INI II 8 GAZETTE BUILDING, NOS. 84 AND 86 FIFTH ST. L. Ws Pm 3rr on the inside pages of this morning's GAZETTE—SecOid page : Poetry, Ephemeris, Clippings. Third and Sixth pages: Commercial, Financial, Mer cantile. and Riier News, Markets, Im parts. Seventh page: Miscellaneous and Political. gal GOLD. closed in New York yesterday at 137 h. 1, .di-i~~ ' THE New York "Hansom Cali" Corn piny has sent to England for two hun dred cabs., In England the superior lightness, elegance and grace of Ameri •can-made carriages is.acknowledged, and the most stylish wagon makers in Hrest Britain get their wheels from this coma otry, yet labor is so much chePer there than here that the above mentioned. Com pany can afford to send to England and inport, these new vehicles, parts of which in all probability came first from'Amer lea.. This significant fact should be quite sufficient to make all wagon makers pro tectionists. Tz Pittsburgh Post is quite right in taking the alai* when'one of its Demo- • craticcotemporaries in the interior "in slitslhat no man whose record will put the party on the defensive ought tol3e made the nominee for Governor" of . that party. The Post does not seem to con ' cern•itself with the grave fact that a re- cord precisely of this sort pertains to every Democratic politician ofany promi nence in - that party during the eight years past, but exhibits a pained consciousness that the - record of its own favorite choice for the nomination is really the most oh noxious of all in that regard. Hence its - Sensitiveness to the objection which we quote. Inn taste of the Secretary of the Navy, An one respect, is certainly questionable, and in our mind much to be deplored. Why should the thoroughly'original and American names of 'our war-vessels be abandoned, to make room for the worn out classical cognomens, which have Eg ured in all the navies of the world for ages? . The Indian names are to our ears as beautiful as the classic ones, and not by_ any means so trite. Nantucket is as beautiful and sweet and high-sounding as medusa ; Tonawanda has a national sound;besides being quite as easy to re member and , pronounce as Amphitot e , while Madoe's heroic sichievements are • quite as deserving; of a monument in the American naval nomenclature as are those of Hercules.' We have always enjoyed • , those truly national and poetic names by which our vessels have hitherto been known, and in hearing of the arrival in 101110 foreign waters of ,a , vessel whose ' very title is a part of home. The change is a little thing, to be sure, but it seems distasteful and unworthy of so accom plished a gentleman u Mr. Bonn:. t i t RE tide of immigration waist° have set in steadily from the west; thousands of Chinese have abandoned"the Celestial Ringire and come , to America, and the Japanese are beginning to follow the eg staple set by their continental neighbers, Thcllfehty people are essentially econons., kil t sod evenist Bast'lfranctsco, one of the dearest cities in the world, they are EG Tjt Rittsburgij PUBLISHED DAILY BY pENNBM,REED & CO., Proprietors, F. R. PENNIMAN. JOSIAH ICING, , T. P. HOUSTON, N. P. REED, Editors and Proprietors OFFICE, OFFICIAL PAPER Of Pittsburgh, Allegheny •and Alle. gheny CounTty. S e ems —Dotty. .semf. Wcekty. weekly. One year— gs, 00 one year. j 2.60 Single c0py...1.50 One month 75; Six mos.. 1.50 8 coldes,each 1.25 By Me week 15! Three mon V5lO ..1.15 Lt i romcarrier.) I end one to Agent. THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1869. UNIIIN REPUBLICAN TICKET. STATE TICK GOVERNOR, JOHN W. GE. SUPREME JUDG HENRY W. 'WIL.7 COUNTY TICKET. ASSOCIATE JUDGE DISTRICT COURT', JOHN M. KIRKPATRICK. ASSISTANT. I4Ni , JUDGE., COMMON PLEAS, FRED , K. 11. COLLIER. STATE SENATE, THOMAS HOWARD ASSEMBLY, MILES S. HUSIPHREI . S. ALEXANDER MILLAR, JOSEPH WALTO,'N, JAMES TAYLOR, D. N. WHITE, JOHN 11. KERR. SHERIFF. HUGH 8. FLEMING TREASURER, JOS. F. DENNISTON CLERK OF COURTS, JOSEPH BROWNE. RECORDER, - THOMAS H. HUNTER. COMMISSIONER. CHAUNCEY B. BOSTWICK REGISTER, ' JOSEPH H. (TRAY CLZES OF ORPTIANS' COURT. ALEXANDER HILANDS. DIRECTOR OF POOR, ABDIEL McCLITBE U. S. Boxes at Frankfort, 86iT86; PETROLEUM at Antwerp, 49f. said to preserve their native habits of economy. Will not this constantly in creasing Asiatic element, sooner or later, have the effect of forcing a genera ten dency to frugality upon our people? Will they 'not, 1)3/ earning the same wages and living on half the same, soon force their Caucasian competitors into adopting the same system', or, if not, gradually engross so much more than their proportion of the wealth of the country as thereby to enforce their adoption, or the comparative de pression of the total. Caucasian industry? If the Malays succeed in naturalizing economy in ,AMerica they will work a great good, , but ',the introduction