Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-01-05
Gasterll .Ciules,
/. BATH, JANUARY S, 1854, /,
The Great Snow Storm.

The population of the whole Kennebec al
ley are just digging out People are rubbing
their eyes, shaking off the snow and enquir-
ing ifanythipg particular has occurred in the
affairs of the world and the rest Of mankind
for week past. Continents may have been
shaken by tho commissions of nature, nations
overturned under the triumphant tread Of, con-
quering armies-all the same to Kennebeckers
EMBEDDED under snow drift for seven mortal
long days. s,r...r-..t.
But, as we said on stating, we are dippinp
out, very natural process which the people
of this region well understand. Pile incum-
Dances in the way of Kennebecker, appa-
rently insurmountable in quaniity and degree
load him down with mountains of perplexity
and misfortune-pack him under snowdrifts
twenty feet perpendicular-let glaciers of Al
pine thickness and ponderoslty slide upon his
hard head-he will dig himself out of every
thing, and looking round on his egress from
darkness, will want to know g what's the
newsi'' ta
y" What's the news 7" has been sung, grow
led and groaned for week past. This whole
people have been an enquiring people-open
10 conviction on any subject. The most in
credible stories were started last week, in re-
lation to snow-drifts, snow-ploughs whether
the K. s. Portland R. r. had slumped through
and when it was best to dig for the rails /;
whether the locomotives had made mistake
and got on the " back route'' where the
lightning had streaked it to, whether stran-
gled and cooled in snow-drift or run down
after terra frna. Ill stories have been be-
ieved for want of evidence to the contrary. n
At last, here we are, head and shoulders
above snow. making reconnaissance. We
fad that the Fast week of the old year was
kind Of parting grip, like the winterish grips
Of olden time. From Moosehead to Seguin
the country is wrapped in ed-banket Of
snow. Huge drifts rise up over fence, stone
wall, and cottage. It was though: the first
specimen we had on Monday and Tuesday,
was ahead Of lis counterpart in the memory of
the Oldest inhabilant; but down came The snow
and pilng up went the drifts all day Thursday,
and all night long, the wind hewleS hurri-
cane and wreathed The snow about in all kinds
Of fantastic evulutions.
The Railroad "shat up shop Monday night
-OPened again Wednesday, shut up again
Thursday, aad finally ''put through" after in
credible labor, on Monday of this week. The
mails came tumbling through by the ton, and
never before was there seen such surleit Of
news.
Such fall of snow as we have experienced,
cannot be recolected for some time back. AS
TO how it happcned-wbat its causes-are in
teresiing questions. Some ascribe ii 10 the
natural commissions in nature expected in the
slater days." and some to the arrival of the
"Sarah Sands" All are agreedthat we did
not expect il. The managers of the Railroad
are pretty much of this opinion.
But now is the "winier Of orr discomfort
made glorious summer" by the usherng in of
daylight. The cars are going-Iighlnng fly
ing as usual-depot- good, natured-
passengers getting home and feeling better
Geographic operators with sunshine instead Of
clouds on their codhienances and we ask
pardon of our readers for saying no more this
week on the ground Of having no ground 10
work upon. . r....-.. .-...