The New York Herald Newspaper, July 9, 1871, Page 6

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Advertisements. 3—Another “Angola: One More Ratiroad Hor- Tor; Terrible Collision on the Newark and New York Railroad—Terrible Railroad Acci- deat in Germany—Racing at Long Branch : Close of the First Summer Meeting at Mon- mouth Park—Henni de Bourbon, Count de Ohambord—New York City News—Weather Report—Shocking Suicide in Jersey. 4—Long Branch: A Night Walk Along the Beach— Art Matiers—Literary Chit-Chat—New Publi- cations Received— Music and the Drama—The National Game—A Taste for Precious Gems— Yale College: Programme tor Commencement Week—Fires—strik Against Meanness—The Wue Killer, 4—Religious Intelligence—The Struggle for Spirtt- ual Power aud Comfort at West Point—Kome: The Close of the Pontifical Jupliee—Temple Emanuel—Staved to Death in Brookiyn—W arn- tng to Patriotic Youngsters. 6—Editorials: Leading Article, “A Resurrection in the East—A Rallway from the Holy Land to the Euphrates”—Amusement Announcements, ‘27—Editorials (Continued from Sixth Page)—attairs in France—Saie of New Guinea to England— News from Spain, Italy, Central and South America and the West Indies—Murders and Sulcides—Miscellaneous Telegraphic News— Personal Intelligence—Views of the Past— Business Notices. S—Engiand and America: Those Who Were Pres- ent at the Copden Cinb Banquet and What ‘They Said—A Mysterious Fire in Sheffeld, England—English Receptions: What They Are and What They Seem Like—Dr. ket—Particulars of the Bufalo Goods ‘Mar- urder—Child forture in Llinois—A Post Ofice Scare—The Proposed Ora: Celebration—More Murder: Outting Case u *% Street—Another Oar Out- rage —A County Cos a2 “Coon”—United States Commissioners’ Court—sick and Tired of Life. 9—Financi.) and Commercial! Report—Brooklyn Afairs—Marriages and Deaths—Aadvertise- ments. 1O—Wasnington: The Bizgamous Ex-Congressman Pardoned at Last; Defalcation inthe savannah Custom House—Local Matters—Miscelianeous Foreign Items—Shipping tnte!lhgence—Adver- tusements. 43. —Adveriisements. 13— Advertisements. The Progress of Events in Frauce. France is gradually but surely raising her- self from the humbled position which the war with Germany brought her to. The new loan has proven a success, and the manner in which it has been taken up by the people proves that they are not only sincere and determined, but that they are resolved to stand by the govern- ment which was called into existence when the fate of the empire was sealed. Paris, which at one time was the resort and the admiration of travellers who flocked there from every clime, but which in the dying hours of the Commune was disfigured aod mutilated, will again become under the re- public as grand and as glorious as in the most brilliant days of the empire. The ruined buildings will be restored ; the depositories of art will be again made worthy of the treasures which await a place within their walls; the commerce of the nation will be revived, and the whole machinery of indusiry throughout the land will, in the immediate future, be set in motion. The progress of events in France at this moment, under republican sway, leads us to anticipate a grand future for the French nation. The recent elections have shown the utter hopelessness of the cause of both the imperialists and monarchists. Bofore they took place the advocates of either system saw only the success and regeneration of Frauce in the adoption of either form of government, but the decision of the people has shown that under the banuer of repubil- canism the country can attain a height of pros- perity which the nafion has never yet reached. Witt a proper administration of affairs, then, we have every reason to expect that the course of republican France will be happy, free and prosperous. Parvongp at Last.—The too much married ex-Congressiman Bowen was horn under a lucky star. Few men have experienced greater vicis#itudes of fortune, and few men have received more substantial favors of the fickle goddese. His greatest luck, however, befell him yesterday, when be became a re- ciplent of Executive clemency, the President having yielded to the importunities of Bowen's friends and granted him a pardon for the offence to which he had been sentenced to serve two years in the Albany Penitentiary. Bowen says he is the victim of malicious prosecution, and that previous to his trial his enemies offered to withdraw the suit against him if be would discontinue his contest to the seat In Congress now held by the colored Oongressman De Large. Bowen promises to publish a complete statement of the whole affair, which will contain an insight Into the manner in which political affairs are * manipulated both in South Carolina and Washington, NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY. A Bevnrrection in the East—A Railway from the Holy Land to the Euphrates. 10, And ariver went out of Eden to water the it nd from thence it parted and became into ‘ads, |. The name of the first is Pison; that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. 12, And the gold of that fand is good; there is bdeilium and the onyx stone, 13, And the name of the second river is Gthon: the me Oak Which compasseth the whole lana of 14, And the name of the third river is Hiddekel; that is it which goeth toward the cast of Assyria. 