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} | WASHI'AOTON. |: 10 TWA! principie, IY carried out, would ‘POnfederacy, betaus? not tea’ Ps guard 0 carry oh & goverment ipo ily ) of Ind., opposed the whol a x, (dem. *, le nea Senate CONTINUE? , ~ AGE, sure, though he preferred the amendment to th EP , FROM THIRD P. Original House til. Ho thought. that coats ‘Weeonded by 9 64, andthe main queytion | either to recognize the civil governments in the Southern Minus ‘States or come squarely up to the work and remove them. pe. Banna, et that the whole wabject | Mr. Dawes, (rop.) of Masa, found himeslf difforing Do taid on the” -0f Pa mere vad mogatived bya strict | from two of his colleagues (Messrs, Boutwell and Banks), warty your of 708 to 40. and felt bound to concur in the Seuate amendment Ro- Mr. ers ook the floor to close the deLate, wut | ferrine to the history of the Reconstraction Committee, yielded vy minutes to he said it had died of theories and {ts works had fol: Mr, (minutes of N. ¥., to explain the reasons | lowed it, It had looked less to practical than to theo- why! Should vote against the Senute ainendment, | retical questions, whie 9 ne said, would be only substituting anarchy for Mr, Ross, (@em.) of Tl, made the question of order the fogas governments which Presidewt Jobnaon had | Whether Mr. Dawos bade right to abuse the Committee os ‘o'clock arrived, and the fall of the Speaker’s hammer announced the boer of taking a recess. The House then -@edlock. \ 4 fished in the rebel States, 74 Srevene also yielted ten minutes to Mr. Buoomats, Who spoke against concurrence in the ‘Senate amendment as giving over the control of the webcl States to disloyal persons, on Reconstruction. The SraKeR did not see that Mr, Dawes had trans greased the rules of debate. Mr. Dawes declared he bad no disposition to abuse ‘th jon Committee, on the principie of de r. Stuvens also yielded to ‘us nil nisi bonum, (Laugbter.) They were now in & Downnu.y, (rep.) of Minn, who proceeded to state | the last of this Congreas, and there was no ques- iis excoptions Lo Lhe Senate amenément. tion’ that should either take this bill or none at all. ‘RECESS. ‘While he was doing eo the hour of half-past four from the constitution and laws of the country. He de- nounced it as 8 most iniquitons proposition, that could only be fraught with evil. Even the loyal Southerners, whom it was proposed to protect, would have cause to “~~ devoutly, ‘save us from our friends.” Ir. McRuer said he had voted for the Military bill in ‘the House, but he bad done so with many misgivings, ‘He would vote for the Senate amendment, not because took @ pecess till half-past seven o'clock. Evening Session. ‘The House resumed its session at half-past seven ‘The attendance of members was as large as uring the morning session, and the galleries were erowded with rpeciators, 28 ARP all Mr. Hoormn, (rep.) of Mass. from the Comm: on bey ota) Means, Topertod back the Senate amendments »to the Tari bill, ‘with amendmenta, which were ordered te be printed and made the special order in Committee ef the Whole on the state of the Union:for Thuraday next, after the morning hour. 4 THE DELMAR STATISTICAL REPORT, to offer'a reso- ‘the statistical repared it was better than nothing, but because he regarded it as @sound, sensible and practical moasnre—such a one ak should have been passed in the early days of this Con- gress. Mr Hennerson declared that he could not consistently Yote to concur in the Senate amendment, because it allowed the disloyal men of the South to vote as well as the by 8 In bis imagination he conld see 1 Lee. and General Bear and Captains Semmes and Quantrell and such men sitting in conventions that were to frame the institutions of these rebel States, and he ‘bounded in ignorant, and wilfal misrepresenta- aux antag ee ae ee pr against this bill, therefore, with a hearty payed fires e o such ar. ere, ftep.) ef Ba, apoke in pw cheer! “ were presession. and in defence Reconstruction Commit! Dajection was made, and the resolution was not re- | the bill was sent toa committes of conference that would be the end of it; for the President would pocket the bill if it was not sent to him ten clear days before the ad- journment. Mr. Wituams, (rep.) of Pa, contended against that view, holding that the President was bound to returne the bill to the next Congress. Mr. Bivauam repudiated the idea of Mr. Williams, holding that the bill must be returned to the Honse in which it originated, and that the House of Represent- atives in the Fortieth Congress would be a totally differ- ent body from this House, which would expire on the 4tb of March next, Mr. Finck, (dem.) of Ohio, made an argument against the whole theory of the bill, although he recognized the amendment as an pa gary on the original measure. He utterly denied and repudiated the authority of Congress to establish military government in the States of the South and to deprive the people of that section of the rizht of trial by jry. This plan of ro- construction was the very last that should be presented in a free country. Mr. DaRuixa, (rep.) of N. Y., did not feel like return- ing to his constituents without declaring on the floor of the House that Congress had at last reached a measure that would bring peace and good government in the lately rebel States and give protection to the loval people thore. He regarded the measure as magnanimous, as charitable and as just to all. Mr. Lawrence, (rep.) of Ohio, said he would cast his vote reluctantly forthe amendment. It contained pro- visions which be favored, but it left reconstruction prac- tically under rebel control. Mr. TayLor, (rep.) of Tenn., declared himself coneci- entiously opposed both to the original bill and the Finck amendment, still he knew that Congress would pass either one or the other of them. He feared that if the matter was sent to a conference committee @ measure -oetved. . THR MILITARY GOVERNMENT FILL. The House resumed the consideration of the Sepate amendment to the Military bill, a1 Mr. DoxwmuLy proceeded to conclude his remarks in ion to the Senate amendment. He took the ground that the military protection to be afforded by the amendment would be but temporary in its character, and would cease the moment civil governments wero ereated. Those civil governments would be emphat! -eally covernments of rebols, and this bill would there- ‘Pore be the death knell of tne Joyal element in the lately webellious States, Mr. La Buorp, (dem.) of Ohio, having bad five min- ‘utes allowed him by Mr. Stevens, said he accepted the -erumb given to’him, not by his master, but by the mas- ster, Ho proceeded io robut Mr, Shellabarger's argument ast week on the Louisiana bill, and declared that there ‘was no war existing in this country, and therefore there ‘was no excuse for this legislation. Mr. 8rkvans then yielded ten minutes to ‘Mr. Evpaivce, (dem.) of Wie., who said be had never earned to value time before. The most important ‘Measures ever discussed in this country were to be dis- -cussed in allotments of ten minutes, of five minutes and of two minates, He would not stultify himself by attempting an argument agrinst the bill, but would con- Vent himself by denouncing it as containing all the vices, al) the infamies and all the mischiefs contained in any bill reported from the Joint Committee on Re- This bill itsclf was a declaration of There would ‘Be war, actual, real, existing,fthat would involve the of the Southern people in one common ruin. ring to Mr. Brandegee’s remarks last week, that this bill took up the question where Grant had left it off ‘st Appomattox Court House, he said he shonid rather | worse thao either would be reported ; he therefore would have that it took up the question where Robert | either vote for the Senate amendment, which was lees B. Lee had loft it off. The gentleman from Pennsylva- | repugnant to him, or he would not ah at all, ‘Bia (Mr. Stevens) had been bold enough to declare that was @ concurrence in the revolution mn by the rebels, and which hejhoped to perfect in making this a perfect republic. This bill set out with a lie; every Proposition in it was a lie, and it was itself one consum- mate and unmitigated lie from beginning to end. God ihad never made man or angel to whom he (Mr. Eldridge) Mr. ARNELL, (rep.) of Tenn, expressed his borror of the proposition before the Hor characterizing it as 8 monstrous proposition. It was the iron cage of the in- quisition which would gradually close in and destroy its Victime. There was no remedy for the evil except to render the rebel element at the South hopelessly powor- Jess, but this amendment would, in his opinion, give ‘would entrust the liberties of a without any con- | that element recognition and strength, and would be the ‘straint by 8 written instrament. This was. dill to ab- | death warrant of tbe Union men of the South, i ‘Togate constitution of the United States, to over- | Mr, WiiaMe expressed an emphatic negative to the throw all government and the rights, | Senate proposi involves an entire departure ‘ives and liberties of the people to the supreme |} from the Hose bill. which it to amend. It will of ao military despot. If he himself | was a departure from Dill, and it gave were 8 in the army on whom such ® duty were | the hands of the rebels a power of which they had been Be y7aid resign his commission frather than | deprived. They had been told that they must take thie gxercise such a power. If blood did not ran again in | pill or*nothing. For bis part he preferred to take ‘this counizy it would not bo the fault of the dominant | nothing. He preferred to leave the work to the’ next 5 ng Py yee anne laughter from the repabli- | Congress, He was in no hurry about it. Better that ) the rebel States should remain outside of the Union for ur. Stevens having bat fifteen minutesof hie time left, | generation than tbat they shonld come back Dow, and that being the close of the debate, various proposi- when they could form polstical alliances. ’ Stene for an extension of the time for debate were mado, Mr, GRINWHLL, (rep,) of Iowa, expressed the fear that, if and Soally is was agreed on, by unanimous consent, that re was a concurrence in the Kenate amendment, they ‘tee debate should go on unlimited this evening, and that | would, with the filibustering that Might be expected pray aperegte scaly dager siipeb- op ere when it came back with the President’s veto, find them- to ‘vote immediately after the reading of the gelven in the position of the man who went to hear the Mr. Dmavo, (wep.) of Obio, spoke in favor of the | ground fr vecttay “at the ipreschore elorecaee ‘ie ‘smendment, basing his position on the lawlessness; vio- md out, howover, that jt was not Whitfield whom he ‘murder and rapine that prevailed at the Sou! ‘at all, and he said he bad soiled his coat for Sea ae she scornful relection by the Southern States of | nothing. Bo he feared if he voted for the amend. Be 9 Eto ba San alcatel aati 1e Senate force down the throats of members that which | iat, uoune st 8 quarter before twelve Lease Adey bad already rejected. All the Senators on God's xf ‘earth would not force down his throat what his con- aalence revolted against. CITY INTELLIGENCE. ‘The Sreaker reminded Mr. Higby that his langnage ‘wes bardly respectful to @ co-ordinate branch of the government. Mr. Hazy acknowledged that it was not, and said ho Comprrowzr’s Orrice—Arrowturet.—William Cutler has been appointed chief clerk in the Auditor's Depart- would take it back ; but etill he repeated that he could 1 not be compelled by the Senate or apy other body toac. | Ment, Comptrolles's office, vice Jacob Seebacher, re- eept that which was obnoxious to hie judgment and | moved. Se aa = to greet mney — it Mass Meennc or JoURNEYMER TarLons.—A mass meet- would bazard the conditions and fortunes loyal | ing of journeymen tailors, for the purpose of forwarding Tonid never give his consent | NK And fo thet “he | ih6 work of organization, was held last night at 10 Stan- ton street, Long before the hour of opening a large would it, Mr. Woovpaince, (rep.) of Vt. sustained the Senate Smendment, and gave the reason for bis position. It | crowd was assembled, and when businees commenced Decome a necessity f to do o Jevtech the loyal men of the South in-thetr persone, | %€ Meeting room was densely packed, The meeting and rights, and it was on that ground of neces- | was called to order by Mr. Jacob Morstadt, and Mr. Wil- my he based the right liam C. Tucker was appointed . The President, right of wo ‘this law, ‘House bill, though be dit not like %& He much preferred the Senate amendment; for no the constitutionality of taking from the President the it which he had to control the im bis opening remarks, called attention to the number of shop meetings swhich bad been organized since the last mass meeting of the trade, and regarded such action on the part of the men as an appreciation of the benefits Army of tbe United He would vote for this bill | of organization, The men in Brokaw’s shep are still on mow, because it was the only practical measure that | strike, and e: their ination not to submit to ~eould be passed at this session. & reduction wages The meeting was addressed by Mr. Hiss, (dem.) of Ky., followed in an argument | Messra, Ennis, Taylor, Tacker and others, and the meet- Ser hestes omer ret. | “So's was simp! govern. Tus Foor Bripos over Broapway.