The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-10-09

will have to await the uncertain chances of
another Bankrupt law. VIII nobody help the
Chevalier out of his distress? Has he no credit
with the banks? Confidence on6dence-can't
be get little confidence somewhere at half
price?
SCIENTIFIC SoUABBLEs-TwEEDLEDUM AND
Misunderstanding sarons are almost as quarrel.
some race as artists. Touch them on any point
connected with their claims to discovery, and
their suscepibilities are instantly aroused. The
fact is constantly brought home to us by the piles
of correspondence with which we are overwhelmed
after the meetings of scientific associations. The
contributors who fancy that justice has not been
done to their papers in the published transactions
of such societies, invariably fall back upon the
HERALD to assist them in righting themselves.
We are proverbally good natured, and are
known to detest nonopolies, so that we have be-
come sort of refuge for the distressed. The de.
mands upon our benevolence are, however, null
tiplying so fast that we are compelled to set
bounds to the indulgence Of our inclinations.
Learned professors, as well as artists, should
recollect that we have other duties on hand than
that Of acting as aIbter in their disputes. People
seem to forget that there is neither profit nor
honor to be gained by thrusting ones hands into
q hornets nest
We have before us at the present moment an
angry correspondence upon subject which.
however interesting in the dog days, viii just
now neither excite the ympathies of Wall street
nor aid the digestion Of bank directors Pro-
fessor Winelow, q gentleman lately returned
from the Sandwich Islands, and who has written
clever treatise to prove that 1t is to the agency
of the cum that we owe the dynamcal tension with
in the globe which imparts to continents their pc
culiar confguration, endeavors in several folio
sheets Of communication TO convince US that In
the theories on the same subject advanced q. the
late Scientific Convention at Montreal, by Pro
fessor Pierce, Of Cambridge, that gentleman has
plagiarised the leading features Of his discovery
In proof of this assertion he adduces the fact
that q portion of the paper which he sent in to
the society at previous meeting, and which
contained this particular theory Of solar causa-
ton, has been withheld or purposely mislaid, by
the publishing committee, of which Professor
PIERCE was a member.
Without dwelling too particularly on the fact,
that although Professor Winslow's paper was
allowed to be read it was refused pub
lioaticn by the Cambridge committee, we
must remind Its author that nothing
is more difficult TO establish than the priority Of
scientific discoveries The history of discovery
ard invention, from the earliest time, shows that
I'LL al
several minds There is scarcely single scien-
tifc fact which has been established about the
authorship OF which there are not rival claims.
The labors of Bacon, Newton, Sir Humphrey
Davy, and other scientific explorers, have all ia
their turn undergone the ordeal Of dispute. 1t
lose, accidental or otherwise, Of few pages Of
Professor Winslow's paper on solar influences to
prove that Proft sor Pierce has unfairly availed
himself of the fruits of his researches.
To scientific men, as well az to all others en-
gagged In liberal pursuits, we would counsel more
liberal,y Of sentiment. The narrow minded
jealousies and cavilling spirit manifested in such
quarrels are unworthy Of minds occupied in the
great work of intellectual progress. Science
would indeed be barren aud worthless pursuit
II all that 1t taught was envy and malignity.
Is 1T THE TARIFF 9-OR Is IT THE BANKS AND
STOCKHOLDERS The old wbig party hue and
CRY against low tariff is raised again as the
cause Of our late excessive importations. Even
The late free trade David Wilmot, Of Pennsylva-
MIA, takes up this cry against the low tariff Of
tha Of lufa M
we cannot concur with these high tariff philoso-
piers in this solution Of the financial trou-
bles that have 20 tnickly come upon us.
No. We cannot trace them to the tariff Of
46; but we can trace them to the banks and
stockholders, the railroad and land SPECTATORS
the fashions, lummeries, fopperies, nincompoop-
cries, extravagapccs, vanities, RIGHTEOUSNESS
rogueries, dcia cations, entertainments, forgcrics
frauds, pcrjuries, and oil the other rascalitics of
q widespread decentralization among men and
women, saints and sinners-from puritanical
Boston to Sabbath breaking New Orleans
These are the potent causes Of the present rcvul-
sion, and two hundred per cent tariff against
these terrible evils Of the times would have been
as powerless as a row boat in the rapids Of
Niagara. Millionaire railroad jobbers, stockjob-
bers landjobbers banks, spectators, peculators
end forsers, fast young men, fast old men, fast
women, fact horses, brandy, billiards and faro,
French gewRaws fashionable rivalriee In ~asting
money, and ali such rubbish, stuff ADD abomina-
tone bave done the business. The tariff OF '46
cant be made the scapcgoat Of the revulsiou OF
81. We have been esjoyiDg q high csrousal,
and are now called upon to foot the bulls
That's all.