Heat and Ventilation; general observations on the Atmosphere audits Abuses, as connected with the common or popular mode of heating public and private buildings, together with practical suggestions for the best mode of warming and ventilating. Rochester, D. M. Dewey, Arcade Hall. Believing, as we do, that the intemperance of breathing bad air, is a national curse in America, which is, at the present moment, hurrying a thousand-fold more victims annually to the grave, than any other species of intemperance, we hail with pleasure any symptoms of awakening attention to the condition in which so many millions of our countrymen voluntarily pass so large a part of their lives.

The work whose title we have just named, is an unpretending pamphlet of 59 pages, published by D. M. Dewey, at Rochester. It is mainly occupied with a very simple and clear statement of the necessity to the health of the human system, of pure air, and some system of ventilation in our dwelling houses. The wholesale system of poisoning men, women and children, daily going on all over the country, by tight coal stoves, and where-over one travels in cars and steamboats, by little "salamanders" of red-hot iron, and wherever one goes to a crowded lecture room or place of public amusement, by the continual heating over of the poisonous carbonic acid gas expired from the lungs - these are the topics which the author of this pamphlet, like ourselves, and others who have handled this subject, dwells upon, with wonder that intelligent beings can overlook their importance. If there is any " infernal machine" in America, it is a close stove that becomes red hot. We have preached from this text - (and we believe not without some effect, since we notice a stove-maker in Ohio advertises a ventilating stove, expressly intended to obviate the objections we have urged,) and we hope the press everywhere will take up the crusade, until this cursed invention to poison the pure air of heaven is utterly banished from the land.

We shall quote for the benefit of our readers, what the author of this pamphlet has to say about the matter:

'But when we reflect upon the fact, that throughout the whole country, as soon as fuel becomes a little scarce, the open fire place in any and every form, is pretty generally closed to give place to the stove; we meet an evil which has been growing upon us for the last quarter of a century to an alarming extent. It is, however, true that in large towns, particularly where coal is easily obtained, the open grate in the best class of houses is quite generally used. The business of stove-making in most of the large towns in this State and throughout the country, has become quite the leading branch of manufacturing. Any one who will take the trouble to visit such establishments in Albany, Troy, Utica, Syracuse, Seneca Falls, Rochester, Lockport, and Buffalo, will, if unacquainted with the business, be astonished by the number which are annually turned out from these various establishments. The infinite variety, the taste and skill displayed not only in their external appearance, but in their fuel-saving qualities, demonstrate that the demand must be almost unlimited.

The venerable Dr. Nott, of Union College, and Prof. Olmstbad, of New-Haven, and many other intelligent gentlemen, have devoted a great deal of time, labor, and practical philosophy to the invention of stoves which would give off the greatest amount of radiant heat with the least quantity of fuel. In this they hare been very successful, and, if warming a room in this form, were all that its inmates required, mankind would be under lasting obligations for the philanthropic efforts of these distinguished scholars. From the tenacity with which they have adhered to their several models, one would suppose they were entirely unconscious of the consequences of introducing such a fuel-saving apparatus into a close room without any means of ventilation. Although the Germans, Russians, and French formerly excelled us in their construction of stoves, we are probably quite equal to them at the present day. The poorer classes in Germany and Russia, probably make their houses much closer than ours, and axcecd our people in saving all the heat generated.

In Russia, the great mass of the population exclude the external air in cold weather as far as possible, and they much prefer to respire the vitiated air to any admission of cold air, for the simple purpose of improving the atmosphere of their rooms.

"Among the poorer classes, fainting or asphyxia is, by no means, uncommon, and all their rooms have that close, unhealthy smell which is so common among those who live in underground cellars in our own large towns and cities. With such an atmosphere as this and common as it is among the Russians, we need not wonder that Cholera remains among them during during winter, while in cold weather in other countries it ceases. Although many of the most scientific men of the present day-several of whom are of the medical profession - have depicted in the strongest language, the injurious and oftentimes fatal consequences of this mode of heating buildings; still very little attention is given to their warnings. Within the last two or three years, many of the most distinguished writers of the age have written volume after volume, upon the necessity and feasibility of ventilating our dwellings. The great mass even of intelligent and educated persons seem to be unaware of the disease, pestilence, and death) so often resulting from the use of what is called the " tight air-stove;" and the manufacturers of the article are making as many preparations for the continuance of the demand as though their wholesome qualities were as well established as the elegance of their various designs and patterns.

It is a very common thing for persons who are abundantly able to secure all the comforts of life even in profusion, and construct a dwelling-house in strict accordance with all the modern improvements in domestic architecture, to leave out entirely the fire-place, and in its stead have a small circular opening, six inches in diameter, to be closed perfectly tight during summer, and opened only in winter; to receive the smoke-pipe of a fuel-saving salamander, which shall admit no more air than is barely sufficient to support the combustion of the fuel. He will avail himself of the skill of the architect) to make all his windows and doors perfectly tight, and as the cold weather approaches, he will oftentimes invite his neighbors in to spend the evening socially, and at the same time demonstrate by the small amount of fuel which he uses, that he has the best stove and the warmest dwelling in town. Indeed, the whole company will soon testify to the fact that the room is really warm - so warm that they are inclined to leave early in the evening, and if the same persons should frequently visit similar establishments, they would soon come to the conclusion, that going out on evening visits is very unwholesome - a species of dissipation which ought to be abandoned.