The New York Herald Newspaper, April 28, 1868, Page 10

WwW a PHYSM0LOGY OF THE EARTH. New York, Dec. 20, 1807, To "#B EviTor or THR HERALD:— fm reference to the invitation, per article of the pant th inst,, for an explanation of the physical distur- combination with its all-propagating, which have for some time beem reported in ‘the columns of the HERALD, I propose to give ‘answers to some of the questions propounded. In @oing 80, however, I intend to confine myself to the taws that govern the phenomena, because I have mot at my disposal sufficient data to enable me to ‘race the operation of the forces te a connection ‘with the disturbances which are the immediate sub- NEW YORK ERA nti Tt gh = electric enrrents, contreeting their paths ind.e #1 b- strata, begum to elevaie the mountain ran th aad thus further obtruet the clreuiation of the waters, formtng land -locked seas, swainps and lasoons, that Were subject to numerous changes, rapid and cou- lete, On account of the violence of the forces NOW opposiitea, Ram) heat on the one side, in ly, Water, producing a superabundant vege" on the surface, and. hy its subterranean operstions throwing its barriers of tand higher aud Irghier. Om the other side, the mighty muss of the Waters en- deavering to’ maintain’ the tniegrity of Its course, “rolling up against the ever encvoach- ing Bod, ond, ‘unable to make a passage, rolling back on itsel formin the débria it carried, 3, urengtiien the barriers tuat posed its course. ‘Meanwhile the veketation within the barrier piles up in abundanee, while strong fects of inquiry. If we regard the work of creation | €lectric currents are actively at work on the sub- fn its origin, it does not make any difference if the epoch be located at @ point of time, say six thousand years ago, or at the beginning of a period embracing six thousand ages. If the former the operation was quicker, if the latter slower; but in either case, both origin and resuits were equally possible. If we remove the event of creation toa period never so remote, on arriving there we stand face to face with the same imiculty that we encounter by placing it at any point of sabsequent tine. In the one case, as in the other, we must admit the necessity of an intelligence above and superior to nature, from whence nature @erived its life, law and system. The power, there- fore, being conceded, the question narrows itself into these limits, Did the Creator of nature proceed by the slow method of ages or the quicker one of days to give those laws to matter by which the existing state ef things was produced? 1 espouse the latter alter- ative of the proposition, and for the following feasons:— The evident end of creation was the propagation ef an intelligence for some ultimate purpose, into | which it is not my province to inquire. Without this ebject creation woull have been a whim, a freak, an absurdity; and as man is the impersonification of strata denuding and carrying it away to deposit its material iu the stock of some increasing eminence, until by and by the water shed is interrupted by an upheaval of its channel, or some unusual convulsion brings a deluge from the sky. or some accident bursis the barrier set up against the ocean, when the whole continent is again submerged and the water again holds sway, proceeding With its formations as before for an other cycle, wen it 18 again arene to give place in turn’ to another term of land and vegeta- tion. The third, or heat secreting. age has now arrived, and the various rock formations consti depths to which they cirry down aod and heat, and there fuse into a homogencous mass all substances that chance to come into con- nection with them, And the marvellous power thus | acquired by the continued additions of heat and matter forced the strata of the crust upwards, until, separating at the weakest point, it gave vent to the interior mass, which, flnding itself in a measure relieved from pressvre, crystallized and became & mouniain cone, known a8 azoic And along this cone, even near the sumunit, the strata that were once an ocean bed coy now be found ranged at any angie, some perpendicular and soine absoiutely turued over with the strata reversed in the order of formation, At the present time the mountain forming period this intelligence, for what purpose would the Creator | extend His preparatory works over a apace of time compared with which the advent of man -is a mere has ceased, because the interior strata have become calcined and will not permit the passage of heat out- Wards, It's therefore compelled to seck inner depths of the earth, from which it 18 at any moment liable to esc and scatter destruction on the surface, When a portion of tie crust yields to the miterior pressure, or a portion becomes plastic and accom- point in an all butinfinite hne? But there ts no | modates itself to the molten mass beneath, an carta. power to human understanding visible compe- | auake is produced, and the lava would quickly es- tent to organize matter within a period of time equal \o six revolutions of the eurth, To this I answer that removing the time to a remote period oes not tn any way lessen the dimeulty, The power that would be required in one case would also be | duced gi 8 CAL DE pro | that a required in the other, and since no duced of a creation being accomplishets by degrees, from imperfection to perfection, the power that Would be competent to organize matter six million rs azo would be competent to organize tt six i years ago and would be equall those days of creation six. ¢ insiead of dividing them hy long spac But it may be objecied that we iuent, Ssysvem and construc mpetent utive days of eriods, 1 a ise if WO Suppose & ry Po, Sap oF th globe, to have ek rom the Wal portions w yet nthe work © crea. at orsanizations Would haye wants of the sive e€ heles in their Various states and t ave their being, © to other 0} cre. . And ito be lew, but rof their ad- { owards their ms would be fouud Ranizations | ation succeed: st, in th rol numerous and ¢ nd the more pet edate the more tin olose; @oin nt of fact. lieve, then, is te real quest power in nature competent ous sirata of rock formation w all aud i of nature in six distinct si ., lee above 13 deg., water bel: BooveE 09 deg., in a State of Vapor or tate of decomposition or electri ater elow 13 deg. 18 @ transparent crystalline | rock, and is an electric, taving the prop ef opposing the passage of eiectricity and con- Beguentiy coliecting it about it, Water above 13 @eg. and under 32 deg. is a transparent ¢ Kock, & corgpictor of eleciric not collect iMabvout it, Above 32 deg. wacer ceases | €o be solid; but on arriving at 32 deg. beiore Hquify- | , it gives out an ammount of caloric equivalent to jou deg. of heat. From 32 deg. to 30 deg. water is a | . Pqnid that tnereasos in gravity as tt combl and at 89 deg. it has ‘attained tis 1 Wity as it combines With heat; at 212 deg. it vi rizes, ‘but in dolug so it couibines with and ren- +) a8 At all temperatures BuMclent will be gene- ‘Tat to saturate ihe atinosphere above it to the feat of Lwo per ceni; and Whatever be the tem cavure of ihe water in waieh the vapor is gene- ed, the latter will always contain the fuil quantity 1,212 deg.