The New York Herald Newspaper, August 6, 1871, Page 4

4 STORM SCIENCE. Interesting Description of the Working of the Meteorological Bureau. Winds, Clonds, Fogs, Rain, Snow, Hail, Tornadoes and Cyclones, The “Probabilitirs of the Weather”—The Pe- tuliarit es of American Climate. What Meteorology Has Done and What t ‘esks to Accomplish. The Srorm Signal Bureau at Washingtou bas just Pubhshed some of the results of its trsi year's ob servations, ‘ibis issue, contaming much that is ough bref und concise, is a rich and inwain- addation to meteorology, More than thir ars ago Sir David Brewster, the renowned Eng- Mish philosopher, discussing te philosophy of storms in the H2/.hury Review, graveiy prophesied Mat if scleace “cannot bind over the disturoing ents to Koen the peace 1b may at least organize an effteiens police te discover their ambush and Watch their movements.” Happily for our day-a @ay of physical wonders and commou —this prophecy hus beeu verted to an astonishing degree, Happily, we sey; for, wheu the paroxyrms of heat and cold, die demons of the tempest, and the électric Ares combine (nd marshal themselves and march forth with de ing tury, driving beneath the surge or whictig inte r the floating and the fixed dawelllogs © mon and shivering the proud- est fabrics 0 wer, he trembles and becomes the yerissi siave he did not foresee, As was for (hts 0 long ago the barome- ter became the Lai i and wonttor af the seaman and taugnt its wileni warmmg to his 3 hin i var riods of Nistory, they have been dil 1 is ceriain on tho coast aad Adriatic , even In classic age storm warnings were issued both to tre mariner and the 2 tu one m or anoth they have tn ail times been a recognized vecessity for 24 people. applying the grand discovery of the mv the sigvailing of storms: was an ‘ynaland rie te reserved, li ever, fo an mieveors . Mir. Vin : i New Yors. ‘his bat profound scienitt—ike Newton of storm physi¢s—in his coledraied paper apo hur riganes ured in the early part of the year in the American Journal of ember 2, i846, wee the first to urgue we On Sep and di the feasibility of using ihe tele. r va and aunouncing he approach aud force of siorms, closing hts paper with ihese Words IN Lhe AT the approach of Gull of Mex thay be ini ntic ports of the United States ve, when the stor 1s yet on the 7 in the Southern or Wesies Wibs meaus of the elect: graph, whic pron ably will soon extend irom Maine to the Sssis this will cuable the merchant to avoid exposing his Vessel 10 & Invious gate after jeaving her port.” ‘fhe telegrapa did soon extend from Maine to Mississippi, and, m ihe sear 1843 fauuary 6), Professor Heury, burtowing the sugges- von of Mr. ieaticid, made a year and @ half before, urged it upon Congressicnal attention and provisia: But, nob ro into the histery of this new sciew then & reer, aad the volume now @licially s Purean contalus + MeweOTO vgisis, carrying ifeld's aown METROROLUGICAL » Reve found tt SAND WEATBRI Mars. By @ comumation of telegrapnic wits, as our readers Auow, three times every vbservatious of ie wea: re taken syui at seventy select poinis in the United States, and trans in @ weather vuiletL pons OF thing to be i itkely to oceur ts 2 the bulletin 2e tO in t So trapsfer the in dea cor rmat “is more econ ical, to die blank charts (/orushed at t by the Signal édice. Thus the inquirer or ple: tevial representation of tae as tt is fornd to be ouihe a day. are on transiag aper, and it is possibie to see shrongh se pare succe. and thus more readily co: of the weat The record eet vo wha fer cach siation Lemg entered on the chart in its appropriate piace (the wind and weather are indt ied bY arrows aid L or White circles), is w Work of tut u few minutes, we are re siuuy the duy’s doings of the atraospp RE. Afewt Hit is almort ale ways possib! ns line through to. where the barometer statiug al 34.00 ow Atlan the inches —1s om tro normal heighe on rhbortng poi const. 9.0 The bare nh lead jual pressure thus at mot i ng wiih ne points ot haere 18 inade Visible ab a glam Harrow band | over which the baromert form. After havins Ae OF 80,00 tnehes red lead Ly 40, LC., of sure, ing ports .10, 30.20, de tutensity a v purlieus © APCS V 8 LAW chart besore time 1 r the up: wand tgh gen inds nm Lae existe pre appe ce are nd position ine NEW. YORK HKRALD, SUNDAY, AUGUST 6, 1871,—TRIPLE SHEEr, “V'rise to ttgnt winds ; we juare mil - Sat wh etall tens Se Bp GRAD SOF lawa given in the atcuor zon above table, ‘This 1s known as Bays Bal- ent from in which we are atthe Wines "trom the Moment residing, We name of the celebra- sie BE COnEAG, CDS oe, ‘ LOT ONO, sb, uae of mw ted met i! local rules while who has long been the able director of the Mercorologicalob servatory at Utrecht. wouid influence our judgient were we at the time there present andable to know by Holland. ‘The conse nue! personas Observauion Feil rule a whieh all the Minute of the pny tg Ghat almospherie condi. framed for procnos- zante 58 2992 & i m TROIT if deprived of tt cine igs of re elim portant helps the wind—whicn has: S ——| ce sly eX been rigidly fonnd In N? Toccoa p> ~ .