Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1831-01-27

The last number Of this periodical ia emelIished with
an elegant engraving representing View Of the
Bay and Harbour Of New-Yofk, and in the FORE
ground Of which is embraced besides, upwards offorty
figures prOmenading about that delightful place. the
Battery This number of the Mirror is otherwise I'M.
commonly rich. 1t is entirely original; and among
the contributors F. G. HalIeck, J. X. Padding
and others, ''not unknown to fame" The Mirror
for the richness of its productions, original and select
ed, its beautiful typography, the elegance Of the
cravings which occasionally adOrn il, and its high mo-
raj character, is conceive the most valuable publ
cation Of the kind in the country. II would afford US
pleasure TO send to the publishers the names of
few subscribers.
The Snow Storm, which we briefly noticed in our
last, appears by from abroad to have been
quite severe in other places in this. IN New
York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and further south,
If the accounts be credited, and there certainly
can be no reason TO doubt them, the storm even
more severe. In Philadelphia, it commenced on FRI
day afternoon, and the were so filed, and the
thrown into such heaps, that many the stores
Saturday obliged remain closed, no egress
ngress being had from the front. The mails from
all directions either did no, come in all, or were de-
layed from ten to twenty hours-and many Of those
which departed were compelled, after being absent
few hours and proceeding but mile two, return
the city. Some Of the oldest inhabitants of Phiia-
,Iephia express the opinion that there has been no
storm Of equal severity since the winter Of 1861
20 years ago! The banks of snow in some places
in the vicinity represented be from 10 IL feet
in height In The interior Of the state the storm was
so bad,
In New-York, the mails from all directions were
detained both in arriving asd departng-n some ca
ses not reaching the city for day or two--and for
many hours the south and sides Of the streets
blocked up that admission into the dwellings
in instances difficult. In Providence,
Boston, Salem, Albany Troy. &C. &c. similar scenes
represented. The mail almos, every where had
been delayed, and travelling for few days almost
tirely suspended. The editor Of the Boston Cennel,
who was returning to Boston during the storm from
Vermont, says-"For some twenty miles horses
were pioneers. In many places the roads block
ed UP above the fences, and utterly impossible by hor-
ses. tn some places the stage taken over the
walls and passed along the fields, whence the snow
had dred into the road. In others the horses were
taken and the stage drawn By the passengers In
Townsend, fifty odd miles from the city, Monday,
met body OF people and about ~ yoke OF oxen IN
a line breaking open tia road Thence, we found
tolerabIe travelling"
like account is given of passengers in the stage
from Hudson to Albany They literally srorked their
passage by opening the road and helping the stage
and horses through the drifts Of snow. They were
about twenty hours travelling that d;stance-usualy
performed in FIVE or six.
The storm commenced in Baltimore Friday af-
ternoon-n Philadelphia about night on Friday-in
New York, after midnight-in New-Haven early on
Saturday morning-n Providence, o'clock, Boston
9, 61c.-he wind all the time strong from N. J..
1t may not be amiss state here, that the mail from
chfed to Hartford and from Hartford hei through
the perseverance, Of the enerlrsins proprietor, Mr..
). Parks, and his diligem drivers. arrived at each
place on its usual days. and within hour Of the time
it was due. And we learn thar, amongst the null
,ute Of stage and mail lines arriving at Hartford ev
erv dav the one from here the only that arr-
we'd at that place Oh the Monday after the storm.
Under the new Census, tsays the Rochester Daily
Adver,iserl the cities and in the United States,
containing population exceeding 5000, will range in