Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-05-08

The May Moving N,asance-Anniuersa Week
Our Public Schools &C.

The Nay MoUi1ig N,asance-AnniuerSar Week.
OR Public Schools, &c.
New YORK, Nav 9TH, 1856.
The unfortunate denizens of this metropolis
are just now in state of the most disagreeable
doubt, dust, and confusion, growing out of the
abomination of desolation set up in every third
house by the annual May moving. This periodi-
cal oveTturn begins in earnest about the 2Sth of
April and lasts week-May- day being the high
tide OF the work and such work Only i'm.
agine two or three thousand carts and wagons,
with dozen persons interested in each, totine
household furniture of all descriptions, from the
brocatele and rosewood Of Fifth-Avenoodledom
to the dirty pine of the Five Points; with all the
confusion of moving out, while Others are moving
in, collisions of tables and temper, breaking Of
pier glasses and patience, scratching of fine fur
niture and faces, smashing of erockery and of
cranums, backing of bedding and eyes, tearing
of carpets and coats, choking with the dust, dis.
turbed Tor the first time since last moving day
or, what is worse, drenched by a northeastern
rain; which seems to take malignant pleasure in
pelting your person and property to make work
for doctors and cabinet makers This is a faint
picture of sad realty, realty which is over for
this season Nine out of every ten movers have
solernnly sworn that they will not move again; a
promise that eight of the nine will break next
Spring. If you ask why so many people move
every May, in New York, can give no better
reason, than, that " it is the custom" A few
obliged to move, because the houses are to be
torn down. or altered to stores larger number,
because they cannot pay the rent demanded now
and then one, who will not stand an advance
but paying twice the advance for cart hire, and
damaged furniture; yet the mass of locomoting
families move from love of change hallucina-
ton much more lamentable than many which
send their victims to lunatic asylum.
The Anniversary Week, as it is called, com
menced on Sunday, when half dozen annual
sermons were preached, mostly by clergymen
from abroad. The regular Society meetings will
continue for about two weeks, during which time
some twenty anniversaries will be held. The
most important are the meetings of the Tract
Society, Bible Society, Home Missionary Society,
Colonization Society, Anti-Slavery Society, and
Congregational Union.
These annual gatherings bring to our city
great number of clergymen and professors of the
most diverse views and faith, and provoke among
our newspapers equally diverse comments. With
the people, it is period of peculiar interest,"
Speakers of fame from all parts of the country
hold FORTH and the rush to hear them is over
whelming. 1t matters not what doctne a man
holds, or teacher; if he has oratOrical fame he
will have no lack Of hearers in New York
| am told that there is a committee from
Charleston, S. c., in town, examining the work.
ing of our Public Schools our modes of teach
ing, style of school architecture, qualits of text
books, &c. with view of improving the schools
Of the South.
For week, we are Mayorless Fernando Wood
having gone to Virginia, to speak eulogy upon
Alexander Hamilton.
Yours, OBSERVER