The New York Herald Newspaper, September 28, 1852, Page 2

MEMUIR OF GENERAL SCOTT, rrox Becords Cotemporaneous with the Byrnts, JOORTIRUED FROM SUNDAY’S PATER.) | SeOTT'S WAK ON THOSE WHO FOUGHT HIS BATTLES IN MEXICO. ‘The war over, Gen. Scort’s next concern was to ‘take all the glory of the achievement from the ¢)- fheers who had moet b gest yey themselves, and wtecd in positions at home like!y te bring them for- ward for the civil honors of the government. was in Gen. Jackson's State—aXtate coma influence in the south-west—was grea’ @evored by the then President—was a lawyer © eminence—hrd beon under fire inatl the oat- Cruz to Mexico—wos twice severely and had been lucky in soms monceuvres pao sd, on - own respons: oy. Boott, i had but little exposed to the enemy's fire, | the whole Mexivan war, had his Jealousy | asoustd by the lucky shots Pillow bad reseived as _ wel) as by bis lucky bits as a General at Contreras | and Chepultepec. “ Hence bis quarrel with Veneral Pillow, and attempt to disgrace him by a trial be- | fore & court of inquiry. Worth was a son of the Empire State—was | Scott’s Aid in the battle of Lundy’s Lace—res éixtinguiched for his gallantry and the wounds ro- | eeived in that battle—had gathered fresh laurels | wo Plorida, and with General Taylor, soon after his | first batiles in Mexico, covering himself with glory | for skill as well ws bravery at Booteroy—hsd beou | the Marthal Ney of the ermy in tte bloodiest fight the Moline del Rey—and had opened the rates of the city of Mexico to General Scott, on the day of the fail of Chepuitepee. Phis was erough to dra¥ down on bim the envy of General Soot: and aa at- temp! to disgrace him Die i y | | Danean, and his fomous battery of caonon, now | ? kept at the arsenal at Washington, in its oa eeadition, ae the prondes ie of the wa Pals wish Mexico, bad won a) Ye Revaca and Mon fervey, *O much nown—had from Vera Cruz BR he fobs 3 Worth's and Qu eity of Scort city of Mexi- | unger the iniy at, the way roan him bis battery, taken hig mencures ty mareb co, by the wey of Meaicaleiy va his recompoisances, resdib noo, f gourtbe of am s the raking fue of many gai cight separ * jeeembanked and bnitt on a marsh, the road be & centowsy through the marsh to the fortre “From such a battle,” continues the narrativ the officer, published ree Review, *we bvelieve canarmy. Lo said amining the Me Sf amine the rond? Gen. Worth fully With him, ordered the reconneirance, and Gol. Duncan to report its results to the Ve w-Chiefat Ayotla, with @ letter strongly ad! the movemeat of ¢ army by the Chal ronte. The wholg cou: is aware of the bril- hhant resulis of this movement.” To history of this tras ‘ ful marnewuvre at Cont yaltepec—of Wort jel Rey— would jealousy, and oft) officers to which he wasover. The case of Motir Scott took it fora cannon fy it could not inste why ne pneurring Y Was striking. (f it bad been on to do mischief in tbe assault of Mexico, which wos to take ploce in a few Gays. It was, in fuct, afortified mill. It was urged that it was of no uve when teken, and yet, in spite of remonstrances to'this effe d, like Don Quixoite, in the attack ont tt he foand it, imetead of a house filled with machinery and mates sials for menufacturesof any sort, a terrible military cover, concealing an army, like the Trojan Horse. Worth took it ay the cost of nearly a th and it was immediately abandoned conquest. This blunder of the General, whiea brought glory only to the immolated troops and their daring leader, provoked deep indignation in the obstinate man, whe felt a deep cen bless simple relation of fects, unjustly aseribi Promudgation in the Uviied States, as well wot of the approsch to Mexic 1 tine te the foregei de resolved to Ae yet. but two ech tions of our arms. hast in 2 New Uileens yieo mewspoper. It requires not a tbat the promcipal heroes of the uded to, did not Write tiem, or e*pocially to bewritten, and the intelligent can be at no loss tn conjegturing the authors, chicts, partizan pet fa miliars. To the honor of the service, the @ riency of feme, not eammed—cannot hb ball a dozen officers ). all of whom. U Delong to the two ries, False on dit ma; doubt, be obtained at home, by s Ue pu Bing.and walignont © n of ¢ but at the ex mre of the just e-toc nm of all honora- Bretcitcers wo love the truth of history ‘ Der of the laticr class canuot fail, iu down the conceited and the envious t By commanc of Mejor General Scott WL, SCOTT. A, ALA. G satisfied with this But Scott was noi of hie feelings. He arrested these off iy Ye ed to bring them to t before a military court to de- grade them. The result of the court of inquiry, in the case of Pillow, was positive proof that he did not write the lotter extolling his conduct in the uews- papers referred to by Scott, and positive proof that the movement on the village, whieh put Contreras the power of our army, and decided the fall of ‘that pont of defence, was made by Pillow, and that Heott knew nething of it until he taw, from a dis- tant height, the troops in motion, and Tearned from Pillow the object they were sent to attain, which Seott approved, but had no right to claim, us he di the honor of originating. His attempt against Pil: Jow was therefore foiled. The result as to Duncan was a voluntary aban- donment of the charges on the part of Seott belure the court. The character of the charge aga and its fate will be found io the followir from a letter of the Secrevary of Wart Beott:— 0 Gen Sin—S thet Your respon bis letter the 2d of D Lops sgaivel da. ra) Worth, anc breve uber e bis approval t Lowe evet ade pted for r : and rth felt deeply agi No. o# Imputer were by that orde your immediate neral order « character ein contained. of the order, his remove from hi f{ the 18, cannot be regar atiempt by all pre Sguominy of ¢ exceptions n his pert. As the str 4» he thonglt, deeply wounded his bonor us sm officer and his cha man. cowe from your hands, Lis applicetin ly made to you, but h redrene, ae he be ieved, wi lances of the case was due to him, be exercised, or attempied to exercise, the right of ‘eppeal to tuperior authority. ithe was actually