Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1843-03-22
A Chapter on the weather.

We are not IN the haOlt OF Olten HloIaliLlug upon
the mutabty of the weather, or oubling our rea-
ders with long accounts of its freaks and fancies:
The weather at present, however, is SO ont Of all
character that we must be pardoned for saying a
few words about it. 1t is now the 22d of March,
and the snow, in many places is still three or four
feet deep, and thattoo after nearly week of bright
sunshine The air is as cold as December, and
the ice many inches thick. Who ever heard Of
the like!
About year ago Richard Adams Locke, of New
York, the author Of the celebrated Moon Hodr,
delivered a Lecture on Terrestrial Magnetism, in
which he endeavored to prove that the equator and
axis of the Earth were constantly undergoing
changes, which had already made our winters
much shorter and mder than they formerly were,
and would ultimately render this climate equal at
all seasons Many others, also, who consider
themselves blessed with the gift of divinaton.
have prophecied that our forests would be
cleared away, the swamps drained, and the land
cultivated, the severity of winter would in great
me asure be destroyed, and we would no more
have such cold weather as we had in old times
This Winter has proved fatal to all such elabor-
aed theories and nice made calculations. We
think it would furnish some other ephemeral phi
losophers with equally strong arguments in favor
of theory that our climate is verging towards the
frioidity of Greenland--that we shall ere long
have to provide ourselves with clothing made of
furs, 10 keep ourselves warm; and that we must
soon import a breed of rendeers to supply the
place of our horses, who will all freeze to death.
In contemplating the present, we cannot help
signing for the good old times when we were
young, and thought nothing a hardship but being
Obliged to sit in school six hours day. Those
were happy times. Every thing then seemed to
be governed by known rules. All men were
cheerful and contented. The operatives of the
country received the wages Of their labor without
being shaved. The currency was good-there
was no Glamour against the Banks, and we heard
of none of those Institutions breaking and running
their Stockholders and Creditors. Even the Sea-
sons were more certain. We had Spring, Sum-
mer, Autumn and Winter, and knew just when to
look for each. OH how we used TO long then,
for the first of April; and when it came round, we
would fling off our shoes and stockings, skip about
like lambs under the influence Of the gentle breath
OF the early Spring, nor think of resuming them
again (except on special occasions until the first
of October.
Time. they say, changes the same as the feel
ilgs of individuals If it is so, we need never
look for return OF the same genial seasons which
llessed our school-boy- days. They have depart
el, to us, with the innocence Of our natures, anc
can never be enjoyed again. But moralizinl
apart, We can certainly look for more seasonablt
weather than we are now, and for some time pas
have been, experiencing. And we do hope sooi
again to see Spring burst upon US in all its joyful
ness.