—Considerable pro- penis of ten States of the Union, and to impose wu) thom the rule of a military officer, without any limit’ or | ETese has been made with the preliminary operations for Ss. A one, eo gen —— = different | this structure, The excavations for the foundations of i Mndergone two very material Changes; 008 | the piers at the four corners of Fulton street and Broad- etrik: it the authori iven to the General of the Xrmy and leaving it to foo President of the United | Way are completed. The foundations are ten feet deep Btates, and that he admitted to be an improvement to | and six feet square. The stone bases will be six feet, ee ae 4 point the limitation of | 884 the brick piers four fect, and these will be capped fM§een minuies, on which the House had previously | Wh granite fifteen inches thick. In the course of the agreed, expired, and he appealed to the House for an | ®xcavation the workmen have come across the marshholes extension of time. of the main sewers, which are now exposed to public ‘The Srzaxenr asked him bow long he wanted. view, and the attrastion they cauce to the crowd of He suggested twenty (an, bus other members, areca Be en ag Ce ha gene Bo spite of the «warned by past experience, suggested two hours. efforts ‘the police to make the multitude move on. ‘Mr. Hawpeasox, ) of Oregon, however, objected | Considerable time will be occupied in diverting these te further e: of time, and consequently Mr, | Sewers to ee Oe ee sek rebuilding Fine had to yield the floor. them. This, it is fe onc will rand another week, ‘He was succeeded by Mr. Davis, (rep.) of N. Y., who | and the iron work of bridge, which is understood to ‘that this was one of the most eventful days in | be completed by the Architectural Company, will bistory of the republic. He admitted the duty of | then at once be and it js ex that the bridge the + in ing the men from whom it | Will be finished and opened to the public in about a fort allegiance. if the people of the South would | Bight from this time. have peace on terms of generosity, they should have Tre Coat Consumers’ “Bexerrr” Company.—Last BX aed He aid net ye evening a meeting of the stockholders in this company " was beld at Runk’s Hotel, 274 Grand street, for the pur- pore pose of inquiring into the condition of the company’s pond affairs, It appeared from statements made in the course Mr. Loan, (rep. of a protracted discussion that the company had been Bot started with a capital of $500,000 and that fifty thou- sand shares had beon issued; that $136,000 had been ample powers to protect ‘the Union people of the South than a now had under paid on the company’ s mine in Pennsylvania, purchased the aon, as Commander-in-Chiet al at $200,000, lea }165,000 due it, exclusive of ‘and navy. The dill contained no positive provision. ft $12,000 iiebinneas ax ‘et dividend ‘paid the share. ‘was merely negative in all ite pi tions. It allowed | holders, and it was now di le to know who had the a, rebel confederacy ‘the rebel States to ki up a lit benefit of this outlay. The directors had shut up shop among themselves, until they choose, from superior in- | and entirely sui the business of the concern on ducements, to take measures to secure representation in | the ground, as alleged, that the cost of the conveyance Congress, It was a retrograde movement in the interest Of coal to New York was 80 great that they could not furnish it at the stipalated figure of $6 per ton. A com- mittee of five stockholders was appointed to thoroughiy investigate all the transactions connected with the cow- panv and bring the directors to book on behalf of the stockholders, who are nearly two thousand in number, Newenore’ Lovcive Hover. —A lecture will be delivered this evening in the hail No, 900 Broadway, corner of Twentieth street, by Professor Thomas W, Chittenden, on the subject of ‘Gases and Vapors,’’ the financial proceeds of the affair to be applied to the fund for the sapport of the Newsboys’ Lodging House. The object is @ commendable one, and will no doubt meet with a hearty response from the philanthropic portion of the community. Accioenta, &0,.—Wm. 8. Johnston, a carpenter, resid- ing at 261 West Thirty-thira street, had bis fingers Quictus here. Mr. Baxxa, (tep.) of Mase., stated the reason why he would vote to nonconcur in the Senate amendment. It declared in the preamble that the governments in the Tobe! States were not legal goverumenta Nevertheless Abey were de facto governments and ernments of Power, controlled by the most astute politicians it this continent bad known, They were recognized and were to be nized. The second section declared ‘that the military officers may recognize the local tribu- Pals; that meant that they shail recognize them. The Afth section spoke of a clase of men to be disfranchised because of their being felons at common law. Who Made felons at common law? The governments in those rebel States were the only power to do 80, Mr. Bivctiam interrupted Mr. Banks to say that the State governents could not make any man a felon ot a felon at common law. by mature who wes Mr. Barns led of Mr. Bingham to who wes accidentally cut off yesterday at Hoey's hay cutting fao- ‘to make felons at common law unless Ik were the gor. , at 140 East Twenty-second street, lames Pender, residing at 189 Cherry street, accident- ally fell yesterday and fractured his leg. Ah vonknown man wae picked up at 153 Elizabeth atreet in an unconscious state, apparentiy suffering from fite, by one of the Fourteenth en police. All the above were taken to Bellevne Hospital. Henry McQuade, while crossing the railroad bridge at Hudson City yesterday unfortunately fell through the same, and, fracturing his thigh, he was immediately conveyed to the New York Hospital. EWS FROM CALIFORNIA. Earthquake at San o-Fire Oo Sun Francreco, Feb, 14, 1867. Three shocks of earthquake were experienced at San Diego, California, on the Ist inst, A fre broke ont at the southeast corner of Davir and oe of thore Staten, Mr. Binonam wented to know whether Mr. Banke dended to ray that he objected to the auefranehieement of apy man for felony a common law. Mr, Bass replied—Not at all: but be objected to the Fecognition of those de facto governments by this bill. One of the Provisional Governors appointed by the Presi. dent bad reported that he had commissioned four thou. officers to administer the government of that State. f that were trae in one State it was true in the ethers; so that there would be forty thousand ffficers administering those de facto rovernments. And ‘who were they? Every man of thema rebel. Would hny man pretend to say that if loyal men bad these Forty thousand offices they could not organize loys) gov. erninenta, or would any one say that with forty thou. end rebel officers they id not organize rebel gov. ernmenta! He believed if thie bill were passed there would be no Joyal voice heard in any of those : wonier ir sd capporied the fenate amend. Mr. Bint, ( nd, wu ‘enate amend. seent, ang bald that if there wae anything neceesaty to | Washington streete yesterday and destroyed several show the gentlemen of the House that it was impose. | buildings Lowe $12,000. She te obtain ail that each desired, the history of thie ‘The steamer Golden City, for Panama. sailed to-day #90 Fem onetraind the fat. He preferred this meneuro ; with $461,300 in treaeare, $24,900 of which ie for New At Raving no meavore at all. He was not in favor of a | York, #1078 for Kngiand, $163 for Fragee and iho Ghote Mintroncywement of all who served in the late | beance for Panama. . NEW. YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1%, 1867.