The New York Herald Newspaper, January 9, 1866, Page 5

DOLD WEATHER. Whermometer Fifteen Degrees Below Zero in the City. THE METROPOLIS FROSTBITTEN. A WOMAN FROZEN TO DEATH SEVERAL PERSONS FOUND INSENSIBLE. SCENES IN BROADWAY. Skating at Central and Other Parks. A The Cold in Brooklyn, Jersey City and on Staten Island. Sufferings of Laborers on Fer- vies, Piers and Wharves. A THIRTY-FIVE YEARS RECORD. INTERESTING RECOLLECTIONS. REPORTS FROM OTHER LOCALITIES. &. Now York was yesterday visite by more intensely cold weather than has been known by the oldest inhabi- tant rince the earlier years cf the eighteenth century. Something near it accompanied the great fre which oc- curred on the 16th of December, 1835, when the ther- momoeter iudicated five degrees below zero, The tem- perature of the atmosphere, as 14 usually the case, va- ried in different localities upon the island, but may be put down, in unexposed) positions at 8 A. M., as about goven degrees below zero, Where the wind had fair sweep and in more open and exposed districts it ran as low, at tho same hovr, as fifteen degrees delow zero, This was the cause in the upper portion of Now York and in the viclnity of Harlem. It was alvo fifteen degrees below sero on Fifty. eighth stroét, near Fifth avenge. et an oarly hour yesterday moruing. Such cold us this can ouly be com- pared with that of 1806, when the North river was cov- ered by a crust of ice that supported teams and wagons between Now York and Jersey City, and the days of the war of the Revolution, when the patriot army was taken across the river and tente were erected ant bivouac made upon its congealed surface. ‘The effect of this ex- treme cold was to freeze over Wallabout Bay, near the Navy Yard, Brooklyn, and the Hackensack and Passa c rivors in New Jersey. There was also cousiderable ice in ‘both the North aud East rivers; but the high wind, caus- ing constant motion of the water, hindered farther voildl- Geation, end unless the temperstore should be kept up Cor a series of days no particuiar or permanent imptdi- mont to shipping nevd be annreherded : COLD SNAPS (N PREVIOUS YEARS. ‘Tho cold was so extromely sevore during the night of Monday, the 19th of January, 1852, that the ferry boats between New York and Brooklyn could not make their ‘Wips except with great difficulty and at long Intervals, Finally there was only one boat running on the South ferry, the others being disabled by injuries from the tee. ‘The slips on the Brooklyn side were bound tn one solid mass of icv, and tho passengers tad to eliinb on the end of the docks in the best way they could. At length the ently boat on the Such ferry wes disabled between one and two o'clock in the morning by something going wrong with her machinery, aud the passengers were brought back to the New York side. So intense was the frost during the night that ihe boats were all frozen in. ‘The xy presented ono sheet of foe in the morsing and apppoared like o plain covered with snow. Thousands of people who lived $n Brooklyn and did business tn New York waited for hours for boats, but in vain. Some courageous per aon determined to attempt to reach Now York by walk. ang over on the toe from Fulton ferry, His prozress was " y thany hundreds ot per- was seen to reach the By nine o'clock there was a beaten track from New York to Brooklyu, and Sevoral (honsand persons, male aud female, had omfected ® crossing. South and Hamilton ferries were crovsed in the same way by persons residing in those localities. Evene Gloigh paced over. This went on until! about on ‘clock, when the ico gave signs of breaking. At this time thers were provably Ove hun- dred persovs of all ager and rexce on tho toe. As they Spproached the New York «ilo the people on the Wharyer vod piers warned the. by shouts and gertures Bot to atiempt a landing, ar thy feo tad broken ap. This Was nol believed, those on the ico naturally supposing that some parties were saying sto create unnecessary alarm, as o:hers had doue on the Hrooktyn side, Ou the People rusbed, regardless of the warnings of thove on the docks, But they soon found that there were good Grounds for the warning. For Ofteen or twenty feet the fee tap, and the rapidity with which the dis- Memberment continued was envugh to alarm thore who found themselves saddenty ma!ling down toward the bey. ‘There was a perfect panic, and, aftr considerabdle de- lay, moch fr.ght and the ducking of s number of persons, all wore rescued, either by boaie or by persons on shore. Severai who had fallen into the water were saved by ‘means of ropes, ladders and planks. The situation of those on the ice at the time it was moving was terrible in the extreme, and many were carried down the river, Doree of whom woro rescued by @ Custom Howse boat. Man sod by one of the Menary’s news boatmen, who ventured to thoir assistance im a emall craft, The most Abriliing experience was that of three youths, about fixteen years of age, who undortook to cross from Ham- Miton avenue to Whitehall In compauy with a gentlemen. The three boys went atead, and suddenly they heard a terrible sound beneath pheir feet, and immediately a tor the ice gave way wug® tremendous crash. They were throw: into the wher, but maneget to geton a detached Piece of ice about he size of a table. Upon this they were cortied by the tide close te Governor's Island, ond She wldiers of the iand used every oxertion to take them of, but in vain; their Bost, beiag jatamed ia the te, carried them away, aud they were glad to escape Rhemsoives. The piece of ice om which they were stand- fing way grvtually breaking ap aed the tte was carrying a the bay, So benambed were th foet of them had to sit dowa on the tee Thousands of spectators, whe watched them with Intense ancicty from th Batter) now