Litchfield enquirer., 1864-01-14

oay 0eVOtes seven c0iumns 10 an .eccOunt O the blocking snow storm and intensely cold weather which have been experienced in all the Western States. The railroads were block cd in every direction, many trains being stop ped midway of theirs journey; and the passsn- gers exposed to great suffering from the cold i. A train on the Michigan Central road got stuck thirteen miles from Chicago. ssd the Cleveland Herald gives the following account of the suferisEs of the passengers:
 The cars on that road are provided with patent stoves. which Wll bnrn oaly when the cars arc in motion, and consequently when the cars stopped, the fires vent out. The weather was intensely cold the tkermemstef being tbirtytwo degrees below ss.o. aud the suffer ings of the passengers became intenss. partie- ularly those of the womeu and children. No h:e could be started for sufficient length of time ts do any good. The tsp of the pipe would become red-hot and set fire to the top or tae car several times, which was only put out by cutting away the wood -wsrk.
 There were five passenger cars in thef train, well nled-about oas hundred and egtv m all, largs number Of whom were Wonef,. asd ehildrsn. What added te the arearipsss. Of the scene, as the night wore on, was. tbat the lights as we'll as the fire gave out, he eoId increased in intensity, and the snov bses,ne four or i've feet in depth, in huge drifts Bv this time all the passengers became complets. y chilled through. The women and children were elevated on the top of the seats, where the air was warmer, and everything done for their comfort that could bs; but without fro, lgnts or food, out on bleak prairie, thsir suffering was terrible. HThAy lny fhara fronn Thr..4l.- till Friday morning, when a train On tbe Michigan Southern road arrived, which al so |, became blockaded and could proceed no fur. sher. Preparations were immediately made tn, renoVs tns passengers to tas MieSigau Southi srn cArs' where warmth could be procured. A perfect stampede occurred. passsnasrs fearing they would be left. Many of ths women and children were unable to halp thersslyes and had to be carried from one ear to tha othsr
 They remained on the Michigan Southern cars. till Saturday night, suffering from the cold and vast of food. They were finally takes oil by slsighs and carried to Chicago"
 A dispatch to the Chicago Trs5wss from St. Louis states that on tss North N issoull railroad, 10, ,oo0 hogs have frozen to death, an an lmmenss number of cattle have frosen ali along the railroads. In mary places at the West the thermometer wss from thirty to thlrty-piRs degrees below zero. A number sf persons frozs to death. aud larger number. will be naimed for life In soms places the snow driftsd to depth of twelve feet.
 Of the storm generally, the Tribune says:
 From the eastern boundaries of Ohio ,o the plains of Kansas; from the extreme south of Illinois to the northern liu,ita of Michigan and Wisconsin, the storm has rsrsd in uncontrolled fury. The vast expapse of Ger ritory known as the Northwest has been bowed down by its visitation. Like the siroc- co Of the desert it has taken in it's braad sweep almost continent and devastation has ,fs'ke it's course. ca ths level prairips Of Illinois the storm has held high carnival no natural barrier iuterposed to check it's pro- gress, it has leveed all befors 1t ia cue fell s"oop. For days, perhaps weeks, tba sad re- cord will rest with constant aceessiops, As rom places situated catsido Of the regular lIne of railroad and telegraph conlmunicstion, the details will arrivs'
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 WILLIAM MAKEpEAcx THAcKxsAY-Mr. Thackeray the novelist, whose death was sn nounced by the last steamer was born in lSl l, in Calcutta, his father residing there in the service of the East India Company. He was sent to England at the age of seven, and subsequently studied at Cambrdge Universi. ty. though he never graduated. At the age of twenty-one, he came into possession of a oou- petent fortune, and spent some time in for. eigu travel and miscellaneous study Hayiur proved unsuccessful in speculation, he enter ed upon the career of authorship at the age of thirty. and became contributor to the Lon- don Times, Frasers Augustine, and subss. quently to Punch. For number of years, however. he won no special distinction. "van- ity Fair," published in numbers through lS46 AT, and illustrated by the author, placed him. at once among the first of fictitious writers " Vanity Fair' was followed by " Psndsnnis,' which anpaared as A serial and was -con uis.