New-York tribune., 1866-05-01
----------7-
THE FIRST OF MAY.

This il the day when all New-York is supposed to
be turned out of house and home, memorable day for
common carriers and bad dinners. when the most
amiabe OF men are justified in demonstrations OF do
mestio SPLEEN Overworked merchants and weary
housewives begin to long for the mountain air, and
damsels who have failed to win husband at the opera
or the fancy ball. are busy arranging their bats for
Summers campaign by the seaside. Nature comes
breathing sweetness and life, and the green fields
seem to laugh in very joy at escaping from
Winters Information. The jolly tavern-keepers
are storing their larders for city folks, and
arranging economical bills Of farel on the most
liberal terms In a few days more Broadway
will no longer be respectable, and gentlemen who
have Mrs Grundy's opinions at heart must haunt the
by-streets even at the risk of the cholera The min
sres aro singing their old songs TO small houses the
high comedians find their airy comedy very hard
work. Our players have fled. Mr.. Booth is playing
an out-of-town engagement Mr.. Forrest has gone to
California for an ovation. Solon Shinge has ceased
to drive that dreadful baggagewagon, and the Italian
opera. singers no longer sing. What do we want of
their musci the birds are coming. The Fenians have
accomplished the suspension of the habeaS corpus, and
Canada seems to be free from any invasion, except the
annual INVASION vi UcdllA-occhclSt WIN bNGh w
arrange excursions along the ST. Lawrence and the
Thousand Islands. Those who are doomed to New
York are airing their Summer clothing, and adyanc-
ing their lie-insurance for struggle with the cholera
We enter upon our Spring months very drearily.
What arc we to do with ourselves Tor the Summer
Even Congress is becoming quiet, aud the Presidents
hepdomada speech has been soothed down into Oracu
lar utterances from The ht,gencer or vague rumors
from the special correspondent. The first OF May
good time follow the example of the merchants and
take account Of stock The South seems to thrive un.
der the iron heel of oppression the negroes work like
true men that they are and the cotton grows with
due respect TO nature. The anxious Rebels are eN-
inc at the doors OF Congress; but We presume
have found that kicking is not the best craftsmanship.
Over in Europe, there is a sublime spirit of chaos on
the face of the earth. Austria and Prussia in the
notion Of fighting, aud for the thousandth time
Europe will be in blaze. Such sooty chimneys that
our neighbors have and what an immense amount Of
burning they stand In England, the Reform battle
is again raging Shall English manhood rule
England This question involves truth
as stern and true as Emancipation Wiser
than u.s. our cousins decide it without cutting each
Others throas. 1t is the old contest of the mstleoe
against the oak-fnngus against the living, healthy
plant A Reform victory is not triumph, but step
toward triumph. France is sublmely quiet-with
one eye on Bismark and the other upon Macmillan.
Just now, we are putting our municipal house in
order for the pestilence. The doctors busy with
pills and potions, and writing long articles in the news
papers. If we die of the cholera it will not be for
want of sufficient information on the subject. To be
sure, have class of doctors who that
life can only be saved by one special practice and
another class wise and nue, who are confident that
the surest road 10 death is to follow the advice Of the
first. Perhaps there might be more pleasant reading
than this for the First of May. We DO not presume
to decide any medical difference. Cold water fresh
air, no whisky or tobacco, general abstinence and
virtue peace, morning and evening prayers, exer-
else, and due reading of this excellent news
paper, is about as good a remedy as we can
think of just nova good remedy at any time' and
worth considering on this first of especaliy,as
the clergymen find comfort in assuring Us that we
may never see another first OF May, and that we
should work while il is day before the night comes
when no man can work Ii we follow the theme, we
shall probably branch off into something less ediiyng
and as the moral comes at the end Of all well-con-
structed writings, we submit this moral to the reader
hoping that his dinner may be to his liking, and his
new homo as pleasant the old one, and that he may
live TO see many anniversaries of this charming day.
The negro laborers employed in the steam ssw-mih