Smyrna times., 1858-10-21
The Author Of Home, Sweet Home.

p pearance OF This statement Mr.. Irving, indio
in nant that so foul an attempt should be made /
ri strip tins beautiful wreath Of poetry from th
4 dead brow OF him who twined it, wrote ettc
l. uehyIng the authorship Of the song, and rc-aiIr
!. ming the fact that it was the composition O
). the gifted John Howard Payne
= The details of Mr.. Payne's history are yer,
n interesting, and should be better known thai
;, they are to his countrymen. lie was born il
, tue city Ui New York on the 9th of June, 1892
= = but was soon after taken to Boston, to which
: place his father removed 10 take charge of an
F educational establishment. His trecoclry dis.
played itself in various forms, and when about
! the year 1913, he relurned to New York End
entered counting house, he amused himself
Oy publishing lIltle periodical entitled The
I'resplan Mirror" Some-of his articles tbus
, disseminated attracted so much attention, and
argued so tuVOrably in behalf Of his ability, that
benevolent gentleman of that city, Mr. John
Seaman, volunteered to defray the youth s
expenses at Union College. The offer was
gladly accepted, and Payne took his departure
Tor Albany III slooP, in company with his
friend and kind adviser the celebrated Ameri
can Novelist, Charles Brockden Brown. The
bankruptcy Of his father led young Payne to in
sst upon trying the stage as a means of support
and lnasmuch as he had already displayed his
trionIc capacities, he obtained the consent Of
his parent and patron, and leaving college made
his first appearance at the Park Theatre as
Young Norval, on the evening of February
24th, 1909, in his sixteenth year. The per
tormance, like those of the whole enparement.
was highly successful. lie subsequently fulfilled
engagements IN the principal cities of the
United States. In January 1913, he sailed for
England, where and IN France he remained un-
I'll the year. 1882 when he returned home. Of|
ho II l.:
on the island and on the continent, we have
not the space to write. An account of the
transaction which resulted in the composition
that is sung wherever the English tongue is
spoken, mnst not however be omitted
Whom Charles kcmbe became manager of
Convent Garden, he like his predecessors ap-
piled to Payne for aid. Payne offered the new
manager a number of manuscripts for E;33O.-I
The odd thirty was the value set opposite The
piece afterwards called Clari.' Kemble closed
with the offer, and produced this piece, which.
at his request, the author had converted into an
opera. 1t made the fortune of every one prom- |
nent'y connected with il, except the sual ex- |
ception in these cases-the author 1t gained |
for Miss NJ. Tree Qhe elder sistcrof Mr.. Chas
Kean,) who first sung Home Sweet Home"
wealthy husband, and filled the house and
treasury. Upwards of one hundred thousand |
copies of the song were estimated in 1882 TO |
have been sold by the original publishers, whose |
profits within two years after ii was issued, are
said 10 have amounted to tCO thousand guineaS |
After his return to the United Stated, Pavne
issued the prospectus OF periodical which was
TO appear simultaneously III England and the
United States. The prospectus of eight pare
was the only part of the work that ever saw the
light. lie subsequently, became contributor
to The Democratic ReOieO, and having twice
received the appointment of Consul to Tunis,
died there in 1852 The song by which he is
best known, appeared originally as follows:
Mid pleasures and p tlaces though we NAV roam,
Still, be it ever 50 humble, there's no pac. like
home;
Which, go through the world, you'll not meet
elsewhere.
Home Home
Sweet Home,
There's place like Home,
There's no place like Home.
An exile from home, pleasure dazzles in vain,
All give me my lov ely matched cottage again;
The birds singing sweetlY, that come TO my call
Give me them, and that peace OF mind, dearer than
ALL
Home, Home, &C. ,
Many songs, on whose composition far more C
time has been employed than was ever spent on I
this, have faded from recollection, not that they
were destitute of merit but because they failed l
10 awaken that thrill OF the heart which is the b
true measure of the power of music. How diff. $
erent the fate of this ballad. Written with C
nothing of the delights Of home about hlm, but fl
he recollections OF It's hOmelIness its cottage Il
hatch, and its birds, the author strung the C
song with chords whose tones find a response
n every heart that ever had or dreamed of a S
nome. This simple lyric is known all over the
world, and doubtless sauted its authors ears in
If Ia Inn b,o C.l n
ow captive while in a london prison, and sighed a
or the freedom of the birds of which he had /,
written. In the parlOrs and saloons of the il
great, the rich, and the fashionable; in the Il
SIMPLE abode of the humble, the poor, and the a
fiiIcted; by the waysldc, in the concert hall; c.
1t midnight IN the serenade, at morning aud at II
evening in the street, and through open win II
lows, Is heard this song, which Will be remem-
,ered as long as the language remains in which
/ was written. Still its author wanted the leg
If mutton while Dondon was dissolved in tears
" his lyric, and he not only lost the twenty cl
i've pounds winch was 10 have been paid him tt
or the copyright of the opera in which the song to
ppeared on the twentieth night of its perfcrm-
nee, but was not compllnened with a copy of e
lis own ballad by the publisher-IrOy Hhig. ri
-"~''-'-- d;
INFLUENCE OF PUBLIC EXECUTIONS on THE Ii
Wheeling (Va.) InteiHgencer j.
notices the singular proceeding of little son in
If Mr.. Flach, in that city, who witnessed the Il
ecent public execution there. Ii seems that in
he lad has an uncomfortable desire to know il
What sort Of sensation hanging produces.- HI
)ne day last week he got rope, made loop, ii
n which he inserted his head, attached the d,
,ther end to a fence, and sank on his knees, in OF
which position he hung until his face was a
,lack and blue, and life was almost extinct :,
lie was fortunately discovered and cut down a
,y some boys, who chanced TO be near. Not m
liking the "sensaton as we'll as he evidently rc
lnticl pated, he afterwards attempted to make o,
uTther experiments on his still younger bro 81
her, hut his design was again frustrated. The Il
BOY is only 2 years ugs. 1b,
.-.s.