thought that ove of them had been lost, The p follows gave them seives ap as lost, bat at length « rescued with great GiMenlty by a Whitetrall boat, The boys had been two feud a hell bourse on the jee The fete loved that at the time the lee gave way they suit aly mited several, who w near them immediawl » » that shore wae a probebility Of some parson) te ln to After the communication was eur off by the partiny of fhe ico it was several houre before the ferry bom: could make a paemge, The North river wes not eo badly fron, nor the ferry comimubiention cut of The westerly widd drove the floating tnases of ico towart= Phe East river, and there they booame united by the cold of the night {On Suturtay, the 17th of Jdmaary, in 1957, thore was PM Pimilie scoumulation Of ice In the Hast river. The fre socumulated in auch matsen ee \ bridge the Kast atid aimit the passage of peder'rians from Brook B79 to Now York. Some five hundred persona were Caught on the joe by the breaking, hot were taken off in Safety, Tho shipping was greatly eniangered and ferry Qommn catoa interrupted. The eccum lation of the Opposite shore otuers follv« ed. 1836— 1537. ice on this occasion resulted from the samo cause asim 1852; but the breaking up of the ice masses did not fol- tow until four o’clock in the afternoon. THE WEATHER OF SUNDAY AND MONDAY. It was not by auy means tobe spoken of as warm on Sunday, although it was considerably more mild than the weather which greeted the people of this portion of the world yesterday morning. Tho thermometer in the Hexaxp office indicated eteven degrees above zero at five o'clock P. M. on Sunday, at eight o'clock P. M. it had fallen to four degrees, at mine o'clock to two degrees above, and at ten o'clock at night it had reached zero. Eleven o'clock saw {t declining to ope degree below, mid- night came and it was two degrees below, and at one o'clock yesterday morning it was as cold as on the oeca- sion of the great firo m 1835, when the thermometer stood at five degrees lowest depth to which Jack Frost could come; for at two o’clock A. M. he had marked six degrees. The tempora- ture of the weather of yesterday will be found in the below zero, But this was not the THY COLDRST DAYS FOU THIRTY-VIVE YEARS. In order that a comparison may be readily made be- tween yosterday and ita temperature, as given above, aud preceding frigid seasons, the following table, giving the figuras for the coldest days in euch year from 1830 to 1865—a period of thirty-five years—has been com- piled, partly from Detatour’s record of the thermometer, at No. 2534 Wall strest, and partly from the statistics preserved for a period of over thirty years by an attaché of the Heap esiablishinent:— 1830-—January 30. 10 degrees above zero, 1831—January 25. below zero, 1852—Sanuary 21. Pine below zero. 8 degrees above zero. § dogroes above zero, 5 degrees below zero, 5 degrees above zero. 20r0. 4 degrees above zero. 1 degree below zero. 9 degrees above Zoro. 6 degrees above zero. 4 degrees above zero. 9 degrees above Z To. 6 degre. s above zero, + el degrees above zero. «++ 8 degrees above zero, 13 degrees above zero. .. 8 degrees above Zero. <4 degrees ubove zero, 16 degrees above zero. 10 devrees above #or0, B degroes above zoro. “1 degrees above zero. 12 degrees above zero, 1 deyree above zero. 1 degree above zero. 1 degree above zero, 16 degrees abovo zero. 1dexree below zero. «+ B degrees above zero, 2d below zero, 17 degrees above zero, 5 degrees above zero. 5 degrees above zero. ON BROADWAY. February 5... January 3.. ‘ebruary 27. 1842—January 24. February 18... 1448—Junnary 11. 1849—January 1. 1850—Si 1 1852—Jancary 20 1853—Janinry 16. 1858 February 18 1859—Janvary 1 1860—Kobruary 2 1863 Febrnary 5 1864—February 18. boats to warm ‘alone Buch for an evaucmpera tc” Plnue et {ir pia understand the case obttigo a ten years’ reader 9g Peinw Your, Jan, 8, 1668. Brooklyn. During the last thirty-six hours the unusual cold weather has been the ail-ongrossing topic of conversa- record numerous cases of suffering and death from its effects, Ye sparsely morning the streets were rather patronized, and those that the calls of labor to be out rent, forth, strong! especially those on the Fifth avenue, Flatbush avenuo and New York lines. Sevecionr carriers, milk- men and bakers fared no better than others in-eimilar circumstances, and they, too, felt the severity of the weather. The pavements in the public were smooth as and wherever a drop of cold water was ied on: sidewalk it immediately ct into glaring ice, and caused many unpleasant falls to tho oe The yet were pe ro fomales ; fasbionabie dryxoods palaces patronized, and everything wore a sombre, aspect. fotiowing cases to the effects of the LE geae es ye the police :—OnSun- day night a German, Christian Simons, was found ing on the sidew: on Flatbush avenue near Atlantic street, by oflicers and McBrien, of the Fiftieth inct, ‘who immediately removed him to the station . "The hauds, arms, feet, legs, cheeks and left car were badly frozen. The police placed him in @ cold room, where he was rubbed all night wilh cold water, and such other measures taken as are usual in such cases. Yestorday morning Simons was all right, except his hands, which were so badly frozen that it is feared ® pati will be necessary. He was sont (o the vital, ‘esterday morning, about half-past ono o'clock, officer Phelan, of the Forty-fifth precinct, found » man lying on the sidewalk tn South Sixth street, near Filth, so bouumbed with the cold that had not the officer Wa covered him he would shortly ba:e perished, The suf- ferer was pnable to 1 any name; but officer ’helan succeeded In ascertain ny his resid nie, which was in the Vicinity, and conveyed him there, when modical assist- anco was summoned, He is now recovering. ‘The following ts a record of the temperature of the weather furni: Fulton street, for Sunday and Monda: Sunday. Monday Lowest point during night.10 above zoro, 14 below zero. AM 12 above zero. 10 below zero. AP hie S above zero, 1 above z0r0. iLP. M Gubove zoro, — 7 y ‘ounta was aacending, witha good prospect of the woather moderating, THE WEATHER ELSEWHERE. ‘New York State, Srnacuse, Jan. §~8 A. M.