aggrieved in this matter. or beltever cif to be 00, he bad on uertionstle Fr e *u ight to the wideration of b + ccminon anperior, the Prax it of the Unite repared churges ag exetary of War. can be viewed in no other churaster ) and endeavored to vend them. through you, the only channel be could use, without violating esiul regulations. to dils common superior, For the n o tained im theae charges against yourwit if sorters 1023, Ps ageinet him, forward it to ihe President and for bis tris] by a court martisi. If the course whieh you propore in the oane is sanctioned Out. you cannot but perceive that the proce. dent will be most fatal to the essential rights of all subor- If General Worth bas been guilty of an of. preparing and attempting to transmit ol to the wnt. for wrongs and injuries al- been inflicted by you on him, it seems to that, fer may be the injuries inflicted upon sub. others ty thelr superiors, they cannot seek re- being involved in a military of- justice they suffer the Nisan "valusles, it, by te, mere ’ mere bs og in the fom of ‘acommon ior, errested and tried before any made of the trath or falsity of the forth end even before the oppea! hud l : i i i : Z f | eye sil Fed i * i if venebed the sat! whieh sone | nutes. Goneral Worth | could afford redvers. Buch a prine’ would, im its wobvert jmsti wubneld, gomapeok ons er iy ? our ol nate officas Very reepes' in MARCY. Moe). Gen, Wisriaie Seer, ‘U. 8. army, Mexiso, Vhe friveloue pretex® on which Scott pat Worth onandiog under arre: sndealed for ® oust martial, Was, evidently, nob the true motive for this indignity, and th mtained is the General Order $49, avove uoted. Hisreal provocation grew out ol letter Wort addressed to hit, somo time hefore, whieh yed tho Generalin-Ohief in an effort be made rvice aad succers in the takin end previontly at Molino de: y and General Seotc’s enderse- matbt Jeavee notbing for comment:— * (Gen. Worth’s Letter.) Orry of Mexico, Dee, 29, 1847, Sin—In tho official report of the eapturect the city of Mexico, dated Yeptomber 15. 4847, repablisbed in the Star, aesepaper. and whith J had ap op; ity of seeing, yesterday for the tiret vie, the 7 pase. graph orcurs:— "Within those dixgnroished @orks | found cur ‘roop: engaged ib @ street ight agaimet the enouy posted In gerdens. at windows. sod on house tope all flat, with parepete Worth forward tne mounted howitzure of Cadwailader’s brigade, preceded by skicmisn~ ers and picuvers, aud pinkaxes apd crowbsra te force win- dows ant doors. or to burrow through wails, The assaik ante were 5000 ip an equalily of postion fatal te the ene- my By > v'elvck ip ihe evening. Worth ond oxrried two datterice in the svborhs. According to my instructions he Bere posied gusrds and sentinels, snd placed his troops under shelter for the night, ‘There was but one more ob rtagie. the San Cosme gate. (enstor hovse) between him and the gres yvare in tront of the Catgedral and palace —the heart oi ibe city; and that bargier it was kKnowo could pot. by doytight, resist our seige guns thirty wi- T bad gone cack to the foot of Caapultepes, the point from which the two equeduots begin to diverge, some hours eavlier in order to be near the depot, and in | exey communication wiih Quitean and twiggs # well ag with Worth.” ib > bring to notise of the geweral- | in-eu! bos entirely mivcovceived the facts of the case. P: y, for the present, several errors in the r6- toute Ube marked sentem- ht o'clock io the eveniog, eed to inti ose gabe, (oustom square in iron’ of seDtenees, i wed iathe senexed, 1 have w ob: my n he suburb the nigh tions to that eile od. That beto: “the gate, or caupen which enmy. Sd, That revere) bi brigedes quartered that night in the gate, sod my bead. ets and patruls being advanced xth Infantry now quarters, more © gate San Cosme to the Alameda; y's brigade, quarierd, fur couveni- e ebureh, where the ban balf way from pottion of my troops was in the two officere of general head quar- . it e, or waa, within tho know ledge cf ‘other oficera of the stuil that, by eight and twenty-four wad before Dine opoue ing in batvery atthe c’eicek heavy uae were got up fom th on the great Comme z seme twe i ® e > at half pact one A. it was from ibenee J passed them, in charge of an oflicer of my staif, to tho General in-Obi be near Chepultepec. but who wa Tem aware that t e ref gives a wrong p omy U own offices) report. whic Fini? could bave eonr rerpecttully, your obedient servant, W. J. WORTH, Brevet Major-Gen. [Endorsement.] Respretfcliy forweracd.—1 mig..t animadvert justly end severely vpon the tone of the within, aud upon seve ‘vnder the cireumstances, in saying, in my report was mot paesed by Wor of Beptember, Th: ed by tha division red two Vibg pase WINFIELD vm. the official Aside irom my his own Very red TOPs Was bifore the general ad the picture of excor division in the evening of th gnie was the second be IT gave the division eredi January, 1848, Tt_would extend is docum much, to introduce all the viadictive fends which e0 Scott provoked with the ofis Mexicon campaign. General Jesup, Gen eball, Colonel Barne: wultitudect suberdi: ral letter of crimination a levelled at the Presi and 3 made a grievous offence in them that they did not give woy to the violent « oppressive tempe: which required General Taylor to bo stripped of t lefé with him to confront m he hed quarrelled. M reply to the complaint, justly eays, in b Jast Jetter to General 5 — 7 rt been cow ‘al Taylor's com. you (Gen. Scott) had w at fact, for buted to such a large } that wh lo: vernment in regard to st t containing his ought to be t's was prepared ‘for is Very occasion an attempt throughout to Gerogate from the democratic government which woged the war—to appropriate to himsolt all the results of the mighty i risk which the democratic party encountered in declaring it—of the blood which its citizen-soldiers poured out to maintain in it the canse of their country—and carry all with him into the ranks of the whigs, in- yoking them, a a return, to crown him with the Presidency. He hes succeeded eo far az to put down Fillmoe, Webster, and Crittendea—the men