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The Limits OF Scientific Thought.


The opening of the annual meeting of the
British Association for the Advancement Of
Science on the 18th inst elected from its in
coming President, Dr. Carpenter, an able and
most significant address. The great physicist
revived question which has practically slunr-
bered since the close of the fifteenth century
He took pains to attack the assumptions of
s'science, falsely so called" and read severe
lesson of reprimand to the great mass Of
modern scientists of whom he himself is ON
acknowledged and chosen leader: He, endenv-
ored to convince his scientific audience that
those who set up their own conceptions of the
orderly sequence which they discerned in the
phenomena of nature as fixed and Discriminate
laws, by which those laws not only were within
all human experience, but always had been
and always must be invariably governed. were
really guilty of the intellectual arrogance they
condemned in the systems of the ancients and
placed themselves in diametrical antagonism to
those master philosophers Of the Baconian
period, by whose comprehensive grasp and
penetrating insight that order had been SO far
disclosed. The lecturer, with the. courage
which belongs to solid science, alsOdared to
claim for the much-despised facultyof 'com-
mon sense on all-important sphere of useful
ness in scientific Investigations, forthe obvious
reason, which he assigns, that in q large num-
bsr of cases ''our scientific interpretations Of
nature s'are clearly matters Of Judgment"
But the most startling and, revolutionary
idea in this address of DR.. Carpenter is the
sequence which he draws, apparently assigning
to science a.footstool. at the feet Of theology.
It must be confessed this will grate harshly on
the philosophers of our age who are some
times tempted, like certain mythical person.
| age Of old, to soar so near the sun as to lose
their wings. It might, indeed, be savagely
retorted upon the new President Of the Asso-
citation that the triumphs Of modern science
have been won. not by any aid of Theology,
but in the teeth of its most relentless oppo-
sition. and most bigotad persecution. The
sorroxs and trials Of Calico were tho COM
mon fate of the early votaries Of science.
During the middle ages the most brilliant dis
covery in astronomy or the most exact analy-
sis in chemistry was tested, not in the laborn-
tory or with the telescope, but by the pages
Of some Scotus or Aquinas, and pronounced
true or false accordingly. When Columbus
stood pleading before the Spanish Court FOL
men and ships to prosecute his first grea
voyage the doctors of Salamanca shook thei
reverend heads with holy distrust and the
theologians protested that st. Augustine hat
proved the unity of mankind, and if Colum
bus found men on the islands Of the ocean,
who, they assumed, could not have crossed
the sea from the Old world-he would over
throw the faith Of the Church. 1t Is yer.
true, as DR.. Carpenter intimates, that scien
lists haYo secuted the idea Of learning any
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-31
Tho Coming Council OF the Imperial
Crowns.

Emperor William of Germany will accord
right royal reception to their Imperial Majesties
the Emperor of Russia and the Emperor of
Austria on the occasion of their visit to the
Prussian capital The preparations for bril-
liant realization of the important we may add
significant, event have been already CON-
menced Prince Gortschakoff will herald the
advent of the Gar Alexander to Berlin by a
previous personal announcement Of the fact
that His Majesty will reach that city on the
9Th of September Alexander. will remain the
guest of the German monarch during space
of five days. He will be entertained at q
series Of fetes each ono of which will be in
the most magnificent style. Then there will
be grand banquet at the new palace at Pots
dam, at which the three Emperors, with many
German potentates and princes of inferior
power, will be present. The Gar will, it is
thought, take his departure from Berlin, on
his return to st. Petersburg, on the 9th of Sop
TENDER. This royal assemblage, independent
Of the feasting, will constitute remarkable
epoch in the history Of the Old World. Russia
is evidently the grand constellation--the great
Northern light-which will illumine the council
hall, and which may fash thence suddenly in
the eyes of the peoples far away even to the
East
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semi-barbarous habits and manner of living Of
the peasantry, and from their ignorance in
regard to the cholera and its treatment, the
disease has still comparatively free course,
while in the nations west of Russia scientific
researches have reached the causes of the
pestilence and the precautions and remedies
by which it can be mastered and driven away.
We therefore do not apprehend that this new
outbreak of the cholera in India, though it
may extend into Russia, will westward extend
much farther.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-31
The Asintic Cholera.

