The Daily Herald

Snow Storm.—We have been visited with the heaviest snow storm that has been experienced in this city for several years. After three or four days of rainy weather, snow commenced falling on Saturday morning, and in the course of the day, got the mastery of the mud and water upon which it fell. Through the whole of Saturday night the snow fell briskly, and yesterday morning presented a depth of from 12 to 15 inches in our streets—and in some places had drifted to a height of two and three feet. The wind was fresh from N. N. E. with occasional heavy squalls. Some trees were blown down, and the branches of others which were heavily loaded with snow, broken off. The storm continued at intervals yesterday and last evening, and the weather was still unsettled when this paper went to press.

None of the mails due yesterday, had arrived when the Post Office closed, at two o'clock in the afternoon.

It is remarkable that this heavy snow storm, did not extend far eastward. It will be seen by the report of Capt. Holmes, who made a harbor ten miles east of New Haven through Saturday night, that no snow fell there.

The snow which has now fallen, upon the great quantity of mud that previously covered the ground, has rendered some of the streets almost impassable.—The side walks yesterday were in a sad state, and those who ventured out were in constant danger of being buried by the avalanches from the roofs of houses. In the evening the street lamps were not lit, and travellers were in constant danger of their lives. A watchman told us that the officer having the direction of the lamps, had ordered that they should not be lit last night, because the white snow would give sufficient light! Had a fire occurred, it would have been impossible for the firemen to have dragged their machines through the streets in their present condition.—N. Y. Merc. Adv.