of ability and renown. as party leaders They were opposed to the declaration of the war —Scott begged und preseed himself into it—and | now, by the utmost bitterness and ‘enoss | Sgainst thore who indulged his pnr‘icipation, he | sets, with bis own p the advantage eminent men who ha J every thir its policy, while t sed it.” Ha rom a demoocr istration, h persecuted mar or could wish, a | by Mr. Me { in ite serv | to him what euts or fa 1 WAY mwanago a re- ft enstein.og ma- ed with the man- free people tion to the main a ney, he ks of obedience, as tho principle of tary conduct ich is to ch terize his Presidential authority. This iga striking paragraph inthe last revelstion he hus made himseit to the pou “Convinced tint b fervent quarters of of present and favur iwith « devotion to thove in jouth, ne North. rate any sedition, disoider, fretion, or resistance to the law, or the | Union, on avy pretext, in su, ebould earty inio the civil adminis ciple Of military ccnduct—obedimee to ihe apd judicial departments of rovernment, - sututional spl turo, the posrible rerort to th mort cautiowly exerch straits end necersit _ le will not “tolerate any sedition, disorder, fas- tion, or resistance to the law of the Union, in any rt of the lend.” The elder John Adams hada iw passed by Congress against ‘ soditions, disor- repealed in ite con- —raving only, In reepeet to ihe logista- ‘veto power—always to be and uader the strictest re- Ger, faction,” & , &e., but that law was ‘ong since, because it was found that our country- men, being sometimes a seditious, disorderly, fiur- tious people, must be tolerated in’ those manifesta- tions Which more or loss characterize popular libert; Mes d wo Sen Waee too esrecely repre 5 0 Seis ovtieen revolution or sink down into slavery. atary memoir too | the close of the war, | srotary; and it is | rt martial, to try those | yulous to pire | To | ing, that “ he would carry Sato etvil 4b one Lserpe of military conduct—obedsen:e to the jegicletive aud judieial departments of govesn- ment.” with the PEamptitode ot & regular bred offi- ter, His course in Mexteo shows that he will ¢xo- oute this sromunciamento Ho has meditated wel! the, time aud the mode of applying his‘ one principe of military conduct” to the seditious, disorder, faorion oF resistanee te him on the part of abolitionists in tbe North, or Stute rights men in the South. That | he is resolved not to tolerate the irregalar and uu- jawial conduct, whieh he has already so distinctly branded with his displeasure, is clear, and it 18 savaly clear that be relies on his military scbolir- ehip to furnish the remedy. It isthe plan of dealing with eedition—our country had a tas of it ander the first federal ruler, who blonded boca of Genera) Seott’s favorite political ideas in his fa- mous alien and redition lnwe—the one to rid the country of alions, the other of sedition, by foros. General Scott, hes exhibited his theory as to aliens im yerious lights, and he kas given one striking ex- exopte of his mode of execution--and we mry gather from it how he would manage tbe seditious and tac- tious North and South, which he is resolved uot to tolerate—with the avowal contained in his several Jotters om these topics, and his deliborate declara tion in favor of a national bank, and of a natio bankrupt law—the ove to build ups ginenie monied power, the other bordes of priv Hi i apeculators to npbold it--there is little doubt but that a regu- Jer bred military man at the head of the govera- mevt might make short ehrift fur any trouviesume faetions thas annoyed him. THE ESD. Jacob A. Westervelt, the Democratic Candi- date for Mayor, The democratic party have nominated Jasob A. Westervelt, the ship-builder, for Mayor of this mostropelis, and, now that he has accepted the hanor our readere with a brief sketch of bis career daring the last fifty years. In the first place,-Mr Westervelt is a plain, na avruming man, and, as might be said, # esif-male msn, as will be sech by bis biography. Hor the last forty-five years he has been a resident of this city. and hes ameseod a large fortune by his meehunical cut aaa ship builder, and sizivt attention to buat ness, a1 ¢ bos afs0 ccreaee Oe acknowledged rt ation for honesty and integrity. Unoder the d tion of Myr. Westervelt, many of the fiares vessels Fave been launebed upon our waters, addiog mash to © insercial reputation, which not only re- flects credit to this country, bat bas obtained the admiration of all the world. BIOGRAPTY. ~ Jacob A. Westorvelt was born in the year 1800, in Bergen county, New Jersey. When atthe age of five yeais, hia parents removed to this city, aad resid- ed in the Fitth ward, where they remained for several years Ia 614, bis father died, leaving tho mother and Jacob, the oldest of three children, on tho wida world, without means to take care of themcelvos > now being in his fourteenth year, and uot to be a burden om the mother’s earnings, sought cruployment on board ship, aa sailor before the mast, which he continued for upwards of a year, during which time he erossod the Atlantic, and visited many of our Southern ports. At the expira- tion of a year, finding that bis mechanical genius Was not exac ited for ecean prrpozea, he con- cluded to remain at home, and aceordingly bound ‘fan apprestice to Mr. Chr -builder, carrying on basicess ¢ mmel gireet, in the Seventh wa M | Wostervelt, by his correct habits aad i > per fected himself in the mechanical art of ship build- ing, serving his four years to the utmost tutisfuction of his employer. Mr. Westervelt, now in his twentieth year, left Mr. Bergh, and undertock a contrac’ for the build- g of two vessels at Charleston, 8.C. Perfecting job consumed somewhat over a year, by whi be made d dollars clear of all expen: eturn, however, he received a leticr from Mr. Bergh, his former omployer, proposing copartnership ‘Uk ition was readily accopt= ed, and i elt ret acne, 1 thi | uphisre withh | of Mr. Bergh in the bailing ef s | period of fourteen years that firm g with upwa t seventy veseela. In 1835 a disso! tion of cop hip took place, on the most de consi cable terms. derable