The New York Herald Newspaper, November 27, 1873, Page 6

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NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, No. 618 Broad- way.—Scirvex axp Ant. DR. KAHN'S MUSEUM, No, 688 Broadway.—Screxce anv Ant. oneal ET To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. “OUR ULTIMATUM! RUPTURE OF PEACEFUL RELATIONS WITH SPAIN IMMINENT’ — LEADING ARTICLE—SixTH PaGE. AMERICA GIRDING HER LOINS FOR WAR! THE BEFORE 4 GENERAL WILL LEAVE MADRID IN CASE AL! OUR WAR SHIPS MOVING BAN WATERS! SPAIN JUSTIFIES HER BUTCHERS—SeventH Page. ADMIRAL PORTER INSPECTING THE WAR SHIPS AT THIS STATIC LATER DEVEL- OPMENTS ON THE SPANISH TROUBLES— Tarp Pace, GERMAN NAVAL THREAT OF THE BOMBARD- | MENT OF CARTAGENA! A FORCED LOAN RELURNED—SEVENTH PaGE. 5 N PROSECUTION OF THE ARCH- | OP OF POSEN—IMPORTANT GENERAL EWS—SEVENTH PaGE. SPAIN’S COLONIAL MINISTER ORDERS THE CUBAN POLITICAL GOVERNOR TO RE- | STORE THE SEQUESTERED ESTATES TO FOREIGNERS—SEVENTH Pace. FRANCE AS AN EXAMPLE TO AMERICA! TRON-HANDED CSARISM! HISTORICAL LIGHTS! WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN AND | WHAT MAY BE—Fovrta PacE. THE SLAUGHTER AT SANTIAWO! ISTIC BOLSTERS FOR BURRIEL! THE AROUSED BRITISH LION! ACTION OF SOUTHERN COLORED M EIGHTH PAGE. JOURNAL- THE SURRENDER OF THE KHIVAN RULER TO GENERAL KAUFMANN! THE INTERVIEW BETWEEN THE KHAN AND THE MUSs- COVITE COMMANDER IRISH POLITICS! HOME RU « ALL CLASSES IN Ti RIOTS AND OUTRA OF THE ISLAND—F 7TH PAGE. HOW THANKSGIVING DAY WILL BE CELE- BRATED BY THE PEOPLE, RICH AND POOR! THE SERVICES IN THE PUBLIC AND CHARITAB. ITUTIONS OF NEW YORK AND BROOK Fourtu Pao. A VALUABLE POLAR 5 RELIC! THE | BOAT MADE FR H FOR- 10 THE SMITHSONIAN LNSTITU- ENTH PAGE. CAPTAINS BUDDINGTON AND TYSON—THE LATE } MR. FL. iA MURDERER'S HOPE— | EIGHTH PAGE. BEECHER AND TILTON AND THE CON IsTS! T DROPPING OF » NAME FROM THE PLYMOUTH A SPICY DL TENTH PAGE, THE NEWARK RING TO ALLOW THEIN ACCOUNT! A BOLD DEFIANC I- NESS AND Pik Nintu Pac GUILTY OF THEFT FROM THE PEOPLE! RIGHTEOUS FINDING OF THE * AGAINST INGERSOLL ‘D FARRIN THE GRINNELL CASE SUITS—FirTH PA DECIDED! FO CINCINNATI'S INDUSTRIES AND MARKETS! THE CUBAN QUESTION DTESTS AGAINST A DUMPING BOARD— TH Pace. POPULAR SENTIMENTS UPON THE CURRENCY PROBLEM—MALEPE CE OF | A BANK PRESIDENT—ELEVENTU Pace Taiwos To Be Tuanxrut For—That See rotary Fish has been prevented by public | opinion from making an apology to Spain in | the Virginius affair; that Charles Sumner is not such a rabid anti-slavery man as not to tolerate slavery and the Spanish slave power in! Cuba; that General Grant loves peace so much as to forego war when it would re-elect him for a third term; that the republican party is likely to lose the opportunity of re- stéring its fading popularity and perpetuating | ita power through succumbing ta Spanish ar- Yogance and ignoring the cause of Cuban | freedom. a Ax Hoxest Ecno.—When, about twenty- five years ago, John 8. Thrasher, an Amori- ean citizen, was imprisoned in Cuba, some of the papers wanted to know what the goyern- ment was going to do with Spain about the j Our Ultimatum—Rupture of Peaceful Relations with Spain Immin By the time this day's Hera gets into the hands of our readers the Spanish government will either have conceded the demands made “| by the United States or the United States Minister will have left the Spanish capital, and that rupture of diplomatic rela tions which we have hitherto re- ported as imminent will have taken place. It will be seen by our special despatch from Madrid that the demands of our government, exactly as they were given in the Hxnaxp of the 21st inst., were presented to Spain in the nature of an ultimatum on the 19th inst., with a declara- tion that unless the terms were complied with within a limit of seven days direct diplomatic relations would cease by the withdrawal of our representative. Although the journals that with more or less distinctness sustain the case of the people who murdered the men of the Virginius and deprecate all earnest denunciation of the insult to our flag, as well as the journals that are supposed to be specially favored with drib- blings of cheap news from the Department of State, have railed at our despatch publishing the terms of the ultimatum—have declared that it was fabricated in this office and that it covered a multitude of manifest absurdities, yet it is now evident that the famons “five points” of our so-called ‘diplomatic memo- randum” have been in negotiation for seven days between the two govern- ments, and that the Spanish Executive, though impressed by our resolute attitude, has evidently appreciated more vividly the