The Asatic cholera, we learn by osble
despatch from London, is raging in India, and
in many towns throughout that vast and popu-
lous country and that the number Of deaths
from the pestilence is appalling; that the
greatest CONSERVATION and alarm, prevail
among the inhabitants Of the infected small
and thickly settled towns, who, in. dread Of an
epidemic, are hurrying to the settlements
where the disease has not yet appeared. Again,
a despatch of yesterdays date from st. Peters
burg reports the breaking out of the cholera at
Grodno, in the western part of Russia; and
recently we had the intelligence from Constan-
tinople that this widely difused pestilence was
committing fearful havoc in that quarter. In
short, at the present time this Asiatic plague
prevails at different points, from its headquar-
tiers in India to the western borders of Russia,
and the question again is suggested, especially
from this general outbreak Of the disease over
India, Is there any danger of its spreading
again as an epidemic over both henaispheres?
We do not apprehend any such universal
calamity as q repetition Of the raxages which
the nations and continents west Of Asia have
suffered from time to time, since 1880, from
this disease, as travelling epidemic In this
capacity its powers or the materials upon which
it feeds appear to be exhausted, or it may be
that the knowledge which the Western nations
have, gained from experience and from scieu-
tifc tests and experiments as; to- the causes and
the means for correcting and preventing the
spread of the disease, have rendered it COM
paratively powerless. Last year, our readers
will remember, that from the sudden appear
| ance Of this unwelcome. visitor in various
plnces in Germany we warned our local
| authorities and all concerned in maintaining
the health of dis city, Of the precautions
needed against the possible Importation here
| of the cholera in some infected German YES
sci. The supposed danger, however, passed
by, leaving US untouched; and now, from the
facts that for FIVE OF six years past this cholera
has, to a greater or less extent prevailed IL
| Russia, and has once or twice within the same
period crept into Germany, and even SO far as
to carry of few victims on the eastern coas
of England, hut has been there arrested, w
are led to the opinion that as travelling
epidemic this pestilence from the Gauges will
seriously trouble US on this side of the Atlant
no more. At the same time we believe tina
tho reasons why the disease has disappeared
from the nations west of Russia, while in tina
country it still fingers, may be summed nj
very briefly as follows: In Russia. from th
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-31

TIE ScHoEppE MURDER TnIAL.--The trial
of DR.. Paul Schoeppe, under charge OF having
,ourdered Miss Maria NJ Steincckc, was con-
tinued ct Carlisle, Pa, yesterday. Ihe pub
lie interest in its progress was intensified and
the attendance in Court still larger than on
the day previous. The testimony was prin-
cipally that of surgical experts, one OF whom
was cross-examined by counsel at very con-
siderable length. Then there was dissection
of o portion of a dead body performed in
omen Court--a novel course of medico-jurst
proceeding which, if it be adopted as prcc.
edent for future rule, may become means
of personal or university puff, just as much
if not more, than it will be o source OF en-
nghtenment To iuries in such like difheui
cassss
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-31

