New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-01-01
!NEW-YEARS DAY.


Festival Of the New.Year than on yesterday. Busi-
ness suspended except in the eating and drinking
shope-and the black patched, baekcoated world of
masculine humanity began the work of calling upon
friends IN the same serious, matterofiact busnessway
in which they open their countDg-roons and shops
Monday morning Some Of the faster sort OF young
men had secured -leghs and were in menier mood,
and before nghtfall the pedestrians also mellOwed
little: but the awkward, cold serious, DOmbey-like
precision of ceremony which may be called exclusively
American, was the predominatug feature of the day.
Tie streets were fortunately in good order, SO that
walking was rather agreeable than otherwise, with an
occasional exception where Southern exposure OF the
sidewalk hawed the snow and ICE into mud and water
During the morning and midday the temperature was
delightful, the ky clear the warm, and the air
still but the latter portion of the afternoon wes bleak
and cold with sharp western breeze. This breeze,
however went down with the sun, and the night was
comfortably warm and beautifully clear.
A. for sleghing, it was in reality a clear case Of
fal,e pretenses: an Illusion not worthy of the namei
and vet thousands of young men, and many who are
old enough to know better worked like heroes all
dav in irving to make themselves believe tina. they
were ENJOYING The depth Of Canadian Winter. The
movements were barely whitewashed with couple of
inches of snow which was the excuse for great many
splendid tumouts and extravagan expense Of cash
aud borse-hesh The motto Go IL while you're
Young" was thoroughly illustrated on stage-@eighs,
bob.seds cutters rockery crates and every form Of
vehicle that could be made to navigate on runners.
There were some magnificent sleighs some Thousands
Of the ordinary kind and not few that were miracles
Of the art of invention applied to sleghing under diff
culties.
The noise and confusion utterly ndescrbabe.
Screams laughter, bells yels, songs, fsh-horns guns,
pistols, drums mingled chord and dscord in one con
tinuous sound which mig IT be toeraby understood
bv IMAGINING ones self in q bel at the cOnfusoo of
tongues. with the addition that everybody deemed
everybody else extremely deaf, and each doing
his utmost 10 make the whole crowd hear what he had
to say.
The closing of the rurn-shops before le o'clock
Monday night aud the keeping closed of great many
of them all day was material assistance to the
of law and order OF course there were great many
men and BOYS crazy dnnk-some who had not been
sober for week so az to secure the luxury of being
ioy drunk on New Years Day. But in the main, we
iudge that New-York soberer than usual on this
festival There was a marked dhliauon IN the num-
her of ladies who offered wine liquors 10 their guests,
and an equally commendable reduction ia the number
of guests who partoOk whore the beverage was n
part of the programme.
The number of calls must have very greatly exceed
ed that of any previous year. In the upper portion ol
the town il seemed that almost every house was open,
and at NIGHT we saw whole blocks Of buildings lighted
ND. in many instances without dark paror in the
whole row. Those who did not receive calls were evil
IDENTIFY in minority of about the size OF the straight
Wing" party at the State election.
Places of amusement were, of course, densely
thronged both day and night
turnout that attracted an unusual share OF atten
tou passed through Broadway up Chatham and Center
streets 1t consisted of small sleigh, but instead OF
being drawn by horse, or pair OF those ANIMALS
abreast, or tandem, was propelled by three able
bodied policemen two of whom had the thl, while the
third pushed on the back of the vehicle. Sitting upon
heap of straw in the bottom of the sleigh was seedy
looking individual bare-headed, and as Shakespeare
says-
"Teeming date drunk up With time
As the veecle passed on, the gay individual This
name we were unable to ascertain) received cheer
after cbeerfrom the unfortunate pedestrians To these
compliments he responded with sort of a"boo-oo-
raw" boo-oo-ray"-" g'lang odM. Ps -" Happy
New Years" The establishment finally drew mp in
front of the Tombs where the Policemen very condo
scendingy assisted the too-happy man to aight in
order that he might call on the magistrate. They
They handled him enderly,
Aud set him down carefully"
The Magistrate in response to his wish of Happy
New Year" wished him many returns Of the happy
day. bun hoped that the advent Of another year he
| might learn to deal sparingly with the intoxicating
cup and concluded with inviting him inside the walls
| TO refresh himself.
STABBISG AFFRAY.-About o'clock on Tuesday