—YRIPLY SHEET, AQUATIC AMIMALS OF THE AMAZON, mounted by desh and enclosed in askin, W it be "; @ man, or @ quadru| or a bird, or a reptil Jimard, An Interes‘ing Lecture by Professor Leuls } 0 0'f..” ‘aknongh ere is the tae ene Agassiz. these structures differ only im the application of this Last evening the hall of the Cooper Institute was | execution in the form in which it is clothed, but in well filléd on the occasion of the fourth lecture deliv. | no way — ae fap rs in the teat ered by Professor Louis Agassiz and entitled the as same retetions to one another, If em “aquatic Animals of the Amazon.’ This valuable | compare 0 eortion in She ens body with another one i Sor made throu, head, or through the middie of th series of discourses on the Amazonian region of South | made through the head oF th ee eee America, with all its beauty and variety of vegetation, wealth of mineral resources and novel characteristics of geological structure and animal life, are given under the auspices of the “Association for the Advancement of Science and Art,” and, creditably to the popular taste and judgment, are duly appreciated by the citizens ot this city. The recent tour of Professor Agassiz in Brazil, and his distinguished talents as a naturalist, which bave been brought to bear upon the points of interest in that vast region, entitle his observations and reflections to more than ordinary consideration. The following isa fall report of his lecture last evening:— ‘Lapims axp Grwriemen:—The aqnatic population of any extensive fresh water basin many points of interest, We may, in the first place, view it with refer- ence to the structure of these animals as compared with that of aerial or terrestrial beings, or we may examine them with reference to their geographical distribution as contrasted with thore which inhabit the sea or land. We may also examine them with reference to their variety and the diversity which exists among them under appar- ently identieal circumstances, And this last point is one of peculiar interest. For. you will perceive, that if ex ternal circumstances have bad a deep influence in bring- ing about the variety of hving beinmcs which we find everywhere on the sarface of the earth, we shouid ex- find the same relation, 80 wonderfal is the ideal concep- tion which is manifested in these innomerable variety u in whatever region of the ly we may ion to examine the relative position of ergs.ns in the vertebrate, we find the organs identical the same relation to one another. And if time woulé permit me I could readily show-you that whatever theform of the animal, whether it be a fishor a serpent, whetber a lizard or a turtle or a bird, the relations are the same and the differences are chiefly differeuces in form and development. And it ia in consequence of this similarity that the idea has deen started that all animals may be derived one from the other: that all these animals may be the result of Successive modifications of the few, You see, on the ome band, we have these uniform differences which ‘sustain the most diversified forms; and then again we have this unity of plan, which seems to be in contradiction to the variety of influences under which these animals exist; thenagain an extraordinary diver- sity of forms, which seem to indicate the most diver. sified origin, and yet such similarity among this variety of things that seem to be unique, a modification of one ete on on wanters therefore, me protien make ir special object to study these thin should differ ! ins in their opinions so much—that there po Ng Eig similarity among animals living close | Should be those who can r under identical circumstance, Shut out | ntess ithe the. Immediate ‘manifestation of the specu from the infinences of the great changes ‘creative act on the part of a Deiog * mel stn logging Bye ~ in poe tt | ab once perfect beings; while others, inc'ined, perhaps, mosphere; shut out of the great diversity of bottoms | to follew the progress of erg Calg Which Are [Ou AO ne OT lee moaition, | %9100K 96 the First Cause of all things, would have it in ye lim! ap that thi ts we should exit to thd gent smlany., Now. 06 4 which have undergone oxumorioary chang” nthe Amazon, above all rivers on the earth, presentaa variety } course of tune.” To ‘this pu ag: den of organized beings which is stapendous, which exhausts | turn im sm Jast oly pie AN alee all conception and which was s matter of surpriso even | Oresent to the Bagot y_ bola at to me, who bave devoted my life chiefly to the study of | or structural Rte upon icons Bing pre ante fishes. I will, therefore, try to give you some idea of | and upon the an of ual io aoe a eae ietly that diversity. Iregret only that I cannot impart to to you, pee the interest which 1 have felt all the time in these animals, Not unint im their ways, they have generally been neglected. ww naturalists have torned their attention to thom. And I am afraid you will find my lecture rather monotonous. And yot, if you will for a moment consider that a knowledge of these beings bas an immediate bearing upon some of the most important questions which are now under consideration among naturalists, I hope you may follow me im the details which 1 am bout to submit toyoo. (Applause.) At first, let me say a few words concerning the stractare of aquatic animals. In the infancy of our science animals were classified; that is, brought together in groups according to the con- ditions under which they are found in nature; and, if you turn over the leaves of the great naturalists of the sixteenth century, you will find that their descriptions of the animals then known are arranged under a few heads, one embracing the aquatic animals, the other the terrestial and creeping animals and the other the aerial or fiving animals. But in proportion as our information of the structure of all these beings has been growing it has beon found that these external influences do not s0 modify organized beings as to bring together those which have the same habitation and which have the closest re- semblance. And we are no longer surprised now to find in the water animals of a}! the most diversified classes, and to find the same diversity among those which imbabit either the land or live in the air. It has been the resnit of modern investigations to discover that ani- mals, however numerous, however varied, are, after all, built ‘upon four plans of structure only. All these plans are very simple and may be recognized easily. And these structures may be expressed in formula so slmple by the unity while from another point of view everything seems different, And when we come to consider what may be the origin of all things, we are at once led on the ono hand to the evidence of the working of one mind, ‘and on the other hand to the fact of the changing ‘conditions