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this morning's GAZETTE—SecOid page :
Poetry, Ephemeris, Clippings. Third and
Sixth pages: Commercial, Financial, Mer
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GOLD. closed in New York yesterday
at 137 h. 1,
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' 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
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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-
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`y r_ ,
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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..
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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.
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THE, ST3IPTONS OF CONSUMPTION. ii
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Paleness of the countenance.
Spitting. or expectoration of pus.
This pus sinks in water.
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It Is somett es streaked with blood.
P There is ch liness or shirerlngs,
,ana flashes ?
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-of heat.
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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 <We l
The blood Is
veins. •
b colored Mateo{ t e urine.
t on standing like :rick du st.
times a great thirst
curried through th : arteries gad
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The pulse la ver a hundred. and even as hlgh
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as one hundre and forty a minute.
' The veins on ho surface of tbe '
than usual, and languid. , r
es the disease progresses the deb'
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The expeetor tion becomes me,'
The linger nal a are incurvated.
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There is a marttemus and west
power& of lite. -
There Is often pain in one or, both lungs.
Thereto often diarrhoea and falut ass.
There la great sinking of the vita learns.
When there are turbercles, small portions o f
mita zrculousL 4 ilter wIl be expect° ted. ..
This tuber r matter has an offensive odor.
On an examination with a lung sowed, rattling
and gurgling is las ard.
. There is always pore or less ccuath." '
Some of these symptom) are always present In
Pulmonary consumption, and nearly or quite al
of them in different stages of the disesue. .
No disease of which we have any knowledge Is
so common and so almost Invariably fatal; yet
this need not be the case if the canter symptoms
were heeded. Time and again we have called at
tentlon-to Dra KEYSER'S LUNG CURE, which
will in giver" - , instance:of ..% recent cough arrest.
the progress of Gee disease and hinder Its devel..
otment, and even after it has become settled will
often care ft and arrest furtuer decay of the
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Thousands orperaons, without any species d
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The
are the victims of languor and lassitude.
The unthinking are apt to confound this species i 5::
of Illation with laziness; whereas It usually
arises from a want of organic energy, for which
the subjects of It are no more responsible than the 1re..,,C
near-eighted 'are for their defective vision. Such '
1 persons!, although they may be free from painters
as truly invalids, and as much In need of medical ; 1
aid as if they were tormented wit h the pangs of is .
acute disease. They require a Toxic and ALM-
ATrrit that Will roue and regulate their torpid 4,
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bodily and mental oondltlon, le a aurprise to
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the active principle. Of life, which seemed to.- ktg'
have dldd oat of hlw,lare-awilteded,and he feels
llke a nail' :matt. Itemembenng that debility is - "ee - -
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not only an atllletlon. lteelf Out
lost I n pft - f,
niiiisaiiiii. no time abould be lost Inieerultias ~ -. ! -
the
system Mut 'tilts "eifolaistn
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