—212 deg. fres heat and 1. Phone. nd the Ampypt of Vapor ao uf it 8 t oh the heat of the Water, drynes thé Bifperificambent alr. Up to this poin ater is a wea but above tits point it comes a powerful, solvent in proportion to tne de- ee of heat with which it Is combi: cil in tts 1 state no substance in an resist i nm tii- Visible, elastic eat equal to 1,2 eatin. pessure of an atuiosplie ot COU ore heat and reimatn sicam, but decom 8 Into fect ones, as tucy are and | thy | g sue:—Is there a | Course of the sun tn the cape and carry desolation around it, but that the subterranean sippiies of water arrest ‘its course b carrying off suiticient heat to render it solid, thercby sealing tie chink or vent, whe it is itset dissipated into electricity, ‘The enormons quantities of electricity thua pro- existence $0 those storms dad hurricanes: Vays accompany such convulsions. If there be not suilicent wateran the vicinity of tue fracture, or if tue waier be unable to establisn a connection with (he atmosphere or an electric trend, the lava escapes to the surface and produces a volcano. in the present period, however, lava never escapes froin wad azole rocks, aud the trends froin which it eminates at the present tine have their location lunch hisher up in the erust formations. They are not Vents or aiety vaives vo the molten flood below, but they do, of se, divert the current of heat jvom the inierlor, and therefore tend to stay the tinal revolution, Their eraptions are attended by scoring Vivient in proportion Lo the amount of water tint is able to reacn the lavas ‘The concretionary formations, the conglomerates, vere: jon boulders and agrotites, or meteors, are all formations of purcly eeciae origin, the two former subterranean, the latter aerial, and the waterspoat isa meteor of the saine class, ‘differing ouly in the circumstances of reunion, A thunder storm {8 sim. ply the reunion of detached patcues of electricity collected on clouds, sometimes effecting a reunion with the earth, always so in winter, and sometinios with the electrielly collected on two pateties of ; Clouds, frequently so in summer, Let u3 now tura to the atmosphere as a whole and see how those forces are operating at the prese ‘The equatorial caims ure a Zone some live ¢ sin width, and following in some degree ¢ pie with its equ or the mean of its vibration some tive degr of the earth’s equator, And through this air roils up under the Influence of the sun's rays flows off toward é r pole, so that It dividss atmosphere of the earth into two divisions—the nor | and the south—and over this barrier no vapor of } Water as vapor can pass, south of this z the quantity of water evaporated is nearly th times as large as that evaporated north of it; yer, the northern side there Is nearly twice a8 much wate: precipitated, And thus, by the matter carried in | solution is the Southern hemisphere denuded of Its Now, coast currents, and leaving | crust of the giobe no longer aiferd a passage tothe | tt, electric trends, and they are competed to seek lower it matter | certain state: but the magnetic meridiyn has no pole; its cerminus i8 Aa regular carve rome wie bouw arics of tue ice caps and the needle, fas oniy a gene- ral northerly and southerly diree¥on, It varies with the year as (he general changes @n tiie globe make a change tn the position of the cap, It varies with the season as the cap is di or extended. It varies with the day as the uence of the tides and oan ee eonenes manner. And it has local var as and tnt 8 tau evn — “ty by the trends in the ‘urnins e water clreulation of the globe we see that when water falis to thirty-nine degrees it hes attatacd 1t8 maximum gravity and sinks to the bottom of the ocean. Now, water being a non-con- ductor of heat, if it were operated on only by that at the surtace it would inevitably sink and siak witil the whole body were red to the maximum gTavity, and by no possible means can the circula- tion be kept oe nae heat be applied below, and this is accomplished by electricity, ‘The waters have their trends Just like the that give rine to heated cnrrents, and well defined—wails, as Maury calls them—tide rips or bars, &c. 1 have scen these rips in the torrid zone in water not more thaa three feet deep, the rip having about tie saine diameter, In » 1 have conjectured what tie diameter of the rip @ fixed proportion to the depth of the water, ‘hese rips can be best studied in shallow water. Below the sur- face I could not detect any unusual appearance, but on the surface the water is agiiated, just | as ifa heavy shower of large drops were falling into » With Us diifevence, that the little cones lave a softer, a more rounded-outline, By the above means— aided, of course, by the diurnal revolution of the earth and the attraction of the neaveniy bodies—is ue cirewatine id the waters maintained. ow, the question Coon! Can anything be done to govern those great forces that are i yustantly endan- gering the stabuity of our plan@® and periodically caurlug 80 much devastation on the surface? 1 ane swer, yes. If the eCRnee, could be reduced to a har- mony of co-operation the thme might come when the tempest and earthquake would be subjects of anti- quarian investigation, and the whole earth would be, as it was originally designed, of uniform warmth paint the equator to the les. And, following the panty 08 reason, let us hope that the myste- | rious Influence of matter on mind may work a cor- responding revolution in the social orzanization, | unill vio. ence and falsehood shail disappear and jus- { tice and truth govern all the actions ‘of tuankind. Such ave ihe principles and such the pliiosophy Which the writer has ior @ long time used in ex- | Plaining all the phenomena connected witi the plan- et; and he has not found them in any in- | stance to in adaptabilit to cause aud ty id down have every one, been arrived at thro years of patient investigation and e: riment, and careiully com- Pared one with another and with a harmonious | Whole, of which they are members, The limits of thts communication will not admit of argument; he hus therefore avoided everything of the kind and | contented himself with a simple statement of facts ; ; but the arguinents aud proofs are ready, aud will be i | effect. The principles put in as required. In comfag’before the world, he asks no quarter from blind prejudice, as le will con- cede none, Truth is the object he proposes to arrive at, and ugainst all antagonists reason is his Woa- | pon and pliulosophy his field, VERITAS. THE PRIZE RING. Winner After calculations and plans to an indefinite degree of those fisticaily and pecuniarily interested in the | presumed great feather weight championship of , berween Dick Holliwood and Jotinny Keat- , vatuer Incoutinently strangled by the s macy of the law, followed ious tribulations, incaree- railona, pro and, it is reported, breakings of faith 3 took place yesterday on the soll of Ken mules below Cincinnati, but termi. nated, @ so winch exetting interposition, in an sfactory teat Hy: and abrupt manner, breating bis wrist in the miations a sping caused coi wt the fistic elreles ef the Union. TOLLEWOOD. nie Interested in its reanits as to he spectators, Many lead- ing citizens of Providence, it is mained, have suddenly disappeared within a day or two, the reason being obvious, Among those that the strong hands of the law have clutched aad are now in “durance vile” is the noted pugilist George Rooke, who fouzht and was whipped by prey “are eg bird verean A a sparing exhibition nis city. 0 unfortun: timekeeper of the affair, The authorities declare—and this cannot be very gratifying news to the fraternity—that they will mae such an example of ail concerned in this “brutal meeting” that no one will ever dare engage in or be present at a similar affair in Rhode