— es to rely ex experteuce to hold good ninety times in ahundred—is ty ‘Stauca with your Jett hand toward the place wiere tne ba- Tometrical reading is lowest, and your bare bum offered by the putle Un, we must call to our aid all euch kuowledge as ofered. by the preceding briet 95°] Statement of the pro- =| mineak nieteorolosi+ t P Tseu Tight band toward ci ye at 5 that where it ta hieh- frye rp le Ser have ‘your® pack. to Faaw tor nak goad tie direction of the queuing. Tena aaa Mow, during ‘the ‘hore enteral! laws aa we s have been deduced day. by the study of emi- ‘the friction of the earth's surtace bis @& henl MeLeorologists. A number of these greater Infuence Cabrera t tipon strong than (ricer pt ane upon feeble winds, The local laws re- and thus eoes more to retard the tangen- tial than the ceutri- petal meton of the aur in the neighbor. ferred to are now being collecied by ns, ‘and will even: tually be published insuch & manuer as ON WQS @ hood of an arca of ; ‘ Jow pressure. Cons | tothe Hiem prac sequently mn severe The generat distrt- Sturms on land tne bation of ihe prin. wind. lps einen cipal masses of cirrus more nearly toward and Gitro-ntrat the ceutral area of cloude, complvad the disturbance tan or che han incre: in ovoanig. storms. Othe andes’ over Pius im torns a TON e ayaa : which vie tempera. eats ap aaacaes SOALE OF MILES: 16% Ture ani prewaare dominate over the have risen or tatien with abporimat rapid- ity wili safely indi- oate, ab least for ine wauer montas, the tangential. Precise- ly as the velocity over Waier Is greater that over land so we find The Numerals denote—1si-—The State of the Thermometer; 2d—That of the B and 8d—The Force of the Wiud, meter ; velocity — far iy region sbavecinasl ibs etads much greater than lower | annually occurs of clouds m the higher strata mov- | Gulf there generally prevail (un the higher regions | {to which the storm will pas: astonally down. Balloon Voyages saow occasional velocities of | mg from any other than a westerly point, Dung | of the mosphere 4 West, norliwest, even give a premonition otis breaking up mite two 100 pitles pe: e highest gates on the earth's | three years ot very careful registiy directed to th.s | north, or northeass winds according to the season | Portions, cach drawn tn aiferent directions. eurtuce r a jive tiles, though ular pomnt but three Instances of a contrary e distribution of atinospherie pressure, wad Pue more Violent wiuds generaliy follow in the rear and on the south side of the advancing area of lowest pressure ; those tut precede the progress of tant area may offen be more dangerous, however, because of tho xccompanving pose leterming the gene- n suriace cuOM WETe red Ve nd these were during the Hd disastrous storms on e that pro! nt of storms, stratum of air is com douviless tts has does and momentary gusts, re a few hundred fect above the earth have frequently een eX ‘the Atlantic coast, Lwace Lug velocity of those observed on the sur-ace, v PROGRESS OF STORMS. didereat polats moving smuitanconsly im Opposite Jog, &c. ‘the i; sown by Observaldon Of the velocity of passing: We have thus far considered ourseivesas studying | dire while overhead the whole ‘body of atris | Jatver winds are pr fed by iras and threat qd shadows. a few Isolatcd charts of the weather. But in com- Award With a lar more unifovin direction | Ming storm clouds; the rain that accompantes or follows, se wenerally abates, and UUs gives Warne ing of ti strong clearlig-up winds. of these we are ac nlarity with which the ihe tadications of avy gales (/. &, velocities of forty miles and up- I struck with the re; wNedadtely altoma Le as wihin which ra motion of thefower winds ss in onr os ave very near to each other and dic as of stormy and cicar weataer move over the | country, and especially ia tue autumn, winter and ‘The rapidtty of progression of tie area af cloud AWuy sv soon as hese lines ate scen io separate. | surface, ‘The lues of bigh and Jow pressure, the | spring months, to be coustdered us Lhe result of a | And ram varies from filieen to sixty niles 4 an In the case Of Vivoleut but very local storms the | areas of high aud Jow temperature, &¢., ace in con- | local hich inav originate on fhe tine | how 1, the actual velooky varying QD tte rafuence stations wiil g¢ ally fait to give more than ® | tinual motiou gencrally to the eastward, except for | meditate surface of the ground, but trequenty ongl | Ol moisture, aa