into a population of a new and uncongenial race is always a question of great importance, and if the position of that race be not justly and securely Axed at the start, the gravest troubles may, in the course of time, be looked for as inevitable. Onto politicians are discuSsink the propriety of further actions by iheir Leg islature on the XVth Artidle, which was rejected in that State last winter by the temporary Democratic znajerity.. A few _among onr Republican friends propose that the next Legislature, in which our majority is considered certain, should re consider that rejection, and ratify the Article. Fortunately, no such suggestion is likely to have the official countenance of the party. It is very properly consid ered that the action of a State once taken, l whether affirmatively or negatively, is de-' delve, exhausting its Conititutional func tions•in respect of the Article submitted. Upon ;the, opposite doctrine to this, it would also be necessary to concede the legality of the movements in Ohio and -New Jersey, by Democratic Legislatures, for the withdrawal of the assent which those States had respectively given to the XlVth Article. In this vielv, the leading Repub licans of Ohio have the concurrence of the Democracy, who pr4fer to abandon their opposition to the Xfyth, that they may bind the State more absolutely to its rejec tion of the XVth last winter. In fact, they incline to make any sacrifice rather than to admit some five thousand of their colored finales to the suffrage. It is clear, therefore, that Ohio is' not, under any possible state of parties, to be formally counted for the XVth Article. The Re publicans affirm the principle which it embodies, endorsing in heartily in their platform . at Columbus yesterday, but claim no right to any further legislative action upon it, unless duly ratified by a majority of the other States TUE NATIONAL GOOD FAITH. The Administration adheres consistently to the correct American view of the obli gations of neutral powers toward a foreign government, any portion of whose sub jects may be in rebellion against its authority. While the Republic instructs its Minister at London to uphold our just claims for a suitable reparation for that illegal British sympathy which placed so many obstacles in the way of the speedy suppression of our late . Southern rebellion against the Federal authority, the Presi dent enforces the same obligations of neutrality within the limits of this coun try against all who would unlawfully manifest their sympathy for the insurgent Cubans. The recent seizures of vessels loaded with - war material and destined for insurgent use, with the arrest of such Cuban agents as have clearly violated our neutrality laws, notwithstanding the pre ponderance of American feeling upon the aide of the insurgent cause, must afford to the British government a satisfactory proof of the sincerity with which we make our reclamations in the matter of the Alabama and ether Anglo-rebel depredations upon; our commerce. It seemed to us, months since, —and we so expressed _the view=-that the American treatment of the Cuban question would bear with the greatest force upon the adjustment of the pending controversy with England. Events more and more confirm this'opinion. Indeed, we might add that this Cuban imbroglio, involving, as it does, so heartily the pop ular syMpathiei of tlie'Amerlcan people, ha's come at a most fortunate moment to strengthen the Aniericin position in Eu rope, and that we shall be as decisively 'as favorably weighed In the judgment of Christendom acaording to our Conspicu ously 'consistent good faith in dealing with those sympathizers who violate our own neutrality laws. It Is gratifying therefore to see displayed, at Washington, a just regard for the rights of Spain, which will do us more good in London than the menacing partizanship of a score of political conventions. THE CAMPAIGN OPENED. The Republicans of Pentusyltrania again marshal their columns in the Acid, and under the same leader who headed the victorious march of 1866. And it least an equal triumPh again awake them. It is not within the remembrance of our Politicians that a Convention of the. party has foond Its way so speedily and so harmoniously to the conclusion of its labors, as did that Republican Council which yesterday assembled at Philadel phia,, to learn that its members were of one mind, that the path through 'a suc cessful canvass was to be embarrassed by no preliminary struggles for the indi vidual honors of the nominations, that they,. who should be our stiindard- Waren, had been already - Indicated by annnanimous popular Preference, and that,- all .over the arena ;of comultation, there could - be found, either olliziniiples Olifinen, l 'absoinCelkiiotiing*bateief 'debate. ''The barest needfutfoinaalitleit'Of organisation