The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-01-24
THE COLD SNAP.


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LION was deepened by the comparatively moderate
her OF Tuesday, when there really signs Of thaw
At the same time We received despatch from Boston
where they get up great deal of dsagreeable weahor
announcing mild temperature, with indications OF rain.
che wafer pipes ran merrily aganthe matutinA bath
was resumed-ohemcal exper ments gas metres were
no longer uecessary-the baker and the milkman
.hawed out-one two malls arrived, and one or two
railway trains departed with embargoed stransershe
ladies ventured out and Broadway resounded with the
music of the pleasant sleigh bells. Tuesday night
and Wednesday devoted the seighing carnival
Many were joly-aH were comparatively comfortable.
But this too good 10 last Our Arctic instalment
had been only partially exhausted To the cant of
the Sage Of Brooklyn the col cycle not completed
Thursday night closed in bitterly cold The few strag
giers in Broadway after midnight obliged to have
recourse the most violent exercise to keep the cir
cuation The sky the coldest looking sky We ever
saw and the stars were a. 10y a Q prima donna to
critic who has said that she sung out Of tune. The
garrote robbers skulked in the low grogyes and the
pooemen fingered by the station house stoves. During
the night the cold became intense. The house,
wives again In despair The erring sinner had
chance 70 return, because the gas positively refused 10
hold out 10 burn-even the destinations Of alcohol being
resisted The Croton CONCEALED In the ppes-everythnz
was below zero
New York below zerol Think OF 1t. ye happy truants
who have flown 70 Havana New Orleans-thi Of IT,
and give your sympathy. New York seven degrees
below zerol Why, II is outrage. There has been
nothing like within recollection, and sincerely
hope there will never be again.
Added to the household miseries WAS the suffering
from frosty noses frozen Boards conseaed and icy
toes In the streets. How TO get down yesterday was
question that puzzled many New Yorker. If he took
stage sleigh he the risk Of being frozen before he had
ridden half mile- he attempted to waik he found the
Sidewalks olaee In every Of the word. The wind
very high and enveloped hun in cloud Of dne snow
then be would lose hs hAt-running atsr his hat he
would lose his footing and down plump the ice
which produces most uncomfortable sensation; he was
obliged to take heed his steps to avoid falling there
fore could not walk rapidly enough 10 dfspe the ef
fecss OF the cold curling mousacho adorne1 with
pendant icices-hs had that peculiar cold boiled
porky feeling which that member sss when the ther
romecr gets down. and his burned like the face OF
young lady when she gets her rss lover on his knees
II wss too cold for the boys who revel in winter
sports-the skates negectedthe sled grew rusty
There is adjective that remember which can
cxpress how cold II WAS was too cold at the
weather cold talk about 1.-THE words roze the
iips and people with weak lungs must have suffered
terribly. New York with two or three weeks OF such
weather would degenerate into EsqumAux settlement
and the South Americans would send up expeditions
Kane 10 ind out what are like.
II 1t any consolation 20 suffering readers to Know
that they are alone Ia their misery VIII state the
fact that people great deal more icy than We
are. In Quebec yesterday the thermometep marked
thirty degrees below zero In Montreal twenty eight
Albany the Legislature did several cool things with the
thermometer ct twenty beloW: a White River juno
lion, Vermont, they must have needed their extra
b.ankets with the mercury touching the Same figure ~
, ut Albany; The Bostonisns punished for their
numerous sins rate Of sixteen below corruption a
Washington must have languished under the intense
oold for that binful region, Of four degrees below
while here In the metropolis the lowest point touched
was four degrees below and that viii do for beginning
We give below particulars OF the effects OF this
cold term The suferngs Of mariners and others com
peed 10 labor In exposed situations beyond descrp
Nou and everything possible should be done 10 alleviate
them Tho poor should not be forgotten, and
people The instincts OF humanity will
mako the sidewalks safe for pedestrians. either by re-
moving lcs or by the liberal use OF ashes.
THE MALL.
The businsss community ere suffering from the Late sr
val OF the various mails throughout the country conss
,ueu, on the state of the different railroads The Erie
yslroad mail due at Up. NJ Thsrsday, did not arrive IN
this city Until $40 A. H., Friday morning The Boston
mail due at Sis r. H. Thursday, arrived here yesterday
morning a, co. and thst due in New York ai midnight
was only forthcoming h 22o Friday afternoon The
Southern mall due at p NJ Thursday, got In a 1870 p
H., next day; the osher which should have been In at
p ~ Thursday, arrived s Tis mex, morning, and the
one due at A. NJ Friday, did not show itself until Tso
lest eveniug.
roe ueh exprcss which len Albany Thursday night
a,sls did no, arrive in This city unsp O'Clock yes
terday afternoon The delay caused by the snow,
which had drifted during the day and night upon the
track The Has and Las expresses, which left Chambers
street on Thursday did not arrive In Albany I'LL 10 A. M
yesserday The rst through train from Albany yesier'
tsv arrived In Chambers street about O'Clock r. M
10th the morning expresses we're made Into one Train OF
cars The delay caused by scatue train on the main
tvsck a, schodack which len Albany At IL on Thursday
morning, and was showed under nearly twenty-'our
no,, The obstruction 10 now removed, and the road Is
c,a.x The express which len the city at 30 yes
,.,a.v .s DELAYED two hours s Cobsprns by the down
crpress which had run into snow bank Thursday snd
Friday were colder days ION the Hudson) Than any pre-
vou. ,h winter rno, forgetting the nights Tpe wind
bsr . psrfccs hurricane Thursday, and drifsed the
spew even worse than kcndsysstorm'
We received tho following from he New YORK 70"
odics, ,<evous 70 going to press
10 rIs spnos oy rHv psAtp
Po,r OfFcE, NEW YORK, !
Friday Evening, Jan. 23-s CLOCK.
evening would that southern mall brought
nv the Camden and Amboy boat, ri 30 this evening
SI., and go also New Orleans Of the ,h and 2,h 70
vethcr with mails from Intermediate places south
Very respectfully, THOMAS CbAnh'
THE STREETS.
Nsv YORK xas never In q more dangerous state
yards ,hs sidewalks than yesterday The previous warm
ve.,ber had effected pussulsr condition Of the pave
ss end the oruel frost OF Thursday night fross the %
eusrc surface into ulutudinous little blsck, polished
bu,ochs. over which Wa impossible 70 walk without
slipping nwas positively dangerous for pedestrians IN
LEES great care were taken fact vhcb our citizens sp
precstsd and therefore walked with their dorsa oouma'
bent st angle Of something Ike forty I'VE degrees
such sssse Of things might easily be obvased by poc'
regulation why not bouseholders compelled 70 keer
clear the sidewalks in front OF their residences and stores