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The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-11-18
The Winnipeg IusurrectiDn.

In the Lake Winnipeg basin of the late
Hudsons Bay territories, transferred to the
New Dominion, successful rebellion for the
present has resulted in clearing out the new
Governor and his suite, sent from Canada to
govern those people. This Lake Winnipeg
basin lies hundred miles or more north of
the head sources of the Mississippi river, and
extends from the forty-ninth to the fifty fifth
degree of north latitude, and westward by the
great river Saskatchewan to the Rocky Noun
tains Interlocking with the head lakes of the
Mississippi, and which find their common
outlet southwark is another system of
small lakes, which find their common
North, q navigable stream, which emptes
into Lake Winnipeg, the outlet Of which is
discharged into Hudson's Bay. Where the
United States boundary, the line Of forty nine,
crosses this Red river is Pembna Furnishing
fur trading settlement Of Minnesota Across
the border, in the Red river valley, is the
settlement Of French Canadians who have
revolted against the New Dominion.
These people, from their business inter
course with the Minnesota people, have
imbibcd good many yankee notions" and
hence they demand territorial government,
with local legislature, homestead act, pre-
emption laws for settlers a school fund, and
such like American institutions. What will
be the upshot of this rebellion we cannot tell
but it is evident that, east and west, the New
Dom v,inp fail IN fiu tisfo mi hn
simple truth is that our northern neighbors are
looking to the ultimatum Of annexation 10 the
United States, from Newfoundland, across the
Continent to yancouver's Island, and the
wisest course for the British government would
be to begin to prepare itself for this inevitable
settlement. This Winnipeg instruction is only
an outbreak which indicates more or less the
prevailing popular sentiment Of all her
Majesty's North American provinces, and this
sentiment win only become stronger under any
repressive measures that may be adopted.
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FESTIVAL At THE WATER STREET MISSION.

The annual festival OF the above school was held
on Tuesday afternoon and evening at their rooms.
over the New York Port Societys Mission, corner OF
Water and Dover streets. In the afternoon dinner
was furnished for over ninety children, gathered
into this school from the miserable habtatons OF
the Fourth ward.
The little ones feasted themselves until a mani
nous vote, by the uplifting OF ninety little hands
testified that they were abundanty saisled-tbe
best dinner, probably, most or them ever had and
the best they win have again until the revolving OF
another twevemonth.
In the evening tie spacious mission room was
fllled with q large and interested audience OF rho
parents and friends or the Children where an enter.
ialnment Of an intellectual character was furnished
consisting OF singing and dialogues by the children
ana short addresses by several gentlemen present
among them the Rev. f. y. Murphy OF the Mariners
church. The exercises closed with the doXoogy
ana Denedction after which all the children received
package OF candies raisins &c, which they took to
their homes
to the great value Of such efforts in reaching the
masses OF neglected children IN these worst parts Of
our city.
made during the past year in cusure and manners
only shows the power OF a Kind Christian influence
and the ease with which they he lifted up from
ignorance and shame to responsibility. Better
behaved and moro Interesting children could
scarcely be collected together anywhere.
This school is under the direction OF Captain f.
Richardson, whose indelatigable energy and work
for man nearly eighty ears or age Is certainly de.
serving OF all praise. The day school is presided
over by Miss Lydia Davis, whose qualifications for
such work 1t would be difficult to surpass. SUBJ
stantia dinner is furnished each child every uay.
The sabbath School, under the direction OF Mr.. w.
p. Groom, ia steadily growing In numbers and inter-
est. number OF earnest Christian friends have
been attracted TO this work and are rendering the
most enicient aid Altogether this Is OF the most
efficient and best conducted schools in the city. lg
is connected with no organization, but supported and
carried forward from year to year under the sole
lniuenCp OF its founder and head,
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THANKSGIVING Day.