alone preceded the enthusi . t EFTA Y. , JC NE. 24; astic cheers which from every side wel comed the re - investiture of our nominees, by a common consent, with the unshaken confidence of their political friends, and, as, we are quite sure, of a large majority of the people of this Cornmonwealth. In . the contrasts which yesterday's Conven tion affords, in this regard, with the_ pro ceedings of its predecessors in '63 and '66, our Republican friends will discover the happiest auguries for the inevitable tri umph of next October. . , Our reports show that the Conven tion was fully attended, every district of I the State bding represented.. The pre liminary organization was conducted by Hon O. A. Gnow, Chairman of the State Committee, whose' brief address was marked by pointed, fitting and graceful allusions to the high responsibilities of the occasion, and by significant references to the evident readiness of the Convention to express the common preferences of all its members. The rffeular organization followed, Allegheny county being fully and worthily represented, upon the Committees, in the selection of the subordinate alma, ' and - in the honor, still more marked, of fur nishing the permanent Chairman—a 'post which was entrusted to Hon. -JAMES L. Gneine.u. This was a compli ment alike to , this great county, which knows how to attest its devotion to Re ,publican principles in the most effectual way, ant — to the personal and official worth of a citizen. of whom Allegheny county is justly proud. And this com pliment was immediately and gracefully . acknowledged. The Convention was, then ready for its business, —the noraina-• lion of our candidates and the declara tion of the issues upon which the people are invited to support them. How that business was done, our report furnishes a grateful account; The renomination of General JortN W. Gx&a for Governor must, under the cir cumstances, be highly gratifying to his own feelings and to those of his personal friends. It would be idle to deny that strong opposition to him has been at tempted to be developed among a portion of those who may properly 'be regarded as Republican politicians, and specula tion has beenindulged in, in many quar ters, as to the probabilities of his being defeated before the State Convention through their agency. But he has proved much stronger with the masses of the party than with some of the leaders thereof,' and hence he is again a candidate for the guberna torial office. This popular confidence in his capacity, integrity and patriotism, which - has eiridently overborne and brought to naught all the combinations which they havl been entered into for his discomfiture, is not simply a fact, but a prophecy. -It indicates that in the can vass, and at the ballot-box, he may safely count on the weight and momentum of the same potent eldnent, and that the dis affected politicians, if any there may be, after brief reflection, will fall in with the Prevailing current. We need only - remind our readers of the sharp and apparently exhaustive struggle which, six years ago, was closed in this city, in the re-nomination of Gov. CURTIN by a bare majority, in the-face of the bit terest opposition and of the most confi dent predidtions in his defeat at thepolls, and upon which the people of Pennsylve nia, but a few brief months .after ward, pronounced their udgment in a magnificent majority at ho polls. So now, When the politicians ave had their day, and have made so I ttle of it, the masses of- Pennsylvania V I come to the front once more:in solid c lumns to re new the commission of the r confidence to an Executive whom thybelieve to have done his duty. Of Judge Wrimems, 'selected by the Cothention, for the Supreme Bench, we, Ins fellow-citizens of- Allegheny, need only say that- .in all the Commonwealth there was found; - not one competitor to dispute his just title to the honor. Al: ready tried by the professional\ and public opinion of Pennsylvania, the ermine which he wears has been deservedly won, and is worn in fidelity to the law and to the honor not more of himself than of the people of this great State. Thus judged by his, fello t _w•citizens, by his 'political friends, and by all the bar who have had even now much occasion to judge of his official worth, he needs no other eulogy from ns. The Convention of yesterday has pronounced an eulogy to which no words of his friends and neighbors need attempkto,fidd. It remains how for the Republicaps of Pennsylvania to complete the work which they have begun.- It can and wlti be finish ed in but one way. Ot3r Commonwealth is with us.