—Weathor clear mometer fifteen degrees below zero. O-wrao, Jan. 8—3 A M.—Thormomoter ten degrees ‘Thor- Owing to the intense cold—unequalied in ita severity in | polow zoro, Weather cloar. this city for thirty-five years—the streets were compara tively deserted, and few ventured abroad except those whose business called them out of doors, or skaters, who, muffled up in furs and great coats, ventured as far as the Park to enjoy amosersent on the ico, In Broad- way guts of icy wind prevatted, and it would have been amait-r of considercble difcalty for Indies to enjoy their accustomed promenade in that fashiovable and busy They, therefore, remained at home. Pe- destriany could bave carricd any amount of cloching, and wherever they wore walking they were to be seon going fas fast na porsible to keep up soine degree of warnith., | ‘The policemen proceeded along their beats in an appa- rently melancholy manner, while it was not a common thing to see small icicles hanging from their beards and mustaches. Tho style of head dress which had, io many fusiances, to bs adopted to keep oat tho cold was gome- thong cay ors lo behold. Meu wrapped shawls around th ir heads in turban fashion, some had ther heads and faces almost entiroly enveloped in furs, baving only apertures for the eyes and mouth, ‘This was what might be termed the ova Hoge" syle, whick, (however, did erally wypyail. Tt gave Way to inuiflers, tur capa, rae esi wt tor tho ones ahd turont, Aud every description of ea. ALONG THX RIVER FRONT. Tho oxtreme cold of yestorday was probably felt with gfeator severity and was mich more iatense, and on tailed a creater amount of suffering, on the bay and along the riverfront, than was the case in the hi of the city, Those whose ocoupations compelled to re. main out of doors for long, weary hours on @ stretch, without fire and withont shelter—sich ns st sailors apd draymen—bad good cause to regret the sud den falilig of tie mercury, Muflled tp ‘n every con ceivable style of wrapper and coat, there men, inured to hardatips ax they are, felt the btlorness of the woather wtrenkth as they, half-(ed and half-cloth worked ppop ti eels in tho harbor and toi! upon the wharves and the keen, wind had & full and unobstructed sweep, and pia) bavoc with everything that stood in its way, Boreas piped surill aud loud — vessels, and whistled sharply aro CARTY ing wey Ling before him, “Tho laborers at work upon the docks were often obliged to jmp about ina very lively manner, aod were observed to resort to the good old custom of Mapping their hands, and at times (hey were bent almost double hey trotted up hud down = plors endeavoring Ww keep their blood in ¢ircula- tton. The sutrriNa. Early in the morning large fields of ico floated down the North river and couccd considerable damage and yan-e tothe shipping tm the bay, compeiting most of the vessels that. were riding at anchor to slip thoir cables and move to some safer spot, The large eo oe sifp Escort, Captsin Piitner, which arrived at this port last Saturday from Liverpoo!, and which was anchored off the Bottory fo order to land her core at Castle Garden, was not se furtunate as other vessel ia mov ng in time (o avoid the fee, and sustained serious damage. The tec came down with the tide and cut the Loser LW htnird ey #0 28 Boyd her b Few iy. ° pumps could not keep fres, and my Flitner war obliged to hoist a of distress, ‘hich s00n brought auanbe: of thgete the ship from sinking in the chauael, where ahe would have obal were orfered to tow her " , fats between Her Joe's ond Eilip island’, where sbe now les, safe from further mishaps of tha kind, As soon ar they lighten her of aome of ber encgo i peer by rays board of the vessel, when she will be brought ta the city pe tepaire ant discharge the remo nder of ber f THE rreRs, Several of the piers extending out into the North fiver lat some of their spties carried away, and sus. tained other but pot serious damage. » rs, FEE sovrm waoogtrs guuty, fo the iniabitaate th Brooklyn who take the Hamilton ferry for we would briefly give Donglan Serre Don't '--at lenet ‘anring the Prowanee ot the prosent gevere weather. There ix at east a quarter of a mile of ice to traverse on cither sound ike that of @ monster coffee mill, ten to one that the man who enters the avonne ferry at eleven A. M. does York sie before one o'ciock A. M. will see and schooners bei « jee, with towboats vainly tugging in extreate them, and he will indeed be fortunate i boat in which he ! nek ways across the ol by pod it P siowly yore ie Leg poe on. “ unk’ goes t aga nat the landing etage, nae iedeed =, — a stand ; ing thelr equilibrium Altogether, Brooklyn South ferry is a rnost undes:table place of resort whem the ther mometer stands at seven degrecs below nero. THR STATEN ISLAND PERRYROATS. The ferryboats piying to Staten Island were comp: led to Keep ay steam ail Sunday wight, lest the intense frost should have the effect of ng with the working of eI i gFe 2? the machinery, This is very singuisr, such an instance believe, beon Of he effect of the ovoid not having, we previously oxporienced on those ferryboata, A WOMAN FROZEN TO DEATH IN Nor wap the Collin resterday b on the body of Ann Uskley, & woman who was fi dead. The teatimony showed that the deceased lived with and took care of Margaret Geary, who is blind, They tay down in a bed on the