More generally throughout the Union, States
and Territories, North and South, than ever
heretofore, Thanksgiving Day will this year
be observed by the American people. This
day, the 18th Of November, has been adopted
all over the country in Difference to the recon-
mendation OF the President; but ii instead OF
this Thursday he had recommended the
given more general satisfaction. And we will
explain the reason to General Grant for his
information in reference to 1870. Down to
the killing irosts Of autumn the turkeys,
chickens, geese, ducks and other fowls Of the
farmers subsist mainly upon what they can
pick up in the barn yards, highroads, fields
and gardens. From about the middle Of Octo-
Der to the last week Of November these fowl.
are fattened from the refuse of the barn and
corn crib in the cleaning up Of the wheat, rye,
corn, buckwheat and other crops for market
And this refuse serves to fatten the fowls and
they arc not nicely fattened till about the last
week in November. So it happens that
Thanksgiving on the 18th comes too soon for
real lat turkeys anu cHlcheHs, anu iaImcTs ana
consumers lose by 1t. We would, therefore,
impress these important facts upon the mind
of the President in reference to next Thanks
giving. Let IL be on the last Thursday in
November, which with the farmers is just the
thing exactly.
AS it il, this year we are sure that through
ont the Union it win be day of general thanks
giving and general enjoyment, too; and to all
our readers, without distinction Of race, creed,
color or condition, we wish good Thanksgiv-
Ing dinner and pleasant reunion with family
or friends. Let the rich remember the desti-
tute poor that they, too, may share in the festi-
val, and, first and last, God be praised for all
his mercies 10 US miserable sinners.
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lie CusI1Ii ilQusE.
The Shipment Of Goods to Califurn.n.-New
Custom House Regulations.

The Shipment Of Goods to Califurn,u--New
Custom House Regulations.
Secretary Boutwell, wrote TO Collector Grinnell on
the sth INST. that he was satisfied that the present
method Of sealing and cording packages for
shipment Of goods by the Isthmns, between
the ports OF New York and San Francisco, was
not only untrustwortny, but furnished ready
means for defraudiag the public revenues The
Collector was directed to abolish the system and
provide for the discharge OF such Officers IN New
York have been heretofore employed in that SER
vice.
For the further security OF the government
the Collector was requested TO enter into nego-
tlatons with the managers Of the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company and the Panama Railroad
Company, for the purpose OF 0scertanlnX wheth.
er they Will furnish at each side Of the Isthmus
warehouses In which goods can he placed accord.
ing to the necessities or the trade, SO that they
1t Will also DE necessary to provide far prac-
ticable for transporting the goods across the
lsthmus in cars locked and under the surveillance
OF agents OF the department.
In accordance with the above instructions Collec-
tor 6rnnell yesterday issued the following notice.
COLLECTORS OFFICE, Nov. IL, 1889.
To MERCHANTS, SHIPPERS AND ALL OTHERS Con-
Notice is hereby given that under recent in.
s,ructons from the Treasury Department the sys-
TEN or cording and sealing packages OF merchan.
the Isthmus OF Panama, will be abolished on and
after the goth instant Sailing day OF the steamer
Aiaska)
Alter that date, shippers OF merchandise to san
TO this Office detailed invoices OF all goods shipped,
together with such descriptive marks as
viii readily designate the packages containing
the day on which the goods leave this port. These
and the system Of marking packages should
be the same as are now used and employed In the
These requirements do not apply to goods shipped
In bond. NJ. H. GklNNELL, Collector.
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Tnr oroNDAaA woNprn.-In another cole

