The New York Herald Newspaper, April 11, 1842, Page 2

EW YORK HERALD. New York, Monday, April 11, 1842, New Acewr rox THe Haxaip in New Onteans.— We have appointed Messrs. Kettoce and Moxoax, our agents inthe city of New Orleans, until further motice. Curns, our former agent, has run away as defaulter, and we eall upon his honor, the old Judge Lynch of this Union, (not Judge Lynch of New York) to issue his Bench warrant, and catch and punish Curns wherever he may be found. We aleo ing the agency to forbid any agent of ours from any person whatever. No agent has a right to sell an agency without our consent VO THE PARK—TO THE PARK. THIS AFTERNOON AT SIX O'CLOCK. Patriots to your Posts, Let every honest citizen, native and naturalized, who has a wish to put down all the factions that have disgraced the country—destroyed its morals— corrupted its institutions—and paralyzed its Govern- meat for the last few years, meet in the Park this afternoon at six o'clock. Now is the time to break the shackles of the two corrupt factions, both locofocos avd whigs. The organization of the PATRIOTS has struck terror into the whigs, and has made them crazy and savage, as they exhibited themselves at the recent meetings in the Exchange, in National Hall, and es- pecially in Washington Hall, where they broke $200 worth of furniture. Now, the locofocos have taken the alarm at the succegs of the Patriot cause, and are attempting to prevent the PATRIOTS from meeting this after- noon in the Park to organize a new party, to cor- rect the morals of the age, and to give the federal adn on a fair support. Heed ni ne idle elamor of the locofoco or the whig printsto-day. They will try to persuade you that James Monroe has not accepted the nomina- tion of Me Now, Captain Monroe has accepted the nomina- tion—he means to accept it as Julius Cesar or Richard Ill. did, by a gentle and modest negative ~and thus the Patriots, with Cuances A. Custos as candidate for Governor, will now “ conquering and to conquer.” go forth Rouse, Patriots, rouse—organize in every ward. Be not airaid of elub-law. of °76, naced, but they fought the good fight, and won it Call to mind the times The Patriots of the revolution were so me- too. Go ahead. Whe Election—Great Revolution—The World upside down, We live in a wonderful age. Alexander the Great was a boy, and Julius Cesar a suckling, babe to the chaps of these days. New York is a won- derfu! city—her people are wenderful—her women wonderful—her politicians still more ,wonderful.— Here we are on the verge of an election, with five parties in the field—and_ the last begotten the most curious of all. There’s the democrats—here the whigs—the independeats—the abolitionists, and, though last not least, “them Patriots,” with Captain Monroe for their Candidate. In Washington Captain Tyler has headed off Harry Clay, and sent him home to raise rutabaga at Ashland—and in New York up comes the Patriots, through broken chairs and chandeliers, nominating Captain James Monroe, who will head off Mr. Mor- ris, and Mr. Phasmx, and Mr. Field, the famous Irish chieftain. Thomas O'Connor, King of Con naught, has already fled from the field; frighted for his “* childer” to the very death. Captain Monroe has accepted the chieftainship of the Patriots in one of the most original, curious, and Shakespearean documents of the day. It is a model of brevity, vir- tue, independence, sarcasm, wisdcm and states- manship. We shall publish in satin and gold as soon es the election shall have been completed. We live truly ina great age. In the confusion of parties—and in the midst of shocking scenes of demoralization, the spirit of reform has been infus- ed into the sons of men, and all at o1ce a new moyement—u GREAT AND GRAND PATRIOT MOVEMENT-—originates, and all the scoundrels of the age—all the sinners of the day repent, and will soon be forgiven. It is equal to the temperance movement at least. This birth of a new party, like every new revo- jution in geology, as Professor Lyell tells us, is marked with an eruption—an upheaval of the raw materials of the world. The parturition of the pa- trio's in Washington Hall was signalised by the fup- heaval of four chairs and one table—the subsidence of a beautiful chandelier—the breaking of any quan- tity of noses—besides an overflow of a decent quan- tity of respectable blood and thunder. These events were enough to give eclat to the birth of any party, out when we couple with thatthe general state of society—the want of some great : novelty—the temper of the times—nothing would seem to pre- vent the Patriots from becoming one of the mest prominent people of the day. Let it not be for- gotten, therefore, that the second GREAT MASS PATRIOTIC MEETING, ispeld at the Park, this afternoon, at five oclock, to five the unique and earious acceptance of ‘artain James Monnos, for the Mayonatry. A Parnior Parsiwent.—A man who seeks to ad- minister the government on the principles of morals, common sense, and high intelleet—without being the head or the tool of a party in Congress, Such is Captain Tyler, say the Patriots. We sup- port him because his measures are wise—but this does not necessarily commit us for the next Presi- dency. worrn —We are authorised by the Patriot Committee to contradict positively the the Wall street press, in their attempts Gre Gener slande: to connect Gleatworth with the glorious Patriot movement ntworth had nothing to do in the matt anc was sent out probably as a spy from the camp of the Pipe-layers. The Patriots will only aceept } table and honest men to their caus they say 0 Ware Birrenxess.—At many of the whig ward meetiag: vave been passed denouncin the Pr i ent, in the big test language of Mr. Clay, as a “weak, vacillating and faithless Chief Magis- trate.” The great mass of the people do not ap- ations } Prove such bitterness. Hence it is probable al! such persons wil! join the Patriots and « apport the Patriot movement—who have Cnanres A. Cuisron for next Governor, Tamer? Moxnor = Mayor. Tom Lro ORE Der arcations.— ‘Tom has 20 said he has st $2,000 or so same number of eggs in a ‘similar kind of basket Let us all be unhappy together. {seems that Packack Exrress to tie Wesr.—Pomeroy & Co. have extended their express line through to C! cago, and they have now, in connection with Raw: ley & Co., Harnden & Co., and Jacobs, the most | !