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tenance to" her iwputcd meteorological influence Gardner's Lectures. BROOKLYN INSTITUTE, July 5th, 1845. Resolved, That the thanks of the Association The Rational Magazine and Industrial Rk. cord," The age of wind bags did not ceasa with that momentous calm which preceded tho French Oh the contrary the wind spirit has prevailed mure or loss during tho last, fifty years sometimes breaking out in a tremendous gust, and anon subsiding into a gentla and almost imperceptible whisper, but never wholly disappearing from the earth. The latest, and, as Carlyle would say, tho most notable blast in this department of science, is the magazine whose title is quoted above, and which purports we doubt not truly to be edited by Red The noon and tlxe 'Wcntheri Although from age to lge, the particular circumstance! and appcarancei connected with the moon, by which the atmospheric vicissitudes were prognosticated, were changed, still the faith of mankind in general in hsr influence on the weather has never been shaken and even at the present day, when knowledge is so widely diffused, and physical science as it were, to the doors of all who have the slightest pretension to education, this belief is almost universal.

Many, it is true, may discard predictions which affect to define, from day to day, the state of tho weather. There are few, howevor, who do not look for a change of the weather with a change of the moon. It is a belief nearly universal, that iho epochs of a new and full moon are in the great majority of instances attended by a chnngeof the weather, and that the quarters, though not so certain, are still epochs when a change may be probably expected. Those wlio have Ical faith in mnteorngieal influence of the moon, extend their belief thus far. There are two ways in which this question may be considered.

It may bo asked whether, by the known IRoportcd for tho Brooklyn Eolo. Special Sessions. Bpfore Judges Garrison, Church and Dotrniog. Wednesday. People vs.

Samuel C. Felt. The defendant is a police officer, and was charged wilh assault and battery upon Michael Maloe at midnight of the 3d July, instant. A jury was empaneled. It appeared from tho evidence of the complainant that ha was near Story's, opposite the corner of Sands and Fulton streets, on the night of the 3d of July, between 12 and 1 o'clock, where he commenced firing a roman candle, first aiming it towards the ground.

He was then told by the by standers to fire it into tho. air, which he did and at tho third or fourth discharge he received a blow from a stick upon the head and shoulders, which was struek by officer Felt. The latter then took hold of him by the collar of his roundabout and vest and shoved him against an awning post, exclaiming You scoundrel, if you had hit me To which Maloe replied that he did not intend to hit him." Being cross examined, the witness said that there was a large collection of persons at the square, who wero firing roman candles across the street at each other that he did not sco tho Mayor or any officers to know them heard no orders given to cease firing nor saw any tumult nor opposition to tho authorities. Felt did not speak to him until he struck him, and the blow knocked him upon his knees, after this Felt took him to tho watch Reported for the Brooklyn Eaflc Local Items. Tho fiercest fervors.of the summer solstice are fairly upon Tis, and as our cits wend their way through the brick and mortar avenues they swelter under the glowing rays of the burning son, and their substance exudes at every pore.

It takes muscle of the firmest integrity to withstand running the gauntlet of this of. burning lava, poured down along tho sunny side of the street. Tho brick tenemonts glare at you with a firce, scarlet rubicundity and the intense reflection of tho white wooden ones pierces through theeyc ball and sears the remotest portion of the brain. No breath of moist air floats by to arrest the fast evaporation of your lifo cssence. One cannot resist the idea of being crisped in a seven times heated oven, and nimbly steps aside from contact with moving objects for fear of being crumbled in pieces.

How gratefully at such a moment comes over the heated fancy pictures of green fields, flowering meads, gently rustled by cool airs from limpid waters tall trees with their tops waving against the sky, and casting a shade where the traveller may take his noontide repose and dream of Elysium or, as Mr. Lackaday expresses it, where the balmy breezes is a blowin', and the primroses peeps out, and tho little birds begin for to sing." Here are two pictures and it needs not a quill plucked from the unsinged tail of a phoa nix to depict the horrors of the first, or one from a seraph's wing to paint the charms ef the other. Our citizens feel them both as they move along this brick and mortar wilderness and all who can find it convenient to leave their money gods arc off in tho first boat in search of rural felicity. Tho circles of the upper ten thousand, and not a few of those of the lower two hundred and fifty thousand, are gradually contracting to the usual summor limits. tET A black fellow a desperate rascal was this morning observed to como out of a store in Fulton street, with sundry stolen articles upon htm.

He was pursued by several persons, and upon their attempting to arrest him, he made a stout resistance drawing a clasp knife and laying about him in the most furious manner. A number wero more or less injured in the fiay, and Mr. Amos Madden, who attempted to seize him, was very badly cut in the back of his hand. The gash was deep, and, we understand severed tho chords of the hand. The fellow was finally secured and taken to the police where he gave his name as" Charles Fay.