money, th ness; and, ay tion was & iar Westorvelt, huving ght he would rete from p to Europe for re nsunmed 2ome nino nuit | monks urs home, his mec | ges ing could uot bo satistiod hy \¥ ness became painfal, and more sons were rapidly growing wa vo manbood, minds © He become @n extensive third year. Howes x son ig no his soni ‘e@ ia cop their father in ship: building. The grandfather of Mr. Westorvelt, whore 8, was ove of the revola a "76," and was arres' under the denomination of being a rebel thrown into prison, where he died Thus stands the historical of the demoe yeors of p with d by the Bricish, aud | n for Mayor of this civy, who feom pre | #ppearances, will in ali human probability ve chosan the next chief magistrate. Travelling on Ri Cone At a mecting of pasvenger: when Colonel Breealove, of } ebaiman, and D. P. Gibbon the chair appointed Mesers, J. 11. McGlanghi dciphie, Col, Platt Evans, of Cincinnati, and V. Perry of | Newark, N. J., a8 a committee to draft an address to the | Public. The committee then offered the following, which Was unanimously adopted, and ordered to be pudlistied in the New York Henan. and al nily to | the esuse of the travelling comr Whereas, at n meet e va the death’ of Joha 8. Hate for his ox muder which he he me. a me of t veral y Mf almost entirely to iilerary pur- Me. | The pnblic have suffered ano the lion amin The | the fourth district of M | his resideneo in Charest | short iners, Sir. Thomp: | wree tho reepee! and conti¢ rudden death creates a1 va Representatives, it bein 4 which has occurred inthe Massachusetts delegation wichin the lart few woaks, ell of which remain to be fied by new election é Died, in Buffalo, on Saturday the 19th invt,, Copland Mason, eged 20 years, Me, ¥ about a your since to Miss Margaret Lind hobored the ceremony by off and Otto Goldschmidt as gicomeman. | James ASO Was married kinson, and Joany Libg A bridesmaid, | beem publiabed for mariners to assist them ines. tendered him, it will not be uninteresting to farnich | sertbe a line on the wall, there would be as many On the Wairlwind Theory. BY DR. HARB. Upon the idea that all storms are whirlwinds, +0 shat the winds which take plaee within the theatre of their existence blow in circles, instractions havo caping from such storms. Believing the existence of such whirlwind etorms impossible, I am induced again to step into the field, in order to soutrovert certain opinions sanctioning that theory, published, on the 25th inst., in the Journal of Commerce. By the author of that article, the etorm which took place about the 23th of Augast last is alleged to bave been “The kind of storm whieh Mr. W. C. | Redfield first proved to be a great whirlwind. This hedid by showing that the wind blew, at the same instant, in different places in a circle, of course the circle being very large, measuring some five huu- dred miles in diameter, while whirling and pro- gressing forward, like other smaller whirlwinds.” Bat is it not evident that, if # storm travels while it whirls, the wind cannot blow in a cirele, but ‘must blow in various cycloidieal curves? This eeems to be admitted in the latter part of the article in question, where Mr. Piddington ia cited as alleging that the motion of storms whirling and travelling simultaneously, must be cycloidal, and the ergo Sis al fe fhe Seles aga ce whirl- wind, ib consequently ado; the anthor, agree- ably to Piddington’ bert z If a peneil should be made to peek parallel to the axis of @ carriage wheel, so that while tho whoel should move along a rail, the pencil should describa a line on @ plastered wall, it would produse the com- mon cycloid, see fig. B; butif the pencil be fixed successively at any number of distanses along one of the spokes, and at each position be made to do- different inflected cycloids represented, Fig. C. Agein, if the pensil be supporsed at various dis- tances beyond the tire, and at cach ba suvceasively made to deseribe a line, by the same process there will bo s8 may different curtate cysloidal curves aa there have been distances employed. Mig. A. Cartate, A. nas oes Cyeloia. 4 Common, BABS Infected, c. L The carve B, rents the line de ing from the tire. 3 represents the curve produced when the pencil is between the tire und the uxle, cailed the iniless- ed cycloid. A represents the curve male whon the pencil is beyond the tire, ealied the curtate cycloid. The loop made below the plane on which tho wheol rolls must be larger in proportioa ag the distance from the axle, the velocity of rotation relatively to that of progression being greater, because the peasil moves through a Jarger circle. it follows that these curves must vary in propor- tion as the situation of the peueil is varied; so that there must be a diversity of curvature tor every variety of distance. ¢ 1b i8 equally truo, that for every zone* into which the flat cylindrical mass torming a whirlviad can be divided, there must be a corresponding sycloid gevesated by the whirling and travelling motions In any storm to whieh many sbips should be ex- pozed in ag many different zones, exch might be driven throvgh a different cycloidal psth. ‘The common cycloid is generated by any zone of a cylinder whirling and travelling, of which the velocity of gyration is euo-third greater than that of progression. When the velocity of gyration in avy zofe is less than this, the inflected cyeloid results; when greater, the curtate form ensues. The onward ve ocity being thirty miles por hour, the zono which gyrates with the velocity of forty miles in the same time will drive a vessel along a path like tho curve, Fig. B. If h_ velocity of thirty miles per hour, an inflected cycloidal path Hed the common oyctoid, r ved by the pencil when projet will be produced. If with the velocity of sixty miles per hour, the path pursucd would be thas represented by Pig. ble that Mr. Redfield’s obser- ve avy indication of these Vario. Ja some zone ot any siorm eon- stituted according to the whirlwind theory, each of the forms ofthe vycloid above repreeented must produced, as well 2s varieties of the inflecte ourtate form: mee of variations in