oxplamed ina previous sec general ion of the disturbance, aiid hence ions south of thirty degrees of latitude, where | nates m the lower siratuim of cl LUGS his dts- average velocily of the curreats, which deter- Ii cannot be expe ial Bureau to give ement 1s Westward in suiumer; thoy may | turd, that induces the surface winds from the ine the general direction of the progress of the prenicuons or such local dls- ce in the detitls, but thew teatures are aiways | northeast aud soutueast which blow nc nucleus of te storm, varies trom Lv sto Jorty Lurbauces. tiflabie in each Successive chart until they nay the siorm centre, while west wind miles hou and rarely reacties ihe igh Tite YOR YEMPERATORS. st3 and other per ena have suc abov 80 On the opp aaue changes that are now t daily reported verage iemperature ts higher at the pidity Of the easterly movement | side ot 2 winter storm, and oot far ‘rom t e, rot Mount v ‘ jwently afford indica- thau at the northern ones, and amount to filty mites per hour, | se easterly surface winds may extend for two | ton Of the moveimnen! of the great polar PU UAL I> y than at nighe tiie, yet tue weather Tages less than thirty miles, | upward above the earth, but ata greater dis- | Thal gir currents, and hence auqrd s pretnont- tions of & change im the generai cl of the central rion they become poor of the 3 from this Tew cxceptions the storma that | im adyanc Lisp Will disclose Wnumerable departure aw specially so y at Giferences in the | have been traced to any distance from Anril to Qc we ker and more aud more superficial On the | Weather, and with great feoque: foreshadow the oe oy ie pa aS rea oahinen exlit. tober are fouud to move abont the tropical area of | southwest and northyoest sides of a storm avea the | Storais that pass directiv over that region. ‘The temperacure of the lower air deponds pre | hizi barometer in the direction corresponding to | westerly winds whieh blow may be rogarded ast It is by iicreasing Lie Tountum stations aod by marily, indeed, upon the amount of heat poured movement of t bands of & Wateh, and those | upper current of alt extending down to the cart { adaing such ballovd observauots us Can be mad down ipon the earch by the 804, and (be amount ced during the wiater months move i the suviace, but weakened by the retarding eft } fad specialty by the study of the forms, chins absorbed by (ae ali, as the earth radiates its heat 10n about t sof bign barometer in the in- | friction. }, Motion height and velocity of the clonds, ana of back into space; but, In addition to this, the heat fthe continent. ‘hese great areas of high | in the trade-wind regions the easte surface Rh optic 1 phenomena of the atmospne det bat b the Vapor that 3 Inthe air 1s at pressure are, however, ever varying in outline aud | winds are the vermanent and normal ition ef hope eveniuaily to umes ed by the condensaion of the vapor position, thus giving rise to the changes in tue | mospuer equally 80, the southwest | upper regions of tH in.o fog, rain and'snow, aud tel It becomes sensi storm patas. t The liae that divides the | 4Fe propagated, mometer. Doring the day & motst ‘there 1s a very noticeable tendency of aroas of low | val from te) nes (the 1 phowicad eM INS ENTAL INDICATIONS, phe become warmer than one thatis dry, | Pressure to move north ward + nsourn | Tropic of Cane moves norehward during th it should aiw homberea that chan ' tug the mghe the radiauon of heat through | ward. @ result apvar vith the ' Months, so that at tis time the region | Weather gon: ofthetr eon " ist ailuosplere Will be less than that turough | theoretical tuincnee of the daily rocation of the earth. | y Superior is woneraily covered by ¢ jostraments a ceted petore the witd aciualy hemins fo otow or tie rai to fall: thus they mney te | Satd to cnable us to feel the pulse of ine atmo: UPI dry one. Durmy cloudy or hazy weather the rade ER ATMOSPHERIC CURREN PS. westerly current high above Lac genile Gurrent from, The general progr ation t ly cut om, so that a very Uniform sofatmospherie changes, as | the southeast. temperatn On the other haud stuicient | above a!luded to, seers to depend upon the motton of | AM ph _y tt mast Rol be forgotten that the lengtn of ent)in the pro | theupper stratum ofat. Over tie country mort of we cot four | in hich passe: t oppearaace of a heat is absorbed t. ¢., becom cess of evaporation to materiatly reduce the tem~ } 80 “drying winds” gro also change of w hot the same, ned its actual setting ina Jt is much gre 1d SOUT rae Hie. An mieaee qronietric pressure, Cc L oe rey D West wind is gomu to succeed i wind by micreasing the capacity of the alr tor moisture, than when the opposite change ts to take Af the bar us imiuinte evaporation and temporarily ; Suis ic with