He was committed for examination. Truly this is the culprit fay." An owner is wanted at the police for nine pocket handkerchiefs, a pair of pants and a broach found upon his person. jBrdakljw (Sap. The New Post Office Lnw, There has been a great increase in the number of letters received and delivered at our Post. Office since this law went into effect though wc presume that the aggregate receipts arc not quite so large as they would have been undor the old system.

This, however, does not surprise us. The habit of correspondence, which it is Ihe principal object of the change to create, is not to be formed in a day or a month. The people require time to comprehend and realize its advantages to recollect the friends they had almost been compelled to forget, and to contemplate the benefits which must accrue from thus reviving old acquaintances and forming new ones. It cannot, however, be supposed that in a country like ours, where intelligence is so widely diffused, and the means of acquiring an education are open to all, this valuable auxiliary of an improved civilization will be neglected. It will grow in public estimation, from year to year, and the amount of correspondence will steadily increase, until the Post Office estab ishment will not only support itself, but yield a revenue to the government.

The former, to be sure, is all that can Reasonably be expected from it but if tho latter should happen, after reaching tho minimum point nobody would complain. It would be making money upon the same principle that an honest citizen makes it, viz by serving customers at the lowest rates, and with the utmost dispatch. Aside from the press to whose efforts, of course, the people are mainly indebted for the benefits of this change the gentlemen who have set up indepen dant mails, and thus braved the terrors of a law which the most of us deemed unconstitutional and oppressive, aie entitled to the grateful remembrance of the country. There were enough to question its validity, and even to deny it point blank but there was only one here and there bold enough to risk its penalty, in a fair and manly way. Conspicuous among these was Mr.

Hale, whose open defiance of the monopoly has brought down some fifty or more suits upon his devoted head, and will, if judgment should ultimately be obtained by the plaintiff, make a serious inroad upon the profits of his business. Now we insist that this man should not suffer from haying been made the pioneer in the work of reform. But for his exertions, coupled with those of the express messengers, we do not believe that any change would have been effected to this hour. The law makers were slow to relinquish any part of their privileges, or to take any step which would diminish the facilities for communicating with their constituents by stage whips and mail riders. They were naturally desirous of keep ing the post roads established, and getting as many more as they could but the monstrous absurdity of supporting them at the cost of those who really did all the business was too gross to be defended, and at length gave way.

Still, we are confident, that nothing but the determined attitude assumed by the people in behalf ef the independent mails and expresses could have forced Congress to look into the matter, and induce the majority to incur the displeasure of their Western friends rather than tolorate such abuses any longer. We are bound, therefore, to stand by the men against whom suits were commenced under the old law, and see that they are kept harmless vct an, ,3 not so mucn me result of Ictttcrs written from motives of patriotism i. c. with the view of encouraging cheap postage as it is of restoring to the department its legitimate business. The mass of our people do not write letters for the mere purpose of writing, or for any other, indeed, than good and sub stantial reasons.

Hence wo judge that tho natural augmentation of business, consequent upon reduced rates, has not yet been seen. Before the next meeting of Congress, however, the experiment will have been, in a measure, tried and we sincerely hope that it may furnish an abundant illustration of the wisdom and propriety of the change. Meantime it is essential that every true friend of the law should con. tribute, as far as in him lies either by writing him self or encouraging others to do so to that end. The Democratic administration at Washington recently removed a man, eighty years of age and having a large family to support, from a trifling office yielding only three or four hundred dollars a year.

The old man, quite helpless, has been turned out to die, to make room for a partizan. Mr. Polk is a professing Christian, and the members of his Cabinetnre Christians all are Christian gentlemen Star. We suppose our cotemporary has derived his infor ma ion from the lixprcss a questionable authority, and not to be relied upon at all in matters of this kind. In that paper it was stated that tho old gentleman had eleven children to support but the Star, as if unwilling to swallow so much atone gulp, modifies the dose by substituting a large family." In either case the victim is a most extraordinary man, and the story may be considered highly important if true." We suspect the family to be a counterpart for that of Philip Gabois the veteran ofl02 whose treatment of his interesting progeny, varying in age from seventy to forty) along with his frequent apolo gies for their misdeeds on account of ihe fire of youth" which glowed in their veins, have often set the theatre in a roar.

As the News well says, the veteran's youngest son must be a lad of thirty, or thereabouts while it is scarcely to be presumed that out of the eleven children there is not one capable of giving the father an adequate support. It is possible that the editors of both papers have been quizzed, and that no such slate of facts exists as is alleged. If the story be true, however, we Ml venture to remark that it is susceptible of explanation and defence. Office was made for the benefit of the people, and not for that of individuals even though lhey are five hun dred years old, and have seventy children each to support. Statue to Gen.