floor on Sanday night, Dat the deceased had no covering over her. During the night she arove and did not otars to bed again. Yesterday morning Ann was fi ing dead on the floor, near the outer door, ber bedy ing fromen sift. A verdict of death by freezrog was returned by the jury. et was forty years of oge, anda native of Ire. A DRIVER NEARLY FROZEN. John Garra, driver of coacu 388, was found first street, near Bighth avenue, about balf.past o'clock yesterday morning, by officer #m'th, of the Twon- tith precinet, nearly overcome by the extreme jarre aad his coach and horses were taker to use He subsequently recovered, amd was removed to the stable of hiv employer, togecbor with the team. PAIRONERS PARTIALLY FROZEN, PR 4-2] f.. = or agg wo and 7 reuterdag, Morning wore found to be ‘he arm# of one man were betly frowbit the (lingers of both hands froet! bends and feet more or less frozen. the sufferers to tcp Correction, by Whom they Hosy.ta for reatmems, THE VFRRYBOATS BELOW TERO. One word sith fou tt Oa ela peetiond 7 by ss e+ cle To Oroting the roath of Atinatic y to Mrooklyn thin pan to hermaneter w cero | found thé tadier’ cabin a “cold we * Mo use a homely etprwmiot. The company warm (hoi bowls by eam, apd ow & mild day, euch deys Fi : 3 | ‘ af z ructed tie passage of other vessels, the tare. Lowyrtz, Jan, 8—8 A, M.—The weather here is colder than ever known before, The thermometer is down to twenty cight degrees below zoro. Unica, Jan, 8—$ A. M.—Tho mercury is almost freon. ing here; the thermometer marks thirty-ono degrees below zero. Borraro, Jan. 8—8 A. M.—Weathor clear and cold. ‘Wind northeast. Thermomoter at zero, Sunset—Weathor mod rating, Thermom ter cleven degrees above zero, | Canwen, Jan, $10 A. M.—Thérmomoter twenty-six | degrees below zero. Most fearfully cold. | Teor, Jan, B—# A, M.—Woathor clear, Thermometer twenty degress below zero. Atnany, Jan, §—8 A. M.—Wind uorth ; blowing tightly, | Weather clear. Thermometor fifteen degrees below zero. Tovrmineviute, Staton Island, Jan. 8—8 A, M.—Tho | weather here is ba wa 4 cold. Frostbitton cara and noses are plenty. The thermomoter stands at fourteen | degree below zero. The ice crop promises to be aa | abundant one, Ocne anvra, Jon. 8, sanset,—Wind north, Thermo~ | motor six degrees below zero, New Jerseys Mr Wm. A. Whitehead, execrtive agent of the New Joreey Railroad Company, Who has kept a record of the woatheor for many yoary, report’ that Sunday nish, wae the coldest since aha In Nowark at seven o'clock yoa- b nive Merwatnrond the thormoioter stood twelve and three- fourt| below aero, The only weather roact fog this since 1847 wae in January, 1857, whea the thermomoter stood at twelve, and in Ji iD 1559, when the thermometer stood st twelve half degroea bo low zero, NARROW ESCAPE FROM FREEZING TO DEATH, On Sunday night ao intoxicated man, mily & German, was found lying on the Kidowalk tn Jersey Cth in wn insonsible condit.on (rom the effects of drin| ava the cold. Ho was convoyed to the station wi he recetved every possible attention from Dr, Hadden and the police, bit up to leat night he bad not retarn to ousness, although considerably improved, and it i thought he will recover, Rurameraroat, Jan. &.—The weather here ts bitterly cold, The thermornetor st this hour (eight A.M.) stants al twelve dogres below oro. Tho river is frozen over. Pen Pusaverenta, Jan. 8 was the cotdeet over known hore. The Dolawars is loved up below and above the city, and all the ferrybouts but one aro frozen fast in thoir docks, The mereory ta West Philadetp' fell to vighteen degre 4 balow toro, ant ot Chesta: to fourteen dogrees below, The tt ten dcrees below sere only five ¢ ¢ weather w day is clear, with # strong nortty 7y . Baurmaoem, Jan, 8-8 A. M. Weather clear, Wind northwest. Thermunetor two and a Dall degrees below ‘BeTO, District of Cotumbia. Wasutsaron, Jan, &—4 A. M.-—Wonther clear Ther. mometer one degree below zero, Ounset ~The ther- motmeter stands at sixteen de ree above rere, Massachusetts, howroy, Jan. Amt A. M.~WWind northwest. Weather lear. ater ton degrees below zero, Sanset Wind northwest ‘Thormoneter eeven dogrese bere zero. The harbor js being rapidiy covers’ with ten, Srncwevixt, Jan. 88 A.M. Thermometer cleren do green bolow zero, Wind northeest, Weather cient. Sun. | wot Weather clear, Wind fresh from the oorthwort Thermyuter #ix degrees alaye #70. New Kevronn, Jan. 6, ranset.-Thermometor five de- grees above zero, Wind northeast, € eothoat. Hanrronn, Jan. §—4 A.M —Weather clear, meter sixteen degrees below zero. New Hoves, Jan. $, sunret.—Thermometer eight de grees above zero. Weather clear, New Berra, Jan. #4 A.M. Weather clear. Ther. mometer twenty degrees below nero, Thertao- 4 5, 1868. Profemsor Cam Provipesce, Jui . meteorological ohmery ations on College Heli in y cover a period of thirty-four years, report: the thermom eter at seventeen below zero on Bonday night two degrees lower ever before rocorted. At ten o'clock this morning the thermometer rtood at ten do five degrees above zere gree below, at sunet degress above and ateleven o'clock wo-bight ten elondy Maine. Porriasp, Jao. 4-4 A. M —Thermomeior eight de below vero, Wind north and light. Weather clear. lanset.— Wind north. Thermometer twenty-five de grees below wero. Peavast, Jan, 9, 1866 —Sinee the unprecedented cold term of |, 18ST, the weather has pot bee bo ue: ‘vere in thee section of Meine aa during the lent (ew dnys, Yesterday the thermometer indicated twenty degre below zero in this city. Basoon, Jan, $.—The thermometer stood at thirty de grees beluw zor. Basoon, Me., Jan. %, eonset.—Wind north Westher . Thermometer «ix degress above zero. Coram, Jon. 6-7 Po M.—Wiod northwest. Weather fresh and clear. Thermometer at zero. Sxownwiax, Jan. §, sanset.