The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1844-02-13

LATEST FROM HALIFAx.-We have Halifax pa
been very cold The Morning Post Of the LIST says that
the harbor in front OF the city entirely frozen
and the storm Of Monday did considerable damage
the shipping in port The ice in Halifax harbor may
prevent the Britannia from getting up to Cunards wharf
but there fine anchorage for her about miles below
the city, where her mails can be sent to her overland
NApoLEoN's HEARr.-When Bonaparte died al
st. Helena, ii was well known that his heart was
extracted with the design Of being preserved The
British physician who had charge of that wondrous
organ had deposited il in a silver basin, among
water, and retired to rest leaving two tapers burn
Ing beside II In his chamber. He often coniesses
to his friends while narrating the PARTICULARS .ld'
he felt nervousy anxious, as the custodIer OF such
adeposlt; and though he recined, he dd no. steep
While lying thus awake he heard, during the ST.
lence of the night, first rnstling noise, tnei
plunge among the water in the basin, and then me
sound of an object falling with rebound on the
DR.. A sprang from his bed, and the cause Of
the intrusion on his repose was soon explained; II
was an enormous rat, dragging the heart OF Bona
parte to its hole. few moments more, and that
which before had been too vast in its ambition to
be satisfied with the sovereignty of continental Eu-
rope would have been found even in a more de-
grading position than the dust of Cesar stopping
beer-barrel--it wonld have been devoured as the
supper OF raj.
A FROZEN MISUNDERSTANDING all the effects
of the protracted cold which we have experienced,
perhaps nothing is more singular than the guse in which
Jack Frost" has arrayed our beautiful waterfall on the
Chittenango.-During the summer season. these form
cascade OF nearly hundred and forty feet in height
but so broken by the broad lodges ofhe limestone prec
pice that no perpendicular pitch above yD and the
stream pretty full one present OF the finest
oil the kind that we have witnessed
Curious TO how they had been affected by the
frost (the mercury having sunk eight ten
sve nights to from to Is degrees below zero visited
them the other day. and descending the long steep path
which leads TO the stream below the fall reward
ed by spectacle far beyond expectations and more
beautiful than fancy had painted. The whole
width. was completely enshrouded in ice so thicky as
to prevent the usually noisy cascade from being heard
in low gurgle and to hide entirely from view
except where, at point, the veil was so thin as to
allow the dashng water 10 show through
On the lodges spread into broad drift ike fro
into thousand tiny swels and unduations which
caused prosaic lady ofour party to compare to great
caulifower but the perpendicular pitches were hung
inch with which last the larger ones brised through
out their length Where these hung in the
ice faint translucent greenish tingc perceptble
otherwise the color was pure white like aabaster and
tic ofsalactite-ke those which had seen taken
from the great cavern in Schohare contrasted fine
y with the grey rocks dark evergeens either side
The base spread out the frozen basin below in gradu
temen assembled till they could stand under sort Of in
vered Gothic canopy OF cices and formed in their many
mnings group quite in character with the arctic air
Of the whole The trees at the top, laden down with in
crusted ice bent like feathers over ALL and formed as
graceful finish could have been desired
This beautiful object formed by the freezing Of the
spray the rocks the bottom and the broad shelves
above in constantly increasing piles until rising higher
degree by the ice rs the stream spread out
far wider than in summer and dripping the frozen
moss decorated it with thousands Of pendens until the
thickness OF the covering forming protection against
the flowed freely beneath its singular Ca
zenord Eagle.