- We have - governed it well. The people ask for no change in its gen..' eral policy. We have the votes, and these will be.e.eat Its ever for the party of the Union, of American interests,' of lib. arty and equality utider,our Constitutions and laws. A NyrE UPI PnovEti36a LECTURE. The writer of the article below ? taken from the Richmond Eclectic, Baltimore; is of Holly Efprings, Miss. An 'article of his in the Southern Review', entitled Ulassltica lion, hid the good fortune, to be `com• Mended Prorisior. it XlV be well4o state that, in the lecture here reviewed; Prof.' at7XLE7 takes the ground that Wit attachatoinatter in certtia com binationti and ;under certain conditions of tel *l ll tlirt4 i cliehtl4l,'Oction t of, light,' electric4l ewOitanon, and the like ( ' JON; 4 1 the ea jppya46t . L110'4,41,4 ',spot., a fluid, or a solid, under the tau- `^~?x ~?~.2.54i1 ~'+s~` §'~' , k ' S~-~ zi'~r + ~ - "~ yy ~ i. `y r_ , i 5 aril ~"'~+`iF`"` rr" =;~ ~~~' fib • ~„ ence of heat and cold attaches to water. In other words,fhe holds that it is as ab surd to individualize the principie of life, and give it a Special name, vitality, as to do the same thing for the grotip of phe nomena exhibited by water (aqua), and attribute them to the principle of aquoaity resident therein. ' The far-reaching con sequences of such speculations are self suggestive. It .is but fair to say that^ Prof. HuTLET, while claiming that it is more convenient to use terms which im ply materialistic views, denies that he holds to the materialistic philosophy. Mr. Jorassoses!discussion is learned and able, and seems to be cartel td and fair- Our - a-- friend, Dr. B. C. Jrusori, of the West ern University, has made to us a suggest tion that strikes us with force; It life - is the distinctive quelity of protoplasm, that •which mad show', itself from the very con stitution ot- this substance, (and if not, there is no hing very remarkable in Prof. IluxnEr's discourse,) what can we un derstand by Prof. H.'s "dead proto plasm." What would water be, minus its aquoBity ? Not taking issue With editorial pulls— that this is a "remarkable discourse"— nor denying the eminence of Prof: flux ley as a naturalist, we ago yet unable to see why his conception of a material, basis of, vitality shouldvbe called "a new theory," This - has - been the aim of all the speculations and the tendency of all the discoveries in physical science—at least since the days of Oken. Nor is his adoption of the protoplaszna of a cell as the basis of vitality anything particu larly new. This has been seen and said 1 before by his friend Carpenter, and by him accredited to the discoveries of Nagli, Alohl and Schleiden. The latter undoubtedly regard the cell as the basis of all organisms. As to the des- cription of the currents of circu lating fluid in a Tell, this no novelty; but when he attributes this motion to - seine innate cc ntractine and expanding power of the "protoplasna," and there rests as the final solution of his inexplicable vitality,—then he is a little peculiar. The location of vitality in the cell has long been taught; at least it has so long been familiar to us, that we cannot at the moment undertake to say with whom it originated. However this may be, we cannot see that Prof. Huxley goes one whit beyond his predecessors in analysis of the material and physical basis oflile. He does not attempt to account for the movements of the protoplaama; he ac knowledges that the origin of that organ ism of the colloid matter itself is wholly inexplicable. Inexplicable?—when we have all the materials at hand from the foundation of the world? As soon as water could appear and rest upon this globe, appeared also runmonia and car bon. Is there anything more Wanting to produce organic plasma? The sul phur, phosphorus, and earthy salts, if needed, were also at hand. We regard it as inexplicable, bemuse the chemist has not as yet been able to produce this compound, though in the• great labora tory' of nature we see it was produced. True, if we had this problem solved, there would remain no longer any mys tery in organic life. But after all it is more a problem of expertness on the part of the chemist in the znauipulation of formulas, than a profound difficulty in science. Thus proteine, 'according to .Mulder's formula ' is C4O 1131:N 5 012, ammoniawhile ammonia is 113 N, and water H 0; car bonlc,acid is C 02, and etherene, or oledant gas, one of the forms of carbu retted hydrogen, „i 8 04 114. The diffi culty is supply to fix the due atnount of carbon, and eliminate the surplus gases. Again, supposing that Prof. Iluxle,rs account of cell circulation .as the effect of undulations of the colloid utricle is true --(and to one who has seen the thing it sett, and compared the slow movements of the plasma with the great velocity of the liquid, current, it must be unsatis factory)—but supposinit-the true one: What excites and vi rates the proto plasma? He intimates arkly it may be t i owing to electric or electro-magnetic cur rents. But if so, whence are these cur rents