The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-01-07
Detention Of the Mails oil Over the Northern
and Eastern Country.
EFFECTS OF THE STORM IN THE CITY.
stoppage Of the City Railroad Cars, and
Mayor Wood 3 Action Thereupon.
appearance Of tho City-.Young America
Jubilant
Snow Storms IN General..Tholr Coed and
Evil Effects. Theories Thereupon,
TO-, &C., DO.

The snow storm that reached this city on Saturday
cou0ansd to rage until daybreak yesterday
with great vDeonce This storm has been felt all along
the Northern Atlantic coast and evidently one Of
those marked ones that only at intervals In
latitude; perhaps not In from fifteen to
twenty years. IndeeA is doubtful whether any such
storm has occurred since the time OF old Gov Peter
Stuyvesant, twenty-five years ago.
Although this storm has been of lcng duration in
This city it extended IMMENSE of country
We telegraphc dispatches announcing the presence
the storm from all along the coast, from Washington
City to Halifax and doubt but that tho storm ragged
for nearly thousand miles in directkine North and
South.
For time past ii has been evident this storm has
been brewing. The air fed with moisture on the
I'd and Sd ns and the succeeding cold snap condensed
the vapor into SNOW and this circumstance the storm
OfSaturday is due.
From the dispatches given elsewhere it will be
that this the most storm felt at the Eastward
for seventy years.
1t is difficult to say to what depth the fell in this
city rs it drifted from tae house tops and window ss
and piled up the wind in the exposed places
80 the height Of five, six, and eight feet. Good
Judges think that level it reached two feet but Of
most people have tendency to exaggera.e whom
any marked event this kind occurs the majority Of
citizens Of opinion that it was at least two and
San aolemny averred that he six feet level in
broadway Saturday night but ths feet had ANGLES
attached to them and belonged to three young ladies' his
Testimony did not amount TO much.
By day break yesterday the storm had all cleared away
and the temperature much mder The sire cts had
q singular appearance the sidewalks were undis-
4ngushable from the street, and not indentation
could be in any direction in the During the
day the shone down gloriousy a clear sky, cast
x:-~ ia.
and streets OF the city.
The city railroad the first to feel the effects
of the 1t with the difficulty the tracks
could be kept clear during tae afternoon of Saturday
and by ten O'Clock in the evening the Fourth
cars had stopped running. The Gecond avenue
cars next followed suit, then the Sixth avenue
and finally the Third and Ngath avenue lines gave
up running, all attempts to keep the tracks
clear ployed fruitlcss. The lsst mentioned car
stopped running shortly after midnight. People whose
occupations kept them down until after that time
found 1t impossible to And conyeyapces to take them
home, snd much annoyance and difficulty was caused
thereby.
Yesterday the city railroads. and those extending
the upper end of the island completely blocked
up, that nothing but snow poughs, with twelve and
fourteen horses attached attempted to pass them
during tho day. There attempt to open the Har
lem read down town, but all others, we believe, were
busy dusDg the day to clear the from
their tracks, until stopped by the police by order Of
Mayor Wood On the Second avenue the company sue
seeded in partially clearing track through to Harlem
plough started from 122d about nine O'Clock
and shortly afterwards . horse car, drawn by
four horses, made attempt to follow it. gentle
man attached to this Office who resides In Harlem and
whose duty called him to the city, took passage in the
cars it seemed the only chance Of getting town.
The miniature car behind the quadrupe team got along
very comfortably the track already broken through
the by the plough but totally regardless Of
xas, and run as lmuch Of the distance off them as it
did them. On reaching Jones' woods, about three
mlee from Harlem, the plough overtaken it being
stuck fast, although it had eight horses attached
to it, and could get along further without additional
power The horses which had brought the small thus
far were Immediately detached and hltched on to the
plough, when the cortege which consisted
of ten horses, one pilot, eight drivers two brake
men and passenger, star ed again, leaving the
car alone in the woods, protested on each side by
SNOW bank five feet high The remainder the passage
was performed at very slow rate but attended with
only interruption in tho shape of immense snow
drift at about Fifty eighth street, and the train finally
arrived at Forty second street at sleek having been
upwards of three hours in performing distance Of four
miles Rather slow work.
During the day attempts made by the various
railroad companies to clear he tracks, that the
could be to dsy when they stopped by the po
ce at the instance of Mayor Wood he having issued
order to the police in the various districts where the city
and other railroad tracks pass through informing them
that they must not allow the reilcoai employees to
shovel the Off the tracks unless IL is cated away
to proper place. Tie people would not submit
to the companies ripg the snow ia front Of their door
hence the mandate Of the Mayor.
However much the companies may object to this ac
tlon Of the Mayor, there doubt but this will receive
the sanston of the people TIE practice OF Iilng up the
In the cutters from the centre Of the street and the
sidewalks cannot be severely reprobated renders
our horoughfares impsssble and puts cartmen hack
drivers others to inconvenience they should not
be compelled TO suffer. 1t will be what the ratlroad
cgmranes will Go todey Up 10 late hour last night
he,e vs no manifestation their part to comply with
tho Mayors -cauate The patience Of those who live up
town and do business in the part Of the city will
be severely tested he running before noon
today.
!, .rst;yn tho snow lrifted in heaps Of from ttrcc TO
seven feet in height, and where the wind had full sweep
Tie streets were eft bare Travelling impeied and
the cars were stalled Tie plough to clear the trac6s
vas bu, led in au cmbaukmcnt in Ayrtle avenue, ani
had TO be Abandoned
Notyitbss nc ing tue severity of the torm but very
little damage occurred TO the shipping IN our hsfpor so
far az heard from. From the fact OF its hevng get IN
quite gradually, 1t to have been anticipated Dy
those having property exposed TO ls violence; and
accordingly the necessary precautions we're generally
taken to Withstand lis influence We have only been
ah,e IN learn Of two vessels that Affected hy 1t,
,houph ot to serious extent. These were the clipper
sh;n Ilyng Cloud lying at pier 10 East riye and the
Hypecn s the foot Of Dclancey street. East river
r,a sr-rer at IL r. w. knocked down nearly en- her
beam ends, but was afterwards rgAted by timber
and other appliances She had no cargo nor ballast on
boa-d. The bark, which made fast 70 long bulk.
head. parod her bew haSsele ari dropping and swing