New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-03-10

In. around hcry furnace Their fsces-st least the
mali portion that vas vsibe-wers variegsted with
red. Blue and purple; their heads were drawn into
heir .houlders their hands shrunk up the seeves Of
sr over coats and their knees Glove unto each oher
They had eit the eastward bound train at the juno
ton. thirty miles of, and taken sleighs. The
mercury was down TO zero, with the terrible winter
Wind of the praires in full blast They reported that
there was still block up at Oak Ridge, and advised
us to sit down quietly until tomorrow.
Not more than three or four inches OF snow fell on
Thursday night and you may be surprised that it has
proved such ferious impediment to travel. Blu:
,ou ust r. me mber that the old snowbanks Of jan
u.rv are still staDdpg-thst only narrow lane for
the trains has been cut through the deep drfts-and
that the wind not or3y ed up hese lanes 70 the level
of the old drift In two or three hours, but continued to
6 them up faster than they could be shoveIed out.
Besides the cold s 50 intense that the pumps Of To-
comotve freeze in ten or fifteen minutes, unless
they Gre kept n motion and when train once sticks,
It is room sno wed under There really service
able snow plows, 20 far az can learn, on any of the
Western roads. The pre- snt winter has found the
Companies wholly unprepared, and the hinderance to
travel s therefore serious than it ia likely ever
10 be in future.
with very few exec ptons, are not 80 well managed as
they might be- There is not that conscientious desire
to run according to time. and make all promised con-
nectiops, which the travelling public has right TO ex
pect. Changes Of the timetables are not properly
made known; and, If man wishes to be perfectly
sure Of the trains that rum and their time of starting
be must not depend exclusively on the advertisements
he Gees in newspaper the bills suspended in ho-
tels but should 60 personally TO the station and as
certain for himself. Several dissppointments of this
kind have shaken my faith in railroad announcements,
and now make it point always to take the first
train that starts for the place of Dy destn alton, even
though there should be a later train which promises
to get me there in time
With regard TO the comforts Of this sort Of travel,
ON nearly ready to agree with the author Of the
caustc article in Harper for this month"; on the same
subject. have however, found one car which was
properly ventilated; and that was a new-nvented
car, on the Southern Michigan road II was heated
by furnace under the floor, and ventilated by fues
on both lies In this car the air was pure during
the whole Deht, and The heat equally distributed.
30 far, 30 good-but the seats were small, narrow,
low-bscked, and distressing for a man of SIX feet.
This is a general fault in all raIrosdcsrs wish all
railroad directors were seven feet high, and were
obliged to ride two seat whenever they Travelled.
We should then have an improvement. On the Ohio
and Mississippi road, the are really worthy of
Christian country, and of growing people
EiPh p. M-The rains on the Galena road are at
lat in ard there will be departure tomorrow morn
ing in order to relieve the numbers Of persons Of mar
row means and valuable time, who have been wait
ing at the station for two days past. shall send you
further of my experiences in few days. The night
is savagely cold. BIT.