Affairs in the sEver Faithful Isle seem to
continue in state of confusion, in strong
contrast with the assurances of order restored
which the world has received from Spanish
sources. So far from being crushed, the revo-
luton is sufficiently strong, it appears, to act
on the aggressive in some districts, nor is
there any intention apparent on the part of
the Cubans to lay down their arms. This is
the more remarkable that all hope of imme-
date success must have been long since aban-
doned, as the friendship and sympathy of this
country, upon which the Cubans had counted,
have proved barren and worse than worthless
In view Of the bold attitude Of the men in arms
against so many difficulties, it is difficult to
refuse them the admiration we owe to those
who fight without hope in defence of cause
they deem just. But the picture has another
side, and no one can look on at the progress
of useless slaughter without feeling pain and
disgust Where political passions run so high
as in Cuba we cannot expect that either
party will regard the struggle from
humanitarian standpoint, and we almost
wish that some neutral Power would interfere
to stop bloodshed. Our government is, of
course, too much occupied in electoral ques-
tions to have time to spare for the considera-
ton of the crimes committed against hu-
manity at our doors. The Cubans seem at
last to recognize this painful fact, and have
sent three of their ablest representative men 20
England with the object Of comforting with the
Spanish Minister and trying to engage the
sympathy of the moneyed classes in their cause.
It is rumored that they will endeavor to nego-
tate loan of hundred million dollars, to be
offered to Spain as the price of Cuban indie
pendence.
The government at Madrid would no doubt
be delighted to get the money, but the pride
Of the Spanish nation renders impossible the
acceptance of such solution of the Cuban
question. This project may therefore be dis
missed as chimerical, though if common sense
could obtain in national councils it would
certainly be accepted. Failing in this, the
Cuban ambassadors will, in all proba-
bility, endeavor to play the role of
Messrs. Mason and Slidell but with
the experience Of the Confederate
loan before them, the chance of obtaining the
sinews Of war on the slight security the Cuban
insurgents can offer will be a very poor one
The chief hope Of the pacifcation of the island
would seem to rest on the liberal views enter
tanned by the Zorrilla Cabinet. If some COM.
promise could be effected by which the strug-
gle in Cuba would be brought to on end the
accession of the liberals to power would confer
not alone great benefit on Spain, but on the
cause of justice and humanity. Hitherto the
opinions of the bloodthirsty volunteers and
the slave-hclding Spanish colonists have had
too much influence at Madrid and if the new
government can only free itself from this evil
association and inaugurate ON era of recon-
Citation and justice we may hope to see peace
and prosperity restored to the distracted isle..
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LARAMIE, Wyoming rerritory,(
THE GEN FEVER IN SAN FRANCISCO.

SAN FRANCISCO, August 30, Is12
Three new diamond expeditions are being fitted
out. Captain Buckley who was sent out tothe mines
recently has returned with about quart OF rubies,
garnets and supposed diamonds. Tho managers
OF the San Francisco and New York Diamond Com
Lany deny ever having purchased any diamonds IN
London and say they will soon snow shat their dis
coverics are genuine.
party of twenty picked men, sworn to secrecy
and well armed. have been fitted out by the HaI.
pondinr- Roberts Company to start for the diamond
hel,is In Arizona, by the way Of Los Angeles, next
MOr.1av
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-31
WEST VIRGINIA ELEOIIoN.

WHITE SULPHUR SrRyras, w. Va,
August 30, 1872.
Jacobs majority has been reduced to a63. There
are eight counties to her from
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-31
THE DIAMOND DISCOVERY.

Arnold, of Laramie, Returns fsam Ari~
mona with s1g 200 Worth OF the Gems.
The Dinnaond Excitement ln Cali.
fOrnfa.
LARAMIE, Wyoming Territory,l
Aignsa 80 1872. 4
Arnold, the discovcrer of the diamond field rcl
turned this. morning from his deposit having la his
possession. aboat one hundred and seventy,lya
thousand dollars worth of gems.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-08-31
THE WEATHER.
WAR DEPARTMENT. \
OFFICE OF THE CHEF SIGNAL OFFICER,
WASHINGTON, ID. c., August 3l-1-A. VI.