Jackson. The Democracy of Tennessee are ab taking measures to erect a mar ble statue to Jackson at Nashville. The following was one of the resolutions adopted at a meeting in Jackson, in that State, he! to pay a tribute of res. pect lo his memory Resolved, That as the highest evidence of the love and admiration in which he is held by his follow citizens of 'lennesscc, we recommend to them to raise, by individual subscription, a sum of money sufficient to erect to him a marble statue in the Canitol at Nashville. not to perpetuate his memory, (for that is immortal) but his form and face to which coining generations may look, and from which they may e.atch the inspiration of his patriotism and go and do likewise.

The Bunker Hill Monument Association have resolved to devote the receipts from visiters ($1,000 per annum) to tho improvement and decor, ation of the grounds about the They ought to have printed descriptions of the battle hung up in its chamber, with sketches showing the posi. lions of the troops. be given to Rollin Sandford, for his generous donation to the Youths Free Library," of one hundred and eight volumes of valuable works and to George Atkmson Ward, for his Journal and Let ters of Samuel Curwen. Extract from the minutes. JylOJt R.

NICHOLS, Vice Pres. JOHN GREENWOOD, SUPREME COURT COMMISSIONER For Kings Countt, Haying the powers of a Judge of the Supremo Court, and of the First Judge of the County at chambers also, those of a Commifsioner of Deeds. jylO tf Office, 3 Front street, Brooklyn. TO THE PUBLIC. U3 PERSONS LABORING UNDER DIARRHOEA, DYSENTERY, or similar Com plaints of the bowels, will find it to their advantage to can on MRS.

HAYES, No. 139 Fulton street, Brooklyn, where they can obtain A REMEDY, which will have the desired effect in a few hours, and warranted as such, if taken according to the directions given, it can oe administered to tne infant with, as much safety as to the adult, being very agreeable to the taste, and perfectly harmless in its composition. Mrs. Hayes can re'er to over 2,000 respectable persons in New York and Brooklyn, whose names can be seen at any time, wilh certificates from persons who have experienced its good effects in many cases which were hopeless, and decided by physicians as beyond tho reach of medicine. It is now twenty five years since Mrs.

Hates first introduced her invaluablo Syrup, and it has saved many lives, old and young, and has never failed. Sold at her residence in this city. Price 50 cents per bottle. Also, Mrs. Hayes' celebrated EYE WATER, a sure cure for sore and inflamed eyes never known to fail.

Price 25 cents. je5 4m ID" WHEREAS several attempts have been 1 ccently made to set fire to the house and premises at the corner of Gowanus lane and Flatbush turnpike, in the 8th ward of the city of Brooklyn, lately occupied by Schudder White: Now, therefore, Thomas G. Talmage, Mayor of the city of Brooklyn, by virtue ef authority vest, in me, do hereby offer a reward of TWENTY FIVE DOLLARS lor the discovery, apprehension and conviction of any person or persons who have heretofore attempted or may hereafter attempt to fire sair1 premises, or any part thereof. 1 In witness whereof, I have hereto set L. s.

my hand and affixed tho seal of the May. orally of the City of Brooklyn, this fifteenth day of May, 1845. myl5 tf T. G. TALMAGE, Mayor.

PROCLAMATION. Whereas, tnc Public Lamps of this city are often wantonly injured by evil disposed persons; now therefore, J. Si hague, Mayor of the city ot Brooklyn, by virtue of authority vested in me. do hereby offer a reward of TEN DOLLARS forthc detection and conviction of any person breaking the glass of the city lamps, or otherwise violating the 11th section of title 2d of "A Lawto prevent evilpractices in the city of Brooklyn." In testimony whereof, I have hercun'o L. s.

set my hand and affixed the seal of the Mayoralty of the city of Brooklyn, tn a 14th day of September, 1843. sl4 J. SPRAGUE, Mayor. PROCLAMATION. 03 Whereas some evil disposed persons have, within the last month, committed serious and wilful depredations on the property of this city, by cutting and otherwise mutilating the hose attached to thp pnmnps ariH oii; Now.

therefore. J. oprague, Mayor of the City ef Brooklyn, by authority of the Common Council, do hereby offer a reward of FIFTY DOLLARS for the detection and conviction of the person or persons, party or parties, who have been or may be guilty of having thus cut or mutilated the hose, or who may hero after be guilty of a like offence. In witness whereof, I have hereunto 1 L.s. set my hand and seal of Mayoralty of the City of Brooklyn, this 22d day of April, ap22 1845.

