The New York Herald Newspaper, February 5, 1852, Page 4

NS eS NEW YORK HERALD PROPRIETOR AND EDITOR ROP FULTON AND NASSAU STS THE DSILY HERALD. 2 cents per sopy—8T ger | “PLE WEEKLY, HERALD coery, Seturday, 2 sper anu Per soRY, oe ay part of Great Lrstain. and 96 Philosophy. ‘We perceive that the Rochester Knockers are | Sbout to make another visit to New York, to ex- | hibit come further developements of the new “ism.” | Instead of being exploded by the exposures in the erricr N. w. con newspapere from time to timo, it appears to have rallied of late, and bids fair to become tke estab- lished theory of a sect to be added tothe already long list of delusions that have been cmbracod by knaves and fenatics, deceiving and being deceived, = = till come other humbug has been started more S a EK ET. | attractive, because more ridiculous and absurd The latest of these “ Spiritualiem’—called “spiritual manifestations” of organof that sect, the Neto York Phese manifestations are known also a8 Rochester Knockings, because in that city the bas been for ecvernl days looked for at this, TApbings iret attracted notics, and whorever tho terwarde appeared, the oporations of d the Nochestor Knockings. is but avother phase of aximal magnetism nud clairvoyance, which has boon so ov ands upon thousands in this country, and in [urope, xs an undoubted truth, a tended that closed their covers ; that seo what was going on in the mind of any other person with whom 9 mutual ii 1d, in fact, describe most Ace thousands of miles oO held that tho magnetiser er the will ofthe magnetized, hl oder the mesm« 10¢ to do what ke or she thought proper by a iti This was and is believed as firmly spel by vast num itualism of the rapp toany part of Serasthe Continent, both to vet =— “ Volume MVE... nc ceee New Work, Thursday, Feb. 5, 1852. serescarenN@e S5e | than the last. By reference to another part of this paper it will be seen that the steamship Niagara, compolled to supply of co ry boisterous weathor from the spirits were The new “ism” into Halifex, ing experienced v the day she left Eurepe aro but thy the Humboldt, s long received d contain bu bocks could be read the clairvoyant o not give universal sa we do not perceive that i Dg political op corcé taking p ay of Franco. 8 of eome Fel ‘ Dm, it is also in ngs is but tho samo It is on expianation of the forming us that spirits from the other Jl who question them, t) ne,” the most wondorial intel- therto regarded as inaccsssiblo, ly communica! ozant etate, whore 5] | were, temporaril wake another world convey to the proper “mi d by a person irit being, as it m the trammels of Mesh and blood, became omnipresent, or was able to travel around the globe with the spoed of electri- city, and sce whatever was to be seon in ite extra- ‘The only diffurezce appears to be, pyante confined thoir eas “tho modiums” travel into oteraity, and hell, and “a third place,” relate 4 is going on in 2, however, is not so much a difference as an extension of the same idea, sto greater light—tho fuller develope- What will be tho next step in advance, or where the system will end at last, we are at a loss to conceive, having nover heard of any other “undiscovered country” then paradise, pandemoninm, and purgatory, all of which arenow Wilkes, of the navy, asking for an appropriation ef | *Tavereed by “the mediume,” with the help of tho ion of dollars to defray the expense of an | *P on of the Arctic seas in search of The Senate postponed the con- ¢ intervention reeolutions till next The cereus printing bill was taken up, ii not surprise us, at any | ” has beon crowned Em- of diplomatic scan- a by the neglect of | ite toa grand dal has been created at \ direct, aud so quict in the G i will be pleased to learn tat large sales of cotton | n wade at Liverpool, at firm rates, and that activiry and good prices provailed in the corn | ed by the United States | mont of the system Senate yesterday, was the avt to provide for the ipline and good conduct in the | navy, by placing offenders on a short allowance of A petition was presente from Uspt. promotion of di There spirits “‘palter in 2 double sense,” liko tho witches with Macbeth, when they told him ‘nono of woman born shall harm Macbeth,” or the oracle of Apollo with Pyrrhus, when it announced Ajo te v ig ‘ teact | +b acida Romanos vincere posse,” which being do- SOC Rer (REIE)) MOTed Shae & COnETACY signedly ambiguous, is capable of two interprota- tions; eithor, ‘I say tha you, Pyrrhus, can con- quer the Homans,” or, “I say that the Romass for the exceution of the work bo made with the editors of the Union newspaper. readers may not uadersiand this movement en the is Ht of ~ ive inti . moor | CaN conquer you, Pyrrhus.” Both took the bright Bere ae Te bo TO SS BeNOR Oo ee rone ase | side ef the picture, and were tempted to their de- Ay ROR ESR ERE Jnion | Ettuction. This new “ism,” after all, is not new, sey smeared in Wy aang ton ties Ae ine neers for it is in fact but the revival of the ancient oracles This accounts | ofGreece. In the centre of