bring down four trains lying there. All the country roads were blocked up, and it was impossible to get either in or out of the city this morning, in any direction. A few sleighs worked their way into town this afternoon having dug their way through huge snow embankments. The cashier and teller of the Union Bank live a few miles from this city. They took the keys home with them as usual last night, but were unable to get to the city this morning. The result was that the funds of the bank were noncomatable ........The opening of the new chapel attached to the church of the Holy Innocents was celebrated by a festival. The church was densely crowded. The rector, Rev. Mr. Boardman, delivered an address, and the carols were beautifully sung. A Christmas tree provided with a bountiful supply of handsome presents for the children of the Sunday school, adorned the chapel, to which the assemblage adjourned after the exercises in the church. Here the presents were distributed. The superintendent of the school received a copy of Christ and the Twelve, and the rector a communion set, a beautiful dressing gown and case.........Emily Van Benthuysen, widow of Thomas W. Harmon, died. 29. Louisa, widow of Hezekiah Fairchilds, died, aged 78.

30. Mrs. Mary C. Coogan died. Ellen Hane, wife of Michael Dignum, died, aged 32.

1867.

JANUARY 2. Cold day, thermometer at zero.........Ann Callahan died, aged 24. 3. Air, h. 23, 1. 6.

4. Air, h. 18, l. 5 ........Catharine Van Rensselaer, widow of John Fay, Jr., died, aged 84. Charlotte Bowman died, aged 64. Addin C. De Witt, wife of George W. Casseday, and daughter of the late Andrew H. De Witt of this city, died at Jersey City.

71.

5. Air, h. 17, 1. 13.........Johanna, widow of John Bolan, died, aged Thomas Kenny died, aged 64.

6 Air, h. 28, 1. 21......... Mrs. Penelope Avery died, aged 75.

7. Air, h. 30, 1. 23.

8. Air, h. 23, 1. 14.........Catharine Martin, wife of Samuel H. Marsham, died, aged 56. James Caffrey died, aged 45.

9. Air, h. 20, 1. 15.........Olive Benedict, widow of Addison S. Warner, died, aged 28.

10. Air, h. 23, 1. 20...................The first train for Boston since the 5th left to-day, the road having been obstructed by snow. The trains from all other directions were running regularly on time.........Mrs. Martha Simpson died, aged 70.

11. Air, h. 28, l. 17.........John C. Cunningham died, aged 25. Catharine, wife of James McConnen, died, aged 35. Tyler Sabbaton died at San Francisco, aged 35.

12. Air, h. 24, l. 15.......................Ellen, wife of Walter Doyle, died, aged 21. 13. Air, h. 20, 1. 9.........At a fire in Green street one of the steam fire engines froze up, so intense was the cold, and the fronts of the buildings on fire were completely encrusted with ice.........Charlotte B. Whipple, wife of Capt. D. F. Lansing, and daughter of the late Barnum Whipple, died at Mandocino, Cal.

14. Air, h. 11, 1. 8......... Dora Fitzgerald, wife of Andrew Delehanty, died, aged 49. John H. Sharp died, aged 31. Annie Bame, wife of Cornelia J. Heermance, died.

15. Air, h. 13, 1. 0.......................Thomas Whalen died, aged 29.

16. Air, h. 13, l. 5.........Dr. Howard Townsend died, aged 43. Dr. Howard Townsend was a son of Isaiah Townsend, and a prominent member of the faculty of the Albany Medical College. He died of an organic disease of the brain. Few men were better known or more highly esteemed. He was professor of materia medica at the Medical College, and acknowledged by all to be one of the best read men in the profession. There were no points in any books that he was not perfectly familiar with; and he was often sought after to furnish information by the ablest of our physicians. Dr. Townsend was a straight-forward, honorable gentleman. He was a man of great judgment, and never moved forward before he fathomed the course he was to pursue. Once satisfied he was right, he went ahead. The medical profession of Albany has sustained a great loss in his death.- Knickerbocker.........Margaret Callighan died, aged 86. Wm. Gray died, aged 51. John M. Newton died, aged 71.

17. Air, h. 10, 1. 1.........Great snow storm, obstructed the rail roads.........Mrs. Sarah Mack died. John T. Frisbee died, aged 31. 18. Air, h. 17, 1. 7.........Bridgetina, wife of Teddy Hart.

19. Air, h. 6, 1. 3..

20. Air, h. 12, 1. 8.........Lydia A. Near, wife of Wm. H. Woodruff, died, aged 37. George H. Bradt died, aged 19. Wm. J. Harrison died, aged 42. Elizabeth G., wife of Wm. R. Pearce, formerly of Albany, died in Philadelphia.

21. Air, h. 13, l. 15.........Alonzo Wheeler died, aged 62.

22. Air, h. 26, 1. 21.

23. Air, h. 26, 1. 22.........It was announced that the Rev. W. C. Doane of Hartford, Conn., had accepted the rectorship of St. Peter's church........Mrs. Margaret Rhatigan died, aged 73: Edwin Beekman died, aged 32. Dr. John J. Mitchell died, aged 70.

24. Air, h. 28, 1. 25.........David Hilts, Jr., died, aged 50. Agnes McDuffie died, aged 34.

25. Air, h. 30, 1. 9.

26. Air, h. 25, l. 15.

27. Air, h. 30, 1. 25.........The State street Presbyterian church (late Dr. Twombly's) last week was in debt $18,000. Some of its most wealthy and liberal members had left, in consequence of a slight difficulty in the congregation. The remaining members had a meeting and resolved to pay off their debt. One member subscribed $7,500, and the balance was made up at once... Catharine, wife of Christopher C. Higgins, died, aged 24. Catharine Hays died, aged 80. Enoch Palmer died, aged 55. 28. Air, h. 27, 1. 19.........Jennie T. Gibson died.

29. Air, h. 23, 1. 14 ........ William Scott died, aged 69. Thomas Tinnany died, aged 52.

30. Air, h. 19, 1. 2.........Eliza, widow of John D. Hewsen, died, aged 71.

31. Air, h. 10, 1. 2.........There was no sign of a thaw during the whole month; said to have been the first January in seventy years which had passed without a thaw.........Ellen Thomson died.