J. SPRAGUE, Mayor. LOST CHILDREN! Andrew Oakes, Coroner, having kindly of fered to receiveintohis family and takecareof Children who may have strayed from their homes, so as to enable Parents and Guardians more readily to recover them THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE to all persons into whose hands lost Children may come, that the offer has been accepted, with thanks, and it is earnestly requested that such may be taken to tho store of Andrew Oakes, No. 163 Fulton Street, that they may be taken care of. By order of Common Council.

o30 2aw GOOOS FOR PRESENTS. tn AT FORSYTH'S Fl found the largest assortment of iioia rencils, Thimbles, Spectacles, Pins Rings, Lockets, uumiiO) JLCD, and Brown's and Bagley's celebrated Diamond pointed Gold Pens, in this city. Also, Silver Card Cases, Spoons, Forks, and some very elegant patterns of Cake Baskets, Silver jattu uiitu emu trustors, oncannia 1 ea sets, Snul fers, Trays, with a variety of other goods, all of which will be sold for Cash at less than the usual prices O. C. FORSYTH, d24 tf 99 Fulton street.

LTREMOVAL. Tho subscriber, feeling thankful to his friends and the public for past favors, would inform them that owing to the rapid increase of his business, he is forced to remove to a larger Held for his operations. He has taken the ground on the corner of Prospect and Pearl streets, where he would be happy to serve his friends with all kinds of COAL, of the best quality and at the most reaT sonablo prices. J. G.

YATES. Brooklyn, May 3d, 1845. my3() tf Office of the Long Island Ins'e July 1, 1845. I The Board of Directors have this day declared a semi annual dividend of four per cent, on thocapi.al stock, payable to the stockholders on and" after the fifteenth of July instant, until which time the transfer books will bo closed jy2 E. C.FINN, Sec'y.

THE SUBSCRIBERS RESPECTFULLY announce to the residents of South Rmnllim. and citizens generally, that they have opened the law uric sioro at, me corner ot Cuntsn and War. ren streets, where they will at all times keep a oare. fully selected assortment of CHOICE FAMILY GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, FOREIGN FRUITS, which, with cvory other articlo in their line, they will sell at the lowest market prices their, intention beinj to keep the best quality of goods. CORNELL BERGEN, Grocers, corner of Clinton and Warren sts.

N.B. Families can have their goods sent to any part of the city jo3 tf GUNTLEMEN'S SUMMER HATS. JAMES W. PECK. 98 Fllltnn.

nnrn. of Henry street, is now ready to supply his friends with SUMMER HATS of any description, got up in tho latest and best style, and ut prices as low as articles of the samo quality can be purchased in any city tho Union. mv28 3m LONG ISLAND RAILROAD. For Newport dence Day Line, in connection with the Sound steamer Worcester. Fare $1.

Leaves Whito. hall on Thursday morning at past 8, Brooklyn before 9 A. for Newport. Regular days here, after, Monday, Wednesday and Friday. iyl wood Fisher.

With tho largest pretensions to originality and excellence going so far, indeed, as to say, that in no other work can such treatises on the important branches of the public industry be found it is a weak and inefficient attempt at imitation. The editor seems to think that his bantling is destined to become tho rival of Hunt's Merchants' Magazine, and, as if no one should mistake his purposes, undertakes to controvert an article in that work for June, and makes two or three ill concealcd attempts to lessen it, as a whole, in the estimation of the public. We suspect he will find this a harder job llien poor Sysiphus did to roll up the stone. Mr. Hunt, in the conduct of his magazine, has evinced a degree of energy, perseverance, and liberality which has secured him a high place in the confidence of the public.

Uninfluenced by the theories or special in. tcrests of any class, lie gives to each a fair opportunity of presenting its views upon everything relating to trade and commerce thus furnishing the strangest arguments upon all sides to the same class of readers, and enabling them to form intelligent opinions thereon. This, we contend, is the true province of such a work: if ono side only iswanted the proper organ to consult is the political newspaper. Mr. Fisher is known or was, during his earlier career (for we confess that wo had lost sight of him since the Arsenal affair) as a devoted champion of restriction of the highest tariff that can be got.

With what propriety, therefore, can he put himself forward as the editor of a work which tends to cripple our industry, and impair the business of that very class whose patronage he solicits? But we have no apprehension that he will succeed. The special interest policy which he endeavors to maintain is too thinly veiled to lead any one astray while the promises which he makes are so extensive (for a new beginner) as to throw suspicion upon the whole thing. We like to sec a generous competition in all sorts of business but wc cannot encourage that phase of it which commences by attempting to disparage others. Apart from these considerations, there is nothing in the specimen before us (for July) which may not be considered the leavings of its elder brother tile Merchants'. Mesmerism and Surgery The Kennebec Journal says that on the 3d inst.

Miss Patty Crommett well known as a highly respectable milliner of Augusta, was put into a mesmeric sleep by Dr. Josiah Dean of Bangor, when a tumor, weighing 2 pounds and 6 ounces was taken out by Dr. II. H. Hill.