the temple of Apollo, at Delphi, there was a emall opening in the ground, » from time to time, an intoxicating | ports bis statement by referring to the foot | emoke arose, Which was believed to come from the well of Casctis, which vanished into the ground | Backland, close by the eanctuary. | stood a high tripod, on which Pythia, led iato the temple by tho prophet, took her scat, whenever the oraclo was to be consulted. Tho smoke arisiag from under the tripod affected her brain in such a mannor, that she fell intoa state of delirious in- toxication, and the sounds wii this state were believed to cont As some of our tic organ, it is as well to cxplain that it is gene- gete the job, the Republic (Villmore organ) is to do | half the work, and ehare the profits. sdesireto have a contract made While such 2 mearure would help | to keep alive the democratic mouth-pieco, it would | materially aid that of the whigs. are to bekept on their loge by funds from | blic treatury, Why not make a genoral com- promise and goin fora “fair divide all round 2” ook concern of tho whole g, democratic, Southern | rnsigan equal share of the ve them eli an e sentatives was yesterday en- sed by Mr. Smart, providing blic lews and advertise. with the Union. a sho uttered in o tho revelations down by the prophet, and afters to the persone who had come to sonsul at ie this but the mesmerie elco Pythia, or the the most beaut! the took & vow of celitacy. nh proposed by 1d y very expensive. nde ke fouud, a Bat fcom some de- scandal, it was de- ned the age of remembrance of f 1 Suck is the progress we aro maki ial reformers and new “isu 20 the establ e Witchoraft” am ded from the kingdom of he rday, upon the of the canal co e pretence of the mag- uctiser to have the po the credulity of his fon wally yielding nducisg her to believe that ductions and im- on, and great pecchos on the occas! eults, however much of grief may ho excited by ees of poor human nature, not be wondered at by those who ere ver history of fanaticiem, and know anything of the philosophy of the human mind. Thess now idea’ are invariably started by charla- tans, who calculate largely upon the gullidility of d, and they are sustained, for the most part, great rogues or great foole—the former playing upon the simplicity of the latter, somewhat after ies, which is almost invariably granted. In cases | tho fuehion that the crafiy politicians aad wire- of private contracts, such @ proceeding is not thought of, and there is no just reason why it shoald bo done in the management of publie bus ners. ‘* Waat one loses is another's gain,” is the | rule of trade. ‘The biil in relation to the first di State militia was postponed in the Assembly, in consequence of the opposition of the country mem- Mach meiriment was produced by a motion made by Miko Weleh, to graut Mr. Snow leave of | hee a Se lee cenit os P | a wizard; or, the suporgtitiouz heat Mike's own name was | 145 response of the oracles of Dey them for the weal: ¢ day, the Judiciary Committes were eport as to t i peculating contractors, when they | SU ew “iem endsome profit out of their bargains, quietly “pocket the procceds;” that they tind they have miszed a figure, they rot up a dismal howl, and petition ihe Legisiature for but the moment move the ignorant and credulous mob, devising one ingenious artifice after another for | deception, and fraud, and “bunkum.” Yet it is a | curious fact that a class of persons, pretending to ion, and intellect, aad high intelligence, havo twallowed wholesale the absurdities of the newest | “iem”—among them clergymen, | articts, including Horace Greele | who, it is well known, are as ie; | ‘spiritual manifestations,” sz the und Jenny Lind, are as firm Loliovers in the voriest simple- teller, a witch, hen who sought pai and Dodona. Aynotumr Scancu ror Sir Jonn Fravurin.~Ib Ibis said | will be seen, by the following momorial to Con- thet Mr. Cloy's speech has dampened the ardor of | grees, that another effort to find Sir John Franke : lin ia urged upon the coustry:— The undersigved memorislist | land Institute and citizens of £ having considered the probabilities of tae contiae. 1 existence of it Jobn Frontlia and the lost crews of tae es giso the chances of ao, do respectfuly xerroeons to your ho- je bodies that @ msesure of enlarged humanity, n of govarnnent, ancpices of a private ¢ id uot be abaudoned efter # ingle failure, abrerce for eloven days. immedistely substituted in place of Mr. Saow’s, and the motion was been dono with Nothing hee as yet Corsuth resolutions. ian cause, and it 3 Will be allowed to 9 close of the sersion. W Mexico, represent the rather the best of our troops should judge sofrom javwre gonerally, after Erebus acd Terror, b has alrendy 0 ray that an expedition of recovery b lees ond crgauizalion a# shall | found in our telegraphic col ronowed gearoh ig by boats, en, aud lege, trucsing lesa to ships, and moro t ia streng!; advocated by ane, who ditinguished himself in the G to individual energy sterday ina var increased from five to over ouabitants