The New York Herald Newspaper, August 26, 1850, Page 1

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TWO CENTS. ————— = ee 4 TIFIC CONVENTION. , ceived.” The secretaries of the se it ap- | The speaker remarked that Professor Airy does | restricted himself to a brief notice of the general | ran te the water as before; but, ia t wutes, | im open antagonism with Mr. : “THE SCIEN beets to me, shculd regulriy make the. ucts | pot Contider ihn gradu progress of ihe axis of scope and investigation, commiting the larger they returned again; and ih “this mater he Se | oe eee oh te bird . __Our New Haven Correspondence. in such extent, that if no abswact is furnished | the case ; but the molecule shoul ht te ceentyed oo publshed transacticus of the association, poem that ri vbg cos eae ae 2 + Peay Sel a asta cepceed rd pet ‘ the ay stand as a substitute. | vibrate many hundreds of times in one and the ital importance of the | their Lg Protect them. After a few other | promise, the is sure to succeed. me ‘AMERICAN pins a ‘THE ADVANCEMENT Pid labor ine iavenren: would bec ens a ag same position, and then hundreds more in a new pe aes to vn a or Temata, u jn ms sor seadiaded. It is, i |, by no means certain that the admin- ‘ SCTENCE. dividing it among a considerable number, necessary, agriculture, *880r iz is the presi i fe i l- Ase Rage light baa‘ amy 1. mesons, there ae py ie a? A vibrate with such ra agi been taken for wanted | ut hw samogintion, Het a | Brod ce nd, ‘hough only pie Le Maaee Balkt on rt.” | aoe otal beet RDat ee Oe Willits to eabnunter i tor the lmprovecnant in ane | f rat cecal anche, to rt fesolving | guage fucatly, ‘and wilh Secelictt cossarad'ar | Nuge, handed. meneures. <a ae et $ Ngw Haven, Aug. 23, 1950. . . At the afternoon assembly yesterday evening, the t communication was le by ~ the ident, Professor Bache, “NOTES ON IHE MEETING OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIA- TION AT CHARLESTON, PRESENTED BY REQUEST OF © THE STANDING COMMITTEE, BY THE PRESIDENT OF «THAT MEETING, PROF YSSOR A. D. BACHE. “ American Association, at its meeting at Cam- a it will be remembered, de! to hold an diate meeting between the two regular meetings, and selected Charleston, South ‘as the place for holding it. ‘The mee — ved of the og —— eg 0} »the year, Professor Heury, by the pressure of im- portant duties, requiring immediate personal atten- and in his absence | was requested to preside, of the sessions was desired to give a notice of the doings to the members assem! at New Haven. Thad intended to give such an account as I was able of the papers reud und communications made to the Charleston meeting, but the industry and zeal of the secretary, Dr. Lewis R. Gibbes, has, by preparing the volume of proceedings to be laid be- 4 you, prevented all necessity jor such an ab- stract.- There were thirty communications made on subjects of natural histovy, and eighteen on sub- jects of mathematica! and physical seience—the Tprtyeight apers being contributed by twenty- seven members of the association. Many of (hese cwere of high interest, and gave rise to remarks valuable to those pursuing the subjects, and iate- sesting to-wll, Some of the papers were by authors of established reputation, so that the mention of their names wenld be security for the value of their pepers; others by men, whom, if life and health should be spared, will reachin future to the same point of distinction. en The germ of two most important discoveries in natural history was contained in papers by jtwo of our youngest inembers. The pithy announcement Dy one who is the best judge of their value and correctness, has made an indeilible impression upon my mind :—‘*The develope cent of tissues is parallel to the growth of i vduals,” was the summing ‘Up by the master of a paper, Which the excessive modesty of the author has forced the secretary to The contents of another “The order of saccession of parts in feremenifera is identical with the suc- cessive developement of ee in plants, and caa be expressed by the saime wie.” Such diseove- ties, just warm from the s ay may be, as in these caser, forced to light by the occasion of our meetings, are emong our est triumphs on the Way Of advancement. early one hundred members were addéd to the seociation, and ef their aumber from seventy to eighty were in attendance. These results of the first semi-eynyal meeting which has been at- tempted, are very enc nog. There was a call for such a mecting, and in the place selected by the association; the public and private demonsteae tions of interest in ovr prosperiiy, by the attend- ance of the citizens with their wives and daugh- ters, and the hospitality with which we were ‘entertamed, were very gratifying. The interest increased to the lest. Nor did it cease ad: mark of the meetivg ia the eatublisiiment of a museum of natural history, in connection with a medical college, to be supported in a considerable degree by the liberality of the corporate authori- ‘ties of the eity of Charlicston. This very sabstaa- cial benefit to science followed closely on the libe- erality of the Mayor ane Couacil coustitating the came corporation, in assuming the expenses of the meeting, and of the plicatioa of its proceedings. Could any spirit be oetter than this, or more tho- roughly Carried out in action Tbelleve that even g Material ones were derived from this meeting, in the sacrifiecs of old prejudices; and, not to use too strong a tern, enmities, on (he altar of scienes, the | visindliog of old and kindling of new friendehiy and the generalcnd geuial glow of sympathies of head end heart. During the consultations of members, and es) cially in the meetings of the standing committe arious mvatters Of imterest to the association gene- ed more of less formally, and 8 requested informally to pre- g for the consideration of tne association, and if deemed of sufficient import, for reference te the standing commmtiece. 