Tho railroads leading into Washington have
!><•< n obstructed by snow,fallen trees, telegraph
poles and wiies, so that the movement of
trains has been greatly impeded, if not alto
gether abandoned until this afternoon. How
ever, one or two trains straggled in over tho
Baltimore nnd Potomac railroad, but no regu
larity is thought of.
At the Western Union office it i$ learned
that its effect upon the wires was tho worst
ever known here, and Washington has been
completely isolated since Sunday night al 7
<» < |o. k Hardly a single wire, north, south
«-.< t or v\e*i is working. Tho wind has
1" I up a high velocity all day, nnd at 9
o'clock tonight it is growing colder. The
morning nnd evening papers of today appeared
without telegraphic information.
N i-.xx York, March 12. 7p. nj.—The storm
is im reusing and is absolutely unprecedented.
Business has been paralyzed. At the stock
exchange less than fifteen shares were sold,
the smalh st on record. The produce markets
wvr< all nominal. The steamers, City of Ber
lin and La Campagm* arrived out. The weath
er stopped tho courts; jurors and witnesses,
oven m murder cases, wore unable to reach
the city. I \er\ street <*ur in New York, Jor
t»ey t its and Brooklyn and elevated trains all
stopped Ihe Brooklyn bridge and ferries
were almost abandoned. Down town hotels
me ciammed with Hurburbauites. Tlio elevat
ed roads, which run three thousand trains
daily usually, were stopped for the first time
< n record \\ < Corners declare that Dakota
n< ver furnished New York’s bliz/anl of today
Os thirty mails that are tine between 4 o’c loch
mid noon, only two arrived by 2 o’clock this
afternoon.
