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

ipates reflection. 1t has often been
acknowledged that precipitation OF
thought, as well as Of speech: entails
very fatal consequences; and that the
man who, through life, can wisely steer
clear of this double Inconvenience, dc.
serves the aprel'ation Of happy. lie
thinks, AMI thinks again, before he lets
his tongue minglc i'll the flow of convcr-
sation, and consults his inmost self ere
he ventures to decide lie has also
learned by experience, that Nature has
its mask, Science its obscuritics, the
World it's artifccs, and Merit it's enc
mics; and, he consequently never deter
mines, without having first deeply
searched into the matter. lie lifts the
veil that unlolds each object, and dis.
covers that it would be madness to
judge too harsh!y and at first sight.
What would the result be, if we
trusted to our eyes only? w y, the
sun would be pronounced turn
around the earth, instead Of til after
encrrchny the orb Of day.
The prcjudiccs of a single mind can
easily be destroycd; but when they
have been reduced into cgular systems,
and found their way into social circles
formed to accrcdit them, there is no
remedy.
CONSOLATION FOR GENUS. Let no
man, who is in anything above his fcl-
lows, claim, as Of ri yht, to be valued or
understood: the vulgar great are com.
pretended or adorcd, because they are
i'll reality in the same moral plane with
those who admire; but he who deserves
the higher reverence, must himself con.
| vert the worshipper.-Thc pure and
lofty iite;: the generous and tender use
Of .hc rarc creative faculty; the brave
endurance e neglect and lidicn!c: the
s'lanJc and cruel end of 50 much ( III
Gus and 81 much vi.tuc-th.sv are IT,"
lessons by w..ch c sympathics ofman-
kind must be interested, and tn... .ac,,i
tics educated. uy to the love Of such a
character the comprehension of sucl,
an intelligence. Still the lovers and
scholars will DC few: still the rewards of
fame will be scanty and ill.protioncd:
10 accumulation Of knowledge or series
of experiences can teach the meaning
Of genius to those who look fr it in
additions and results, any moro than
| the numbers studied round a planet
orbit could approach nearer ininity
than a single unit The world OF
thought must lcmain arart from The
world of action. for, if thcY once coin.
cidcd, the problem of Lie would be
solved, and the hoyc. which we call
heaven, would be realized Oh car,h.--
| And therefore men
{" Are Graded into poetry ,y wrong
They learn in suffering wha. they teach il,
song"
CHINESE METHOD OF CoI.2RlHG
llAIE.--M. Stanis!aus Julien. the
learned oricntalist, has communicated
to the French Institute the Chinese
method of colorlng hair. 1t is sad that
'.tlh4" Chinese have succeeded in reaching
and Transforming, BY ri:4a9se Of mcdl
cine and peculiar dict. the LIQUID
which colors the bilious system, and
yiy:ug to white OF red hair black tint.
whch maintains itself during the con.
tiuucd growth The coloring is pro,
duccl bv means Of certain substances
mixed with thr food and drink. These
substances are not hurtiul to The body,
having for basis and clements ierruYi.
ous princi les which arc recommended
by physicians, and always successfully
employed. NJ. Delay, who has writ
ten treatise on this subject and pre-.
pared formula Of the means to be en-
p!oycd, says:
1t is astonishing that the physiolo-