New-York daily tribune., 1859-06-30


MEETING OF THE CHAMBER or COMMERCE..
A .peeisl meeting Of ih~ Chsnbe, of Commence .ss
held AZ Their rJUms, corner of Willsm sot Cedar
streets. at u O'Clock NOGdsy, 70 hear Tie report Of
the spscizl Committee on QasfaLiine.
The President beLg abseat, the Vice President, No.
PHLLRs, grestei-
Mr.. T. TmEsroS, tbe Chairman Of the COMMITTEES
preseuiug The report stated "a 81 the repOr very
lengthy, the subject oOe th4t required -iio
range In their Investigations, they bal gathered
large amount Of Interesting matter, much of which
they had TO leave 10 order to ge. il within .he lml's
they had. He then proposed tina, the report should bs
printed before bang presented IN oder taAf each nen
Der could bave an opportunity 10 anders,asd y wen
and Mr. eston resi the report Of the Committee.
Ii commenced with statement Of two points having
been ade The basis of the Committees .aboT- let,
the laws of the S,zte regarding quar,n,nei and 2i,
the question of yel0 Sf cOnagiop a. considered By
the National Ssoiiary Convention recently held in this
city. After REVERSING the origin aud practices It
Quarantine the conclusion was Drawn that l. al org
mated in fear and ignorance. l. had arisen from tho
medical dpgma that forty days were necessary 70 de-
ermine whether the person infected with disease,
which t'me had since been varied u seven days, ac
cordng disease. As 10 small pox aud similar
agious disease the ouly mode Of restraining
by Protecting the heal;by by vaccination and putting
ne sick where they could have pure air. The report
ur her set forth large number Of abusee Of Qusrsn
tine and Concluded by an Endorsement Of the deter
uiuatOn arrived AZ by the National Sanitary coDyen-
ton-thst yellow fever is not personally contagious.
Accompanying the report were series Of resou-
ions offered by the Committee az ,nst the present
Quarantine arrangements AID in accordance with the
spirit If the report
Mr. LOWE opened discussion the report. Hs
sid th =. he glad 10 know that the entire Commit
tee had arrived ,t the conclusion that they had given,
after long train Of reasoning. lie only wished 70 SEQ
clause added, which would be perfectly practical
with these conclusons for he thought the subject has
been treated scientifically, and the Committee would
no doubt receive in practice what they had determined
in theory. He wished 70 zee il included IN the report
an expression of the Committee, tha. they wers
willing that yell fever vessels should be allowed -
come up the docks Of this city, and not put them
scIoss the river. Although the Committee believed
Il at yellow fever was not contagious IN the person,
lie remembered that from one yeLowfever vessel
Norfolk had been depopulated, and from the sama
thing Brooklyn had alsO suffered TO q great extent.
When yellow fever did come, he hoped the men who
concured in the opinion of the Committee woad not
be alarmed.
Gen. WErMoRE replied with some warmth defend
rg the conclusions of the Committee and saying that
Trey were the same that oar most scientific men had
arrived at.
motion to adop. the report led TO quite length
ened discussion, and finally accepted ordered 10
be printed in all the daily papers and be taken up for
action at their mex meeting on the 9Th Of July.
II was ordered that 900 copies of their annual re-
port should be publsbet.
Mr. MARSHALL submitted q memorial b be pre-
sened TO the President of the UBted States in regard
to losses by collisions Of vessels and asked TIA. the
Chamber would approve it and authorize the append
4
II ,aid that the subject had been disposed OF
some time before by Special Committee appointed
by ths Chamber However, on motion, they conceded
the request, ard then adjourned.
| ANNUAL COMMENCEMENT OF THE NEW
YORK UNIVERSITY.
The Annual Commencement OF this Academic lns.i-
tuition took place yesterday at Niblo's Theater The
building crowded in all its parts and az usual on
such occasions, the majority Of the audience wero
ladies' The beat. however, wss 60 intense that very
maLy left the baldrg before the exercises were con-
cluded.
The Rev. Isaac FERRIS, d. d., Chancellor Of the
University, presided. On the platform were sented
the Faculty Of the University, several members Of the
! Council and distinguished citizens. A fine band
added ipere.t che occasion by the performance Of
varOus selections from standard composItions.
| The exercises were opened with a prayer by tho
Chancellor. This followed by the delivery u the
Latin salutaory by JobnW. Moore If st. Croix w. l..
| The Erglish santatOry was delivered by Uriah +.
| Rogers Of New.York Alter extending welcome N
the audience he turned his discourse upon the subject
Of Courage. He extoled physical courage when
rightly exercised but he argued that there yere in
stances where physical courage moral cowardice
+. N. X. TaIcot Of Jersey City delivered the next
Grafton. His theme the - Influence of Success
favor Of Others While defeat was often the beginning
of misfortune. He drew distinction between the
merit Of success-accordng merit to that success
which had a good object in view.
Sympathy" was the theme Of the next GRAFTON, by
| w. r. Marsh of Cornwall, NY
Nathan L.. Campfeh Of Newark was next on the
programme. His subject was " True Philosophy" -.
Echoes was the theme Of an orstion BY Roswell
ID. Smith.
HENRY J. DRAYros of Jersey City delivered we'll
written oraion. The subject, Iron is King.
ScHARITr Of Newark.
| JoHs BLAKE Of New.York dove iatQ metaphysics