Island. Deteetive Billings, of the Providence force, has been suspended for being present as a spectator of the fight, THE STANWIX HALL TRAGEDY. Trial of George W. Cole for the Murder of L. Harris Hiscock at Albany—Continuation of the Testimony for the Defence. y ALBany, April 27, 1868. The following is the gontinuation of the testimony on the part of the prisoner:— Frank H, Hamilton, examined by Mr. Brady—I am a physician, resided in New York since 1861; was in the army for three years as regimental surgeon, and medical inspector of a corps; before that I resided at Buffalo; graduated in Pennsylvania in 1840; I was professor in the medical college at Fairfleld, Her- kimer county, at Geneva College and at Bellevue Hospital; Ihave somewhat given my attention to the subject of insanity; I heard the question put on Satarday. Q. Assuming the facts therein stated to be true, what in your opinion was the prisoner's condition? A. I should say that he was of unsound mind; one reason is that of the change in his disposition after having been so social among his friends; I call the unsoundness of mind melancholia; the peculiar change of character Is liable to lead to fren7; 3 mel- ancholia is generally a state of disquiet; his physical condition would tend to mel- ancholia from the injuries he is said to have received; the injury gave @ shock to the spinal chords and to his nervous system; being the result a lysia of the bladder and of the intestine tube; a disturbance of the stomach and liver produces hypochondria; the protrusion of the gut was due to paralysis of the nervous system; I have never known it to occur in middle life without extraordinary provocation; the membranes in the lower extremities is due to an affection of the spina chord; melancholia is mani- fested by reticence; the subject 19 ordinarily de- ressed; looks at things under @ cloud; is more or less intense in jealousy or povenas: nifles is misfortunes; It at first dis the individual to acts of violence against himself, but it also disposes him to acts of violence against others; a great do- mestic calamity would aggravate its symptoms, and would be liab e to manifest itself by outward violence, as in this case; W the person should suddenly come upon @ person alleged to be the seducer of his wife he would be very likely to take his life; it would be strange if he did not; if he took his life it would be an insane act; there are no limits us to the suddenness upon which insanity may come upon a person; It may come as suddenly as a stroke of apo- py orepilepsy; sometimes it disappears as sudden- ly ; there is no exact line between melancholy and me!- ancholia; there is no exact le between health and diseas melancholia does not necessarily pre- vent @ persona attending to his ordinary buai- ness up to the moment that frenzy ensues; 1 first saw the prisoner on. Saturday “evening in the jail; [exaimined him then;.1 find he has a fracture of the breast bone about three Inches above its lower end; the fragment still remaius a little depressed, and also the corresponding ribs on the opposite side; his belly is unaaturaily swolen, oue-third more than it ought to be; [attribute that to paralysis of the intestines; I find, too, that the muacies of the belly are somewhat paralyzed; the Je!t lower portion of the belly is fat, indicating that there is 2 consolidation of tissue, being pressed to- gether more than it should be; | observed tit remnan's of old piles; the Rectum is crammed full of old feces; he could not expel them; he succeeded In_ urinating with great etfort; the resuit showed that it was not done in a natural way; that indicates almost com- plete paralysis of the bladder; did not notice any sustoriton of the spine; a touch of the tenth dorsal vertebrae seemed to be painful to him; he shrank This feather weigit was bora in Drogheda, county { Louth, treiand, in 1845, and is consequently twenty- three years of age. His parents came to this coun- try when he was a mere child, locating in New York. land, which is carricd to the northern aud deposited | His flrst fight for money occurred in 1859 with Bill rystalline | there. This zone is the grat clearing house of the ‘and therefore will | earth, and the balance of exchange {3 largely in northern favor, Here meet the two great trade winds laden with vapor, which the direct rays of the sun pe dlssoive ato electricity, the greater por- tion of which ts attracted by the abundance of land with | in the Northern hemisphere, and the iesser rolls back It, Nimum | into the Southe vity. From 30 deg. to 212 deg, it decreases in | the remote distr carry warmth and life into ris sivange that philosophers should ascribe rain to condensation froin a lowering temperature, One latent 1,000 deg. of hext. To generate vapor, | cannot remain five minutes in the presence of an however, it is not necesspry to raise water to 213 | equinoctial rain storm without being convinced of the ta'lacy of the proposition. Here, in this grand laboratory of mature, where ft Habre it thun- ders and rains, it pours, it spills, day out, and the only interval that may be expected is while the great source of heat is absent. By the time Sol reaches the zenith artillery is reverbe- rating along the whole canopy of the sky, the clouds precede hitn by ten or fifteen degrees and roll up in Igountains, grand, gorgeous and voluminow rhe 8 skirted and crowned by rami 3 of ellow, bie, purple, violet, h every imaginable tint, pie v niless profusion about, around and e the black miass—black as the soety vaults of it fames and It foams, it plunges and secthes, rows back and biacker as each instant its 3 is rendered visible by the light of rh, after which the ro'ling echoes of plo- is original ubining with one | sion give warning that a torrent is at hand. On portion of hea enous electricity | goes the Harlot, and in its wake go Bud the hyurog another portion | the than os of the storm. Tis well fa) becoming ity. Audsteam is | that he does not dein to hold always giving of same mauner that ; conver: earth. Ten, fifteen, twenty degrees, Water gives off to the » and s! y, forty, fifty, it is stilt pouring cheat applied, but 1p. pr. conducting | down; etght Inundred, and stil his path electric sat the surrounding | 1% strewn w f the day's Elther water or sceaw, however, wil com- | Operation, frequently the tery god will again ap. amount of heat with zing in €or decomposing in the latter If they are 1 a conducting medium. In the sixtie Btate water may be said t ate of prunilive } disunion and t reat al = But} taken collectively it is yet water, a5 neither ; cast components con: phemicalty wiih any other , © eubstance, while they solve and carry in solution | them all; ‘and uZh the same absviute particies | may not ever 4 w w o aulte, the same deiinite que wil combine and reprodace the original body of ter {n any of its prim! tates. To wnderstand the economy of nature as mani- fested on our planet itis necessary to understand he gceries of that marvel- | pear on the stage before tons act has been shifte | From 25 deg. to 30 deg. north latitude, tt ted, and from this to the zone of equato ais blow the north- trades, At 25 deg, to 20 deg., south latitude, the ™ of Capricorn Is situated, and from this me to tie zone of equatorial calias blow the south- it trades. From 65 deg. to 70 deg., north and south tudes, begin the polar calms, Which cover the i 4 of the polar region& Between the calm zone of Cancer and the Arctic cams blow the south- w inus, and between the calm zone of