During the operation, which lasted about 6 minutes, sho was wholly insensible, and being awoke, stated that she knew nothing of what had been passing. On being asked if she had any consciousness whatever during the progress of the operation, she said she had not. There was in attendance Dr. Issachar Snell, Dr. Cypruss Briggs, Dr.

Lott My rick, and Mr. Nichols, a student in medicine, of Augusta Dr. John Hubbard, of Hallowell. There wero also pre james jj. Child, iisq.

and Mrs. Hannah Smith, of Augnsla. Election of two United States Senators. By an extra from the Star of Florida, published at Tallahassee, under date of July 1, we learn that the Le gislature of the new State of Florida on that day pro ceeded to the election of United States Senators, and that David Levy and James D. Westcott, Demo crats, were chosen on the first ballot by a majority of twenty six votes over Joseph M.

Hermandez and Jackson Morton, the Whig candidates. David Lew has been the Congressional delegate from Florida for a number of years, and was recently elected as a member of Congress, which of courso he resigns. Cr This country is certainly the EI Dorado of the musical professors. A successful tour or two among us transforms many a poor devil into a regular Plutua. We hear that tho quondam favorite in our musical circles, Henry Russell, tho American vocalist, has given up business, purchased an estate in or near London, which he dubs Park Place set up a regular establishment, and is waited upon by some four liveried servants.

Vive la humbug Russell has not yet been knighted. H3" Miss Augusta Maywood, who eloped with and married a French actor named Mabille, in 1844, has recently taken another romantic turn, of the same sort, and abandoned her first love. She informs her husband, in a note, that she accuses him of nothing but having fixed her affections upon another she judges that their mutual happiness would be promoted by her departure. She commends her deserted lord to some woman of "a less exalled temperament" than her own Benefits of a Convention. The American Republican, speaking of the recent gathering at Phila delphia, says: "Tho result of this Convention haj been to furnish us with a uniform political creed, and to establish certain fixed and definite principles for the support of the whole party throughout the country." Of course, up to that period they had been without a uniform political creed," and without fixed and definite principles." Tall aches from lit tic toe corns grow.

ET A shoal of black fish went into Newport Harbor on Tuesday morning, and before 11 o'clock thirty three of them were ready to be cried out. They were from 9 to 22 feet long, and will yield from 2 to 9 barrels of oil each. Several boats were stove during the battle, but no lives lost. The citizens of Boston were to pay their tribute of respect to the memory of General Jackson yesterday. Oration by Judge Merrick, in Faneuil Hall, where the services in honor of Lafayette and Harrison wero performed.

The military of the city generally were to escort the procession. State ok things at Buenos Ayres It appears by the British Packet of the 3d of May, that the British government have determined to settle the of. fairs in the Rio Plata. To begin, Corn. Purvis has been recalled, and Rear Admiral Ingleford appointed to the command of the squadron.

ID" A widower aged 40, with nino children, has 1 recentlc hVpn nmlpfrl In fflnn u.u.w OUM, lor jqiu sing to marry a lady named Rhodes, on the shady side of 30, after promising her that ho would. Sarved him right the young blood We understand that the Jackson estate, comprising about six hundred lots, was sold at private eale yesttrday to a eompnny of gentlemen of this city. principles of physic, the moon can have any, and. if any, what influence on our aunospnerc i Aim whether that influence be such as would cause a change of weather at the epochs of tho principal phases? Or, on the 'trier hand, we may limit the inquiry to the mere matter of fact, and ask whether, by immediate observation, it has been found that the epochs of the chief lunar phases have been, in the majority of instances, attended by changes of weather? or, to put the question more generally, whether any periodicity of atmospheric phenomena is actually observed to correspond with the moon's phases. It would seem at first view that neither of these inquiries cou be attended with any doubt or difficulty yet the case is quite otherwise.

The former, involving as it does the whole theory nf the moon's attraction on our atmosphere, modified by a multitude of disturbing causes, is a physical problem as difficult and complicated as could well be propounded. Indeed, it is one, taken in its most comprehensive form, which dues not admit of solution in the present state of physical science. The latter bring merely a question of fact and observation, is not attended, properly speaking, with ultimate difficulty, but it is one which would require a course of observation carefully and accurately conducted, continued for a series of years. Such observations when skillfully managed and discussed, would furnish grounds for safe and certain conclusions. But such observations have not been carried to the necessary extent.

If the question of fact were, whether there be any obvious and glaring correspondence of periodicity between the lunar phases and the atmospheric vicissitudes, it would be instantly answered in the negative. For although we do not possess sufficiently accurate and Jong continued series of observations to decide the question whether the moon has any atmospheric influence, however small, we possess a sufficient body of ascertained facts to justify the conclusion that her influence is certainly not considerable, and that, whatever be its amount, it is probably in a great degree obliterated by the vast number of modifying and disturbing causes which are constantly in action. Let us consider for a moment the theoretical question. If the moon can act upon our atmosphere by attraction, as she acts upon the waters of the ocean, she will produce atmospheric tides, similar to those of tne waters. 1 he greater mobility ot air win cause those tides to be formed more rapidly than the water tides; and it may be, perhaps, assumed that the tides of the atmosphere will always be placed, either exactly, or very nearly under the moon.

