New-York daily tribune., 1858-12-04

.ached 10 our institutions shall stand on politi
cal equality with our potato-loving Patrick. But
are you willing to guarantee that your coored
friend will always support the Democratic ticket
that be will not some day embrace the pestD- -.
>-resies of Republcanism and believe n ."'
" or;,.e,r,.- 0enerahties Of the Declaration ne
aepcndencei Sue reasoning is clearly c' lr'
ah'e. ard so long az it finds favor wiz anans"er-
The country is cafe. ." '"0 P'oP'
4 very pretty case Of the IL. ,;.....,, :;
now pendlr & among us. . v1iain a. Si.: lSu"'
has contracted to supr this v the
necessary element -; o ar;nnsnd D. s,s,s-v
80, -, " OCCASION, on the twenty-fth ami
.;e''! - .,s settlement to deliver very aggres-
., 10 say glsdiatorial discourse, beratir his
br..hrcn for not preaching the simple gospel, re-
bI hing them for cherishiag labtudlnari,n sentl-
'ncnts, and charging somebody with holding out
Signals of sympathy to UDl;tiians." The gaunt-
! let thus publicly thrown down (for the discourse
vas published at the request of the faithful flock to
Whom il was preached), has been picked up by DR..
Dutton of this city, who, in the November number
! Of The Ne,c. Engidnder, ehters the Lsts easily un-
horses bis antagonist and leaves him fairly hOrs du
combat. Here for the present rests the guar
| rel ard meanwhile the Irreyerent and amused out
siders are waiting to see if the PROSTATE parsen
Will cry "peccari," or viii venture to break a
second lance.
But shall 1 speak OF these trining differences be-
tween diyines and say nothing of The aleDgroselng
and Immensely important controversy now raging
! between Prot. Nortan of Yale and Prof. Pierce o
Harvard, touching the causes and composition oi
/ tl,c comets tail.
Prof Norton claims to have established, inde.
"pendently Of others, the existence Of repulsiye
- force emanaing from the sun extending indc6-
nitely into space and decreasing with the dis
lance, and that the cometlc PARTICLES are driven
- off into the tail, singy and discOnnectedly, by
4" this force.
Prot. Pierce, on the other hand, contends that
what Prof Norton claims as his discovery is sslmply
good guessing and should by no means, add to the
scientific reputation of the successful guesser.
As you viii readily observe, the subject is one OF
great popular interest and will, undoubtedly take
strong hold on the public mind. The c0rrespon-
dence bids fair to be az long the luminous con-
tnuation Of the erratc Celestial, and, when finished,
is to be published in uniform size and binding with
the forthcoming catalogue Of the British Museum.
Our Winters course of lectures commences to-
MORROW evening with Henry Ward Beecher. III
is fearful experiment, and the wsest among us
cannot tell where and how it Will end. For our
Committee not having at heart the integrity of our
glorious Union, "regardless of their social duty,
"and fatally bent mischief" have placed on
the list Of lecturers the names OF Beecher, Hlg-
einson and Cheever To be sure, these arch
traitors have not selected very ncendlary subjects.
Beecber takes Sympathy applied to Common
Lile;" Higgnson announces, Physical Training
for Amercans:" Cheever takes "Englsh Free
dom in the days of Lord Erskine.' All but
the difficulty is that one knows what treason
may luIk dehind the innocent themes. Freedom
in its thousand phases touches upon so mlny
topics that with very little ingenuity, it may be
introduced with plausible show of relevancy into
the discussion of almost any subject. And what
if the lecturer, after lulling bis audience into
sense of security by the most harmless sentiments
should suddenl, spring on them such quotation
| az this:
"The whole between master and slave is per-
pctua Of the bOisteIoUs passions the most
RENTING despOtsn the part and degrading submission
7 the CiheT!'
Seward, Of course" exclsim half dozen in
dignant patriots. Why no. not precisely, iu point
/ of fact Thomas Jefferson; but, you know, it
might have been Seward, and then what a blood
thirsty and devsh spirit would it not have dis
! closed.
And 80 The Rcgistcr, burning with patriotic zeal,
warns those of its party who can read against
these sectional lecturers, and their seditous de-
signs and very properly holds up the Committee
to the exeCration Of the community.