in the last five yeaza | ch au expedition thirty thousand verigg, even if it yepid growth. ANtisELt’s LacTURE ON Qxorooy—Tave Scr | divine tried to re0one’ig the discrepancy by the we have been giving reports of various lectures, on @ variety of subjects, delivered by several les- turera, euch as Dewey, Chapin, Bellowes, Beecher, Baird, and now we give Dr. Antisell’ With the exception of the lectures of Dr. Baird, which are rich in historical facte, and that of Dr. Antisell, which is full of interesting geological develope- ments, the reat of the lectures that have beon in- flicted on this suffering community have been spo- cimens of the most unmitigated trash, the most contemptible verbiage, expressed grammatically, that ever educated mon and protenders to science undertook to throw before an intelligent commu- nity. Who, for instance, goes to a lecture of Dewey’s, or Chapin’s, or Bellowos’, or Beecher’s, and hears thei: words, words, words, and comes away with a single prominent or perfect idea derived therefrom? Notone. Ia the midetof this great de- ert of the lecture seacon, we aro glad, however, to find one green epot in bis! crical and religious litera. tare presented by Dr. Baird, and another green spot | in the intellectual and scientific analysis of natural facts, as presented by Dr. Antisell in his lecture oa geology. But while we spoak of Dr. Antizoll’s locture, wo object to the very deficient criticism which he has pronounced on one of our articles. A fow days oZ0, in anticipation of this course of lectures, we made some references to it, which have met with tho disapproval of the learned lecturer, who wrote us a letter complaining of being classified with tho oppo- nents of Christianity, and of his | es being describod as aiding in propagating athoism; but it is qi apparent that this acate philosopher cannot havo read the article he condemns with tho slightest degree of attention, or that ho must havo beon laboring under some strange hallucination wher be wrote tous. We never saida word respect- ing atheism, or that could lead the simplest person in the community to imagine that we considerod the tenden: of gegogy atheistical. Oa tho con- trary, wo believe that the study of that science tends to lead the mind moro and more completcly into tho fullest and firmest faith in the oxistenco and infinite wisdom and power of tho Great Archi. tect of tho universe; but the position we did as- sumo, and which cannot be contested, was, that the advan es made in the etudy of geology entire}, upset the Mosaic theory of tho creation, and led the mizd conclasively to 2 mingled philos rialism and spiritualism, hostile to t’ the Jewish or Christian dieponsa sell must have some queer miscon to the mesning of atheism, when he cons uat, in our ebservations, we wished to apply sucha termin referonce to his lectures. world, some twenty or thirty yoars ago,it sproad some alarm amongst tho professors of roligion, who saw that its inevitable result would be the under- mining of the goodly pyramid of the Christian faith; and, inself defence, the English clergy sclectedsem> members of their body to cultivate tho acioncs, ascertain’principles and fasts, and should they be found irrefutable, then to endeavor to reconcile them with the Mosaic history of the creation; bu} the Subsequent failure of this committee of savans to make a report o2 the result of their investigations, as they were to have dono, demonstrates protiy clearly that they found the task proscribed to them an impracticable one. Notwithstandiag, Dr. An- tisell denios that tho scienco stands in antago- nism to religion and Christianity, and sup. that some of its most emincnt cultivators— Sedgvick, and Corrybeare—ccoupy pro- rainent positions in the church. hie corroboration, however, is a very weak and inconclusive one, for we have yet to learn that geologists are so far exalted above the ordinary fatlings of humanity as to be entirely proof against tho scductions of “tho argument, the power of which tho Englis establishizent 60 well knows. Wo have thas the doctrince of the latter wort neilable with the tis very Dosior 2 Were quite When geclogy began to attract attention in the | loavesand fishes”--that alluring and convincing | in tho poreession of man. We ted the chief tonants, and m postcesors of the oarth, but extended caloulable ages to which any traces found of animal or veg table deposits are referable, and that at tho carliost ‘ied of the introduction of anim: tho general ns oflight and atmosphero could not havo difered ia any important dogree from those which ned. Hero wo of the | cretion of men an imala in the garden of Eden, | and, on the contrary, we find the doctrine of * pro- | greesivo stsges of creation” put forward and sustained, and yet we are told very gravely to belisve that Dr. Buciland must be a firm ister istence of the world at five thousand eight hundred and fifty-six years, because, forrooth, tho learned | divine ins fis comfortable living in the charch. | Geology also exposes the fellacy of the idea that