The New York Herald Newspaper, August 25, 1856, Page 8

NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 25, \uestion be was, ety put and fost ‘The Cua: then introduced the name of Dr. Blatchford, who, however, cculd not be found {a the room. Professor Bact observed that they would then lose the whole day of Monday in discussion. A Mumurr ed that the constitution should be taken vp at 3 A. M., a Professor Bacux thought those who liked constitution making should not consume the time of those who pre- ferred rcientific discussion. oi Suaes said that this was trrelevant. The committee badacuty to perform, and they would per- form it. They were not only scientific aS but v ‘were associates of a society organized for scientific pur- poses. Al! experience shows that no society can prosper Saye by adbering to the rules of its constitution. It was ‘ota fit matter of rificule that men should endeavor to bring back the society to the rules of its organization. And it would be an excellent thing to devote one, two or three hours to the final revision and adjustment of the dificulty. For until it was adjusted they would lose bours aod days and years in fruitless discussion. It ls not oaly just that it should be attended to, but we have to attend to it. 1 theretore second the motion, ‘and truzt that we shall be able to adopt the drat unani mourly, aad to render the society secure trom any further ‘violanous of its constitution. Professor AGassiz had no wish to trifle with the sub- ject. Al be would say was, that if the meeting on the constitution took place at an earlier hour than the gene: ‘ral meeting be felt satisfied that™the members, when as sembied, would unanimously ratify aay constitution which suited the wishes of the gentlemen opposite. Professor Rocers bad no doubt but such was the seatimen: of Professor 381z, kaow fixed on science. But as there was bore an undoubtet dificw'ty, he trusted that Professor A. would not oppose their settiement of it. He hoped he would be present at their meet.og, aad give them the benefit of his large wis- dom. Professor Agassiz would agee to anything, so as to get to busiuess. Proiessor Bact moved the postponement of the sub. ject to Monday. He bad bad oo hand in the tormatioa of ‘the coosttution, and was a disinterested party. fhe coustitutou, as be understood, was the work of Professor , Professor Henry D. Rogers. He referred and the story about his making the Spar- observe his constitution forever. ¢ Rogers rose, and so did several other zentle- men. The Chair insisted on putting the question. A contest o moments ensued between the Chair and Professor Rogers, but the latter gave way at la The question was put, and the discussion postponed of 83 to ‘fizg point of order arising, which the Chair ofessor Mitchell appealed trom the decision. was sustained by the house. Brarcarorp was then introduced. He spoke as ENT AND GENTLEMEN OF THE ASSOCIATION—Dr. ‘Zina Piteber, of Detroit, to whom it properly beloags to represent the American Medical Association in this learn ed assembly. regrets exceedingly that unforeseen contin- geacies Lai occurred to prevent his being present on this occasion But he cannot regret it as muchasIdo. I know be expected fully to be with you, and calculated on mueh enjoyment and profit while mingling in your de- fiperations. Ho would bave added an interest to tho oc. easion which would have done honor to the body over which bs presides. But since the duty very une! - ly devoives jo me. one of its numblest members, I will eadeavor to discharge it to the best of my ability. la beball, then, of the American Medical Association, I am to teader to you the thanks of that body for the very po. lavitatoa extended to them, through your Local Com ‘od this present meeting, and to iaform you taton was mos: cordially acvepted, and that a hearty a. ©” resounded from every part of that large assemb!y when the question of acceptance was taken. ‘And why was tbe invitation so heartily responded to, but because every one present fet glad that there were others desicc themselves bent on the discovery and elucidation of truth’ Both associations are ing after facts which ball betwer the con dition of our race They have uo other object in view, however vartows the paths they take to obtain it. I cou sider the formation ot associations of this character to bave given a greater impetus to the Progress ‘of science than avy other cause which has, p3, ever been put in + anyon Theee associations have called iato active, vigilant exercise ten thousand minds, which, but for them, would Lave remained inactive or eailstied with the ly routine duties. They have enabled ersonal intercourse they aflord to measure by themeclves to entire exclus:veness, nd thus maxy learn how much less they ey once thought they did. Taey also a bright cra im the nineteentl century; and 1f what they bave already accomplished is an earnest of what the future will reveal, may we not look for results which w..i cause more astonishment thaa anything which evea the prosent ceatury has yet witnessed ’ These asso- ations, 1 wul be pereeived, ditler widely from those of e last century, inasmuch as they open wide Jmyssion, so tbat any one having au offering to make can bring’ it with his own hands. Taere és ao exclusiveness, except im being exclusively ackery. Poverty bere is no barrier 10 t is well known that many of our brighie gems are in possession of no other gems tuan thet 9 th ot mittee, to You must me to expres’ my gratilcation at seeing the same advantage enjoyed by association likewise. Is it not calculated to Sil vs with hope for the futare, notwithatand- en the Capgers which threaten us from the upbeavings of pol and sect.onal apimosities, when we see a delivers. . 2 barmcnious session, for such an object, in Which oatioua! distinctions, State boundaries and geo. graphical diveons are all obliterated—buried forgotten ta the one sole object of searching afer truth’ That the two assoc.atocs may always be found to barmonize aud fratera re © my most sincere desire. Aad now, in behalf of the body I have the bonor to represent, ! hereby ex- tend to jou, geutlemen of the American Association the Advaacement of Science. the right hand of fellows! aevuring you that we shall ever fooud ready, with head, beart aad hand, to second any measures cal.ulated to promote the noble object we all have in view, GEOLOGIC AL SECTION. Professor Tvomey took the chair at about a quarter past eleven, sad called vpom Col. Foster for bis paper on “The remais? o! (ue foes. elephamt in Anserica.’’ FoRatt RERPHANTS AND MASTODONS Vol. Foere: accordingly read as follows — ‘The true position im the geological series of the deposits a wie these remains ‘ocour is still @ mooted point amocg Atuericon geologists, Many maintain that the in troduct.oa of the elephant upon the earth was subsequent ‘to the Dr {t epoch and there are those even who assert that ‘herr ert.nction bas taken place -ince the adveut of man. Tam disposed to refer their origin to a far higher an- tiyouy, when the earth was tenanted with different forma of ile, aad when different physica! conditions preva.lod from what we cow behold. | shall proceed with some minutenoss (> adduce the evidence on whi | this opinion is based, and io the accomplishment of the task it will be necessary to inquire into the origin and age of the super- ficial depos te 1a wich these remains are entomb« d From the Lorders of the Arctic oceaa, to the of fat. 40 deg N., we meet widh accumulations of clay, sand and grave’. \uterspersed with boulders of northera origia ‘aad blocks derived trom no great distance. In the basins of tb t lakes. these deposits cousist of marly clays, wored, overlaid by @ couree of pebbies, and wa! Intermingled with these clays are found Ube rema.aos of vegetal consisting, #0 far as Mentidied. of red and white cedar, sumac, pine and cran Derry. « Dg the existence of ubarctic vegetation Thus (ar hout the entire area occupied by these depos it~ mains of shells have been foun’; but these are of fresh water origin. These mater! are gomet. Mogied together pel! mel, but are more fre wuted ia siratiled beds. The boulders o pear to have been de agd sometimes on com- cular position, but tates, pon Pub Minute ca We are too apt to regard the dritt agency as of short cont.nvance. and there are thoge who still maintain (hat the materials were distributed by a temporary f the waters, but {t may be presumed that a long inter va Of time intervened between the tirst grooving and plain ing down of the rocks and the cessation of the bouller which observers have thus far failed to act geological monuments, her phenomena intimate! the Drift epoch, to which These are the terraces. To thove who have investigated the terraces which bor der the great laicen and rivers of our country, it mast ap pear evident that they have not resulted from the vars! of barriers at their outlet, but from the gradual r portion of the continent, with suificient pauses in movement to admit of their formation. The ol/est rv terraces appear to have been formed towards the term nation of the drut period, since we find that they coutain erratic son angular blocks. to their present ition OY ex sting agencies might not necessarily ‘0 al ostances. for the drifis of which they are composes mbt bave been subsequently modified by Auviatiie acton. but we have not the means of distia guishing between primitive and modified drift. Even those terraces composed of communated materials might bave been formed at a time when the summits of the country were above the drift agency, while the de port.ons were exposed to ita ravages On the whole. it is reasonable to suppose that the most ancient of the terraces are intimately connected with the terminiton of the drift epoch, aed that their formation was the result ot those clevatory morementa by which the cont sents were made to astume their present out fines. Whes we witness the sat operations of rivers. in evading their channels forming alluvial deposits, we may weil suppose that the more recent even of the terraces baye a nae satiquity theo that ordinarily to the in 5 connected wth Will proceed to Agassiz. { his generous beart, His whole thought and soul were » would be found strewn over an wu! t ik it in rat tant i $ i i i marked, is ee eet The moiluzces of this i, according to Professor EF. Forbes, although belonging mainly to Cre Bem indicate by their assemblage the same thing. ve fossil elephant of Europe, by bis compound covering of wool 5 adapted to withstand the rigors of a north- ern climate, and by the augmented complexity and num- ber of the ti iturating plates of his teeth, as red with vhe Lr yey species, as indicated according to Owen, was adapted to live mainly on the woody fibre of tress. “That its of the mastodon were similar, is proved from the ‘act that the centents of his stomach, in ral instances, have been found to be composed of twigs and branches of con:fercus trees which now flourish in northern lati- vudes, and are identical with the buried arvorescent vege- tation of the drift. Assuming that the country was submerged—and that it bas been is evidenced by the drift sits 2,000 feet above the ocean level—the vast accumulations of ice in the circumpolar region would be set afloat, ia the form of bergs, freighted with fragments of rock and finer materials = incorporated with them while attached to the land, cater- , ing the water, their general direction would be southward, ; for the reason that the cold waters of the North are cou- } Stantly flowing towards the equatorial regions; nor ‘would their course be modified to any great extent by / winds, as about seven-ei of their surface must have been submurged. As melted awuy ia their pro- gress, they would leave long trains of boulders, which subsequently, when the sea m was clevated, jual surface, or im- bedded in detrital materials of variable fineness. These materials, if thrown down in deep water, or exposed to the action of currents, would be assorted and shaiitied. Whenever tue icebergs became stranded upou a reef, or shoal coast, the rocks would be scratched aod grooved, and long lines of pebbles and boulders would be thrown up. It ts by @ process like this, in our opinion, that the recks have been grooved and boulders distributed. If now the country were to rise slowly. with occasional pauses in the movements, summits after summits would emerge; the ocean would recede farther and farther, leaving behind a series of coast lines and beaches, iudi- cating its former level; estuarics would Vecome couvert- ed into lakes; the superabundant waters would be into *he depressions, and the rivers wouli tow with increased velocity, excavating for themselves new channels ani bearing into the poois the silt and sand of @ former sea bottom. Terraces would be formed along the margin of the valleys, as the country rose, or bos Waters cut away the banners which imprisoned em. The iakes and pools thus formed might soon become the habitats of numerous fre: water moilusca, whose remains at this day coustitute beds ot sbeli mari. As the lakes shoaled, either by succes sive depositions of detrital matter or by a lowering of their outlets, aquatic plants, such as the ties and the rushes, would take root in the bottom, succeeded by the chara and the sphagnum, which would dourish 80 long as the lake bods furnished a sufficient amount of mous. ture. While these changes were taking place on the land, far out in the sea and the coast lines, the same causes which had di the detrital materials over higher teveis might be in full so wy Thus many of ‘amps and peat marshes whica bave served as the wichres of the mastodon may have originated at a remote epoch, as compared with the advent of mau, al- though the associated shells belong to existing 5; We have, then, evidence of an augmentation of cold, by which large icy barriers were formod, of tne depres- ‘sion Of a vast area in the northern portion of the conti Rent, of Lue dispersion of boulders, of a subsequent ele- vation of the land, of the formation of tefraces and beaches, su4 of the deposition of detrital materials, ea veloping the remains of terrestrial and mo!juscous aai- ‘This theory accounts for more of the drift phenomena than the glacial theory; but there are two objections which \t ails satisfactorily to explain: — 1. The eutire absence of marine ebeils ia these dopo. sits, and 2. Ifthe continent were permanently submerged, wo should expect a humid and equable climate, and the tro- pical forms of vegetable life within the limita of tae tem- perate zone. Having thus endeavored to sketch the pecu'iaritiea of the drift deposits. 