effect its yielding would have in Spain than the effect its refusai would have on this side the water, and has, in fact, feared its people and a crisis that would have carried it out of office more than it has apprehended the inevitable consequences of assuming as its own acts of barbarity that no necessity could palliate and an attitude of defiant injustice toward us that we, as a self-respecting Power, cannot toler- ate. Itisintimated by our correspondent that, in the refusal to accept our terms, Sefior Cas- telar is overruled by the other members of the Executive Council, and whether we take this as an indication of his sense of the justice and legal right of our position, or as a con- sequence of his opinion that Spain in her present crippled condition cannot meet the alternative, it is equally creditable to the judgment of the orator; but we shonld have expected of him that he would have resigned office rather than by remaining in the government have given the sanction of his name to a decision that he could not approve, and thereby parti- cipating in the determination that will launch his country into war on an issue in which he does not believe her cause is just and in circumstances in which he cannot imagine that she can sustain her ancient glory. With all our sympathy for this gentle- man’s endeavors in extreme difficulty, and our admiration for his enthusiastic faith in the great principles of free government that we hope may some time find the atmosphere of his country more congenial to their growth, we cannot but observe that he puts himself, if our correspondent represents him accurately— of which we have no doubt—in a position alto- gether false and in a dilemma between his political probity and his love for his country ; since, if he has decided as a patriot to plunge his country into a hopeless contest he is a poor politician, and if he has decided as a politician to hold office rather than revolt against a bad decision his patriotism is no! beyond reproach. . Since the occurrence of the event, the results of which are likely to be so momen- tous to Spain, there has been an earnest endeavor to reconcile by diplomacy the posi- tion of the two nations, but in simple trath they were radically irreconcilable. It was pub- lished yesterday with puerile inconsequence that all the difficulties were smoothed away. We were told that Spain was willing to concede all our demands if we would cousent to prove first that the Virginius was entitled to our protection, but that our government required this essential fact to be taken for granted and would not consent to examine this point till the demands were first complied with ; and that, inasmuch as this was the only difference between the nations, the trouble might be regarded as satisfactorily overcome. In other words, the fact that the United States and Spain took diametrically opposite views of the main issue, was looked upon as an_ evidence of their agreement. The circumstance that Spain could not possibly accede to our deynands, save with a condition that we could not, in any circumstances, admit, was given as an evidence that peace was secured. ‘There was a central fact, and two distinctly opposite sides to it, and Spain was on one side and we were 6n the other; therefore there was no longer any difference in our views. And all this was ostentatiously put forth as an inspired account from the State Department. It to be hoped the diplomacy was not inspired in the same way, and that it was a little more logical than this report of it, and we are disposed to be- lieve it was. It had atleast a back bone in the very distinct attitude as to our rights taken in the terms of our demand—an atti- tude that indicates the character of the Presi- dent. Those. terms were clearly laid down upon an intimation from Madrid that the government there was actuated by the most friendly spirit toward us, but reqnired to know exactly what we wanted it to do, The position, however, that we must first prove our ship before it could make reparation, was fatal to the progress of that negotiation; for the Madrid Ministry, under the necessity to accommodate their attitude to the temper of the fickle and violent public, dared not recede from the support of an act that the populace applauded, unless it could recede under cover of the pretence that inves- tigation had proved that the officers who seized the ship had committed an error; but | they could not have this investigation, be- cause for the United States to make such an inquiry asa condition precedent to Spain's making reparation would be to admit the right of, search, Even President Woolsey, whose opinions haye come