The Portland daily press., 1867-01-26

10 THE EDITOR OF TIE PRBss st1 .t
Did you get SO shockingly showed up in
Portland as We did in boston? Tradition
saith there was once on time such a stoIm
before in ye goodly town OF Boston-thourh
we can scarcely credit it--when trusting sub
ulbans came INTO The city in the morning to
their daily vocations, and it showed and snow
ed and blowed and blowed, till they couldn't
get home at night, and metropolitans had to
turn good christians and feed the ,.unary and
take III the strangers, Till drifts coulI be sboy
eled and railroads ploughed out.
After ten days Of clear cold weather and a
bright sun, and after a night OF cloudIess
moonlight, snow began to fall towards nom
ing. The horse cars went in from Dorches-
ter at SIX O'Clock, but at eight l met then,
struggling out with four horses. The cal
then going. in was crowded almost to suffoca-
ton, but from respect, to crinoline was
hustled inside, while Capsicus faced the bias,
without. In ten inmates his hair and beard
had become silver white, with icicles depend
ing nom eyebrows, nose and mustache-his
picture would admirably have illustrated the
Frost King. vino sladfo-a 3Enly i3n
In the city it showed and blew and drift
ed all day, and the horse-railroad companies
groaned and CRASHED their teeth, had blue
visions OF falling. and at one o'clock cot out
their hideous old coaches, and run the
wheeled carriages under cover, while the poor
horses fioundered through the drifts, and Pc
destrians, blind and cold and wet, sought in
vain to crowd into the little sleigh coaches.
few and far between. aai y oal vo8
No mails reached the postofiice, DO trains
went out, seven cars were stuck in the snow
between Salem and Lynn, the dcpots were
fairly thronged with anxious thousands. and
still it showed and blewand drifted. sre N
Children from the schools on their wsy
home stumbled into the drifts and would bave
sufiocated II passers had not helped them
out-and this morning there are sad heart
rendine stories Of children that never rneeacbef rs
their homes until borne thither. little Iiteles,
frozen forms, into griefstrieken and horror
stricken families. In one school room sixtee,
stald all night, and no one went near to car,
for them
"rhe shadb Of night were falling fast,
when two girls came in from round the cor
ner' the very pictures of despair and dismay
was tying up my ears with my scarf, secur-
ing my VEIL and putting on a pair OF Capsi-
cus's old socks over my boots preparatory 10
going out into the storm; but their disconso-
late faces and dolef1l stories OF driits as high
as tbeir. heads, reduced my courage to Zero
But went braveIy forth, and found it better
tban I hal expected. Washington street was
beinc vigorously shoveled, and the most disa-
greeabIc feature of my adventure consisted in
shovelluls of snow being continually thrown
upon me. bne.ls5mul ff5f i-J e-em i"'
When L appeared before Capsicus, he be.
rated me soundly for coming out, as his greet
ing but Isuggested that the scolding would
keep, but should melt if he didn't take the
broom and sweep me, or shake me, OF pull of
my gloves so that could shake myself. He
compromised the matter by doirg the shaking
sweeping and scolding all at one time, and
then he went to the station with me, where a
4 little coach was waiting with seats for ten
and about two hundred people trying to gct
into it. Dauntless, climbed on the steps
, Capsicus crowded me in, and crowded til,
, rest forward, and 1t was found TO be possibl
| to wedge in another small person on the seat