The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-01-09

point Passengers however, do NO. feel inclined TO quar-
rel az sieghs are in readiness 70 convey them farther
down.
The Fourth road walked up yes s,day, and by
O'clock in the afternoon had 1--WE running far
wsy Of getting direct this avenue The seghs belong
leg to the company burned At the ire In ccso
Der last in which their house ~ Forty street
was consumed.
Both the sixth and Eighth Avenue Railroads it will
doubtless b. reu embered commenced clearing their
tracks subsequent to The Storm and iatsr
rupted by the order Of the Mayor large force Of men
we're engaged upon each Of the tracks, out met with
WORK BY various parties insisting that entertainments
made either side Of the tracks impeded the travel Of
vehicles. At abont noon Mr. Eoatt Presidsn. Of the
Sixth Avenue Railroad Company, accompanied BY Mr.
ChaJck President Of the Eighth Avenue Railrosd Com
papy called the Mayor and stated the interruptions
tive roads His Honor the Mayor assured them that they
should be allowed 10 proceed with removing the snow
subject the conditions his of Sunday. Orders
accordingly issued to the police ains of the
Third, Fifth, Eighth, Ninth, Sixteenth, Twentieth and
Twenty FIRST wardshese being the wards through which
the tracks Of the two roads run-0 that further
interruptions be nierposed to the completion Of the
work. and also that the railroad companies comply with
presumed the villa BE- got running both tracks
to-day. Meanwhile the HUDSON River Railroad cleared
their track yesterday 20 to fetch their to the
The following an official statement of the hours Of
the arrival Of the several mails yesterday at New Ycrs
Harlem Railroad due 4P. NJ. arrived P. NJ.
Boston via Stonington steamboat due A. NJ arrived
1875 P. N.
Fall River steamboat, due 0 A. NJ; no arrival at
p. N.
Norwich steamboat, due A. M, arrived 1906 A. NJ.
Long Island Railroad, due $3.50 p M had only reached
Northern mail via Hudson River Railroad, due 1880
A. M arrived IL NJ. do. do. 1:S0 p NJ, arrived p NJ.
Erie Railroad due 1OeoA. NJ, arrived 1916 NJ do. do.
2:10 =. NJ, no arrival up to 5p. H.
Boston via New Haven, due 1880 7. NJ, arrived 4:50
New Havep due $50 A. NJ, arrived 12I5M
The Northern mail, due Top. NJ /; no arrival at mid
night
THE TEMPERATURE.
The Thermometer last evening to,k marked and feel
ing descent from the range in the morning. At NJ
eight degrees zero and midnight e had fallen 10
six degrees above The lowest temperature reached
heretofore during the present winter is twenty two de-
grees above zero.
A MONSTER sLEI0HING PARTY.
large sleighng party OF over two hundred gentlemen
and ladies starts to-day at noon from the st. Nicholas
Hotel There are TO be twenty sleighs drawn each by
eight horses. The company proceed to High Bridge,
where they will take supper
COLD JANUARYS.
179-Fom the 9th to the 30th of January, both days
included the temperature did rise shove the freezing
point for twenty consecutive days. The lowest tenn
perature two degrees above The cold filed
circle OF $50 hours and twenty sections Of second
circle This cold term Immediately preceded aud
ceeded by rain On the 10th of the month"; ice lodged in
the East river and people crossed upon Il to and form
Brooklyn.
1904 cold term commenced the 18th OF January,
and continued to the oath. Lowest temperature
The cold filed twelve sections OF the circle The
immediately preceded and succeeded by rain. The
temperature Thursday, the 18Th, at 2P. NJ was at
40 degrees above Zero and next morning at sunrise
at zeroa fall Of degrees in nineteen hours, and of
the most extraordinary changes noted in the United
states, the Presens century. The 18th was known as
th6 in uiro horn foro
1t that time. The six feet deep, and the
curry in the thermometer solid All the night Of the l8h
like the discharge Of voleys Of musketry cracking and
splitting with the sudden and great change aud the ice
Of neishbaring lake. about midnight was burst fsom
one extremity to the other by the cold producing crack
Of miles in length. The sound from this rupture was
like the discharge Of heavy ordinance continued and the
trees were killed by the frost.
1S20-21.--A cold term commenced the 3Oth Of De-
cember, $780, and continued to the 9th of January
1s21-ore than twenty-eight consecutive days and all
Ing entire circle and twenty egh. sections of second
CIRCLE The lowest temperature degrees bslow
month when misty rain fell while the temperature was
three degrees below the freezing point and became
n ss ON the sn Ct
TO and from Brooklyn. On the Goth thousands of per-
soDs crossed the North river to and from New York to
Pau US Hook The ice crossed at the Narrows, to
and from staten to Long Island and from Staten Island
to New York. The ice broke up at the NArrows the
30h of January, when the ice embargo vessels was
aely preceding the Of the cycle and it
closed with rain the 9th January, which commenced
falling when the temperature eleven degrees below
the freezing point Of Fahrenheit and continued for hours
while 1t remained below that line.
1t will be from this brief statement that We can
the duration OF the cold upon the great circle
by counting the consecutive hours during which the
temperature remains below the freezing point we
cannot tell how many hours 1t may extend beyond the
circle into second circle. Yet this il clear from al
the vatons which have been made and recorded
that the termination will be line of section Of
the circle and that il will be in rain, 10 glow from
the north which will melt the snow the surface as
rapidly could accomplish the hquidcation; there
fore should be taken to guard against the
quences Of food from RAIN like result from glow
in the atmosphere.
have commenced the work Of comput ing all the cold
cycles for 3 term of time extending period
bracpg two thirds Of century, but will require great
labor 10 complete it. Z. Merriam.
BROOKLYN HnGHTs, Jan. 8, 1855.
THE WEATHER ELSEWHERE.
WASHINGTON, jan. SIT. NJ.
The New York mail Of Monday morning arrived here
1t to-day. The Southern mail has ye. arrived.
I'LL.