prominently forward in this discussion, as they did also in the disens- | sion of the Alabama arbitration—and then, as now, on the wrong side—ought to admit that the United States cannot at this day relinquish | caso of Thrasher? Echo auswered—~'Thrash- mal its opposition to the right of search, and onght \to recognize that it is an admitted noint of international law with all the nations who have any interest in that law that such a right does not exist in the absence of war, save in one contingency, which does not apply in this case. Yet if the United States should consent to investigate the regularity of the papers of the Virginius before reparation is made, this would involve the notion that the Spaniards have a right to go behind the ordinary docu- ments that establish aship’s character, for these they have already seen in this case, and it would assume as legitimate and necessary the fact of her seizure for the sake of search. It would, therefore, concede to them a right for the exercise of which against us we fought England. But, upon the failure of the negotiations at Madrid, it was taken up in Washington, for what could not be done by Sickles and Cas- telar it was hoped might be done by Mr. Fish and Admiral Polo. But as what may be done here cannot well reach a satisfactory conclu- sion without a ratification at Madrid, and as it must there meet the same difficulties which caused the failure of the other negotiation, wo cannot be sanguine of the result, though at the last moment there is a promising report of it; but our hopes of success in this quarter would naturally be qualified by a want of faith in Mr. Fish’s stamina, which we share with Thanksgiving Day. It is Thanksgiving Day—tho appointed day for the people of the city, the State and of the United States, ‘for renewed thanksgiving and acknowledgment to the Almighty Ruler of the universe of the unnumbered mercies which He has bestowed upon us.” The insti- tution was first proclaimed in the constitution given to the children of Israel by their divinely appointed leader and teacher, Moses. It was brought over to Plymouth Rock by the Puritans of the Mayflower, from whom it be- came firmly rooted in New England. It was, down to our late civil war, limited to the New England States and a few others of the North; for south of Mason and Dixon’s line and in all the slave States it was studiously avoided as an invention of the Yankee abolitionist, be- tween whom and the ‘Southern slaveholder there could be no fraternization in thanks- giving. It was reserved for President Lincoln to enlarge the New England Thanksgiving Day to the dignity of a national festival ‘with all the modern improvements ;"’ and, as thus established, a day of family reunions, social enjoyments and acts of charity to the poor, the destitute and the suffering, it is, we hope, through the length and breadth of the land, destined to be transmitted from generation to generation for the whole country, and which naturally sug-, thousand years. gests the apprehension that this gentleman, finding himself atthe last moment called upon to determine an issue involving war, would, in ® mistaken spirit of humanity, so modify our demands as to sacrifice our position. If it should be reported, therefore, that Ad- mitral Polo and Mr. Fish have overcome all the difficulties, we shall suspect their settle- ment till we learn the detail Mr. Fish, we know, hasalready agreed to waive the demand for the punishment of Burriel and others, on the ground that they acted under orders, and in for them and paying reparation the ship and indemnity; a fertile fancy to supply reasons for relinquish- ing our case altogether. progress. Mr. Fish would also very probably the ship and consent to send for her gnd re. upon the maintenance of the demand made, slavery in Cuba is an almost insurmountable not yield. This is General Grant’s require- ment as a guarantee against future outrages in antee whose relation to, the subject might be more immediately obvious, though we would prefer any settlement established on a satisfactory basis the future relations of the island of Cuba to this country, we must admit that the securing this point consequence of war is the loss of the island ot Cuba, and that they have weighed that loss to their country against the loss of the govern- venture the chance of the former; and if this this negotiation we expect to be saved by given one more title to the gratitude of the people. The Jay Cooke Bankruptcy Case. Jay Cooke has been making a desperate effort to prevent a formal and legal declara- tion of bankruptcy, knows he is a bankrupt. friends who bav his liberality, including