*sislative chambers of the country: complete, direct, spe the country their hande, an highly important character, for even twenty-four and thirty-six hours in advance of the regular mail. Such an intercommunication is of incalculable bene fit to all connected in any way with the interior. —_____ We have frequently received, through Own Misisrenjro Mexico, Gen. Waddy Thomp- son, left New Orleans on the 30th ult. in the cutter Woodbury for Vera Cruz. aly diddled the corporation, but it is kk our friend Beach, of the Sun, fer | So Beach and myself have about the peedy, and safe.t package line in atelligenge from the north and west, of | by those who saw Vineyard kill Mr. Arndt, int! Tue Gaear Paraior Nionr—Nexr Govexxon —We advise the Patriots to put in nomination at their meeting to-night in the Park; the glorious neme of CHARLES A. CLINTON FOR GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK. This name, in conjunction with that of Captain Monroe for Mayor, would be a capital move. We learn that the Patriots are organizing in all the wards, and that their committees of vigilanee, of nomination, of every thing, will be filled up to day. ‘This organization is intended to be permanent. 1t will operate at the Charter elections to-morr ow—at the elections for School Commissioners in June— and also at the elections for Governor, and Con- gress in the autumn. The Patriots are determined toreform the world. Pvuxtic Scroors.—Mr. Maclay’s bill hasbeen pase- ed by both Houses,and is now a law beyond a doubt. ‘Lhe first election for School Commissioners takes place under it in June next This bill as it has passed the Legislature, sim- ply provides that Commissioners shall be elected by the several wards, to form a general Board of Education. They will be constituted in the same way as the Common Council now is. This organi- zution is precisely the same as it now is in some of the other large cities of the State. It gives the use of the public moneys to the representatives of the people, to he applied to the dissemination of a com- moun school education, in which the whole people are more interested than in any other subject. The bill expreesly provides that all the schools of the Pablie School Society, and the others which now participate in the fund, shall continue under the management of their present trustees, and shall con- tinue to receive their full portion of the echooi mo- neys. It will be seen, therefore, that the schools of tre Public School Society, are now firmly esta” blished on a permanent basis. They cannot be in- jured by this bill. The Common Council are au- thorised to raise a sufficient amount to supply all the demands necessary for the education of all the chil- dren of the city. But the Public School Society are not allowed to menopolise all the public moneys. If the Board of Education deem that more schools are re- quired in any particular neighborhood, they are au- thorised to sanction the erection of such schools.— The several Wards are each to elect five trustees; and they are to have the direction of any such new schools as may be organised urder the direction of the Board of Education. The public will thus perceive, that the features of the School Bill are simply these: It makes the num. ber of schools commensurate with the wants of edu- cation. It preserves all the usefulness ef the present pub- lie schools. It makes the system perfectly uniform, by pla- cing the whole under the direction of one general Board of Education. And it gives to the people themselves the direc- tion over the whole system, by means of their own agents. It is impossible to conceive of a plan better cal- culated to meet all objections, and to satisfy the rea- sonable demands of all who are interested in the question. Tue Parrot Creep.—Captain James Monroe, in his famous letter, to the= Patriot Committee, accept- ing the nomination of Mayor, says :— INEITHER APPROVE OR GONDEMN IN WHOLE THE ACTS OF THE PARSENT EXECUTIVE; NOR AM I WILLING YO BE IDENTIFIED AS ONE OF HIS PaARTIZANS. THe rusute MIND HAS BCEN TOO MUCH TAKEN UF FOR YEARS WITH MAN-WORSHIP, PARTY AND svors. It Is Now Time THAT THE GREAT INTERESTS OF THE COUNTRY SHOULD BE LOOK: ep 10. Ix THE PROMOTION OF'THI8 onsECT I AM READY TO LEND MY FEEDLE AID WITHOUT REGARD TO PARTY OR MEN— SHORT OF THIS I HAVE No ORJECT 70 ANSWER. This is the creed of the truc “patriot”—the honest American “patriot”—without regard to parties, cliques, spoils, or humbug of any kind. Its doc- trines preserve the natural independence of man in the most beautiful light. In the whole range of classical literature, there is no passage more simply and beautifully conceived—containing so much wis- dom in so smalla compass—so much political phi- lanthropy in so few aad simple words. Plato, He- rodotus, Aristotle, Seneca, or Plutarch, among the ancients—Bacon, Machiavelli, Bolingbroke;or Burke among the moderns, never threw off a finer para- graph in such simple, energetic and classical Jan- guage. Hurra for Captain Monroe ! the chief of the Patriots i Banxavrtcy.—In Indiana ninety-nine petitions have been filed, and 43 bankrupts declared. In Alabama up to the 23d ult. 41 applications had been entered. Licut in Ruope Istaxp.—The suffrage people of little Rhody seem determined to carry their consti- tution through. They have nominated candidates forall the state offices from Gevernor to Sheriff, and have headed their ticket—-‘‘ Constitutional and State Rights Ticket.” The election is to be held on the 18th, instant, and then we ehall probably see wouble. Movements or Boz.—Charles Dickens and lady arrived at Ciacinnati on th i Laxporp’s Mutuar Benrvocent Assoctation.— In another column will be found the proceedings of this Benevolent Association, eetting forth certain grievances that call for the immediate action of the Legislature. We shall refer tothe subject again in Tuesday’s paper. Saiine or te Ixperenpence.—The packet ship Independence, Captain Heldredge, sailed yesterday morning for Liverpool. The morning was bright end beautiful. Washington Irving, our new Minis- ter to Spain, is among her passengers. Heatrn or Wasnixeron Crry —There were 34 deaths in the Capitol in the month of March. Tue Sev. are neglecting the interest of the country. The army and navy returns for promotions are not acted upon, notwithstanding the crying wants of the public service, and especially in the navy. Disappointment and discontent, added to the troubles meident to want of pay, is enough to disgust all officers connected with the public de- fence. The peeple see it, and are chagrined and vexed. From one end of the country to the other— everywhere we see evidence of indignation in the people at the supineness and inaction of the legisla- ture. How lon, be permitted to es must this deplorable state of things it Rerorm. | Saypusey Harpor.—Capt. Keapp, of the Rey- | enue cutter, informs the editor of the Sandusky | Clarion, that he’ has examined the bar at that bar- | bor, and finds nine feet of waier. The outer buoy stands in eleven feet water; the second buoy in | nine feet, and on the bar. Masters of vessels will | keep the baoys on the starboard hand, and as cl | to them as possible, to have the best water. | Court rox THe Conneer 9=—M or Ennoxs.