the heavenly bodies were made m the puipose of ikuminating this ephero. All men know the imposeibility of blendiag euah contradictory thoorles into one beautiful consis tency--of harmonizing their conflicting data—not- withstanding all the attempts made to do e0, by giving a far mere liberal interpretation to the Mosaic account iban the church was wont heroto- fore to ernetion, by interpreting the “days” of creation by epochs or periods, or by treating tho history of i; as o myth or enigma, which no (cipue bes yet been ablo to solve. Were wo not justified, therofore, in sounding the re- yeillo for the clergy to put on their armor, and meet the tide of skepticism which must rise from the expotition of these principles of geology ? Woe think that we were, and we anticipate quite an interesting campaign between the champions of the old and new philosophy. We are not of those who would oppose the full developement and tuition of the natural sciences of such great interest and im- portance ac that of geology is, though we must disep- prove of the shrinking, temporizing attitude assumed by Dr. Antiseil, when Le says that ho can lecture on the eubject without interminglisg any thoologi- cal contiderations. ‘That is simply an impossibility; and wo would prefer socing him take his stand on | the pedeatal ef rciontifie aad incontrovertible facta, ciples erected thereon preconceived sys © loarued aud re- led profesor to meet what hag boon or may be said in the Herstn, will be to reconcile in his lec turer, if he can, what tho Hasraip has suggested to bo irreconci'«')'s, It fe notorious that the Coper nicaa rystera of astronomy wae aconiled by the ore thodox clergy of Europe a: @ sacrilegious donial of tema; and the best way f | the promptitude and energy of tho fh ad times longer than it appears | bofere tho period , He ofitred such opy for the veracity of the bistory which fixes the ex- | favernal, 6 been held; and th BUD neh, for the retailing of spitituous liquors.” The graud the verity of the account given in the Holy Scrip- turee of Joehua’s having commended tho can and Gen to etard etl, though ag pstuie Copernican ENCE VERSUS Humpvue.—We give elsewhere in oer , suggestion that 88 7,9 account was given of Joshua ! columns, a report of the very ingenious lecture || having signifed that thoy wore again at liberty to | this morning, two memorials on two vory impor- on geology, delivered by Dr. Antisell, lacs ove- | go ahead, the prosumption was that tho Coper- | tant subjects—temperance and intervention—doad ning, at Clinton Hall. During the last few weeks | nican systera originated at that time. Humanity iteelf is yet in its infancy, and may be @ostined to form @ link to some new and more per- | The remonstrance to tho fect creation, as geology affirms that species, like individuals, havo certain limited terms of existence. Andrew Jackson Davis and the Misees Fox may make valuable suggestions on this branch of the tubject. We observe in a Cleveland (Ohio) paper, an advertisement convoking oonvention of “‘apiritual koockere, or rappers,” ‘ mediums,” and ghosts, tu be held in that city, afew weeks hence, whoge labors might also aid in the solution of thie question. Professor Ansted’s work on geology, pub- lished in London, in 1817, under tho title of “ The Ancient World,” is, perhaps, one of the ablest and most interesting compendinms of facta yet given to the world on this eubject. Another publication appeared about the same period, entitled ‘ The Vestiges of Creation,” whichis a very able and curious treatise, but tho tendency of its philosophy is highly injurious, irreligious and demoralizing, and corroborates our allegatious in respect to the inevitable influence of the science on existing re- Nigions. Mineralogy (and geology, so far as it is conuected with it) is a practical, useful, and valu- able ecienco, but we class conjectural geology, or astronomy, among the dangerous transcendental humbugs of the day. Mas. Forrest's Denutr—Tus Mepiratep Rior PruventEep.—The sbolition Tribune and Times of Tucaday—the organs of insurrectionary move- sents at home and abroad—the fomenters of treason and servile émeutes in tho United States— st one time encouraging insubordination and the overthrow of discipline in the navy, and at avothor stirring up the dark passions of the colored race to bloodshed and robellion— these journals ceem to be sadly disappointed that the carnego of Astor Place was not repeated on Moncay night, at the corner of Broadway and Broomo etreet. They caloulated that this, per- haps, would be regarded as an ast of persecution of Mrs. Ferrest, and tha: it would give an éclat and | an excitement to her début, that would contribute | in no smell degree to hersuccess. Both came out with the the Heratp with intending to showing that it ¢ from the seme souree. There can be little t, therefore, from what motives this attack hag omanated. It ev.dently proceeds from malice ond chagrin, that we have succeeded in preventing acanguinary etrifo. Itis worthy of remark, that in the theatre, it