Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-12-08
NEWS TrlMs.

1t is now confidently asserted that the
Virginius will be surrendered to an
American vessel in Cuban port within
ten days.
sickles has resigned his post Mt Mad.
rid.
Burriel, the butcher, left Havana yes,
terday for antiago do Cuba, to resume
charge OF the department.
The Atlantic cotton mills, at Law
renee, Massachusetts, which have been
running only part of their machinery
four days each week, are to start ev ~
loom on full time. The Washington
wooden mill has started upon large gov
eminent orders for navy blue for the
United States navy. The Appleton COM
pany of Lowell commence to-day to run
their mills full time, with full pay until
the close of the pay roll for December.
No announcement is made of their action
beyond thar time.
Several parties of Mormons. who came
to this country from Europe year or
two ago, have become disguised with af-
fairs in Utah, and are preparing to re-
turn to the soil of the old country.
A grand funeral service for those who
lost their lives on board the steamship
Vile du Havre, was held in Huvre on
Saturday. Subscriptions for he survi
vors have been raised in France to the
amount OF 40, 900 francs.
Yesterday afternoon sad accident
occurred at Westwood Junction, on the
Mine Hill and Schuylkill Haven rail
road, about six miles from Schnylkiil
Haven, Pa. Five boys were skating on
a pond adjacent to the railroad when
the ice gave away, and the whole party
sunk into the water. Just at this time
Engine No. lis, with $50 coal cars, was
passing. The crew saw the accident
and by superhuman exertions stopped
the train and went to their rescue.
They succeeded in saving two of the
boys from drowning, but the other
three were dead when taken out.
1t is hardly worth while for Bridge
port, Conn, to declare war against
Spain upon its own account. Forty
youthful braves OF that city have en-
sted for an invasion of Cuba. When
they are REINFORCED to the number of
one hundred it is their avowed inten.
ton to start for the island at once,
whether the government declares war or
not. Some Englishman once said !;
There never Was good war or bad
peace. Was there ever war, wisely
and calmly entered upon? Is such a
war possible?
Slavery in Cnba exists under and is
maintained by Spanish authority. The
Cuban patriots have abolished it in
their constitution and as far as their
power goes. By supporting Spanish
rule we rivet the letters of the slaves
By helping the patriots, even indirectly
through recognizing them as belliger-
ents, this remnant OF barbarism will be
swept away.
An italian is under arrest in Boston,
charged with swindling his countrymen
by promising them work and good
wages in railroad building, in New York
state, for which he assessed them three
dollars and half each, agreeing to meet
them at the depot and pay their fares.
He is said to have played the same game
in New York city, realizing n handsome
sum by his rascality.
The idea of an enforced American oc-
cnpation, terminating with the dictation
OF terms to all parties, on the basis of
virtual Cuban independence or the nc
tual separation OF free Cuba from Spain.
has taken hold OF many Influential minds
in congress, and will doubtless find OK,
preston before long on the floors OF the
: senate and house but to the present
mr. ti,aya &c. Il Y1Oeftf1,n thr
part of the administration to press the
opportunity of intervention and, with
out further change of policy Or a new
stifiening of resolution at the White
house. it will only be entered into as a
last resort, resulting from the defiance
of the slaveholding factions at Havana.
Bishop Henry w. Lee, of the diocese
Of Iowa, has written a long letter to ex
Bishop Cummins, expressing regret at
his action, and earnestly entreating him
to reconsider his determination in refer
ence to joint communion. He protests
earnestly against the movement for a
separate organization, and says : ga
secesSionul or schismatical movement at
this time would, in my opinion, be a
greater evil than those We are now bear
ing, and from which we may hope to
be relieved in due time. 1t were fal
better for our extreme ritualistic breth-
rem to finally secede to the church Of
} Rome, to which they are tending. than
for yourself and others of like mind to
: leave such church as ours for new
ecclesiastical organization.
The Virginius affair has called ont the
following statement of the condition Of
the Cuban patriot army: There are
thirty-four batalions of well organized
troops with their chiefs. The Cuban
soldiers travel free over all the country
of the Eastern and Central departments
without meeting Spaniard. Twenty
Spanish camps have been abandoned Of
late in both departments. The Span
iards do not fight unless attacked in the
cities they hold. The Spaniards are re.
ported to be- quite demoralized, and
! grept numbers have gone over to the
/ Cubans. The Cubans, under Colonel
Jesus Peres, have captured seven con
voys in three months, one of them with
) ninety mnles and forty Spaniards, with
} their arms.
!, The New Brunswick Times says that