a great portion of the press of Philadelphia and a little army of Bohemians attached to it, have been equally earnest to prevent a receiver being appointed in bankruptcy over the estate, books and secrets of the Cooke firm. It has been said, And a host of | though we do not pretend to vouch for the truth of the statement, that some damaging revelations might come out regarding sub sidies and favors to the press of Phila- delphia and Peunsylvania. But it appears from the latest news that a declaration of bankruptcy cannot be fonght off by inter- ested parties, powerful as they may be. The case is too plain. United States District Court, after hearing the petitions for an adjudication in bankruptcy in the case of Jay Cooke & Co., has granted the prayer and appointed Mr. J. Gillingham Fell a receiver. Now let the public have a full exposure of the ways and means used by this firm to puff its doubtful schemes and to prop up its credit. Yes, let all the witnesses be ex- amined, as well as the books, and, if we are rightly informed, some prominent men will squirm under the investigation, We have commenced an era of severe justice upon offenders in high places, as, for example, in the case of Tweed, and it should extend to the guilty of all political parties. Tne Arcanisnop or Posen aNd Tur Pros. stan GovernmEN?.—From Berlin we learn that the Archbishop of Posen, Lidochowski, has been condemned to two years’ imprison- ment and an additional fine of five million four hundred thousand thalers. It was only yesterday we learned that the resi dence of the Archbishop was entered by the officials of the Prussian govern ment, and that his furniture was seized. The Archbishop does not show any signs of yield- ing. Why should he? Is not Prussia making the Church? ‘Will not the Archbishop be the more beloved the more he is persecuted ? It really does seem as if the Prussian govern- ment were going 4 little too far in its efforts to compel obedience from the Church, In the Prussian dominions proper, in Prussian Poland particularly, the Catholic Church is subjected to persecution; and persecution cannot but defeat the ends of government aud beuefit the Churcl. An applied to the | Church the “blogd and iron” policy will not do, ivin, in this samestyle it would not be difficult for } prayers for the cessation o! iooaf We are not, reas- | with us, stred, therefore, by this point in Mr. Fish’s | on the 14th of October last, has been in Jadge Cadwallader, in the | The President in his proclamation recom- mending the 27th of November for this year's Thanksgiving Day, speaking of the country at large, says that the year which is passing away has been marked by abundant harvests ; that, with local exceptions, health has been among the blessings enjoyed; that tranquillity at home and peace with other nations have prevailed; that’ industry is regaining its merited recognition and rewards ; that gradu- ally the nation is recovering from the linger- ing results of a dreadful civil strife, and that that the government would make proper | for these and all the other mercies vouch- surrendering | safed us as a people it becomes us to be grate- ful, and with onr t to unite in and tempo- The general state of things set forth rary suffering. as thus officially some important particulars materially changed soften the great first point of the surrender of | since that day. The cholera and the yellow fever, which in the cities of Shreveport and ceive her in Spanish waters; buthere, it is be | Memphis, and in many other communities in lieved, the President is resolute in insisting | the Southwest, have left such fearful evidences of their deadly ravages, have wholly disap- without limitation or restriction. Itis certain, | pearcd. On the other hand, from the finan- too, that the demand for the abolition of | cial pressure which, beginning with a few great failures in New York, has extended over obstacle, and this is a point, we trust, on | the whole country, thousands of our industrial which it will be found that the President will} classes, East and West, have been thrown out of employment. For large numbers of these unfortunates, with all that can be done in the Cuba; and though we would prefer @ guar-'| charities of the day, there will be no Thanks- giving dinner. And, again, our late universal relations of peace with foreign Powers have’ that went | been rudely disturbed by provocations and to the bottom of the whole subject and | preparations for war, and we know not what will be the consequences. Nevertheless, in ous abundant harvests and substantial ele- ments of prosperity, and in our inexhaustible will be an important step taken