was the partisans or backers of Mrs. Forrest who gave the first provocation to riot; and the fact that certain fighting boys wore mar- shalled and in attendance, on that side, is a proof of what bad been contemplated by the friends and associaies of Mra. Forrest, who have involved her in every difficalty and misfortune that havo be- fallen her up to the present hour. In order to give a color of truth and plausibility to the falsehood of the abolition journals, they pro- tend that tho reason why we called on the Mayor to make adequate preparations to auppross a riot, which every bedy expected would take place, waa beceuse Brougham withdrew his printing frem the Heraup ofiice. Now, so far from this being the fact, it was we withdrew. We did not do so till he broke every promise, and thero was no: the slightest procpect of psyment. Wher we stopped him, he stood in our books debtor for advertising $31, for printing $221, making atotalof ¢242. This woe before tho close of the last year. We have not been paid to this hour. Weuld the Zyibune and Zimes go any further under euch circum- stances? So little, then, had the printing and a@- og to de with anything wo folt it our duty to write. Mr. Brougham may have beea annoyed at onr ceacing to priut for him; but it was all the other way with us. Perha.e the adege in tho old couplet is verified in this:— Forgiveness to the injared doth bs'ong, they ne'er forgive who do the wroxg. We cculd our premonitory appeal to tho mtion of @ riot s ¢ story, ch: Whritios—tho pro- d the eMsion of human blood, aud our success Ras Sy justified our course. We corgrstalate, therefore, our folloy-citizens jot was prevented at the début of Mrs. life—by syor and Shiof of Polico. From the most reliable we received information ef an intention urb the peace, and wo thiew the responai- Rm the auth would nip the incipient movement in Our advico was followed by Mayor racter contrasts th tho imbecilityef ex-Mayor Wood- esclusion aad want of prompt, encr- getic action, were tho cause of the bloody tragedy at Astor Place, which SMeod our city with lamonta- tion, and mo’ %, and wo. On that sad occa sion, had we anticipated a riot the day before, Wo would have given the samo waraing, and proba- bly would have succeeded in preventing tho catas- trepho, if, indecd, any warning ld have roused the torpid, frightened chiof magistrate into action. Outhe day of tho calamity the moat manifest sym tome of the coming troublo displayed themeslve: and it was quite evident, from the partial preps tions made by ihe Meyor, thateven he anticipated s rict. Lut he did not go far cnough, nor act in time. sition to the mob aa only served to irritate thom, and to show them their the bud. Kingeland, whose decision of ! own etrength; and then, when thoy wore flushed with success, and were so jammed i; by a muiti- tude of spectators at their back that they could not retreat if they would, the military were brought upon them and ordered to shoot thom down like dogs. Had he noted as his successor has done in the case of Mrs. Forrest, there would not have been 9 sing’e lifo lost. Had the military boon on tho ground in time, thoro would have been no nececsity for firiog a shot. Even a mob think “dis cretion the better part of valor,” before thoy are oxcited to madness ; but when they are allowed to have every thing their own way for hours, and when hey are clato with victory, and thoir passions in- flamed to a pitch of fronzy, it ig then too late to restrain them without loss of life; for at sucha moment they would not ehrink from tho cannon’s mouth. This is the true philosophy of preventing riois: Act promptly, and with such an overwhelm- ing force in the beginning, as to show the rioters that they have not a chance of success. For this reason the old practice of fring blank cartridges, and aim. ing over the heads of rioters, has been long since exploded. Thero ought to be no docoption, bui truth and firmness, and the prospect of certain death to the violators of lawand ordor. hia is eure to avert the dangor at once. Tho Mayor, therefore, and the Chief of Polise deserve the thanks of the community for the course they have pursued, and wo have rengon to believe that our suggestion has not been without @ good effect. As for Mrs. Forrest herself, or Mrs. Catharina Sinclair, she ig now an actros:. Wo have given her o fair start, and it will bo admitted on all hands that we havo done amplo justice to hor merite by the notices of hor performances published in the Henan, We have done our part. Haonceforth sho must take care of hereelf in the new profeesion sho has chosen. Pe Tatetligence, Tue Temprraxce Movement in Georara.—In * te nce meetinyy have lately jast graud jury of Ohatham cou formal presentment te “that growing evil, Fand character of the shops in the city of Bayan. Domest! jury recommend to the council of the oily, that one jicenre only be granted for seach of the wards of the city, at an increased ier eueb lirenses oo Meslsie bbosog 1D bups Leepeeute Warun, ¢ for the privilege, and that applicanta nist be recommended by (ue heads of ANTIZ¢um'eRavce Movement — Anti-Inren- VENTION MovemEnt.