Thus, as there is high water twice daily, so would there be high air twice daily and the times of this air tide would correspond with the moments of the transit of the moon uver the meridian above and below the horizon The same causes, alsi, which at new and full moon, produce spring tides, and at the quarters, neap tides, would produce spring and neap atmospheric tides at tr.e samn epochs. At new and full moon, therefore, the air ought to be higher, daily, at noon and midnight than at any other times during the month and, on the other hand, at the quarters it ought to be tuwer. If, then, the barometer be observed twice daily viz at the times of the moon's transit over the meridian, above and below the horizon, it ought (so far BoitlHU low as tho rise of the barometer raie. rally indicates fair weather, and its fall, foul weather. the conclusion to which this would lead, would be, tnat the epochs of new and full moon should be generally fair, while at the quarters bad weather would generally prevail.

his, however, is not the popular opinion. The traditional maxim is that a change inav be looked for at new and full moon that is, if the weather be previously lair, it will become foul if previously foul, lair. M. Arago has made an ingenious attempt at the evaluation 01 me very minute effect of what we have called atmospheric tides. To comprehend his rea soning it will only be necessary to consider that, at a new and lull moon, the sun and moon pass the me ridian above and below the horizon loo ether and therefore, that high air, or atmospheric tides, must at inese limes lake place at noon and midnight (010 air would llierclore occur about six A.

M. and six P. M. Thus so far as the altractien of the moon affect the almosphero, the barometer, which rises and falls as the atmosphere rises and falls, would be affected by an ascending movement for six hours before noon and midnight, and for six huurs after these times. But, when the moon is in the quarters, being then one fourth of the heavens removed, before or behind the sun, it will pass the meridian, whether above or below the horizon, about six hours later or earlier than the sun.

At the quarters, therefore, the atmospheric tides would occur about six A and six P. M. Thus at the quarters the barometric col. umn, so far as it is influenced by the moon's attraction, would be affected with a descending motion for about b'ix hours after these times. It will be evident, that if we were in a condition to estimate trie amount of these barometric movements, we should be at once, in a condition to declare the amount of the lunar at.

traction on our atmosphere. But these effects, if appreciable at all, are modified by at least one other influence, which has been the subject of certain and satisfactory observation. There is a daily fluctuation in the barometric column, called the diurnal variation, which has an obvious relation to the apparent diurnal motiiin nf the sun, and which probably is caused by solar heat. It is ob. served that the barometric column falls daily, from nine in the morning till noon.

In Europe, this effect is frequently obliterated by other disturbing causes; but it is always observable when a mean is taken of observations, continued for any considerable number of days. This diurnal variation will be combined with the effect of the lunar attraction in the results of the observations. Now at a new and full moon these causes produce contrary effects on the barometric column. During the ihrcc hours preceding noon, the lunar attraction hua a tendency to impart to it an ascending movement; while, by reason ol the diurnal variation, it would have at the same time a descending movement the result would consequently be the difference of the two effects. If the diurrm! variations were equal to tho effect of tho moon's attrac lion, the motions would neutrulize each other, and the column would be stationary but if they be unequal, the column will ascend or descend by their difference.

At the quarters these two effects will conspire in producing a descending movernement of the barometric column during those hours before noon, and the result of observation will be a descent equal to the sum of the two effects. Observations, therefore, made at and before noon at the times of new and full moon, and at the quarters, ought to supply estimates of the sum and the difference of these two physical effects and if such observations be continued for a sufficient length of time, a mean estimate may be obtained from which ine envois 01 uisiuruing causes will be eliminated M. Araco has applied this method of investigation to a aeries of observalions conducted for twelve yearsin Paris, and he has found that the effect of the lunar attraction on the barometers produced between ihe high and low stales of the atmosphere, corresponding to high and low wuter, cannot exceed the six hundredth part of an inch a quuntity too small to be appreciated hy any meteorological instruments, and, certainly such as could produce no sensible effect on tho atmosphere. It is then, that if the moon has any influence on bur atmosphere, it does not proceed from anj cause analogous to that which produces the tides of tho ocean and therefore, that tho fact, that the mson dees produce such tides can afford no coun Michael McMahon was sworn and corroborated the above testimony. He stated that Maloo was not firing so as to lead to the impression that ha was aiming at any ono opposite that Felt came hastily across the street, raised his heavy watchman's club wnen nail way over and struck him as described.

