New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-01-02

enc OF tie grandest spectaces ever pr duced
Burton is at home in Masks and Faces" Black and
White" and The Young Actress"
The National gives "Uncle Tom" twice, and Little
Katy" in the afternoon.
Bsrum has whole budget of fun for the juveniles.
The various Ministries Circuses Panoramas, &c, put
their lest foot foremost upon the Joyous New Year
Charles King, Ii d, viii oliver lecture on The
Sandwich Islsnds" at University Chapel, to morrow
Tuesday evening
Lenox Remond delivers the next Ant Slavery lecture
at the Tabernacle, to morrow tuesday evening.
The Ssow-Ciy reader, this item is not for you You
know all about IT, You know showed litlle Thursday
that few anxious sleigh riders went scraping over
the paving Friday then it showed little m're
and froze hard ice Friday night and Saturday there
was perfect Juror among the people for seigi ride
Broadway Yves full of long low black shoon propelled
by four six eight horses and may judge by tho ye
Of the of Of them they freight that would
be contraband in Maine. All the stages that could got
down of Of wheels and took bells aud runners and gave
sxpenny rides to the million. The thousand wrapped in
buffalo robes and furs rode in twohundredd ar seghs
after hundred dollar horses Every hyerysabe horse
was out in single eghs So and double ones at SIS $50
or $50 day. according to style.
Every body went to bed mourning that sleighng was
wearing out and woke up laughing this morning to find
that it looked upon the roofs though had all
down in one Gale and had broken of at the caves
We heard great many boys laugh this morning bat not
one horse Perhaps they did but not in the City if they
laughed at all they went ont into the country to do it.
What a time the shovel hos had this morning
"Shall clean your walk, SIR
allow much 7"
"a quarter"
"Thot is very high for ten minutes work"
CAM hi II Cr. MI nv IN do IOu OF
mo 1t is TOO high"
He had better have accepted the first Offer for in half
hour his ben rang ten times and every time "A quarter,
"sr which last he had pay get rid Of his Sunday
morning calls
Never did New York look cleaner than it did on the
morning Of New Years day 1854. Every thing
cred with white mantle Even the trees AL blossom
ing with balls Every street showed streak of black
dirt before ng h for every body out in the b t
trsmpDg down the clean into mud. and almost in
Vulnerable seiehs moving they always upon
the few and far between occasions when have seghng
in New.York' To-day we shall h0ve-wel, we Will tel to-
about the great time shall have today Coun-
try reader we tell you in advance, there viii be great
time sleighng in New York this New Years Day We wish
you On equally Happy New Year.
THE OLD RED SIEIGH-The streets Saturday last
presented gay and animated The air was fl of
chimes and every thing that could slide put under
rapid motion possible consistent with the ways aud
means"
Elegant little affairs graceful as swans, gliding be
tween numbering omnbuses dashing under the lee of
huge coal wagons Contemporaries mounted upon extern
poreneous seds and Us full of life as robins nest in June,
slipped along side by side, with monster fourth hands
Shell shaped vehicles wbirled in the of time
cutters with the broad back and the huge dash board
and s'eds heaped up with Young America were towed
merrily astern
Among this medley Of turnous in Broadway noticed
old fashioned red sleigh that had evidently seen
Service" aforeime The red had grown dngy and dim,
nobody knows when; the huge runners almost as
pondrous and substantial ships hull and the box
after the fashion of wheat bin In the stern Of this
craft sat the owner thereof We knew he the owner,
because they were both after the good old style.
He wore greatcoat with whole family of capes upon
he shoulders and garnished with buttons down before
tze smaller than tin plates There he sat- the Palnurus
Of the crs rasping the lines eked out with rope to
lngtudc about equal to the rens of government and at
hrhed, comprehensive view of the whole establish
mtnt revealed to span Of horses somewhere down the
street
B,she old side, enveloped in camlet cloak sat
The companion Of his lie journey and the twain had doubt
less cone 10 York. to the sights and to trade out
seoe or more Of turkeys that formed part OF the freight
isas true othat old segh as is OF wordsits fossil
'poery Lave you forgotten when they made them al
go" when one red sleigh could transport whole
neghb@hood to NH and meeting, or q whole school
nasier and ALTO the district spelling schooi How
many fair forms old now mOldered now nay have mes
Ted the bold of that same old sleigh other days how
many sweet faces bordered round with quilted hoods and
much down. may have smiled above its capacous sides;
how much merry whispering and smohered laughter may
have risen from the nest Of straw in winter nights long
since forgotten.
Doubtless the dead have been borne their last earthly
stage in that old sleigh when they mared the drifts and
made bed fer the dreamless in the country graveyard
sBrdsi ours to the next town have been made therein
and Of merry little hearts have fairly danced with
joy, as grating over the snow to the farm house
door When JANE was married she went fearful and