Capri- orn aud the Antaretic blow the northwesterly winds, om the powers and properties of water in its various ee are the prevaliing ourrents at the surface of States, and with this understanding all things tie earth; but each has a counter-current in upper clear, harmorions and consistent; without trevery | air, and just in an opposite direction, The whiny {3 musty, confused aad contradictory. It is | upper alr currents from the equatorial calm zone True that heat ‘Is tie absolute power tat Works ull | Outwards, impelled by the expansive for chanze; but water is th custodian of heat, the great | aequtred by tue addition of heat, rosh up store u Which tals Vast power Ls retuned until | towards the poles, but on reaching Murty degrees, or 0 tne requisitions of navre. about haif the superdcial area, the solar inguence ts Measured out Thy o tute yres—thke priuuttive, y and curr In the prt age te sof the earth was yet cool, and whoie snp- | were derived from the sur tempera- { form througint the whole atmosp yiator to the poes, and th Saree were { on Without - aision. ‘The carthq aud volcanc ere unknown (1 the In u priuil tive age, as Ln all suc De Ut ea constituted an enormous elorirl ing energized by the os heat, Fents throug its AduCcLing plaues, th earth ite oxy ger dd tue opper air its | hydrogenous, or S LWO ou i] in the remote parts of the globe, and there Liborating | their heat av throughout a high and unig perature. Dur! \ the etron equilibrium unin harmonious, the first operations of elr © arrange the upper stratum of matter into layers by cementing the pur ticles together with foreizn 4, in the same manner that metal is t d deposited in electroplating, whe: opposed by a hard ® iayer of debris to be agatu cemente f into a stratum, When @ change in soine ot hc the al by Qnd the siratum became perinea holding in sointion calcareous the germ of Kiutepods were pian , WO RTO Frc fy and increase aud batld (heir marvel.on: ures, unt Kome other alteration In the trend cuts Of ‘heir supplies, when trey perish and are covered ‘Up, When a siliclous stratum, With Its Colony OF dia toms, next appear, to be 1. Curn destroyed, and give reon | fifveen de janced by the evectricity of the earthy and the © current of the atmosphere bends dowa to tho negative current of the earth, ond in inga union sweeps away towards the potes, werying with it the air and thus forming the north- we-feriy and southwesterly winds in their respective hemisphere Now ther lmanimate matter Is collec inanimate by the fact of ita inability Jectiicity through it, and Is thereby con- verted ini enormous jars, around which the electric fi ects in large quantities. The principle of ara are, the two ice ceps of the planet, the f Aft , Asia and Australia and the wes of the Andes in the torrid zone, These » ts from whence storms, hurricanes, typhoons, : day minor jars that produe leas atrength, but those supply the ig Clements to the principal storm regions of he disturt torial jar Is divided tnto two divisions hy the vailey of the Nile. The western division finds a trend across the Atlantic, finding a connection with the clectric current of the calm zone of Cancer ten or rees east of the West Indies, when it runs towards the land and then, bending round to the con- Hoental formation, sweeps along the coast uuttl its strength Is exty 1 abont Newfoundland. The Caste a division of the fe jars finds a trend , un mato Anam and, forming @ connection \wetvie current from the calin gone of Can- ver, Kives lite to the typhoous of the China seas, The Indtan ocean harricanes h lia, uding a trend to Sumatra and Java, unite with ba MY from the eaim zone of Capricorn and ce to astratutn Of clay shale ith the remains or debris uf 9 or formation that m «tion of electricity the tases is converted a Tok, ar to the forinavou, limestone, sand- Lo orl stone. In th ut this great forve 8 uperating below for urpose of raising the Jand higher aud higher, and fluid finding da on Which to eon ant insineat- terial with which e the conti- face of the on began to \pper structure, and to build fs cart! nents formed wut crows, age the upper ‘y warm, by € elvoirle uid had not penetrared to any con-tie he the vegetation, ther a, Was | v a tion, rank and Jaxurh Tie new portions of the ds now fron the ter Wi e a had ect at inervals ndatt nt py, 8 & narrow zone | 8 #9 covered to-day, and that t thi canopy inaugurated tue ac laed down by tuat gre » In this age siorma, ¢ Vorluty, began to @oy eure aa the ge alvancer of at ’ The an eweep arrose toward Madagascar ond the Cape of dope. The pamperos of § hn America have en tp the jars of the Andes and unite with t Mie calm zone of Capricorn, either ite oF Atlantic sides, ag either trends may “ie ‘The storms of the polar fce caps Went but not at all eo violent. They ‘0s Western Ocean and Sea of Kar. ou the Northern hemisphere — ant mt Cape Horn and Cape of Good Hope He Southern. fhe periodical equinoxial roed by the motions of the sun in L drawing after him or pushing before hue of Cancer wotil tte electrie current ection with tile trend from the equato- rial Jura. The ery remark ‘ bof reunton in those meteors 1s itself a gui idy, of wh h would be fn - : ¥ o their origin, The winds move ina clrele around an apex or eone, and the whole meteor travels aiong bodily at the rate of from twenty to sixty miles in hour, carrying with It 8 tremendous wave of water. ‘The whole meteor has a diameter of from two wunder to - ilies, the Jess diameter b jent, and the storm Inore proaching the apex. By far the grower tn Freteors occur tn the Northern hemntey rere ane ie other vemisphere they revolve in dierent dirac- tions—in gue Southern to the right, in the Northern to the left, The electricity collected on ine tee ¢ and on the wrrid deserts produce the phenomena the anrora Derealia of the norh, the ‘strora australis ofthe south aud the hallows of the equatorial re- gloue, Magnetiam {a aXother provision of the same taw. by whicn polarity, ga ft ye cAiled, Je acquire) by on ins six handrea always the must ylo- tu intensity on ap. ts of thelr respective hemispheres. | to the day In and | wood is compact, F him, are portions of the surface of the globe | should and this mat. | their origin In Austra-. MeMannus, on Long Island, for a purse of $50, which he won easily, His second fight was with a young fellow named Pritchard. This was aiso won by Holliwood with ease. He was then backed to fight Michael Dorsey for $500 a side, and the event took place on the 2d of December, 1861, when, after @ hard contest of more than an hour's duration, Hol- wood was defeated, His fourth and last, fight, up presets event, occurred on Long Island on the 1ith of January, 1864, when his opponent was Keating. Forty-seven rounds were fought in one hour and eight minutes, at the end of which a cry of foul was ralsed by Keating's friends. Before the referee could decide the mob in attendance broke up the ring and the fight was pronounced a draw. Holli- made, and stands five feet four inches higi, welghs one laudred and eleven pounds, Fils Cpe eg) were the Buckeye House, five miles below Ciucinnatl. JOUNNY KEATING is also an Irishman by birth, Me was born in the leasant town of Lismore, In the county Wate ord. So far as age and weight go it was even aimaich as could have been gotup. Johan: bog about two months the juaior of Holle wood, and only one pornd difference in weigut, being 110 rege At an early age the latter was brought by his pacents. to this country, and the fam- ily setedin