—Weather old Wind north. Yesterday the thermomet«r stood tv oo ty four doetoes below Morning ei \een degrees below, and this evening it stands ten degrops above coro Vermont. Beeurveroy, Jan. §—6 A. M.— Weather ovld and clear Thermometer twelve below rere, Bumeet Cloudy and calm, Thermometer eight degree below ‘wero. Mowvrreusn, Jam. §, sunset. Clear. Thermometer four degrees below nero, St. Jomecarey, Jom 8, eanset,—Clear ‘ind north Thermometer teu degrees beiaw aero " New Ha: ire. Lervturtos, Jan. &, sunset, — grees below zero. Coscoun, Jan. §, sunset.--Thermometer tem degrees above rere. Obie, Cunee. Jan 4%, sanset.Thermomri’ Ofteew de wees sere og oar ee Wied southeast. waneet Weather clear and cold. Thermometer Ofieen degrees above very eunse: —Cleer Wind watheart reee shore fer Reports {fen Various points ow the railroads lading wath aad wot [ Gre Ww the as. wo have had the past’ month, their cabins are com: | say the weather ia elear, with reporter by W. Norton, of No. 40 | The sky # | YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1666. ° eastern and south el raugit zero tiga rlhoy irty e. Zanvavi Jan, 8, sunset.—Thermomotor eighteen dogrocs above sero. ‘ —— Indiana. Inpranarorss, Jan. 8, sunset.—Clear; thermometer ten degrees above zero. % i palgae- Dernorr, Jan. 8—6 P. M.—Thermometer at sunset five above, Weather cloar and beautifal. No wind. Honow, Jan. 8—6 P. M.—Weather clear and cold. ‘Th rmometer ten degrees abov: Sr. Cram, Jan, §—6 P. M.—Weathor elear and eold. Thormomoter ten degrees above. Eut Sacinaw, Jan. $6 P. M.—Thermometer nine~ teen degreva above zero. Fours, Jan. %, sunset.—Thermometer seven degrees 0. Graxp Havay, Jan, 8-6 P. M—Tho weather ts ex- Seomeely nei. ‘The wind i® very light trom the south- east. 6 sky is cloudless. Guann Rarivs, Jan. 8—6 P, M.—The sky is clear, with a light breeze trom the east. Thermometer fifteen de- Brves above at sunset. Owasso, Jan, 8—6 P. M.—Weather clear and still. Thermometer vighteen degrees above zero. Lansing, Jan. P. M—Thermometor twelve degrees above uero. Ayn Aen, ie. S sunset.—At seven o'clock this morning the er WAS KIX below gore, with a sharp, dry wind from the northeast. ‘The baro- was higher than ever before observed here, The eter at sunset indicated eight degrees above gero. The weather is moderating. Jacxson, Jan. 8-6 P. M.—Thermometer at sunset nine ‘above zero. Wind nearly north. Woather clear. ALAM Jan. 8—6 a etme clear; wind mn De Bolow xoro at Sunset. Has stood at seven and nine dui ‘Nites, Jan. 8—6 P. M.—Woatver clear Mometer at sunset ton degrees above. we at Virginia. Wrertixo, Jan. junset,—Weathor extremely cold. Navigation ‘has saspended on account of the ice. Thermometer Aftoon degrees above sora, nia, Ricumoyn, January bi mercury ia eight dogress below freozing point to-night. In the vicinity of Drary’s Buf, floating blocks of ice are piled one above another, stopped by obstructions in the river near that place, and bavigation is considered dangerous at presont, Perennurc, Jay, §.—At sunrise the thermometor stood two degrees below rero, and at noon ten degr'es above. The thermometer at suuset stood throo degrees below zero, Weather clear aud windy. The Appo mattox river was frozen over last night and the skating 48 good, Foutnes Moxxor, bitoriy cold. 7! The night. The Jamos 8—6 P. M.—Tho weathor ir northeast blow last B over lait night. Jat wi North Carolina, ° Winery, January 8, Sinset,—Tho weather is very cold and clear, The thermometer Is twelve degrees above #10 to-night. Kentucky. Lovisvits, Jan, 8-6 P. M.—Thermomoter this morn- ing (en dogrees above zero; in. tho country it was srota two to aix degreos above, Weather moderatug this ovening. Tennesseo. Maenvirre, Jan. §:—Weathor cloar. thirty degrees above Foro. Cuatanooga, Jan, 8,—Weather clear and pleasant, ta- ther cool and windy. Thermometer is a atrong wind Wea Hontavitin, Jan, 8—Sunset, —Ther from the uorth, It is freezing hard in the shade, ther clear. © a Mowrnaar, Jan, 8—8 A M.—Woather cloar, Wind northwost, Thermometer twenty-one decroos below zero. Sunset—Weather milder, Thermomoter at zero. Ortawa, Jan. 6—3 A. M.—Thormometer thirty.oue degrees below zero—the lowest ever known bere Tho ean aro thawing themselves out with ‘bot whis- oy.” Now Brunswio' Sr. Joux, Jan, 8, sunsot.—Weathor clear; wind aorth. ‘Thermomovor at zero. Nova Seot Hatsvax, Jan. &—8 A. M.—Wind north and blowing froahly. Weather hazy. Thoriaomotor five dogro s bolow zero, Hunset—Wind northeast, Woathor frosh and clear. Theromoter at zoro, THE SKATING SEASON. “Tt nover rains but it pours,” and certainly i never j freenes but it freenes, If anybody doubts the truth of : {bis logicn! conclusion let them con tho premises: —‘The det day for thirty-five years,” Fabrenhelt bowled { 81; a tow thermometer to be invented at once; Coati- | gtade's hundred stops nowhere, Surely the Fonlans | bave taken Canada and changed our temperature ‘to that of the “ Btucnows."" O'Mahony's hot blood required cooling—but, the deuce take it, bo should not freeze the 1feblood of his cooler brethren. | Cbrtainly aot Tho “Hall w up.” What» magic there fa in this announcement, and what activity is conse. | quent upon its being publicly kn The Heeaw's { prophesy has of conrse boon verified, and skatag was inaugurated at the Park yesterday, THE PARK LAKES. For those not living in tho neighborhood of the Park the flags flying on the city railroad care pisinly denote ‘ {6 an expectant public the fact of there being skating on ‘ the Park at tat, Then there waae hurry and « rush, | Young America drow ita skates from secret pisces ! and saltiod forts eager for the prey. Ladies became { Mgbted. Arthur bad promod to call for Bmily + were the ball up, and sho, in a flutter of ef. i citotnont, watched at the window iattioe