—April Justiee Cowen delivered an opinion ad- | Yerse to the motion for the dismissal of the appeal | in the case of Walton ys be 6 made on Tuesday | by N. Hill, yr. ~ of cowasel for the respondents Vhe Court denied the motion, with costs. Ad- journed to the City Hall ie the' oes Ji Saturday ti fallin the city of New Yor, Tur Wiscoxsix Tascepy.— runs high in the Territory of Wins tion to the murder of ©. C, p, | lative Hall of the Territory held in different counties ( ing the practice of secret f Wisconsin, denoune- ly beating arms in the Mu We have ulsion of James R e bloody deed, and ter this ex; seen an account of the ex; Vineyard, the perpetrator of t are amazed to hear, that aj presence of his aged father who was on see his son, little dreaming that he was to witn his murder, that Judge Dunn has discharged V yard on bail, The Miner’s Free Press spea terms of merited rebuke at the outrage feelings of the people of Wisconsin. Vine: within arm’s length of Mr. Arndt wi sueh deadly aim at him, that he Vineyard ig at pleasure, bei only wounded him, but he chose to Tae Laresr Deravcation.—The most recent de- faleation since Tom Lloyd's, ig ia New Odeaus.— Curns, the periodical agent, has jast run away, as appears by the followirg from the New Orleans Advertizer :— Cunss Youn: —It is with unspeakable griefthat we have to record the sudden absence of Curns, the great Literary financier. He has followed in the footstep: his illustrious predecessor, Edward Yorke, Esq. A! for the literary world, that so horrible » fate should have efallen it; but ‘tis as it is, and it can’t be no ‘ciser.” It wouldseem, from what we can hear, that Mr. Curzs has been making money by the bushel, that his late partner sold out his share for $1700, payable in seven notes of $106 each, and one note of $1000, that a Mr, Mor gan purchased én interest in the concern for some $700 Cash, that one of the $100 notes fell due, and was not paid. Previous, however, to this denouement, Mr. C. had wen raking together all the funds he could possibly get, and suddenly, one morning or evening, it is not known, he Yorked, [Swartwouted.] | It i that he has car- sied off some $16,000. Mr. Morgan sued out a writ of at- tachment, and yesterday morning the doors of the Tem- ple of Janus were closed. We not heard how much the New York Herald and other literary concerns atthe North have been taken in for—they will, per- haps, be able to tell, when they come to read this very in- teresting article. The following lines were found yes- terday, near the Temple of Literature—said to be com- posed by Curns himself, and left as a memento of his glo- rious career :— ‘Edward Yorke and John F. Curns, Twoworthy brothers they: Place their namee upon their urns— ‘Twill :ell their earthly sway.” This elegant concern has taken us in for nearly ¢1000—but we richly deserve it. Qut of easiness of temper, and kindness of disposition, we departed from our’ established rule, and gave Curns a little credit—and we justly merit our loss for ever violating ithe cach principles on which we started the Herald. Hereafter every agent of the Herald, throughout the country, will please to take notice, that if they are not invariably one week in advance with their funds we shall dismiss them, and appoint such agents as will obey the wholesome system of cash invariably in advance. Oar new agents in New Orleans are Meeers. Keioce & Moncan, and in all their trans- actions withthecrald they will please to notice this rule. The case of Curns is peculiar. The first thing that led to the fellow’s prosperity was the agency of the Herald. He sold from 500 to 1000 copies of each number of the Herald—and his profits wer? about 200 per cent, cashdown. Oa the Herald alone the fellow could have made $2000 to $3000 per annum. After ‘establishing his business on the Herald, he became ‘the agent for other publishers here, and has probably taken them in more or less. We have fost nearly $10€0, but after all we do not regret it.— We can easily afford it—besidee, we deserve it. To trust any man with $1000, who lives in a city where the banks have behaved as theydoin New Orleans, is silly in the extreme. During the last few months, about six or seven bank officers have absconded from that city, defaulters to various large amounts. How could the poor rascal, Curns, escape the con- tagion of such uoralst It is said he carried off $20,000 in gold; and that he hasgone tu Texas, or to Canada. If the fellow is found in Texas, we trust that General Houston will put him into the front ranks, in his march upon Mexico; and if he will only pay over $1000 tothe cause, we will for- give the rascal, and give hima receipt in full. If he should have gone to Canada, he shall be caught and punished. City Intelligence. Nominations ror ALDERME® AND tants.—The following are the names of the gentlemen nominated as candidates for these offices by the Democratic and Whig partie First Wanv—Waig—Calvin Balis, for Alderman, ani Harman C. Westervelt, for Assistant. The Democrats have made no nomination. Srconv Wanv—Whig—Caleb 8. Weodhull, for Alder- man, and George F. Nesbit, for Assistant. The Demo- crats have made no nomination inthis ward. Tump Warp—Whig—John A, Underwood, for Alder, man, George W. Conklin, for Assistant. There 1s ano. ther ticket running by the Whigs in this ward with the name of Wm. Dodge, for Assistant, and also two Whig candidates for Collector. The Democratic nomination is Samuel 8. Parker for Alderman, and Clement Guion» for Assistant. Fourtn Waro—Whig—Richerd 8. Williams, for Al derman, and Alfred Ashfield, for Assistant. Democratic —Robert Martin for Alderman,and David J. Williams,foy Assistant. Firrn Warn—Whig—Robert Jones, for Alderman,and William Adems, for Assistant. Democratic—Brigham Howe, tor Alderman, and James B. Nicholson, for Assis- tant. Sixta Wanv—Jhig—Clarkson Crolius. for Alderman, and Richard H. Atwell, for Assistant. There are four candidates in the fieldon the Democratic side, viz: William Shaler, John Emmons, Shivers Parker and James Ferris. The probality is that all but Shaler wil) withdraw. SrventH Wanvo—Democratic—Charles W. Smith, for Alderman, and James Nash, for Assistant. FAig—Wil- liam D. Murphy, for Alderman, and Henry A. Hurlbutt, for Assistant. % E1routH Wanp—Democratic—David Vandervoort. for Alderman, Charles P. Brown, for Assistant. J¥/hig—Syl° vanue 8. Gedney, for Alderman, and William H. Sweet for Assistant. Nintu Waav—Democratie—Moses G. Leonard, for Al- derman, and William D. Waterman, for Assistant. Whig —Stephen Patten, for Alderman, and Dr. Alexander W- Gunn, for Assistant. TaxtH Warv—Democratie—Elijah F. Purdy, for Alder” man,and Daniel Ward, for Assistant. Whig—Peter 8, Titus, for Alderman, and George Eichell, for Assistant. Exeventn Wanp—Democratic—Abraham Hatfield, for Alderman, and Cherles J. Dodge, for Assistant. 