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= eee 6 THE The Snow Blockade in the City and Throughout the Country, STORM. Accident on the New Jersey Railroad. Disasters to Shipping, Detention of Mails, &eo. ke. de, Yeswerday there was a more serious detention of mails ‘which should have arrived at the General Post Office than has ever before been known. The Washington mail, due at half-past six P. M., bad not arrived up tos Yate hour last night, The Boston maif is over due seve- va} hours, Iu fact no mail arrived. from any point Rest Deyené New Haven, and nothing west of Harrisburg, Pa The mail due on the Hudson River road at Dalf-past twelve P. M. did not reach this city ‘anti! half-past four P. M., bringing nothing west of Albany. The Harlem mail, due at balf-past three P. M. esterday, bas not been beard from. The maiis on the Morris and Essex Railroad,are still bloeked up at Morris- town. A despatch announcing this fact says:—‘' We are snowed under, and cannot get up or down.” The ‘Wew Haven way mail, due at half-past ten A. M. yester- ‘day, did not arrive untid half-past five P. M. The ‘Washington express, which left at eight A. M. yesterday morning, was at Branswick, N. J., unable to move, ata date hour last night. Since eight A. M. yesterday no ‘twains have gone South, ‘There was considerable delay tp the transportation of ‘We mails between the Post Office and the several de- pots, The wagons were detaied at the Jersey City epot, waiting for the incoming mails, leaving no alter- mative for the clerks of the Post Office but to follow the primitive fashion of transporting the bags on their backs to the ferry. At midnight last nignt the rost Office Clerks were still awaiting the arrival of detained mails, ‘and an extra force was detaiicd by the Superintendent to aseist in distribution should any of the mails arrive, The agent from Philadelphia, who left that city at half- past four o’clock on Thursday afternoon, was not able tu weach New York unti) eight o’clock last evening, having ‘been twenty-eight hours on the road. The following trains trom Washington aro now de- tained at New Brunswick, N. J.:—The 7:30 and 11:15 A.M. and 6:50 P. M. of Thursday. The 8 A. M. of yesterday from Philadelphia, ia also biocked up at that place, with but little prospect of reaching this city im- modiately. The Great Westera wail via Central New Jersey (Allentown route), which was sent from the gen- eral Post Office to the railroad depot, was returned to the efce yesterday, it being found impossible to got be- yond Barrisburg, Pa. Tho Erie Railroad is mow very little obstructed, and traics are running on time. Yesterday morning the truind wore oniy one hour and a half bebiad their proper time. Nowe of the Long Island trains were able ¢o run dur- ‘mag tbe greater pert of yesterday. New Jersey. ‘was only a! ten minutes past seven last cvening that ‘tbe train which left Washington at haif-pest seven on ‘Tbursday morning arrived at Jersey City. It bad been ‘simost buried in 8 sngw drif at the Baptist Roads, end 9 sow plough, with all the force behind, was uneqaal ‘te the resistance, eves when with incessant labor pas- sengers and officials had partially cleared off the snow. Bony of the fared miserably, The terrors of explosion, collision or actual burial in the enow kept ‘many In a etate of giddy agitation, Afraid to trust them- @elves tn the cars and unxbie to endure the ald withoul, ploughing through snow p, . aud continually calling for ferns their the @no officia! at every or sit trains, du te fc Shere prov sev e twenty-four bours previous, in the wake and arrived within the same heur jestination, Jersey City railroads were all blocked up, but ut om which afforded excelient scoommo- but those to Hoboken were dearly paid for, an The Hudson City and i ine figs ieftaed Two locomotives at the train, while strvcied by suowdrifte; and at the time of the veing level and time ves were plunging ahead Mhirty miles aa hour. ‘The accident was caused if aot overturned, usted iu ite overihrow like 4 the . 