under which everything lives, And im consequence of that, there are these va- rious opinions, some peramiing that all things have grown out of the change of a few things, and others ac. suming that everything must have been as it was made by Sareqne Lona Now with these e can turn our atiention more particul: to the ani- mals that inhabit the waters of the oe ee 1 may say that es sey to the different types of the animal 'e find tn the fresh waters of the Amazon . have quadrapeds, some of which are aquatic, and not the least of the singular features of thi : im mense basin of fresh water is the presences in it of sev- eral re] tatives of the porpolse family. The great family of whales to which 1! delor bas five Tepresentatives in the Amazon fn the fora ef a variety of porpo' and another « pl og rangi —— singolar animal which in. the body, that you will pormit me to call your attention fora , There are animals which have ning, 4 Protected by a hard ea ae eon like rays around a central axis; | Stell doubled op each side; and that clase ombraces all structore. Suppose that any kind of for instance, po consider, It will five pouches radiating in, five diferent ai we examine nervous , Toconsist of threads extending in the same Jong outside 3 another class among the molusks, embracing all those the bodies of which have respiratory organs only on one side of the body of which is more or less twisted or ‘spiral, and in whom the anterior ena of the body provided eb organ, the stomach be found to have rections. Sup- it_ will be found ns with i i ; A 8 Hy ¥ z & ais i uring Dut whi ih have no si gle representative on land ocean, it whic! ve no sin; and but a few very small ones in the fresh waters of the temperate zone. Another group, which are called ‘mollusks, erabraces animals the body of which 1s sym- metrical, the parts of which are red upon the two sides of a longitadinal axis, 80 that these animals have ‘no anterior and end, a right ana left or avove and below. This is not the case with these animals. ‘You cannot call this front and this behind, because these animals may move either one or the way. And you have no right or left; for if you cali this front (illustrating) this may be right and this may be left; bat if you call that frout this is right and this is left, So that you bave to introduce arbitrary considera- tions, You would describe these radiated animals ‘with reference to right and left, above and below. Not so with the Molluske, They have internal features which determine their bmp their symmetry, and fix q erse section of the animals we would have the bivalve this way and another that way, and have a fleshy bundle extending from one valve to another. These shells vary in external appear- ance greatly. Some are smooth and have a thin shell and an oval form, while others are elongated, and others still are more triangular, while in with others the spine projects from the while with others the ribs extend in this way. All these different species the position of their parts in the manner which enables | ‘iffer im external arrangement, while internally their us to distieguish the anterior or head end and the poste. | Structure is entirely similar. species in the pi rior or tai} end, as well as the right and left, and above | ave another curious feature. They are not only identi- oe ‘mals belong all the anti | cal with our Known shells, and identical among. them, ge HB gh cage rikervsoaiis ‘ceutis | selves, but at the eame time the external form ie similar fishes also, Part of them are aquatic, inhabiting the sea, and part of them fresh water; others are terrestrial. 80 you see here we have animals of one and the same structure inhabiting the different elements, which wero made in the infancy of our science the foundation for the classification of the whole animal kingdom. Of this type there are several ciasses, three and although I shall | refer Presently, | as i) ve an opportun: reference, pe among the fresh waar animals of the Amazon, let me say that the majority of those which have two valves are either fresh water or marine. The greater part are marine. A less number are fresh water. Of those which have only one valve and are generally wound op in spirals we have also a majority in the sea, but some in fresh waters and some on land. Of the cuttle fish class there are none in fresh waters—none that are terrestrial. All of them are marine, and they have been inhabitants of one globe from the very earliest periods of the earth’s history during which animals have lived repeat the formule of these animals anterior end marked by some to the marine shell, with, however, a different Some of thoes shells are sale from the fact that they have =a shells, Now razor sbelis, very slender and almost you might be surprised to hear there are some water shells of this form i the river oye differ from all others known exist, and which bave all the internal stracture common to fresh water mollusks, Others, in, with the in- ternal structure of fresh water, still have the external iD all the pecullariies ofthe group, while others. al jee e , Wi Te. semble the arca. ‘Now what dose fiat. mean? Tt is difficult to see why there should be, as it were, resem- Dlances, and to see among animals of the fresh water species animals of the kind which have no similarity with the structure of marine shells. In this we can oaly perceive the working of a mind which combines all the diversified among themselver, - te another. t on eacl 0 ratory organs are om | Tose imthe space of time in of ite parte and so re- the right'and on the left, while. about the sides of the ealitson teenpiecel enoaeaemte ines ae mouth are appendages with the aid of which basin in course of time there lis changed. But these juce the food into their mouths, | While these shells have not the internal structure of the And the intestines, respiratory organs and organs | Marine shell. it must be remembered that the external of circulation are clustered in the centre. Now, the | structure of the shell hasbeen modified so as to have manner in which these severai parts are formed and ad- | given them the common character by which they agree justed to each other characterizes the different families, | 90 Closely to each other; and thus Sy Gifferent genera and different species. Then we have | agree with the other theory, | but agrees another whieh are called articula’es—animals, the conformation of the other fresh water dod ‘of which may be compared to a cylinder, a tube, shells in other parts of the world. But some a tube divided into a number of rings, moveable one | other causes have been at work. There must have been upon tl other, so that in fagt tne body | some change which imparted unity, notwithstanding is an articulated cylinder, containing a angle cavity, in | the change, ands unity which extends not -. igs which are arranged all the organs. Suppose I represent | Fiver Amazon, but to other parts of the world. ‘that in thie