Alexandria Gazette

Severe Night.—We learn from the New York Times that the passengers who left this city on Monday morning for New York by the Camden and Amboy Rail Road reached Burlington at about 11 A. M. and there took the cars. At 6 P. M., they were about 4 miles from Amboy, and in one of those deep cuttings, where the ground ascends, they were at last brought up by a monstrous snow drift, which arrested all further progress.

No effort availed to force the cars over the obstacle, though they backed repeatedly to such a distance, as to acquire their fullest momentum. The passengers, many of them ladies, had been without food since leaving Philadelphia, and now with this tremendous storm of snow drifting with the howling wind, had the prospect of passing the piercingly cold night in the cars.

It was proposed that some of the party should proceed on foot to Amboy; and procure means for bringing on the rest, but the four miles, through unbroken snow drifts, with the falling snow driving so furiously in their faces; seemed too hard a walk, and it was given up. Fifteen or twenty of the passengers then started, about 10 o'clock, to walk back about a mile, to a little house which they had passed, where they sat up all night, but with the comfort of fire and shelter.

When they had departed, six or seven of those who remained, seeing the sad condition of their fellow passengers, and especially the ladies, set out on foot for Amboy, and after unparalleled fatigue and suffering, reached there in about three hours and a half. They were able to procure two sleighs, which were sent to bring out the ladies of the party.— They arrived at the beleaguered cars about five o'clock in the morning, and took off the unfortunate females, who were nearly exhausted.

By day-break the people of the neighborhood, were aroused, and gathering in with their sleighs, the whole party were transported to Amboy, and got aboard the boat between eight and nine in the morning. The boat took the outward passage to avoid the ice on the channel between Staten Island and New Jersey, and reached New York about 2 P. M., on Tuesday —Phil. Com.