1. Some permanent form of organization is nee ed. Notene which will interfere with the (re Jom of movement of the association as now cen atituted, nor with the changeable coatrol and va- riable impulse which vow characterize it, bat which wil! serve to con s far as may be, oae meeting with the other. The experience of oae meeting, 48 now constitu ied, is not transferred to another. At the Charleston mectiag we hud uei- ther the scientific proceedio, nor the bu 8 sapere, neither the miaute Cambridge meeting, aud bat fe some few members who had been at the previews meeting, there would, «t opening in Chari have been no connec rks between th gent and pest A The cesnciation vot having the means of avail- 4ng iteell requl ts organizatic of ite expeccn in the coaditi of infancy, ua it were—vigore »parently, bat stiil infancy. Ja the Britich x a baton, salty of pr pose is secured by o eral which directs in he tecers of the local moving and changeable body. he wea was broached od 1 was requested to n here, that a body g thoee who are tainty, and who > sally, were di f these I communicate af secretaries, orf able to attend the o re willitg to und e the united terin of say five pevre, € lected yearly, and part vacating theit office, ia turn taken from ihe different ports of the Union, to eto render the attendance of part of them tn aay civea place al- most certain. If with thi could uaite exeen- tive duties by a permanent cere of rome qicntilic i the recess of the associ «t r than what is local aad iacidental to the incetionr, co make seve of the eclion cimitiees, of timely vl ion for mectings, of timely ection oa sentially toour prosperity, + od to the advancement of science through the «clon of the sesectation. Do our preeeot arrangem: 14 for publication re te- cent the charncter of our meetiogs fully? Is there one of ws who, after « diligent, close, and ina- Serested uttention thromghoat 8 meeting, does nat | 0 fee) diseppyintiinent when he comes to look over a volume © hyo} preeeediogs t It was i i stated by some of the early me! peck Assoc! o, that the great object was to communicate from one cultivator of eeience to er what was doing in cach department for Bir y neement—to hol! ;ersonal commanication for aelbimprovement. us absence from the was to debar from ese to or part in the poveinn. ig * By disct a, oral accounts of re+ ° 8 experiments, end observations, by tt otD. reinent, science, War cobe advanced !}rough it s. No atiempt was to be ine » influence oF affect the absent. At first, war. intere: this view, L came at AAT thifk that» much good should be made more diffusive and more permanent ; and if this | le Were not rigidly olhered to, we should not beancting up to the foil se sure of oar possible | Sil}, there ie a real prineiple of action. hh no pepera, no xhstracts, ‘nsvions. We would ea sounter no fesponsibiliiy beyond the | asso- ciation. The opposite pric ie would be to act pon the prevent as well npoa the abseat; and ‘0 beeflective should be redoced to system. Bither pl valuable papers should be pablished to the fail extent, or mone should be s« should be made. It sho abstract on!y of any or valuable papers would Me iahed, ond that abstracts of all would be a ae should be furniened by the authors. The ‘disoussions are frequently of as mach value as the } y and yet many of them do not appear at all, Or if appearing are without the life that really char- seterizes them. It wae a re yi | pattern of che Charleston meeting, that when the branches of science interlocked, the discassions were of the post uselal character; and yet all these are lost aecessarily in the proceedings, and that by no fault of those who have so ably and zealously fabored in theit publication, but from want of rales and ar- nt of the aseociation™itself. To avoid ir- ity we might pal ish written papers, in case we would be interfering with estab- societies, or we might publish only abstracts en payers, leaving thei publication in fall extent to other socicties. |: is easy to see that there are objections to either course ; but it may be well ars whether either is nor better than neither, of oral communications, it i¢ our rale thet abe to stracts shall be furnished by the authors; bat how | wei i¢ this rule, is shown me the anmtet titles in ell our publiched pro: ioe of conn eats wih the remark, “Absitadt not fe | greatly increas | | chairmen of each; general businessis transacted, | | end particular subjects presented by members with the | ent of the aseoctation, but left am abiding | the di | them generilly is not a full h | mirabfe systems of ‘stenography ‘aflord, bi ments for printed accounts of written and pete sso i es and of di thassthbee we have heretofore had. sable to the despatch of business. At leston, when we had probably one hundred members in attendance, it was not necessary, and we found t advantage in the diseussion of subjects when iflerent hnes of science evossed each other. ‘Thus the epparent subsidence of the coast of South Ci a and the temperature of the artesian wells, | of Alabama, brought out physical facts and reason- | ings of interest, while the communications of Lieut. | Maury on the currents in the Atlantic, of Prof. Le contribution from the naturalists. As these re- | marks are reported in but a few cases, a very ime | portant feature, and one ich rendered the meet- j ing perhaps more interesting and useful than aay | othersingle feature, does not appear in the pad- | lished proceedings. Is it not worth considering | Whether, without losing the