1 will now proceed to aotice their copnection with the remaias of the elephant. That portion of the sketch marked A is occupied by the cos! measures, which rive in hills 200 or 300 feet ig height, and presenta rounded outline. The superficia! soil ls a clayey loam, resulting from the decomposition of the subjacent shales aud sandstones, with no admixture ders fo ag pebbies. Skirting the fanks, and forming a wel! de‘ined terrace, sixty feet above the bed of the Muskingum , is found the va! ley drift. It coustitutes, for the most part, the rim of the valley, but ina few places the river haz swept it away, and now Lnpipges on the sandstones and shales of the coal measy The dritt reposes immediately on the subjacent rocks, which had been previously eroded, Yeay ing an irregular surface. Its maximem thickness is sixty three feet. ie intervening —_ Provincially * bottom lazés,”’ consists of fine sands and ciay, with an eatire absence of loose blocks, boulders and pebbles, and at tains a maximum thickness of 40 feet. ia iat t ex. hibits two wel! defined terraces and a alight ridge, in the nature of an dear, which are not represented on the pre- ceding tketch On the east side of the river, the rubble is seen reposing on the flanks of the bills, which here rise very abruptly, while the immediate bank consists of loam. The west bank also rises abruptly from the water's edge to the height of ten feet, succeeded by a bench about four rods ia width, when there occurs a terrace adout Ave feet in he: Another bench about the same width is seen. wit ‘e river, this terrace is soon lost sight of, and the subse- quent formation approashes to the very base of Putoam hill, Having rounded the point, it rea im the val ley of the Vataskaia, forming an elevated p’ates’ much prized for buildipg sites. Crossing the Pataskala, this terrace, sharp and well defined, is seen skirting the valley of the Moskingum for a mile and @ half, aat ro moved from one fourth to one balf of a mile from its channel, until it intersects the rocks of the coal mea. sures. It rises to the height of twenty five or thirty feet above the botiom land, and then stretches back in a beautifal piatean. Crotaing to the Zanesville along the flanks of (ue hills the river intersects the coat bearing rocks. Ron, the coarse gravei, cemented into a Calcareous matter, is seen reposing then succeeds an interval of nearly half a mile, o whieh it is obrcurely traced: but above the town, at Cox's paper mili, tt reappears on the river bank in the form of a blu three feet io height, and continues for three fourths of a mile, where it gradually recedes from the bank, and assumes the form of terrace. Its bere that the observer has the best opportunity for studying its structure. Layers of fine sand alternate with layers of coarse pebbles, oiten intermixed with minute particles of vegetab'e matter. The materials are most thoroughly assorted, a process which must bave resulted trom ‘their profenged sup neion in the water. The beds of sand are {reed all aluminovs matter, ‘and olten contain small pebbles of the size of a bullet, ar ranged along the lines of bedding. They exbibit many of the most beautiful examples of cross stratification, whieh would seem to Indicate that the materials were pusbed along the bottom of the estuary and ‘eposited amid ehifling eddies. From tne character of some of these beds, it is evident that the current by which they were deposited did not fow in the direction of the pre sent stream. The coarser materials copsist of pebbies, rounded and emoothed, derived from sources far remote, intermingled with spgolar and slighty rounded blocks from the im ighborheod. Among tbe former { recogvized enite, quartz, bornbierde, greenstone, yellow black chert, wi bles of silurian j@, at the point E, ig seen ut a short distance above At Slago's fn this vicinity, at the point C, where Ma’ ntersects the river, that the remains of the t were first diecovered, about four years since. A fragment of a tusk three feet in length was washed {rom the back snow in the possession of Mr. Jamee L. Cox, of /anesyilie, Subsequently another was exbumed at tee point er Mill ran. In December last Mr. Tao: thas & Sedgwick, ove of the engineers on ihe Cen! 4 Mr. Albert Spaulding, observed a portion of an rotruding from the bank at the point A, sbout ght feet above the rajiroad embankment. They itme- y proceeded to work, aad soon succeeded ia laying he iwo'nc'sors the four molars and otker fragments of the skeleton, Having heard that I was i the vi cinity nnd was soon expected there, they suspended fur- ther operations in order to enable me to witmess the ex- humation, and critically examine the nature of the sur rounding materials; # favor for which | desire to express publicly my sincere thanks. After my arrival, the ex cavyations were resumed and revealed a portion of the cranium, one of the patelle, one of the vertebrie, a rib, &e, Although I doubt not that other portions ‘of thé skeleton might bave been found, yet these bones were nwo frail a state a8 to render them almost worthless, and, therefore, the further prosecution of the work was abandoned. The height of tbe elephant bed is Poa Above the river at the upper bridge at Zanesville if Ais subjacent deposiis “ai iis ‘point are conconied vy ‘su the siayiom: Dut farther down the stream the same alter materials are found to continue worthy of consideration. }) Mae ooourrence OF the large (ragmeats of rock i: above these which wo have not mediately te rensalas, to indicate the existence of « current of unusual turbu- lance, Of nl are as a senewal of tho samme causes by Ress tn tat ethan abel Sli ss we ley where these remains have booa found. Mr. 4. C. which wes found noar the wouth octalt Grodt aise tales it below Zanesville. It had been washed from the adjoin- der different phy prevai—that is, amounts to the asine thing, when pe ‘There is nothing to induce us to have taken place within the human epoch, the terraces, we may pi ere older than man; but when compared with the first formed, which centain the remains of the elephant, they are comparatively modern CT rieraiy fb yloaente bck oe we shouldatso bear in mind that the bighest drift, and farthest re- moved, is the oldest. As the country was first depressed and then rose by repeated oscillations, it follows that the higher portions, and those the most remote from the sources of the drift, would be first exempt from its ra- vages. Weare here near itssouthern conflocs (latitude 40 degrees), acd in a region which it has penetrated only throveh the deeper valleys ; and as these deposits are eituated nearly 150 feet above Lake Erie, we must assiga to them a bigher see than the uppermost! of those which occur at lower levels, In the year 1858 Mr. Briggs and myself, thea employed tn the logical Lt | of Obio, exhumed a portion 6f the skeleton of the fossil elephant from the banks of one of the tribnianes of Salt Creek, in Jackson county, South ern Obio. The fragments consisted of two molars, several ribs, portions of cranium, one {ucisor, two patelie aud several vertebrie, Mr. Alfred Sears, lately an engineer on the Baltimore and Obio Raitread, has deposited in the mu-eum of the Smithsonian