for bis coming, Bho pielured to borself tho pleasure of rkinming the elassy mirror, onctroled by lis arm, e trust d implicitly ia, and the murmurings of show voice in her ear oven now Hho fancied ahe heard. But she was doomed (o divappointment, It waa coli—thers wag bo questioning so palpablo « | tact,-and Arthur cared not to carry. affection | que eo far m3 ten degrees below xero. Who cowl expect lim? The Park lakes were of conne | froven, aud frozen bard, QA ne iabet of hardy individa | Old Ptagers, ventured np so far, aud bravely fongh against old Boreas. on the leo, only to come olf second best, dhere are foar lakes open at the Park for sk sting Tae LOWER Laxn. This lake, called the “Ladien’ Lake," ia piiaated at Fifty.winth etreet, betweon Fifth and Sixth avenues. It | te tea aeree in extent, and affords plenty of | for the delectation all comers This was tho mort skated on yowrrday, because, probably, the { neareet to town, There were probably ix thousand { skaters altocéther at diferent time) on this lake, bat | never more than ue thousand mt a ti cold | breeze blowing along ite copes, eames was fearful! ' cutiins, and the sleds ou its hawks wore far more ero: | ad thaw the Jake iteoil, THe UPPER LAKE. Tike laige in wit uated at the foot of the Mall, is treaty. | three a res in extent, and is aenally the favorite skating ground of the Park vidtents Thiy & the lake pon which the prone and other qoute birds were wont to “@aport themselves, and on whose surface the tiny gow dolow, with their snow white awnings, used to skin hinge NOW Kequired to oo “Thomson's Searona’ pion, and whats deveription 2 corre t one would ba. There were but (ow | persons on this lake yesterday and these few staid but ® skort time upon the The surface of thin i beantitul to look om. ~Mvery care har taken by the Commiasoners to have the ice in me good 8 condition as | ond cortainty in this case their tabo | repaid. ‘The ies te the clearest | the lake being plainly vleible covering. The skate departtnent fer., around thts take are comfor THE MANHATTAN VEL e. This lake i# the farthest off, wretohing from 104th to 110th street It ls opened for the fret ine thin year, aud nithough few New Yorkers will venture so far awe from grea, the pkaters living in the vielnity will ! | douttlewr fully appreciate the boom granted to them by | the Fer Commisoners oa s? SEVENTY PIFTH STREET LARS Thi lake haw aleo beem first time thin pensom, having sively by the B sk yod to the public for the formerly weed «res Clab Near th bint hart Mad to th ren! for exercise on vledy | Hie slippory wes wil atard them 8 vant fund of samvse mer THe PARE AT Nrowr, thoorh not to any greet extent. wae cont: Bei la late hour last th ee | sit bondped the fall. ‘The take gut inwterne, but Comminatowers to have altating after dark \ comary for thew, oa heretofore, to enptoy ealea cot reteetors, At tem o'clock the cold here was we, and it required consider aly theters to preecete thelr qport Frere perem for a somewhat milder stmoephere, which a chy Prnained (Lem to day | THe FIPTH AVENUE FOND, Muon Oneman’s pont we of fuarveen inches, Th meriay freton to » deyt id for hie 146 Yan rched 0p Dipe tonpaed their ey ee eee Me Emcee, reiroeh inept department, mines tet dr abiver.ng Viator wth commendabie will: bo) of the moat eaters dared Ww venture upow tne s Major intends, shoald the westher be muilder, hie ad corel cutter part orate We conderte | of atin rete whi ye Charecvermed these beretotore THE WEe Yorn e@arreo Chee This «led, whieh lx in er emt peepee wieity of New York, bas, Uhevush the ty the hina. ' which is in their minds, Many of MoMillan—aro perfect the art of skating, and their fal motions ‘ney excite the iration of al! EXORLSIOR POND. The fine run of busimeas done on Sunday by the pro- this pond seemed to console them for the ling off of yesterday, which cannot be attributed to any cause but that of the weather. A large corps of sweepers and cleaners were busily engaged through the day the pond for it patrons on the first favorable day, The Irish good humor dis- Played so prominently ia the faces aad mannors Er tho propristors. of this have gained for it « host of patrons, who will not tw continue the bestowal of their favors upon them. The ice is in nice condition, ‘and should to-day be favorable there will be @ rush and a bustle upon its surface. THR HARLEM LAKES. ‘The flat lands in the neighborhood of Harlem afford an admirable locale for the rains which fal plentifully through the spring and summer montha. This fact, how- ‘ever je during the warmer season, in conse- quence of the effiuvia generated by the nt water, is luctive of satincnotion bo the Jere sleators uring the ter. Throughout the latter part of last week tho urchins played “hookey" from school and infested the ponds, aliding or skating according to the facilitiermfforded them by indulgent parents, and it is probable that their health ls more improved by the ex- ercise than by the declension of jie, Aare, hoc, or the learn- ing of syntax in acold-indacing sohoolroom, The cold Up among the “hundred’* strects was ‘pass Hogg to use a mild expression; notwi ingy large numbers indulged'in their favorite pastime. THE WANLRM AKATING OLUB. This club, of which Mr, ©. Hunter t# President, and which numbers about one hundred members, bas per ApS as carefully kept and commodious apt ae any in the neighborhood of Now York. It is situated on the corner of 121st street and First avonue, and effords to the haut fon of Harlom and its vioinity a pleasurable place of resort. Each day and.evening seen it peopled by interssted skaters, who, in deiance of wind and weather, indulge their ivities. Tho Park is opiy two kundred and fifty fect aquare, but every require ment of the skater ia antic!pated. It has