1¥hig— Jonathan Rider, for Alderman, and John McGowan, for Assistant. Trecrr Wanv—Democratie—Henry Breevoort, for Alderman, and Norman Hickok, for Assistant. Dr. Wil liams and Samuel F. Osgood have withdrawn from the canvass. Whig—Richard F. Carman, for Alderman, and George W. Allerton, for Assistant. Tuiateests Waro—Democratic—Hezekiah W. Bon. nell, for Alderman, and Peter Esquirol, for Assistant Whig—Thomas Kennedy, for Alderman, and Dr. Alired W. White, for Assistant. Fourtexnta Wanp—Demooratic—Edward 8. Innes, for Alderman, and Robert Barkley, for Assistant. Abraham B. Davis, and James M. Miller, have withdrawn from the eanvess. Whig—John, Stewart, for’Alderman, and John B. Scoles,for Assistant. Firreenta Wann—Whig—Henry E. Davis, for Alder” man, and William V. Brady, for Assistant. Democratic— James Zeiss, for Alderman, and John E. Ross, for Assis” ant. SixteestH Wann—Democratic—Edmund G. Rawson: for Alderman, and David 8. Jackson, for Assistant Whig—Edward D. West, for Alderman, and Walter Mead’ for Assistant. x Seventeentn Warn—Democratic—Frederick R. Lee» for Alderman, and John Pettigrew, for Assistant. Whig— Jacob Acker, for Alderman, and William Phillips, for Assistant. The ticket nominated in several of the wards by the “Independent Democrats,” bave nearly all been with" drawn since the news of the passage of the School Bill. A Mover's Nest-—While Messrs, Monrnvand Kear Ney Were renovating the new establishment taken by them at the second door from the corner of Frankfort street, in Chatham, a few days ‘since, and which they have christened “ The Fourth Ward House,” emong the oldrubbish in the corner of the building, was disco- vered @ mouse’s nest, with three hairless young ones, enclosed in bank notes, amounting to $200,000. The boy who made the discovery thought he had found a prize, but upon examination, the notes proved to be from the plate of Jacob Barker's old Marble Bank, and without hissignature. The notes were of $10,000 each. How the mice became possessed them is best known to thore who formerly resided on the premises. Pouser.—The offices of the police were a terday as any Sunday officer could desire. Nothing de- iug but stagnation. ani nothing stirring but dust. The Coroner was undisturbed, and his deputy lies flat on his back with inflammatory fever. Cuatnam Turatne.—This evening is for the benefit of Mr. Rice, for which occasion a great treat has been prepared, as will be seen by a reference to the bills. Mr. W. Wood, the pantomimist, makes his second appearance. Notwithstanding the indis- position of the worthy manager, the performances lack nothing of that interest which his tact and en- etgy contributes to impart to them. Iscrpexts or Emioration.—A short time since a little child, the only remaining offspring of a western emigrant, wandered away from ite home on Heory Prairie, Ill, until bewildered and lost About a week afterward it was found dead under a rove of trees six miles from home. quiet yes: Professor Eycll's Kighth Last Lecture on Geology—Glacters and Icebergs. Gracrens.—Mr. Lrext commenced this lecture by referring to the enormous quantities of boulders, and large rounded masses of the oldest and other rocks, that were to be found in various parts of the world; many of themin such enormous quantities asto form apparently a distinct strata, but mostly unstratified, as the newer rocks always are; and yet these great beds of boulders would be fouud resting on the top of some very modern formation, and sometimes mixed up with shells similar to those found now existing in some of our seas and lakes. Some of these shells are braekish; as though the sea had, by high winds, been forced into the fresh water in which they existed, and made them brackish. We had only to suppose, in order to see how this was done, that the sea of the Northern Ocean, by high winds should be forced dowm the Cattegat, far into the Baltic, so as to dam back the vast body of fresh water that is constantly poured into the Baltic; tee shells would become brackish; them to suppose that in winter,when the'Baltic was frozen up,masses o rocks should crack and fall down from the rocks situated atthe extremity of the Baltic, and all along its shores ; when the ice began to break up and float down toward the main ocean in the spring, many of these large fragments of rock would be carried down on the floating ice for miles and miles; the ice- bergs crushing and grinding against the shores, as it went down, would rub off the edges and angles of these fragments; carry them all down towards the ovean with them, and then, when the ice melted, these large masses of rocks would all drop to the bottom of the sea, and form an enormous unstratified bed of boulders. Then we have to suppose the bed of the Baliic heaved up aa high as the tops of some of our hills, and we should have precisely the same appearances and state of things which we now fiad in many parts of the world. Daye Mr. Lyect went on to state that in this way only could the appearances, at present to be found on the shores and islands of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, be accounted for; particularly the curious nature of the beds of boulders found on the sea beach opposite where the Flower-pot rocke are seen in the St. Law- rence Guif. In this beach we find chells that have lived in @ much colder climate ; and yet this boul- der formation is of very recent origin. The shells in them are nearly all the same as those now living. In fact, there is very little doubt that the deposition of thege erratic strata commenced just before that era which has been termed the post-pliocence pe- riod ; and that it went on through part of that period. We have now to account for these masses of rocks being brought over numerous lakes and rivers, hills and valleya, many miles from their parent rocks, ur- stratified, as they are, and almost all of them non- fossilliferous. E 4 Mr. Lyert remarked here, that in speaking of glaciers and icebergs, it must be borne in mied that im the extreme north, and in many low latitudes, above 6000 feet high, the snow never melts. The snow forms on the summit and the sides of the Alps; when it accumulates to a great extent, it de- scends by jita own gravity, and covers fields and valleys for fifteen miles im length; it melts by day in summer, and freezes by night, and thus gets consolidated. It is pushed dows from the mountains, two miles nigh, to plains that ere only 8000 feet high above the level of the sea. Here it forms those enormous glaciers, which we see all over Switzerland. The snow will accumulate many hundred feet in thickness, but the average thickness is about 120 feet ; when the