Iustitation afew fragments of the skeleton of the fossi! elephant, and from him I derive the follow. ing accovat of their geological position :— Above Wheeling the river bottom is very narrow; but as we descend the Ohio it widens gradually, ristog with ove step until we reach @ point 4% mules from Wheclio, creek, when another step begins and continues beyon the piace where theze relics were found. ‘The bottom is very level, and consists of a deposit of gravel aad sal At a point intermediate between Wheeling aud the where this cross section occurs, other benes of the ele- phavt were found ir the ‘upper bottom,’’ twelve or thirteen feet below the surface With regard to the pebbies, Mr. S. remarks that he has never seen in this part of the Ohio any of granitic origin, but they are for the most part o: saudstone and lime- stone, the debris of the neighboring formation. Between these deposits and thore of the Meskingum valley there is a ceincideace lu this respect—that the elephant remains occur in the upper or Oldest terrace; and to show that they possess a higher antiquity than the works of maa, I would state that upoa this upper terrace, and within a few fect. in a linear direction trom the lower deposit of foes bones, there is an aboriginal mound, thus proving that the topographical features of this vicinity must haye been the eam we row behold them at the time of the buliding of this structure. Hitherto the Big Bone Lick, is Keatucky, bas proved the grest charne! Louse of the remains of the mastodon and elephant. This locality has often been described as a swamp, with a substratum of biue mud, ia which these colossei pachyderms, together with the bison and deer, belonging to existing species, were mired. This view, bowever, is erroueous. The deposits are very similar to those in Jackson county, Obio, hitherto described, con- sisting first of a yeilow claz, fifteca or ——. feet ia thuckvess, with a dark colored clay below, contalaing the pachyderm remains. At the place where most of the excavations have been made the yollow clay has been denuded, leaving the bive clay on the surface; and al though tm this swamp the boues of the deer and t buSao bave been found side by side with those of the tmastodon and the elepbant, yet they belong to two dis- tinct geological epochs. The latter were entombed be- fore the Geposition of the yellow clay, and the former after jis Cenudation. It is an undeniable fact that the pacbyderm remains have been found, on penetrating through the yellow clay, in tre blue clay beneath ; but # is not established that the remains of the ruminants have been found under these conditions. the excavation along the iinois Central Railroad, about 18 feet deep, near Beacoufs, the workmen found the remains of a mastodon in the prairie arilt, below the yellow clay, in the older or reddish clay. wdoval, about twenty four miles north, other re- were found about 12 feet below, in a similar posi- At Bloomfield, Edgar county, the remains of a jaw and three seeth were found im the yellow clay, about three feet below the surface. ‘The remains of the fosail elephant bave thus far been found in oly one instance im the Provinces, and that was at Burlipgton ‘hts, near the head of Lake Ontario. [ em indebted to Mr. MeQueen for the following account of the conditions under which they were found, communi- cated by L. Billings, Fsq., of By town — Burlington Heights & barrow peninsula, about three fourths of a mile in length, and not more than haif a ferlong in width, which divides Burlgton vay and the Derjardines marshes; an area of several thousaud acres vise, between the head of the bay and the town of Dun- , fowr miles distant. The marsh is stil! partially co- ‘ered with water, and recent experiments bave shown that the bottom is a soft doting mud extending to a depth of $0 feet. Ms present surface is scarcely above the wa- ters of the bay. A sloggish stream from the high lands crawis down its centre, and in a deep narrow geor winds round the head of the peninsula into the bay, aod now forms the Desjardines canal. Ihave no doubt that the large mass ot svial matter bas been formed by the stream in its untiring perseverance. The peninsula is 110 beight The land on each side of the ampbithea- tre in which the marsh is enclosed rises to a great height, fay 150 feet above the level of the peninsula. The great it begins at the sur- in a limestone quarry, bas a considerable \. tion, and ja all but impenetrable. It is as diilicult to drill y limestone, Thesandon which it in cumbent (4 too clean and too fine tor building purposes; Of this quality it continues for perhaps 30 feet downwards, and then turus into a loose, coarse gravel, like the beach of the lake. The bones were ceposited in the tine sand, n which there was not a vestige of of ay descrip- ike dip, or inclima- ton, Whether these deposits belong to the oid drift, | know not, dut itis evident that they were formed uta time when the waters stood at a much higher level, and by caues which have ceased to operate. As (o the character of the fossil bones, the reader is referred to the letter of Mr, Cottle to the Editors of the “ Anuals of ‘al Alls tory. aud then2e copied into the XV. vol. of the « Ameri- can Journal of Science,” p. 282. Hitherto the remains of the foasil eiepaact have been found only ‘a Vermont. In the construction of the land and Burlington Railroad the partial fragments of a #kei ton were fou Mount Holly, on tae very summit of the line, 1,440 feet abo ide water, 1,550 feet above lake Champlain. The: here the remains of a small pent sw bat Dr. Warren informs me that Mr. Hen- thew, who was mainly instrumental in bringing these relics before the world, is still under the !mpres:ion that some of them were taken from below a very large boulder Ther urstratided drifts, inuch higher ete: In New York y todon have been found in a high de; im peat swamps, reporing on beds of shell marl, and the shells are, in al! lastances, of frosh wa long to exisding *pecies; Dot, th agments of & eke'cton of the fossil elephant have been foued la thie com nection. Iu the valley of the Ohio, however, the re mains of these two classes of pachyderms have been found, side by side, thus leaving no doubt that they were contemporaneovs. The remains of the clepbani ai the West certainly occur in the drift materials which occupy the valleys, While those of the mastodon are found in what often appeared to be erosions in the ol drift The presenie of the remains of fresh water shells of existing species ought Bot, however, to be relied upon as a proof of the extreme modern origin of these depovite, fince itis an undoubted fact that in Eorope and South America, where river and land shells occur associated with ford! mammalia, even of the newer pliocine period, they are found to belong to existing species, Thus at Brentford, on the Thames, the elophant remains are as- sociated with freeh water shells of existing spec too, in the otsiferous caves of Bra tinet mammalia, like the megathe ‘ with existing species of land shells. It, thi Of no doubt that a race of mammalia has sprung into ex- istence, Sourisbed and become extinct, while the land and fresh water shells bave remain hanged. On the Newge river of North Carolina, Mr. T. A. Con rad, many years