OFFICE OF THE CHEF SIGNAL OrFrcER,
WASHINGTON, d. c., August 3l-lA. VI.
Synopsis for the Past T,penty.,our Hears.
The diminishing pressure on Thursday night over
Lake Ontario has moved southwestward over the
southern portion of.New England. Cloudy weather
and rain have prevailed from East Virginia to New
England and New, York and continue over the
northern portion Of the latter. Brisk northwest.
erly winds have prevailed over the lower lakes and
extending to the east and middle Atlantic coasts.
The barometer Is highest from Upper Michigan to
Tennessee. Tho temperature has fal1cn from Ten.
nessee to Lower Michigan anG eastward over tire,
New England andMiddleetates
PROBABILITIES.
Fresh toobrsk northerly to westerly Winds ai.s
minishipg ini force, and generally clear weather
prevail over the New England and, Middle States;
northery toR0rtiseasterly winds andgcnerally clear
weather for the South Atlantic Statcss winds veer-
ing to 9easterlyand soutlrerlS with generally clear
weather. from she Gulf to the Chic valley, and
thence to Michigan; diminishing pressure, easterly
to southerly winds and increasing CouilnesS from,
Missouri and Kansas to Lakes Superior and Niche
gan.
The Weather I'm this CITY reste rday..
The following record wiiEseSx tho changes Ia fhs
temperature for the past twcstyfour hours IN con-
parson with the corresponding day OF last year; as
indicated ny the thcrmomeasr at Hudrrt'ss fhar'
macy, HBAsALD ButldlnI.-
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Tho weather I'm this CITY Yesterday.

Avara9e temperature yesserday. ,..,. 07N
last year el3s
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BOOTHS THEATRE. Twentv.third street. corner Sixth
avenue.-THE BELLS; OR, The POLISH jew. Matinee
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GRAND OPERA HOUSE, Twcnty-thrd st. and Eighth
av.-Ro CARRorE. Matinee at l.
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WALLACK'S THEATRE. broadway and Thirtccnt
sreet-BLuE BEARD. Matinee 1t IL.
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OLYMPIC THEATRE. Broadway. between Houston and
Blocker sts.-DAvD GARKicK. Matinee at ..
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WOODS MUSEUM. Broadway corner Thirtieth st.
The OcToRooS. Afternoon and Evening
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BOwERy THEATRE. Bowery.-A TRIr TO WILLIAMS
BURG-SuIN FAME.
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BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC Montague ST.
TaE VoKEs FAmLY-BELLEs KITCHEN.
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THEATRE COMIQuE. 5iA Broadway. -EruIonrAN Ec-
CxNTRICTIEs, BURLKsouE DRAMA, &C. Matinee at 2.
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BRYANT'S OPERA HOUSE. Twcntythird ST. corner
eth av-NEGRo MINsrRELsY EccENrRiclTY, &C. Matinee
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nature than the United States with facilities
for internal communication by water, Mexico
has lakes of considerable size and few navi-
gable rivers. The Rio Grande, which marks
the boundary between her and Texas, furnishes
long line, which assured peace would make
busy with well freighted steamers. Only
security of permanent peace and civil order is
lacking to set at work enterprise and capital
sufficient to open the whole of this magnificent
domain to occupation and to build up among
the Cordilleras Of the Southern Republic towns
like Pittsburg, Cincinnati, ST. Louis and
Chicago. while her safe Ravens at Acapulco,
San Bias, Mazatlan and other points on the
Western coast might become the sites OF cities
which would rival San Francisco. Were the
political affairs OF our neighbor as stable as
our own her nexhaustible mines OF the
precious metals would soon be fully worked
and become the source Of wealth to individuals
and the State which cannot be overestimated.
With climate so tempting, such wealth OF
vegetable products, growing almost without
labor, soils which generously repay the toll OF
culture, only firm government is wanted to
allure to her q tide OF immigration from Eu-
rope and the United States which would
RAPIDLY dot her map with thriving villages
and change for the better the character of hel
nopulation. She wants good government
free. liberal institutions; ample protection t.
rerson and property Will she receive it o
the hands of Senior Lerdoa That is a question
/ which a few months will answer. 1t is nov
omen to many perplexing and saddenin
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WHITES ATHENEuM. $50 Broadway-Nrcno MIN.
Gr
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1872-07-03
Gin cbrli6er Wctbooif.