valiey gets chocked up, the glacier is shoved and driven forward by other reat descending masses of frozen snow behind, and Riact along with it the large boulders and masses of rock that had been torn from the sides of the mountains, and hurled down into the valley by the frost and falling snow and ice. These glaciers will fill a valley two or three miles wide, and several miles long; and are trequently ehoved along in summer by the melting caused by the heat of the sun, at the rate of an inch to three inches an hour. In these valieys a large ridge of these enormous boulders and rocks will be formed, caused by the masses of snow descending frem the mountaios on eachside of the valley, carrying before them the fragments of rocks, unul both masses meet in the middle and form these great ridges which we fiad 1n the valley of the Aar, in the Bernese Alps; where are also seen several smaller parallel ridges caused by the descent of snow several miles farther up the valley, and ‘by which the whole mass is pushed and shoved along, grinding off the edges and angles of the rocks, until they are nearly round. {Here Mr. Lyell pointed to a map of the great Glacier of the Aar in the Bernese Alps, with the mountains of the Fainsterra and Li on each side.] The musses of snow come down RS catring these immense morays, or masses of rock, before them. In the hot summer’s days you may see these icy rivers moving along an iach or more an hour; and the ice cracking and rending witha noise like thunder. These glaciers, at their termi- nation where the valley 18 only two or three hundred feet wide, and in a beautiful arch where the water rushes out in magnificent cascades forming the sources of rivers. In very cold summers these glaciers will move back, and sometimes go back half a mile inone summer; and then you can see at the bottom of the part deserted what has taken place ; the quartz pebbles has polished and scratched the limestone underneath and ploughed deep fire rowsinit. In this way we can see how large pieces of rocks get rounded ; the ice possesses great grind- ing properties, and grinds off the angles. To prove that the ice does this without water, we find the same phenomena of rounded masses, thousands of feet below the level of perpetual snow, where there isno water. A hut was built in 1837, in the me- dial moray of the Great Glacier of the Aer; nine years afterwards, in 1836, it was found to be perfect- ly uninjured, but had moved along 2200 feet! In four years afterwards in 1840, it was found to have moved 4500 feet down the valley, travelling at the rate offsixteen inches a day. And ail thistravelling isdoneinsummer. Between the eleventh and fit- teenth centuries, the glaciers were much less ad- vanced than they are now. They retreated then. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, they advanced. In Chili in latitude 46, the same latitude as the Bernese Alps, these glaciers will come down from the mountainsand descend entirely to the sea. And the Andes here are only 7000 feet high, er half the height of the Alps. The reason of these is that the summer heat is less intenee im Chili than in Switzerland. In Europe we must go as high up as’ 67 north | de before we see aglecier de scent to the sea; and yet in Chili, in latitude 46, these glaciers go to the sea, and there form icebergs —and it may be said that there is a very large manufactory of icebergs going on all the yeur round. Mr. Lyell then went back to the Swiss glaciers, which, he said, after retreating for two or three or more cold summers would leave large tracts of land and rocks tormed by their deserted morays; these would soon be covered with huts and vegeta tions and trees. Then some hot summer the gla- cier would advance again, and shove several mo- rays into One, crush in the sides of the huts and tear up the trees of many years growth, with a very slow motion ; then retreat again ; and trees would again grow and the huts be rebuil’; Mr. Let observed that these unstratified boulder formations could not have been deposited by water ; because water has an assorting power; separates small stones from large and sand and mud from both, and deposit the whole in a stratified form; water carries all the smaller materials much farther than the larger. But ice carries small and large ail along together; and these Alpine moray deposits, seen after they have been left by the retreat of a glacier back op the valley, exactly resemble the great boulder formations. ‘These boulders in this country, seen on Long Island, in the valley of the Connecticut, and elsewhere, are rounded on three sides and flattened at the bottom, and the limestone beneath is polished, and dug into furrows—paralle! rows scooped out. Now in water, pebbles by at- trition are rounded all over and do not dig furrows bat rock beat eit cmeencs.—Mr. Lyets concluded by saying that icebergs after they were formed on the ies mens from glaciers with enormous masses of rock upon their surface, or imbedded in them, would carry large fregments along in the same way that the gla- ciers do. He said that he saw an iceberg in crossing the Atlantic in 1841, with 100,000 tons of rock upon it. In 1889 an ieeberg was seen in the South ‘Atlan tic Ocean 150® miles from any known land, with a mass cf rock on it twelve feet thick. Now as that iceberg ascended into warm latitudes and melted, the mass of rock would fall to the bottom of the ocean, (And so with thousands and thousands of other masses, off rocks, and boulders brought from the elder rocks in all parta of the world, and drop ed to the bottom of the ocean.) And then if the bot- tom of the ocean was to be heaved up, we should find this mass of rock lying there, 1300 railes trem its parent rock, carried in this way over hills, and rivers and valleys and chasms, and perhaps deposited on a bed of the newest limestone or sand formation. We also find masses of stranded icebergs in various pace fu!l of rocks that have been brought many andred miles on them. rates Mr. Lyext then went on to show that in this way, we might account for finding enormous masses ot the talcose granite of the Bernese Alps, now resting on every part of the limestone of Mount Jura; one mass of gneiss on the Jura limestone was forty feet ia diameter. All these red blocks must have crossed the great valley of Switzerland in this part which is fifty miles wide. They are found at all heights on the Jura, and in some of the Lake of Geneva. Mr. Lyell embraces the hypothesis of a sea or lake filling this valley at one time, when the Alps were about halt the height they now are. The Alps then sent down their glaciers to the sea, bringing aud car- ing down the blocks of gneisz and latcose granite, Mecwy some to the botism of this arm of the anto the Swiss valley where