ago, obtained the bones of the masto don, the eciephant, the hippopotamus, the horse, the dee and the elk, all belonging to extinct species, in a bed cquivaient to t! ipper tertiary, covered over by a di posit of mar'ne shells, in places fifteen feet thick, which Pelong to the Plustocioe period. The byne® were very moeh water-Worn, so that in many ihstances the charac- teristic differences imals to which they belonged |. In & recont conversation, ’ assured me, in the strongest terms, that these remains, a: thos disclosed, belong to the upper tertiary, and their rolled appearance would seem to jndicate tha: they migh have been washed from a bed of greater autiquity tha tbat in which they were deposited. Mr. Toomey, in his Geology, of South Carolina, regards the mastodon as characteristic of the upper tertiary, and States that forty #ix percent of the associated marine sl found to be extinct. Ina private note, he re- marks, ‘‘It\s very difficult to arrive at correct concla- sions as to the is¢ position of these remains where on do not find tl 1 am, however, satisfied bat both the mastodon and the mammoth lived at the period of the deposition of what we call in Virginia the miocene.”* ie further adda, that ho is beginning to find, In Alaba- ma, the Lows —"' For the first time, I found flavratile shells in it, far above the present reach of the rivers at high water.” of a tusk Of one of these animals have toon cave in North Alabama, together with bones of the megalinyx, a8 determined b: . Lalay. Jbave a tooth of the mammoth, said 0 bet rom the miocene of Maryland, It was found by a highly intelli- ‘0, whilst in marling op-rations, to Edward tog, of firgiain AR account of its discovery will be found in the Farmer's Royster. have aig0 4 tooth and portion of & tusk of a yoursel! ‘pecies, i 4 contemporary , Be found, Rovtaver, hat these sbols form no reliable pie in eatimating the antiquity of these deposits, since it is @ remarkable fact that in Kurope aud South America, where river and land shelis occur asso- with man. It " amuigem: fresh water shells of existing tones, So, too, in the ossiferous caves of Brazil, the remains of e: mam- malia like the irm are associated with existing It therefore admits of no doubt that, on both continents, a race ot mammalia has sprang into existence, flouriabgd and become extinct, while the land and fresh water molusca have remaiget uu- chan, zed. In Europe the eliphas pumigemus had a wide geographi- «al rap, Its remains have been found from the Arctic tea to the Mediterranean. It there originated earty in the newer Pliocine, and survived througn the whole of the Glacial epoch, and perhaps even until after the period of the terraces, for ite remains are feund, for example, in the cliits of Norfolk, Bogiand, beneath ‘the drift, in the dees of northern Germai y, and in the ice clills near the mouth of the Lena, which must have them ata time when tbat t.on of the continent had assumed rearly its present levei. ‘There are two localities in the British isies where the bopes of tte elephant have been fouad entombed in fla viatlic or lacustime deposits, eupposed to be above the drift, ¢ Tt ts not dificult ¢> conceive, (remarks De la Béche, Geological Observer,) that these mammals may Lave vigited the British Is! again counected with the main land, (supposing that the area had beea submerged and again elevated), so that their remains may be found in Jacustime and fluviatile deposits, above the marine ac- cumulations found during the interval of depression. « * sunt. only one submergence suificient to discon- nect the British Isies, followed by an elevation sufficient to restore the covnection, it would be inferred that lacus- time and fuviatile sccumulations would be the highest am.d which we should expect to discover the remains of the elephas primigen!us and bis contemporary mammals.” thas hitherto been asserted, by almost every osteolo- gist, that (he elephant of thie country was identical with that of kurope. This, hewever, as will be showa in a subsequen part of this article, a matter of exceeding doubt. If, however, this should be found true, and if the Prevailing notions as to the simultaneous origin species: im diflereat parts of the earth be correct, we are author- ized in the tnfererce that the eiepbant appeared before the entire cessation of the dri!t agencies, and survived as long on this continent as on the eastern, and that the causes, whatever they may have been, which led to his extinction, were not local, but general, ia their operation. Dovripg the past season I have obtained from the banks of the Skunk river, Jowa, three specimens, belonging to the saine species, however, in diferent dexress of deve- lopement, of the family of extinct dicotynne. In the ceiri of the present age we recognized the nearest living representative To Dr. John Leconte we are in- debted for our ea: liest knowledge of the existence of this type in North America, from specimens procured in the lead fissures about Galena; aud Dr. Leidy has giv memoir, which he is about to revise, embracing all the known facts. ® * * * * * ‘This foam deposi older than the alluvial bottoms, and yet clearly disting vishable from the drifts of the plains. 1 ve observed it in ail of the principal valleys of Iowa, while i( occupies the same geological position as the pev bie deposits of Illinois, Indiana and Obio. In bulk be was twice the size of the existiug species, and was adapted to a wide geographical range. Contem: porary with these pachyderms was the mastodon (m. rg gentcus) ola more ponderova frame but of an inferior weigbt. ‘The fossil bearer nape oor Ohdoensis) tenant. ed the streams and lakes. lierds of cattle (Boe boimbifrons and Bison iatifrous, &) roamed over the plains, while the tapir wallowed in the swamps. La the milder regions of the South, visited by the elephant and the mastodon in their migrations, lived the great leaf eating megathenun, tbe mylodon, the megalonyx, the hippopetamus, the horse, the elk and the deer, all belonging to extinct spe- ciee, while at the head of the carnivora stood the colos sal lion (Felis Atrox L.), which then, a3 now, was mo- harch ot tbe forest. From all the facta, 1am disposed to beiieve that the fozsil elephant commenced his existence before the drift agencies bad entirely ceased—when the waters stood at a bigher level, when the contours ofthe coutineut were dif- fereut, when a different climate prevailed. and whena subarctic vegetation stretched far towards the tropica—at & time when the valleys were excavated by the retiring waters and the streams assumed nearly their present direciion. it was a pertod of erosion, which ought 'o be marked by distinct geological monuments. 