— We lay before our readors> against the temperance movement, and opposed out acd-out to Kossuth, Kinkel, and intervention. General Assembly against tho Temperance Allionse and the Maine liquor law, is an able document, and the coolness with which it argues the case against Barnum, Greeley, and their temperance political platform, | is ominous of pluck in King Alochol, and of the | determination of his allies to fight it out to the last | bottle. We may, therefore, expect a hot and | beavy pitched battle between tho Sons of Tempe- | ie in aceordarce with the [elisbenenni verned st in the remotest periods, Every shower fells on the bill top, every brook end rivulet which flows down the side of the hill, carries down portions of mineral matter, The frosts ef wiater, and the heats of summer, aid in breaking up the snes of the rocks, demolishing thelr angularities, sad * mately levelling them. en 1 thas these portions of mine+ ral matter are strewed on the plain and ulsimately car- ried by the rivers into the sea, where thry are 1 and there, with the remains of shell Ssh and other or~ genic skeletons, gradually form banks or bara at the em- brochures of rivers, which goon increasing and finaly become islands or deltas Ii the sedimentary matter continued to be deposited in Luis way, and volcanic ac+ tion was at werk at the rame time, the mass would ther become consolidated into rock, which is known by the term of eedimontary The constituents of rocks ere, therefore, the mivers! raat ier taken from the soiland carried down by rs thet drawn from the water itself. and the oz paint of the sbel! fish deposited. rance in this State and the legions of John Barloy- corn. The Emperor of Coney Island has suggested | that the Maino liquor law wil! probably triumph, | and that all persons anxious of preserving a sup- j ply, had better cork it up in glaas bottles, and bury | it deopinthe ground. Thoplan of the campzign, and the movements of the hostile partios, fore. | thadow a war of extermination, and no quarters, | and the work willsoon begin in curnoat. | The memorial against the dootrine of interven | tion ia addressed to Copgre:s; but what with the purchase of old muskets for Hungary, the issus of Hungarian stock, and the projet of Greoley for the | invasion of Europe, under Gen. Scott, the dangor is that this memorial will como oo late. 1 work is before us. S Tur Apsinistnation oy Jusrice-~Tuxs New ReconDEX’s Drnur.—We gave, yostarday, 9 con- densed report of a very creditable charge made by the new Recorder, to the Grand Jury. The remarks describing the moral and criminal condition of the | city were important and very perfect, and we trast | will weigh deeply with the Grand Jurors to whom | they were addressed. Amongst other mattors to which the aitention of the Grand Jury was called, was the existence of illegai lotteries, polivy offices, unlicensed grog shops, and numerous houses of an improper character, all of which have increased very much of late years. Itis to bo hoped that the Grand Jury will take all there matters into their scrions consideration. Drunkenness and demoralization have Incroasod very much of late, and, as a natura! consequence, crime has inoreased along with those vices. We are credibly informed that all theso haunts of iniquity have doukled during the last three or four years, and particularly that of lotteries and policy cflices, where lottery tickets are sold almost night and day. There isono point, however, which wo hope the Grand Jury will investigate, and that is whether tho “Art Union Aszociation” is not an illegal institution under the lawe, and liable to be indicted for carrying on a lottory within this State, contrary to tho jaw and contrary to the constitution. This ought to be looked into. Dr. Antisell’s Lecture on Geology. The first ofthe serice of lectures advertised Lo be given on the comprehensiveand deeply interesting subject of geology, wes delivered last evening, ia Ciinton Hall, be fore an intelligent and seemingly appreciative arecm- bave had bub ono poseibla motivg fn 1 w 3, to take such proventive | | ©vercappirg all the ot blage. Dr. Antisell lectures well, and elucidates his subject with much ekill, He commenced by giving s definition of geology. It may be termed (he said) the physical history cf our globe—it investigates the struc- ture of the planet on which we live, and expleins the characters and causes of the various changes tu which its eurface has been subject, and gives us an account of the verious species of aimals and plants, whicn have tenanted It previous to the appearance of man—it forms the intermediate link between astronomy end history ; for, as ths former describes the form, motions, and size of the earth, and its relation to the other heaveni; bodies ; and the latter informs us of the mutations whi it has undergone since tradition began—of the over throw of dynesties--the discolution of empires—the ad- vances of civilization—and the