the are reported | showing to be pri- | at | serves 10 $ j redo MmpPLTALUres height while the Ww er and \@aln, per strata of arr receive heat from ir becomes drie ly, ports Le Uppe and rddiate back to them, 80 nhortue winds, OF less Wind, less rain or hat tue t ure on the earti’s surface 13 10 Snow may generally be Oxy On the con: } parttheresuit of Luis iaterebange, In the normal trary, if tuc i the weacker Conlon ul a cloar sky Lie temperature above gets Warmer tr es, damper, Wind | should be le prevatiing below. ‘The aud rain tay, bw Lowe sor trou the soutteasty abnorma! con erally the consequence Sout or t. | crincele fo tne regions ight ‘Tho deviations Irom (hese generat prineipica, SAH1On OF 1668 Mois which noted, correspond to the Yaneus clanges of Ww dt the weath is high for rmer m ve upper 3 down to the earth ag well as While the baromes nd northeasterly, we wp wind to the soath. On th thus generated ECKFORD3 EXTINGUIGHED. A Onr-Sidot Gam> on the Usien Grennds Yes terday—Defeat of the Williamsburg Pets Score 1) to 1. All who saw the game on Friday afternoon be tween the Boston Kea Stockings and the Kokfords were confident the Brooklyn boya would play an equally good game the next aay (yesterday); but they were greatly mistaken. When the two nines came together yesterday afternoon the bettlag was only silgittly in favor of the Bostons, and there was every indication that the game would be a close and + exciting one. Having lost the tuss the Reds went to the bat, and before retiring they scored a ran, which they got on a very bad overthrow by Shelly to first base, The Eckfords retired from this inning, and, 1 fact, from the next seven, without scoring at all, witle the Bostons, errors Of Martin, Swandell, Holdsworth and Hicks, scored three more runs in the fourth inuivg. In the eighth inving the Eekiords managed, Uirough the veriest scratch, to get in tue single run which adorns: tueir score, While the ed Stockings in the ninth innthg placed seven more runs to thetr account, and Joy (hese they have to thank flicks, Holdsworth an@ Svelly, of whom committed unpardonable other band, th coider wills tac barometer low, snaden sq Weather sometimes be nes hwesterly may look for haps a storm fr striking | ex Adgurat Firzroy. northeast wants, ion of our weather chart will aries much less over La; that it varies less }thatitis warmer | on ©: 1 an area of low or Ingh pressure } than the other, ana ger warner in ad- of any siorm cemre and coiter tn he 1 the | cicvated region with | rear, sometimes bring rain, or sieet, or snow, By attention to the position of te areas of ally during gales, alihough tae baromete nang and falling temaperatur we receive an be high and rising, On ine other hand, early Muuation of appit f the wind 14 northeasterly and light ee SAE MOISTURE, barometer begins to lati, Tain. Mm Thia important element is given in the bnlle the wind changes to east or ast, tins us a percentage of iui satnration, Watery Besides these rules tor the iasirameats, there v dissolves im air very much as satt dis- Js a rule avout the way in which the wind soives iu water, and @s Ue sali ts deposited tn changes which Is very importent. U is well crystals whenever Ue Water 18 tully saturated, known to every sailor, and is guutamed in the followmg couplet, When the wind sbf Trust i not, for back it wil ru The wind usually shifts with the suo—/, ¢. froin Jett to right in the northern nem! Achange in this direction ts cahed vec Thus an east wind shifts to west throngn southeast, south snd southwest, und a west wind shifts to cast through. northovest, north and northeast. If the wind shifts the oppos way, Viz., from West to souttiwest, south and Fontheast, the chauges called backing, and it scidom oceurs unless When the Wenther 1s un- settled. Such are some of the py having been tested in the thirty years’ acute unanimously ac over the world sospheric vapor. culie fovt of air, having a temperature of S$ and under a uniform pressure Of 80.00 Jes, Will hold 4.28 grains of water wren fully if, then, we lower the iemperature ssure of the air, there will result a de- Lion OL a portion oi the water, and that either LOL Jog, deW, rain, frost, or snow and Ou the other hand, if we tucrease the tem- capa- lly saturated, fui saturation by 100 per cent and we tdicate on our of the wir at the dime. whieh, ne of 1 precise observation, are by micieurologists alt itity of moisture 1n the nor- 1of (ie atmosphere decreases as we ibe carth’s surface, but the law of cloudy and ialling weather 1s, of at from thy weather. The nrauor phere mcreases lower and rapidly de- ove Ub un ma) cone rcond ALO decrease mn cou! Fspy, Vits, jot and) many y is tae world al Oley and hts “for the chiely in- & The lapo of } aud dew attend the eupersataration of tne