Cincinnati, Jolnny's bump of combat. iveness was largely developed, and his ambition prompted him to ty @ hand with one of the reguiar nietmbers of the prize ring, with the result already noted, so taat his professional carecr has been lim- ited to the former and present contests with Holly- wood, A match wes made with @ fighter named Booty. Clark some months since, but was broken off. Keating is tive fect two and a buif inches in heigth, and quite a favorite in the cities of the West. ‘Tue presont mate grew out of a challe from Keating Paying ‘ight any man of his weight, 112 0} tne feather weight champion and $2,500 aside, This chalienge was issued four months ago, ui tor & while bo attention was paid to it, when Hoiliwood was prompted to accept, and a forfeit of $50 a side was put up, and a few days afterwards the articles of agreement. were signed, by which it was agreed that th@ fight should take place on Mc ney April 20, within filty miles of Cincinnati, and In ctther Ohio, Ken- tucky or Indiana, A'vont six weeks ago Holliwood arrived in Cincinnati, when the first re; deposit of $500euch was made, and William Lee, it city, Was mutually agreed upon as stakeholder. The like amount was posted weekly until the total $5,000 was made Bb Keating in the meantime bei: in training at Shady Grove, the old quarters oi Aaron Jones prior to ins fight with McCoole. ‘Then came magisterial interference, and Judge Murdock, of Ohio, under the new law of that State prohivitiag-pugilistic meetings, required them, after rest by the sheriif of Hamiiton couuty, to give bail in $10,000 not to ight “in or out of @iio within one year,” and in default were imprisoned. The batt’ was afierwards reduced very _ materially by certain promises of the principals, and both were liberated. Arguing that the preroxative assumed by Judge Murdock, in reference to their Aghting on oiler ground thah thal of Ohio, did not belong to rrangements were consaminate that the fight take place yesterday, Which was the case, but With the unsatisfactory result above uoted. low the it Was manipulated, the “grove selected for the contest, the meastires adopted to prevent another arrest, with other particulars of interest, are given ia tue subljoined account of THE PIG. Those desirous of seeing the Keating and Holll- ‘Wood fight jeft Cincinnati carly Monday morning for @ pot on the Kentucky shor the principals were deiven around several milcs before they were taken on board, Alter sailing for an hour or 80 the “exeur- sion” party landed near the mouth of the Big Miuini,. twenty iuiics below Cinemmnatl, and at Geven o'clock they proceeded to a picnic grove at the summit of bluff overlooking the Ohio, where the stakes were immediately placed and the ring formed. Keatiog’s seconds were Tom Ryan, of New port, and Jim boynton, of Covington; Holliwood's secouds were Bob Smith, of Englaud, and Barney Froine, of Covington, Precisely at twelsv o'clock Tolliwood tossed his hat into the ring, quichiy followed by Keating's castor. The choice of cornera “as won by Holliwood, when Eph Holland was chosen as his umpire, Jack Coney being selected for Keating, with Hilly Lewis as referee, Both men stripped splendidly, and each appeared confident and cheeriul, ‘Alter shaking hands the men went to thelr corners, and at the call of Lime stepped promptly to the serateh, Time was calied at seven minuies past twelve. Round 1.—Both men sparred for an opening. Tolitwood was very cautious; there was a cry of “open the ball for Murdock,” a claim of firat blood, a struggle, and Holliwood was borne upon his knee attic ropes Both struck with the left, and first ng beis were decided a draw. Time, three min- utes. ROUND 2.—Nollivood cool and cautious, and on the defensive, Keating forced the fight, fol- lowing Holliwood, who retreated to his corner. Keating put ina left hander on the body of Holll- wood, and after a struggle Holliwood went down on his knees. Time, one and three-quarter minutes. hounp The sparring was very cautious, Both struck together, Holiiwood puttiig.in a left hander on Keating's head. Several blows Were struck When Holliwood dropped and Keating fell on him. Here it was found that Keating's wrist was broken, gud when time was called he was unable to come up to the scratch. Great sympathy was manifested for him, and Hotltw a subseription for his benefit, putting Gow@ flo. Otvers followed with liberal surus. The Lato Prive Fight at Providence=Rather an Unpleasant Addendum, Tt f# learned that tho authorities of Providence and Warwick, R. 1, are carrying out the provisions of the law prohfolting prize fighting in that State to the vory letter, and the denovement of the late con: test that took place ina dance room in the latter town is decid@iy wWupicasant to those that were so from a toucu of the breast fracture; the sweat upon his face proved the infliction of pain; his puise 1oxe froni ninety to one hundred and ten; the average poe of a person at bis time of life is seventy ve to eighty; I examined him again yesterday noon ; I repeated my tests; had the same results ; found he had more difficulty in pamnatines 1 found blood upon his pillow ; he said he had bied at the nose frequently; that indicated a compresston of the brain; he exhibited great nervousness. during examination ; his might be termed a bijious or san- guine temperament ; piles tend to produce low Spirits, 'rosa-examiined by Mr. Sedgewick—I have not been connected with any insane institution; I have pot made the subject of insanity my especial, study; in giving my opinion of his mentat condition T based it upon the truth of the facts stated; some of the as- sumptions muy not be true and the result may be the same, with the change in his character and @isposi- tion; if that were unchanged my opinion would not be changed entirely; as a single element it is the most essential upon which I base my opinion, unsoundness of roind, is that in which the will is wholly or ety lost; insanity is a disease that effects the brain, but not all diseases of the brain produce insanity; if the brain was coe sound and it become affected by disease, it is Insanity toa greater or lesser extent; the extent Is ascer- tained the conduct the — individual; melancholy is a condition of partial unsoundness of mind; I would not say so in all cases; @ man of meiancholy may be sane; I cannot tell from my ex- amivation when the ury to his breast bone oc- cured; the ganglion the centre of a systern of nerves very intimately connected with the brains an injury to the ganglion system is more likely to affect the brain than an injury to the spine; its nerves: extend tothe spine and the brain; every writer on insanity speaks of the at aa system; | presume Ht will be found In Ray aud Beck, probably in Rusti and Taylor. Mr. Sedgwick put a supposititions case of the pris- oner’s condition to the witness, A. Tshou.d say that he was partly, nearly cured; not that he had been Insane, or that it might not. recur in; too much drink or a certain kind of dinner m'ght bring on in- sanity again; the ordinary professional way to ascer- tain a man’s insantty is to have a personal examiua- tion, as well ag to get a history of the case; ldo not know whether or not melancholy attacks a person suddenly; IT have no dotbt it does occur; [ cannot say that | ever read of such a case; I suppose a suddeu injury may produce it; Ido not think that an injury to the breast bone and the ab- domen would necessarily produce metanchoiia; I did not mean to say that a person afflicted with