in that direo- | resources for peace or war, we have abundant tion. It is tolerably clear to us that the | causes for especial gratitude to the Almighty politicians in Madrid have made up their | Ruler of the universe on this appointed day minds that the worst that can happen as a | for thanksgiving. We are gratified to note the general prepara- tions and arrangements which have been made by public officers and private citizens for a ment to themselves, and have determined to | Thanksgiving dinner to the poor and the destitute of this densely peopled metropolis; be their temper it is clear that we cannot have | we are gratified that these arrangements ex- peace without such a limitation of our de-/| tend not only to our charitable institutions mands as would deprive their acceptance of | and our prisons, but to the naked and the all value, and from such a shameful close to | hungry, the sick and the despairing, in our streets and pestilential holes and corners. General Grant, whose ready appreciation of | And here isa field of duty for our churches the necessities of this case and his active sym- | this day, in which it will be more in ac- pathy with the national will, as well as his | cordance with their Divine Master's examples earnest energy in calling for reparation, have | to labor faithfully than to preach or attend the preaching of long sermons from morning till night. It is a great thing that our national Thanksgiving has assumed this beautifulshape of universal active sympathy for our suffering fellow men; for it is thus calculated to prove a though all the world bond of fellowship and harmony between elasses, sects, parties, races, communities, e basked in the sunshine of | St#tes and sections, stronger than the bands of iron or any merely material interests which bind these elements to the Union. The Ingersoll Conviction. The conviction of James H. Ingersoll, the “Ring” chairmaker, and his clerk Farrington, of forgery in the third degree, is a prompt following up of the doom of Tweed. With the latter in the Penitentiary and the two former in State Prison, the grand old moral truth that honesjy is the best policy seems in a fair way to take a new lease of life in New York. Although in neither case has the ac- tual robbery of the City Treasury been the res gest, the community has been aware that stupendous thefts and a gigantic conspiracy. against the people were in course of punish- ment. auditing was only a link in his chain of illicit money-making ; the forgery in the third de- ‘gree of Ingersoll and his accomplice, Far- rington, was only a minor incident of the corrupt scheme by which thousands upon thousands were extracted by him from the county. From a great criminal like Tweed to a small tool like Farrington the descent is not so great as may be imagined, The oppor- tunity to reap greater ill-got gains in the one does not make the little shifty wretch, who helped out fraud with all his might for what it would bring, anything less reprehensible —_— morally. The “Ring’’ magnate who stole was on a level with the scuryiest creature that ever laid his hand upon another's wallet. What he stole made some sort of difference, but not.a moral one. As these men, some in furtive exile, some in jail, roll over in their minds the turn of events in their regard, even to them will come the tardy belief in a moral law that is unflinching in its retributions. Those who organized the ‘‘Ring,” and who vent from time to time wails over their fate, must have the van- him a martyr? Is not martyrdom a gain to | ity which clings to them in their shame sadly shaken as they see thernselves and their accom- plices, pilloried one by one, with a sweep of public gratnlation which is unmistakable in its meaning. ‘That they have not been con- victed on their great malfeasances, but on the | sunall things they did in the pursuit thereof, | shows how vainly they work who attempt to sheathe dishonesty in impenetrable armor. ‘These convictions can have but one meaning for men. All attempts to give them any other are the fantasms with which dishonesty seeks [to make itself a martes. ‘Tpat meaning is one The corrupt zeglect of Tweed in } MBER 27, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. pa nee I which ought to be self-evident, Hat which is often too easily forgotten—namely, he who steals is a thief. If two,men who took the ‘money of others go to prison, one as a corrupt official, the other as a forger, “it is because these things are the expedients of thieves, The Navy of the United States—We Do Not Need a Navy on Paper—We Need One on the Scas. The navy of the United States numbers 178 ves- sels, carrying 