7 the fourth river is Euphrates,—(Genesis, chap. At a point, then, from which the great river Euphrates is divided into four branches we have the site of the Gardea of Eden, where the first pair of the human family were created ; anda HERALD correspondent, travel- ling in those interesting regions, has described this traditional site of Eden to be the Arab hamlet of Korneh, of this day, a location which admirably answers the requirements of the sacred historian. From that point eastward to the Nile and the Mediterranean and north- ward to the Caucasian Mountains and the Black Sea we have that most interesting historical section of the whole world, distinguished above all other sections as the cradle and the nursery of the human race and as embracing within itself the highest developments of civilization and the mightiest empires anterior to that of Rome, All this, if there were nothing more, would be sufficient to make holy ground of all those ancient lands within the boundaries we When the dissolution of this vast, decayed and helpless empire of the Turk commences it may be bloody work, but it will be rapid and com- plete, Then the old land of the twelve tribes of Israel may be reopened to them, under the protection of the great Powers of Europe, and then the city of Zion may flourish again, and even the desert may be made to “blossom like the rose,” Furthermore, if, ag Moses tells us, there is gold in the land of Havilah, ‘and the gold of that land is good;” and ‘“‘there is bdellium and the onyx stone,” we say that with the building of the proposed railway these precious minerals wiil be discovered, and will probably develop another Anglo-Saxon Australia in a very short time around the ancient Garden of Eden. In their geological character the moun- tains around the Dead Sea are very much like those around our Great Salt Lake in Utah, andthe mines of silver lately discovered in those Utah mountains are astonishing even to the old silver miners of Nevada, The bitumen of the Dead Sea was the article of a great trade with ancient Egypt, and there is proba- bly more petroleum in and around the Caspian than in the whole State of Pennsylvania. No doubt, with the construction of this proposed Asiatic railway great discoveries of precious minerals, including coal and iron, will be made with the incidental explorations in the coun- tries traversed, just as the Asiatic section of have indicated; but as the cradle and the nursery of the Mosaic dispensation of the Old Testament and of the Christian dispensation ot the New Testament, and of the Mohamme- dan religion, those ancient lands and their wonderful histories can never die till the earth itself is destroyed. They are so closely inter- woven with the most precious institutions of the family, society and government, and with the holiest and highest aspirations of men, looking to a future state of existence, through- out the civilized and semi-civilized world, that the countries of the Euphrates, of Egypt, the Holy Land and Arabia have each left their impress upon the human race, which, except- ing thé Arabian, will shape the destinies of nations and creeds to the end of time. After twelve hundred years of marvellous successes and vicissitudes the religion of the Arabian prophet is passing away; after eighteen hundred years of conflicts by pen and preacher, and by fire and sword, the Christian dispensation, through the material inventions and instrumentalities of the age we live in, including the press, the steamship, the railway and the telegraph, has received anew and resistless momentum, which will carry it ‘from the rivers to the ends of the earth.” And here, in the vast cycle of human affairs, sweeping through many centuries of time, we approach the hour for the resurrec- tion of the Turkish empire in Europe, Asia | and Africa, which embraces within itself Egypt, the land of Moses, and Bethlehem and Mount Calvary and the Garden of Eden and the four rivers branching out from that de- lightful place, including the great Euphrates. Under the dominion of the Turk, with his in- { dolent submission to fatafity, all those coun- tries excepting Egypt have fallen into a hope- less decay and to the verge of barbarism. But the hour for their resurrection approaches, and the whistle of the locomotive will an- nounce its coming. The Suez Canal is one of the greatest achievements of Christian skill, enterprise and perseverance. But it is excavated through a desert of quicksands, and the winds, with the sands of the desert, it is feared, will be too much even for the most daring English capl- | talists and speculators. The canal is reported to be rapidly filling with the restless desert | sands, and it is apprehended that from the heavy outlay constantly required to keep it open it will soon be closed to navigation. The English, most interested in keeping this communication open as their shortest route to India, are reported as disposed to abandon it to its fate, and as agitating again the construc- tion of a railway from the Mediterranean across the Holy Land, and thence to the Euphrates, and thence down that river to the Persian Gulf, as their shortest route by a thousand miles to Bombay. We are not informed of the exact route pro- posed for this enterprise, but the route which appears to us as most feasible would