it not re eycloidal path forces. vation2 a8 demonstrating Ww: Jow in ciscles. Not only wore they so de: by him; they were also delinewted in his charts of storms, (of which sever 1 as if consi ren! The aire 8 vlion of the wi paths. Does 1 Redfis hat L do not believe, A any stor s lt vol fe mile disks of ai meter, is doys rot requi Agrteably to tg | Mr Redfield rotation of a co | changes in the pos and condition of its co: tuent particles, but a constant acveasion of terior atmosphere to the body of the whirlwind. gether with a discharge equaily constant, at one extremity of the axis of rotation.” Again, p 120:—* Nor is it my in’ontion to deny avy movement nor v ‘d tendency at the centre ofa whirlwind storm, for of such & movement, apart from theory, 1 have long since obtained good evidence ** Here one portion of Mr Rodfield’s observations shows that his etorms aro attended by an accession of air, or of an inblowing movement and soncomi tant ages at one extremity of the axis of ro- tation, which must of course be the upper extre- mity, as the existenge of an upward movement there is asserted * on good evidence.” Yet all this is afterwards contradicted by other evidence from the same author, as we are told that “the centrifugal action in a storm which gyrates horizontally, must tend to withdraw, or rarity the air atthe centre, by caueing an accumulation to- wards the exterior of the storm, thus causing a higher state of the barometer around the exterior of the border than at the centre of the gale ‘This connection and result is in strict accordanoo with the facts of the case, as exhibited in all storus of this character, as far as wy observations and in- formation extend.” If the inblowing theory be correct, then the alle- ations in the two égeaphs quoted would be if the whi t , then the gations in the ts L be tine; but Redfield, wi hus sanctioned the evi cciving that if either b falzo, But waa there ever a more monstrous ¢ that of making the air ina sock the centre and the cire the air does in a winnowing quently to enter sbout th escaping around the exterior drawn in from the circumference the axis. vos not onty 2) e! 0 TOVOLVE AS niachine, and conse. axis, simultan border, and y and give it out - n, j is “ mechanival gray ‘The ocly mo’ ng porror tation &3 con rotary and orbitual motion of the © mitling that these general forces conid cange any portion of the atmos tere to rotate, it Is inconeciy- able that the 6 ut Water of tho ocean should not be similarly efected. Is it not ioeumbent upon | the author of this idea to show how the forocs in | question can be utrated upon a particular of the atmospie 89 a8 tomnkeit revolve within the surround/ug non revolving annulus of the same medium!“ Yet a rotative movement in the air” ia alloged by him to be * the ouly cause of destructive winds and tempests.”” For the generation of this rotative movement, the author combines with the general foreos above men- tioned the transient otot obstructing bodies, ag apperent in the following language, ’* Tho northern margin or parulleld of the trade winds, sweeping towards the gulf, must necessarily come in collision with the archipelago of islands which skirt the Caribbean sea. ‘Lhe obstru tion which they afford produces a constant tendency to circular evolution.” ‘Phere wastes of atmosphere, thus sot into active revolution, continue to sweep along the islonds, with incroaced rapidity of gyration, uatil they impiage upon the American const,” bE age given one of Mr, Redfield’ sions of the cause of hi '# explana- 0 is suppositious whirlwinds, I ‘will proceed to give another, in which he loses sight of the planetary motions and the conflicting islaads of the Caribbean ten, and makes his whirlwinds a cott’s — ‘wr directed e sectional question in our country, in advance, that he would “ know no North and no South, and would tolerate no sedition, disorder, face | tion oF resistance to law,” was bat preiiminvry fare | visional government of 1 those calm regions where apparently there sro no currents t0 meet cach other, aad ara lesa frequen where currents are in'full activity.”—Sillinecn’s Jowrnal, vol. xxxili., p. 61. Is it vable & disk or plate of air of from three hundred to a thousan@ mils ia diamuter, | and less than tiree miles in height, muy of its own & whirling motion, capable of pro- ducing the terrific violence of a burricane? The exclusion of ** all aid from foreign causes” ravitation and from the rotary and orbitnal mo- els represented as indispensable to storms, as al- ready etated. In fact, ihe evidence here adduced by the author confutes his premises, which aaeriboall windsand stormeto planetary motion. Agreeably tohis own allegations, they may arisein an iwolated aerial mass of the dimensions above cited, without any foreign aid, and of course without the influenso of planetary motion. bloreovor, from the facts which he states, it must be evident that such motions oa have no storm: producing influence on the isolated masses of air to which allusion has been made. Again, the circumstances under which he repre- sents storms to originate, are such asto preclude the influence of any extraneous s:orm-producing agents. Their agency could not take place withia a ‘*colm region” without destroying the calm. It seems to me that gales do not extend higher thana mile. Monntains much less than a mile in deight usually penetrate the clouds which bound the stormy stratum. According to Redfield, a storm may have any dia- meter between three hundred and @ thousand miles inextent. At three miles from tho terrestrial sur- face, the air is only half as dense as at that surfave; we may assume three miles ag tho maximum of storm elevation. Imagine then a plate of air nine hundred miles wide, aud three miles high, and of course having its altitude to its diameter as one to three hundred, Theee proportions might be represented by an Our Montreal Correspondenee. Mowrenan, Canava BE. Baprember 29, xh Drip to Montreal—Sights, Scenes, and Stem om the Wieg, & , Se. Here I am, over foar bandred miles north of New York, in latitude about 45° N , with the broad St. Lawrence and its