1,378 ae, exclusive of howitzers, 68 steamers, 31 sailing vessels, 51 fron-clads, 28 tugs. * * * There are 45 vessels in commission for sea service, . * * * . * * J Of the ships built during the war, including those which, commenced them, have beent fin- ished since its close, many were designed for special service and are not of a character adapted to our present needs. Most are too large for the economical and efficient distribution of our small peace force, and almost all built hastily, of unsea- soned timber, have now fulfilled the measure of their useful life, * * * * * * * * It would be the wisest economy at once to affora the means and authority to build @ number of small, active cruisers, of live oak or of iron, which, adapted to the duties and means of our navy in time of peace, and filled with the more modern and economical machinery which has succeeded that in use at the commencement of the decade, could be maintained and employed with more effect lor dome years, with comparatively little expense for innual of repaira.— Ann Secretary Robeson, No- vember 26, 1872, My own opinion is that we shou!d exhaust the Tressury rather than Submis to this indignity. I think this. a good opportunity to shell out for the navy, and hope that when the hat ts handed round ‘or naval appropriations the people will re- member they can’t have flag respected on the high seas unless they are prepared ‘to have something better than a navy on parses for this our navy certainly is, as can easily verified by an inspection of the old rookeries that encumber the Navy Yard. Our people are often astonished when they hear that one of our gunboats has sailed for Cuba with an eleven-inch gun and sealed or- ders, but they will be equally surprised to learn that the Spaniards have fifty-one gunboats in Cuban waters, some of them carrying fifty guns each, and can almost count ten guns to our one.— Admiral Porter in the HERALD, November 19. Congress meets on Monday next. We have done our utmost to impress upor its members and upon the public at large the serious de- ficiencies of our navy—a navy which, in the language of its highest professional officer, is “q navy on paper.” . We have also tried to be emphatic, while strictly fair and impartial, in presenting the kindred ciaims of our suffering commercial marine. We earnestly hope that the time has come for our legislators to per- ceive the necessity of a generous treatment of that portion of oun citizeng who in, them- | selva or in their inter8sts dwell oh the sea. - To our national shame and disgrace we have allowed our fine natural qualities as seamen and mechanics tobe diyerted to overcrowded branches of industry. Capital which was wont to seek investniént in ships and the car rying trade now goes, by the mag- netic attraction of large dividends, to the manufacturers of the East, the iron interest of Pennsylvania ond the railways of the West. We no longer care to set out in a pursuit which is impotent to-day and may become of the past after the lapse of a few years. It was not long ago when the ambitious youth, fresh from college or the public schools, made it his highest am- bition to begin life in some extensive house down town into which shipping entered as the largest element. Our great merchants—those who grew rich by trading with the far East, the West Indies and Scuth America and remote islands—were made of this material. But there is little scope for our youth to-day. They no longer take to commerce, because it isa dying institution. The r@bust maritime sports—yachting, boating and fishing—will surely decline with the decline of our navy and our commercial marine if the country be insane enough to condemn us to the exist- ence of an inland power. Not a day, then, is to be lost after the assembling of Congress; for, as Mr. Robeson says, our war ships, ‘hastily built of un- seasoned timber, have now fulfilled the measure of their useful lives.” The same ina larger sense is true of the commercial marine. Hight years of wear and tear leave an American vessel, subjected, as it is, to the rough elements of every ocean, 2 dangerous, unseaworthy hulk. In former times the Ger- mans used to buy our cast-off ships, repair them and use them during their ante-modern existence. Now we keep them ourselves, whether in commerce or in war, and they are the only vessels wo have with which to meet the Spanish iron-clads, and which latter, ac- cording to Admiral Porter, number fifty-one in Cuban waters. Our naval officers, we know, express great confidence in going into a war with Spain; but it is a confidence founded on courage and a desire for active service rather than on the utility