The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-08-06
CHI ES TON.
FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 6. 1869.
The Humboldt Jubilee.

fellow.eiizens have taken the initistory
steps to secure proper celebration of the
centennial birthday of fAle1snder Won Hum
boldt, on the 14th of September next. True,
the time is short, but the countrymeu Of
Humboldt can .improvise q celebration, q
jubilee, q Schus'zenfest,t "a snugsrkrsnz, or
5al masquc in less time than any other peo-
pie we know Of. 30. we may be sure be.
forahand, that the Germans Of Charleston
will aequit themselves next month, as they
have always done, whenever called upon to
commemorate the glory Of their glorious
Fatherland. We can hardly expect, Of
course, celebration such as was Witnessed
here November II and IL, 1859, when the
Germ lns Of Charleston had made prepara-
tions for many months TODD suitable honor
10 their national bard. That Sohillerfest
was brilliant beyond precedent, in our staid
old city, yhsrs Rfoassaionas III "a and 4, fsstal e1-
,hihitions ars but Of, rsre occurrence. Still,
,wshave no doubt, 1.-the Germans Of Charles.
ton will not fall behind their fellow. citizens
in other cities ofthe Union, in admiration
for their distinguished coun,rymsn, and
their zeal, alacrity and enthusiasm, will in
sure very creditabls celebration.
The Germans. surely. cannot be held un-
grateful to those. of their acauutrymeu who
have shed lustrs oon their native land.
Other nations Vie in the homage they pay
to their Victorious captains, but the Ger
mans stand pre,eminent in: the. profound
respect in which they cherish the memory
Of those Of their great man, whose claim 70
distinction lies in the important services
they rendered to mankind in the nobler
arts of peace. They hold dear;the memory
Of Gutenberg and Of Luther, Of L Lessing
and Of Goethe, Of Schiller and Of Hum
boldt, =. :....,.,..i . ..- n:.
Nor is it.from the 'lssrned only that this
grateful iucsnse'is ef7sred. In this espe-
cially, the difference between the Germans
and other people, rebounds Ito the credit Of
prince and, peasant, professor and plough
man, thelwis4 and the eimple, all feel en-
ricAed and ennobled, BY the, achievements
Of any Of their cOdatrymen in the field Of
science, Of art or Of letters; and wherese-
ever beat German hearts, whether in Bar.
lin vienas,' Paris, 'st. Petersburg, New
York. San Francisco, or Constsntinople,
they all join with one accord, with heart
and soul to sing praises and do honor, to
those who have won a: right to wear the
crown Of lsurels. .!%9
So familiar is the name and fame Of Hum
boldt, throughout the civilized world, that
We aeed notrefer in detail to the triumphs
which marked hi, distinguished career. We
shall have occasion to return to this subject
next month, when. the celebration of the
Centennial Jubilee will have awakened a
fresh and lively interest in the career of
the great naturalist.
We translate, from the "Sudlicher Cor.
respondent" the German paper published
in this ci y, the following remarks, to show
our readers what rank Humboldt takes
among sauans in the estimation Of his own
oountrymen: -
Alexander Won Humboldt, the broth
sr Of the great philosopher, Wilhelm
Won Humboldt, accomplished in the field
Of natural science, what L,ssiDg, VIE
land, Schubarth, Goethe, Schiller, and the
brothers Sehlegel did for literature and
philosophy. His clear and comprehensive
mind was coupled with q desire to observe
and explore, and an indefatigable zeal, uu.
dismayed by difficulties, geographical or
typographical. He built colossal super
structure upon the foundation, which had
been laid by bis teachers in Frisberg lin
the celebrated mining school In Saxouy
He aim at knowledge Of the whoe
earth; ne left the field of speculative philoso,
| ply, and cultivated the rich and promising
soil of natural scierce He opened tfe
book Of Nature, read it zsalousiy ard at
tentivelg, learned it page by page, chapter
by chapter, volume after volume; and what
soeyer he had read, whatever he had learned
from Nature, he gave back ogain, not only
| TO science, upon which q new light was
thus sned, but he proclaim ed it to tn whole
world, which turned TO profitable account
his experience and ohsei vations. in The in
crease ef its commerce ard the improve
ment of its useful arts.
1t was Alex auder von Humboldt who set
the world in different light to the specu
lative savans and philosophers. They threw
their old empirical learning into corner
and hurst the fetters of their musty iradi-
tiona, which they had gathered together
from the hooks on magic, alchemy and as i.
| trology. Such had been their tcepc.
But it was to be so no longer. Natural
scierce became free, and developed into
mighty tree, which: bore abundantly the
fruit of knowledge. Geology, now fret, at.
tanned to the diguiiy of practical science;
chemistry and botany contributed mate
rally to the emencip .llcn of medicine from
Che elough of empiri,!sm, in which it lay