0 sepa. thet My brongbt the care 3 ft tometer, tbe forward tar wes a litle abead 1y and abo. une h HF = i j Hy i NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1867. THE EXCISE LAW. ‘The Rush for License Permite at Headquar- ters Unabated—The Signs of the Unlicensed te be Taken Down om Tuceday—Order ef Supers nt Keunedy, &e. ‘The Inspector of Excise had another heavy day’s work yesterday in attending to the applications of liquor THE SOUTH. ‘The snow '4 90 deep im some of the streets as to render thm utterly impassible. It te estimated that the snow '8,¢wo feet deep om @ level, The trains on the 10" railroads are snow bound. None left after = aad at some ef (he depots the cars were impro' Ingo hotels and filled with disappoi mortals who were unsuccessful 1p reaching their suburban homes, ‘A child twelve years of age porlahed in the storm at South Boston. A man im employ of one of the ice companies, while endeavo ing to make bis beg d across: lespaired MEXICO. sinstic Reception of Juarez im Du- The Liberals on the Track ef the os Enemy, &e. Say Fxancreco, Jan. 18, 1867. Correspondence from Durango, dated December 27, states that Juares arrived in that city on the day before, , abundantly compensated. THE SOUTHERN PRESS. The Volees that Guide the Southern People— The Bane and Antidete. Fresh pond, was so badly frozen that his life is d received ® most enthusiastic reception. He was | dealers for permits to keep opem house during legal " State Alabama of, Two 700s aisle mame taben tale. tee Kast Boston tecoried by over sia thousand eitizens and entered the | hours until such time as the Board of Rxcise convenes ee ee pragres Cee oe a re a re city amid the roar of cannon, the ringing of bells and | to consider their applications, From as early an hour as | 1 Uli carer ag: sea sa ia se a) A litte girl named Mary Nolan, aged twelve y great rejoicing of the people. the cultivation of cottom by free labor was (From the Mobile Advertiser, Jan. 9. a me Next day the President commenced operations against Astiempted. As a goncral thing the farms had beon but | ,,.vaciste in heart, broken Jn fortanes, vi sous of © Commodore George 8. Blake was lost in the storm | the invaders, Am army, two thousand strong, was sent indifferently cultivated, and since the first or second ‘subjugated by arms, the South has yet eolema Pema edgy ll Md cccthe cage ly colina tala your af the war many of thom act at all The bullisngs ste ara Mat sa ebabie fortiade to foe.” | wi rude open Maes cea sixty-two dtvimon of General Auza and follow the French on the faving alone the residences of the planters, had been | (12 of Roliicians to resist and oem with patieuce seven years of which he served way to the city of Mexico, allowed to go to decay, the fences had been moglected, ‘and hope: and thus safely pass through the present, lest Tiny. aad hein as the present time a member of the | Official news was received that a column of French ‘and the appearance of demoralisation and dilapidation sad 008 the least of te many. ortess Wo mse oes utional amendme: r he police yesterday assisted to their homes twenty. | ‘00ps one thousand strong fell into an ambuscade near pervaded the face of the country, In » majority of in- | fis to public duty did we not eee ecciremen seven Children and over one hundred women, who other- | San Juan de los Lagos, and were entirely cut off, losing yy under one | ef it, It is a Trojan horse sought to intro- ae pene riahed ta themes all their arnis and materials of war, besides two hundred pretence of another, or gone to, “h doced ito our gates, with the | difference ar, Dut the wind ia blowing | and fifty prisoners, General Rikera commanded the victorious party. General Placide Vega left Durango on December 28 for the city of Mexico in command of a brigade. Previous to the arrival of President Juarez the French homes,” and the stock had been killed or sold of. This belly. was the aspect which presented itself to nine out of ten | whose f the Northern men who went into Alabama to grow cotton in the beginning of 1866, and I presume the same ity i bove zero. A city ane post are immense, in m Ax to eight feet indepth. A great city is absolutely impassabie, i u Ae aa Temarks would be equally true with respect to most if Rees titles Seid emacs evacuated the city and went towards Zacatecas, Aghting Rot all of the gulf Psa decline to become parties, by consent, to this degrading hack driver $75 to take hima distance of four miles, | sll the way to Guadalajara ‘The condition of the soll under the system of cultiva- | Amendment | Rosie wore pnt ae ‘which was refused. Colone! Pares was appointed Military Commander, and tion which has always’ prevailed is not flattering to an ting we get, back into the Un “so-called,” ‘The damage to the shipping on the coast by this re- | senor Arando Governor of the State of Durango. intelligent farmer, In its native state, particularly