be from the coast near old Tyre, on the Mediterranean, by the ancient camel caravan route, across the Holy Land to Damassus, and thence to the mar- ble ruins of Tadmor or Palmyra, and thence southwestwardly over the desert to the Eu- phrates. By this route, as far back as three thousand years ago, the trade from the val- leys of the Euphrates and the Tigris by cara- vans of camels passed over the intervening countries to the imperial city of Tyre, ‘‘whose merchants were princes ;" and the marble city of Palmyra, en route, is supposed to be the Tadmor of King Solomon. Now we know from the natural capabilities of the soil of Palestine at this day that it can sustain a dense population; and from the stupendous ruins of those ancient seats of empire on the Euphrates and Tigris, and from the character of the soil and climate of those great valleys, we knowthat they are now capable of sustain- ing many millions of people, with anything like 2 Western system of cultivation; and knowing all this, we may safely assume that an English railway from the Mediterranean to the Euphrates will rapidly bring all those countries again into active life and prosperity and make them once more the sources of a our own Continent, which was supposed to be worthless, is, with our Pacific Railway, proved rich in its mincral deposits beyond all caleu- lation. y The Crescent in the East must give way to the Cross, and the greatest and best mission- aries of the Cross are the press, the railway andthe telegraph. Let them be carried into Asia, and a glorious resurrection, material and moral, will follow from ancient Tyre and Sidon to old Babylon and the Garden of Eden, New Guinen To Be Ceded Britain. A cable despatch which we print this morn- ing informs us that the Second Chamber of the Parliament of the Netherlands has ratified the treaty for the cession of the Island of New Guinea, in the Pacific Ocean, to Great Britain. New Guinea, as all the world knows, has hitherto been a Dutch possession. To the Dutch it has been of little value. It has only served to prove to the world what the naval power of Holland once was. To farseeing politicians, however, it has long been known to be an island of very considerable value. It is one of the largest of the islands of the South Pacific. It lies immediately to the north of Australia, Hitherto, we must admit, it has been of little value. It is too near the Equator to be of great use to the Anglo-Saxon family, or, indeed, to any of the races of Europe. But an island whose area is not less than two hundred and fifty thousand square miles and lying so near Australia and in the great pathway of commerce between the New World and the East was not to be held of no account. If it did not become British it must have become American. The thoughtful statesmen of Great Britain, with a keen eye to the futare, and not blind to the possibility of the independency of Australia, have taken steps which, as the news proves, will add this large island to the British em- pire. To the kingdom of Holland it has never been of any value. The new condition of things in Europe is not pfomising for Holland. It is well to make a bargain in time. We are not sorry that Great Britain has made this fresh acquisition; for it will be a gain to the great English-speaking peoples. In spite of a possible battle of Dorking and other battles, the English-speaking peoples—Great Britain and the United States of America—must con- tinue their grand réle, and more and more make themselves the masters of the world. To the English-speaking peoples is given the privilege of making an end of the curse of Babel. It will be their fault if the privilege is lost. In this view of the case the cession of New Guinea to Great Britain must be re- garded as a gain to the cause of civilization. to Great ‘The French Ambassador at Rome. Some time ago it was announced that in case the King of Italy made Rome the capital of his kingdom the Pope would take up his abode in Corsica, The Hgratp always combated this intention, advising His Holiness to remain in the Eternal City, or if he left it at all only to leave it for the sake of coming to New York. A cable despatch which we printed yesterday contained the gratifying intelligence that the Pope had advised M. Thiers that he would remain in Rome, and to-day we have the news that the French Chargé d’Affaires has taken up \ his residence near the [talian Court. France.) was the only Power upon which the Holy See could look for opposition to Italian unity, and this action puts away any expectation that there can be a reversal of what is already accomplished. We think all that has been done will prove to have been done for the best, both for the Church and for the world in general, and we are happy to record the graceful manner in which His Holiness ‘‘accepted the situation.” He did not hold ont to the last, expecting France to intervene, and either by diplomacy or war to set aside the work of the Italians. , When the King came to Rome it was the Pope himself who relieved France from making an ineffectual opposition to the Italian purpose and electrified the people of all lands by telling them, through the French government, that in heavy trade. Let the road be undertaken, and we have no donbt of the consent and co-operation of the Sultan, for he is an