Daily national Democrat., 1860-07-11

| |, musing, late in the autumn day, gazing o.
southwark
Alone held by the eternal sefof me that threaten
to get the better of me and stfle me,
Was siezed by the spirit that trails in the line
underiOot
In the ruin the sediment, that stands for all tn
water and all the land of the globe"
HoRN
$50 have stood a lone man in the world,
In the age of the golden end,
In the true knowledge,
In the Creator, Supreme Almighty God,
Immortal in Union
! With one God immortal Christ,
| And like GdtOteO because had been
Teaching the spirit OF truth
| ln the true nature OF things as they
Have been In the past, now are
And designed to be in the future"
| EMERSON
"As weud the shores know not
As listen to the dirgc, the voices Of men and
women wrecked,
As | inhale the impalpablo brcezcs that set in
upon me,
As the ocean so mysterious rolls toward me closer
and closer,
At once find, the last thing that belongs to ne,
or that see or touch, know not" &C.
Horn -
Therefore out oflove which have
For the future welfare of my
Fellow mankind generally.
As | have already sen two letters,
One to the editor Of the Christian Advocate,
In San Francisco,
And the other to the editor
OF the Sacramento Union
On the solemn destiny which must
Come to pass on all darkness night secret oath
bound organizations therefore reason We
not in your delusons OF mind"
The last line of the above is a little longer
than the last line of the last quoted passage
from Emerson, bet its rhythm is very nearly
the same. 1t will be seen, too, that both are
ailudiug to something secret and unknown.
EMERsoN:--
ooh, badled, lost,
Bent to the very earth, here preceding what fol-
lows,
Terrified with myself that have dared to open
my mouth
Aware now that amid all the blab whose cchoe.
recoll upon me, have not once had the
least idea who or what am,
| But that before all my insolent poems tho rea
me still stands untouched, untold alto
gether unreached,
| Withdrawn far, mcckng me with mock congratu
latory signs and bows,
With peaS of distant ironical laughter at every
word | have written or shall write,
Striking me with insults, till fall helpless upon
the sand"
HoRN:
an my wandering journey have l met six
Rattlesnakes stretched across the road north
And south, with their heads NORTH the first one
on the Goth of April last about three miles
below OrovilIc.
And made war on the snake, threoceI n rock at
her head, striking the snake, and she turned
round
And run in a souherly direction in her den under
logs, and that instant
\ powerful sensation struck me that the Demo-
Gratis Convention at Charleston would
break up in row,
And that the seeding snakes would move in a
southerly direction"
1t will be seen that the length of the lines
in the foregoing extracts from the respective
authors is much the same, and the rhythm
quite similar There is also a considerable
assimilation of ideas, after You really get
possession of the precise thing which the au-
thors are driving at Sometimes Horn is a
little obscure while Emerson is clear, and
then, again, Emerson is very obscure while
Horn is perfectly clear.
EMERSON -
81 think Nature here in sight of the sea is taking
advantage OF me to oppress me,
Because was assuming 50 much,
And because have dared to open my mouth to
sing at all"
IIoRN-
was slandered by false Imprisonment in Marys-
vile by an
Eyil darkness-workng, Ieagued band of men,
Wherein they seeked TO destroy the truth
OF light and knowledge
In realities in good and evil which had been
teaching"
We have quoted the two last extracts for
the purpose of showing more particularly
what parallel there is, at times, between
the two poets, in their thoughts alone, with
out regard to their expression. EmeHon
complains that Nature is taking the advan-
tage of him. while Horn, with equal feryor.
complains that the evil-minded men of Ma.
rysville have been taking advantage of him.
They are evidently running into the same
channel of thought in the annexed quota
tions
EMERSON SAYS
81 throw myself upon your breast, my father
cling to you, &c.
HoRN says -
This cti5d, the writer of this
Issue, &c.
Showing that each regarded himself after
all his soaring into the high empyrean of
thought, as but a child A like grandeur,
and like humility
Whatever may be the difference of opin-
ion regarding the comparative merits of EN-
erson and Horn as poets, all must agree that
their one great forte is the faculty of being
obscure. In this respect, each is unapproach.
able save by the other Emerson may be
understood, by any one patient enough to
study out his enigmas, and so may Horn. For
our own part we can render the precise
meaning of both productions before us. but
gentle reader, you can rest assured that we
did not do it at the first reading
OLYMPIo.-The "Athen@um," in the old
Theater block, Montgomery st
San Francisco, has been christened the
Olympic" and there dramatic entertain
nents are given nightly by pretty numer-
ous and efficient company. Among the men,
Oers are Mr.. Phelps, Mr.. Barry, Mr.. Ander-