way, (Illustrating. ) ‘These aneverse rings world has more mysteries than our philosophy has in this manner and the internal ‘atranged in fathomed thus far, and which we cannot compass within interior, Draw a line through the cenire and the or- | one marrow system. In binges RF ail the in- gans of circulation are in the upper the nervous | habitants of freeh water were called fishes; and it is system mainly in the lower part, the only in Su Oa te. Annezod to, these ringn ard reason lo- | Selene mach, thet ts varies tm sireetere tat ban comotive appends in the shaj imba, which may be maze Rocke, ts tn. Worn, or ‘De “articulated | bas become gradually referred to differont classes. i himbe, as in crabs, lobsters, insects and the like, Now | will now, pase on to the Ashes proper. | The Espiredo these articulated animals embrace also geveral classes, | @xtendsto and is found in South America, as also the ioweet of which ia that of the worm, of which there | are the polyperdes These have a coat of mail, are marine kinds, fresh water kinds and terrestrial | Of which the alligator isa ype. This 18 a fish with kinds, Worms are found everywhere; they are found | ® long snout, then a rising back, a tail, a slender ‘a8 pararites in the bodies of other animals and in the in- | body, the surface of which is covered with angular scales ternal organs of other living beings; they jn the | #0 hard that it will resist the stroke of steel. The animal fresh and salt waters, and they are found also in the | grows to a considerable am ee T have seen them earth, burrowing under ground. Then we have the | twelve feet long in the Lower Mississippi, There is class of crabs, of lobsters and of crusta- | another kind with a shorter snout, and which resembles cea, which is next above, and that of im alligator more than the first. This fish is peculiar to the northern waters of America, while the other is pecu- Nar to the fresh waters of America, and to no other ie world, whether Asia, Africa ot Aus- hat the animal is circumscribed within narrow limits, ad thus showing that their emigra- tion is as thoroughly preven through the ocean os it could be to pags over dry land from river to Thus the different species are from ocean as completely as if moun- to prevent the fishes of the southern nt from reaching the northern coast, Very few apecios are common at the same time to South America and to North America, and not one of the of either i common to Africa or to the Sonth American coast of the Atlantic. While we bave thus singularly lo- omens seve byte families with wide. jon. There is the cat fish, of which wah=vs* fresh waters, ‘0 familiarly and srcies rmontpeping 1 A he rivers of South America, bg =F has but few representatives in Warope, some tm Af \d a large number over the in the ters of Southern Asia, It is not difficult to see he — cause of such extensive distribution on ne hand, white on the other it is so like a direct trystem of localism, some of great dimension, and others again so smail that they are not more than a few inc! long, while others reach to twelve and fifteen feet, and weigh from five hundred to six hundred pounds. And secte, which live out of water, “o that we have here animals of the aquatic, of the terrestrial or aerial of life, all showing one and the same structure. like to insist upon these facts which are the most brilliant results of the modern progress of our science, Decause you ree at once the bearing these facts have upon the question of the origin of these things If we have identical stractures under the most diversified con- ditions of existenco, these external irduences which act upon living beings cannot have been the cause which hae produced such unity in plan, unity m structure, that ideal common basis of animals mus be derived from something bigher than the conditions under which these animals live when wo find that notwithstanding these diversified conditions the animals present one ant the fame plan of structure. (Applause.) The next class, the vertebrate, is one which hae a peculiar interest for us, for we belong there. (Laughter and applause ) ‘That ig, all the animais which have hackbone; all the animals which have two distinct cavities, in which the various organs of the body are enciesed, one cavity be- low in which all those organs are contained, by whieh life ie maintained in ite normal condition; thet i, the organs of digestion, through which food is assim! and transformed into the enbstance of the body; the orcans of breathing through which this assimiliation is fostered the organs of circulation, through which the resolte o} those operatio roughout ayste ‘and also reduction, watch oon “ hy all these are the most delicious fish in the basin Co rains. All those organs by Bey Pri Amazon. It is @ curious fact iy Fee oe maintained are contained in the lower cavity of the | turbid waters, so high in temperata Land ges g 4 body, while the upper cavity containe which | eighty di of Fahrenheit, should now ot pid establien Telations between the ‘animals and the eur- | number of delicate fish, and such a an a rounding World. In the w cavity ie cont in | Yet it ie #0, There is hardly a fansily Mn oh the anverior part of th nody, the brain; in the mi He | sented in the Amazon that has not some Aparice posterior region of the body, the ation of the | remarkable for exquisite delicacy a We fed brain, which we call the epinal marrow, and from it | of food, and the best among them a ae arines the nerver which are scattered throvgh all of | in the — which the naturalists Se) Bet the body and Rend senaibility, bat also ve impres- | parsenrus which ie allied to the salmon ie "muse tlone frum cetside To tbecente are ned organs } while digering in strnctural organization al! have's, plate covecing s © SONDAY SCHOOL SEMI-CENTENWIAL. while in othes respects Y — oy 5 a eames ee yo {n this wow land the jubilee, or fiftieth anniversary of Amencn, withow ‘inatit regarded ag an event of no small im- fundamen ifferet o ution, is ag an 20 The tase weg y — potance; and when the rapidity of life, the multitude of i le Berge 4 events compressed into a few years, in the existence hice of the Sa on the betk,, we oth of men and societies, and the facility with which Sere oak ant have cf one makes way for another on the stage of action, are as In some bine ths ype consdered, asem!