enlightened man, and far in advance of the old, self-sufficient and effete ideas of Mohammedanism. Build the road, and from the Mediterranean to the Euphrates and down to the Persian Gulf a line of English settlements from the over-populated cities, towns and rural districts of England will soon he formed along the road; and their prosperity will next enlarge the stream of European immigrants to those regions; and thus old Asia, from which Enrope was popu- lated and drew its first elements of civilization, will be repaid by the reaction of the advanced civilization of Europe. The Turkish empire cannot last much longer. The bold and dash. ing Pacha or Khedive of Egypt is preparing for » dash for independence which can hardly fail. The Czar of Russia, meantime, is play- ing with the Sultan as a cat plays with a mouse, while the Asiatic dominions of the Tugk are beld together only by » rope of sand. becoming the capital of Italy Rome has not ceaged to be the capital of the Christian world. Had his decision been otherwise we should have deplored it, because, in this relief from mere municipal cares and from the distractions of temporal affairs of no great moment, the chief Bishop of the Church will have more time to look after the spiritual welfare of his people. The Church of Rome can never cease to be avery great power, and it will become more powerful as it becomes more purely spiritual in its work. The temporal rule of the Pope was a hindrance rather than a help, but St. Peter's and the Vatican cannot be separated from all our ideas of the administration of the Holy See, and, consequently, the determina- tion of the Pope cannot fail to be hailed with joy in the Roman Catholic churches of every land to-day, It will add something to the go- lemnity of Christian worship wherever the news is told; but, while the fact that the Holy See still continnes in the Eternal City is re. ceived with rejoicing, there need be no sorrow poaguse Rome ja alsa the capital of Italy. — « JULY 9, 1871.-TRIPLE SHEKT, The Newark Uailroad Disaster. A train from Newark yesterday morning collided with a train from New York, and four persons were killed, while many more were seriously injured. The usual concomi- tant horrors of fire and escaping steam were added to the precedent horror of collision, and the dreadful sufferings of the victims of the dis- aster were increased accordingly. The wounded by the splintered cars found death by fire or scalding, and those who might have escaped scot free from the original smash-up found themselves maimed or scarred piteously by the unrelenting, quick-pursuing steam or fire. Although the details of the horror show it to have been not equal in terrible suffering and loss of life to the Carr's Rock or New Ham- burg disaster, still, occurring as it has upon a highway as necessary to New York and almost as much frequented by our citizens and busi- ness people as Broadway itself, it assumes a greater importance from being more directly connected with New Yorkers than either of those criminal ‘‘accidents.” People here take trips to Newark as they would to Brooklyn or to Jersey City. Newark. is our second most thriving suburb, and a dreadful accident upon a railroad connecting us with it is a matter of the most terrible interest to us in general and directly affects every home in Newark. A misplaced switch is said to have caused the trouble. It is almost incredible that the negligence that could permit of misplaced switches could exist upon a road where trains are running continually, probably forty or more daily, and over which thousands of our citizens pass every hour. It is as incredible as that a deadly bombshell would be left to burn its slow fuse to the bursting point in crowded Broadway or a deadly torpedo would be allowed to lie quietly under the prows of our North River ferryboats. It is said thata brakeman of a freight train left the switch open after his own train haf passed, and thus the accident occurred, A misplaced switch cannot have been the result of negligence iu this instance so much as the result of inhuman deviltry. There are strange elements in human nature sometimes, that take to murder or suicide merely to satiate a terrible mono- mania, Men have been known to kill because they could not resist the strange fascination of this mania; to throw themselves from house- tops, attracted by the dizzy depth of the fall, and men have been known to throw trains from the track in their morbid desire to see the wreck, These are of the ‘‘emotionally insane” that throng before our legal tribunals for the crime of murder. Whether the misplaced switch was the genuine blunder of the brake- man or whether it was the deliberate work of @ monomaniac, the parsimony of a company that entrusts the duty of changing the switches to the brakemen, who are likely to have their hands full attending to their own legitimate business, to say nothing more severely of such an awkward, inconvenient and dangerous system, deserves the se- verest punishment. Watchmen, flag- men and switch tenders onght to be stationed lavishly all along a line like the Newark Railroad, and each switch should be in sight of some employé of the railroad and under his own especial direction at all times, and especially at this time, when the trains are even more than usually crowded. An