1 would desig nate it as the Fiuveatile peried. Although ia rare instances the remains of the elephant and ve — are found side by side, there are de posits in whit <leptams remains are entombed apparent ly older than apy coptain those of the posers iy aad t the same time there are Sea, newer, which contain the mastodon, in those of the «lepbant bave pever been found. The inference, there ore, might be drawn that, although at one tine coutem- orary, the one was introduced earier, while the other urvived later, 1s ecmn tual ‘ ho tes Contemporary wi e pacnyderms are the fos- i! beaver (Castoroides). At the close, Professor Sirtiw,y made some remarks on the paper, which he considered of the highest value. He ncticed a3 a curious,fact that the mastodon had pever crossed the Hudson. Professor Hirucock thought that the period of the mas- todons was much more remote than was generally sup posed by ceologists. He believed that Niagara bad wora seveu miles iuto the rock sinee they were ou the earth. He said they did not survive nearly to the human oy "Pre sor SntmaN made some further allusion to the means of preserving fossil bones. Professor Hatt then made @ communication on some points in the geology of the Upper Mississippi Valley. ‘This led to remarks by Professors Wuirxey aod Day- e of mp public interest. Protersor Lesiim then read a paper on the geology of the Broadtop Coa! Region in Central Peansylvanm. ‘The session then adjourned. PHYSICAL SECTION. ‘The chair was taken by Prof. Bartiett, ASTRONOMY, Prof, Mrreneit proseeded to a report on the ne method of observation now in use at the Claciunati Ob vatory — 1, New method of right ascension, as to its limit of ac curacy. 2. New methed of declination, as to its limit of accu- racy. 3. New method of determining persona! equation and personal error. 4. New method of determining iartrumenta! errors. 6. New method of determining clock errors. 6. Observations on changes of figure of materials. He said that at the last meeting of the Avsociation ia — A coMM{tlee Was appointe | to memorial ze Con. gress 42 appropriation for the subject of in - ‘ng} into the methods of observation then in use ia this country, and he requested the withdrawal! of that memo. rial, and had since’ been occupied in investigating the matter biinself. Greataccuracy been reache! by the this country. The pointing of a telegraph yject to be achieved. If any person can point telegraph and tell us whore it points, i is all that can be asked. new e is the grand o} periments made. An observer note the moment a star Fn gbteenth thousandths of a ere made upon natural rror due to the atmos was marxed on the be attained, and the the meridian wire wit! second of t Expo rime: stars in order to agcertain The moment of the tran cite with a)! the accuracy that cor retult showed the average’error to the eight-tiousandths part of one second of He then proceede:l to explain weveral very \pteresting experiments that had been mate larity of the running of a clock in jory, in order to show variation in a clock may account for the error ia the observation of nataral wheo observed at five minutes interval. Prof. Mitchel! proceeded to examine the limit of accurasy acquired by the new method of declination, and to submit the new methods of deter. minipg pertoral eqvation and personal error of observers, and of determising Metrumental and clock errors. With the inetroment, they bad taken observations of 10,000 stars io th months. He proceeded to recount the experiments he bad made, in order to test the compara tive accuracy of the vew instrument, the declinometer and micrometer, giving judgment in favor of ti The next paper was a discussion of the ‘Tidal in Seturn’s Fig,’ by Professor Pienek, which was also of a technical character. The useful object to be gained was, as the Profestor remarked, a correct knowledge of the buik of the satetiites of Saturn, which cannot be as certained in any other way. In closing, the Professor ob- verved that he would omit ace mathematical for mula, ae it would not interest bis bearers, Some per. sonr, he said, talked of these mathematical demonstra tions as hombug. They were the pebbles watch he pre- sented 10 the collestion of the association. They were not inviting to others, but to him they were of great price. Mathemat'cians estimated them, not at the market price, nt at the cost of production. They were to him pearis of precious price, which he came in the humblest and sitopicst spirit to lay before the Association. (Ap plause ) ‘The section thea adjourned SECTION OF Z001L06Y. A third section baying been organized under this title, Professor Wilson was called to the chair, and Dr. Hamley, of Bangor, named Secretary. A paper was read by Dr. Wetwtawn on the names of ‘with reference to ethnology. THE NAMES OF ANIMALS. Many names of North American animals are taken from European animals—thus, Buffalo, Grouse, Robin, lizard, i@. Nations have only new names for their native They take —, or compound oames (or others. Thus Lion, in all modern languages, is Leo, hardly eo The Tiger gets his name in the Asiatic countries where he lives: other ations adopting it with slight modifications—Tigre, Tigris, &c. The Klephant is named so in the bn gy he lives, aad has no new name elsewher: is another instanee, moilitied Camelos, Camellé, ke, The Axs got his mame’ from the old Hebrews, and all modern nations it with varia. tiows—Asse, Ane, Ac. But tho Mare, who is also Lepus, and the Deor, who {s also Cervoe, occur in Furaye aa Asia both, apd so have two names, one iw cach aative country. ‘Wolf is Lupus, also, because he occurs among northern and southera races both Nations try to (dugg all foreiga animals the Civeinuatl Obser’ Chamo' animals. the aamos meaning ‘like adecr,” a M ing his right band on the left shoulder; a dame meaning “ he can stick fast ia a treel’’ e means ——~ re Prot. AGassiz, interrupting, said, Muscalonge was a rye i the French masque el “long mask.’” Prof. Heni said Maskinoje was the Cauadian provincial spelling. Prot. Hatpemann thought the name was Chippewa, meaning * large pike.’ Here Huyay R. Scuooucrart waa observed to bo pre- seal, and was called upon, (as the best authority on all 1uestions of Indian pomenciature,) to settle the matter. commented upoa the [odian vames under discussion, correcting some of Prof. Haldemaan’s suggestions. Dr. Ginnon said soine Indians nained every person intro- duced to them with apame deseriptive of his personal Pectiliarities. Prof, AGassiz said different stocks of humanity call animals peculiar to ther own country by original names. But peop ¢ from other stocks ¢o uot. This tends to prove that the origin of the men as weil the animals was in pumerous scattered groups, aud pot from one stock. Farther discuezion followed by Profs. Acassiz, Wits oN, Haipemany, Mr, Scuoo.crart aud others, tu the course of which an Indian name of a peculiar species of wood- pecker, ‘ Quank,’? imitative of the cry of that bird, and @ name of the horse, meaning “having only one toe,” were alinded to. Prof. Rowertson suggested that these investigations might be pursued into the names of places, with a view to acing the origin aud succtssion of races and types of men. Bre Weniann said plants might be included also. He instanced the potato, called in German the “ground- ” Prot. Hcnt suggested that some names and words were invented, among conflicting and hostile tribes, for the purpose of concealment; just as London thieves have slang pames by which they are known among each otber, but kept unkuown to the police Prof. Rossevsom spoke of the remarkable changes made in words during the lapse of time, among di‘toreat nations ; thus head, unlike as it seems, ia derived from the Latin caput, The Storm in Catskill and in the Mountains. [From the Catskil! Eagle, Aug. 23.) ‘The fal! of rain on Tuesday and Wednesday was enor