advantage of a divi- sion into societ by which time is, no doubt, | saved, and too much pupularizing of the subjects , avoided, we eould not,, in certaia cases, have the pers! lt abstracts of ell communic) tions were prepered beforehand, and forwarded to the standing | Committee, they could select such communications | as it was deemed desirable to have presented ge- but their labors would thereby be nd those of the members in a ape, from th , and by cone neral meeting: similar degiee. Per tit | ference with the authors, the committee could de- teimine that point in a general way. Lagree with | | the mesabess of the Charleston standing co:nmittee, | tbat the subject is worthy of consiteration and ef- fort, 3%. Is it desirable or not to increase the interest of the public in our meetings, by devoting a por- tion of our time to popular accounts of new sitb- je The meetiags of the Boston Assc include ineetings of the sections which are st scientific; general meetings at which accounts of the proceedings of the sections are given by the chosen by the general committees for that purpoge. This, though strictly belonging w the diflusioa of nee, may not be found to be prejudicial to i advenceineat. It has hurried good and evil ia it. Mey oi the good predomiarte ? 4. The hberality of the city authorities of Charleston assumed the payment ofthe expenses of the meeting, including the publishing of the pro- ceedivgs. ‘This left our treasory untouched, and, in- deed, made the association finuacialiy.gaiaers, as well as intelleetosiy, by the meeting. The sub- ject of increasing the tal contribution, by mbers absent as well resent, was talked of informally, and I waa requested to suggest its dis- cussion by the siurding committee at the present meeting. ‘There was one circumstance in this meeting ter benefits than these | which gave me pain—lirst a shock ef surprise, thea unalloyed pain. It was, to see that sei which I hud ulways considered the fast friend end natural ally of religion, was, in some of its paths, or in some turns and windings, and seeming ends of those paths, regarded with suspicion by the re- | hgions. The able address of Doctor R. W. Gibdes, | of Columbia, vindieating geology from suspicion ‘ of leading to infidelity, was not written without | al ant and, indeed, urgent reason cireumst£2€s in the midst of which he is. 1 | serving European ecieace, one of the facts w struck me most foreibly and agreeably, was the con- ction in England, through her University edaca- | ben, between science and religion, #0 that some of | the moet emineat men were ministers of both, I thought it cuve higher aims, a higher tone to science and scientific men, to be thus devoted to seligion, the moral and religious man being or i Joped at the seme time with the inte tuppoecd the time had long gone by, when the study of God's works could be supposed to | away frei the revelations of his word; that the language which | heard last Sanday, from a pulpit in this city, was of common consent and & ance—* science is no ally to seepti same class with that which rese to overwhelm geolegy some twenly years since, sweeps with censider- nevertheless, true that a lesser wav able loree over the at n portion of our Unioa, and requires to be stayed with judgmeng to sabri- denee, wnless by making ill © og untimely obstacles, we raise it to the " fe breaking—a dengerous expe must meet the shock. The progress of seiene towards truth. But how distent the goal! We think we discern clearly; but the medium changes, | ond objecis assume new colors, forms, and propor- cycle for truth: re. Another ap- hi age teaches cyele and ey and makes the eerth a fixed © provehes near the truth, and shows ministers the will of Him who made all things ead us, 10 give way ia its tara to some higher truth. Science ts ewphatically progressive. ho would be so indiscreet as to hinge his religious faith upon chongeeble, progre e science! A master haa eaid: “ Let no men upon a weak conceit of sobri« ety, or an ill epplied moderation, thiak or maintain that a mencan search too far or be too well studied in the book of God's word, or in the book of God's works, divimty or philosophy; but rather let men endeavor 6a endless progress or proficieney in both—only let man beware that they apply both to, cherity, and potto sellin; © use, and not to Ost tation ogain, that they dé not unwicely mingle or coppound these learuings together.’ EVENING SESSIONS. At balf-past seven the annual address of the last President was delivered by Profeswor and ex- President Hevry. FIFTH DAY. New Havey, Au At the general meefing at nine 0° ing, the President in the chaw, the pre 23, 1830 » ing oficers were appointed for t , fessor Wm BD. Rogers as Gen: cer F. Baitd, Vermancnt Secretary; wid Prof Geo. KR. Pething, Local Secretary. Local Ou mitt ion. J. V. L, Prayn, tion. send, T. W. Atcott, Eeq , E. P. Preatice, beq., 'T. R. Beck, Jas. MeNaughrten, Alden Mareh, Th Tun, Joel King, M. F. Cogswell, aad Professors G. K. Perkins, Clarke and Mali. 1, a Cieinnati fo May next. * A pumber of new membera were proposed and lovgbter. Cne thomand copies of the adardha of ex- e President Henry were ordered to be printed. meeting then edjourned into sections SECTION OF FNYSICS AND MATUF a Profeseer Omleted presidi d. ot W B. Rogers and Loomis ae rien The first communica Professor Snes, of A * exhe 1 and ted an instrony ted of a mole cule, ft a A common light, fr ration h sound, fea waves, eve, it “a changing | A ball of ivory, | aoe, is made to fly back and fe dity, while the line OF ite Font : vances rownd the encle, het The me which produced thit motion is merely a toothed wheel, gearing into the toteriog of a togthed circle of about twiee ite diameter It the