The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-02-14
City Intelligence.
SAINT yALESTINE's DAY.
Good morrow tits st. valentinss Day
All in the morning bstime,
And !. youth at your window


To be your Valentine.
This 10 Valentine day, and hat patron Saint Of fsryld
love sations, fun, froc end aniorous rhymes
could not have selected would scarcely have prayed
for, more favorable weather for its Observance The
sleghing excitement OF the past week has almost com
plesey subsidized md the fair Of the city having
according to Mr. +. trayersed at
O'Clock II. NJ yesterday, through q cold term Of tho
unprecedented duration Of three hundred and sixty
hours, will be found by the busy postmen In that pleas
Ing state OF amisbie languor produced by returning
warmth, which will dispose them to the missves
Of devoted homage and undying affection which they
win deliver with smiles and thanks And oven on ths
morning. when, according to tradition, the feathered
tribe edo choose mate II any young lady should be
forgotten entirely, or some receive ungsacious
satrcal valentine is TO be hoped that the braciog ex
ercise which they have lately enjoyed the avenues
and up and down Broadway, win have enabled them 10
bear the-undeserved assuredy--slisht or temporary
annoyance with equanimity and without nervous
arrangement. Such the advantages OF "cod
terms" and shigh-rding. As usual On the approach
OF this anniversary, the deelers in valentine.
have made immense preparations to suit Gus.
toners of every rank In life, Of every variety
OF taste and of almost any cabss Of purse The
Of their cxerons be by taking peep at the
windows in Broadway, Nassau street. the Bovery Canal
street. any Of the leading Here are 10
thirty and hfty dollars but is remarked that Of
the exceedingly high priced sheets which people
wont 10 gaze A. In former years, exhibited perhaps
In difference to the mperous necessities OF hard times
However quite enough stil remain Z, have given fun
scope TO the decorative geuin Of artists o every grade
and the roeteai tsentsand lcenses aIso--of rhymes
Of every degree Of morality. Indeed in mauy places
the valentines exhibited are decidedly vulgar
and broad and gross the carcsures that they
tray yrn+hf n oil mn M .ta
them win be bought up, and the good bad, and lnlfer
en with all that delcate sentimental and truthful
win be delivered to the parties TO whom they viii be a.
rscted bstwsen the lith and 18th instant. What hut
terpes OF the heart, what fun what doubts what eai
ouses, what ssesles, what misyiyngs, and what mum
Der OF really true attachments will follow II Is inpossi
BILE TO calculate The annual predomInanee Of the TAT.
ter, and the many happy unions brought about by
valentine writing, formed, It Is presumed, the
reastns which induced our forefathers 10 dedi.
cate the day to Saint Valentine for although mel.
ther history, tradition, nor the records OF the
church. snligitsn to whether his Reverence was
ever wounded by Cupid's arrow, we al know that he
was steadfast la the faith and suffered yriom under
the Emperor Caudins the Second than dsown H.
A. love, pure and undelei," " Ia looked the twin
sister Of religion, Sain, Valentine has been voted the
most fitting on the calendar 70 receive the hsage OF all
the true and trusting Ia consequence, doubt Of
bis unsserving belief and unaiterable devotion TO
object Some dealers have made arrangements
for ihe dus delivery direct from their stores Of
valentines purchased at certain rates and Mr.
Boyd has Issued ukase from his city post ofhce,
that all letters directed TO young ladies' working In
bcokbinderies other factories must be prepaid,
In order 10 The time OF hrs overworked employees
and 10 let every belle have fair chance OF early peru
ssi OF her valentine. Sentimental young gentlemen
must be firm during this crisis and II their shang.
haes, imperials /" moustaehes, general appear.
snce, should be bssely hbeed by some ieIlow OF
room Innate, they must bear up like = men, y and thus
disAppoint the Hbeiler or 'finv,tsrate Joker The
ladies' we can trust TO- but tho "nsryous; oen.i.nsn
we sympathixe with. One and all must take comfort
and each themselves that there IL at Least ons
valentine who will truly conjure them thus
Doubt then, the stars are fire,
Doubt that the sun do move
Doubt truth 10 be . liar
But never doubt love.
TE Twssn. THIRD wARp.--Itis said that movement
Ia on foot TO create ward to be called the Twenty
third ward, which viii be composed of portions of the
sevsnteenth and Heveath wards IL will embrace II Il
surmed 1.-THE poorer localities In those wards whore the
bulk Of the d, mocrsc strength generally lies The os.
tensble reason for the creation Of this new ward the
fact that the population would thereby be reduced TO an
equality with the other wards and BY this means do
away With much Of the difhcuty In forming Assembly
districts under the new appcrtionments which win follow
the census, TO be taken next July. Il believed how
ture on the ground that In the event OF Ia passag
both the seventeenth and the Eleventh wards would be-
vhig instead OF democratic, ss they by consi
derabs nsjorities What the exact limits Of the ward
VIII be, has not yet transpred.
scAnIn fxvKn This disease probably never prevailed
70 such an extent In this vicinity, proved fatal
among children, as has during the present winter and
even up TO the present time Il, avsges truly fright,
full The following, taken from the City Inspectors
port shovs the number Of deaths which have occurred
from scarlet fever 10 this city during the pas, sr weeks
During the week encirg