-centennialjduration is no small achieve- eo AE vd ment The celebration of such an event took place last these salen tone aided b pet the Madison avenue ebureb, the Sunday fish moves rapidly and strikes with violence then be 00 _ in connection with which met to com- uses both ‘so that the surface on which he strikes | memerate its fiftieth birthday. The childrev eninge. When be moved gently he uses only were gathered in their Sunday school room some cordal Then th time before the hour announced for the commencement the oval and the of the exercises, whence they proceeded, at half-past of fish is the perch. ‘The perch bas a very | seven o'clock, tothe church, where they found a larye different dorsal, and the cordal is comparatively small | mumber of their friends and relatives awaiting their and feeble. In ‘the position and character of fins The banners of the various classes, bearing” and the form of the mouth, the perch differs greatly | appro) devices and mottoes, were arranged in taste- trom the treat, A third type of fish is shark, a | ful around the semi-circular space in the rear of fourth is represented in the swordfish, and the fifth fe In ne ware Alene Tows of books, beau- and only other clags of fish is the sturgeon family. To | ti nd, and baskets af vempting fruit destined to these groops of fishes belong all the fishes known on | be distributed to the eager and expectant children. The earth, and to these types may be referred all the fishes | exercises were commenced with singing by the schoo! that have ever lived in all times. But these have as- | from hymns printed for the occasion. ing of a samed such extraordinary differences in the details that portion Scriptures and prayer followed, by the bv the process of changi somehow or other we can . Mr. Kennedy. A series of resolutions, bearing ‘at once see how one might have grown out of the other, | eloquent testimony to the kindn energy, zeal anc 1n other words, how by a different execution, the same | self-sacrifice of the Superintendent, Mr. Phelps, in the idea may have been expressed in different waya | conduct of the ool, was and @ copy of ‘Now what are the fishes which inbabit the Amazon? for | the address, handsomely engrossed and framed, presente I wanted to say all this simply as a preparation to give | to him, in reply to which he briefly returned ike... you some definite-idea of the various types of fishes | alluding with much teeling to the earnest and kindly which we find in that mighty basin. Not one of those | co- with which he had been met and supported: fishes with which we are liar in our rivera is to be | by teachers in their common labor of love. The found there; not one of those which are known in the | Rev, Dr. Weston, pastor, then congratulated the congre- rivers of Europe is to be f¢ there; not one from any | gation on the prosperous condition of the Sunday school, other fresh water basin is to be found there. Tho Ama- | which had never been more flourishing than at present, zon has fishes of its own, utterly dit from those | numbering, as it did, between two three hundred of apy other and these are different | pupils, He would not speak of those noble women who from those in other fresh water rivers | more than fifty years ago commenced the of which of Brazil, and ta each part of the Amazon there are | they now saw the fruits; for there was one present in fishes of & peculiar character, so that those which in- | their midet who bad been a co-laborer with them, habit the lower course of the Amazon differ from those | who would give some reminiscences of those daya. found in the upper. o great ie the variety that in small | called upon Mr. Murphy, who briefly reviewed as th lakes of water, at parte of the we find au end ed one by one before his mind the chief events wh: leas variety. I examined a little lake, at the jenc marked the course of the school—originally com- tion of the Rio Negro with the Amazon. The lake wa’ |- posed of three separate branches—and recalled the per- only a few hundred yards in extent, and in that pool, fo it was hardly anything more, I found in the two months over two hundred different kinds of fishes. (applause), and three times larger than the Mississippi, or m the Senegal, or Ganges or Nile. The number of fishes found in the whole basin of the Ama- zon is not less than two thousand different kinds; that is, ten times as many as were known about a aos ago to exist in the whole world. And strange to say, it would seem that, in proportion as we become acquainted with a larger number of these animals they should be found to resemble one another more and more. On the contrary, however, such are the pecularities of their features, such is the infinite number of circumstances which brings about differences among them, that, in proportion as I find a larger and larger num- gons who had at various times taken part in the instruc- tion of its pupils; of whom many had gone to their ro- ward, but some still remained, and were present in the congregation. An address was also delivered by the Rev. Dr. J. FE. Smith, in which he advocated the practice of leading children to committ to memory the words of Scripture. He expressed bis belief that they were, even in very tender years, capable of receiving divine grace, and con- cluded with an apt illustration of the entrance and growth of sin in the heart, ite removal by the sunshine of God’s love, and the beneficial effect of the waters of penitence on Christian life. After the benediction the prize books were distribute? to the pupils, who were directed to remain in their seats: for this parpose. Then, accompanied by many of their ber, I find the difference between them seems | friends and teachers, repaired to an adjoining apart- to’ grow, and, thongh {t appears paradoxical, | ment, where a bountiful refreshment table had been it is strictly 0. Wheul went to the Amazon I found | spread, in discussing whose dalaties the young people the sam total of the fishes described by mv predecessors, | evinced an high a degree of sntisfaction as was maoi- including all the various expeditions which have gone to | fested by them during the exercises in which they had: that country with the view of studying its natural pro- | been previously participating, ductions, did not exceed one hundred and fifty, and the rr number I have brought home exceeds fifteen hundred, ‘SUICIDE OF A LIEUTENANT IN THE ARMY. indeed approaches two thousand. Every new variety s pcan has exnibited tendencies, radiations, modifications in the Ricamonp, Feb. 18, 1867. direction of almost every other, 80 that the points Lieutenant J. S Newberg, of the ifth Infantry. of contact multiply not in point of resemblances only, | committed suicide this morning at the Ballard House. Dut also in: vointe of difference And now I should | He was under military arreat at the time. like to give you some idea of what are these differences and of what are the 1 Shea of some of these fishes and of the mode in which they differ from the fishes of our own waters, In the first place, the type of sharks has only one representative in the Amazon, that is the swordfish. The swordfish is a shark which differs from ordinary sharks in this, that the skull ts prolonged The swordfish is a shark, the sword of which is prolonged to a considerable extent, and on its two sides MISCELLANEOUS. A REPORT 10 THE ACADEMY OF MEDICINE OF NEW YORK, PRESENTED AT THE LAS? MEETING, p tecth, forming the ‘characteristic of that fencin fenus The sword fab genus is the only. kind of shark BY whic! own enter etal tivers. not poriy an nbabvant of tbe