assistants found af thete commencement tus 11 4ir. Rath and snow are merely knowledge seattered and dis ¢ momsture aeposited trom upecsaturated It nably be ed th nthe ove, “the Weather chart wil slow Us short « Sluce our Weather Bureau near bodies of w was oF neral M. exact intel liger PLCS OL 1 | be furpisned. logy is yet bu | tue bumidity will L ol “proman: of cortamties, { of storm centres aud small in s infaney, an greater over warm, cloudy older sciences, in waieh everyting Cun er cold or re anuy and easily tested in the laboratory 1 experiment. d attending clearing up $ wimost iuvartably precedes fh the Signal Ofice 13 not chargeable anything more tha an- ning her several hours. us AND THN WRATHER. sing the approach of the most dangerous By enterit aily @u Our map the gene- Us bitlletins of the general weatuer are he alien ana i speeted, and tts rat fe rand sky we com on of the atmospheric sphere of Induence and usefulness is every day s by their kinds and widening. Its prospecis of increasiag tataty lex to the relative tempera in its processes of imvesigation ane tis pub d storm warnings continually miproy. There seems to have been no’ haste to | mit or act Upon crode and tanettul theories rosphe Ui its chi 1 ta move ad presenré existig at high ir Motions they ludicute Wwe upper Curent of att, xXpanding Warm alr gives rise car of the ne mulus clouds, whose at bases are _ poled sh Sean b t Mey a prety uniform jevel. ‘These subside an ay Ve uliy, 1 ated i Hinuorea inane Dory be fed byr the wisdom which led to the selection of the fa+ | rents of the cirres loads are probably wous fines of Torres Vedras, in tie old Peningie bd’ loca jvrmed independentiy vy the vaciutton of lar campelgn—a position from watel (he occu. a) Winds, Whose directa outward into thehignest regions of pant cannot ve forced to retreat, and witch gives ai winds, as distinguished from the | Ste © — fn hs ea ied arnt batntahie tee gens ery ge bgor Fo they are also formed « hi ia a : 9) - . eh M7 hy aed irom the great | tie storm clouds, im Which case tuey are gen- 1, Cirrus. 3. Cirro-stratus, THE YONKERS? FARM F(GiHT. The strong barometer eral winds that ‘ive rise, through the influence Of iricuion, composed of warmer vapor. 2. Cirvo-camulus, atiend areas of low 4. Curmulo-stratus, . Cumulus, i } Wow't Accept the Sit Folice tion=Rearrest of ading as they do over whole Conti- | Zo stated ending stva 7. Strains, Captain MangiamAnother West, heme | of” mow at, ewan, by ex maton, i chester “Douherry.? abe bap aren oF hig Mpressure the winds wilt | Colm, as the tage may be, are produced the scad | ‘ America a moist south. In Yonkers, Westchester county. te Jaw: abtd= bo found bo | wing rom tie centre, but | #ad pnds of which we have a ine exampie m_ | ‘si—the West India cyclones, originating in | west wine ts forced up over the Nevadas and | ing portion of the commanry present cons defecien towards wht #8 they move forward, | We iy rains of the Atianuc o ims scud | the southern region of tie zone of easterly trade | Korky Mountains; its moisture is deposited and a siderably exercined ove: toed é Within auy srea oO} \resere the Witls bow tee | Cloud, WhIch 1s am amorphous cumulus, spreads | winds, vad geueraliy east of the Windward Islands. | wave Of rarofied but probavly dry alr ts starter siderably cised over un atleged outrage on the ird' the cenire, aod are also dedected i | into broad sheets of stratus. | Alow pressure and iarge humidity mark their cen- | 18 norineast or eastern conree. Although often | Captaln of Police m that viliage py a Justics of the risbt hand a. they move forward. ‘Thus - | _ rio laye clouds almost invariably coexist | tral region; towards this tue winds blow from aul | those storms pass over without rain until they neat | peace, named Shannon, last {*rlday eveniny Fee et shows which, winds generally prevail om | Whereevere ded rain stormas prevaul, the upper | points, and, deflecting to the right, pursue their | the lake disirict or Hasiern States, yet their first , sei + tas yo it pon Tae of these teas OF Higit aut’ low. pres: | Myer stretcbing far iM aavance Of the Jower, but | spiral course inward and upward; at least this ts | cause may ve traced back to the cha@iges gowg on | Somme few woeks ago, ay tas alroady been re- pomp settee: me Ling jouring to the lower in the rear of | the omy sausiactory expianauon that has yet been | m tie southern aud tern limits of the Untied | ported inthe HenaLy, Captain Mangin, after dts sure: " =the Prevailing Winds will Pressures The Ooserter Being Ou the 8. # “ Ou the N, W, side On the W, side . Yn the SW, side W. and N.M On the 5. ste Sand W...... On the Ss. f On the K. wide... On the N, b. side. Hence, if an ot of abnormally io de of its centre t Toul some pois in ‘ and Ne