migrationsof eur race, Bo Rectory steps in lo Sil the breach, and point out some of there alterations which were accomplished anterior to the production cf the species, Astronomy informs us of the shape and ivtation of the earth, and that the flattened poles it was, at one period, if it is rot now, a yielding mass; rendered amore yielling by boing more heated. That {° is, in fact, 8 planet cooling—suficiently cool to hive a bard outer crust, but net no cool but thet its healed and molten interior bow and thei reacts upon its confiuing shell. Geologie ts bave con: iiered belt times I solid rocks are little more than half this inferred dencity, o: not more then two and # ball tines heavier than water.it is manifest the interior must contal nore pondercus lichtnens of the superficie Si eam te eynneed bn 4: Wi AONL Eiaee cea caecn ee wie 6 copper a green, sud lead whit cumstances, They have been Mbed a portion of it into the ed a Lees density mnder the same cir- | by the alr, avd lia and by 0 doing online oz p! they bave aery epecifically less. ! mass fo brovght to the surfie anetmorphery fity wiles high covers three-filtha of the globe, or either of tt mn by boch vier, Taere te being one ty feet of depth. Ta dercendin, phere becomes eentibiy warmer, and at Tochs feel bet to the hand, Tha avers, | Gexgtee for every filly six fect of a everywhere exhivite the effects of internal b and melted lays, which ai are incr*ase thus cut. e mile of depth the tem | and st fity mites tt which is ebfiicient fusible of reoka, If the te € thick» Ai t evenemount to that, for ifthe calcul e, ab the temperature of four huncre k would melt, and thet temper: ad at at the depth cf fifty-six miles, 1 to lock on the earth as the moat all it terra firma, Yer, in tropical latitudes, w! being broken by earthquakes, and Upon as the more stable element, and it would a'ro be inked upon in this light by us if we could carry i minds 1! aat tho enath is ® mass oi By matter only co’ yw crust @ hundred mf k, and though this thickness oppear very lates, yet in comparison to the earth's er, which ia ¢ thousead miles, it is a small | propertion. The lecturer ilustreted (bis portion of his Fubject by reference toa diegram ehowing a circalar figure (reprerenting the enrth,) wih m dark narcow ring rourd its circumference, which was to be re- garded as the crust of the earth’: surface. You will therefore, ree, (he continued), how unstable this crust muet necoreariiy be. Icis ‘abie to be broken through in feveral Ways; One of these i: by the force exerted from Within, You knew that the Luce are produced by solar attraction on the liquid matter of the earth’s surface, drawing it toward the eun's equater and the earth’s which ere on the same plang, The stmosphore, which is another fluid round the earth, is also attracted by the sun and moon, and £0 there ave tides with atmosphere us well aa tides with water. Now, the inner portion of the earth is eubject to this law of attraction as well as the exterior, and the Hae Of melted matter that is continually boiling up is alsodrawn towards the equator, and thers is, therefore, a constant attempt of this matter to break throvgh the crust. Itwas this tide which produced the flattening of the poles inthe first instance. This is still working, and every now and then we hare eruptive mst- ter thrown out at some points, which is cauted by the attraction of the sun and moon ee the con- dersing power of the ctust outeide, and for this reason Volcanoes Occur more frequently about the equator than anywhere elee. Another reason why the crust should be Jookcd upon as unstable is, that it was ori- nally a heated matter which bas cooled, and as dies in- cooling shrink, the mass iteelf must ehrink, and boil the cover with it; and in order to ace commodate itself to the shrinking mass, the crust must crack, and thus the alterations and inequalities in the surface of the carth are caused, not by upheavings, as commonly understood, but by the shrink of the mass, causing a depression of one part and a raising: up of the other. He mentioned this. to show that the outside thrinking of the crust wi ficient to produce openings which the meited m: in the interior could escape. © teraperature of the surface is now due, not to tho effect of the interior melted matter, which has no effect whatever on the crast, but solely to the atmosphere heated by the sun’s rays, There is a sts olmt of tem- perature a few feet below the earth, wale shows that the interior mara never affecta it, #0 thut all tha heat is due altogether to whot we receive from the sun. This cool crust is sometimes presented to us in ite natural, unelevated porition. As it cools, it comes fu contact with the air and water, which produce on it tie came effect av they do om heated iron, copper, cr otaer metal, and thus the cool crust oxydises, and is ordinarily known as fyHn'to, and this granite, which therapre const tutes the It is very re the crust 4 are | on this bauk or Lt may appear difisult to compre hexd how so large a of 100k as We find scattered