FIR it in
additions and results, any moro than
the numbers studied round planets
orbit could approach nearer infnity
than single unit. The world of
; thought must remain apart from the
world of action, for, if they once coin
cidcd, the problem Of Life would be
solved, and the hope, which we call
heaven, would be realized on carth.-
| And therefore men
1 Are Graded into portry iy wrong
They learn in suffering what they teach in
song"
CHINESE METHOD OF CoLonING
UAIR.--M. Stanislaus Julien, the
learned orientalist, has communicated
to the French Institute the Chinese
method of coloring hair. It's said that
.the- Chinese have succeeded in reaching
and transforming, BY rsfssaaaa,ase rsfsaaaa ,ase- Of mcdi-
cine and peculiar dict, the LIQUID
which colors tho bilious system, and
giving to white or red hair a black tint,
which maintains itself during the con.
tinucd growth. The coloring is pro.
duccd by means of certain substances
mixed with the food and drink. These
substances are not hurtfll to the body,
having for basis and clements ferrugi-
Gus principles which are recommended
by physicians, and always successfully
employed. M. Dcbay, who has writ
ten treatise on this subject and pre-.
pared formula Of the means to be en-
ployed, says:
1t is astonishing that the physiolo-
gists who have experimental and sue
cccdcd in coloring the bones Of living
animals, red, by making them cat and
digest maddcr, have not thought of
seeking in the same way to color red
and white hair black. The hair and
the beard belong to vegetable life, and
are disposed to the same phenomena.
In fact, after sufficient quantity of
!erruginous salts has been introduced
into the body, the circulation takes them
up; the blood loaded with these substan-
ces deposites them in the folicles of the
hair, which in tnrn, pours them into
the oil, saturated with iron, becomes
black, and the whole hair with it.
NJ. lmbcr at present bishop in Chi,
ma, offers, according to the testimony
Of the Abba Voisin, one ofthe directors
Of foreign missions, living proof of this
iTenal colorins of the hair and beard.
1t is by this method that the Chinese,
correcting tho yagarics Of nature, have
been able to claim the title from tho
high antiquity of the black,haired