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tent than usual; in consequence tlicy are now quite low. The latter portion of 

 January has been very pleasant. At the end of the month there is barely 

 sufficient snow for sleighing. 



Garrison's, New York. — January has been marked by mucli overcast weather, 

 and frequent rain and snow ; but the aggregate is less than last year in the same 

 month, and streams are correspondingly low. It is feared the alternate exposure 

 and snow has already done much injury to grain and fruit. The river at this 

 point remains firmly closed, and crossing for all purposes of traffic is safe. 



South Trenton, New York. — Distant thunder on the 20th, with heavy rain. 

 "VYater is very low in wells, and the ground frozen, on an average, Iburtecn inches. 



Theresa, Kcto York. — Distant thunder in the west on the 20th a little before 

 7 a. m.; tv\'enty-three peals, forked lightning; passed otf to the north about 9 

 a. m. 



Nichols, New York. — There was hardly a day of good sleighing in January, 

 and when the ground was covered with snow at all, it was generally not more 

 than two inches, and every few days the ground was wholly bare. Tlie cold 

 on the 7th and Sth was more intense than before in a number of years. 



Palermo, New York. — January 1. — The winter thus far has been unusually 

 open and mild. 9th. — The sky for the past few days has been very dark blue, 

 and the cold has been more intense and of longer duration than for a number of 

 years. lOtli, temperature of water in Avell 44^. 31st. — This has been the 

 coldest January but one during the past eight years ; the coldest was in 1S63. 



Hector, New York. — January 7. — The cold weather has killed the peach buds. 

 31st, temperature of water in a well 32 feet deep, 47^. 



Depauville, New York. — January 5. — Yesterday there was good boat crossing 

 on the liver St. Lawrence, (at Clayton, six miles from here,) but the river froze 

 over last night, and affords this morning gbod crossing on the ice. 19th, 

 sleighing since the 13th. On the 16th and 17th the snow drifted in the roads, 

 and is in some exposed places three feet deep. On Chaumont bay the ice is 

 now twenty inches thick. 20th, lightning from dark clouds in the northwest at 

 3.30 a. m.; thunder-storm north at Q>.25 a. m. ; six thunder claps were counted, 

 of which the fourth was the loudest, shaking buildings and striking a stump 

 about a mile northwest from here; there was a heavy but short shower. 31st, 

 good sleighing since the 25th. 



Buffalo, Neio York. — The winter thus far has been an open one, only twenty- 

 six inches of snow in all. The first snow in January to whiten the earth c;ime 

 on the 4th, and the first to make sleighing on the IGth. The mean temperature 

 of the mouth was five and a half degrees lower than the average for eight years. 

 Lake Erie was closed at this point on the 6th. There were severe gales on the 

 IGlh, 20th, and 21st. 



Newhurgh, New York. — During the latter part of December, and up to Jan- 

 uary 4, the weather had been very moderate, but in the afternoon of the 4th the 

 wind changed to the northwest, and by the morning of the .5th the thermometer 

 had Mien to 4^. In the afternoon of the 6th the river closed, and on the Sth 

 people crossed all day on the ice. 



Neio York city, {Columhia College.) — January S. — The moisture formed by 

 the burning gas froze inside of the street lamps; oil lamps in the street cars were 

 extinguished by the oil congealing. A high wind from the northwest has pre- 

 vailed for two days. A professor and several students of the school of mines 

 had their ears badly frozen this morning. The barometer has been higher than 

 ever recorded here before. Although the temperature was lower than for many 

 years, the average of the day was not so low as on the 3d of February, 1855. 



FishkiU, oil Hudson, New York. — The cold of the 7th and Sth has prob- 

 ably killed the peach, cherry, and plum buds. 



