The Sleighing

It will be three weeks tomorrow since the snow fell, and we have had excellent sleighing for the greater part of that time. In some of the streets it is still good. It is a rare occurrence of late years to have such good and lasting sleighing as the present snow has afforded. We should like to know what has become of the "old fashioned winters," "when our streets were covered to the depth of a foot or so and for four or six weeks at a time, when oxen were roasted on the ice near the Bridge, and sleighs were as numerous on the Christiana as they have recently been in Market Street. --From the Wilmington, Delaware Courier, February 26, 1856