mous, we have had no such rain storm for many years in this vicinity. The Catskill creek rose some five feet bgher than ever was known before, carrying away in its rage stores, dwellings, mills, tanneries, and everything that came withia its reach. In this village, E. Gilbert's store with its contents, and neariy all his lumber, was swept away by the flood, ‘Leas about $3,000. Van Sternburgh & Baurhyte’s new ice-house, near the . Lass about $5,000. Rouse’s tannery is also compietely destroyed. i rick kiln much damaged, aud about fifty cords of wood swept away. ‘azar Buckley loses about 100 tous of coal. People’s ton Semana’ house is much damaged, and of it complete! ‘2. mi TUs.'s bee ice house at the Point, the whole end a building is bursted out by the pressure of the ice within. C. 1. Beach & Co., and Peunfield, Day & Co., had some goods damaged in their warchouses by getting wet; the doors re pressed open in their stores, and many goods way. Amount not bo paraeally $1,000. A. & B, Wiltse are damaged al ). ‘The steamer Catskill broke looge from her fastenings, and was swept down the stream, but escaped withont much damage. Four sloops that were iying at Johnson’s dock broke loose; three of them weat down the creek, and one is now lying high and dry near the road. Aurtin & Austia’s paper mi!l is damaged about $1,000. The weter has destroyed many fields of corn, potatoes and buckwheat, on the flat tn this vicinity. ‘At Leeds the woollen milla of Harris, Elung & Co., are partly carried away, together with the mac! 4 balf ibe factory bu iding ts gone, and full one third of all the machinery in the mill;even the engive and bolers were sweptaway. The total loss is about $20.000. The building and machinery were owned by John Faroum & Co., of Philadelphig. Harris & Elting lose from $6,000 to $8,000. ‘The paper mil! of W. R. Dingman ‘s a total loss, The Qoom and nearly everything counec‘ed is gone; loss, $6,000. Camo —The dwelling house of Augustus Hill was swept away, with nearly al! of his furniture aud weariug appa- rel. The stone bridge at Cairo i pee gg away. ‘The bridges at Cauterakill are both gone. Tne bridges ov the mountain turnpike at Webber's, Britt’s aud Rem- sea’s are also gone. Weekly of Deaths, Tn the city and county of New York, from the 16th day ‘of August to the 23d day of August, 1856. Men, 61; women, 67; boys, 219; giris, 227—total, 567. Adults, 128; children, 439; males, females, 294; co- Fever, nervous, 1 vestussecee 1 Fever, puerperal. om Asthma, * ot 1 Bieeding, from the bite of 8 @ rat. cose oo} «6 1 > | 2 1 1 1 2 .3 eve B 1 Casualty by accidental 6 blow on head. re 5 Casualty by fall... 1 “a ‘Casualty vy kick of a oS horse... . 1 Inflammation of heart.... | .. 1 Inflammation of kidneys. 1 26 Inflammation of liver.... 1 . 2 TnGammation of tunge....12 Fever, congestive ..... Fever, intermittent. .... Total seeeeeereres » OT ©The deceased was a laboring man who bad been em Lee ‘on board of a lighter at Quarantine, amd died in the 1 Inflammation of stomach. 6 1 Tadammation of throat... 1 B 6 a L 42 | Convulsions, !nfani 22 Croup... ay | Cyanosis 1 e Debitity, . pie ieee... i . lity, infantile... /5.) & 3 Detivriam tremens,...... 2 of urine * . 95) ©Wheumetiam of the beart Dropey iu the cheat... ofuia . Dropsy in the head 28 Smallpox. Dropsy in tue heart,.... 1 Softening of the brat Drowned... . a heal Dysentery.... +20 Stiltbora Fever... . 1 Sore throat Fever, bi ; Teething sees i Uleeration of the throat. teenth ward, on the 18th inst. DIABASRS CLASMED. Stillborn and prematare births Et} Stomach, RRCAPITCLATION Boves, joints, kc Brain and werves Generative orzans. and other Heart and blood vessels..10 digestive organs ms Lungs, throat, &e (80 Uncertain seat a: Old age... A 6 ral fevers. ... 6 Skin, &c., and ervptive Uriuary organs 3 fevers. vo WD — Of which 12 were from violent causes. ACS. Under L year... c..cee 256 30 to 40 years a3 lto 2 years. 116 40 to 40 yeare. a 2to 5 years . 36 50 to 60 years : 16 6 to 10 years 16 60 to 70 years 8 10 to 15 years 8 70 to 80 years 6 15 to 20 years 10 80 to 90 yoars 2 20 to 25 years 18 90 to 100 years is 26 to 30 years 18 — ‘otal. 67 NATIVITIR® Brittsb America . 2 Tealy. o 8 Denmark... ... 1 Scotiand.... 1 England... ve $ Switzerland... 1 Germany . 86 United States, 45 Holiand y “ Ireland . PURLIO INSTTOTIONS, ‘Alms House, Bik’ls Isiand 1 Rand’ls Js}. N’y Hoep’t.. Bellevue Hospital. 1 St. Vincent's Hospital... 1 City Hospital... ........ 7 Smallpox How s Isl. 1 Colored Home Hospital. 1 Ward's Isl'd Emig’t Hosp.19 Lun, Asylum, Biki’s Isl,. 9 Workhouse, Biki's Island. 1 Pent’y Hoap’l, Bikl’s Ist. 1 = Total soeeeees seeees Ose evee rene aeenes 38 12 (includes ‘R. ‘ FS ‘and Hospital)...... 25 Total..... teeuee COMPARATIVE STA’ TEMENT. Adults, Children. Total. Deaths for the week ending Avant 16, 186 as sain 623 rt ths week endiog Penguet 9, 1886... prs 439 667 & Deaths for the corresponding weeks in 1964 and 1355 - ‘August 26, 1864. . vee O88 — ng oP ie. ‘a = “ «23, 1866, , tessessecces OO GEORGE W. MORTON, City Laspector. City (wspoctor's Department, New York, Aug. 33, 1960, MABITIMNE INTELLIGENCE ‘ALMA 40 FOR EW YORE—TEM Dar. ‘sow mas, 5 2) | moon riage. morn ‘8Um ents. 6 45 | mim Wasas.........ev0 — Port of New York, August 24, 185ti, Pa p snare. « mship Jamestown, Elliott, Nowfolk, 4c, with mdse eer to Dudiam’ & Pleasants. Wo date, in Hamp] , passed bark Elian (of New York), from City Po baud’ to sea. = aan Me arta kd te ; vessel . Har imis to lon 4," since which had ight winds and came’ 9| BE lat 49 0, lon 14: exchanged with ship North ane. fous FE; Aug 16, lat 44, lon Ct. ed yg oan to's took a pllot frou ‘bos Phitsdeiphia he mt rh ce Liter Ship Iitland (Brem), Hencke, Bremen, 36 days, with n ee ay ng ple felch’ ‘th Tasty Lat 44 09, loa 2 pasae: to Oelrichs' & Co. Bremen bark Union, from Newport. K, for New. Yo lat 42 25, lon 44.08, Prussian scar ‘Cart, trom for Quebee, 40 days ont shor! cf provisions, dad supp her; 2lst, lat “71 85," lon 79 30, exe! with a hanged propeller sieering ENE, supposed to be one cf the Lis dnd Phtiadetphia steamer Bark J Abvers (Olden), Schwe'chel. Bremen, 9) days, mdse and 93 passengers, to Hennings, Muller & Goaling. Bark Alice Tainter, Bpencer, Antwerp and Flushing, Je 4.45 days from Lands Kind, wih mdge and 123 passeng to Post & Smith. 12th fast, lat 43 10 lon 47, Lye oe brig 0 days from Laguna for England; 13th, tat 43, loa r), Harner, Pouce, PR, Sth ih molasses, to Sal 1. » Bark Carniola (of Oregon Hopkins, Salt Cay. TL with salt to McCall & Frith; vesse! to Brett, Son & Co} Grand Turk (of Bluehil!), “Johnson, Cardenas, Aug with sugar and molasses, to C £'E J Peters. Brig Monserate, Morrell, Carthagera, Ang 3, with hid PR, 17 days, sug ae molusses. ff coffee, &c, and 5 passengers. to P MS} Brig Roseway Bet’ ‘Br Mecoy Ponce, " ier, re (of Waldoboro), Winton, Bermuda, 16 days rer & Chase 18th inst, lat 37, lon 75, spoke Turks Ielands for Boston, 10 days out. B Meredith, Sydney, OL, 16 days, with aller telegraph cable, to Curis Belt.” |S Be , True, Union Island, 8, amber, peckee hureh Sehr Albert Mason, Smith, Charlestoa, 6 days. Schr I. P Smith, Turner, Wimingtca, 7 days Schr Volant, Pierce, Georgetown, DC Propeller Concord, Norman. Philadelphia Propeller Potomska, Cushman, New ed ier Westchester, Clark. Providence. Propéller Sachem, Chaulker, Hartford. Propelier Shetucket, Geer, Norwich. Ship Chaos, D Pe gn d ret haos, Dunton, werpoo}, July 19. P » Lnthams frton tl m, verpooi, July 2, mdse and passengera, to Lane, West & Co. Ship Columbia, Hutchinson, from Liverpool, July 2%, mdse'and puasengers, to C if Marshall & Co. ‘Ship Uncle Joe, from (By pilot boat Christiaad No 16). Also, one brig, unknown. Wind during the day, NW. rig Ellen (Br), Herald Marine Correspondence. PHILADELPHIA, Aug 2% 2 24—Arr steamer Kenneb vork: ships Wyoming isrooks, and Stalwart, Lu barks Aaron J Harvey, Great, Hammond, Boston: brig Huatress, Wa! cura Blouise, Thatcher; Wm T son, Whi a larcmg; Smith Tatile, Baker; Telegraph, ayson, Eldridge; Kensington, Gray, and Smith, Boston; MM Freeman, Nickerson, ‘Brisioi, let, Hail, Providence; H P Cushing, Godfrey, Somes ‘orse, Puillips, Taunton; David Smith, Peterson. 