The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-06-04

CHAMP Housn, PHILADELPHIA, June 2.
There l. but little "nsws" AAoat in the "Quaker
City" this bright Juns morning. lull even ID
political gossip. The foreign appointments and
the local patronage Of the custom house, mint.
and post Office furnished material for while, but
these are at last exhausted. The disappointed
Office hunters and their friends "growl right sav-
agely" at the Administration. They regard the
appointments in this State as "most extraordi-
nary" and express the firm conviction that Gene
raj Pierce and his Cabinet have broken HE party
into thousand pieces while the "elect" take quite
different view Of the subject-very natural. 1t is
matter Of some surprise to the " w ashngtonian,
who happens to stray outside the District, to find
how little the world care about the "ins'' and the
"outs," and politicsi in general. Probably not one
| in hundred in this great 'buying and selling"
city can recoliect, If they ever knew, even the
names of General Pierce's Cabinet. There will be
scramble for the office just made vacant by the
death of Judge Petit the Director of the Mint
MIR. Dale, the gentiemany and efficient treasurer,
still serves, his successor not yet having entered
upon his duties. I.atf tr .-
This ia the season here for sLades Fairs" and
Religious Anniversaries" The Presbyterian
Convention is now in session, and yesterday,
learning that laymen were admitted, we dropped
| in {" The moderator was just announcing the re.
suit Of the election Of the Professor of Theology to
fill the vacancy at Princeton occasoned by the
| death of DR.. Alexander. DR.. Boardman, Of this
! city, was declared elected. The next cease on the
docket was a series of charges, preferred by
suspended brother against his pastor, somewhere
down in Georgia, the substance Of which seemed
| to be that the parson had been too rigid in his
church discipline, and had forgotten to exercise
that charity which "suffereth long and is kind"
The pastor, like sensible man, proposed to
| n. hair of
opinion that the "green bag ought not to rep
resent the "black coral" ruled our lawyer out
of court. Large numbers of beautiful ladies in
new bonnets and dresses were present, apparently
very much interested in the. proceedings of the
| convention.
| Among the many interesting places OF resort TO
strangers the Academy of Fine Arts and the
Academy Of Natural Sciences. These institutions
have been established for more than half century.
The Academy of Fine Arts, in addition to its an
| nual collection for exhibition, owns some rare and
valuable works of sculpture and painting; among
which are Hero and Leander-a group in marble
by Steinhausen; also Diana, by the same artist; a
Venus De Medic, by Conova, and many finely
executed busts; a full length portrait of WASH
ington, by Stuart; Lafayette, by Suily, and Jack
son, by the same artist; Vests celebrated painting
of death on the Pale Horse" and Allston's great
work, dead Man Restored"
| The Academy of Natural Sciences is open to
strangers Tuesdays and Fridays. It has a
library of more than 26, 900 volumes, and some 500
maps and charts Ii has extensve museum of
zoology, botany, geology, and mineralogy. Its
pathological collection ia the most perfect in the
United States, containing less than $4,000
specimens, all admirably arranged in glass cases.
| Liberal subscriptions have been made, and quite
a large cum raised. to establish the opera here,
and the experiment is in fair way to be made, not
withstanding the recent sad operate death in New
| York.
Chestnut street will change its entire front by
| autumn. Ii is now blockaded with immense piles
| of brick and lumber.
| Lawyers and cliens in Philadelphia in
| formed that a new and very extensive Law Book
Publishing and Importing House has just been
opened here by IS. p. Putnam Co.. who have
at their command such facilities will enable
them to Geal out the law the most liberal terms.
MIR. Putnam was for many years connected with
the long established house Of the Johnsons, and is
well known to the legal fraternity throughout the
United States. Competition may bring down the
prices of those expensive luxuries, law books.
| Where ia "Ichabod?" Everybody read his letters
here. KAPPA.
The LATE GENERAL OF THE JEsUIrs A Paris