New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-04-29
RCLICIoUS ANNIVERSARIES. MAY, 1855.


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B sosS Sy ss H4e s s;l Primer
sn ME- Soc Sc rssa9 81 a Ho Of U0'
A sns FO Christian Union Sermon BY Rev kennedy
DID, THE Mercer PIs'5yfsEsn chaFeh Pm
Rev West Of Pittsburgh Pa In the Reformed Dutch
Church in La F'y''eP'''ms oyDAr. Mays.
se,men Friend Society at the Broadway Tabernacle u PM
Am and Christian onion ths Metropolitan Hal 10 An
NY'nd Amer Sunday sG6Oo Union H., Ti''rnA'' PM
Am Tract Society Tract House AM Metropolitan Hall 81
Am Anti slavery Society Chinese Assembly Rooms Broadway
Am Home Missionary Society. Metropolitan Hall, y PM
n. Colonization society q MetOPSi;an Han, Jpn
A Femse Canadian Society Church of the Puntan' Union
square lCi AN.
Am Bible Society Bibe House Asorpi,ee Dam Public Meet
Institution II the Deaf and Dumb.
Am. Temperance Union. Tsbern,ee =, AM
Am Board of Foreign Missions. Metropolitan Hall, 10 AN
American and Foreign Bible Society
rg@ Beautiful as the blush OF girlhood dawns upon
us the light of these early spring mornings Sweet beyond
comparison the agant perfume of early blossoms and
the genial influence of the yellow sunshine Pure and
peaceful the thrill OF early affection breathe the aroma
sehnos Of the vcrna The air papitates with
the beating of the wings Of birds yet invisible the waters
of the bay dance and sparkle in the rays of the MONDAY
the disttnt shores OF Jersey ana Long
stand out ary against the clear blue sky like line of
Mediterranean seacoast The sweet April bloom has shed
is magic influence over the flower gardens and parks
of the City the willow and the maple buds swelling i'm
patient burst from the brown cerements of winter and
the dafod the crocus the white and the daisy
trim darling Of Maherbe-mye already opened their
tender ewes in the resurrection Of spring Out in the
country spnngs fragrant footprints are traceabe through
every field and wood and glade and dell Sweet Nature
in her robe and fraVrant wifi
the perfume of early flowers, has spread DER hill
and vale carpet Of bright green. and now gly smiles
in all the pride Of youth and beauty The late
frost bound earth has yielded to the genial infu
ence Of warm sunshine and gentle showers the streams
are murmurng pleasantly between green messy banks and
tbe little brook, are issuing with bubbng cadence from
beneath the fern ruged of ancient oaks and Gins
leapng like a thread of crystal, OF the eternal rock
The red winged blsckbird and the missile thrush may be
seen in some thorny brake making faint essays Of their
notes while the ouckoo shout head the faro heath
The sturdy powman is abroad with glad heart unpack
ING and turning up the earth that may be ready for the
seed scattered by the hand Of the sowerconfling in the
promise While the earth renaneh, seed time and har
vest shall not cease There is sweet revying influence
in this charming April weather when Nature is Weakening
from the gloom winter and clothing herself in gorgeous
arrav in welcome OF the srest season of the year. The
freshness of the morning breeze the fragrance of opening
flowers the warm of sunshine and the minsresy of
birds all inspire a!@l hopes Atclluet WIN Coul
less blessings
=, The Opera of Lucye:ia Bcrgia, Madame de Vries
doing the principal character Alboni the part Of Orni
Mani Of the Duke Saly Of Gennaro &C. passed off with
It's accustomed success-te last named artist being the
beneficiary.
Norma will be given on Saturday next with the
strength Of the company. We would again mention,
pbatcav the great merit of this company the comb
nation of the talent engaged in and the enterprsng
A. Ia Gran Smith Tho
public must not forget the difficulty of getting together
such collection of performers and the expense opresen
ing operas with such force
- Dodwortls Concert at Metropolitan Hall, gave
much pleasure 10 the auditory Ascend Corne Band per
formed with eminent skill
~ May Day and Misery are az hand The population
are coming I'D in arraes 10 the worship of the Idol Of Tn
rest BY day they crowd the horoughares with all their
worldly wares at their backs and by night they kndle
sacrfcia fires of broken straw the light from which
abahes the Gas Companies while the smoke obscures the
stars Within doors all is confusion worse COMPOUNDED no
tropc earthquake could have produced such wreck Of
matter the kitchen is heaved up, like Pluonan strata,
through the upper of the pao and primary second
ary and tertiary formations nexpcaby and nextcaby
intercommngled Happy homes have become dreadful
dens Order which is Heavens first law has gone back to
its birth place and Chaos rules supreme enhroned upon
of broken furniture having at his dexter the &c
MUS of Confusion and sinister the Demon of Change Yet
the great day has arrived and these but the ad
vance guard the forom hope OF the Moving Army-the
few heavy drop. which forerun the full shower.
Thus had begins hut remains behind"
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne has been passing some days
in the City among his literary friends He will sail imme
diately for his official station, at Liverpool
NEw FERRY BoAr-The new ferry-boat Osprey IN
tended for the Bridge and Rooseyeltss Ferry Company
made her trial trip yesterday She is the second boat OF
the Company: her ems inc and boiler from the Fulton
Iron Works, Messrs Pease s. Murphy proPrletors
Size Of engine SO inches cylinder feet stroke The third
boat will be ready in few days.
~ The fare Buffalo yesterday reduced TO e. wa
New York and Erie Railroad to Horneilsvle thence by
the Buffalo and New. York City Railroad TO Buffalo.
The TrRr.-Cnion Course, Long Tlaad.-TroaiHg.-
Thursday Apr % a Purse of $50, Mile Heats best in
wagon and driver weighing 300 lbs s Iicsland mas gr
IN Lady Blanch; Hiram Woodruff, W. g. Snowdrop; d.
PETER mas g Beppo, which won by the mare Lady
B.nch acted well throughout the she one OF the
Oldest nags on the turf Snowdrop the vorite at 100
10 40.
Holland uss IT m Lady Blanch ................''L
H. Woodruff W snowdop'
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PRooRxssrse BacKwAKD.-Years ago we plead for rest
for the multitude in the form OF seats in the public parks
New were grudggly and meany granted less than fifth
the number required being put up. Last season some I'D
vocate of the solitary confinement system got the control