The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-12-29
INDEX TO TIE YEAR 1867.
ANNUAL CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS.
THE POLITICIANS MANUAL.
Deaths OF Revolutionary Patriots and Cente-
narians-F1res and LOss Of Life-Rall-
road and Steamboat Accidents
Rulers Of the World
Herald Almanac,
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THE NEW YORK HERALD.

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THE NEW YORK HERALD.
| JANUARY.
| 1.-The day was celebrated in accordance with the
usual custom Weather fine Two hundred and twenty
Mormons arrived New York from Europe their way
| to Salt Lake City.
| 2-Chsres b Huntington, the convicted forger, was
removed from the New York city prison to the State pr
son at Sing Sing.
3-The wife of Judge Daniels of the Supreme Court OF
the United States, burned shocking manner at
| Washington, and died after egh hours of suffering
| 5-The new city government of New York was inau-
guraed and the annua! message of Mayor Wood was de
! livered in both Boards of the Common Council. The
Board Of Aldermen elected John Clancy President and the
| Board of Counc;mcn chose Jonas B. Phillips their
chairman The new city government of Brooklyn was
also nauguraed
s-The Legislature of the state OF View York met and
organized Albany The House of Representatives chose
Dewitt c. Littejohn for Speaker. The Governors
sage received and read both houses The State
| Capitol at Montpelier, Vermont destroyed by FIRE
The building finished in 1887, and cost $4,000.
S.-The thermometer in New York sank AZ low as one
degree above Ice in the East and North rivers
greatly obsructed navigation and rendered the passage
Of the ferry boats very difficult and hazardous
Der Of vessels in New York harbor we're driven ashac.
9-Severe shock Of earthquake felt throughout
the state OF California In some portions buildings were
thrown down which occasioned loss OF life In San Fran
cisco the shock lasted several seconds and caused great
alarm Boxes and bales thrown down in the stores,
tin ratified clocks stopped. and frame house
thrown from its foundation aad moved several feet
ia new Coinage bill, authorizing the issue OF new
one cent piece and reducing the value OF the ole Spanish
coin twenty per cent passed Congress
1.-THE ice in the Fast river, opposite New York,
blocked up and for five hours rendered crossing FIR oo
passengers perfectly safe.
| SUNDAY ls.-The mercury in the Thermometer in New
York sunk TO two degrees below zero
lranf In Nor NAxl thax h1ru.ipx
hurricane and drifting the snow in immense banks All
the railroads blocked up.
grees below The weather throughout the coutry
as cold as ever before known....A new law 70 pnish
witnesses who refuse to testify before committees be-
fore either House, was passed by Congress.
A-sIhe mercury in the thermometer In New FORK
sunk to ten degrees below zerothe coolest ever kpwn
26-rhe old Spanish coins-sixpences, shlings and
quarters-were refused by nearly all the railroad and
ferry companies in New York, except at reducto Of
twenty per cent.
| 27-Tbe North river was crossed on the ice a, Frty
second street, New York. Long Island Sound wa en-
rey frozen over and persons crossed from the Gomez
| ucut shore 10 Long Island.
2s.-Capiain Farnum, Of the Nicaraguan army Coonel
Fabens, and number of others, arrested by rider
Of The United states authorities jus, a. they were aeat to
suspicion OF being engaged 10 hlbustering expeditn
2e.-News received that two searncn belonging tho
French steamer Lyonnais, which run into and unk,
had been taken of raft by vessel bound from Bston
\ 10 Rio Janeiro
3i.-Dr. Harvey Burdell was murdered in his owl Of.
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ner.
FEBRUARY.
3-Henry II. Howard elected Chief Engineer o the
Fire Department Of the city Of New York by mabrity
Of l3s Alfred Carson, who had held the Office br
| number OF years.
s-The ice in the Ohio river, at Cincnnas, brok, up,
and In la wrecked six steamers and done vast
deal Of damage to the ferry boats and barges.
THE Odd Fellows Hall at Dubuque, Iowa ell In
4 the poftc md
top nit s. Fcss and wife, who "a the building,
| were instantly killed.
eGrest freshets nearly all the rivers a, the Forth
The Hudson river at Albany aud Troy higher II
before known. and the property destroyed At
Albany estimated 81 upwards Of two millions q dol
lars A number Of lives were also lost. The waer In
the Connecticut river also reached point above pre-
vous mark and great amount OF property was Destroyed
| along It's banks
which destroyed property the value OF SIXTY tbusand
dollars, and burned TO death Mr. and Mrs Bosdh who
sleeping the premises and injured severl other
persons before they could be rescued. The shoe Of
earthquake was felt IN Trenton n j., and through Phs
| dephis county.
| ia steam boiler connected with the machinery for
driving the pumps section OF the canal enlargement
near Black Rock dam, n r., exploded killing men
and dangerously wounding number Of others
1aThe Coroners into the cause OF The
death Of Dr. Harvey Burde in New York. after fourteen
days sitting was concluded, and the jury returned yer
dict that their opinion Dr Burde was murdered by
| Mrs. Emma Augusta Cunningham and John J. Eck. as
principals and George Vail sncgrass accessory The
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course of the examination. long Island sound which
| had been closed against NAVIGATION for a month
opened by the steamboat Elm Cny getting through from
1 New Haven 20 New York.
srspAY, ls-The daily circulation Of the Hsw Yoax
Herald reached eighty tive thousand sir hundred and
forty impressions which Is by far the largest number
ever printed Of ono edition by any daily journal the
world. serious riot occurred about mile back OF
Jersey City, Ia which some six hundred Irshmen we're
engaged who arrsyed against each other under the
party names ~ landowners and Corkonans Tbey were
| laborers the Bergen tunnel.
| 21.--Jobn J. Eckel and Emma Augusta Cunningham
indicted by the Grand Jury of New York FOR the
murder Of Ir Harvey Burdel.
26-The ice barrier In the Hudson river below Albany
| gave way and left navigation unobstruced
MARCH.
srsnAy, 1.-The shock Of an earthquake felt In MIL
| ledgevle, Ga.
3-The Thirty fourth Congress Of the United states
ceased 20 exist.
sOhef Justice Taney read the decision Of the United
s,sss Supreme Court in the sed Scott CASE which was
First That negroes have rights "a citizens under
the constsrtfJh
second That the ordinance OF 1887 was binding nso-
much the of the several S,ses soveregns
ia their sovereign capacity States prior to the forma
ton ~ the constitution and
Third That the Missouri Compromise s unconstltsto
nsomuch the act of the general government ex
crossing power not delegated by the soveregns (5acs
OF whose u y.
s-Iord Napier, the new British Minister, arrived in
Ney York from England.
1.-The remains Of Dr. Elisha X. Kane having been
honored with public funeral worthy Of the illus
trous deceased.
I2-An accidcr, happened on the Great western Rail.
road In Canada, by which from SIXTY 10 seventy lives
duals. The train going from Toronto 70 Hamilton,
and on passing over canal bridge the whole tram was