of the worth- ' less squadron they would fight to the death. We allow that there might be a hope for the remnant of a navy now being patched into form in a con- flict with a nation which produces such martial specimens as Contreras and Burriel; but even then we would have to rely on tor- pedocs, the main source of our present strength, We have tried to imagine the naval situation as it would stand a month after the declaration of war. Our fleet—our entire available navy—would be gathered in Cuban waters, if, indeed, its wreck were not already being washed upon the shores of the island mid the Atlantic surf. The Spanish navy would be there too, and, finding out the puerility of its enemy, would it not be the next move to blockade our principal seaports— Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Savannah and New Orleans? df we accept the views of Admiral Porter this would not only be a possible contingency, but it would be the most sensible conclusion of a naval con- test between the two nations. Secretary Robeson should therefore canvass Congress and be sure of his fignres; and if that body means war he should be able to draw his checks in payment for an iron-clad squadron before Tuesday morning next. Lake anp Canat Navioarion,—The indi- cations are very strong against the navign tion of the lakes andthe Northern rivers remaining open longer than this week, After the passage of Monday's storm centre the thermometer began to fall rapidly, and yesterday it ranged below the freezing point over the lower lakes and through Western New York and Pennsylvania. The cold, following the heavy and protracted snows in Canada, was intense yesterday in the St. Lawrence Valley, reaching at Kingston the very low temperature of two degrees Fahrenheit, with brisk northerly and northwesterly winds. The effect of these Canadian winds will be felt over the district intersected by our canals, espe- cially the Erie Canal, so that the prospect is very dark for their continued navigation or for the liberation of the canal boats already frozen in. It is observable that this fall there has been lacking the ewutiful aud delicious Indian summer, which often extends into the month of December. It is not impossible it may yet come, but if not its entire absence may pérbaps be regarded as an augury of an early and short winter. The Life of a Submarine Cable. A remarkable instance of the precarions life of our submarine cables has recently been —— to light by the superintendent of the ersian Gulf telegraphs. It seems that in repairing the disabled wire between Kurrachee and Gwador—a nautical distance of about threo hundred miles—the fault was nscer, tained to be about one hundred and eighteon miles from the former place. The telegraph steamer having arrived at the point indicated found, by soundings, that the sea bottom was very irregular and gashed; and, on winding in the cable, the resistance was so great that the electricians supposed it was caught in a rock’ When it was brought to the surface the body” of a large whale, firmly secured by two anda © half turns of the cable, just above the tail, , revealed’ tho real trouble, It was supposed » that the hugh’ fish was using the cable to rid himself of parasites, and, as it overhung » sub- Marine cavity, he, probably, with a fillip of his tail, twisted it around him and came to an untimely end. Such casualties, of course, are rarély to be looked for. But the facts which are now con- stantly, coming into notice regarding our sub- marine cables go far to explode the prevailing notion that these vital nerves of civilization are not in danger front submarine fe. ‘Inthe Malta-Alexandria cable a piece of the core, from which the iron-sheathing had been worm away, was found to have been pierced by a shark,” pieces of his teeth inhering in the gutta percha, The Cuba-Florida and the China cables have been similarly damaged. In — the recent operations for the repair of the Atlantic cable of 1865 pieces of the old strand , of 1858 were raised, and where the sheathing - had given way the core was indented by worms, resembling old worm-eaten timber or books. ‘These interesting facts argue’ the necessity of multiplying submarine cables between the “ srpat international Marts,and centres of trade §nd intereotrgse to meet grave emergencies, when a single cable might: be silenced. They also suggest the need of much greater care in selecting and surveying the deep sea bed, 80 as to find a level and smooth surface for the safe repose of, the wire. . A New Apvecrive.