in- vestigation is now in progress, and the result of it will probably place the authorship of this calamity where it belongs. A verdict of ‘‘no- body to blame,” if the facts stand as they are now reported, would be an open announce- ment of the indifference of the company to the lives and limbs of its passengers, and ought to be sufficient to consign the directors of this Juggernaut to the execration that public opinion will prepare for them. American Absenteeism. Seven steamships left New York for Europe yesterday, carrying a large number of passen- gers. Within the last fortnight twenty-six left for the same destination, and nearly all well supplied with first class passengers who go abroad to spend money and to enjoy them- selves. During the year there are not less, probably, than between five and six hundred steamship departures from this port for Europe with first class passengers. Not hav- ing the statistics before us we take this as a low average. Taking the number of passen- gers on a vessel, one with another, to be eighty, we should have an exodus of over forty thousand people, There may be a few returning Europeans in this number, but nearly all are Americans. Now, supposing each American spends three thousand dollars on this European excursion—and that is a small amount—the total sum would be near a hundred and twenty millions. We have no doubt that our absentees who go to Europe spend a hundred millions at least. And this, it must be remembered, is all in gold—gold which is left on the other side of the Atlantic. Asan offset to this the two to three hundred thousand emigrants bring some specie, but not more than twenty millions, if as much, Eighty millions of the precious metals yearly leave us, then, with the absentees and go into that mysterious gulf where we never see them again. Were it not for the wonderful resources and constantly increasing produc- tions of the country we should soon feel this drain, as surely as Ireland bas felt for ages the drain of her wealth by the absentee land- lords, We are to a much greater extent than people imagine the tollers—the howere of wood and drawers of water—for European capitalists, merchants and traders, In this we may see in a measure the reason why the balance of trade is generally against us, and why, with all our wast wealth aod re- sources, we find it difficult to reach specie payments. Cuangks or Post Orriog Names.—The absurd changes of the names of places by the Post Office Department is complained of with much reason by a Long Island correspondent. The old Indian designations ought to be pre- served wherever: it is possible, but the ex- change of even the most unpronounceable of them for such names ag our correspondent in- stances is reprehensible. A Deraxoation is reported in the Savannah (Ga.) Oustom House. The amount is only eleven thousand dollars—not enough to admit the officer into the ranks of respectable swindlers, Sympathizing party friends at the North are credited with an effort to ralge funds Goflicient to. make, good tho defaloation, tianity—Catholic and Protestant. among us here, three terrible things, Orangemen are fain to aver, has nothing, in fact, to do with the Battle of the Boyne; we have had, unfortunately, bat- tles enough of our own not to need importing any new kind of strife among us, and that, too, nothing but the refuse of a debased fanaticism. On this great free Continent all men and their religious opinions have room. quire of the fabricators or importers of re- ligions is that they do not transgress the civil law. of our principal glories that here all men can adore their God before the altars of their choice, ties of untrammelled union among men, and where a body of religionists or others break no law it is the clear duty of the governing powers to protect them from molestation, idiotic though they may be. public demonstrations a similar course of toleration has been observed. We have had demonstrations of French sympathizers and German glorifiers, Fenians, free lovers and Communists, and in the fulness of our liberty have permitved them to pass into silence with- out disturbing them on their way there. who have civil rights among us can claim the Same. Miet Feared in New York—A Word te All Parties. There is extant a small, badly drawn sketch which represents a ragged Irishman flourish- ing a shillelab, and near him a Scotch piper, with his pibroch under his arm. The Irish- man is supposed to be saying, ‘‘Play the ‘Boyne Water’ softly, jist to see how long I could stand it.” This is not a very much strained delineation of the effect which that drowsy tune’is likely to produce on thousands of Irishmen, It is absurdly comic to think that it should be so, and yet, viewed from the side of civilization, it is lamentably tragic. The story ofthe battle in 1690; which the song celebrates, is one that would be but little men- tioned outside of Ireland were it not that the combat has been renewed on almost every anniversary of its happeaing with a ferocity and pertinacity which profess to find their inspiration in the different forms of Chris- We shall not now discuss whether the guilt of all the anonal murders, burnings, stonings and riot- ings which make the 12th of July a blood red- letter day in Ireland lies at the door of the Orangeman or the Ribbonman, but confine