they are now found, ai landing the rest also on the Jugs limestone. The same t is now going on, on 3 opposite the isle Chiloe + the arm of miles wide between Chiloe and Chil come down with masses of the And sea; here icebergs ere formed, which ane. these rocks across jele of Chilve, and sirand them at various heights, after drepping some of them to the bottom of the cea. Now we have only to suppose an upheaval of the Andes to the height of the Ber- nese of Alps, and of the isle of Chiloe to the height of the Jura, and :he intervening arm of the sea, which is about 2000 feet deep, laid dry, we should have precisely the same puzzling appearances, that we have now upon the Jura, as to how these blocks of granite and sienite were dispersed on the Chiloan chain of hills. .Mr. Lyexu finished the course ef lectures by a slight reference to Long Island, which he said w: almost entirely made up of the boulder formation ; the blocks at this end of the island were from the palisades; there in the centre of the island were evi- dently from the valley cf the Connecticut ; and those on the island opposite New Haven, were of the trap rock class, similar to that rock in situat New Haven. All these rocks might have been carried thither by icebergs when ene Island was submerged, or by drifting coast ice afterwards, This drifung coast ice frequently carries the blocks that fall down from hills on the coast to a distance of seven hundred miles. To judge of the weight of rock these ice- bergs will carry, we must remember that icebergs are often two hundred feet high, and many miles in circumference ; and that for every cubic foot of ice above water there are eight cubic feet below water. And in the North Seas, whole masses of coast have been formed by the Soe OS DaE by this drifting coast ice ; come of which is sufficient to meve ail the buildings in the city of New York? | In taking his leave, Mr. Lyeve said this was the last lecture he should deliver in the United States; he should now resume his geological tour west and north; and the welcome and kindness he had met from Lake Erie to the Savannah River, had made him forget that he was in a foreign laud. ‘Texas, [Correspondence of the Herald.] Basrror, March 10:h, 1842. Dear Baorner:— Ihasten to give you some particulars concerning our present situation. We are in a state of war. On Sunday last information reached this place that a Mexican army was within six miles of San An- tonio. The next morning news reached us of the taking of that place under the following cireum- stances. About eight hundred Mexican cavalry surrounded the town, and sent ina white flag to capitulate for the surrender of the eity, which was done in this way . The Texians, 75 in number, the whole force of the town, and fami lowed to march out of town with their arms, and all property they wished to take, which they did. They also destroyed 300 kegs powder, by break- ing the kegs, and throwing it in the river; they also brought off some cannon, The Mexicans said, ali who wished to remain and attend to their busi- ness, and submit to the Mexiean authorities, should be protected: one or two merchants did so. This conduct on the part of the Mexicans created a great deal of wonder among Texians. The commander who took Sam Antonie, says they are the advanced guard of a large invading army, which is generally credited. The number is stated, by different sources, from 15,000 to 50,000 men. Since San Antonio was taken, our spies have been on their back trail to the Nenaus River, and ean make no discoveries of more troops. A call has been made by the Secretary of War for troops from the dif. ferent divisions to concentrate at the city of Aus- tin, which call is more promptly obeyed than was everdene inany other country. As the express travels, they turn out by counties All the men west of this river is underarms. Bastrop county, which gave 350 votes at the last election, has sent upwards of 300 mounted men to Aus’ Fayille has done as much; Gonzalesmore, Austin county convened at San Felipe, and have left ene man home to take charge of two families, and send the rest tothe army. In fact, so far as I nave learned, there isa general turn out of the whole force of the country. re all leaving Austin, and all the this county have been recommended to ack up and hold themselves in readiness to leave for the Ses biel has been , At home we we areall ready; our geods pac! and wagon and team seniys, 7 t This you must believe isa serioustime. We the whole community, have very little money, an many not a dollar. 1 have some hope that if it should be a regular invasion, that they will tarry at San Antonio to fortify until we can raise to stop them west of this river. But if their forces are from 20 to 40,000, it will take some thousands to stop them. $ I shall remain in this place until the force of the certained. If we have to leave, I shall aly in good company, and then go to the army and see them out. Let their force be what it may, they cannot take Texas They may injure this part of this country, but they’il be the worst whipped set you ever heard of. I believe, with all their present pretended cle- mency, that when we get the bk hand, that no merey will be shown them. Every jnformation frorn San Antonio, say that they admit any person to pass in or out of town at pleasure—and manly go and return, Strange conduct this for Mexi One of our spies have just this moment come in, and says they are re-buildingfthe Alama with 750 men, and expect 500 more ina day or two, which is allthe Mexican force we can possibly hear of. Our spies say three hundred men fr m Guadaloupe, and two hundred others will certainly attack them to-morrow; and there is no doubt as to the result, unless there should be an unknown force near. The people believe this to be the commencement of an inv: at act accordingly. The Mexicans believe we are dissatisfied wit] our go- vernment, and they think if good terms are offered we will join in whole or in part; but they are sad- ly mistaken—to a man we’ll fight, conquer, or and any man who will dare to remain, and take Protection from Mexicans, will be certainly shot. ‘he above is all the important intelligence that has transpired to this date, end if you hear more or worse rumors compare dates, and if later you may give credit—if not—not Superior Court. Before Chief Justice Jones. Ogden, Waddington § Co. vs. Themas I. Le the 30th’ March, 1839, the house of L et. —On ett, it Frame, purchated of plaintilfi two billet exchange for £500 each, payable in fifteen days. The next day Mr. Frame sold one of the bills in Wall street, and the subsequent day, the other. A knowledge of the tion having come to Mr. Ogden’s ears, he was alarmed, and called upom Frame, who offered to give him collate: ralsecurity, and