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PERILs OF THE EXPRESS CoSDUcToRs.-On Fri
day last clear sharp cold day the mail arrived at the
Kesneoec River expecting 10 get usual pass by the
steam ferry boa, at Bath. The river was frozen and the
ferry boat did not run. The mail contractor with the
conductors of Jerome Co.'S Express and Gilman's Ex
press attempted the river in row boat They
had succeeded in slowly making their passage through
the ice about half way the river when the boat
was jammed between huge cakes OF Ice, and nearly
capsized The tide being strong az the time The boat
jamed hard and fast in the ice, carried up rhe river
some miles where she lay from eight o'clock in
the morning until three o'clock in the afternoon every
efor, being made in the time force her through
the ice By breaking up the bow OF the boat until The
three persons were wet and covered with ice.


Young Mower Of Jerome Cos Express, broke
through the ice in the river and in changing his stock
ings his boots much frozen as 10 render II Inn
possible 10 get them on


Finding all efforts make passage abort;ve the mail
contractor took ice thin and crawled or
rather slipped his body The cracking ice with the
water oozing up about him and thus reached the shore
Young Mower followed pushing his vglise and boots
ahead and then slipping himself 10 them, and az length
"a med the shore The conductor OF Gilmans Express
followed. Mower obliged 10 walk two miles. with
only stockings upon his feet and oze his toes and heels
One foot of the other conductor frozen. The dis
tance perorsly passed upon the ice about mile,
and within i've minutes after they gained the shore the
ice broke Up where they had passed, cryng the vases
and down the river where the boat
ed the day, and got shor. Bangor Wing 18th.