The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-02-20
THE wEATHER.

A mornings, -E-
No cheerless burden on our spirits laid
The long night watches did not bring us warn
ings
That We were tenants of a house decayed.
Thee arly SHOWS like dreams to us descended ;
The frost did fairy work on pave and Dough ;
Beauty, and power, and wonder, have not end
ed
How is it that we fear the Winters now ?"
Eight weeks of good sleighingl That
venerable and much respected individu-
al, the oldest inhabitant ;" shakes his
head and gravely remarks that this Win
ter beats his time a good long ways.
Snow everywhere-in the v%allies, on the
hilltops, all through the forests-gar-
dens, meadows, orchards, shrubs, houses
everything enshrouded in one common
white mantle. From every point o. the
compass our exchanges speak of the
weather as being the coolest ever known
in their respective sections. From Tex
as we learn that the inhabitants are
putting up ice four inches thick, taken
from the rivers about Austin. The
Brazos is frozen over, and the Indians
have crossed the river OF the ice with
their ponies. A letter to the n. O.
Picayune, from Camden, Arkansas, da-
ted Jan. IL, says that Wachita and Red
Rivers are both frozen over, and foot
men cross on the ice. Stock and poul-
try are dying in large numbers, and sew
eral persons have been frost bitten. The
Memphis (Tenn.) Appeal, of the 9Th
inst, says that the thermometer stood
five degrees below zero for the three
days previous, the coolest weather ever
experienced in that latitude. In Flori-
da, the orange trees, it is feared, are ru-
incd. In the neighborhood of Louis
vile, KY, we see by the accounts that
the peach and other fruit trees have been
killed by the frost. In North Carolina,
thousands of dollars have been lost by
the injury done to the pine trees of that
region, which furnish almost the only
article of trade in that quarter. In
Virginia the apricots have been almost
entirely destroyed. In Boston the
weather has been SO severe that, as one
of the Boston papers states, the linden
trees which adorn the sidewalks, split
with the frost as if q wedge had been
driven into them. From the West we
hear of Rail Road trains being showed
up weekly, and much suffering has fol-
lowed. The Rivers everywhere are fro
zen up, and every branch of business Sc
riously embarrassed.
In this section, scarcely is one fall OF
snow beaten down in the roads, ere an
other comes on top of it, making the
best sleighing ever known here.
"Lo how they hutter down,
And fill each secret nook,
The hidden brook,
And the house tops of the town,
And the chimneys as they look,
With yawning mouths, to all
The flakes, till in pail
Of white the earth is hid %
Within the last month we have seer
the highest fences literally buried il
the snow drifts. As yet we have heard
of but little suffering among the Stock
Partners say that eid crops n~exerlooket
better. The nourishing elements o
the earth, shut within its bosom so long
will act with renewed power and force
as soon as the reign of winter is over, SC
that the prospects of the coming year:
fru~itfulness is bright with hope in spite
of the severity of winter. The Peacf
trees and garden shrubs, it is to be fear
ed, have not Jared so well. Horticultu
rists set down lao as the lowest temper
ature the peach buds can stand. If this
be true, the peach crop must be entirely
destroyed in this region, for the temper
AZURE has been below that on several oc
c%asions this winter. However, we may
look forward with bright anticipation
for good field crops, which will full,
compensate for any other losses the Sc
verify of the winter will have caused us