The ON0NDAGA WoNDER.-In another cole
umn will be found an accurate account Of the
archaeological nugget recently brought to light
in Onondaga county and which promises to be
rare puzzle for the Swans. Everything au-
thentic as well as every fair inference in regard
to this discovery is likely to be Of interest in
the history of the antiquities Of our State,
already so numerous. BY the account we give it
seems to be clearly shown, first, that the figure
Ia not petrifaction, as its exhibitors would
have the public believe, but carved statue;
next, that the sculpturing is Of high order Of
merit though not in accordance with the
ideals and modes that modern art has drawn
from Grecian models; and, third, that 1t may
be relic of q very great antiquity, pointing to
quite unknown past in the history Of this
Continent
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ranean Ia to become the great sea Of commerce.
The shores of that sea are to be gilded
with gold. The northeast of Africa, the rich
plains of Hindostan, the ancient learning Of
Arabia and Persia are all to be utilized and
forced in western direction. Turkey,
Greece, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, and
particularly Great Britain and Ireland, are to
be enriched by this new movement, which is
at once political, commercial and religious.
II is beautiful thought and full of encour-
agemcnt that the greatest change of our time
should be inaugurated by Christian and a
woman. Christianity controls the times.
Christianity, Willingly or unwittingly, governs
the nations. Christianity, by universal con-
sent, is shaping the future. Inside of Chris
tianity woman always has been q power, and
never more so than now. 1t is therefore
most meet that the lady of the hour,
the Empress Of France, the wife Of the
eldest son of the Church, should on this
grand occasion-an occasion which covers
all the past and all the future-be the
foremost parsonage. The presence of the
Empress Eugene ut the opening of the Suez
Canal is typical in the true sense. 1t honors
the past. 1t sympathizes with the present.
1t expresses hope for the future. The opening
Of the canal is now a sensation. Thinking
men look at it in the light of the future The
future is bright, but who fully comprehends
it? 1t is another step towards betting the
world with lines of traffic. When the Suez
Canal is opened the rounding of the Cape Of
Good Hope will no longer be necessary. The
work thus begun will not be reckoned complete
until it be unnecessary to round Cape Horn.
Even these demands will be imperious.
The railroad and the telegraph must girdle
the earth. At New York, at London, at Paris,
it must be possible not only to feel the worlds
pulse, but to know the worlds thoughts.
Towards this point we strive, and this point
we must reach. Excelsior!
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The Health Omcsr of tho Port.

We alluded yesterday TO the fact that DR..
Carnochan was an applicant for the position of
Health Officer Of the Port, and we renew orr
endorsement Of this able and skilful profess
sional gentleman as the fitting person for that
place. There is change necessary in this
branch of the State government, and we are
sure that no one knows that better than Gov
ernor Hoffman. He may have been embar-
raised heretofore in the selection Of candi-
date TO supply the place of the present incum-
bent, and the fact that the confirmation of his
appointee would have been difficult to accom-
plish in the last State Senate, with radical
majority against him, no doubt deferred him
from doing that which the whole commercial
community so earnestly desired. Now how
ever, no such obstacles stand in the way. In
tho person of DR.. Carnochan there is Health
Officer who would be welcomed by all classes
of society. In the coming Senate there is
large democratic majority and therefore the
appointments Of the Governor will receive due
consideration. DR.. Carnochan is, therefore,
for many reasons the very man for the place.
The Office Of Health Officer is one which
should never be occupied by a politician.
Neither should it be mere money making
machine. The Health Officer has dual
life and duty. The interests of the
public health and the interests of commerce
are both under his control In taking care of
the one he must not neglect the other, because
the business of our merchants and shipowners
are as largely under his control as the health
Of the port 1t is not necessary here to state
the endless vexations, delays and extortions to
which the merchants business is subjected by
the present quarantine system. The mer-
chants know well what they are and they feel
them keenly, but unfortunately they have no
remedy. There is no class in the community
more willing to see quarantine regulations
rigidly carried out, even to their own inconven-
fence, than the merchants. In fact it is their
interest that the spread of disease in the city
should be provided against, for an infected
city is a very poor place in which business can
flourish. They would naturally be the last
people in the world to complain Of any mea-
sures which may be adopted to prevent the in
Production of contagious diseases into the
centre of the community. 1t will therefore be
most acceptable to the merchant class, as in
deed to every portion of our metropolitan
population, to see an eminent medical man of
the highest repute, who is no politician,
appointed to the place of Health Officer Of the
Port
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TIE Annexation Of ST. DominRo.