dereribe a straight line, or ellipse, in one di- Teetion ; palit etrtesteth wetcated te the wheel: the line, or the axis of the ellipse, will slowly ) Moke prostess, tound the circle, and in this way the ball is made to produce the kind of oscillation proper to represent ,. of its successive 3 OF, to state a defi case, let it “brat five hundred thotrand mes in each t let thy ellipse of vibration make ie entire, rot Da inthe Po manne cot iene bea the reat for the tru ince the number is six hundied millions of Taillions per second. Professor S. also exhibited another article of his invention, by which the lecturer can enable his au- dience ali ai once to try the experiment of compli- apparatus Consists lysis which it gives, from a desire to do good, from these materials. Tae actual proof of | a sense of duty—various worthy motives. As to jiscussions, are full of iron, soda and or two. Jaane then en experiments, and the mode wn the cohesion of mineral e lime, magnesia, protoxid had never, exce; metly shown. a list of simple minerals and rocky masses which had been the subjeet ef ex- water and water impregnated ‘hese included many varieties tspar, mica, hornblende, serpentine, epidote, zeolites, We., as well as lavas and other rocks. powder, gave, tache, unequi in our Aw sent arrangements? What is wanted in re; to | one-thousandth ad- | whole will not but a dis- ating, brief, and pointed note, such as can only be given by a person who understands the sub- | ject. In any le section, what one of us could | underteke to give an account of the discussions on | all the subjects which come up? And it we pass from one section to another, how im, would it be for the best informed to succeed in such anat- tempt? It appears to me worth consideration, whether we may or may not make more eflective cm We oak! vision, 3 ol jises, a foot er more in diamete! forated by three openin, painted with alte hile the hinder colors through the a fixed point on the front dise till t le weary, when the operator suddenly removes the and renders the whole surface white ; but, of appearing white, the three apertures are seemingly occupied by a limeptary color. and successfully performed. On the results of the discussion of the Tidal Ob- servations, mede in the coast survey at Cat Island, in the Gulf of Mexico, by A. D. Bacur, Super Professor Bacne, President of the Association, stated that the tides of the Gulf ot Mexico present ed interesting peculiar not universaily, single Island were the type o: sions applicable to them, reduced to rule, would answer for all others of the class. of such a dizcussion he proposed now to present. ‘The des at the entrance of Mobile Bay were in part reduced, and new observ: and at other points in the Gulf. By the of Col. Abert, Major Bache, Lieut. Maury, and others, access had been given to observatioas on record by officers of the army and navy. The coast survey ¥ ould necessarilly in its pro; ford observations for the complete discussion of the tides of the Guli of Mexico. Prof. Bache gave a notice of the place, means and manner of observations, of the pe whom they were made end diseased. servations were made hourly, day and night, for a , and very faithfolly,by Messrs. Windeman and f ction of Lieut. C, P. Patterson, ofthe navy. The average rise and fallis but one ne high and one low water asarule, yur hours. The wiud is supposed by hese tides, but the sienites, traps, and the other mate White and colered sectors. dise is so situated as to show the tators look at eyes are a Jit- by the interporacious method of the vocal proof of the solvent action of the carbonated water, and many of them were dis- tinctly ected on by pure water. All minerals con- i magnesia, protoxid of iron, soda, or hthiv, were found subject to this decom- of them, when in larger id, yielded a sufficient © solvent water, to ad- 2. The meeting in sections is, pochos, sadlapan- C} posing action. quantity, Py in the | amount of solid matter to mit of a quantitative determinction. stained from oceupying the time of the section with eny further reference to the results of these experiments upon rocks and minerals, or with the similsr ones, by which the presence of alkali was demonstrated in wood, anthracite, bituminous coal, ain remarking upon the very important bearing of these results upon the questions connected with the disintegration of vecks, formation of soils, nutrition of plaats, aad experiment wes Conte on the exudation of ice from the stems of He concluded by vegetables, und others, called out a correspoading | y were generally, tides. Those at Cat class. The discus- APTEROON SESSIONS. In the section of Physics and Mathematic: e’cloch, the first communication was by Professor of New York University, on opii i an amusing opti- ed by means of riment frequently exhil u small igure—a mouse, for instance—worked in red worsted upon a green reen upon a red erately illumine ated, the mouse a aving met wit ound, or worked in hen this figure is mo- by the light of a candle and pears in motion upon h no explanation of this experiment, which is entirely satisfactory to my inind, | have instituted a series of new experi- ments, in the hope of dedaciag from them # plausi- ble theory. The following are a few of the ex- | advaniave of general meetings for the reading of Bassett, under di! First. If we place a red circle of half an inch di- ameter upon a green ground, moderately illumioed by the light of a candle, after directing the axis of m the cirele, for a iew seconds, it appears of a paler red than ordinary; but if we direct the axis of the eye @ little to one side of the circle, we see it of a deeper red than ordinary. axis of the eye returns to the c the mement it is throwa off, the circle