The quantity of snow which fell in places
is said to have exceeded two feet. The
storm appears to have traveled over all
Western and Southern Europe. At Turin
the Raumur thermometer indicated eight
degrees below zero, (the freezing point.)
That city is nearly under the same parallel
of latitude as Montreal; but its winter
usually corresponds with that of Rich
mond. In England numerous steam-boiler
explosions happened about that time in
private houses, apparently owing to the in
tense cold.
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Washington, Jan. 23.
Suspicions have lieen excited in official
circles here, relative to the manufacturing
at Chicopee and elsewhere in Massachusetts,
of a battery of James’ rifled cannon, for]
South Carolina, and believed to l>e design
ed for the reduction of Fort Sumpter.—
Measureswill be adopted to verify the facts
and arrest the treasonable work.
Bills are being preparol by the Military
and Naval Committees of the House and
by the Committee on Waysand Means, for
immediately placing the country on a war
footing.
The President will be amhoiized to
call for the enlistment of volunteers. A
considerab’e numl er of war. steamers will
ba forthwith ordered to be constructed.
Decline in the Value of Property.
—A letter to a member us Congress from
«Louisiana mentions that p-npert) lately
kahujd nt $60,000 Ins been sold for |9,000
ton twelve months time.
VOL. XII, NO. 33.
JAoyw, Help Your AtotHer.
It looks bad to see three or fuiir large,
robu»t boys sitting around the kitchen stove
toasting their shins, cracking nuts and eat
ing apples, while thwir mother—a slender,
feeble woma>», lugs in wood from the shed,
wets hur feet going through the snow for
water, and stands in the damp, chilly cellar
cutting meat for breakfast.
