Year: 1873

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The Outlook for tho Winter.


The winter wave, with its zero temperature
and its boreal snow, has at last fully appeared
in the West, and is advancing upon the
Eastern States 1t verifes the prediction we
made on Thursday, that the Frost Kings
navigation by tpe end of this week. The rigor-
Gus cold of more than ten degrees below zero
was yesterday reported from the Northwest.
The high pressures which marked the
November atmospheric wave come up to the
figures predicted by some of our scientists.
This latter phenomenon is, however, consider
ably later this year than it was last year, and
by no means so conspicuous in its features.
This circumstance, although not easily
accounted for, is perhaps more sig
nifcant as to the omens Of the
coming winter than the fight of birds, the
migration of bufaloes and such signs on
which many of the weather-wise base their
forecasts. The most plausible explanation of
these winter air waves traces them to solar
action in the opposite hemisphere, and their
frequency, intensity and magnitude are the
conditions which would seem to determine
the severity of any winter, either as to high
winds, heavy and furious snow storms and
memorable thermometric depressions. In the
''great FROST" known as the severest that has
visited Scotland in the present century, the
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ward had the extraordinarily high range of
thirty-seven, and nearly thirty-one inches,
and from this cold aerial wave the frigo-
rife streams descended outwards over
Great Britain. During this terrible spell
of weather there was traced q
Russia and the Scandinavian peninsula, to
Scotland where the temperature. fell twenty
degrees below zero. The great historic frosts-
e. g., those in which the Thames, and even the
Baltic, have been soidly frozen over-are
doubtless attributable to these great waves.


Last year, before this time, we had sue
cession of such meteoric phenomena, and they
had not only furiously overswept the country
from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic,
but had ravaged the ocean from America to
Europe Their tardy and feeble appearance
this year is apparently auspicious for a winter
milder and less stormy than last winter. We
should be unwilling to hazard suggestion Of
this kind if it was unfounded or likely to
paralyze the energies OF the poor and working
classes; but, while preparing for the worst
future, they may take some cheer from the
present outlook.


Two MURDERERs PASSED Our OF EXISTENCE
YESTERDAY, one at the hangman's hands, the
other at his own. The man who was
Christian piety of his race on such occasions
the man who poisoned himself was white and
announced himself an infdel. The colored
mans name was Young he denied his guilt.
The white mans name was Milton
he defended his crime Young, who brutally
murdered cattle drover for his money. after
witnessing the hanging of Manley, another
negro, invited the company in front of the
gallows to meet him in heaven Malone, who
shot man dead, cynically chuckled over the
number of people who would be fooled out Of
witnessing his hanging, and gave no invita-
tions for the next world. The contrast is sug-
gestivs; but neither in the infidel suicide
sneering into insensibility, nor the bump
tiously Christian gibbet convert hymning
himself into strangulaton, can we detect
much that is psychologically admirable.


The VOICE OF THE LONDON PnEss.-One of
the virtues of the English leader writer is that
he is not in the habit Of losing his head, of
getting what the French call la Etk monte. He
cannot. therefore, be accused of enthusiasm
in treating of such a theme as the virginius
massacre-a question whose solution belongs
entirely to the government of the United
States. If any one will examine the extracts
which are printed in the HERALD this morning
and taken from the leading journals Of Eng
land, he will find that they are not only more
warlike than the tone Of the Quaker press Of
the United States, but that their declarations
are not whit less emphatic than have
appeared from day to day in these columns
The point that was made by Mr.. Evarts, in his
great speech at Steinway Hall, that the United
States should interfere on the broad ground Of
humanity, seems to be the argument Of our
British contemporaries but they do not the
less perceive that gross outrage has been
perpetrated against our flag, and the only
compensation is the reduction and permanent
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