derived? Answering none of these questions, he leaves us exao ly where the older naturalists left us—t at is, brings. us back in the old vicious ole to it tri tality. We are unable ' o perceive his g ear advance upon the philosophy which he so successfully ridicules -from Martinus Seriblerus, as the "meat-roasting, quali ties of the smoke-jack." Perhaps it was not his object to - go any further with the analysis. Had it been,he would have told us that in all organisms this protophotma of colloid matter is cut up into certain ,detinite portions, forming utrides or saccull; that to each of: these sacculi or cells, as they mast henceforth be called, belongs au external exuvious coat, and probably an internal lining membrane, between which coatings lies this plastic material CO which is attached the mysterious propertv, life; that within this hypothetical lining or basement membrane formintevacuole.s or cane/lc:di, in the plasma, is contained this circulat ing fluid, holding In solution or in gran ules, non-nitrogenized Substances or the chemical ternary group; that this endow ment of life ,f as he well says from Bichat) is developed by death--that is, that it is by the oxydation, the des struction 'of the orginism itself in `a disproportionate degree as to the several pasts, that the life - current , is Pro duced; that - accordingly, as a fact, this oxydation is of the cell-contents, in pre ference to the cell-plasma; that this plasma forms the cell, sack, or bag to hold these contents, precisely because it is less oxyillzable than the ternary cam pounds within; that though less oxydiz able than the contents, the &Bold Lam tion of the protoplasnia is more liable to change,—the nitrogen continually escap ing, or straining to do so; and that this very change developes the first eleetro animo•magnetic current, which promotes the oxydation of the ternary groups of the cell-contents; which oxydation, in turn, developea the more powerful cur rents that canoe .the undulations of the plasma and the circulation of the fluid; Which circulation again is determinedby one • or more points of the ,cell being more accessible to. oxygen than others, and that this determines and directs the building up of the organism and its mul- tipliaation. - Tittle life is reduced not merely to some Mysterious inexplicable jsroperty of the Organism—an endowment of the protoplasma,--but to the known nisi mate laws of matter, under the guidance of the known physical forces. ' - Nor for all this, aro we afraid to un dertake to defend prof. Huxley and his philosophy against the' charge of ma tertalism and implied inference of athe• 'ism. We cannot say that his defence of himself is very successful or very philo sophical. A man may be a great odor aluit without -at the same time being a profound and well guarded philosopher. file - former is a :specialty; the lat. ter is ' the office of comparing, of 4teneralieng, ~ of harmonizing all -rotate, - •and . truth& .- A naturalist need no more lindertairk this, than a carPenter need be also a mason tand - scullitor, - or, assume the - ftincticuia of the, architect who is to, give larder -arid her- Monarkrthe libortiofthe thatisitziOvork- Mon 'who •erect and adorn the temple: - Had Prof. H. followed out his own posi- f tion: "That we are dealing merely with iterms and symbols, . . • . that it is p i moment whether we express the ' Utile lahonomena of matter in terms of spirit, r the phenotnena of spirit in terms of atter, . . . • . matter may be re. arded as a form of thought—thought may be regarded as a property of mat ter,"—had he carried out these prin. clples, we say, to their ultimate conclu sion, be might have spared us the lecture ftom HllOlB, and the counsel to "commit _the volumes of Divinity to the flames," might have spared us his wrath against the mistaken enemies of the "new phil osephy." His own master Comte (though he is vehement in denying the obligation) clearly recognizes the possi bility (and the fact) of "primitive intui tions and instincts': that is, of arriving at truth by some other method than the scientific, and the justness - of ;reasoning from a priori conceptions of triith. And this is all that these books ofi Divinity attempt. We say nothing of ;how Welt they may have accomplished it; Ithe scope is a legitimate one;that is, view ingi it from one of Prof. H.'s own pro posed stand•points—spiri thought. But view it from the other: matter. Then what are all these great books and sys toles of theology, metaphysics, ca.c., dec., but-great facts also of this material world, —phenomena of his own thinking proto plasma,—Paots of thought, facts of mind, ngpsychological facts,—therefore accord to this view facts of matter ? And if ,facts of matter, how can a mere materialist even despise them? A mere naturalist might have no I use for -.. them, but