8 iddietown; War Steed, Sulla, N a, en. Cld stéamers City of New York Matthews, Boston: D ware, Cope, NYork; ship Kate Hunter, Bush. Bast La: PC Ale 7, Marryman, F Slade, Wheid Boston: brigs Ormus, Baker, Fail River; Mary Ht, Bart Bath; Wheaton, Blatchford, 'Portiand; sehr Jolanaa, Card Derby, Ct; RG Whildin, Germon, Bagartown; JN Vanana. Salem; Wa Raed, Smith, Roxbury: Joha L Da Rich, Ham) HOW M ith, Fali River; J Farntim. Baker, Providence; Tr; feon'New Hi " Nickerson, Boston; Rough ‘dy, Pelton, ford; Empire, Baker, ntacket; Gen Canj oi, Fier ind G NT wichell Gatlaghan, New Maven; W E I vering, Beilrose, Portland; 38, Fell, New Be: ; Lewis Cass, Fell, Goveruor, Chase, East Cambridge; Win WH Miller, Crow and Leesburg, Swi, Boston; Alesander M, Christie, Dight D avis uth, Peterson, lem. Miscellancous and Disasters. Br Barx Auice, Fisher, 18days from Black River, Jal bound to London, ey into Charieston 20th inst in conseq ne: of the sickness of the captain, and joss of the second mate. Scun Jonx Roatess—Capt Harrison, of the scar Joan less, arrived yesterday afernooa from the wreck of his v He informs us that she is high and dry on the east end of L Island, and her masts gone. Three ofthe crew were dro ed. Capt Fisaw some mahogany stauncheous which fo a the ‘beach, supposed to belong to a steamer. NO ug 7. Scun Sea Nrura~A letter from Capt Dawson, of schr Nymph. of Providence, re near Quogue, Long | states that she was fast breaking up on the Zist. Sie lays up on the beach, and men had beeu engaged (o commence rging the cargothat afternoon. Capt D lost ail his pay Scum ADELINE TowxseN from Philadeiphia for ——, at Dutch Island harbor 221 Inst with loss of bot jibe ia Y gale. The following table gives a summary of the vessels tn harbors of New York, Boston and Baltimore oa te , Savannan,” Mobile and New Orleans oa (he NEW vore. e Bark Southerner, tons, bas been soid at Foreign Ports. Benwopa, Aug 7—In port ship Splendid, ——, for Ha next day. Home Ports. APPONAUG, Aug 23—Arr achr Lydia Gibvs, Chase, B more for Providence. BOSTON, Avg 23, AM-—Arr ships Dorcas Prince, f renee, Cadiz; Simoda, Knight, Havre; Cincimnatus, Birch verpool; sohr Sarah, Blake, NYork. Below, ship Ariel, hod, auip Cleero, tay Tolearap| from Malta, Cid steamers Win Jenkins, Fal tis, Philately bla, abips, Be iimore; Palmetto, Wille! ‘. iva, Madras and Caleutta; Lowi roodbury, Bradford, 0, . John, NB, to load for Liver iiddiesex, Cook, NOr! barks Modena. Ryder, Bal Edw Everett, Loveland, Kik, Hammond, Philadel rig ‘Albion, ary Bering. wi 0. Burchard & 1 indetp hia; usb, Rio c ¥ Lindsley, Nie! timore: Charles M Smith, Brown, and Sarah Ana "hase; Kira, Chamberlain, iphia; Louisa, € NYork, Rival, Nickerson. Tey Eliza Jane, ¥ ‘ish, BALTIMORE. Aug 22~Cid steamer Totten. y, NT ship Isabella, Hayden, Bordeaux: brig Bella ( Dourall, Pernambuco aud mkt, sebrs G: eorgia, Indies! Only Doughter, Rogers NYork: Bay State, Clark ton. Sid back Anon (Hrem), Bremen; brig Jane, Kire, 8 Johns, PR; New Orleans (Genoese), G ure; cers Georgiana, Atwell, Charleston, Sydney Pr| ork. ‘ BANGOR, Aug 21—-Cid schr Anna Elizabeth, Snare, dures BRISTOL, Aug 22—Arr ach J @ Stille, Rndicott, Dela City; Soop Excel Cobb, NYork. Sid brig Maria, Gifford N, Ang #—A!t quarantine, bark Alice ( River, Ja, bound to London—(see Mi fata: . Me 21—Arr schrs Fountain, Davis, Alls wen, Sid Zhi selr Oscar F Haw! Port Ewen, sloop Adonis, 8 York. shy Badger, Gan GARDINER, A Arr achrs ith, G aitt, Rlizabet City; 0h, NYork: 17 brig. Robinson. og id 2st sehr Glenroy, Perkin, NYork! HOLE, A 8 AM—Arr bri HOLME: nag 2%, William Hutehinaon, and Abby Ellen, Giichrist, Philadelphia for lavd. sehr Adaline Townsend, Marshall, Alevaadria for 1 ton Speed. Somers, Philadelphia for do: Ocean . ton, Plankataak River for Damariscotta; Sarah A ter, Rondou: for Hyannis, K Stoneback, La oy ks ian ‘A Brown. delphia for Danvers. Sid barks Sophia, Sut Bird, Chieftain, Star; brigs Sabao, Willlem bh Alamo, Lodi, Alexander Milliken; scbra Cat 1 Mary it Banks, M it Mahoney, BM Adaling Townsend, Speed, Oveau Ranger, JK Sioned mit an In port at 12 M, calm, brigs Bilow, Round Pond, Abby) Jen, and Wm I} Park NEW ORLEANS, Aug 16~Arr steamship Lonisiana, bol, Indianola via Galveston. Cid ships Klizabeth, Wasily and Gen Dunlap, Badger, hy Vigo: barks Servandita @p), & Parvefona A It Kimball, Manley, Matangas, Fred Gen Symmes, and Ellen Sievens, Howe, Philadelphia: brigs Stephenson, Poy. Boston; Adams Gray, Hence, Havens, NORFOLK, Ang 21—Arr steamship Roanoke, Sbinner| Youk: schr Brilian’, Jones, do, NkW BEDFORD, Auk 2--Arr, sehre iva Lawton, Handy, White, Alexsndria; » Alexandre James lolmes, Shropabire Shroy gers, Baltimore; John Porsyth, Hopeion, Alien, Philadelphia laa 22d, R how do; Wm HH” DeWitt, Gillord, Albany; Thos Pot RYPORT: —Arr sehr Kossuth, Coker rd rr sehr 1 y Sid schra Grecian, Matthews, @d Jacob & Will Matthews, Philadelphia. NEWARK, Aug 2—Arr echr Jane, Crawford, At Sprague, Fish, NYork.. sid schre Norma, Ande: ) H Perry, Murry, NYork; Bd Franklin, Li DON. A 22—Ar Her Charles Og Lag Fy srs rn et ns, Cuan ton, Pe i ia, Bentiey. jelpiria. ORT cg aS PM—at all vemele previousts} rt bark Chilton, for Portland: sehrs West Wind, ¢ Georg own. DC to discharge: HA West, Philips, froin for Taunton. HOVIDERCE. A Ayr propeller Osegola, Olan «1 Forte, Fienthera; D W Vau ford. Ray x Henderson, Godfrey; Coates. Wilh Risley, Boyee: Albert Ph Allen, a Endicoit, Philadelphia; Mati ley, Atlen, and Oliver iamond, Norton, Port Ewen: do. Belov, sehen. Worcester, Rio) leiphia. Sid aches Ji Johngoa; Hannah ‘ama; Joseph ‘id John 1. Redner, Vasant, Jr, Bourne: Charies F rman, Rider, Albany Mary Brush. Young, and Know Flake, Weaver, from Phi Hertine, Inman, Alexandria: Fil wick, Worwick: Empor! nd .. Horton, fouscon. 4 : Connecticut Pratt, do; Al Moody; Midas, Smith, a Regaoi York. ‘PORTSMOUTH, Aug 2—Arr brig Henry Lanvons, Nov mdout. PTOCKLAND. Avg D—Sid echrs Josiah Aghorn, Me: 4 fa Ohiet Wilmington, NC; Buia, Ulmer, Richmond, Bre NYork, BALEM, Avg 2%—@id hark William fH Sailer; brig. Small AW OM, Philadelphi 8 Levertag, Corson il, Coombs and Frank A tha ‘ain, do. Alco arr 2st sehr Kana 0, Kelly, Pi ‘grb. eiphin; : ; THOM ASYOR. Avg Th—-Arr brig Relyacea & Prayers ken. Balimere. °Aid sik OF) Gi none twew, os PORE TAN tee Be: ae ache tady Adams, NYork Vth brig AU yous Philadetptia selrg Ame's Rocigiu ist, Netw’, Gurney, N York,