handed him two notes endorsed by de. fendant for the amount, one of which is now in suit. ‘The house of L. W. & F. stopped on the 3d April, having had the misfortune, previously, it was stated on the trial, to overdraw at four banks where they had been in the habit ef keeping accounts, but which Les since been settled. Mr. Leggett refused to pay the notes when due en the ground that the endorsement in possession of Leg- gett, Wooster '& {Frame for a special purpose, and that rame parting with it fer a preceding debe wea aii plication of the endorsement, and hence th tion, It was remarked on thi withdrew from active business in the house in 1894, but still continued to endorse for it. In 1837 he was on its paper to the amount of $100,000, but, on the 30th Mai hy 1889, had reduced the sum to $35,000. The endorsements, he contends, were given to renew notes in bank then be- coming due. The fury retired about two o’clock on Fri- day, remained in session all night, and, after being to- gether for twenty hours, returned into court on Saturday morning with a declaration that they could not agree. The Chief Jastice expressed a disposition for remandin them, but was assured that it would be of no avail, ai , were discharged. ‘or plaintiffs, Messrs. Griffin end Cutting. Messrs. Lord, Girard and Wetmore for defendant. Clreult Court. Before Judge Kent. George W. Shields vs. James S, Wyckoff, H. C. Rossiter, Griffith P. Grifith & Co, John M Griffith and John A. Lat: iner.—This was an action to recover $2,250, being the amount of a draft drawn by H. C. Rossiter, ef Troy, on James §. Wyckoff, of this city,and accepted by him. — ‘The defendants contest payment on the ground of usury. It appears that Mr. Latimer, who is not a party to the de. fence, discounted the draft, charging 6 per cent interest, and } per cent in addition, for brokerage or shaving. “~ e present ac- trial that Mr. Leggett For this } ent, amounting to $11 and a few cents, the whole dra! jeopardized, this sum constitating the groundof u he plaintiff received the notein pay. ment for a bill of goods. There was doubt as to whether thedrafthad been an accommodation one or otherwise. The jury found a verdict in favor of plaiatiff for the amount of the dra and interest. ‘or plaintiff, Messrs. R. H. Bowne and H.B. Cowles. For defendant, Mr. Hoimes Wales: ‘The Circuit Court then adjourned sine die. District Court of the United States, Before Judge Betts. Arnit 9.—Several petitions passed to decree —Ovjections were filed to those of William Lewis Booth and Alonzo P. Smith. The objections to petition of Senter M. Giddings were withdrawn, and it passed to decree. Argument was presented by Mesers. Evarts and J. Prescott Hall, in the caee of Henry Kneeland—after which the Court adjourned. U. §. Marshal's Office. 1. 9.—Seth Merrill, a seaman 3. ‘board the schoon- complained of the mate, James 8. Bennett, for ing him with a dangerous weapon while lying at vez in March last, Bennett was held to bail. ~~ ey POSTSCRIPT. For our usual Southern Correspondence, bylthcs mormang’e Mal see Younsh paenaenet Wn Commissioner’s Court. Before Messrs. Jones, MeBrair and Cox, Commis- 9.—R. L. St ‘etal Arai 9.— (wart an; lex. Stuart vs. oA; - art.—This was a charge of lunacy brought by vealed egainst their mother, sllusion to whic! been made, in our columns, and which termine. ted on Friday evening. Many witnesses were: ex. amined both in support and disprovel of the charge, Mrs. Stuart was represented by severel witness. es not only to be an exceedingly active and ca. pable woman, but to have Been a good mother, by whose indi and care not only her husband was enabled to handsome e: , whieh she add ons placed in 8 r own right, of a large a which sed, by ber ,ood management, to gtow, even to the present hour. ir sens were miners when their father died about fifteen years since,and she was executrix to the estate. Ontheir becoming of age they qualified as execut On behalfofthe prosecution it was shown that Mrs. 8. is unexceptionable as to mind and and her have been alluded to within a year or two past, she has become excited, declaring that the latter have re- fused to settle with her as executria (which did not ap- peed sate ateat) and sccused several itlemen of aving united in callusion to prevent her ol her rights Mrs Stuart left the house oce by her son (the stand where she had successfully d for se @period) about two years ago, and went te board, de- claring to Mrs. Thompson, alady of her acquaintance, that she thought she was not weleome there. Many witnesses testified to the good c! cter of Mrs Stuart. One of them, a highly respectable gentleman, declared ving been intimately acquainted with her and her faraily for thirty years, and for the last fifteen years a w member of the Mu: Auley’s) and of th He wasat her ho it the cor wich streets one evening previous to her leaving, when some words took place between ker and her son Alex- ander, when the latter spoke to her ina manner that surprised and shocked him—Alexander said, other things “Ma, if you do not hold your tongue, I put you in the asylum,” or words to that effect. She wrote to hersons that if they did not settle with her she would get married and have some one to protect her, at the same time informing a lady that she ut so only for the purpose of scaring them ond making them do ‘ent. Hints were thrown out that she intended to be married to Mr. Robert Swartwout (brother of the Collector,who, from his jolly warm appearance, by the way, would be no mean companion of acold night.) He had been in- troduced to her, it appears, during the ho! Stuart laughed ’at the idea of marrying. swered the badinage of a female fri by she had two sons of her own, who had given cient trouble,- and she hed no idea of marrying — Mr. Swartwout, who had six sons, whereby her trou- bles would be increased. Soon after this letter, however, the present action was commenced. The rulelaiddown by the chief commissioner, on the trial, was, that coun- sel should not address the jury, but that the law on the subject might be stated to the Court. Messrs. Griffin, Strong, and Bidwell appeared on behalf of the defendant, and Mr. Sheftelin for the prosecution.