the philosopher must give them place in his pantheon. True, to the mere collector of the fauna and //era of earth, might be applied his own sage counsel, ne surer ultra erepi. dam; and we agree with him, that to such a one theso 1111iy be questions of "lunar politics." We are not denying that human 1 knowledge has limits, nor disposed to take issue here with Prof. a „and detract from the glory of Hume in attempting to fix those limits, or of Kant who systema tized this attempt, (though in various ways this had often been done 1 3efore): but we are not for fixing these limits an: hi trarily and accordingae the tastes -and ' feelings of inffividuals who, tor aught we know, class "lunar phases" with "lunar politics." A few years ago the . propdal• tion to tell us the composition of the sun and stars, and whether the latter are moving or not, would have been so claased. To a carpenter knowin . no tools but his own, it must be inconce g iVa bid how a cornice might be - fashioned out of stone or iron. , It is not tht the "new Piloshers" (if the term a delig es ht them) h claim their libeity to pursue tenth by their own method—to this they are entitled; but it is to their aggressive attitude, it strikes us, men object. Even Gibbon remarked of Voltaire that he was "a bigot, an in tolerant bigot;" and the same is moat strikingly true of Hume. Ile was in his way as fanatical as old John Knox, or any other bigot of them all. This we see I still in Huxley. He is not content with being -a naturalist, (and one of the great- ; est living)—not content.to know and de- ' clans such truth as it has been given him ' II to see,--aggressively, fanatically, he de nies that there is any other. , Beyond hie Koran there cannot be anything. worth knowing, therefore delenda sunt. 'SO true is it, that we will find the great mass of human errors in negations. . Taking, then, what we Conceive to be the , true philosophical position—a coma parative analysis of all facts, we should attempt to make peace between lafr. Huxley and the Archbishop of York. Shall I lose - my bully doctor, or shall I I lose my parson?" as mine host or the _Garter woulo say. It does seem to us, that religiosity in man is one of' the great 'facts of his existence, —as thoroughly universal as any other law of his being. He has a faculty and love of music— anotheraone of these universal laws; but music is in ' ' many respects incomprehen sible. Can one tell us with certainty why music delights us; why a harmony is agreeable, why a discord jars? A property or faculty of the acoustic nerves? " Ah, we are still brought back at last in the same old circle to the "meat-routing quality . of the smoke jack." But because we do not compre hend fully the source of the influence of "sweet sounds," shall we refuse to cul tivate music as a science? Shall we re far to recognize what it has done for th cultivation and happiness of man kind ? And yet; to seek further to in vestigate the fouudation of 'harmony, might be classed with Prof. , H.'s "lunar politics." . How much greater wisdom is there,' thus ticlass the religious tendencies of man? Let it be distiuotly understood, we are not here affirming or denying the foundatkM of religious beliefs; we do not attack the Jewish conception of a revelation, nor the myths of Greeee, India, or Peru; but taking only this, .a posteriori position—matter, and observing and reasoning inductively from this etauci•point, can we, as- naturalists (materialists if you will) close our eyes to the grand class of natural phenomena that belongs to the animal man? He has not a faculty or dpassion that more uni versally deinands gratification than this one—religiosity. Viewed from this point (and mind, we do not assert, nor deny, that this 'is all and the only one,) religion is as much . a passion, a property of the animal as the love of music, ofsociety, of offspring, of sex,—a passion that in a healthy, normal condition promotes htt- Matt happiness and civilization; in ab normal or pathological conditions drag's hina down to gloom and degradation. Is it not then to be cultivated? Let us still _ I have its teachers and professors, who will elevate andseflue it with the progress In all other things, and lead as on to the en joymen its high entrancing melodies, and know' how to avoid the deplorable discords which destroys souls. We wish to be understood, therefore, 1 as Saying, that in this, manner we ,con calve all the facts and systeme of theology or theoTtophy to be capable of reduction truly and propperly to the rules of induc tive science. We cannot predict precisely what will be the result when science shall have attained this wonderful emi nence; but from analogy of other realms invaded by this great modern conquerer (tor instance agiln, musks), we cannot hope that in this, whit:his destined to be its