Der III plttsbur9 er'heinenre De
tbpoiit Gecprrer" liebt lebr Siel 0uteS
in rer fatbplii1en STRIDE unp ratbet feiz
men 2eiern, Tie mS6ten lid rie Gbrbarfeit
6rDmmisfeit unp rem Gifer Der pnbrea
unp d6ten Satbolifen gum Wuler unc
Sprbilp uebmer. Gr i6reibt:
Der fatbplii9e prieter tnrdnancert
feline Yfarrei unp er fennt feline 0eute.-
Gr Iprst fir bic @rmen NM bemibt Iid,
einen sriinrliden fatetetii6m llntcryibt
iiber pie 1ebren Der Stride III ertbeiIen.
Die Gorge fir bic &ranten UNI Seicenz
ben liet fr lit teIpnrers an9eleacn icirl.
Wp in Der @elt fam rer prpteltantisz
mus iplde bequeme nro ppblausacfots
tete Spttaler unp iyitematiI6e slrtrit in
uniern Stapten aufpeiien, ME Ter Rcz
maniSmus? Sft l6pn wurcen wty u
&ranfenbeiuden in tatbpl. SpitGler aes
rufer, penn eS bat tort jeper preci9cr
3utritt, trern ein prpteitantiider Yotient
ibn be9ebrt, unc percen BON ZEN Sorz
fteben nit mahrer driitli6rr SSFi0feit
empfanSen UNI fpnnten rprt fret uno UNI
9entrt cie Sibel %SprleIen unp nit ienen
Serlalenen reren UNI bster ,lnp cie ppnt
prcteitantismuS Yer9eiien INN Ycrra6S
ldil9t wercen. &ranfs bic ppn pielen
Samaritcrbdnren auf9rleisn rerren, bas
ben INNER bic freie Wabl itrer relt9iSs
fen 8atbseber telaiIen. Sreffen ie feline
WabL pcer fennt man ibrr 0eIGidte
ni1t rann miro Gin p~rieiter oerufen, INN
le ;u lnterriGten urr 81 irblten. 0tr
reren bier aus periSnliGer Grfabruna
UNI piirrrn mir anesr6 reren, 70 plrpen
mir uns elmer Sdnce iduIcio MAIDEN,
ric mir am 9rpben Weri6t5taoe pe.ants
mcrten miietet. g8ir faneen pnS NAM
lt6e Syltem in Yeribieprncn StSeten
une sieben es alien prptetantiIdcn Dor.
Der Npi1anisnlls mag Srpbe 6rbley b.
ben, aeer CT reib rie WnIIen III telebrcn
UNI 81 ruhrer, paS Splf an II6 IA siez
Ben UNI ~ baIten, nit zen Sinpcrn Sc
pllr ;u iitrn, paS ssmeiniame Sntereie
81! SfreIniSen unp pie llnslidli6en aufs
Suluden uni Slpar in elmer 90eile, ole
ben WenIGen UNI Gnseln sum @pblsez
fallen gerei1t. Soute Elm Wietboeiit
ter, spn Der Seimatb untcr Oicbe seraz
them eeraubt unp Serpuneet werpen, 70
lrllree er Sebn Wal cher Spn ~barmberiis
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1872-07-03