eppeats of a very deep red. Secondly. If we place a green circle upon» red ground, when the axis of the eye is the circle eppears of a darker gre but ifthe axis he turned a little to one side, i r green than ordinary. The hi green may be made to per at pleasure, by a slight motion If the axis of the eye be hove the circle, it appears light; if ly upon the circle, it appears of a axis be thrown a little navigators genersily to cau: is When carefully examined, falls to the Such tides hod _ bee brief mention of the explanation of Newtoa, ano- tice of the 1eseurches ot Mr. Whewell and of Mr. ‘The reductions, both ia tables and the eye steadily uy Airy followéd. dingrams were expleined. ‘The time of high water advences day gains on the solar, until suddenly ii shifts ten end twelve hours, es the luaar The Jow weters follow the i The times of change are at, or near period when the moon crosses the equator. | viats to the diurual inequality, as shown by bewell, as the source of the pheaomera. An establishment useful to the navigator may be | obtained by considering the Jun} ‘or and inferior transits 4 moen’s place, north o nery modes of diseussi he curves of hourly observation for the © no doubt that the declination changes of the moon ure these first to be jocked to. couble, or six hour tides, ocevrred always at and near the petied of no declination, when they were “8 f oe dark gice an of the exis of t south of the equator. nm fail entirely, axis of the eye be kept fixed in one | position, end the circle be moved up and dowa, i es with the direction | of the exis, it appears ot a derk green; bet in every ition, M appears of a light green. of the circle, Liere then when the ¢ experiment is en ground, the appaar- | nation showed that rrence (epoch) corre rly, at a mean with the moon's position. he expianation of the tid terference of the semi-diurnal and ef the diur- naltide waves, with a red eircle vpon a ence is thatof a hight ehade of ved passing over it h. Ifinstead of a circle w ofa small animal, when the appearance is that of a shadow passe we receive the impression of an ania Ifa biue color ve substituted for g eech of the above experiments, the etle Indeed, certain shades of biue | and gteen cannot be distinguished fromeach other | Number oae i# thought to be the | fondemental experiment from whieh all the others experiment appears to be by supposing that the i@ more sensitive to red light thaa other parte of the retina, Accordingly, whea the axis of the eye is turaed directly upon the red citlee, it appears dull; but ifthe axis be throwa a little to one side, the red a e employ a figare 3 agitated the | was to be foaad in Prof Bache exarined the interfezence of amean diurnal end of a wean diurnal carve, approxi- observetions, sud showed that the coincidence of high waters—a dif- ference of three and of six hours—would not agree the observations, and that’ rs lepeecented | He traced the var | curve correspondin, moon end to different phases, | general agreement with observation. jon #6 modified from Mr, of ecusy tabulatio: derived from | nearly the same. | by candlelight. diderence of nine or nearly so. | neturally follow. rably well ex foramen eenirate t either exactly tiens in form of the derived to different declinations of the ind showed their much deeper alest ordinate. howed how the curve of obser | yen could be decomposed into two other jlon followed for thas tabutating the obeerved auin- The curves thus afforded were tested by theory, and gave results which were |. Within very email quantities. The great- est difference of the mean of three months’ obser- tion, thus discussed, from the theoretical stan- hundreths of a foot, vere shown to the section, and the jingrams by tracing curves | puld the further examination cei tirm these conclusions, the two tides ex be separately obtained from the nu cuseed according to the homan laws of luni ad not, #0 far a As far as the work h encouraging, and the labor encountered. rs could not fail to lead to results most useful to nav gation, even if the full require me not met by the presen SROTION OF OFC: On the Position end circle, m app when the axis Seventh. These in combinations of ¢ ped with green, or Orenge must be combined w with red, blue with red, viol dering thet none of the colors used in these expe ments are the pure colors of the spectram, | of these combinations, one of | bers in regard to height. rd, was but thr repults represented ¢ | of comparicon. thonght that in eae be becomes particularly sensitive to its complimentary Lienee, although we may obtain simular cle upon a white ground, olar action. T Leen done before | the results were v results wih a green nges of that ar perticnlar attention we: 8 of theory were | |,one of whom we see, El Senor Moatt, giv: : law which ¢ hena green eircle is place: | Why do not these experimer wellin daylight? The eye appears to sensitive to slight chenges of excited by a very strong bight penments euceeed They do not sucered we whether it be guelight of daytight moet ee teitive wh | idea is not orig haracter of the Carboniferous Formation of Exstern Pennsylvania, D. The Professor began Je when it is aot prints first dikeovered by Mr. leaae ia the red shale forma- ja Pennsyivani», and as- Divenan period, belonged traly to the earbontferons | red shale, and ere, therefore, of an ege essentir lly later than that attributed to them. indeed, in a geological he feet below the conglan ginping of the productive coal series, ia which ceries timiler foot prints, etitibuted to ry tier, hed been previously met with in Western astead, therefore, of constituting | entique hie earlier tha i to discovered, by at least a whole ch geological book, they carry back its age only by a The