ands. B..8.W. and X. W, sding within au area pressure and on the porilwest qwuld find the wind biowlyr horizon between northwest and northeast. Jf lie is within au avea of L sure and on the horiiwest side of 18 sould find the wind blowing from some pointio tue quadrant between nd soatuwest. When no well market een reas are acunaily within the limits of the map the withts stil ant with the lines of equal pressure in judiesting such areas as existing near by. ‘ius, during the sums mer, for instance, the xouth and southeast winds of the Western plains indicate the low pressure that exists at tuat season in the Missourt Valley. When the pressure over a considerable area is Very unt form then minor local infuences (sw ag eannot weneralily be exactly jocated by the Imited muraber of reports Lat We at present receive) adect the goutle winds that then exist; On such oc cashons local differences of temperature and mots- lure. eflecuug we Uley do thg jocal pressures, give the are ver of the map will Show that cumoli or the cirri first over witen rain is jalling. A general sur- have peen actually fol- in pass- States—at least two suc lowed during the four or six days occup! possessing some parties why tit heen defeated in a | offered for the various phenomena. The joisture J protracted Jaw suit regarding the ownership of « brought by this wind condenses as the pressu } siinpie operas, mentioned not tnconst-lent with fair weather, reduced, and clouds are formed, with licavy rain, ‘ug trom the Pacific Coas! to Nova Scotn Au ticreased accumuation of cumnious clouds Atihe centre of a cyclone an upward cirrent 15 Dhird-—Karely we lave a well-detined, though | yajnabie farm, in answer Wo a warrant, appeared be- hecomes cloudy Weather, but does not generally pre- | supposed to exist, aud high above are formed the | generally weak disturbance, pass from the north tO | sore shannon, and naving put in sage the extended siorms of winter. ‘The cirrus of | cirrus clouds, which streau far away in advance on | the south, or ihe northwest to the southeast, and - pul © second class, sometimes called cirro-stratus, al- | tne upper currents of air, These st-rms are carried | this probably only tn miawinter, when northeast * A PLEA OF NOT GUILTY rl be a ID acon pet ed penn distance the storm bet i} north and west, woth they pass into the me- winds and Ht pressure pr’ Met in Bri nt pyar od to the charge of asvauiting the persons who were suds of winter and of summer, eorological Lemperate zone, Where the evallin, Pourth.—The storms which are generally Col mt * si ‘i If We neep in tulud the existenee of two immense | south and west Winds coutrol tuclr Movibne. This | withie our own country are Lue norhers, tornadoes | Gispoxsessed, waived examination and gave bonds and ever-fowing currents of air, one from the pole | generally happens on or opposite the South Atlantic | and thunder storms, The Jatter are generally spread | to answer suy Indictment that might be and the other from the Equator, one cold and dry, | coast, and as the storms then pursite a course Rearly | Over a very narrow Space, 80 that they may at times | found against him by the Grand Jury. | the other hot and moist, we shail soon get ac- [de a with the Gulf Stream, with its attendant | pass between the stations from which we recelve | 4. wag contidently expected the Grand quainted with the signs of the weather, The air of | band of moist air, they produce heavy erly gales | our reports These storms evidently onginate in . f xpecte: ne = Gran ihe equatorial current 1a aghter than that of the on our Bast Atlantic Coast, and finally are lost in the | the lower cloud stratum, in local but intense differ. inquest Prompuly ignored the frivolons accusation polar, aud so southerly winds Will begm to blow | Northern Atlanuc, but occasionally, doubtless, reach | ences of temperature, moisture and pressure, and | at the instance of the cected parties, however. alolt Delore they are fell on the ground, witle north. erly winds will begin to biow close to the ground. Accordiugly, southwest winds give much tore warning of their commmg than noriheasterly onca, The southwest wind will often sbow itself first by } : 1 ail only on the West bad Bre oo tn tite taet oe ne Of hgh pressure, | Shannon tasuea on the day named what he styied ‘yratory movements of these sinall storms Ue- “peace warranis’ for the arrest of Captam Mangia, Pipon jocal currents and resistances rather | George B. Skinaer (the owner. of the property al- ation; they may, taerefore, Juded 10), and eight others. The nian of Iceland and the coast of Great Britain. ' Instances are not Wanting im which these heavy storms of the Eastern Gull have passed to Texas, | Thi tence northward to the lakes and northeast to | pene Maine, widening