ourselves to their threatened appenrance We have very little re- spect for William III. on the question of “pions and immortal memory,” nor can we see how he has saved us from “Popery, brass money and wooden shoes”— no doubt, as all This country All that we re- We have no State religion, and it is one Toleration is one of the first necessi- In the matter of All Thus much, we premise, because it is an- nounced that on the 12th instant a body styling themselves the American Protestant Associa- tion, of Irish Orange birth, purpose parading our streets. but it is known that by our Irish fellow citi- zens of the Catholic religion, or a large por- tion of them, this parade is looked upon as a defiance and an insult. in Ireland such demonstrations have almost always ended in bloodshed, and hence grave fears of a religious riot in New York are felt, To prevent this we appeal, firstly, to the good sense of American citizens of all creeds, and seaondly, in the last resort, to the anthorities of the State. The rule to be observed is clear. These peopie have a right to pass throngh the streets like any other procession, and their right to ample protection is the same. This action seems simple enough; On similar occasions We must not be construed into anything more than doing impartial justice to all men, nor for a moment subscribing to a belief, part or whole, to sectarian doctrine. perverse passions and fierce divisions which Orangeism in Ireland has created, engender- ing violence and outrage on the one side and brutal retaliation on the other, holiest attributes of Christianity moulded to a monster of bitter, blood-spattered: hate, acreature is not lovely in our eyes, nor in those of any who desire the song of charity and peace to be the hymn of the human race. A significant fact in regard to. Orangeism is that the British government in Ireland have put their demonstrations under the ban of the law through the ‘‘Party Processions act,” although in In the we see the Such in that land of chronic rebel- lion, a profession of ultra loyalty is one of the first articles of the Orange creed. But as our liberty and our land are broader, we can afford a wider domain to the exhibi- tion of sentiment; the wolf of religious discord is not a danger at our door. We can no more allow a riot in our streets betweon Ribbonmen and Orange- men in the name of William of Orange or the Pope than between a party of maniacs in the cause of the Gueiphs or the Ghibellines, the Roundheads or the Cavaliers, or any other mumbo-jumbo of the past. The differences and heartburnings which were the offshoots of despotism and illiberal institutions in Europe will find no growing pluce in our grand free soil, They must wither like uprooted weeds among us; they are rank exotics here, Elsewhere in our columne will be found two letters on the subject of this article, advising the prohibition of such a demonstration. We do not share this idea, for the reasons we have already advanced. Gladly as we wonld hope to see the Orangemen and other kindred societies voluntarily forego their dangerous experiment, we yet insist that if they elect to parade they are entitled to all the support the law can afford. We have, therefore, appealed to our Catholic fellow citizens of Irish birth, particuiwrly the leaders among them, to abstain from iuter- fering in any wise with the rights of the citizen in such a demonstration, It is the nobler, more manly course. The authorities will do their duty in the matter in preserving the peace in any emergency, and we hope that both parties will recognize this fact aud govern their actions accordingly. Tor Creeks in the general Post Office are, in great dndgeon over an order of the Post master prohibiting them from even dreaming of their usual few days’ vacation out of town this summer, It would be interesting to know what gave rise to such a singular prohibition. / No class of clerks in the city stand so much i.n need of @ little ‘country air and recrea;don during the sammer ‘as the hard-working, Post Office clerks, By all means, Genoral, Jones, let the ‘boys “have thelr annual resting pall, The Bloody Twelfth of Jaly—An Oraege'| Gar Celloges—What Tiey Have Yet te Leara. Now that our commencements are nearly, if not quite, over for the present season, it may be well to turn back, if only fora moment, and give them a slight examination. Let us con- sider first whether they have-not made a little too much noise. We have heard more tham one sensible person remark. that those per- formances have become rather suggestive of the cackling of the hen after she has laid ar egg. But, unhappily, the comparison does not end here.. Housewives tell us as confidently as either Pliny or Buffon that that honest and useful biped is subject to a peculiar malady which causes her to imagine she has laid when she has net done so, and that the imaginary egg makes her cackle ten times as much as the real one, If there be no resemblance in the matter of noise-making between the hen and some of our collegs faculties no harm is done by re- ferring to the former, especially at a time when we find it dinned into our ears in every form that science is everything and ‘dead language” nothing. There is another scien- tific fact which is not the less useful to those who can appreciate its force for being familiar