family of islands in sight—thie | would seem to cut off all assistance from mechanical | being the very largest of the whole batch. After having toiled and swoated throngh the strects of Gotham all summer, I caught the infos tion, or prevailing epidemic of the sonton—a rage for travel—and determined to etrike a ‘bee line’ to the country, totally indifferent as to my course, onty that it vhould be as spsedy and av iar distant as my limited time would allow. To this end L found myself seated in the Hudson River cars, in Chambers streot,ticketod for this royal mountaineity,, to be put through by daylight. There was something. novel in the idea of arun of afew hours, bringing mg to a place which, in my boyish dreams, I sapposed to be near the north pole, and which our arcy toiled: months to approach through e trackless wildorness. ‘The time was up, and off we were trotted to Thirty- first street ; from whence wo wero wheeled awa: re, & powerful locomotive, the increased speed ot ‘whtele esused trees, houses and villuges to dash by us like apparitions vanishing with the glimpze. ‘*Jee- meny !” exclaimed a Yankee, ‘this is flying, and beats all the running in creation.” ** How dreadfak it would be,” said aa old woman, “if the traim should run into the river!’ ** I’ve hearn toll it’s am easy death to be drowned.” said the Yan¥oe; ‘“ and if one has to be killed, perhaps it’e about as well te die that way as to have whe brains knocked agin » electrical plate of oue teuth of an inch in thivknoss, and thirty inches in diameter, or of tio-tenths of av inch in thickness and sixty inches or tive feet wide, whieh would agree with those of the plate of alarge electric] machine i By what conceivable application of forces eould soch an acrifora@ wass be mad» to revolve, even if sopported so as 10 move without friction ‘The giass dis®, if supported without friciion, would vara in obedience to any tavgeutial force, because, in conse quence of the coherence of its parts, the motion of one poit invelves that of the wholo. Moreover, at ter being wade co revolve, tho conseqnent eentrifu- gul force would be counteracted by tha tenacity o 18 materials, buta iar impulve would only pash off a portion of the verial plate, disturbing but little any portion whioh would be remote from the poiat of application. ‘To cauce the whole acrial mass to revelve without deraogemont, and so as to avoid disruption, every particle must be acted upon, atthe same time, by Velocities varying with tho distance from the ventre. a part of the atmosphere, and there being no soit bedies in nature which cau re: it, how ean any’ cane of 1motion affect it without disturbing the cir- eumainbient ques r} What is there to isolate it from that mass so as to induce in it separately a violent jryration ? Ip ony whirlwind, travelling, os admitted, abou’ thirty milos ner hour, the velo; on one side must be thirty miles moze, and on ths oshor thirty m tos leas, than the velocity on the li eted by the progressive motion. Of coures, 8 mean gy~ ratory velocity be eighty miles, the whole velocity on one side would bo fifey miles, on the other ons hundred and ten miles. Inevitably, the violence which conflicting bodies would expericnes woull res of these numbers, and, coase- eof momentum would be me limb as on the northwe: It is in consequence n limb. this modification of the rotary, by the travelling velocity, that the figare nting the curtate ey¢loid, indicates a neu- tion of tho whirling ‘motion by the progres- sive motion at the spot where tho lines cross each other Thue, the revolution of a cycloid, no lessthun of a circle, inyol the existence of a space about which the revolution is effected, aud where conse- quently there is no motion and of conrse no violence;, while en the outer bovndary of the figure, the con- i eneeas the Fr sum recone’ ation of Redfield tbat storms * inished violence towards the extericr and with increased energy towards the interior of the space which they ovcupy.”—Sdliman’s Journal, v. 25. p. 117. Jhave thus for insisted upon the absurdity of the whirlwind theory, by binging the observations ond inferences of the author to bear upon each othor, I willnow call attention to the fact that bis ob serva- jons are utterly irreconcilable with those of Espy, Leowis and Bache Mr Espy has recently yp port of his observations, then ten verona 28“ wwove from east’ to Ww to vortheast, uz Hedicld b » in Mr. EB of more nu seventy there any evidence in favor of winds m i i f ed they would bave done bs dare x he rel ev oES ons oi Loomis (Transac- ), @ great storm of December from northwest to southeast. There area of minimum pressure and of calm, toxards which the wind blew between south and : ‘e, and north and west on the other. ig aren extended, from northeast to southwest t 2,000 miles—fiom Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. Could gach a storm whirl? There several other objections to be made ty thy posb ty of whirlwind storms, in which the whole of the aft Within the theatro of stormy reaction revolves about a common axis, However, a limited whirl may be produced by the conflict of currents meeting at the focal area towards which they blow, accord- ea Be the centripetal theory of storm; But when a whirl is produced by the conflict of inblowing currents, it must be clear that the great- er part of the mass affected cannct whirl ; as thore must be room for the centripetal currentsto exist as wellas for the whirl, which is the mere creature of their momentum, acquired necessarily before meeting. The stratum of the atmosphere in which storms take place is too shallow to admit of the goneration of extensive whirls, of which the diameter is pro- bably never greater than the depth of the fluid in which it takes place. Ox Beit, The Great Norwraran Viournise.