its rofrosh. ment saloon, stove-heated waiting roour, dag, ball, Ac. , and for the Hariemites is a wmail Fifth avenue pond, SKATING IN BROOKLYN ‘Tho soverity of the weathor yesterday deterred many from visiting the @kating pouds, yot there wore a fow vonturesome na who attompted to enjoy the exbi- larating aport; but -hoy ealy “tried it on’ for short pe- riods, and wero glad to got Under (he infizonce of a warm stove and something to warm onovelf internally. Tho ponds are all in excellent order, the ie thick and , and when tho weather moderates a little good inay be antioipaced ‘Tonight thore Is to be a grand dross carnl ny torchlicut procession oa the Washington Skating Pot Blar skaters will honor the occasion and a band of music will enlivemthe seono, SKATING IN NEW JERSRY. Communipaw cove, between Jersey City and the troat!o work of the Northorn Raiiroad of New Jerey, embracing several hundred acres, ts frozen over with solid ico, and affords « flay opportunity to skaters who may desire a plenty of sea room. THY NEW YORK CLU SKATE, Messrs Barney & erry, of Springfeld, Mage, havo ast manafartured, on a design furn shed by Mr. MoMil- jan, an artich* to bo known as tho New York Chub skate, While there \4 no particular wovelty int) that the wearer can dixpense with atraps, clamp berg vibe} tuted therefir, tio principal advantage elaimed or tho skate fa, that being cut out of solid stool, and put together by means of scrows, any part of the okuve can be used tn repairing another, with litte or ne lows of time, The high price of this article, wall, houswvor, lace it beyond the resch of a majority Of thy skating raternity, who will thu. bo debarrod from apptectating the value of the patent At the Egyptian Hall, “London, Mr. and Mra. Howard Pau! have supplemented thelr attract yuna by a dramatic Production, called Rippios on tho Lake, of lrowa composition, Mr. and Mra Dove, a newly married couple, near London, are represented, Mr Dovo, assum. ing joalousy, aud ra about the house im mock tragedy, wish the view of curing bis young wife of ao Aifecled ennut and lasaitude, springing from novel read: jag and want of exercise, Mr. and Mra, Paul play io Qe ploce, which, although simpi9 sm tts construction, t# natural and popular MP Lion Empavilie is the titio of snow two met comedy brought out at Gymnase Dramatique, Para, It de- picts the last chapter in the domestic butory of aa old bachelor long suljugated to the yoko of his housekeeper, Afver she bad gained » complete oiastery over him, as ebe imagines, he acts the jon, sad in» grand effort at Iiberation marries lis cook. At the Variction theatre, Paris, they havea new yan deville, in one aot, eniitied Madame Maclou, whieh t followed by a now play, called L'Homme gus Manque le Coche, which embraces, amidst much fun, the retarn from America of Edmond, a young lover, ith « fortune of five hundred thousand france, earned to the land of Liberty, Miming a stage coach loses Lim the chance of marrying his old dame, Clomeatine Kail ag im this be gives bis hand and fortuno tom young gir! who had for worly worked in ber (Clamentine's) confectionery #bop. ‘The play onlled Honriotta Maresche! has bec withdrawa from the boards of ths Theatre Francais, Parts, by enter of tho aatbortiin, 4 ars hls peers ange M. Rowviors, ths decaaasd actor, i# to have a mond. mont in Paris, It sto bo raved by satsoription. Tho directory of the Crystal Falace, London, hare engaged the services of Siguor Ethardo, en Italian, known a# the spiral ascensioniat, to perform at the palce durcg the Christmas season Signor Kibardo has boom making a Wwur of Italy, aad exlibited recently in Florehoe before the King fe is quive foung. One of bi* cymuastic feats consists tn ascending a spiral eotumo, Gfty feet bigh, on a giobe, and descendingarkwards, Mr, Benjow Yoleman writes to « London journal, ia reply to a2 announcement made tn ite columns: —“The Davenport are aot ‘coming bark to the arme of Mr, & 1 at is @o way connected with therm, and over Lave been.’ The new plece called The Master of Ravenswoot was to be produced at the Lyceum theatte, Leadon, Decem ‘bor 7. The Vorgola theatre, Florence, was cloud December 13 to repo the day deforo Christions {Day, when le Grain «as Wo sucooed Noochetti wm the leading danacuir, Bow Wott! was overwhe' with bouquets, FibLims, poelry and wweety om Lhe cccaMon Of her benett King Victor Emaouel aout hee, got thrown om the stage, ery enaid eaddic horee The prologue and epilaras which accompany the last Of three presentations of the Latin play at Westminster, Eng, known s# the Wortmineter pinay, were duly de livered Vale weason, but the pabicetion way delayed on acoownt Of the death of the King of Betgiuwn fhe tent is now printed. The points of the prologue aré thet 1808 wos the eight hundredth annisersry of (be dedicn tion of the Abbey, and that Westminster wo! ae boat vy death Lora Combermere ond Pr Williamson, tot boasts song its living alemn) the Prime Minteer of Eng land and the Archtishep of Canterbury, Them topics ami the drying up of the Deaw's vert pomp, which the speaker attcibutes Wo the Loedon Metrupolitan Mail way cuttings, 1) this portion. The epilogue lx comic, amd han some allusions to the text of the Trimwimenes—the play of this year Lextonions te retornefte the new {(Kngliah) Parliament, and (bermides engage Bycophouls to tently him how to make bis maiden speech Btestnnws is private seretary to the new MP, and the epilogue ends with an appeal to the optuion of the bows," wherein the ayes have it The Correctional Court of Police of Paris haw pro nounred Judgment in the care of an action broogbt by Mile erger, the actrom, against MM de Villemer nt and Jourin (of the Pigars) and MM. Mutherter and anomwehi (of the Nord) for defamation MM de Ville mevent