Morehouse, sworn. Witness heard Felt tell some one near Story's to stop firing a roman can aie, and at that moment another was hred opposite near Hoogland's when he ran across. Maloe then fired one, and Felt came back again, when the scene above described occurred. Complainant's back was towards fell when hu struck him. He did not appear to be firing at any one.

John Koach, sworn. Corroborates previous testimony. There was considerable of a skirmish after the blow was struck, around the awing post. 1 he man who was struck said, You should nt have struck me so and defendant made use of profane language Cross and says he was there an hour and a half, during which time there was consi derable hnng, but saw no attempt on the part of the police officers to prevent it. The prosecution here rested.

Aid. George W. Stilwell, sworn for defence. Witness was present at the above scene, and assisted in quelling the disturbance there was opposite to Story's endeavoring to arrest persons who were firing there when he saw Maloe come out of Story's and commence firing at witness and other officers whilst in the dischaige of their duties saw Fell start to go across the street there was a general consternation at the time. I saw defendant arrest Maloe, but no blow struck.

A great crowd collected immediately. Cross ex. At the time complainant fired he was stooping as if to hit his object across the street. A ball hit witness, but he could not say from whose candle it cams. Reuben Decker, sworn.

Saw a caudle fired by Maloe at the time Aid. Stilwell stood on the opposite sido. Cross ex. Heard Felt tell Maloe he must stop firing, when he replied that he knew his own business." Saw Felt strike at him, but ho did not raise his slick to strike until he told him to stop firing. Several other witnesses wero examined but nothing of importance was elicited.

The jury retired and brought in a verdietof guilty and the court imposed a fine of $25 upon defendant. Reported for the Brooklyn Eagle. Police. Thursday. John McCloskey, a few evenings since took his station on the sidewalk in Myrtle avenue, and gauped" up at Mrs.

John Weeks for some time, and then made some impertinent observations telling her that she kept a naughty house. Mr. Weeks came out to seek redress, and pursued him to his house, where he picked up an iron crowbar and attempted to strike Weeks. John protested that it was all wrong, from beginning Saa not John McCloskey, butsimply John Campbell. Justice was, nowever, innexiuie, and he was sent to the castle for 10 days.

Hugh Dougherty was convicted of stealing thirty pounds of brown sugar from the cargo now discharging from the Edward Cobbett, at Wiring's wharf. Hugh was one of the stevedore's it appeared that these gangs are in the practice of raping iiiemseives 10 oaa Dits of cargos. Thema gistrates thought they would put a stop to the practice and commenced with Hugh, as an example, by sending him to tho rogues' head quarters for 5 days, and imposing a fine of jjjjS. There were tho usual number of vacancies and disorderly conduct. Margaret Smith, just out of jail for similar ofFoncc, was brought ui again this morning and recommitted.

Elizabeth Davis potated con sibcrably last night and was brought up with a black eye and let off about a hundred yards of gab 10 days to her favorite jug. Elopement of a Large Gang of Runaway Negroes. We learn from a nnlien mntrlotr.to ih.i sixty or seventy runaways passed through this city last night, en route for Pennsylvania. They have eloped, doubtless, according to a preconcerted arrangement, from the neighboring counties of Prince George, Charles, and St. Mary's in Maryland and are said to be armed with scythes, bludgeons and guns.

They left the city by tho road lending out through 7th street, and aro probably hoping to make good their escape through the counties of Montgomery and Frederick, Maryland. We understand that neatly two hundred citizens of Washington and the vicinity have started in pursuit, who will, doubtless, succeed in securing most, if not all of them. Washington Union, Tuesday. Electro Magnetism. We learn that a gentleman of Pennsylvania has discovered a meanB of applying tho force generated by Electro Magnetism to the propelling of Railroad Cars and Trains, so as to reduce immensely the cost of motive power.

The invention has the farther effect of preventing any running off the track, and so ensuring the safety of passengers from what has hitherto been a formidable danger, especially while in rapid motion. He is now taking out patents for this ceuntrv, and intends to do so for all Europe before the proccs's is disclosed to Ihe public. Should his sanguine anticipations be realized, there is hardly a limit to the revolution which will follow, or to tho profits of the inventor. Tribune. Long Island Railroad.

Low Fare. For somo time past the Long Island Railroad Company have charged $3i from Boston, and $2 from New York. The effect of this unequal arrangement was that the train from New York carried about ninety through passengers while the train from Boston for New York carried only about thirty Yesterday the fare at this end was reduced to and tho number of passengers this morning for New York amounted to seventy nine Bost. Jour. XO IHE fUBLlC.

