Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-08-15

marked the conduct OF those OF them who did
not adhere to the Kings cause, without being
actuated by sublime morality Of principle,
such as is no longer theirs. We are heretical
enough to charge their lapse from such char
acter as deserves respect, to the errors of their
system Of education, which teaches the per
reliability of man. That is, it inculcates the
idea that it is right and proper for every one
to set up hisown opinion Of the fitness Of thiags,
as the guide for his conduct in life. Nearly
very hamlet has its distinct religious creed,
while every county has its demagogue, clerical
r lay, practically worshipped by its people,
md followed, initiated and obeyed with blind
devotion, submission and llama tieism hardly sur
passed in any quarter of India. The boasted
earning. enlightenment Of New England isjust
sufficient to make Her people self-sudicient-
40 more. TITS but enough to induce them tocon
TENN the result Of the experience of ages and to
ancy themselves better than their fathers,
,linging, as they do, to all the vices, moral
md intellectual, of their ancestors, and re-
jecting nearly all the principles on which their
The moral progress of mankind. We write
above of them as people with the full know
ledge that there are bright and brilliant ex.
ceptions to the general rule, to be an exception
from which, in New England, is to be tabooed
in popular estimation. There, where man
may be an atheist or a railroad stock swim
der, without losing caste in the estimation Of
the people at large, though be his life ever so
pure, and his standing as Christian ever so
irreproachable, if he fails to bow to the SUI
premaey and eternal fitness sf the ruling lido
syncracy Of the hour he is voted heather
worthy to be bounded out of society.
A Discovery in Science. -Many of our read
ers will remember, with deep respect and af.
lection, the subject of the following extract
from the Civiha Caaolica of July, 1855, who
was long in this District. laboring in the cause
of science in the fine observatory and library
Of Georgetown College. 1t will, therefore, be
read in this region with twofold interest
SIN the supplement to the Journal of Rome
of the 25th Of june Rev. A. Secchi, of the
Society of Jesus, director of the observatory of
the Roman College, announces to the public
the first experiment of q new and important
application of the meteorological telegraph. 1t
consists in a regular system of CORRESPONDENCE
established between Rome and the principal
Geographic stations of the PapaI States, which
every day, at fixed hour, transmits by tele-
graph to the capital their meteorological OBJ
servations with the barometer, thermometer
pSychr0meter, the maximum and the minimum
thprmOmetnr- of ho air Of ha
wind, and of the meteors during the last TWEEN
ty-four hours, which observations, afterwards
put into a synoptical table and published
make known, day after day, the simultaneous
state of the atmosphere through the extent of
the land embraced by the stations The adj
yantages, which from such a system of me-
neurological telegraphic correspondence are to
be expected, not only to the science yet in its
infancy of meteOrolOgy, but also to civil uses
to agriculture, to navigation. &C., are greater
perhaps than they appear to be at the first
view, and we reserve to ourselves to speak Of
them at another time with greater case, Is
also to explain more amply the method and
the particulars of the system; being satisfied
at present to announce only the fact, which is
new proof how much sciences and civiliza-
ton are promoted in Rome-sO much more
that Rome is the first to publish such meteor
illogical correspondence with fixed system
The friend who has kindly translated it for
us, in sending it, says
Wishing the public to be apprised of this
useful discovery of one whose scientific labors
in his treatise on ReOmetry, written while in
Georgetown College, and published by the
Smithsonian Institution, have already intro
dueed him to the savans among US, 1 avail
myself of your widely-circulated paper and
offer the above for insertion. Yours, &c,
- &C. II S."
The Fusion.-Our exchanges tell daily Of
the almost total abandonment of Know Moth
ingism proper, at the North, for the organiza.
ton of the new Republican (abolition) party,
which though based on the idea that all the
negroes in this country are competent for self
government and should of right enjoy civil
and political equality with the whites here,
nevertheless has adopted the theory that not
q single White foreigner or worshipper of the
Everything God according to the tenets of the
Catholic faith, should enjoy privileges to which
they seek to elevate the negroes. This last
antic has been cut by them in order to draw
to them all anti-slayery men identified up to
this time with Know Nothingism. They have
succeeded to charm in breaking up the
lodges of the Know Nothings proper, yet tEeir
means to compass that end, as above described,
so stultify them, that they, in turn, will very
shortly be abandoned by all who are aboli-
tionists on Observation-Disclosures for aught
else than to get Office.
Todtlebsn.-We are most happy to have tin
Our power to state, after due inquiry, that the
Russian Legation in this city place no conf
denee whatever in the story of the death OF
Todtleben, the Emperor's great engineer-in-
| chief, at SebastOpOl; which originated in
| the camp of Realities, and thence came
duly to US, via London. The legation have
no such information in the latest dates from
st. Petersburg nor was he at that time re-
garded in that city as being in danger of los
| ing his life from his wound. This news viii
| BIO very gratefully received every where OF
this side of the Atlantic, as Todtlebep has Ger.
'-'v earned more popular admiration and
ill., - any ether general engaged in
character tina.