last conquest, the scientific method will accomplish more for religion than \ ik exp/atig, from another point of view, re ults aireadyattained empirically; that it ill not create any new religion any ore than' it kis created new music or Stating, but give us new comprehension f the old, We cannot, therefore, second or adopt t e proposition of Prof. Huxley from the g eat skeptic Hume, -to commit t * the _flames the religious Tabora o the race lbr now - these so many ages, .we, regard it,. on the. contrary, as repugnant to that very. phil osophy of which the latter is considered one of the founders,,and the former one of the tnoat brilliant 'disciples. Hume, alas I died as soon as comparative analy sis was born, and could 'net dream of the .wonders to be achieved by --lt. i It is enough for us that a new faculty, a new method,, is barn to ;us—the scientific iiilr Isriu can ,leact as to higher certainty tha our fathers could attain.:But, there is no bi4Yet , towine , that these two methods are Contradictory. On the con-', trary e believe they ultimately cut; miira In the Mite point'as - in the great Empi e all roads lead to Rome.. • A "POMP , WOItTLIX OF ATTEN:- MN: MESSRS EDITORS : Your remarks in' Tue.AdaY's issue in relation to the point oil land a t the junction 'of the Allegheny and; . lionong,abela rivers, suggest the inquiry! Rho controls the "point." A wob-deni 1 building of _considerable size is erected' about the middle of that spot, and con-I neeted with it is an enclosure of some I 2 extent, surroundegl, by a close board! fence. ' ' 1 If the city controls It as public prop. arty, certainly it is injudicious for - the "fathers" to allow wooden buildings to be erected upon it in violation of the or• dinance prohibiting them, as it is but at• few weekssince they took most prompt and summary action in ordering the re moval of buildings in other parts of the ,1 city, which were designed for important manufacturing uses, and could not be said to be exclusively of wooden material, as t, that erected on the point is. It has been mainly created within few I years by the extension of the "high and low water lines" (established by law) far into the deep water of both rivers, and the result is, as you.have observed, sev eral acres in extent, which, we agree with you, should be converted. into public pleasure grounds--indeed we think this ;• is about the only' lawful use that can be made'of it. It ought to be a longer time than jolt probably suppose "before it will be covered with boiler yards and railway depots." 4 If we mistake not, such uses were in. terdicted by the decision of the Courts, which ordered the removal of the freight I pansof the Pennsylvania Railroad Com atty from the Monongahela wharf some ears r- It is public, open,(Tound. and can be used for nothing elst and should be de voted to some such use in a meritorious and ornamental way. AN OLD CITIZEN. AlitEnrcar; COMMERCIAL LAW, Relating to every kind of Business.' By Frank- . lin Chamberlain. Hartford, 0. D. Case '. & Co. This work, judging. by the advanced sheets which we have seen, will be an 1 extiemely valuable addition to the legal :! literature of the country, and clne which I will be of great benefit to the merchants r as 'well as to the lawyers of Anxerica. It ! i. is written by a practical lawyer who has had a quarter of a century of elkperience at the bar, during which time heas paid l w especial attention to commercial la . ,The i subjects treated in the book are very un merous, and a careful perusal would pro bably result in the saving of much legal .3 Hampton, i a recent letter, says ri l g difficulty an money in the future. judge I of it: 5.. "I have e ammed with considerable care the tabl of contents, and a portion 1 of the advau d sheets of anew work on "American C tin, Law," by Frank lin\ Chamberl in, Esq., of Hartford, and so far as lam ble to judge of its merits ,;•-• and character, I have no hesitation in recommending las a work of great value l to 'the legal pro ession, as well ' as CO the i business comma , ity in general:" ' - A It is sold only to subscribers, and the i . agent here is Mr. J. R. Cunningham, whose office is at 350 Liberty street. ' ''' —The Connecticut House of Represen tative's defeated We usury bill by a.vote of seventy.seven to one hundred and forty-eight. • . THE, ST3IPTONS OF CONSUMPTION. ii • Paleness of the countenance. Spitting. or expectoration of pus. This pus sinks in water. - . \ It Is somett es streaked with blood. P There is ch liness or shirerlngs, ,ana flashes ? ,i -of heat. , . Therelts at. rly whiteness of the eyes. T,he hair of e head falls off. I ~ At times the Is a circumscribed red spot on ohe or In th eh eke. There is swe ins of the hands and feet. . 1 There is greitt debility and emaciation of the 1 body. There Is a 101 l With adepo There Is