surfaces upon whic teresting foot priata abound, are the indifle rently woe zon, only afew nad. te Which marks th the tintof my « stripe of green, bel oo The ceane of vin lighter than the margin, tited specimens of the various w wor Loomis exhi- this mora. ceedings of the Standiog Connnittee were read. The foilow- eat 1851 :—D'ro- riment by. any end aie invariably co sor BacinHave y nyateriel of a once slix thing in the texture of these surfaces, goes to prove | at ibey were in contact With the air, and were the eteges of rest between the alteruat | tens ot the strata. with rigyle lines sud water marks, suggestive of ore, and with fow exception ere spotted over with little eirculor inpre puted to the pattering of rain. eersive floors of the living world, av delicate and | inpressibie in their texture as parchment, are the footsteps and the traile of var | Nous creeping things~the known four fovied creature, thought w be reptliaa | in its peture, but ot w fessor exprersed his di those of worms and molusc nverke, written in heirogly phic interpreted The larger foot I with « fine tunpalpable Towne members of tb n J geor Norton, the were attreeted by the enpesrence ¢ worked jn wo! these efleets fust ¢ Many of them It was resolved that the sixth anual coavention id be held in Albeny, ia complience with an invitation from that city, ia | that the intermedimle meeting be uence Of tempera! An extended list 0: sented, establishing the principle that int those substances which wn iergo changes of ¢ upon the application of heat, without 2 eal chaoge, the refrin # diminishes Ww oF, 19 other words, cases, from the violet tows © much was or edmitted, emongst whom was Mise Maria Mitehel!, of Nantucket, on the introduction of Professor Agasesiz. The announcement wus received with * anglogous to proceeds, in all large nearly as the rastke of the seratching seege of the tail, oref enw Vv, are often distinctly lee! onctaded, by cniling upoa Prot (in the interpretation of thee niceeor Acasem etated bis doubte a» berectenof the foot steps deserib raphic manner the 4: to whieh eome Professor Agassiy the fieb, which lays ite « | is young, who never know p be ‘swallowed by larger © when he arrived in this eount Heat did protect their y t wing is an abstract of the commen »omition of rocks and manor ng on the sea she rushing from the shere to th the place from whieh they ck mark formed where they te ginia:— Prof Wo sevolving wheel has just half as many teeth asthe per, stated thet ir wheel, the ball, as is well known, would tensive series of experiment cod he saw a corn There Munferted so the agenet rhe « he aw the ' pulewed, and the 60 Here W a Btone guage fluently, and with excellent command of words. Mr. W.R. Jounson spoke on the scientific in- terest of the JFrgoeed Industnal Exhibition at Lon- don, in 1851. le said it was no doubt known to them all that the British government have formed @ committee for the yasyoee of carrying out the object of encoura, industry in all countries, at the head of which is the R+eyal Consort, Prince Albert. The British Minister brought the subject before the government at Washington, and com- munications with the Governors of all the were had relative to it. Local committees are formed in the different States to promote the con- tributions of this country to the Industrial Exhibi- tion, and the attention of this association is earnest- ly called toit. One of the subdivisions is for raw material and produce. The vegetable and animal kingdom is worthy of being exhibited. Machinery is another class; and it seemed to him of the high- est importance that the attentien of this country should be called to the fact that 187,000 feet of space had been allotted to America for the exhibi- tion. Jt is important that nothing should be sent abroad but what would do credit to the United States, and confer a benefit on the individuals tor- warding their preduce or manufacture. (Mr. Johnson is secretary of the Ceatral Com- mittee for the United States, on the exhibition of industry of all nations, to be held in London in 1851, to whom all communications are to be ad- dressed at Washington. } ‘The meeting adjourned at 9 o’elock. After the fatigues of the day, which do not ter- minate till nine o’clock, the members of the asso- ciation are generally invited to shure the hospi- tolity of seme one or other of the residents of New Haven. On Wednesday they proceeded to the cottage abode of Professor C. U. She ‘d, about a mile out of town, where were tasomibled a large number of other guests, amongst whom were many of the belles of the City of bln A detightfut evening was enjoyed by allpreseat. Lastnight his Honor the Mayor, Aaron N. Skinner, at Hulhou avenue, entertained the members of the associa- tion, and this evening they are invited to the resi- dence of William Hillhouse, Lsq., head of LLill- house avenue, who, more thoughtful, or more frilane, perhaps, than those gentlemen who have hitherto acted the part of host towards the learned convention, has included the ladies who have companied the members of th sociation to ew Haven, to partake of the hospiualities of his house. 