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Rochester, New York. — The highest temperature of the month was at 7 a. m. 

 on the 20th, 5i° ; at the same hour next morning it was 7^. 



Nercark, New Jersey. — The mean temperature of January was more than 

 three degrees and three-quarters below the average of the month for the last 

 twenty-two years, and the minimum tem[)erature on the morning of the 8th was 

 unprecedented during the whole of that period. Coincident with the extreme 

 €old a remarkable rise occurred in the barometer, the mercury attaining 30,955 

 inches, (reduced to the temperature of 32°,) which is a higher stage than at any 

 time since the barometrical observations commenced in April, 1S45. The height 

 of tlie station above the sea is about thirty-five feet. 



Had don field, New Jersey. — In the afternoon t)f the 7th a rapid decline of 

 temperature began with a fresh northwest breeze which was piercing cold. The 

 mercury sank from 23° at 7 a. m. to 2° below zero at 9 p. m., and by the indi- 

 cations of a self-registering thermometer to 14° below during the same night, or 

 early on the morning of the 8th; at 7.20 a. m. of the 8tli it was 12° below by 

 Green's standard thermometer. On January 24, 1857, the temperature was 1:^;^ 

 below zero. The observer is not aware of a lower temperature having been 

 recorded at this place. The barometer reached its maximum at 7.15 a. m. of the 

 8th, when it stood at 30.532 inches, (reduced.) Height of station about fifty feet. 

 Greenwich, Neic Jersey. — The temperature on the 8th was lower than has 

 been remembered for nearly nine years, and the barometer rose higher than ever 

 before during the seven years the observer has had the instrument. Cohansey 

 creek, which was free of ice on the evening of the 7th, was frozen next morning 

 for the first time this season. 



Trenton, New Jersey. — January 8. — Delawai-e river fi'ozen over ; ice in canal 

 eight inches thick. This morning (12° below zero) is the coldest since January 

 24, 1857, when the thermometer stood 17° below. 



Ncio Brunstoick, New Jersey. — Barometer at 7 a. m., January 8, reduced, 

 30.967. Height of station eighty feet. 



Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. — January 8. — This was the coldest day of the 

 winter. Early in the morning the thermometer indicated a temperature of 9^ 

 below zero, the lowest during the whole time of these observations, now fifteen 

 years. The mean temperature of the whole day was 2|°. The mean temper- 

 ature of the 9th of January, 1856, was 1° below z^ro ; with that exception, this 

 was the coldest day observed. The barometer at 7 a. m. this morning was 

 30.757, the highest f )r fifteen years. 



Gramiiian Hills, Feniisylvania. — The month of Januaiy has been mostly 

 very favorable for out-door work; the roads generally hard; no great dejith of 

 snow; little or no mud; snows mostly light; no heavy rains, floods, or drifts. 



Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. — January 9. — The Susquehanna river closed 

 with ice. 



Horsham, Pennsylcania. — January 8. — The thermometer said to be lower 

 and the barometer higher this morning than ever known here before. 



Fallsir/gfon, Pennsylvania. — January 8. — Remarkable for the highest barom- 

 eter recollected. Delaware river closed. 



Byheiry, Pennsylvania. — January 8 was the coldest day known here for 

 many j'ears. Ice six inches thick. 



Nazareth, Pennsylvania. — January 6. — Temperature of a spring of running 

 water 50°. 8th. — Last night was the coldest known here for many years. 



Dyherry, Pennsylvania. — January 8. — Between 7 and 8 a. m. the tem])erature 

 was 23° below zero, the coldest since January 24, 1857, when it was 28^ below 

 zero. 19th, ice on natural ponds ten inches thick. 31st. — There has been no 

 really good sleighing yet this winter ; each fall of snow coming on dry frozen 

 ground, would not pack well, and melted in places before another came. Lum- 

 bermen seldom have so poor a winter to get their lumber to the mills and streams. 

 Atlanta, Georgia. — Temperature on the 19th at 7 a. m. 60°, at 2 p. m. 71°, 