melan- cholia, hav! had a severe domestic misfortune, would no doubt take the life of the person who had injured him; he would be likely to; | do not recall any such case; such an act would, as { have said, be an fusane act; the act does not de- termine its character in that respect; I determine tis character from the previous history of the person; I have no doubt he had intellect enough to know that the act would produce death; I think that he believed the act was right; most insane persons know the physical effect of tnerr nets: if the person knew it was wrol to kill then it was not an fusane act, and the person was sane, But | mean to say that a man may know his act to be against the Jaw, civil and religions, and yet to be insane; I think there may be in-antty without delu- sion in Its technical sense; delusion in that sense means an crror in Judgment without any foundation fa fact; 1 think there can be melanctolia without mental frenzy, or los8 of mental faculties or delusion; I think this Is a case of mental frenzy, bas upon melancholia; 1 fo not think the prisoner was insane when I saw him tn jail on lust Saturday; the general rule in cases of melan- cholia that persons de not recover suddenly, T think ft would be dificutt to cure a person of melancholia so long ae the physical causes existed; wy. removing all mental exeitemenis he may improve, though the cause remain; absent-mindedness is no evidence of insanity, nor ts Teticence, nor yw spirit- edness: If all these exist a minimum degree It is no evidence of insanity; if in the maximo de 5 it may be cvidence; a person afiicied with melan- cholta may not exhibit it for a while; { do not think @ case like this will ordinarily result im dementia; it mona tend towards it; in many cases it would end in ft. rect examination resumed—Asenming that he was Insane when committed to jail tL shonid say that his confinement would improve his condition; an in- sane man often does sane acts; the comtirmed luna- tic docs hot always talk and act insanely; he may do so for a whole day; tt ts the rule rather than the ex- ception that a lunatic at times talks with apparent reason; it cannot always be certainly determined when they are restored to reason; in ihe evidence T haye given | mean to say that | do not consider the prisoner to have been responsible, Cros#-examined—Cases of kleptomanta are called moral insanity; in these I do not conswer the person reeponsibie; f do not know when | considered the prisoner to have become irresponsible; during the time his irresponsibility vacillated in proportion to the character and degree of his disease, Daniel Messenger sworn—He testined that he knew the prisoner in the army; that he was genial before 1864, but after that he was sad and dejected. Lewis Port examined by Mr. Parker—I reside at Lodi; 1 have known the prisoner from his childhood; have known his family for about thirty years; have geen two cases Ct in his family, one a sister, and the other an aunt; bis sister's name was Martha; don’t know how long she was insane; the aunt was € sister of his father; the sister was insane sixteen or eighteen years the aunt died insane about 1843; at first she exhibited loss of spirits, growing out of the Joss of a child; melancholia ensued, and tt terminated in dementia; in the case of the sister I judged it to be melancholia; the prisoner's mother Was @ Wry nervous person, naturaily despondent; Ido not know how long these syinptoms inated: { understand she is dead; | know Mrs. Meagher, a sis- ter of the prisoner; slie is disposed to be very melan- choly at times: she has a tendency to melancholia, Cross-exainined by Mr. Tremaine—1 visited his sister Martha professionally; | saw ber once; sie afterwards got married aud went to California; } judged she was insane from what I saw; I visited put once; ker eyes were red aud she rolled ther seemed to mutier to herself; there was a vecant ature in her countenance; sh ined to answer iny estions; she had been at ae’ ned had dimtenity there; she was about seventeen or eighteen years Jott s "the prisoner's sister wis ae LD, TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1868—QUADRUPLE SHEET. months; she had never been f{nsane before that; she was about fifty years old; 1 understand the prisoner's mother is he was over sixty years at the time I ‘speak of ; had had many children; she was very nervous; I saw the sister four to six times; saw her three or four weeks ago; she had recovered from her illness, Durfleld C, Chase, examined. by Mr. Mitchell:—I am a telegraph operator at 8. use; I have a de- spatch aud answer gent on the Sunday before the homicide; it was sent to Mr, Barto; was brought by John L. Cuvier; the last one was sent on Monday about noon; the first oue on Sunday was delivered about noon, Frederick Douglass, examined by Mr. Parker—I am a physician; reside at Rochester; was in the army for four years; first knew prisoner at Wash- ington in September, 1861; he was then captain; he was acomplete personification of good nature, wit and humor; I first noticed @ difference in the last of fee or Reet of en and anes Be cane received: 8 ury; I saw him frequently he hospital; he had contusion of the abdomiual muscles; after he left the hospital I often saw him in hia tent; he was not capable at all times of going upon marches; he went on them contrary to my directions; he suffered from sonmiipations noticed @ decided, marked change, slightly in har ee decidediy marked in 1864; . when before ichmohd he*was me lancholy; seemed dejected and cast down; was 7 Teticent; his eyea were dejected; red yellow; his complexion was dark, his skin sal- low; I did not then know his state of health; I next saw him in 1866, at Rochester, at a reunion of the oilicers; he then was pleasant at times and sad at others: Ithought he was odd singular in bis Cross-examined by Mr. Tremain—I heard of his being i injured the first time, but don’t know when or The court took a recess until three o’clock P. M. The court met at twelve minuies past three o'clock. Frederick Bsr! Lag was recalled and examined by Mr. Freeman—Saw thé prisoner in the hospital at lewbern in the fall of 1862, before the raid; I had of the hospital in the absence of Dr. Palmer; did not examine the prisoner’s person; he often stated his case to me; he generat on all the raids went on horseback; I prescril for him; he ulways appeared rational; f judged he was @ man of a melancholy disposition from his cast down and the state of his heaith; saw him afterwards at Fortress Mon- path T was going to enter into conversation” with him, but his manner led mec; 1 next saw him at the reunion of oiticers at Rochester, October, 1868; toasis were drunk; thnk he drank some wine; the banquet continued until eleven o'clock; he remained until it broke up; there were thirty or forty presents had a general conversa- tion with him walking about the street; that time we talked about Texas, Petersburg, &c.; he said nothing irrational; he changed from one subject to another abruptly. Edward D. Leonard, sworn and examined by Mr. Parker—Am a physician; was in the service with General Cole; remember his being brought to the hospital at Newbern, N. C., injured; 1 tried to intro- duce the catheter but failed; he complained of diill- culty of breathing; was restless and irritable. Cross-examined by Mr. Sedgwick—I was then hos- pital steward; had graduated in 1861; 1 compounded medicines under the direction of the surgeon; it was the first time I attempted to use the catheter; the prisoner