and Mulbecher being merely perante of the }rer ie, MM. Jowvip and Branch) a the writers uf the articles, were condemned, the former to 1,000, Ome amd the later es 1000, both to pay conte 1 ait thet the Ragieh government wients to re form the comstitation of the Hritish Mowwm by set of Portianent Bir Kdmend Weed, Bir Preorts Manttond, Bir Frederick Maddow, Mr. Winter Jones, Mr Newton and Others are Spoken of an likely ty mecered Mr Pe TEE (o khe d.ceetorsbip Of the imetiterion Acyrnasrm on a very tere ty ahd te erected in Liverpont, the corporation of the town siding the undertaking The Liveryoot Loologicst Gardens property has be o | 201 to 8 comm pany for build’ wg prrpon An fron Chester, with a hotel attached te befog oom Mirected in Mydmey, Austretia, to be of Md Held of Nokittks The > be one hundred and Mty feet lone, fort ahd Uwemiy three foes width thirty foot, There wil] be » drew eivete, etallened pit, and 8 handsome portion entrance All the @anvtntiows Shed seepery are to be mate fo My dney and (ten town With the bullding The hotel ie to be Mite with every convenionte, incieding bathrooms, and #7) have Acseriam bars, twenty by Ofeen teat, The Mice Kapedision. To THE BOITOR OF THE WERALD Wee Vous, Jeo in ey Commenication om the Misr expedition, io (be morning « Mrrace, | em meade to wey tha: (he erped’ weder Cannioa started from Lipantie ant’ tm tive som wort it, were 180, ROM KO LaUui. ( magn, whieh has delayoa days. lwave, and the Siumle ber was expoctod, t only navigable prs? ia the river up, owing to the grow@nding Of aship pear ™® The pisce was the Rui Nomeosa's at once credited the Oriental Company departure was Post offtce authorities pat off Port Canning shares, cach valued at £100 at ran up rapidly on the in apite of tug steamers and a surveying brig sent to look for another channel, a ship drawing moro ous and in due course. The Peniasular and Octental Company's agent publishos an ind bial the marine authorities, and they join the chewws, though: thoy ought, aa the responsible parties, 1o have been ab. ‘once has never been any change in on as usual, the Port Canning shares have retrned te their normal stato of thirty pounds ready at hall past o ™ ‘ent. smd YOVEMENT IN LTH OF GENERAL Fonrams Mownox, Jan, 6—4 P. ‘The a tamer Empire City, from Key Wow, errived hore to-dy ‘¥; With the Second United States (colored) im- fantry, for Washington. General & 2t’s health was improving A reception was oxteuded, Bim on New Year's, Novel sn! ing Hoax at Caleutta, [Calcutta (Noy, 1 1) ot of London Times} Caloutta has bec | the vietim of @ stock Jobbing hoax, the departure of the mail for four outward bound Mooltan was about te ith the mathe of the 10th of Octe- arwouncement was that the had silted Just ant afitiab chanel, where the mat! steamer grounded. Tho maria authorities atem@nt, the Peninsular an@ ertiont that the Mooltan’s poned@, and the he mail. Meanwhile lately indefinitely Mh to £50 promium, the Simla laprwalf followed, pant letter, the Post the truth. It turns out thet thore the chanuel, teaiic yous je to declare mium, and the pre rail goes four days after the propor time. Hat aa the hoax is—and tho public sot tho report down to such @ cause—it has shown how littie faith can be in the rmanently free navigation of the Hoog! va and the importance of using other channels like the Mutlah oata- ary, to which there is @ guarantoed railway NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. Our city subscribers will confer « favur by reporting: suy of our city carriers who overcharge for the Huna.e. Country subser.hers to the New Youre Hémaro are re- quested (o vomit their mbscriptions, whenever practi. cablo, by Post Office Orders It to the safest mode of transmitting money by mail Advortisoments should be sent to the office before nine o'cloek in the evening, MAILS FOR EUROPE. Monroe Doctrinc—Proceedings of Congee gence from the Souths erm States—The Fenian Congross—Im= portant News from Moxie Centrat America, the West Indies, déc., do. ‘The mail steamship Australasian, Captain Cooke, will leave this port on Wodnosday for Liverpoot The mails for Europe will close im this city at half past nine o'clock to-morrow morving. The Naw Youn Hukato—EKiition for Europe—will be o'clock in the morning It will contaia:—A fil report of the enthusiastic meet. tne hold at the Cooper nastivute Im Unie city to sasert the (orce and reality of the Mouros Doctrine; Interesting in- tolligence fiym the Nattonal Capital, with a report of the proceedings of Congress; The latest sccounts of the pro- gross of Restoration at the South ; A report of the Doings of the Fenian Congress in New York ; Late and important News from Mexioo, Central America and the West ladies, and accounts of all interesting events of the week. Bingle copies, in wrappers, ready for mailing, mia cots, ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE COUNTRY. Advortisowenta for the Waeacy Henato must be hanto® tm hefore ton o'clo k ovory Wednesday evening = Ite cir. culation among the enterprising mechanics, farmere, merobants, manufacturers and gentlemen throughout ae country \s tuereasing vory rapidly, Advertisements te sorted iu the Waexty Manito will thus be seen by «large portiom of the active and energetic people Of the United Bales When Th ot Will then, will the Make rank with Wim, the rie mand For tt, vast as it ts, bas vot 7 portions —Helfae: Jouraal niet Of living teopionl The de jot atiained Ma full pre- A Pest Ware » Ladies’ Paper Collars AND CUPPR ALKO GENTS, whoinaals ond retell One toting Mook free (9 the trade, with Het of prema and arswiags of ditorept A.—Meantif, the Compteston. Use GHORGE Ww. Lalkpra BLOOM OF YOUTH Th haw a@ causal. oh by drugstets everywhere. 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