New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-03-03
TIE RETURN OF WINZER.

When :ke people Il his ,ti7in, pan Of the word
woke up yesterday morning and pee-ed nto the ,rests,
they io1Dd TO Their great .sca,sbmen. tbs. the
had gore back fiom the mid rccon oisp:-- and We
ps.ssg through the great January sDoT-storD. The
.suc roar NJ aoG-h wind the tornado Of beet and
,now, seencd once mo,e 70 have made nigh. of 4.
There was moreover, q disa-eeab,e addition, AID thst
ives the ,oose dir q :hc streets which blown ebou.
with the snow, covering everything With depos;: Of
mud ard manure.
The snow began to fail moderately ct about 10
o'clock Sunday hight but soor ceased and AZ m,do sht
:. vos a mater Of douot whether rain OF snoE or f.ir
weather would be the order Old Winter, however,
concluded u have grand blow before ED ~ he
sc4p.er and he 2s;he-ed MS strength in the North,
ard N short TINE came down IKE the wolf on The
'oll. The wind, settling steadily in the North, blew
with the ioice Of tropical hurricane; the snow stsd
down faster and faster untl The ar seemed one mass
Of fine flakes, wAIliDg ana sweeping in every possible
Disorder 80 q foot or more Of snow FELL or tired DO
aJ though the larger ;or.op CT i il yet the wing,
blown this way aud that without the possibility Of
landp..
About noon tho srov s,sclzened, bu. ne gale con
;Iued n full strength. Where sharp corner mar
row passage cramped he wind II was almost impossible
% sand before K. Immense clouds Of snow, warhDg
high above he ;a,es buildings, were driven through
the streets way staggering in double over
coats and ,ey encague boot, ard bEndy running into
each Der; s,8ges wen slowly and heavily creeking
along under fo1r-horse power; outdoor business was
entirely suspended, and half New-Yo-k spent the day
frowpngly and npaii.nly slowering from freezing
windows upon ~ inter rcysterng in the lap Of
Spring" while tAe shrek Of the wind and the rafting
OF tie seet finished picture that would aid 10 the
savage horrors Of Nova Zomba.
YET. the time-honore9 Maxim be true, we may no.
be 90 miserable after all March, said the Almanac Of
old tradition, in Ike Ion and goes ont Ike
lamb; or vice vera, as The BEGINNING may be. If
this March goes out lamb ike ~ it comes in Ion
ike, it, doom-lay will be a. delightful The fares Of
June.
or courte there ia tlo.ale on the railrosde, and
more delay an arrangement Of travel will be the
cult. Fortunately .or vessels, the wind was of tae
coast, and they we're in greater peul than that O.
being blown on. TO sea. The hGrbor was embarcoed;
no Ealing vessel could stir. Ferryboats running,
but slowly and with much difficulty.
During the night the wind vas unusua7y strong,
as testified ly the scattered limbs Of trees in the
parks and &c tom awnings and broken ,igns along
the streets ~ Q o clock il was comparatively mid
Tor an hour; but at noon it again Up to hurri-
cane pitch, and at times one could hardly see across
the street fjr the dense cloud OF snow and dirt.
an the afternoon the gale maintained i's full strength,
but no snow fell and tlst in the streets became 50
dampened that Il could not be blown about.
The eiing was cold, with no abatement Of the
wind; indeed, it seemed to gather fury with the dark
ness and hoged and s.Jieked through the city mOst
dsmally Railroad trains were looked for in vain, and
hundreds of people who meant TO 20 to Washington to
the Inauguration were wea.h er-bound, and turned
homcward.
By or dspa.cbes we learn that tie storm has been
general al along the seaboard from Virginia TO
Maine, and by no mcaGs moderate in the interior Of
this and The Eastern States.
The condition OF the ralroads starting from this city
is SET forth N the paragraphs below, gathered from
personal observation and inquiry.