—In presenting the case, Mr. Griffin stated that the law did not contemplate punishment, even in cases of lunacy, but it sought to pro- tect the party, rendered helpless by affliction, and throw the same sort of shield around it that a parent would to achild—its intention was to take into its pessession the person and property of the party with a single that party’s good, and not, by entering cruel procs against persons for lunacy, disgrace and impovi them, and drive them to that very insanity, and com! them ’to a madhouse, under pretence of d |. The he said,savored more of the despot 1g aw ey the liberty and property of the victim under pretence of protection. }. Stuart has been shown, not only es of sound mind, but, after having made her property with her own hands, care of her sons, and increased that property up to the esent hour. There has not been a shade of evidence ut to that effect. Are these Exe then, in re- ard to her, correct 7 She is shown to be a mem- r of the community injuring no person, taking care of here'f and her estate, and the only thing elle ainst her, is that she labors under a sort of monomania in re- ard to her sons, believing them not to have done right yy her. Even admitting this—admittiog that one lit corner of her mind is effected, should that bea reason for endeavoring to destroy the whole? The most that could be done in regard to it by ber sons is, that ifshe devises her property to others they might prssibly pre- sent it, after her death, as ground for breaking her will —but the present Leewpegira = are cruel. Ispeak, said fer aek Eth Nae ee ete es Pode {do not sympathise with the accused merely as her counsel,—I feel for her situation! as a parent, as amon. It hasbeen said, this is not a public affair, but a family quarrel !—It is indeed carrying a family quarrel very far, when one tion of it seeks to deprive the other of what are the Dearest Habe one sinecbarme tis’ and pro- erty, and publicly bringing jat party ecoelated te conig er to a madhouse, and-reward her toil and her care for them by a straight jacket But thank God there is a redeeming pow {here the counsel was checked as travellii record]—and that she will be restored to her priv: 5 her friends, and her seat inthe house of God, ‘. G., chen quoted After the submitted t who returned a v: “that natic, nor incapable of taking care of her person or her property ; but that labor under an aberration of mind as regards her husband’s estate and her sons.” _ It may be well to state, that the cheracter ef the sons was shown on the trial to be ef the best discription, as it is generally acknowledged to be in the community—and that ofthe mother as of the most exemplary kind—in fact such as can be rarely met with—(teking her for all imall)— in any community. Why fhe ‘sons should seek to deprive her of the possess er , there- fore, by which she would be hi send saad Gepvesed] sane ta on anomaly. One of the spectators in: dulged in the remark that the mother is not the only one, apparently, who possesses aberration of mindin regard totheestate. The view of the case seemed to be a ‘itable one, and by all present was most readily and gly allewed. Court Calendar this “a @ Surerion Court—Nos. 5, 14, 2, 55, 59, 60, 144, 61, 62, 146,63 to 71, 168, 72, 73, 74, 76, 77. Count or Common Pi.xas—Part 1.—Nos. 95, 99, 103, 105, 107, 109, 111, 113, 117, 173, 177,28, 181, 119, 121. Part 2, at 4 o'clock. —Nos. 152, 188, 12, 40, 66, 176, 8, 44, 225, 126, 182, 194, 32, 62, 90, 119, 44,00, 80,108, 122, 160, 164, 168, 3, 148, 16, 28, 162,170. ; fiat ie net aa? Bankrupt List. SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. William Wilson, lace dealer, New York, to be declared bankroy May 9 A KM. Palmer, clerk, Hunter Erastus Chittenden, clerk, New York Joseph H. Lester, merchant, do 9 Ligur. Wittiast J. Haxpte, of the 2d Dragoons, U.S, A. came passenger in the Columbia at Bos- ton. Lieut. H., it will be recollected, left this country about a year since with two or three other officers of the army to attend the celebrated Mili- tary School at Samaurin France, whither they were ordered by the Secretary of War, for the purpose of acquiring a thorough knowledge of ca- valry tactics. Lieut. H. is a native of Camden county, in this State.—Savannah Repub. Srixcutar Misrortunes —Some fourteen years since, Capt. D. Wilson, of Wrentham, Mass, was struck upon the right eye by a hoop pole ac tally thrown by a deafand dumb brother. his eye. A few weeks since a hoop pole was thrown by his son, which accidentally struck his lefteye. He istherefore now blind. 0G CHATHAM THEATRE. —Rice takes his benefit to night, and presents for the approbation of his nume- rous friends, a most attractive entertainment, consisting of the drama of Clari, in whieh Mrs. Thorne, the pretty Miss Mestayer, Mr. Hield and the entire compan ap fal Note, in of wi e Ve pears, and the drama of the Muleteer of Peberanay bp Which the celebrated Mr. Wood appears. As seats to- night will be in great demand, we advise all who with to procure a good one to go ea PEALE’S MUSEUM.—We are editors, grave cat grerana sedate as bashaws with threetails ; but still, when we bethink ourselves of Dela'aus amage and wonderful as strange imitstions of Forrest, Hi Kem- sionsis vecltation® of Young Weller’ descripoicn of & rail oad, Yankee eccentricities and French stories, we are forced to drop our gravity and hold our very sides Mr. Morris, too, is one of the world’s ongs, for the most part written by himeelf, are admirable hits at the times—while Master Yates as a dancer, blends the fe ‘mo this and heard at jace of fashienable resort. Og- ROCKWELL AND TURNER'S CIRCUS have set Out mpon their travelling expedition. They are to & ‘e their first performance abroad this evening at klyn, in their travelling pavillion, erected at the corner of Pierpont and Clinton streets. It een og most talented, and strictly the best conducted h- ment of the kind ever started out from this city. It was patronized while here by families of the highest respect- ability, and ita performances are in every respect free from the objections sometimes made to this species of amusement. Rockwell will make @ fortune if he ad- heres to his present system of man QG- SHERMAN’S MEDICATED LOZENGES have been before the Medical Board of Bares and been ap- proved by that scientific Institution, are new sold to a great extent threughout the Spanish imces. Dr. Sherman is to the medical world what ‘Nepoloon wasto the military. His office | is at 106 Nasseu street, New York—8 State street, Boston, and 3 Leger Buildings, delightful YORK, &e.—Mrs. James Bet r leave to announce her intention of visiting New York, on Thursday next,the 12th of April instant, at the As- ter House, Mrs B. respectfully refers medical gentle- men to the New York Lancet of April 2, and to the Phil. adelphia Medical Examiner of March 26th, for interest- fermation respecting her supporters. instruments bave met with themost decided suc- in the practice of many of the most eminent 4 ti of Philadelphia, New York and other of the ape ae Nis. — eae vi oe od early as possible. Her charge for patients’ ry, honered with will be, including instruments, oe del- lars. Her other arrangements will ri her stay in New York necessarily short. She will leave New York om Saturday next. . Third and Tammany streets, Philadelphia. April 7th, 1942, m