over the globe could bs it med By far the greatest ortion of reck is, howe nitie formation; the eecimentary rook is, in o@, thicker than sever: math and the of (he earth’s crust. filty railes, is of coation, although these sedimentary rocks oceup fourths of the surface. The Rhine, which is comparatively e small river, carries down, in this way, four dved and fifty tons of mineral matter daily. by wuich, in process of time, the Netherlands have beea dcwn four ho and which is deposited in the 1 manddies the ren wat The Amazon miles from its mouth, go tuet th whieo it ortriee Cown inv t may he reer, hy of ly going on in quantity of Uanges or was being formed, ihe clacum: somewhat different rom what obtein 1 osphere was bigher at & former period fr now, on eccount of & certain gaseous matter in the and, at the seme time, the 5s hh Was Warmer, ‘he rerult of uf steamy atioc down faster iy ole sh other rocka The Uue of stra- h and soath, and it wil that the y. it is foun 0 the ease in M FO as mioa slates tant, The whole *, which fa called, in D: sively form Jnres, In thi ly period enimal life must bave been then very spaces; we find fa the rocks of thet period no traces of inabitants either of land or air; the only traces of life whish we have, being thore of fishes aR life was still less to be sound, except trac ed; bus we do not flud land plents until we pa the proazes now goto 0 ing no dominance oy water, but the earth preserves its eq plest form cf animela which wo dud he coraltites, hare f rocks. They secrete on th minute quantity of carbon thet immense mass of corn are continued to be fi these reefs ultimately ome the basis or bottom of the island. From thirty to forty cepths of water js the point at which the corals begin to work; ard when they build up to the snr not work above it, extend thel: cS ‘The lecturer SS muleroacopis animals from the corals we cor. of higher organic stru lily, which resembles ve in our seas at present: long to the brachiopoda tamti; ofthat pericd. Ag ob be and which moment, and of those Pawiag it, but ich we find Shellfieh, which be- ere common in the rocks hese eneildish and t their chells were not connected by the ordiuary hinge, but were joined and held by the tentacuia of the arimel. These brachiopodous mollusex, as they are termed were excecdingly numerous, and their fessils are fou b grest abundance. There was another species of crusteceous animals, remsing of which are algo fouud in great abundance in the Treston lime- stove. rerembling our lobster end crab; thoy are called trilobites, but their species is now ext) and the ne: est reser ¢ king ereb, which ie fou about there i able e.bout thie ani- mal, besides its great abucJance is the limestone, is the oe which are of acrcsceulic er half moon shap3, sy that their point of vision was not cxe but eeveral thou. and. Ja the housefly, the eye jo of the which stands outward, ad cuables is yaticus directions, 1 the eyes of the treloi ticlobites are, met with in rock of these animals’ eyes is valuable geology, Ly giving am index to the &: that time, ana shows that the wor), match the same 1 times, etsopt as and extent of land During the p deposition of the fir , the globe was the seams ; rned by the some laws. aud peculiarity w to students ia of the earth a} ated dy the Viited, and ‘snigial lite cf the sea water. 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W'S Wig Peotozy, No.4 Wa! od Whiskers okilfutty,, sno ontirely eonformtng to the Woll_ aa tho eative appeatancss intuitable, coruog of Ping any ia every bnd Bite of tho head ino weorer, by Al! asvau atrvety, crust of the globe, is widely spread in every part there: The lecturer illustrated this polat by Waictenss te cr lored geological charts of atrata, showing the pr tomate extent of recke of granite formation. br Always cocuptos the Kighest potion in the io wet strata, Grani fore, Ye said to be formed by fire. It is net aula bat 16 compounaed of three mineralo—quarty, mien, @) d felspar—each of which ia very velu ithe lecturer explained tho qualities of these minerals, wad the pron Fortions with which they ent dened Now, geology does not ver: chaoge or catastrophe haying bh; t fen emai persed @ happened in the world; | # [seo seed evident. so that it 14 er inte the composition of cniso any sudden the change has been silent, and ie only to be notlowd by tak Hale Brushes hy in America! The » ment in tho Wor, ' L bi tho thourand Broadway, ecrnor forts. Iuxuries, noveltic: New Pri a ro im Meireonitiug 1 © the word tra Biers q ty yeteme—now risours ungurpas hore aro o san Ly Ky iw Cute ening 8 Now York in 8 Ceyutal Polaco, 107 ~y obxeod, are olustered more com= ond oon voulencios, than ov ‘sila of sny tonsorial eatablinie rth, 80 Ld who wee it. Hate jor the baie or athored \within tho four pon the intervals of time Lutween the two furveys which a shout Injor the We make of the condition of the earth: and iter examboe | ha ehe a ately without distuche ‘WhO Je going on at the preveet time, we wrll find thet 1 | Fbalon's Wik ang Toe rye NERS, EEL N AN