IberauS srpb iinp, unp er in @atrteit
Gin ,,Crux de cruce" 1T, Elm v8reus
Srcu;e", 1T CT sum Sdauipiele
fir ale SSlfer 9%etpprcen, 70 ras iein Nae
me, ME Ger ieinss Wteiiters Seilt, Spn uns
Satbplifen berurrert unp 9eprieIen rirr.
Surs ras ppntitcat pills IX. lit 10 srrb,
10 iesensrcid, 10 merfpiirpis ais rieppntis
iicate Sep's H. @respr's I. UNI Nifplaus
1. @rpB 1T CT in leinem Gtarafter,
in ieinem Sebrs, prieiterz UNI Sirtenams
te, srps in ieinen Seiren une Oran9z
fallen. 1abt uns i'm resbalb erbbben II.
ibm eincn Namen sebrn, Der i'm erbeti
iiber bic pdpite Ger Gcr;eit, laBt uns ibm
taS Yrarifat u@reb, magnus" beilescn.
Gs lete alip Der 0rpbe i'm Wunpe UNI
int Ssrssn auer &atbpliten GS lete
ale 3eit unc INNER
4apt plus Der @rpte.
Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1872-07-03
Der Airdbof.

Sdpn ieit rem dlteiten 3eitcn mar cs
Yrau6, CAP bic 9si6name Der @ldus
bisen nur an ebrpdrpiser, semeibter Stsls
le besraben wurpcn. Siersu mar risllmses
tung Der Stride Ger pal1snrite DIT, paber
cenn audi ras gSprt u8ir6bpf", unp 10
Nnpen mir cas sanse Wittelaltsr bins
eurd, RAP Der 0pttcsader, Stdrte unc
flcincre Srtibaften nitt auSgenpmmen
iid runeum bic STRIDE 900. Der neuerr
,3eit mar eS Sprbebalten, ZEN &irbbpf
aus Der Nabe Der 8ir6e ;u serpransen.
Sier in Nmerifa fam, bon ben Stdpten
nidt III ipre6tn, Der &irdbpf in 3anps
eemeinpen feline alte SteQe alS FOLDER
wieper einnsbmen. Wie bel Der @abl
rer Sauplage sur Stride carauf III ieben
1T, pa6 risiclbe an erbrbtem Srte sele7
gen Iei 10 lpa aud Der &irhtpf auf trpfs
fcnem, lei6t spn perGuft 81 beiirei9enrem
Grprei6e selesen icin. Yta6 Der 3abl
Der Observation-Disclosures berednrt, iei er
cher III srUB ais Su flsin, bsipncers bel
rem tieii9en eeringen Wertbe peS 0ans
ees unp Ger Ibnellen NnIIeplun9. Statt
Der Ssnsen rie leidt Spn 5birren niecsrs
eebrpden, pper Spr alter ;uIammenitirs
zen unp FER Serpiiitun9 NM PROCLAMATION
Sbiir unp 5bpr Dffnen, lei rerlelbe spn
elmer 6 SUP bpben Waurr NIT ben nSs
tbigen e"iiernen Sbpren, einSefabt. Nas
Spn Ger Sir@e fe~rnSebaIten perren ipll,
bleibe aud, fern pom Spfe Der Stride, Gem
@p.tesadsr: llnanitanpis 1T eS jceens
fails, 9ieb auf bsilisem 0runre mel
rem III laiien, Semitic &c. tort su ;iebrn.
SnnerbaIb psS 0pttsSader lei rim ebens
falls rur6 cine Wouer dbSri6ieeensr
play CUR S%ecroi9un9 rer un9etauften
Sinner.
Sn cer W(ittc res 6riectpfes pprr an
eilem ancern ralenren gum y. rem
bB6fen glaBe, I'm i6ifli6iten 9e9en
slbenp Seri6tet, wercr pas Seinbaus, in
6prm elmer Gapelle srbaut unc porin eas
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pieie Gapelle an einen Sere lebnen unp
pielelbe 2tBdiS MAIDEN, 70 1T per Srt
lebr aeeiSnet CUR Nufnabme per 3eibname
absetprbener 0eilli6en Ger @emeinbe.
Sann bic 0eneinpe bic Grri6tuns elmer
gapelle nitt betrsiben, rann ipll weri0s