—Since the slaughter house butchery in Ouba we have had insti- tuted ‘Burriel press,’’ ‘“Burriel orators,” “Burriel statesmen,”’ “‘Burriel ceremonies for the Catalan butchers,”’ and so on. So far as “Burriel ceremonies’ are concerned, a good many people think that there should be at least one burial in Santiago sans ceremonie. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. George S. Boutwell is in Chicago. Senator Roscoe Conkling has arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel: Professor C. F, Palfrey, of West Point, is at the Albemarle Hotel. Ezra Cornell, of Ithaca, yesterday arrived at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Ex-Governor Horatio Seymour 1s staying at the St. Nicholas Hotel. Captain Prince, of the British Atmy, is living at the New York Hotel. Edward Jenkins, author of “Ginx’s Baby,” is cradied at the Brevoort House. Ben Perley Poore, of Massachusetts, has apart- ments at the Fi/tn Avenue Hotel. Congressman ©. W. Willard, of Vermont, is regis- tered at the Grand Central Hotel. Asa H. Wiilie, Congressman at large from Texas, is registered at the Metropolitan Hotel. George M. Robeson, Secretary of the Navy, yea- terday arrived at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Protessor A. H. Merrill, of Amherst College, is among the lave arrivals at the Everett House. Congressman Ellis H. Roberts, of Utica, is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, on bis way to Washington. R. F. Gascoigne, of the Royal Horse Guards, British Army, 1s quartered at the Brevoort House. Ex-United States Senator Jesse D. Bright ts working 300 men “down in bis coal mine” in Ken- tueky. In the midst of his bachelor despondency the editor of the Cincinnati Zimes cries out, “Let us have Anna.” A clergyman’s daughter in Kentncky, the other day, broke a young man’s heart by putting a bul- let through it. Senator Sumner has been hobnobbing with Smith R. Phillips and other Massachusetts dignita- ries in Springfeld. George Harrington, formerly Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, has arrived at tue Westmoreland Hotel from Washington. Ex-Senator and ex-Representative W. A. Rich- ardson, of Illinois, has gone wack to journaiism. His voice is still for W. A. R. Bears promenade the streets of Baldwin, Wis. Some specimens are to be seen here every day on our ferryboats and street cars. Colonel John H. McHenry, of Owensboro, Ky., proposes to raise a regiment of troops in case Ken- tueky should be called upon for men for service in Caba, ‘This is the way they report the death of a saloon keeper in Omaha:—“Death lurked in every corner of that darkened room—Satan howled at every crevice.’” Council Bintls proposes to reduce its police force. That is a bluff game that cannot be played success- fully inmany Western localities, or Eastern either, for that matter. The secretary of a teachers’ institute in Indiana has for some time been devising means to suppress: whispering in school, and finally succeeded—until school met the next day. Itisnot Andy Johnson, the bellicose ex-Presi- dent, who has taken out a patent at Washington, but a man of the same name and of more Pacitic tendencies, inasmuch as he hatis srom California. Baron Stowe used to speak of certain ministers who used Scripture texts merely a8 “percussion caps to fire off their big orations.” Probably they considered them among the canons of the Chureb. “Grace Greenwood” writes of the late John Cc. Heenan, that the deceased expressed to his physician ‘great regret and @ maoly shame for much of his past career, and an hunible desire to live that he might lead a better life.” A Western editor says he saw a beautiful maiden in the street the other day /‘who had what seemed to be a stake and rider fence of lace around her sloping neck so high she was compeiled to tiptoe in order to see over it.” Is pot this rather rut? Awhite man vainly importuned several Gales- barg (Ill) magistrates to perform a marriage cere- mony uniting him to @ colored woman, They all declined. Why did he not do as a couple did in Gildden, Towa, on a recent Sabbath ? They stood up in church, dispensed with the services of a mitn- ister, declared their intention to lve as man and wife, Kissed each other and went on their way re- | Joiving, Mr. Pan! B. Do Chailin has written to a friend in New York irom the interior of Norway. ‘The in- trepid traveller says he had gone through, during the last two years, the whole of Scandinavia, trom ite southern mits to the Polar Sea, and that he had collected « vast amount of splendid materiat for his fortheoming book and lectures, Me enter- tains a great affection for the honest and simple. minded Scandinavians. Mr. Da Chaillu writes that heexpects to be in New York at the end of thia woulhor besinning of December.