took it from me and introduced it himself. James Ellis, Jr., sworn and examined by Mr. Mit- chell—I reside in Oswexo; entered the army in August, 1862; was first a private and afterwards a captain; lus health was poor in October or November, 1684; knew little about his health before; he paid little at- tention to details, but would be excited when there Was any talk of moving the regiment; I went to Texas with him about the middle of June, 1685; he seemed more cheerful, but said? he was afraid of sea sickness, as yomiting brought on distress in his abdomen; he laid down @ good quarters; deal in Texas when he came to pny he almost always lay on his back, with tis hea lower than his feet; [ remained until the regiment Was mustered out; he returned not with his regi- ment, but came up the Mississippi to avoid sea sick- ness; he was very fretful in his spirits, altogether dif- ferent from when | first knew him. * Cross-examined by Mr, Tremain—First knew pris- oner in December, 1863, on General Butler's staif; next saw him on the 3d of January, 1864; saw him almost daily and conversed with him; saw nothing irrational from February to May; we were at Nor- foik; prisoner had command of a regiment; he rode out of cainp ni every day and received the re- Ports; went from Norfolk to City Poimt; he was or- iain the cayalry brigade; his conversation was rational; his wife joined him in February or March; she went to Texas with him and returned, | tuink, in September, 1865. Several other witnesses were examined, but their evidence was mainly in reference to the mental con- dition of the prisoner. The court adjourned until to-morrow. LECTURE ON NATURAL HISTORY. Last evening Mr. Waterhouse Hawkins delivered the third of the series of his popular lectures in the Cooper Institute, which was exceedingly well at- tended by an intelligent and appreciative audience, who, during the course of the evening, gave frequent tokens of their approbation of the lecture. Mr. Haw- kins, on coming forward, observed that he had on a previous occasion indicated the design or plan in the fermation of birds, and had also endea- vored to specify the relationship in many kindred points which existed between reptiles and birds, for in some cases there was some dilliculty in ing which was the le proper and which the bird proper. i eee prelimin: marks the lecturer proceeded to illustrate the subject the birds, their internal 01 pecuiiaritie: at considerable length on ¢ mechanism of All, powers of fight. & very graphic delineation, on the black board, of anization and anatomical and sho how their frames were netrated through all their parte by air celis that facilitated motion by increashng lightness, He dwelt ne Variations in the the different especies of birds. 1 more or less or nearly ail, Even tne few exceptions had rudi- mentary substitutes for wings that were never 30 hy and ‘80 far mi i completely developed as to become avatiable. Ad- to the distinction between the birds which those which do not, he remarked that the design of plan in the construction of birds was oniy ified as it had reference to fire actual use of the organs of locomotion, and where the creature was not iutended to fly diferent arrangements were made, according to their’ powers of progression. With reference to the latter, he might observe that they were formed for motion on the tand or in the water exclusively. In all these instances, the feathery coverings were tacompletely deveiuped. por ing @ proximate resemblance to the hairy covering of certain iand and w: animals, The ostrich and penguin might be mentioned as typical of these forms of excepuon, both in regard to their Inability to raise themseyes into the airand their ex- ceptional hatr-like plumage, There was a consider- abie difference between the American and the Afri- can ostrich, the former having three toes and the Jat- ter but two. Moreover, the American ostrich, uu- like the other, took the greatest pie care of its ring; but it was the father of the family that did e ee (Laughter.) He then adverted to tne re- lations and correlatives of birds to reptiles, which he demonstrated by diagrams, showing tm sone instances the sameness of structure and the same- nees of design of many birds to the mammatian group. It was interesting and curious in their va- riety and their pecuiiar adaptation to their several Tents which covered the bony frame work of all tie frame work of the entive class. The joral muscles: in birds of vigorous fight presented the greatest developments, There was a double circulation of air in their fight; while in swimming birds there was but a comparatively scanty medium of cir- culation. The lecturer gave a minnie detail of the wonderful mechanisin of birds generally which he delineated with the greatest ease, accuracy and rapidity on the board, and in which he was repeatediy applauded. He co ed the ancient with the living forms of birds and described at length thotr system e japtibility in tying. walking aud swimming. Finally he pointed out the relation however distant that existed between reptiles and birds and fully ex- emplified the glorious = characteristics and peculiarities of the ee of the earth and water. Mr. Hawkins concluded his lecture amid lend applause, ANOTHER COUP D'ETAT BY THE ENE RAILROAD DIRECTORS, Removal of their Headquarters to Boston. [From the Boston Herald, April 27.) Another grand movement occurred tn the Erie Railway imbrogito on Satarday, whieh amounts to a complete coup d'etat on the part of the shrewd finan- ciers and railway rings interested in this singuiar atur, The announcement es a few days since that the Erie party local in Jersey City had taken up its line of march frow that city for other latitudes, and that the hotel at which they had been encamped aul giarded by a cordon of police had been sold. These facts were not then fuily verified, and Jt was noticed that the familiar face of the directors were not seen at their former favorite haunts in and around, Wall strect, It was also nottced that the Psesident of the road had been seen on ‘Change, notwithstanding anuouncement that the Erie war wes Which {s probably not the case, The directors not liking the — eirenmser' be of thelr late temporary residence, and deprived of the benefits, pleasures and cc incidental to a residence in @ metropo)itan city, re- solved to chance their base of operations without allowing certain watehful friends on tie other siie of the river any knowledge of their contemplated movemenis, This design was Carrie | out Saiurday aliernoon, when the directors determined pon Ros. ton as their future headquarters. Thetr e. *, under the circumstances, Was necessarily med ina quiet manner, The captain of one of the Sound steam- ers Was prevailed upon to stop al Je sey City Sature day evening, atter waving the regular dock en route for Boston, and the distinguished party of railway oMcers etniarked avout six O'clock, the boat imme- diately steamme for her eastern destination. ‘the party arrived here Sunday morning, put kept them- Se.ves secluded durmg the day, How long the “exiios”’ will remain here is unknown to us at this writing. By thia change of base it is said tuat cer- tain interested parties have been circumvented and Mat some legal trap about to be sprung has jailed to catch the game. Parposes, to regard the muscular and other Integu- ARRIVAL OF THE Foot TRAVELLFR, SRT W. PAYN®, AT OMAMA.