even to’ the multitnde—namely, that empty vessels sound the loudest. Those who are good judges of such things inform us that Pythagoras had both the hen and the empty vessel in his mind when he made ‘‘silence” one of the fundamen- tal rules of his renowned academy. Be this asit may, the philosopher of Samos would neither brag of his school nor have a braggart about him. Nor can a different report be given of any of the great teachers of: antiquity. Much as Socrates and Diogenes talked every- where, neither sounded any horn to invite the world to admire the wonderful things he had done during the last six months at his school. On the contrary, the constant admission of ~ each was, ‘‘L am but 9 student myself; I have much to learn,” But is it different everywhere at the present day? Do the great universities of England or Germany make such a noise oncea year, or once in ten years, as our colleges do? Nay, the most celebrated institutions of both coun- tries do not make as much parade about their “graduating class,” &c., as some of our fourth rate ‘‘academies” and ‘‘institutes.”. We do not, however, mention all this as any wonder ; the wonder would he if the facts were other- wise. The day will come, and we hope it ia not far distant, when our colleges will be as calm and thoughtful and as little prone to noise and clap-trap as any in the world—that is, when real study and research take the place of empty forms. It is only a smattering that makes one garrulous and boastfal of his- learning ;' the more he knows the less he talka and the less he boasts. We need no more forcible illustration of this than the remark of Newton, when, the great astronomer and philosopher being complimented on the vast extent of his learaing, he comparad himself to a child gathering pebbles on the sea shore, When these plain facts are sufficiently un- derstood by our educators there will be little trouble in deciding as to the relative honors that should be awarded to the classic languages and the sciences in our colleges and schools, The question will be then, not who is the most learned, but who has most knowledge. It will be as generally acknowledged as it is now denied that there were enlightened, people toug before our boasted era. There was wis- dom in the world before as well as after the time when Job told his comforters that it would die with them. At the present day the Greeks are regarded as the most enlightened people of all antiquity, and it is certain that their enlightenment was ofa high order; but the wisest of the Greeks. acknowledged in their palmiest days that there were wiser than they. Thus Plato introduces: an Egyptian priest, saying to Solon, ‘You. Grecians are evon children, having no. knowledge of antiquity nor antiquity of know- ledge.” What would this honest priest have said. to us could he have lived in our time? Might he not well have addressed.us in some such terme as the following :—‘‘You are constantly. boast- ing of your ‘modern improvements,’ and at least once a week you praise Moses and, Solo- mon for their wisdom; but you seem to. for- get that both those renowned personages were scientific men as well as linguists.” And what would the Chaldean priests say’ What the Persian Magi? We should bear-in mind that those wonderful ‘‘magic arts,” “black arts,” &c., about which our rude ancestors tell us with pious horror, were simply the de- duetions of science. Many of our learned professors inform us that this is the scientific era, that only “‘old fogies” have much faith any longer in suck trumpery as the “dead languages.” The lat- ter had their day, and they did very well when people knew no better than to spend so much valuable time in studying them. But if these very protessors were asked which was the greatest of the ancient philosophers, there is scarcely one of them who woult not men- tion Socrates, for the most stupid of their pupils could tell them as much from their, primers. Yet Socrates was the nacompromis~< ing opponent of the ides of giving science the, pre-eminence. Most of the sophists maintained then that there is nothing like science, pre- cisely as our professors do now. Those not aware of the views of the philosopher on the subject may turn to the “Theaetetus, or On Science,” in the works of Plato, Here it wilt he seen how much novelty there is in the ar- guments adduced against the ‘dead lan- guager” and in favor of the sciences, for the most eminent geometricians and scientific men, appear as the zealous advocates of the latter. Ne competent judge can read this dialogue without acknowledging that Socrates had care- fully:stndied the sciences. He was too wise to deny their utility, or to pretend that none shoaid study them. What he did deny most emphatically was tha, any acquaintance, how- ever familiar, with the sciences constitutes philosophy, ot sufficiently cultivates the intel- lest, His fundamental principle/was ‘know thyself,” It was from him Pope learned that’ Atthe proper study of mankind is man.” But few of any age uaderstand this—that is, few ‘wnderstand that no,selence was ever dis- ‘covered without the ‘study of human thought. Tf it oan be sald, “that the written language of any great people is dead, it can be said with at least equad truth that the intelligent cultiva- tion of ft nraduoes life and multiniies it, “ie