— | This afternoon, between twelve and ong o'clock, Ole | Bull performed the first step towards becoming a citizen of | the United States, by making a declaration of his inten- | tions to that effect. ‘Tbat this great priviloze ovigt be rea- | dered more rected and imposing, he ceremony m'ght take place ip the voners | pendence, eurrounded with all the gio: | which the p mmted to the min, | statue of th of his conatcy, a mut witness to th itt, Circnit Court of the United states. | urbenity which w so charzoveristic of diately *ympaibived wilh. the deeply the great No on, and at once ¢ the high toned idea of the privilege ¢ enjoy, in taling the initiatory ste: eilzen, Jcbn M. Read avd JohaO of tho clomanly man, ima. tive feelings of bosom ng & eqa., counsel mn | desire to be desmed worthy of #0 great a privilege, tnd I shall ranit no efforts tamett ie Tiave port sworn allegiines to the hing of Norway and Sweden, nor to any other potentate, nor have I bowed the kuve to any but my God.” (pointing upwards, and his faco beamiog all that he felé within him.) I shail value the ee of citizen hip above every. othor earthly object, god ehall endeavor to introduce hundreds of thous, of ny countrymen to so great @ boon, that they uray frol the great difforence between being @ cilizen of th glorious republic, in the full enjoyment of liborty, aud that state of exirtence in which they now find themselves Already hove a thousand Norwegians settled within the Imits of this commonwealth, in its northorn part, and [ hope that bef er year expires many thousands more will (as ings of liberty in thesame locality. T shall not sy efforta anti! my countrymen who with to emigrate, shall be in the foll porstssion of thair natural Nights, ond in the enjoyment of a farm in Penne sylvania,?” He then took (be oxth required by law. and appended his signature to the instrument, He siso aflixed his neme tothe book kept in tho Mall of ludepondence, ia whieh strangers usually write their names, Ole Bull then entered into convereation with those present, and stated that he bad always been a republican, During the pro- Jemartine, in France, he said be fee: his countrymen to that great man, and jmeclf carried the tanner which bore the declaration of the rights of man. For this act, when he went home to Norway, he was treated with suspicion, but thoy dared not lay hands upon his person as he was surrounded warm-hearted and willing hands, and his spirit and hi soul were above the of arbitrary power. Lis desire is to induce aa many of his countrymen as poxsible to emigrate to the northern part of this State, and ft is his intention to purchase still larger tracts of wild land than he at present owns in that locality, for tural pur- spe His Kegeeer fh Lea Td the first to discover ‘his continent, ‘although they occupied it but a year | Mr. George Hanford, an old and much rocpostad resie | #0) begotten progeny. \ om of ‘Albom, ‘led tn thet ity ca the and Tee ene Agreeably to one of his expositions, it has been nie. het ae ve ae? aoe i Mk . rotative move- ‘ise Maria Lyx. in reli Blete: ) ment rgotting that as a rotati died at the convent of tha iter ot Nowe Demet meee the air is recie ey thing at pear on Jat ult, 8k a wi is view of ie subject of Georgia, and mm been a becsentlbe ten yume meget whitiwing ¢ self-moving power. 4 Lett dl Ex-Govennon Banorn, of New Hampshire, i aul para; tends to confirm manton, on the 224. of disease of the brainy at the uge of | view: ‘We observe ha? whiniwinds and tone 19 youts one 4 pom. aeont to commence sogually, acquire their full Aon, Philp GH brodherson led at Manchester, im | activity without the aid of any foreign eausos; and pe one a! watthone® ofr ope inet OF | it is wi known that they are most frequent in WAR, many years, & resident of Michigan, * eras eet mee the portion ifort raiding the Blata of New York horas rave ch Sonoumastoally wishen fa Ihe rem ‘see of the ize Dank at ‘cirsien be drawn within the ass town, OW sed wes chorwends attics ‘of the | fentrle that will be divide in eee cf Monroe, in ible State, one cheubar bree about eerste ee ome | t few rude monuments on tite OF ee Feed & chow that im 1003 of tha Greet had visited Vinland, and there . ils fect might probably add to his it to become citizens after they required they pal He is @ man of warmest ii rights of man and will make a capital net n of our republic Philadelphia Bullen. 2. Bat the mass to be made to rovolve existing na | reat on the southeastern | ha d a that the | 7 | ligious denominations, the ©: rock.” This speech did not secm to comfort the ol@ woman much, who grow silent aud melancholy wher it was finished. The evgine thundered away over the iron rails, shaking the gcouud as it dashed for- ward All the officers (\uciading engineer, con- ductors and breakmen) were clovo 2% thoir duty, silent and attentive, lookiog ahead, and soar seemed to Wink. The curs were steady and easy, apd the motion not more apparent than that caused by a speei of twe: ve miles aw hour. It ig a well managed and guarded road; and the express train, so far as we could judge, seemed to be abont as safe as any ovher. We hove in sight of Wee Point. We patled ont our wateh, looked atit, rubved our eyes; looked found we bad only cousau Hitsle over one age hour fn reaching this place, . We thought the watsls to our car, found all right; va oud tried to read. It was bie—viow too jinn. Away we went, passing t at Poughkeepsio. ‘ What place | is that,” exclaimed the old woman, ‘with the church ‘steeples, over tha river?” ‘What! that lace?” exclaimed thé Yaukea ‘By hokey if it aint Albany!’ “Dear mo,” exclaimed the frst speaker, “ZT ean recollcet when it took usa whole week to: here by schooner ” We again pallet out sh, again rabbed our exes, and looked and only 10 A. M., and in five mimates more we last Albany. Hora, taking the Troy and. sh railroad, we soon roaohed tho for- mer place. From hence we pressed on from Troy | to North Bennington; thexce to Rutlaad, amides | Wild movntain everery end warble quarries, to Rut- |Jand, Vermont; and thenca to Burlington,— | by the steamboat United States to Ronse’s Point. | Hore again wo travelled by railroad to Saprainic, | forty-seven miles, aud theneé by a stesmer diago- pally across the St. Lawrence miles, and were coifortably lan $ ibis splendid hotel, at a fow minutes belore 10 o'clock, P M, having eonsemed only sixteen hours in trave ling irom one city to the oth) Lhis exhibits a vast improvement over for- mertimes. And Montreal is now nearer to New York than Buffalo, Boston, and Washington were a short time since, and may be fairly set down as ano- ker suburban town added to the yearly expanding Gotham. 