4 The beantiful eity still presents a full array both | Chris. Lilly was first put open trials and, from the of learned etrangers and their amiable and fair wives, daughters, and sister d all in this house seem pleased at the admirab! Tangementa of the Tontine Hotel, where everything goes on like clockwork, though upwards of 250 daily sit dowa to table a faultlessly supplied and well attended. Our San Francisco Correspondence: San Francisco, July 17, 1950. Sowées in San Francisco—Arrival of Captain Rollins. We are progressing here at a surprising rat | year or so ago, ‘there was hardly a decent building in San Francisco; but now we can boust of a great many elegant establishments, notwithstan ing that we have been visited by two ext conflagrations. The recuperative evergies of this people are equal to any emergency. Let the city be burned to-day, and next w like, from its ashes, and be as busy as ever, We are beginning to enjoy some of uxuries of s0- cial lite. Balls, parties, and soirées, are of freq: currence, and the ladies, of course, take part in ‘There will be a grand soirée at the St. Hotel, this evening. Cards of invitation, on white jin, have been issued, aud we tto have ap! nt time. The f Wing is mpy of the inv’ ss LADI Phe ladies of the ning be even with the New Yorkers in the nawber of our soirées, thextres, and other places of amuse- | hela merely, but thr | pelago. | There is no fear of overstockiog the market, or w York. His | of te | overstock for the } to swine and poultry, all of which comumad a ment. ri in Roilina, of Staten island, has just ar- in his beautiful ya from » has been an excel: oo News the Pact ¥ re ama Ke The Clu sident, in h Congress, recomme aded the general « i - onal m of the United State The only nm to keep men tree who ha thets | liberty, is to e hem. The mind mast b lirgt enslaved, befo: body can be. He said that th on Was one of the most Important that could occupy their attention, and that he would give it his senetion and app He alto preposed various postal reforaie chenges in the weights and me rea of the coua+ t tention to abolish th ac¢o monopoly, and algo for the benefit of the witeral interest. An unportar in the character of the tithe tax would Like all other reformers, the I meets with opposition from his po! ry. He also stated his gular ieeson f his eppositr be Montt ia not original hioy ven i for opposition; for we heard before of men who hed like opiaions, iu cur owe but et the came time, tor fear of ridivule, had sense enovgh not to express them. The same paper remarks, that the consamotion of Chttiag four i Califoraia, has become igunes se, and ‘hat the * couception” flour had stood so wei t Sen Francisco market, that an jaf a cle had been shipped by parties purchasing the empty conception Heur bags + and piherr, end f h infos Tier, and w station } of the bread sted that a floor iasp*c tor | be appointed at esech port where flour is shipped, and viet there be a heavy f pe nding he fitest 0, Callan, vm in sailieted upon all f Ecuador, and that the repu ed into thtre states odin pintion of TAD, « caused Hight of General F ia he will be supported, it 1 suid, by stanhiog a nd Lima has bern and is progressing very fa the early ail perts of Peru Vieit the w wid by Bl Span a ; Laima, & ‘work done, fer solidity of conatruc- tion, We rival that of aay other radroad ia b land, of the world. The Valparaixe Mercantile Reporter cays The Pacitic Company's steamer * Neeva Granw da” arrived at this port on the 2ita iastant fron Colao and the intermediate ports. She brovgit 18,753 in epecie and gold dust The news brooght by her from the neighboring republics is of bo great importance. In Holivia the elegtions roceeding favorably, and Gen bg More popalar, having adopted mor casures, From Peru nothing worth meas ing every day tore important, and there isa @ demand for workmen. The town is improving | very mueb, and ere long will be a most formidable tival to Valparsieo ‘The Admission of Caltfornia, raid, July 16 The establishment of a Southern organ at Wash- ington, for the purpose of reflecting the sentiments the ultra Southern men, is an cation of the ible revult of the present stroggle in Congrews, no means favorable to this State. Nor that we believe the North any more interested in the wel fare of California than the South, bat that the ex tiows chances of this very slippery and aaceraia gemMe of polities, las pliced the Southera men ia a position of quasi hostility to Californtaggrith her present bowndartes, ‘The podition of the Califor via question is one of grees deavacy, Tie cabunes is States rk it ariges, phenix- | | Jeu G | | Joly 17, | We shall sooa | | waste tracts belong--and when and by whom | districts where the curs } iscoveries of silver at Copiapé are becom. | j | | fore marriage, and afterwards received by ialveri- i | few yore, deorravd six thew e these gentlemen to speak to order, was a of petty Fw ony or be reseated beuideas. pene ent mee of Le beng ack. Be 1. Clay’s position is one at \. hes the sympathies of the vane of the United States in favor of his plan, and he certainly as far as we have been able to judge, the sympat of the people of this country. ‘There has not been here, in California, any open manifestations of op- position to the compromise. The people are exe tremely anxious for admission, but they are not so anxious esto make them averse to any measure that will ensure the seitlement of the many ques- tions now atissue. If the vote were now taken, we believe there would be a mojority in favor the compromise of the Committee of Thirteen. But there is one thing upon which the people of this State have no division of opinion. The propo- sition to run the liac ef the Missouri compromise to the Pacilic, can never find favor in California. The people, whatever may be their sentiments of self denial, urging them to prefer an adjustment of the whole controversy ai once, to any partial set- tlement, even although the latter should advance their own interests, nevertheless can never con- sent to submit to a coutraction of their present boundaries. That is wholly out of the questiva. Jt is proposed. by but very few-—Jeflerson Davis, Mr. Clemens, Mr. Hunter, Mr. Yulee, Mr, Butler, and one or two others; but it meets with no favor from any but those who are opposed to all eom- promise, and