Litchfield enquirer., 1835-05-28

resideot of New-YoFk, arrested in that city on suspicion Of having left hs infant child to the chance of death by exposure the steps of house in Aad
 soW-sreeG. This happened two days after he had bu
 ried his wife. Some females neighbOrs of Sterling who saw the account of the chd's abandonmeNi, went to see it, and immediately recognized it. Ster
 IiOg was arrested; he owned that the child belonged 10 him, but denied that he had (orsake0 il. He was however committed fortEial. While he was in com 6nemen, two females crossing the Park towards the prison, met the Reporter of one Of the city papers,
 and enqured of him where they co0ld get sight of Mr. Charles Sterling lhe prisoner. One OE the ladies informed the Reporter, that her maiden na,ne was Elizabeth Gales-that she from Winthrop, Maine ] was married in Boston in 1881, that in she same year, she came to New-YOrk with her husband, who soon aIier their arrival treated heT ia scaBdal
 ous manner and finally after stripping her of all she possessed, abandoned her. She said she had reason suspect that Sterling was the man, aud she was on this accoUnt deairous Of seeing him. As as sine
 was brought into his presence she exclaimed. " that's the very iMan!" Sterling at firat denied ever know
 ing her, bua finally confessed that she was one o his wves. He wiI! be Tried far h.yanly. Miss Gales was ltis second wife; the r was lady named Rose; she died ten months since; in month afief her death henasret' Misa Me iiussin. who died aboss foss
 night sincs sad whose child he cruelty abaadoned. { Professor Silliman has been giving popu- lar aud very interesting course of lectures on Geology, at Boston,, His scompetencyt tO that task no one can question; but it is not every one who possesses as he does. sufficient taste and literary qualifications to make scientific subject fascinating to popular auditOry.- I Speaking of volcanoes, the Professor stated some striking facts: : .-.-,
 l He spoke of the earthquake at Caracas, and of the recent eruption in the bay of Hon. duras-of the mountains of Quito, and the whole chain of the Andes, which are capped with porphyry, trap and hasalt and supposed l that there was no doubt that the whole range from Terra del Fuego, or Land of Fire, was l continued range of volcanoes. He then al- luded to the islands in the Pacific, all of which are volcanic. ,he led cf that rast oceaa proba- bly resting on arches ef fs-the volcanoes be- ing merely the chimneys, or the place Ofexis. I for the fire -and smoke in the interior of the I earth. The number of volcanoes known to 1 be tn actual existence is upwards of three hundred! In Mexico. in l759, region of country, upwards of seventy miles in extent, 1 rose by volcanic action, several hundred feet. 1 and a mountain was formed in the centre Of I about HOO feet in height, which, ffty years | afterwards. when Humboldt visited the spot, was found to be hot and smoking.
 l The surface Of the earth therefore is nOth. ing hut a crust of frozen l0vG! The earth was probably red hot bali: the surface of which is now congealed. Its figure that ofan Oblste spheroid shows that it was 0f nature soft and yielding. That the sun is now red hot ball, and the dark spots on its surface may be the commencement Of cODgelati0n. In the coarse of time. tho whole surface may be- l come congealed, and the earth wilt thus be deprived of the source Of external light and heat! eA ~~ f;}-f
 FssAs tke NesD- York Tysnsesipf. POLICE OFFlcE.-Tkc Victim cf JeGtoUsy. "A scene took place, and a story was dsvsl- Oped, yesterday in the police Otiee. that com pletely defied description. Early in the nor. 1 ming, a grnteel looking young man, Dan,ed James Drummond, living in Mott street. near 1 to BrOome, came intO the office and stated to Justice Wyman that he wanted a warrant to recover his wife, who had been forcibIy taken l from him-in fact, he said that she had been stolen and abducted. The magistrate told him that he could grant no such warrant. but advised him to procure a writ Of habas cor pls from the Recorder, to procure his wife back again. Drummond said that his wife's parents had taken her from him by force. al- though he knew that she wished to return l and five with him. He then announced his determination to go tO the house of his wife's father. and obtain or at least srs her by force. Mir. .Wyman dissuadsd him from so dOing, and he left the office. In less than an hour he returned o,lt of breath, with his face blo0dy. his coat slit all the way up the back, and his clothes otherwise torn. He then as- ked for warrant against his wife's father, l who he said had beaten him cruelty. torn his clothes. and shsmefuily ill-trratrd him. mere y, as he stated. because he went to the house to request an interview with his wife. whom he said he loved to distraction. and whom he would never consent to live without. He had hardly done telling his story, before his wife. her sister and brother. and her father and mother. entered the office; and then com. Nsenced scene which we shall not soon for. get. Faf g## f
 The wife--a lovely. elegant and lady-like young creature, appaFently not more than l6, land yet the mother Of an infant girl horn in April st)-adv auced to the bar, pale and trembling. supported on either side by her sister and father, and stated in answer tothe magistrates questieus, that she did not wish to live with her husband that long contin- ued series of ill treatment had totally estrsn- ! ged her affections from him, and she desired tO live with her pareots in preference to hin,, and die in peace at home. She afterwards stated privately. that she first met DrUmmond at the house of friend, about eighteen months since: and that from the first day he saw, he pr0iessed an affection for her, aud never passed an evening away from her until they were married. He Went t0 she house ol her father to sea her for some time, before her father 0r brother knew of it, tkey being both sea-faFing men-One a caplain and the ether mate. As soon as they knew of ii. \ AA---. 4 Al S.. '. A.