Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-01-19

he urged that the man who prepares imself
70 be good practical printer, is prepared for
| other positions IN life He was going to be
rash enough on this occasion to break the rule
| against divulging State secrets and tell them
that if be had not been himself practical
| printer, he should not now occupy place IN
the State Department.
Mai. Ben Perley Poore-Who Is not g poor
pearl" but has given the world proof that
he is a pearl Of great price" by his wheel
barrow exploit which his fellow craftsmen re
| gard as nonYarstI.
The Major responded in his hsppiest style,
| making some sharp hits at those members of
Congress who treated the press disparagingly
in a late debate: told some capital stories, and
kept the assemblage in the best Of humors
while he MAS on his legs.
The Bookbinders of Washington-We greet
the presence of some of them here as an inder
that they are still bound to Us by clasps of
fraternal feeling.
Responded to by the President of the Book
binders Association; aad by j. G. Mcclure,
Esq who thought that If printers follow q the
art preservative Of all arts, !" the kookbinders
may claim for their art that II Is preservatiye
even of printing
b. Claxton-Though temporarily away
from his stand, We still find him stirring with
Us on our festive occasions: " MAY his shadow
never be less;" and long may he wave.
Mr.. Claxton rose and produced a speech,
which he sverred he had found on his way to
the festival and which he presumed some
typo had prepared for delivery on the coca.
| sion. and had lost it on the way. Mr.. Claxpn
proceeding to read 1t, 1t turned out to be a
very good one, and muOh sympathy was ex-
pressed for the unfortunate loser by the COM
pany.
LA Gebright, Esq An apt iIiustrat,o,, of
what the press and the telegraph together can
do: May be continue to go bright in his use-
full career.
Mr.. Gobright said he had not been so for.
tunate as his friend Clsxton in finding any
body's speech, but If any one had a speech
which they did not mean to use, he would be
obliged to them for the loan Of it. Mr. G .
proceeded to give some interesting reniinis.
eencies of past celebrations of the Society
James English, Esq.-Upright as a man, &C.
even in W ashiDgton worth makes the man,
and want Of il the fellow"
Responded to briefly and humorously by
Mr.. English.
Maj McNeir-The Nsstor of the typograph:-
cal profession, and the accomplished editor:
Long may his presence encourage the younger
members of the craft to initiate his worthy ex-
ample.
Major McNeir, in response, expressed the
qualification it gave him to meet the members
of a Society which he had long held in high
estimation He claimed to have given TO the
Society one of its distinguished members, the
lamented W. w. Curran.
Thos. c. Connolly-The schoolmaster, prin-
ter, editor and agriculturalist. May he sue
coed best in his last undertaking
Mr. Connolly, having in brief but felicitous
terms responded to this sentiment, read an
ode, written for the occasion BY Thomas :
Donoho, Esq which was received with great
applause.
James F. Haliday-An ex-President of the
Columbia Typographical Society. He has never
failed to deserve the confidence reposed in him
by his fellow craftsmen.
Mr. Halliday in responding to this sentiment
paid touching aud beautifully conceived
tribute to the memory ef cherished members
OF the Society who have passed from Earth.
In allusion to the rapid flight of tirle he said
be had hoped to pass for young man on this
occasion, but hardly thought 1t worth his while
tice of his (ar. Bslt) presiding at the head Of
the table.
S. W Glenn, Esq.-The printer turned
player: Having left the box Of stars, may he
prove q star to the 6ozss
Mr.. Glenn proposed in lieu Of speech to
give Dutch story, which he proceeded to do
Ia his usual irresistible manner
number of spirited volunteer toasts were
given, for which we have not space to-day
number Of songs capitally sung by Mr.
| Glenn, Mr. Clark, Mr.. AtLee, Mr. Penman
and others added infinitely to the zest of the
| entertainment.
The festivities were continued until mid
night with undated enjoyment
The Supper was indeed perfect success
passing of with not single occurrence calcu-
| lated to interrupt the felisity Of the occasion
| SMITHSONIAN LECTURES The lecture Of
Friday night was by Prof Benjamin Peirce, of
| Cambridge, Mass I; subject . The National
Universe, considered as a machine, as a work
Of art, and as the manifest work Of God =
being the first Of a series upon Potential
| Ply sics."
The audience was large one, and we no.
ticed not few of the Juveniles, who have
| listened 50 delightedly to the humorous anec-
| dotal lectures Of DR. Morris upon Entomology,
and Who we guess were taken a little aback
by the scholar like and slightly transcendentsl
effort of Professor Peirce We heard one little
ten-year old ask bis maternal parent if "po-
tential physics" was L" castor oil and such %
Promising that we cannot expect from the
geometer those graces of wit and sentiment
which charm a popular audience, Prof PIERCE
| went on to say, that these are in nature the
| three worlds Of science, poetry and religion
| that while there are narrow-minded men in
| each who have no life but in tho world they
live in, there are others-scientifi, men poets,
~
sense Of the claims of the others In the
actual world We find no arbitrary division
OF the three. Every where We see inter
| mingled development Of science, marks of
beauty, motives to devotion. This union of
| intellect, religion and beauty is shown in
mythology; which, mythology despise it as
We will, affords the strongest argument for
| natural theology that can be found. The vedas
Of the despised Hindoos, those old books,
written thousand years before the time of
Moses, recognized the existence of Supreme
| Being, who was the soul Of the universe, all
wise, all powerful and existing through all
| time.
The lecturer proceeded TO read numerous
extracts from the Hindoo Vedas in corrobora.
| tion Of this statement That this was an an.
terror revelation is disproved by the clear.
striking defects found mixed up with these
passages Thus an almost Pantheistic belief
| was expressed in these books a belief in our
/ ABSORPTION in Deity after death The antio ui,y