whom we cannot hold less censura- ble than such men as Mr. Hole and Mr. Seward. Of course, such a proposition con never receive any considerable support. Theat a pamber of those in favor ef the measures of the compromise com- mittee, may assert to the extension of the line of the Missouti compromise to the eastern boundary of this State, is highly probable ; and, of course, we should not object. Anything that will lay the treubled spirit of disunion forever, will be hailed with joy by the people of this covatry, as well as those of other portions of the Union. But the boundaries of California must noi be disturbed City Items of San Francisco. [From the Alta California, July 17.) ; ‘Tue New York Fancy itations havieg been served upon the participants in sundry fi, Sunday night, quite a number of the iadiv made their appearance before the Recorder terday. ‘Tom Hyer and Beleher Kay pleaded disposition, as un excuse for their non-appeera: testimony, it appeared that he was provoked to the assanit upon Kay, by his (Kay's) abusive language and threats. Lilly said that Key sw and that thereupon he (Lilly) preseat and would have killed Kay had a S) mirsed fire. Kay then strack him, a fight ensued, and so forth. Ju ford thought the essere proveked by Kay’s conduct, and he therefore felt fied in imposiog the slightest possible fine. Igment of one cent fine, and costs, was therefore awarded. Jack Gamble, another of the belligerents, ap- peared to have ruled the roust on the occa: Rood to. Livery one appeared anxious to keep clear of him. He had a loaded pistol ia his hand, and pointed it indiscriminately towerds friend an foe, declaring himself able to whip the universal Yankee nation. A fiae of $10 settled his case, which amount Lally very quickly forked over to the Court. ‘Two or three others, who, it eppeared, took ne active part in the aflray, were discharged. (From the San francisco Herald, July 17.) 5 vor Assistant ALoneMaNn.—Our honest frien James Grant, is to-day nomi- nated by his friends for the offiee of Aesistant Aiderman. There is no man in this ely whose integrity is more uoquestioned, and, if elected, we reli 8 of h ° | faith ask ao saliry. | M. Bellemore is his oppe | trata: ae | Hawatian Produce. (Prom the Polynesian, June 15 | We are glad to know that e ready home market timulated the people of that part of Tliwante of sgricultaral par eed their means of Jugy, shift e He wil } hh } & more vigorous proseeuti vite, und consequently iner | comfortable living. A p | can never become much vivilized, nor honor Christianity or civiliz und we therefore rejoice in the prosperity that will assuredly attend the most vigorov icultural pursvits, not in Ko- ughout the iiawatian Are! ¢ by the decay of produce. Any surplus or time being, can be profitably fed ready market But while urgirg the whole agricultural part of lation to increased efforts in the growing of Wwe, we would aleo recommend the ae in the me in bar - ed, bot d Hiamakua district oa Hawaii, abound in la is ir plantations, which are yet untouched. To whom do these e they brought under evitivation? These are qu | Goas worthy of consideration, and cannot be toa #p { ved. Wee ope the difficulties of procuring land will s inished, aud that men of * ital, (ur itdoes require capital t jy.) may find iaducements + lo invest iz means at these is. There ia not a shadow of doubt remain at capital thas aed with pra ad skill, wil ay; aud we he whol ut no ver population in connection with the subject of exporting pro- duce from the leeward side ot H sity of a port of entry f often be who feel od Hike on Haw a Kanai are eo cocetitnted. ery reasoaadl. cility be aflorded by government for reudering the export of predu asy, cod markets wiil sprig up Wherever there is a4 suitable hark for ve a to be infosed into ence has too long enter, and a spirit of ind blighted the lend We are sorry to b which would contr ¢ of the pee from that fra plain that “* som themes ives th an @X;0) he natives there eom- dusle have tiken gpon products of this nvelves to keep off of the eupplies, so that all ah theit own hands, cad nine tenths fits remain with them.” Bat the people “scem to think it hardl vat those who, by the weat of th needed by part of the island ortuniiy ils by the dish ‘ face the aid individunts.”* Ve huve no econal knowledge of the ind vidnals of practices referred to above; bat from the ta made, appears that the predacers hare cavee of complaint, end have taken the proper course to remedy che evil, by giving publicity to the freta, ead by notifying the pablie that supplies vessels be deprived of an of moneration for con be procured, if vessels will bat go for them. be and let live” isa good motto, which we to see influenci the transactions of all ween at the istonds Tax New Consrrretion or Macias. convention of Michigan, for the parpose of hi ing & new constitu has finished its labo will present an inetrament for the considera the people of thet State. Articte nine fixes the salaries ef the offcere ae follows: Governor $1,009; Circuit Judges $1,000; Treasurer $1,000; Auditor General 1,000 ; wate et haste GOL AL. Instruction $1,000; Secretary ate 4 At- snee hk. Commissioner of Land Of. eneral @800 J prope rt mpt to the amount of . stead of “0 pen ol and not ina city or village, ex- empt aleo, and a lot in city or village to the value or fi 00 All property of a female tired be~ tance, gift or otherwise, to be hers solely. Demestic Miscellany. ‘The weather wae extremet; hot im st Towle on the | 19 the thermometer ranging at 101 deg in the t wa. as drowaud at Windsor, shade ; 190 dog. when + wow. Mayden of thiscity, was Clon, while bathing, on the 22d ‘The popaletion of Montreal, There were Thi dorths fn the g Lee ade,