Having learned that the article recently pub. liBhed by mo in reference to a difficulty between Mr. James Bailey and myself, has been understood by some porsons in a manner prejudicial to Mr. Bailey, and in a sense which I did not intend, I take occasion to state that I did not ininnrt in charge Mr. Bailey with any misrepresentation, dc cep.ion, or unfair dealing in business, either in thn transaction to which I alluded in that article or in any other, and that, on the contrary, I believe his conduct in that transaction to have been entirely honest and fair, and that I havft nr rnnann In It.

lieve him to be other than a man of strict integrity in all respects. I make this publication injustice to Mr. Bailey, and I deeply regret that my former article Bhould have been taken by Mr. Bailey or the public as containing any injurious reflections upon his cha. racter.

I intended that article as an account ol tho affray which took place in my store. N. D. MORGAN. Brooklyn, July 10th, 1845.

jylO It S3 XZATS OF ALL FASHIONS finishoo. (jrtJor at tll store WILLIAM H. PECK, i0 114 Fulton, opposite Sands street Powers, the The reputation of this excellent, though self taught artist, seems to have reached itszenilh. A correspondent of the Evening Post whom wc take to be its editor, Mr. Bryant writing from London under date of June 18th, says: The town is yet talking of a statue of a Greek slave, by our countryman Powers, which was to be seen a few days since at a print shop in Pall Mall I went to look at it.

It is a noble production of art and genius, and if any thing was hitherto wanting todecidethe rank which the artist should take among the irreat sculptors of all ages, it is wanting no long er. The statue represents a Greek girl exposed naked for sale in the slave market. Her hands are fettered, the drapery of her nation lies at her feet, and sho is shrinking from the public gaze. Nothing can be finer than the symmetry of the figure, the grace of the attitude, the noble, yet sad expression of the counicnance, ana mo pcricction wmi wnicn me marble is made to represent actual Itesh and muscle. I could not but feel, as I looked at it, that it was one The air around with beauty.

It has fixed the reputation of Powers and made his fortune, the possessor of the statue, a Mr. Grant, has refused to dispose of it, except to a public insti tution. The value which is set upon it. mav be in. ferred from this circumstance, that one of the richesi persons in England told tho person who had charee ui uiu 3UHUC, mai mr.

urani would accept two thousand pounds sterling for it, ho should be glad to sena mm a cnecK ior me amount. Some attempts nuvt; ueen mauo 10 uisparage its merit, lor the world of art here is slow to admit the claims of transatlantic genius, but they have been drowned and silenced in the general voice of involuntary admiration. I hear that since the exhibition of tho statue, orders have been sent to Powers from England for works of sculpture which will keep him empleyed for years to come. Too Good to be Lost. A Washington correspondent of tho Baltimore Sun tells the following good story I will state a fact which occurred yesterday, and to which I was a which is ton in ho lost.

A native of the Emerald Isle received luttor from a friend in Boston, who had just arrived there, soliciting his advico as to some business about which he was entering upon which letter cost him twenty seven cents postage. The letter requested a speedy answer. the receiver of tho epistle immediately wrote back that on the firstof July thopostago would be reduced, and, in order to save postage, he would men auuu mm an answer. Graham Magazine. Tho number for July has been detained somewhat, in order, we suppose, to take advantage of the new post office law.

It is good enough, however, to make up for the delay. The Battle of New Orleans" (being No. 5 of the regular serios) constitutes tho subject of the first en graving, and is a very spirited and satisfactory sketch There is likewise a description from the pen of an eyewitness. Two other plates one of which is a boquet, colored make up the embellishments Among the contributors are Bryant, Poo, Conrad, Street, Mrs Sigourncy, Mrs. Stephens, Mrs.

Osgood, and Mrs. E. O. Smith. W.

H. Graham, True Sun otr.ee, is the publisher. This number commences a new volume fCT Mr. Bryant is in England, where he is made the guest of eminent political and literary men Among the rest Samuel Rogers, the poet, has paid him particular attention. He will return to this country in October.

ID" The ten mile race over the Beacon Course yesterday was performed by Jackson, the American Deer," in 56m. 29s. Gildersleeve retiring after the seventh mile. Gilbert Coutant, an aged and respectable citizen of New York, who had held many offices of trust and profit, died yesterday morning. Ho was the father in law of the Hon.

Ely Moore. The Printing Telegraph Wo have had an opportunity of seeing the machine itself seen it at work. And a most ingenious, wonderful thing it is and, so far as we can judge, perfectly efficient. lis advantages over Morse's telegraph are, creator ra pidity of action, greater certainty, and facility of use by any person. For Morse's telegraph there must be a person at each end, capable of translating tho hie roglyphic marks and dots but the printing telegraph manes me oroinary iciiers, arranges iticm in words, and can bo governeJ Dv any person who can spell vojn.

The New Minister to England. Mr. McLano, Minister Plenipotentiary to London, will tako his departure for England in tho sleamer Acudia, to sail from this port on tho 16th inst. On his arrival in London. Mr.

Everett will tuke biu leave. mill turn directly with his family to this country, from which ho has been absent more than fivo years. Bost. Advertiser. 1.