the area of disturbances, and | than on the earth's | long str rus clouds at a great height, called | gradually changing into extended ralus with Moue- | gyrate either toward he rigiut or the left. Sin these | Police, through his cou demanded a discharge soinetimes “Mare’s Tails," or, when a gale ts very | yate winds, tausdidering from the AUantic storms | storms the curnnius clouds are particularly remarks | on the ground that the accusation set forth in the near, by afiving scud. only in the direction. able for tea neight and the citrus clouds for their | warrant: was precisely uke same as that Dr. Gibbons noticed with great care at San Frane Second—The autumn, winter ond ing rains, | smailextent. Winch the Grand Jury had recenuy thrown cisco the the course of the higher strata of | Which generally first announce theniscives on our TIE PREDICTION OF STORMS. out. Notwithstanding the fact pti’ the ciouds—the cirras ana the very high siratus—when | southwest or western plains may be rded as ‘The wind 1s (hat clement Liha OTE ree Beuerry pit pk Ba cere erin cree they were visible, aud found ylem io come uniformly | Oisturbances origiating on the northern contines of | commercial interest of the country, au inh 9690 ech tna pean ri re year, Wt is under jug the approach of a storm We at present natnre nily give Bur principal attention to this element, ‘the prevalence ot fog, rain or snow and the temper: wbure of Ye ale Mwy, however, Wa eximated mw be had also observed the tropical zone ana ou the Pacific siope (as dis- ‘inet from those ot the pres nate tn the West Indies). From (ug atea Of Mh vregsure om the Facide irom some westerly port, for many years at Pailadelphia, The writer has long observed the same (aef® in Western New York, where au averave Of wot wre than One instance stood that legal stops this model ()) Justice w durisdictiog, ill at once be taken to keep: Wein “tue Limits Of tis Ofletad ding class that origi+ rors. he following Is the score;. BOe EOKFORD, Players. BAB. PAB. Players, RAB PA, Be G.Wrightus.? 11603 1 Nesonof..0 39 21 6 Haroes, 2db. 1 0 0 8 8 2 Chapmanrf,0 L121 0 @ Birisall,r.f. 0 1 2 tO 0 diel c obhiByr FY MeVey,G.-.1 1 1 6 0 8 Holdsw'th,as0 0 0 8 0 H.Wrisht,et 2 t 2 20 0 Shelly, db..0 004 8 a Gould, tat b. LY LL @ L Gidney, J. voTod Schuler, db} 1 1 4 1 8 Swandoi, dbo 22 2 3 8 Bartowm, LT 0 0 G 1 0 Martm, p00 2G Spalding, p.. 1 $21 2 4 Aliwon,dstb. 1 OU 6 0 6 Totals.....11 6 $3710 8 Totale...,, 2 & 527 816 INNINGA, ’ Clubs. 4 Bd Ath, tA, Gh. Th, Bh. OM. ¢ 0 8) 8 8 8 O° 8: 3:00 Bans Bes Wynd hs Rend ff KARNED KAOI INNING. Bk BL At. Gil, Gh. Th. Bik. Whe ak Sean a te ak eres ee ford 0 e Q 0 0 0 0. Umpiro—-d. Wildoy, of the Mutual Ciub. ‘Time of gamo-One hour and forty minutes. of Washiugton, PHILADELPHIA, August 5, 1871. Pulte nandeed persons assembled to-day te Witness (he game of base Dall between the Olympica of Washington and the Atiteues. The Olympica were short of Allison and Waterman, aid in order not to disappomt the people Halvach and Pastall volanterred to fill the vacancies, {tb proved a one- sided game, ‘Tae Ataletics scored 16, only two of 5 winch were earned; the Olymoics scorcd one om each of the first and eighth aud wound up wien three on the ainch, ‘The fol INMING Cn! Lt Mh So dt. Gh, Bh. th, Be. 9A Athle ory Poe s 0 4 Oe Ulympics, ree re aes eye eke jek pe pts Geka Ste LACROSSE, ‘She Wild Indian Game Alive and Flouvishe ingmThe Watch Played Yesterday Betweca the Lacrosse €lud, of Toronte, Ont, and the Knickerbocker Club, of New Yorke The Sublects of Victorian Victorious Again. The wild Indian game of Lacrosse bids fair to abiish its claim as an exeltiug and enticing sport minently. ‘here are two excellent Lacrosse ja this city and vicinity, and the devotuon of the members to their favorite game borders on the enthusiastic. These are the Knickerbocker and the Manhattan clus, Last year the Knickeroockers went down to Toronto to play the Toronto Club and mot fairly beaten, the Torontonians wiuming three and the Knickeroockers two out of the five gamos, AN INVITATION was then extended by the Knickerbockers to their athletle opponents to come on to this city this year and try conctusions once more in the explosive and Ly atinosp! n. The Toronto gentle- came oul eek, 204 the contest cama esterday alterioon im the Capitoline grounds, Brookly ‘he following were the parues whe igured in the game :— KNICKERBOCKER, Feld Captam—John Bruen, who did not piay, Mry der acting im his place as facer, W. Hopkins. 