—-Tue Omaha (Nebraska) Jerald, Antit 29, curouteles the arrival there of Seth W, Payne, weo ts on a pedestrian tour from this city to | Sau Phan ciseo aud around the” vorid, 80 far as terre fra woipermit, He was to resuie his Journey the next day ———_____, POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE. Florida, ; The election in Fiorida upon the ratification of the new constitution and to elect State officers aud one member of Congress begins May 4 and continues the two folowing days, Annexed tsa list of candidates: — GOVERN Conservative, aus Radical. George W, Scott, + Samuel Walker. TIECTENANT GOVERNOR, ry 8 James W, Hail, Wm. H. Christy. John Friend. Liberty Billings. SKETCHES OF CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATES, Colonel Scott, the conservative candidate for Gov- ernor, is by birth a Pennsylvanian, but has residec in Florida since 1850, during which time he has been actively eugaged in mercantile pursuite and in Planting. No citizen in Florida stands higher in } popular estimation. He is in his fortieth year, He: is a son of .the late John . Scott, of - Hun- tingdon county, Pa., @ major in the war ‘of 1812 and member of Congress from that State during Jackson’s administration. He came to Quincy, Fia., as an invalid in-1850, and in 1852 estab. lished the mercantile house of Geo. W. Scott & Co. in Tallahassee, which -he-1s still successfully: con- ducting. He is also a partner in the weil known cot- ton house of Smallwood, Hodgkiss & Co., of New York. He resides on his plantation near Tallahassee, and has been for years an oilticer in the Presbyterian Chareh of St. Augustine, Mr. John Friend, conservative candidate for Con- gress, is a Northern man, going to Florida since the close of the war, and now a practising lawyer in the State. He has been denounced as @ “copy democrat,” but it 1s said tie denunctation from lips of malignants, . Frend was for a period a member of the Board of Direct Tax Commis- sioners for Florida, succeeding the violent and notori- ous Daniel Richards, in wiuch position he ht to redress the many wrongs which that rd had_ previously permitted to be perperrered nee citizens of Fernandina, Jacksonville and St. Augustine in the sale of their proj for taxes. After the dissolution of the a familiar with the many cases of wrong brought cod fore it, he was retained, as counsel by parties inter- ested in recovering their property, and used their cause with easnestness, On one occasion, in indeavoring to exclude a mob incited by the radicals of the Billings and Richards stripe from the posses- sion of a house belonging to @ client, he was thrown into prisoa through the ofi- cidusness of a military offleer, where he remained until released by a higher authority through the interference of Governor Walker. So high was the estimation in which he was held by the fe Executive of Florida ihat he recommended ‘im to General Pope as the successor of the late lamented Judge J. Wayies Laker for the bench of the Middle Cireuit. The last registration in Florida stood:—White, 10,304; colored, 15,231. Colored Fanny 4,43 General Meade ordered that a revision of the regi: tration lists be commenced oa the 20th inst. and con- tinue five days. CONSERVATIVE CONFERENCE. At a@ conference of conservatives held in Fla., the following delegat.s to the National cratic Convention were selected F, R. Cotten, Wilkinson Call, E. Dyke, W. D. Barnes, O. iL Fairbanks, Charles Davis, S. A. Hewling, J. B. Brown, J. H, Wright, R. L. Campbell, James McKay, Major W. W. Van Ness, W. H. Robinson, J. J. Williams and BE. M. L'Engle, The executive committee were authorized to pro- vide for appointment of Presidential glectors if deemed proper, and tn their discretion to cali a eon- vention of the State. Connecticut. The oficial count shows that the Senate will stand 12 republicans to9 democrats. The oficial return of representatives shows 129 republicans and 1¢9 democrats, a republican clear mujority of 20, A re- capitulation of the full list of representatives is as follows :— Counties. New Haven... niney, emo South Carolina. The following are the oficial returns for and against constitution in South Carolina for seventeen complete districts:— For. Against. Total, 4,039 159 6,008 12,282 8,334 15,616 731 i 2,710 - 3,401, 2036 ie 1,735, 1,67 re 8,749 8,808 ory 1,84 1 8,500 . +++ 040,050 00,277 Unofficial returns from other districts as far as they have been received are:— Spartanburg. Anderson. . ‘The Carolina Spartan gives the following returns:— For Senate—Joel Foster (dem.), 1,968; A. P, Turner: (rad.), 1,377. For the House—Samuel Littlejoha, 1,953; R. M. Smith, 1,053; C. C. Turner, an tg Eryant, 1,950 (democrats). Enoch Cannon, 1,344; Co} Wingo (ediored), 1,264; tipitua Maltigan (coléred), hus Rampiey, 1,149; Rice Foster red) 1,274; 82 (radicals), Politteal Misccllany. A local radical paper abuses Geaeral Buchanan, Commander of the Filth Military Department, for not issuing an order for the meetiug of the Texas Recon- struction Convention, accusing him of hostility to the pian of Congressiosai reconstruction, and hoping that, should le longer hesitave to perform his duty,; he “will be admonished from Wasitingtoa.” If our, contemporary had kept the run of the matter he would have ascertained tuat General Buchanan hed: issued an order for the assembiing of the Convention: im Austin, on the 15th June next, some time ago. ‘The republican convention for the nomination of &% candidate for Congress 'n the Fourth district, [it- nols, composed of the counties of Adams, Hancock, Warren, Henderson, Mercer and Rock Istand, has been cailed to meet Monmouth on the 17th of June. Jodge S. C. Parks having withdrawn from the con- test as a candidate for che repubilcan nominee for Congress from the Springfield (Tlinols) district, the fie!’ is now clear for Hoa. Shelby M. Cullom, the pre- sent incumbent. MUSICAL AND D°4MATIC GOSSIP, Mr. Jerome Hopkins will give his last plano mati- née at Dodworth Hall on Wednesday, Agrand musical festival simitar to that of last year will be given at Steinway Hall next month, It will commence on May 18 and will terminate on May 2% Ht will be under the direction of Mr. I. F, Har- rison, ‘The first trienninl mnsteal festival of the Handet and Haydn Society, Boston, will commence early | next month, There will be an opening matinée, | four oratorio nights and Minato orf rae ban | Miss Altd , the ceicbrat janist, wi a | mace sneha neapetiog im this city, fs engaged for two f those concerts. ie, rand national! sangerfest will be held in Chicago ind . Tt will be attended by & large delegation of ow 10 in the Lake © Crover's German opera troupe give three per. formances this Weck at the National, Washington, and three at the Concordta, Baltimore, Lucille Western concluded her engagement at the Holliday on Saturday, It was successful, The opera of “Stradeila” was given in Hartford on the 22d. Brougham's ‘Lottery of Life'’* made @ hit io Ine dianapolis on the 21st, A real native Utah company ts delighting the citt- wens of Salt Lake City with “Damon and hias.” The Cleveland pubiic live Miss Mary $ jatone’s Leah, La oa and Brignoll are there this week | ‘They are building a splendid opera house in Dé- trot. It will seat 'wo thousand, Signor Torriant gives two nights of parlor Ital! opera this week in Richmond, with Misa MoeCullvcl the talented Soothern prima donna; Signor OFian din, the favorite baritone, and others, aceon a mine off in the “La Belie Héiéne’? houses Drosby's, Chicago. M: He Mitchell concluded her engagement at Me- nh Satui last m ‘i ‘Newion 1s a favorite with the Buffalo publ: vi Filaa a) a ' |