The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-01-29
me Storm ns The Ner,h ma KI.ewaers.

The storm nj the Nevsh md Elsewhere
The Northern and Other papsrs received b nail
yesterday contain long accounts Of the storm and
il efects Ia Baltimoeo e coomenced about
O'Clock Saturday night The Patriot Of the follow
Ing Monday says:
Ten, and In some instances ~ many ~ twelve
10 ffteen fest Of the crystalissd vspor bad 10
| BE- dug away before N egress or fnsress could %
effected. Many amusing incideuts havo come I'M
der our notice this morning. but wsha only ume
| and room 70 record . coapae. genilemsa o0n 4,
| end, whilst q breakfast, concluded 70 remain
| housed for the day, but On thinking tor momsas
| he recoIlected he had note for . conadelsoas
amount TO pay and ~ he had al bis fanos .c0.'
him, he concluded to mako an attempt % ~ sr"n
| he Hrst tried his front door, but found the snow
drifted over the trausom; then be msde an snols ~
| ret ont the hack way when the same oHcuity
| presented itself, but being determineG m.n, ne
ascended to the second story OF his a~aADg auo
| by climbing across grape arbor ana over sundry
| fences he finally succeeded in reaching back
street and some hours afterwards his place Of bus.
| liners.
Wesaw q baker delivering bis bread 10 rather .
novel manner: on the side of the street which was
hare he vould deposit his basket and then take .
upply for his customer on the enlarged side,
| when by making sufficient notice to attract the
attention of the inmates to the second story win
| dow he would throw the loaf in
The New York Herald, speaking Of the appear
ance of that city next day, says:
The morning opened even more glcomily tbs n
| the night bad closed iu. An immense snow cloak
covered the city from Kings Bridge to the Bate.
~. This wind swept across the island in fierce
gusts, and drifed the snow in some places to the
depth of three or four feet Up town residents
looked in vain for early stages city cars. Cen
roeidinn W
pay down town, fattened their noses geomily
against the showed up window panes, reluctant to
| go out, and ashamed to stay at home.
|. The Boston Atlas, of Tuesday morning, says:
The snow is much drfted in nearly all our
Streets in Fleet street it Is 10 feet high and along
Commercial street from to feet; in Washington
| and Hanover streets 4 to feet and these may be
taken as fair criterion Ct the whole. All the
| horse railroads are covered and omnibuses on
/ runners supply the place of the cars The rail
roads. far and near. in New England. are all
| blocked, but strenuous exertions are being made
| to clear them.
No trains arrived in or started out upon the
Providence, Old Colony and Eastern Railroads
all the coastwise lines being very deeply covered
| and exceedingly drifted. On the Worcester Road
train left the city, but after proceeding a. far u
Brighton, returned
Our harbor is frozen over and covered with SHOW
at least two feet deep. Far as the eye can react
from the heights of East Boston, the barber AND
bay present almost an unbroken plain of snow
| without single line of blue water to mark chan
mel. The islands loom like great snow drifts an6
here and there small craft at anchor In the stream
looks like pie bald pony tethered to . tree.
writer in the Alexandria Sentinel, from War
renton. Fauquer, Va, says:
All communication from every section has beer
cut off in consequence of the roads being blocked
up by the snow drifts. We are showed in The
streets of our own town present sight never be-
fore seen by our oldest inhabtant being piled With
snow in many places from four to five feet in
depth. Sergeant Cologne however, soon made
pass ways by cutting canals through the centre
aad across the streets.
The Charlottesville, (Va) Advocate, says
The average depth was about 1S inches, but ow-
ing to very high Winds whilst it was showing the
| country is covered with immense drifts. At many
DO nts In Charlottesville the Northern sides of the
snow having heen piled up by winds as high fire..
| quently as eight and ten feet The county roads
| have not yet been broken, and, consequently all
communication has been cut off. Several negroes
has been frozen to death, in this county, during
| the present week One of them was q very old
| man, and when found good part of his face had
been eaten away by Norway rats, it is supposed
Der last, while Mr.. Blanchett of Grant county
| KY was in the mountains hunting, q young man
named Peter Jones, ran off with Miss Emma Blan>
| chett, his daughter, who was under age, and mar
duced his uncle and aunt to 60 to the clerk of the
Owen county court, and represent themseve s the
one to be Peter Jones and the other Miss Blan,
chett, and ask for license to marry, and they be-
ing both evidently over age the clerk issued the
license without asking any questions.
| They then left and handed over the license TO
Jones, who, In company with Miss Blanchett, went
| to a Rev. Mr.. Sparrow, who married them The
health and spirits ofMrs Banchett, Uhe mother of
| Miss Emma) as soon as she heard of what had
| occurred, became deeply affected. To give her
beautiful and lovely daughter up to Jones seemed
| to her worse than consigning her to the grave
| Mr.. Blanchett went over to Jones house and ac-
| costed him and his daughter in q friendly manner
deeply distressed, and that if she would come and
| see her he thought it would restore her. As for
himself, he said he had no objections to the mar
rage, but it was preying upon bis wifes mind and
| making her very unhappy. If Mrs. Jones would
only 60 with him and stay few days, be would
| satisfy her mother with her conduct and she could
| then return to Jones again.
| Well pleased with these representations, Mrs. j.
| went with her father, but remained several days
| longer than had been agreed on, and her husband
| therefore went TO Banchett's house to see what
| was the matter, but Mr. Bianchett and family had
| gone visiting to near neighbor that day
Jones found where they were, and his wife, who,
it seems, did not meet him with as cheerful smiles
| beaming on her countenance a. were seen when
| they parted few days before, he requested
| her to 20 home with him, but she refused, and
| informed him that she would have no more to do
| with him.
He went away and came back the same night
with a gang of rufians and attacked Blanchett's
house. he and his wife having returned home
| They broke down the door and rushed in, and
| then fight commenced. In the melee one OF
| Jones party was shot In the back, and Mr. Blan.
chett was struck over the head with the butt of q
| ho-sewhip, which knocked him senseless and
bleeding to the floor The Jones party, supposisg
| they bad killed Blanehett, retreated in haste
| carrying away with them Peter Jones wife, the
object Of their visit The peSsons injured are re-
| covering.
1t is said there were as many as twenty or thir.
| ty persons in the crowd who attacked Blanchetts
house. AS many of them as could be identified
were arrested the next day, and held to answer al
the next term of the Grand county court to the
| charge of An attempt at assassination.
| The Blanchefts are in humble circumstances
but are people of the highest respectability anc
| their daughter is one of the most beautiful anG
accomplished young ladies 10 Kentucky.-Cynthi'
| ana Neps.
| FRIGHTFUL GUNPowDER EXPLOSION. The
last English papers contained a telegraphc dis
patch, announcing a dreadful explosion of gun.