The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-12-02

the power that swsys and the subject which &
aways; but let orator cothe his discourse In the
| moss eloquent language, II it L. against the pro-
! JUDGES Of the multitude they viii not bs influenced
by it The truth IS whatever has most exalted and
has ost proved tn. word has from Individuals
not from the masses but IT it must be mitted that
the individual must be onsve with the multitude In
order to exert influence. second aspect o,atogy
is sidedness and exagserGton which pertains
particularly to parry it exists aud although parties
necessary perpetuate liberty in free country, the
party orator praise but dare crtcise auc
stead all his understan ding to ga her srgu
sns in support of the side TO which he may belong An
other misuse Of oratory is to eulogse class and the
man that exer8 the grestest monetary inhnence can
command any amount Of praiss the speaker Sno nss
he owes to humanity and to God that he hall not de-
grace them After referring to Socrates, Dsmosthenes
and eminent men Of later the lecturer concluded II
saying hat eoquence not in force Of mind q
oven lima GRAFTON but that order of speech which the
wisdom OF ages did not renoun advancing did
rspel True eoquencs that which ,cordsd with
the moral bearing of the intellect which snghtsr Cd
eleva ed and inspired and continued forever be Nv
Ing voice among nations
Lecture ON Geology.
Rev Dr. Foster delivered the third lecture Of his pops
lar upon geology last Wednesday evening" at the
Greene street NJ E. Church. There was very large
dience in attendance.
The lecturer by saying the subject q
his discourse for the evening would be classification
rocks examination of strata and evidences OF the sn
guilty of the globe The great divisions of the rock for
nations the srataed and unstratias The strait
rocks The granite primary formation urdsrlss
all the rocks The unstratiHed rocks tn oss which
have been formed by depostss from upon the pri
mary granatic base. The sratHed rocks amnatsd.
strAfed rocks exist to the depth ten miles, from tie
granatic base to the aluvium whichwe I've Anothsg
division IL that between the fossil and fossil rocks
The non forsi are the primary, and in these fossils
have been found The fossil bearing rocks begin With
the silurum Then the old sandstone and The
devonian and the coal after these come tie
doe and ths tertiary and finally The superficial crust
OF the earths surface. But IL may be asked H0w do
geolosists any certainty this great dspth'
1t ia quite certain that the strata have not been perfo
ra'ed BY any human and artificial It y
known that no perforAticn Of the globe has besa
made for more than bali mile, which il the great
est. No artificial method Is used but the 6rst a.
sistance afforded in asosrtaning this is give. 81
Niagara leaving bare Of K. aa a. and
again when Gsd sends earthquake they turned
measured across without difficulty Thus by the agency
Of fire and water, we are able explain the number and
here went into description Of the nature and varieties
Of FOSSILS illustrated by specimens The hrt appearances
to the general definition is the remains of living cree-
ture turned to stone But many OF the animals
bscause they too rapid in their decay also true
Of birds: mono found until to the oolita
Of marine character There are fishes malusca and orus
tacea who died in their element and preserved
twelve thousand The lecturer called attention fast
that animals In fossil state found in the p-
nsfy rocks, which thirty thousand feet Deep The
whole STATE OF New York Is primary lower sauran Tbs
speaker stated interesting In relation to the
Mississippi river It carries down twenty eight Thousand
million cubic feet OF matter with it in year pasa
Ne- Orleans It quite easy to estimate this Sup
pore you were in that CITY, and took gallon Of the
much sediment was in each gallon and then messuris
the number Of gallons that flow past New ORLEANS ~
river you ascertain it easily This amount Of ss-
ment spread out over space Of two hundred miles
square, would make layer of about quarter Of ineh
riding tn his ato
quiIe one mllior two hundred thousand years form
even the first waN layer. The lecturer rscaptuatsA
all the Arguments in favor of the assumption that the
globe IL in reality older than the Mosaic account SAP
posed to make it. and concluded by saying the I've
accouL Ia were easily Ieconciable, in his opinion.
| The Mechanics Instituto-Its Past, Present
and Future.
lecture Hpon the Past, p esent and Future Of tie
New York Mechanics Institute delivered last svs
ming at the Of the Institute No. Bowery By Pre-
fesstr Henry. There very largo and respectable
auditory present. He commenced BY rsmArkng that IL
men who originated this Institute, aotuatsd By
noble and patriotic idea He glanced for . moment -
the in which these orgnators to work. First
they established Of lectures and series Of popa
lar addresses calculated arouse the popular mind and
direct 1t to subjects Of literary add scientific importsne
In the next place, the idea of . sur
gehted, and afterwards . library provided m
lecturer referred to the principal works of vaus en-
hraced in the library of the Institute. The found
ers of this Institute insgsted by the ~
bic and uneefsh motives, and in tho spirit with
which they began this great idea should be carried out
school also instituted which may be described e
primary, classical and scientific and which may compare
fsvoraby with any other in the city These efforts uas
by the early founders dest the respect and emulao
Of their Evening classes aftsrward
want which exists in midst Notwithstanding the great
facilities lrovded for them by tbs general system Hsay
selves any orber provided for them 10 obtsin
pa education, because thev necessarily compelled
labor during the day for their subsistence This great and
peculiar want supplied by the wise AID generous pro.
vhion OF evening classes The professors of this schoo1
sIe men OF az quirsmsnt and high character and nocs
school that the number ofpupis continue to ncrsHss
In the same ratio heretofore the present buidng Nh
net suffice for their accommodation. Rewards are
slowed upon the pupils and honorable emulation In
gsd which fail to beneficial influence
upon their characters. ladies' reading has bssa
established, and this interesting department has no1
failed and it is to be hoped will be fully succesfaL
a SEES have also been established for their instruction
the 6ne arts such wing painting The lecturse
dvet upon the necessity Of educating female SEX and
especially those belonging to the middle classes He
feired aro to the which the Institute had
bestowed upon inventive genius How would thsfnvsa-
tors Of former times have reoiced could they but hAvs
Institute The lecturer concluded by expressing his
hope that this young but glorious Institution would
do vnir those Of the lAborng classes Who 3
their cicumssnces were debarred from the snjoyms1e
hoera educauon; ana the aid TO Do furnished then
to come-if it ct a-from such societies IL
Mechanics Institute of New York.
The lecturer concluded amid great applause.
DR.. Dorcmus ON tho History or tho Crea-
! ti0n.
The third Of the course of chemical lectures H.
Chemical History of Creation delivered last svsnne
at the New York Medical College, In East ThirtssutA
street. BY r. Doremus The spacious lecture room vas
crowded. the majority of the audiences ssDg Of lsdss
The following Is an abstract Of the Lecture
Having sale Dr. Dcremus, at the last lecture resolvsa
the earth into Its primitive chaotic, gaseous conditis
and proved BY experiment that the mponderabs agsn
account without form and void and darkness O -
face Of the Deep having BY the synthetic pro sss
grouped these crude esmspts into liquid form Prov
would propose to disease the physical effects Of thee
combinations In the radiation Of the great MAS and IL
s laten Of the planets First us tracs the rsse.