The letter which we published yesterday from
our Washington correspondent indicates that the
St. Domingo question, both in the hands of the
United States government and in the admins
tration OF Baez, at the head of affairs in tho
Dominican republic, is in fair way towards
speedy and practical solution. The project of
annexation has long been entertained by the
two contending parties in that republic, and
the small faction of Cabral revolutionsists who
oppose it would doubtless favor it, as they
favored it when in power few years ago, if
they were now in power. The people gene
rally are reported to be well disposed to the
step. President Baez was assured during last
summer that the inhabitants Of Porto Plata,
Santiago, Levega and Cotuy are agreed on
this point. Baez, of course, could not with
propriety initiate this annexation scheme any
more than he could consent to the leasing of
the Bay Of SANTANA or to the plan Of pro-
tectorate to he exercised by the United States
government, unless that government, as well
as his own people, We're unquestionably willing
and ready to accomplish it. Without entering
into the details of the preliminary negotiations
which have from time to time been informally
conducted between the two Independent gov
ernments since 1865, when the annexation
was on the eve Of completion, we may express
the opinion that it is now highly probable the
project Of annexing to the United States both
the yellow republic of Dominica and
the black republic OF Hayti, which
now divide the entire island between
them, will come mp early at the next session
Of the United States Congress, and that mea-
sures looking towards its realization will be
promptly adopted and acted upon. The Adolf
ton of slavery in the United States and the
establishment Of civil aud political equality
have removed certain objections which used
to stand in the way Of annexation, and there
will be no difficulty on this score In governing
Dominica and Hayti as territories until they
shall have ripened into States. II will not be
long before American capital, which has
already turned its eye towards the incalculable,
undeveloped resources OF this beautiful and
fertile island, and American enterprise, which
has taken time by the forelock and established
Dominican banking, railway and steamship COM
panies--in fact, actually laying the egg out of
which annexation seems about to be hatched-
and, in due time, emigration from the United
States, from Europe and, perhaps, from China,
will redeem the island Of st. Domingo from
evolutionary chaos and opel multipIlsd mar,
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kets to it, increased productions. Moreover,
not the least important consideration involved
in the annexation of st. Domingo Is the fact
that Cuba is within but q few hours sail Of the
waters In which a really formidable American
fleet is now being gathered. Whatever may
be the upshot Of the Cuban insurrectionary
movement, this fact is eminently noteworthy
and significant. How long will it be before all
the West India islands shall form the encircling
belt of the Gulf Of Mexico as an inland lake
OF the United States2 This is merely ques-
ton of time
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SALE Of HORSES.

Mcssrs. Barker & Hamlin opened the sale OF Jacob
Eckerson,s stable Of inoronghbreds yesterday at tho
corner OF Broadway and Thrty-ninth street. There
were about two hundred sporting gentlemen present,
but ,hey were sadly disappointed, inasmuch as tho
majority OF the ANIMALS purposed to be sold were
detained at Jerome Park by the inclemency Of the
day. The following, however, were disposed OFF,
81, 900
Pet, chestnut horse. bought by Mir. J. smith,. S75
Red Rover, bay horse, bought by Mr.. Ander.
sous.. s.'......s... vOO
Tommy Dodd, brown colt, bought by Mr.. d. M.
Bay colt, two years old. by Breckenridge dam
Helle. w Monarch. bought W Nv. Saterss.ss ID
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EXCEPT CoRBIN.-In the published list OF
the Presidents family connections that will
take their Thanksgiving dinner with him in
the White House to-day we do not see the
name of Corbin. He has probably been
excused on account of his engagements with
Fisk and Gould
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BAD FOR TIE "lRIsH GIAyT."-In going
upon the sacred soil" Of tho Roundheads OF
the old Bay State for prize fight the ''Irish
Giant" OBadwin, made mistake. For
that blunder he has just been sent up in Bos-
ton for eighteen months in the House Of Cor
rection and at hard labor Those bigoted
Purltans are queer people, but sometimes
they do good thing. They will not accept
the manly art Of fsticutfs az one of the fine
arts, nor pugiiists as public beneiactors. and
QDaldwla stands corrected.
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BALL Of THE EIGHTH REGIMENT DRUM CORPS

The fifth annual soiree OF the Eighth regiment
drum corps took place last evening at the armory.
corner OF Grand and Centre streets. The attend
ance was unusually large, and the festivities were
characterized BY much hum0r ami enthusiasm. The
dresses OF the ladies' were brililan and in some In
stances exceedingly rich and elegant The oden
reputailon OF tho regiment for gayety and spendor
was well upheld ana Drum MAJOR Mckeever was
certainly not unworthy OF mention IN connection
F.xs
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Our Special Correspondence from Asia.