4 fi As speedy as the communicition now fa, it will soon be reduced. The Si Lawrence is to be bridged at the head of the rapids, nine milesabove Montreal, at Lachine, opposiie which i: the station of the Novtreal and Plattyburg railroad, just opened. Mearures are before the Provincial Parliamant, at its present session, looking to the gramt of authors ty for this purpoze. , As we shall, by invitation, take strip ovar thie road tomorrow, we shall defer ouc deserip- tion of it until then, and turn to notice some prominent matters touching tke city. Our attention was first drawn to the burnt district, whic: presents a truly amen aspect. A vast section of the town presents a feld of standing and biask- ened chimneys, iatersperred with ruined walle Hece are seen detazbed or half fallen gables; and yonder, gutted stone or brick wails, the interior be- ing filled with confused fragmenss of half burned timbers and iron rubbieh It is o gtoomy pletnre, and mubt resemble, to some extont, the sight pre- sented ortions of Mc i any poor families useless 4nd pounlcss. in erecting nov | under shelter ag point, the burny ¢ deeoiateness, Some of the sufferers bave expressed deep grati- tude for the aid received from New York, though we really think that we should have made the amount £30,000, instead of the small eum of $18,000 or 19,000. The Bishop’s Paleco forms a prominent ruin amidst the general desolation. Hays Hotel, and a number of splendid granite bulldings on the Same square and strovt, have their granite walls standing, with all their inner works copsamed. The chase Jonegani’s Hotel, in point of architectural exuty, by no means compares with that noar by, which was burnt down prior to the great fire, and ia not yet rebuilt. I attended morniag service in the: great Catholic Cathedral yesterday, (Sunday.) It iseapable of seating about 7,000 porsons. It was well attended, and there must have been fully 6,000 persons present, including a large number of strangers. The music was capital, and we had an eloquent sermon in Frenob, from a preacher who most eny, exhorted his hearers to put their trust in God, and to look to him through Christ’s atonement, for salvation The vast gation: appenred sxeerting yy solomn and sincere in their devotions, and we the sacred edifice favorably | impressed by the solemnity of tho services we had ed Viewed from oreey elevat io all ite strigt lies sproad out | witnessed, and with increased respect for the un- | Lk ae sincerity of the people and their eloquent minister. We availed ourselves of sevoral fine rides which abound in the vicinity of the city; among others we | Greve along the margin of the Tivor to Lachine— ten miles by the road—and ind a, fine view of the rapids. Our whole route was lined on the land side by a sneceseion of splendid apple orchards, which were loaded to an extent we had aover before witneseed, with app'es of slmositevery shade of color, from crimgon to white. green, &e. Small trees, nob higher than a mac's head, were covered, aad thelr limbs bent to the ¢ d by the weight of tho frait. Montreal contais ebout 60.000 inhabitants, fally | two thirds of whom are French Canadians. Of re« olies nutaber about 41.000, and there aro about 16,000 Protestants We bave not space at presont to give further de- taila, but will have more (o soy in our next, | for Ole Bull, mpexied him to the lull, and remained at | with him during the ceremony. Whom Me. 1 nd to | Bransce | him thet part or the & lon a re: | a -—— quired bim to sy auce to (hi Uniied es, and | Prom the Plains. abandon all f othe King of Norway and Swedon, [From tho St Joseph Gazette, September 8,] th 3 hand upon his own hoari, and ia the Col George 6 © reeshed our city a few day mot impres er sad since, from the Pleins. He lefe hore abent the first ot May. to necompany as Devil's Gate, on < he returned on the 27th ef J fiat Devil's Gato bound for California, Gapt J. W) Moore and bt company ot Wisconsin : Care and fomily. of Chicago, Tilt all well and in fine spt his company. Roswell G Iinola, At Independence Kock, hemet Jeoob Holgate and family of Stork county, Il. bound for Oregon David Hastings, of Now York; WR, and A. L. Walker Scott county, ill, LE. Thirston, of Capt. Stacie’s coms pany. Drab. Pingreo, and oompany of sixteen persons, from Kane county, IU. with doves of stock. Pasned the Devil's Gate, well and fi ‘ite, on the Oth of Jnly, Capt. J. W. Shaw, of Li ey, Til Simeon and Alfred Hines; A. L, Whedon, Capt Gua, of Wisconsin, with M. Beker and Wyatt, Capt. shrod. of Kana, ML; 0. Heme derson, Jon handler. Riehara Gilliam, W. James Strode, Melvin Chavuler. Tease M Von Allen, Barney ‘Malon Mee! bed 5, At mt " BD ‘ken, Captes EF, Leach, wis two children; Capt, A. P. Orvarn, wife, and oe chine Capt. Wm Northipt, of Miohigno; Wim. Chandier, O.iver Creal, Nathan Knelend avd Civ isiopber Paxhail, bosides hundreds of others who did not give their names not knowing that the Colonel intcndod to return to the States. ‘The last company he met. wav James Moore's, ot Plates: county, Mo . about four milvs this side of Kort Laramie, onthe Sth August, driving sont 10.000 hesd of heen? whieh from bad water and continued travel. were dying at the rate of forty to forty ave daily, He almed $0 wit, ff bi Ly nt not leave in the spring till after tak. ing their fleece, the uct of whic pposed pay the expense and loss. — —— Vol, Blodget has handed u» a list containing the {se ce find Toemee rorldeBoe Of outa’ 'Y persons whose graves he saw on the roadaide be tide Of Platte, between pc M river. many vee Toad ree, the oS 0 aro buried at the dit or s four and five miles main et Hie the heart re from, ihe hi vain for California, as far feom which poimt A ile H i iF a 7 the soon f Anatt want made at Charleston, 8 0. Of the 21st, to murder an old the Lion He had received a wieleme Blow On the Beek boas «hotehet and when found was insenstbie, but tii ative,