New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-02-09
THE WEATHER.

AT the noon Of Thursday the weather had the soft
ness Of early Spring In four honrs 1t was nipping
cold and the wind-But the Wind deserves a capital
letter and q separate mention. No one could tell
whence IL came; few cared 20 know whittier it went;
it was fact of much greater public interest that it
blew where il listed and il listed TO blow pretty much
everywhere especially affecting street corners
This wind of Thursday more savagely than usual, at
tackled the heads of and the feet OF the other EEK
IL ia probable that more hats blown OF during
two hours than for long time before. Two and three
at a puff bowled along Psrkrow together and went
eddyng about Printing House square, while the owners
followed hard after, always chasing the wrong one.
Among the few spectacles which can excite the emo
tons of used mp American the sight of running
after his bat il the most effective and Thursday af
tenoon there was rich sport for the tired soul When,
with fierce rush for his property, the unfortunate
owner Of the bet overShoots his mark, lofea bis
foothold and sits with an abrupt conclusion direct
ly upon the Grant beaver, smashing il into
disreputabe and drunken thing in a moment, while
the well-bred spectators pleasantly smile and coarse
bows loudly laugh W. led TO acknowledge that the
world Ia not all duh place. sDd that there some fun
yet left TIE amusement is not through when the vie
tim has fairly seated himaelf on his bat TIA philo
ton from the accident The man rises end makes that
contraction of the facial muscles which rosses for
smle in moments Of mental aDguish he hastily shakes
ont bis shapeles CASTOR and hures of as Ii ne ddnt
care; but We know he will stop &c soon as he goes
round the corner and tendery repair the damage prob
ably swearing. Then, too, the kindly oicous indiyld-
ual who volunteers to after another mans hat and
who invariably teads on it at the moment Of capture
is an interesting study The gratitude OF the owner
toward the captor is touching.
But it was not long before the cold pnt an end 10
laughter. Peoples faces grew 90 still that they
could mt even grim and then city began to take ise
within dcoss az rapidly possible The lat old apple
woman on the corner Of Spruce street suspended,
hustled her fruit newspapers, and short pipe into her
barrel broke up her shop, and carried the entire estaO
lshment into alley, pausng ofien to blow warmth
into her purple hands. They Who'll live the water
rushed coward the ferries like hungry men 10 a steam
| boat dunei, each one saying unto mis- neghbor:
| irighuully cold night
Aud when the night came, it vas, indeed, irghtfuly
| cold The wind hal dropped iJs playful disposition,
ard armed itself with il direst panoplyswls augurs
rcd hot pincers bands Of son for the brows, strong
vices for the feet. Sage drivers neglected TO thump
on the roof for reluctant fares but dceve heavily along
in congeaing unooncen hardly stopping at tie theater
doors 10 say they were going all way up Brdway.
Male humanity on foot progressed IN shutting dog
rot often turning 20 backward against the breeze
Woman chung TO her pr ecOr with delightful close
meas. Children, iDjudiccusly OF accidentally out,
were TOO much bewildered TO weep and tremoled
along looking at outdoor LIE with sort OF dazed
astonishment And al who bad homes went to them
at full speed Then the wind having driven the oftu-
nate ato their h0ufes busted itself in tearing of sigma
H--ultiog policemen, unroOlng buildings overiuniDg
ash barrels, swinging shutters with bang like minor
artillery; and s howlngs, and whslngs, and shrek
ings came 10 the ears of all who sat by the living fire
or Rugged soft bedding around their cbins.
But the lodgings Of those who had 10 homes There
was rare hunting ground for the Cold and The Wiad
Up the alleys, up the rafting staircases through the
black rooms down the unused chmIeys went ths pair
probing the small heaps OF rags called clothes and tor
turing the wretcbed life they found there, they
irugtlcncd the hours Of the weary night. When the
morning came il was not much better with the poor,
except that they could hear sounds beside the
roaring of the wind without and the moaning of the
pershng within and, through the bitter cod Of the
day, they gloonly Anticipated another fearful night
Wcll-houFed people spoke much Of these sufferers at
their breakfast tables yesterday such sudden and sharp
appeals To charitable souls rarely being III vain. Even
the Hon. Philo Iammon experienced some misty doubts
whether his tbousanddolar subscription 70 "a distant
Gospel enterprise had taken from his shoulders all
responsibility toward them whom he Las always with
him, and he was actually 10 relax stubborn rule,
and give pecuuiary aid to something not "a WELL
known cLarity'-ue something being very bony, dark
with cold and having child frozen to death in the vile
! hole che called her home.
While ialuisitye gentlemen, with cheap scientific
p.opensies, study Mr. FahTenheits invention and OBJ
the rise and fall Of the mercury It will not be
less interesting, willie much useful for others 10
consult the thermometer of humanity, and take their
according to its Indications But for the sat.
isacOr of ihose who find comfort in such statements
ii may he well TO state that the thermometer at the
Meteorological observatory in Brooklyn varied as
follows:
p Thermometer 81 deg. a. m, Their q deg below