By European mail we have the special
correspondence from British India, dated at
Bombay to the 10th of October, which appears
elsewhere in our columns to-day. The COM
munications are in continued chain of the
narrative which we have already published
from India in illustration of the present condi-
ton of the vast Anglo-Asiatic empire, its
system, or systems, of rule, native and foreign;
its territorial resources and local progress or
the reverse, Its internal distractions, jealousies
and wars, and the extreme difficulty of their
reconciliation or adjustment by British officials
or the executive in or commissioned from
London.
Just previous to writing our correspondent
was at the Court of the Maharajah of Baroda
He had been accorded special interview with
the Eastern potentate, the result of which
is now presented to the readers of the HERALD
The letters are animated, piquant, instructive
and entertaining, picturing as they do, for the
use of the American public, the Court, the
Dewan, the personal appearance, style of
living, revenue and military resources of his
pIllCciy uOot, ouu sudtt bOo, Will JIG COmplcIc
permission Of this important and hitherto
imperiously exclusive gentleman, to whom the
writer had been introduced as the accredited
representative Of the HERALD, duly commits
stoned for such duty.
Towards the close of the correspondence we
have the important intelligence of the entrance
of the Russians into Eastern Turkistan, after
battle in which the soldiers Of the Car de-
feated the troops Of the Kushbegl, with other
matter of import. We are glad to be enabled
to supply special first notes Of these facts for
the purpose Of future reference by the people
to our columns when the moment arrives for
the decisive clash of arms between the Musco-
vite and the Auglo Saxon on the vast battle
fields Of Hindostan, the premonitory warnings
of which caused Mr.. Disraeli to exclaim lately
in Parliament that England IL now more an
Asiatic than a European Power.
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Nor THE THINe FOR LIGHTING THEATRES
Wrn-Korosene OIL They have tried the
experiment at Milwaukee, and the theatre is
gone, and 1t went up flames and down in
ruins 80 rapidly that several lives were de-
stroyed with It. or all our Illuminating agents
kerosene is the last that should DO used In q
thnaira. or apyYhars elsA. for that master. :.
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IMPORTANT If TRuE-The reported dis
covery by Professor Bell and his surveying
party Of the New Dominion that Lake
Nipigon, thirty miles to the northwest Of Lake
Superior, and heretofore supposed to belong to
that numerous body of northwestern lakes, of
Ave, ten, twenty or thirty miles In length, is
really larger than Lake Ontario or Erie. If
this Is true then with few short canal cuts
steamboat communication can be secured from
Lake Superior, by way Of Lake Nipigon and
Lake Winnipeg, and thence by the Saskatche-
wan river, almost to tho foot Of the Rocky
Mountains. We think it probable, however,
that Professor Bell may have mistaken the
general flooding of the fat country connecting
the whole batch of lakes around Lake Nlpigon
for one great and enduring lake; but, what
ever the truth may be, 1t will now soon be
made known.
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THE TAMMANy Fourteenth sireet.-TaR HASLoS
BRofnERs, &o. Matinee at |.
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OLYMPIC THEATRE, EFeaaway.-PooR HUMANITY
Bull II CHINA SnoP. Matinee at2
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wAvERLEY THEATRE. No. 72O Broadway.--A GRAND
VARIETY EnrERTAIsaESr. Matinee at >.
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isvsEMfsTs THIS AFTfaSluS AND EvfAIaG

FRENCH THEATRE. 14lh 1t. AMI 9Th av.-LoSpeN
OR, LaRTs ANn SHADOWS or THE GREAT CRY. Matinee.
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GRAND OPERA HOUSE. corner OF Eighth avenue and
23d street -MARITANA. Matinee at p CROWS DIAMONDS
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BOOTHS THEATRE, Esd st.. between 5lh ana 6lh avs
THR Domestic DRAMA OF MARY WAEnEg.