on | 8 the of this sacrifice of constitutional right, State markable storm must be The sx ‘On the staff of President Juarez are eighteen American officers lately arrived from California, { CANADA. SPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE NERALD. The Fenian Trials at Toronte—Peter Ledwith Found Gailty and James McDermott Ac- qmltteds Meee sonora, ©. W., Jan. 18, 1867, ‘The court opened this morning at ten o’clock, Jadge Morrison presiding. It was eleven o'clock before the prisoners to be tried had arrived from the jail, During the delay Mr. McKenzie said that the bex from which the jurors’ pames were drawn was hardly large enough, and requested that the sheriff be instructed to procure a a larger one, Judge Morrison—I have no authority in the matter. ‘Mr, Cameron—My Jearned friend has found so many Americans to sit as alien jurors, for a gold dollar, thet a larger box is necessary. Mr, McKenzie—We waat a box in order that the Crown cannot pack the jury, as they have been lately doing. Sheriff Jarvis—I witl procure a larger one. Peter Paul Ledwith was then placed in the dock, and pleaded not guilty The prisoner stated that he wasan American, and asked for a jury composed of one-half of his countrymen. The Crown decided to permit Ameri- cans on the jury. the river bottoms, it is of unexampled fertility; but long and persistent cropping has materially diminished its capacity of production, This, however, when the cheap- ike Lee of the South! Soutn! And as we ha’ count the cause of rashness y Deotling verge into the dread abyss of civil war, and as when you bad passed the Ral we besought you by all your manhood and to make good, by sacrifice and valor, the step you had taken, we now im- EB ou b Poe Lye wont ing peices “orn fast to the vantage ground of your rr to ‘be true to yourselves and the tends Mberty, througbous this once free land, and show yourselves a8 faithfal tg principle and honor in defeat, as your dead and living soldiers were brave in war. We deeply rexret that Alabama should have been the | first State to show of flinching where steadincas and nerve are demanded by duty and statesmanship. The schooner Julia Ann, supposed Boston, is supposed to bave boom lost, with all bends on board, as papers ing to her have been up on Nantasket beach. — ss The amount of anow fallen is estimated at from two to two and a half feet on a level. . Srruncrretp, Jan. 18, 1867. About two feet of snow. has fallen within the last thirty.six hours. The wind this morning is northeast. Thermometer twelve degrees. ‘Wonczsrsr, Jan. 18, 1867. The storm of yesterday was the most severe one known here for many yeara, The railroads are much and all attempis at regularity in the running of trains has been abandoned. About-two feet of snow fell, and during its fall @ furious gale from the northeast prevailed. The wind is northeast this morning, with an appearance of more snow. Thermometer five degrees. Giovcwsrer, Masa, Jan. 18, 1867, A schooner is reported ashore at Kettle Cove, two of the crew frozen to death, and others badly frozea. Ore coasting vessel is ashore en Ten Pound Isiand, and ‘three Gshing craft are ashore on Rocky neck. Expediency and Its Dangers. [From the New Orleans ‘Crescent, Jan. 11.) Ip our — troubles we would = fin wo —- icy and expediency altogether, trust only in, Latif ‘and open hearted candor. We need not take pains to say all that might be truthfully said on all eorts of sul nor need we wander about with knitted brows ing over grievances in doleful accents, But + when called on for opinions it is incalcalably the most litic course we can pursue to give them with child jike directness and thorough frankness. CANNOT YIELD NEGRO SUFFRAGE ‘When questioned as to our feelings on the matter of ‘a mke, 413 Greenwich street; #2 West Broadway; John Encke, 68 Fulton street; Jacob Fovor, 57 Crosby street; Job Held, 480 Greenwich street; Butke, 10 Centre Market pen ;, William McLean, Walker street ; Charles 7 nkel, 75 Nassau street, portion of the conntsy, er Becker was arrested yesterday mo! tarskag in view, and evidently dis- and held to ~~ after ig sf he returned to bis place to await, calmly as they may, the issue of the con- Maine. Portianp, Me., Jan. 18, 1867. The storm broke sbout three o’clock, and it is now clear, the wind morth northwest and blowing heavily. Tesign' The thermometer Is eleven degrees. Quite a feet was off testified to havin; the prisoner | business and reopened troversy