Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1861-02-15

abhouch sentiments, would denounce the
men who should utter them; 50 they cover
them up under the specious phrases of g No 4
Coercion =" and /" Compromise. /
TIE WEA7HER.-Last week Thursday as
one of the mos. uncomfortable Gays
we have had in q long time. The |
storm, which it will be seen from our
telegraphio dispatches was wide spread,
ragged here with great fury. Few persons
were in the streets during the day, and |,
fewer still in the evening At 10 P. NJ
Thursday the thermometer indicated eigas,en !
5elolo zero, the wind blowing gale. Next |
morning at O'Clock, the thermometer stood |
at tpenty-nine 5e'o,0 zero. The wind has
pretty much ceased. and the sun shone, but
with not much effect upon the general tenn
perature The mercury stood at lis at one
O'Clock
The coolest temperature Of last winter wa
-l37 on the LIST Of February. The coolest
temperature Of 1859 was-32o ca the 10th Of
January, the coolest ever noted in this place.
In 1857, Jan. ODD, the thermometer stood
at rs one degree higher than last FIJI
day.
At White River Junction tie mercury
showed SOC Friday morning, having fallen
4ldegraes in Eve hours At Rouse's Point it
was SO
OF course such weather Las its effect on
the railroad trains The train from the East
due here ST. P. NJ. on the eth stopped for the
night at Mortified that from the North,
at St. Adams, and No trains passed over the
| vt. Central next morning.
The evening train from the South left
Yergennos about half-past seven, and sue
ceeded in getting within four miles Of Bur
lington, where it was set fast in 4 cut,
showed UP and frozen in. As soon as in4or-
nation reached hcre,-which was not till
morning, az no one could be found, for a
long time, willing to start out with his team
on 50 Indictment 4 night,-three engines
were sent down, and the train, five engines
il all, succeeded, about noon Friday. in get
ting within 80 rods Of the depot. There the
train was again stuck fast. The passengers
ventured to walk in the rest Of the way, AZ
ter being, some Of them, twenty-lour hours
in the train without food.
The train that left New York at 6 p. NJ .
Thursday, on the Hudson River Railroad, at
half past 10 next morning had reached Tar
| rytown-27 miles.
Nearly two hours were spent. THURSDAY eve 1
ning,in tbs attempt TO force a train from the .
lower Vermont Central Depot 10 the upper /.
| Depot, in tLis place. Two engines were una /
be to bring Up even one car.
The mercury at = o'clock Saturday stood
at q degrees below zero. r vas rising !
rapidly during the day.
We learn that several accurate thermome.
ters in town INCLUDING Prof Patty's).
marked 50 below zero Yesterday morning.
This is as low as the lowest temperature ever
recorded in Burlington.
The storm of Thursday Is considered the
severest for ten years past, and tie conse-
quent arrangement Of trains has been pro-
portionaHy great.
On the Vermont Central on which no
tram has failed entirely for seven years. the
stoqpase Of trains west of Mortified was en-
tire-and the night Of Wednesday and the
day OF Thursday were spent IN an arduous
conflict with the drifts which were often,
Tor the time being. too much for the snow
ploughs and engines to master. The terri
bic severity OF tie weather, Tremendous
gale blowing at temperature Of 20 and 50
degrees below zTo, rendered all outdoor
labor almost insupportable; but energy and
perseverance carried the day, and at little
before Midnight, Saturday night. a train (
from the Eas;-5-ing Tie first train
oyer tic length q tie -oad, for over
tir,y-si- hours-arriysi 81. tits place.
Among the incidents o: the "hard time. - 4.
were the running CT one O. 1850 locomotives +
OF from toe track, and the secession Of big /
snow plough, which, driven by two engines, v
bo!ted from the track, below Waterbury, L
turned somerset, end for end and capsized, c
50 far clear Of the rails, as to allow the en- a
gines to 90 BY at speed without leaving the :,
track. Seven men were II the plough, who P
luckily escaped with slight bruises. b
The storm to the Eastward Of the Con-
necucut was Of rain up to Thursday noon, a
when the weather changed with will. The f'
mercury al Hanover, \. H., stood at 81 a