4. Taylor, hattan Lacrosse Club. Cover Point-—W, Harper, ( ° Whee! Sheppatd rt Graham, James Foster, TORONTONTANS. Field Captain and Facet . Hoghea, #07 Alexander, S. Mitenel! ver Point—W. Re @, ters—h. G. Langbois, F, Peters, T. Hodgitts, om. 4. Beatty, C. Net Hagnt tome. Lert fonie--R. flome—J. Hamilton, fitoh MR of the five agreed upon was Woa im two and a halt ihe Teroatoniins, the ball haviag been tinying through the toby RK. A. Mitchell, ieft tore of the Toronto cial THE SECOND GAME sted eighteen minutes aud Was won also by the proplo geatiemen, Air. Nelson sending the vail througu the goal. THE THIRD GAME, Which, like rhe orhers, had tts every ineh vigorously contested by the Kniekerbockers, was won in like manuer by the lilusirious strangers in thirteen mutes, thus giving the bine Noses the frst : games ont of five, and ending the biatch ost signaily in their favor. Tho piay turoughout Was very spirited, and the run on both sides was magnificent. The batl on the jast game was sent througu the fags by the lett home Of the Toronto Club, Mr. Mitchell, who kindly treated the Kmekerbockers toa similar exhibition on the first game, When the third game was ended, at twenty minutes past jive @'c.ock both clubs as- sembijed in the middie of the Held, hook Nands aad ehcered one-anotiter heartily, tie vast and respecta- ble Lirong Who assembled to witness the game joins tng tn the plaudlis. ‘he foronte Clab wii have to TRY WT AGAIN »w afternoon atthe same place, when they the first three out of five games against a Jo up et six inen from the Manhattan Cla ana six from te Knickerbockers to-mor CENTRAL PARK. The Music. the Menageric, the Common and ¥ hemA Pleasant Day aud a Large endane, 26 pious rains we have lately had have at least tought avout one good effeet, The ‘ram is good for the ducks, anyhoy Ay Kood-natared poopie to grunblug tricnds who have lost their pmbrelias; Dalit ds even better fur the grass, Central Park is vow ii tts brightest and most charming dress. The earty is carpeted with brilliant veraure, and tie trees are rejoicing tu the lealy glories of a mid- summer v bas certainly, Whatever may be otuer shortcom ot been unpleasantly dry. eforts of the Park Commissioners, too, in the way of flower beds and hedges, are already crowned with deserved success, The holiday-naking citizea y wonds lis Way te the Mail through parcerres of we, Velloved now and then by patches of blooming Qowers, with here wud there the dull Masa of a bronze statne, verday Was quite ihe musie a gala nd arte fay. The arranges exeeliont. There are chairs and benches in lance, ana temporary wwtigs lave been spread over them as w needed shelter from the perils of a July su Al around whe a, fora couple Of pleasant ours, thousands ot people stroil, and Mirt and make themselves Nappy, occasionally dropping into tho cool saloon bencath the grand stone stairway Usat leads io the uke to judvlge in a water ice or @ sherry cobbler. ‘The music was very good, and the programme wag mate 1p principally of seiections from popular and hose music ts Tamultar tO ail, Uke Figha det KRegtmento.” Music, however, was by NO means the sole reeren- ion going. On the commons scores OL Parties were busily cugaged in our “national game,” and the drives were thronged with elegant — vehicles, Quite & number ot gentiemen ou horse! were diso abroad, aod there are ions Uiat horsemanship 18 growing | to a more popular amusement than it used to be. The Lake Was gay Wilh boating parties, who were for a few fractlonal stamps rowed around the Islands by; tars, beatly dressed in. white boating shirts, witl Gaps of ive falling on tne breast and neck, ‘The menagerie, however, Was, Next to the music stand, the grand centre of Interest, Wishin ihe past three months the new house nas been opened, and the lion that was once so sullen now condescends to roar at short intervals, to the sutense satisfaction ofthe small boys. The zebras have become qu te tame, aud cat Swect Cakes from the hands of visit. ors With the docitity of lambs, The otner wonders of the menagerie, are they not known toall! In some way, however, the ci seem now to be kept much cleaner than formorty, and alt the animats, except the monkeys, sinett a litte Jess ofensively than your Airican fellow travellers up town on @ ‘dhird avenoe car, And, as to the monkeys, every one KNOWS that they arc a hopeless case, Onter Juarick CHASE.—A gentioman in this. city Was Just recetved a letter from Chief Justice Chase, 1n reply to & series of resolutions subsaitied to him tor consideration, in Wich he takes ground upon the late ameadmenis—holding that trey are valid and are parts of the Constitution and are to be res nected and obeyed as such, and this without quan. cation or reservation of any kind, The resojutiona lrero,referred to are to be published at an early day. His many political and personal friends will ve leased tO learn that his health continues to inprove, {e is wi present stopping ab the Magnetic Springs, St. Louis, Gratiot county, Michigan, vurkersburg (West Vid Journal, ANAS! 3) by