Igled and cooled in a snow-drift or run down after terra firma. All stories have been believed for want oi evidence to Lite contrary.At last, hare we are, head fcrj shoulders tbnvc snow making a recontioisjanco. Wo fiad that ihoHist week of the old year was a kind of parting grip, like the wintcrisb crips of olden time. From Moosehtad to Sequin iho country is wrapped in a bcd-blankst of snow. Huge drifts rise up over fence, stone t vral), and cottage. It was thought the first n specimen wo bad on Monday and Tuesday, J1 was ahead of its counterpart in the memory of the oldest inhabitant; but down carne the snow and piling up went the drifts all day Thursday, and all night long, the wind h«wlt\| a hurricane and wreathed tho anuw about in all kinds of fantastic evolutions.The Railroad “shat up shop Monday night —opened again Wednesday, shut up again Thursday, aid finally “put through alter in-credible labor, on Monday of this week. The mails came tumbling through by the ton, and never before was there seen such a surfeit of news.