wre bat i found on the THE COMMITTEE OF THREE seashore. imilar speci ind in the Missiesi river, and anothor species is found at the mouth of the oe prone jd = other od of ho pec! hic ip the BY THE PRESIDENT mazon the lamper type have not a single repre- — sentative in the whole of that mighty besin. it is OF THIF tirely foreign to the waters, w! type SCIENTIFIC INSTITUT known in all the waters of North America and walls om FOR THE EXAMINATION OF HOFF’S MALT EXTRACT BEVBRAGB OF HBALTE. HOFF'S tinction which stitfure ther enchances the repu- tation of this renowed pre paration from the numerous nostrums of the day, and places ime position far-above all 90- called health preservers. After ite Introduction into the United States the President of the New York Acad- emy of Medicine, Dr. James Anderson, appointed a committee to report on thie celebrated beverage, which is not only used in enormous quantities in Europe, but has also ii rows over the flesh, one row along the middle of the ‘back, one row on each side along the middie of the body, and one row on each side along the lower side of body, and these shields are bard and even covered with enamel. Now, while we have no sturgeons { in the Amazon, we have a variety of fish akin to the sturgeon in some respects, having the flat snout and | the mouth shaped in the same way underneath, and | having the body covered with shields, but these | . shields ocvu, either the whole in various —_— combinations, have only some rows in a different received the endorsement of many European sci- ee a tee Giffer | gatite bodies. ‘Mr. HOFF received from the ebair- instead of a soft cartilage, and man of the committee an invitation to assist at a metrical as in Then the mouth is sar- —_— rounded Saran cnn cone a ‘meeting, and bad the honor to give the members of a curtain e mouth, an in may aan very large, and in some ‘of them the anterior part is the Academy full tnformation as to the compound and prolonj like a whip, and extends far beyond the mode of preparation, The committee, the members of ‘The upper lobe of the tail also is some- aa Some of these fishés in the Amazon | which bad convinced themselves in their private prac tice of the efficacy of this remedy, received with appro-- bation Mr, HOFF'S explanation, particularly as to its virtues as a nutriment, appetizer and tonic, and os to the its head over the en- ‘ a" traan axe brenioed WHRte he ts ter ba give ite young, Ss equally desirable for the sitk and bealthy. . Mr. Between the folds of th iad the yourg remain TEAL EO Re we ia. that ~ od by thoes Tolan ofthe committee consider his preparations of great mou an are ant are iy ee Phi 3 have fruenty™ engi value, On che Sth inst, the report adopted, fish with there bunches of eggs which recommends HOFP'S MALT EX- That = Saris caspea Gites tay: cotenes neat are TRACT BEVERAGE OF HEALTH to thus enabled to observe —_— which for t0 all the young fsbrof the The the profession, was read st » meeting tail end of the young thas mequality of the Aeademy, and endorsed by ° which we have in the and the oat rule, — peolonics! fi ey akpaslen x Oe ae 7 formations, 80 we er ge Aegeration, that in form the Sehee of the earHest days of Hence, Americad eclence agroce our day. Tue” shows stats woes an “tannale With Buropean, whieh has ao Unk there | is, Sear onn tense Clared that HOFPS MALT ae Le Nei tgre Reem ef aren EXTRACT BEVERAGE OF aspredo, are exclusively found ‘waters — of south America, replacing the type of which HEALTH “ie highly ser- characterize the fresh waters of our n hemi Viceable not only as an sphere. By the side of them we have another group s Ba de any Cop Nap raipad om Toe article of diet for con- side. ‘This deh ie Tomarkable for the feea Sears of valescenta, but also leaving the water and walking a en over land. It is found sometimes three, four or five miles a from water and specimens which I have brought home remedy for cer pn dln lg sd fe et 6 See. tain — affections Pn Bang on into water they have been as li as if they ty Go pg ‘of the throat, the sine of aman's bee, wih «bole lonfing 1 te stomach and Teron sane at fun tep eine vowel, Planes peas ene Reem. sone Us Sa er ten cee HOFP'S Mai? EXTRACT DEPOT, the water on warnpa ecg hi aden whe NO, 42 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. t reac! ry 7 mane He sh ha Saat te ore taka cose teen Degen es ai = aia and ve more than once Gare by the same. cook, Another species of fishes, ™ =PERRYS FAMILY OINTMENT 18 CURING HUN. Bi Sore daily of Burns, red Bresny, Sore CNY ac era oa 187 Chatham street. Try BSOLUTE DIVORCE OBTAINED IN ANY TATE A ies ity or exposure, e; con Aultation free; no. fees inlll divores We obtained GB LINCOLN, lawyer, 80 Nassau street, OL LEGALLY OBTANED Ix APR, RTORM AOA, SEAN tl arvorce FANG nse ens Suthaclior, 78 Nassau Aer {gAR@AINS.—WATERFALLS SINGLE CURLS $1, three P' Grecian Curls Everything qaeaveat W.Shihi’and varied | PECKHAM’S Hair Bazaars, 251 Grand street. near Bewe. , st New York, and corner Fourth and South Ninth streets, Wi} hues and = ty be compared in richness rg. Hatr#dressing 80 cents. Cut this out, Jor © it eplendid families of tropical birds, | —————__-—__ "nn ate of color Wave another family in the Amazon, which is ORNS, BUNIONS, INVERTED NAILS, ac., CURED Thee. argely represented, and presents an equally without in by Dr. RICE, 68 Bowery, Bank Bn ili. it . ing. Corn Annihilator, 60 cents. FS SCHENCK, OF PRULADELERIA, RE. D 3. i 8 arog’ Blasasee thes he a jee among You who are familine with the beautiful fienes which Mmbabit the coral islands in the tropes will nd in the chromids of the Amazon a per- pa ye fect carrespondence, The most common fishes in our is, 82 Bond street, from Northtrn rivers are chobs and perches, and of that wi family there is not a single representative in th Ametica From the fact that a difference between the fishes of our northern and those which inbabit the Amazon, one of two concitsions must be arrived at. The fishes which in- habitcifferent parte of the world have EOF where BD get mF eer THE EAR AND PA RTIAL DEA I their pec they have a ness positively and anentiy cured by Dr. HAR sont Sf Genadas the suekses, thay ive nade sur- | LEY, 906 Wost Forty-third street, Patients received for one i that naturalists have thus far concelved possible | month from this date, No fee for consultation and exami nation. in the way of change. - ee eee ne ce —_ DVORCES LEGALLY OBTAINED, From tie. TENNESSEE LEGISLATURE. . inetrance, Chucky, drunbsouoss or doncrtion eh vest” cient. Advice free. ‘he Senate nae passed the hil comterring narege-on ei hE as Lh nah BA nadeader alec A motion to strike out the olause preventing | 7Y4 ro THOMAS R. AGNEW'S, ORF them from serving on jnries, or holding 3 ‘was re- | G streets, where yon will hind Teas, jeer, York, Jectet by & tie vote, The bil! bad previous): the nd rreryening else cheaper than any store in Ne, Aoum Une vrive hours " ’ ‘ owing to Its containing only a slight tinge of alcoho, '