which now convulses the land. They may be this port yesterday moraing, unable to get in. The rev. | ,,Coorge Dagger juamed Mian : oo Ter re De te a nO Of paccive ntate, manifesting Title | negro suffrage there 1s no reason why we should not say) 4 on tha 34 of Jane is Fors Belo sated bite whet Cunwiss | shustve ve the ofloer, und the iixcloe, Comusasi or interest either in thelr old-time avocations or | that we never shall willingly accept or tolerate it in any enue steamer Mahoming cruised eastward thia morning to relieve distressed vessels, The North Yarmouth Grand Trunk Railway depot was blown down to-day. No trains in or out yet. abusive to the officer, and the Excise Commission particular, and said he should keep bis saloon open in defiance of the jaw. The pnsoner was again held to The magistrate required all the delinquent liquor deal- ors to give bail in the sum of $100 each to answer the complaints before the Court of General Sessions, they form, to any extent or from any quarter. If there ie any one thing which the people of ail the States, Le slaveholding, scorn, detest and abhor, it is the comp sory equality in political privileges between whites and blacks which the extremists of the North ere now at- tempting to force upon us, We, the white men of the he had there; he said they bad come to Canada; was armed; I arrested him; I have lived eighteen yoars in Fort Erie; am laboring man; was at the fight ‘at Fort Erie, Mr, J. HL Cameron—The correspondent of the New Yorx Henatp stated in a despatch lest October that you Pennsylvania. Pursperrara, Jan, 18, 867, their seniors the dissipation of their bitterness and malice are ere hid in a he The snow drifts on the Camden and Amboy road cause wyieneas—It you bad been there, Mr. Cam I guess | electing to be tried before that court, norant and harmiess blacks as the South, have i idea or abn one. clang od reach detention, The moratag ght o'dock train lft | Fo tare a ee a ane Lit gots | at Jomerson Sarat, Police Cure Jurute"Dodge was Fetes og ee at balf-past nine. All the trains are late, ~ ang oe radial fahts oe Mian ash cm. | busily engaged receiving complaints against dealers in absolute and analterable, that this coumiry The Central Pennsylvania road is also impeded, but the officers expect to have tho obstructions all removed by me afternoon, when the regular travel wili be re- eume: “the ardent” during the day, and remained at his post for at least two hours after the hour for » in order to enable the delinquents to furnish bail. e following persons were arraigced on the charge of selling without munition think I did not use my legs during the fight. ‘urther testimony, evincing nothing new, however, was heard, and the jury, ofteran absence of ten mtu- utes, rendered a verdict of “Guilty.” Sentence was of coton, be justly be attributed. They, too, are in along with the families under whose roofs ave found shelter; and such as still remain in the tponed. a li and were held to bail in $300 each to anewer:— la::69 and cities, New Worm ie Jon. 16, 1867, | -Jamee McDonald was then placed in the dock, and |, Patrick arran, ‘Seventh avenue, corner of Twenty. hay bem said, both for and * , Jon. 16, 1867. | aftera of witnesses were examined nothing was | eighth street; J.B. , 340 Spring street; E. 1 am toctined The storm here last night was terrific, and all the roads ven, and the ji uitted him without leaving the 67 Macdougal street; Ellen 0: 829 West per Yeading to this city are badly drifted with snow, le ran iromnediatal discharged, The court then john Oiterman, Set avenue; —— adjourned until Monday. 279 Ninth avenue; HH. Kroger, Schoener Ashore Near Cape Henry. 5 } Tenth avenue; Brune 86 King street: James Higgive, 124 Prince strect; 192: Greene street; Charles hems | +e William Glossing, 246 avonue A; Broadway ; Gunboats to Guard the Featan Prisoners— ' he Export Trade ef Canada, &c. ‘Toronto, Jan. 18, 1867, A guoboat ‘will be stationed at Kingeton in the epriug om account of the numberof Fenian convicts in the Penitentiary there. A gunboat will also be stationed PeThe export frou Canada ve the Sates @oring the past s inj y :—Wheat, 610,000 arbels; ne 2,000,000 bushels; tour, 150,000 barrete; butter, 640, pounds; lomber, 127,000,000 feet. Water—Opposition te Confed- mercial Statistica, &e. Monrnzat, Jan. 18, 1807. Serious trouble is untieipated regarding the water sup- ply tm consequence of the ice jam at the foot of Lachine Yapids, damming the water back from