Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1852-02-04

regulars the Star can go little with the req.
olars' and then little with the East, and semi
occasionally with the third concern-and the Times
can let itself loose for the third business with all its
mlghs. Let us watch and wait. The approaching
wing Convention may dissolve this plot, and there
may be- IN consequence, but one Whig candidate !;
out we shall see. In the mean time, let the Democ-
racV stand together as man, and make ready for
the contest. Discardine all sectonalis, and all un
due preferences for let 60 for the interests and
welfare of the ,ohoe State and for the UNCHANGED and
unchangeable principles of the Democratic party.
We shall have patform-the old one-about which
there will be either for doubt, for blink.
ing" or for sliding; and we shall have candi-
date worthy of the cause, and who will command the
entire confidence and enthusiastic support of all.
The WEATHER. We had another extremely cold
spell Of weather during the week, the thermometer
ON Tuesday morning, ranging from tto to three de-
grees below zero. Wehave not had such cold weather
mere tor many years. Salem (M C.) Press.
This was the celebrated cold Tuesday, the GOTH
On the morning of the Goth, the thermometer stood
at IL degrees below zero in Staunton, Va; aud one
Of the stage-drivers the Stauuton and Charlotte
vile route near freezing to death. He was taken
from the box helpless and almost insensible, and was
restored with much difficulty.
The cold at Franconia, New Hampshire COL
dest spot in the United States-was proved, on.the
same day, to be 43 degrees below zero by spirit
thermometer, the range of the Fahrenheit thermome.
tel it is stated, not descending that number of de.
grees below zero.
There was quite heavy snow.storm about the
same time, in Florida. As evidence of the cold,
1t Is stated that negro boy near being frozen
An instance like this is not known have occurred
in Florida. What the effect of the cold has been
upon the orange and other fruit Trees be known
until Spring but it is feared they have been serious
ly injured. Snow fell, about the same time, in New
Orleans.
On the same day-the 2Oth-East River was fro
zen at New York, and it is estimated that ff-
teen thousand persons passed between New York
and Brooklyn during the day, on the ice.
Large portions of the Chesapeake Bay were also
frozen over, and number of ships held fast for
several days in the ice.
The partridges, it is said have been destroyed by
thousands, during the late cold spell, in New Jersey
Maryland. and Pennsylvania. A great many, says
the Baltimore Sun, have been frozen in the fields
and woods; and that paper recommends that all that
may be brought in alive for sale be purchased hou-
sed up, and then turned loose when the weather mod
crates, to preserve the stock of this delicious
bird.
Nearly all navigation, North, was suspended dur
ing the late severe weather and the Rail Roads cea
sed TO operate on account of the piles of snow. This,
of course, kept back the Mails. We received, for
instance, on Tuesday last, sir Daily Washington
Unions. and number of New York papers and Bal.
timore Suns, by the same Mail.