The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-01-22

upn the track of the scoundre and he was arrested by
officer King some little distance below the city, on the
Bar Ferry road having taken alarm at the delay Of
the purchaser in meeting his appointment for the concu.
sion of the trade It is stated that he had confederate
in the affair, who made his way TO Savannah
(Ga-) Chronicle, Jan. IA.
Wendell Phillips ON the Lost Arts.
The hall Of the Ahenaum in Brooklyn, filed at
carly hour Tuesday evening" 70 listen to the twelfth Of the
Of Mercantile Library lectures delivered BY Wen
dell Phillips, Esq.
He commenced by remarking that he took his place in
the of Iyceum lectures with great satisfaction be-
cause he felt the importance of this system of lectures In
this land public opinion Sstronge than the satutewith
it the law being dead record and the press-the
HERALD and the Tsslane-mote really the government
than the Cabinet at Washington That does not be-
eve his opinions who does not listen to his opponent
The Iyceum, unlike the pulpit, and like the press,
he welcomed destined to take an important place in
moulding the character and the policy of the nation.
The subject Of the 'Iost Arts he took up rather as
corrective for there is any characteristic more promi
nent than another in age, it is sefconce, He al
uded to the German who always took Of his hat with
profound respect when he spoke Of himsef and thus the
Nineteenth century and the American people taking
off their hats to themselves marvelously often In regard
TO that range Of arts having their root in the imagination
the fine arts, especially painting, sculpture, poery-we
are conten, with only second rate position As an in
stance of this, he mentioned that the highest praise
that could be conferred upon an artist was
10 compare him with Homer or Phidias
He then gave illustrations OF the antiquity
OF Irish bulls and newspaper Jokes, which were some OF
them, older than the New Testament. Herodo,us had
been considered the Father Of History At later
period he had been considered as the Father Of Lies But
knowledge increased, and explained his state
ments unlike many stocks nova days he was going up
par and becoming again the Father OF History. AS
Illustration Of this, he spoke Of the statement that Ar
chrnedes had burned the enemy's fleet with mirrors,
which had been considered lie until Button had tried
admitted to be true BE coDtensed that we had no right
deny it until had tried it, He spoke of glass having
been found In the ruins Of Pompei. In China glass
tumbers had been found, which, when empty appeared
like a common lumber but when filled with clear fluid
appeared to contain fishes Malleabe glass according
independent records had been asserted 10 have been
He spoke of different kinds Of glass being united,
being perfectly distinct The stained glass of three
centuries ago was far superior TO that OF the
for day. Egyptian sass a nnd been uesr
tho ancens had the microscope and the telescope. 1t
supposed that Juper satellites had never been
vented the telescope. No. they had been by thou
sands OF eyes long before that He proceeded to quote
statements from history seeming indicate concIusvey
that the magniyug glass and the spy glass had been
known TO the ancens There are works Of the ancients
carved in figures minute that magnifyng glass
requisite to distinguish them; and if magnying glass
have been requisite to form them And the .cst
mony that they used artificial gems in their work.
Another illustration OF lost art is the immortal color OF
ancients. Modern artists have not yet succeeded in
finding out how Raphael and Titan obtained their coors
! showed
hundred years DID, and said could not make bright
color, to last five years. third illustration
metals The anceps had some way OF hardening brass
harder than we could make iron, and could make il
elastic Sheffield blade The art Of temperDg steel ha
been known in India seven hundred years Familiarity
to have found its way into their novels but had only
been known here two centuries We could not get
good sword blade Ia Sheffield wbud be made OF
common iron on tho banks OF the Gauges
He quoted the contest between Richard and Sa.
laedn, in which Richard cut the bar OF iron, but
Saadn drew his scimetar across downy cushion and
divided it, and then severed his scarf as oated in the
air. AS to the mechanic arts IL the ancicnts knew only
the five mechanical powers-the pully screw, &c.-how
could they have moved immense masses OF stone. weigh
ing 5000 TONS distance of sixty mesS Herodotus states
that OF these immense masses had been brought for
n temple eco miles, when one of the workmen sighed,
and the King said that an Offering TO God should come
from willing minds and that sigh had poisoned it;
that still lay there unused 400 years afterwards the tes
timony Of heather truly willing heart alone
make offerings to God Ventilation so young that it hal
beer said TO have lain in the cradle with Horace Manu.
had been known to the ancients The Egyptians had
tiated the Pyramids; those barbarans had vent
lated their tombs while Of this excessively enlightened
nineteenth century had not yet learned to venlae
dwelling houses. Arago says they had steamboats,; that
when Ulysses carried home to Ithaca in ship
which had neither oars nor sails, il must have been
China has had them 900 years; and Egypt says hush
children, have had them 5000 years There is one
built early Noses 40 miles long, lao feet wide and
about 40 feet deep and it is stated in history that they
put in suices, gates to pass from level to evelso
that they had locks as well as canals Then they had
railways. Thebes inland town, and yet il had
trade with China; and there sti exists road constructed
with square blocks of stone so placed to form an
artificial level and grooved for the Wheels as in the
present Partisan roads. Stephens he has the
same thing in Central America Mr Hobbs went to
London and picked the Chubb & Bramah lock;
but Bramah and Chubb both concede that the principle
Of that lock- was borrowed from Egyptian lock $500
old The Lancaster system OF mutual instruction
which made ma such noise eighty years ago was 200
quite new and not AT all perfect yet had been known in
Hindostan for hundred generations. Animal magnetism
and spiritual rappngs old as the Dephc oracle
The water known long ago the days Au
gistus for he was cured Of a neuralgia by travelling
Greek who administered cold baths; and Pny has left
description of at least two OF Preissniizs baths. He
could hot take refuge in balloons, for there
picture extan OF crowd of people looking up al some
thing having the appear OF fleet OF balloons in the
air Mrmmies bad been found with their teeth exquisitey
filed with gold Akbah prince who regned 800 years
ago, tells that some Indian juggers hung up Delhi
at midnight globe of fire, which made the streets as
bright as the monday sup-the Drummondfght, or per-
haps the light that Mr. Paine is going TO discover In de-
heacy or manufacture the ancients exceeded Oar
finest musins only eighty ninety threads the
inch, and mummy cloth sti extan with $40 threads
to the nch and Herodous states that had been made
With sixty strands in each thread and 800 threads tho
inch He could thus 60 on, much longer than the audi
would be willing TO listen, showing that there is
nothing under the What distinguishes us in
this age is not therefore, the amount know but the
use we make OF that knowledge These arts bad been
lost, because they had been hidden in the bosoms OF
priests and kings who wished not TO benefit the people,
but to cheat them and overawe them. Our arts could
be thus lost because the printing press the only
discovery Of modern tines had made il impossible II was
remarkable that printing had not been earlier known In
Uneven orcKs nao oeen found 4VVo years ola Stamped
with figures making stereotype page and but step
from the art of printing but II took human nature thou
sands Of years to make that STEP and when was made
civilization changed its character Learning no longer
skulked in the coster hid in the palace but came out
and joined hands with the people. Asrology and ache
my in the service Of princes had given place to astrono
my and chemistry for the benefit OF the people Mother
Gre iron neither the cunning of the mechanic or the
chemist would civilization; but would be the di
thought from the New Testament of the brotherhood
OF man, that has right TO know anything which
he does no, make known to bis fellow man.
The Brooklyn Police and Street Assaults.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD.
Complains are frequently made to the police but with
out effect OF the assaults and abuses to which respectfully
dressed children ire almost daily subjected u. the hands