the pipes, ‘fhe Herald \e publishing s pamphlet against copfod- eration, It will be liberally circalated in England The imports at Montreal, last year amounted to $2,000,000 and the exporte to $8,600,000. The increase in the value of imports over the previous year was 10,000, 000. ‘The quantity of four exported tothe States was one undred and ninety tbongand Darrels, against one bun- dred and sixty thousand barrels for the previous year, A detachment of the water police have been ordered to the frontier, The cause of the movement is act pub- iely known. GRANT AN TRE ARKANSAS DELEGATION. A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune writes aa fol- Fortress Monnos, Jan. 18, 1867. A schooser supposed to ve the Martha, for Baiti- more from Savaanah, with old fron, is ashore thirty miles below Cape Henry. The vessel ie regarded as a total loss. The weather was intensely cold last ulght, ‘with a bilter northwest wind, THE ICE BLOCKADE. The Ferries—Dangers of River Navigation — DiMculties of Crossing the North Rivere—Trips Irregular, é&c. During the entire day yesterday tne North rivers were dlted with ice, and it was impossible to make the trips on anything like regular time mm consequence of this fact, Not for many yoars have the same éifliculties and dangers bees encountered ia crossing the rivers as ‘at the present time, The ice bas so completely blook- a ded the rivers that communication with Long Island or the Jersey shore is almost a matter of absolute impors!- pong ol It is no longer queetion of schedule time with the boats, but whether the trip can be made at all. From the moment the bost leaves ber slip on this side i) sho reaches it again om the other it is one con- ¢ $ Coenen ork dd sohd ico that al! up channel of the rivers. b ‘The travel on the Brooklyn ferries last evening wan very dificult. Most of the ferries were ronuing two and the crowds which gathered at the di! it ferry slips were very large. FULTON FERRY. At the Fulton ferry no less than four thousand people were waiting for the boat between the hours of five aud eight o'clock, avd many of our Brooklyn brothera and sisters had to take up their quarters in the eity for the night. The boat arrived at Brooklyn from the Fuitoa ferry at half-past siz o’clock carried no teas than two thousand and about twenty Trouble Al eration—C: a s = By i reene Renker, $8 Bleecker stroet; Michael ‘364 Seventh avenue; Henry Seheyt, 73 Grand were charged with Keeping open ave- g following persons Dotween twelve o’cloek midnight and to bai! in $300 to snswer:—James Maher ato kistn nue; C. D, O'Reilly, Thirty-fourth street, pon ee avenue; Huy , 186 Prince street; Michiapo, Ninth avenue; John Trichler, ——, covRe. z ge i Phy Ha Hi chaina, so fo its my there undoubtedly would have ipmag, Infe, This boat took s full hour in. The ve were atrested for seiiing liquor without the boats took license. The following licensed dealers were arrested for opening before sunrise:—Willlam ©. Burkhardt,.53 street; Henry C, ‘Ta avenue ii ae2 g ayenne and 125ib street; Bg they never obtain power again over this it whom they have ruined by their foll pg oA +4 we oy thelr folly, selfishnexs a1 t z i i it = . x Tax. V—Parsed Assistant ‘master Danforth PF, Tifty-first street ; Martin Astley, First avenue snd Fifiy- ‘Wright to tae Huson, Acting Easiga B. 0. Low fourth street; William a, First avenue and Thit. y which FSP Orblen to the Merbieheed, Sn MOw and mate fobn The Secretary of the Navy bes received e despath of the gento, dated Funchal, his arrival rhe port mber, and imtention to proceed. wring, to Teneriffe, The sbip isin good « on board are Commander Jamon Stillwell bas een ehanns. ordered to the Suq Captain Jobn Guest has been ordered to duty at the ig AL WA be iy caries W, Abbot bax bean ordered to ¢ Susquehanna, Sst hae APPOMTMERY WEFORKD, Jax. 6 Kale Toomes Wilson, of the Conemaugh. Mote J. 1, Vollckors, from the t v . BVaoy- ie receiving ship Vermont, i power. They called upon he insulted thera, EWS. ITEMS. my hn pea test year 0,100,711 bushels of g35 In Baltimore lest there Dundred fifty-nine Gres, teretving’e Youn ‘ot $200,000. yer See RSet Res ny Ee te GN He a Since the abolition of # the assensed valuation of Ma Mtmovers bas acrodoes Gun ontane 1,969 houses built in thas . com of $8,040,068, SPECIAL GOARESPOMOENCE OF THE WERALD, Manamass, Mich., Jan., 14, 1806, A Confagration cecurred here on Buvday night, totaly

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