The New York herald., 1867-12-15
THE SLElGHiNG CARNIVAL.

Continuance Of the Merry Making Yesterday
Fashion In sieighs and Siefghing-Swnns
and Dainty Shells Ruuners-Broadway
and the Bioomingdaie Road-How Business
UtlIizcs snow storm.
merrisr metropolis than that or yesterday New
Yorkers. Notwithstanding they stagssr under heavy
burdens Of business carry their shoulders hssds
full Of long columns from the ledger OF dollars aud cen,s
can be merry when occasion u orercd-has NOT, for
many winter firted and noa. cd In swan.ks gondoas
along OF Manhattan and out into tho high
ways and byways OF The country adjacent To be sure.
the weather was clustering ~ had been the day be-,
fore and on Thursday. when all New York had creps
along under umbrellas and awnings stopping TO warm
itself At every convenient register Tho wind blew,
| the snow 1sw In whiskins and onding,
though cold sroccos that threatened 70 overwhein
I the pedestrian, sitting into ones faco, sitting
over ones hat sitting into ones neck, sin
ing into all cracks and crevioes-in fact sitting
sitting everywhere and every body and sverythins
Cars IN many cases. had not been running regularly for
day two stages several lines had retired 10 their
dens and gone to sleep I'll the drifting should have
abaied and generally New York had been transformed
into frozen Venice, with long canals over which
noaied gondoas shcd with slender shoes OF
steel sporadicaiy this occurred on Thursday; few
slcghs werc out and few seighrders audacious
than the rest made Broadway ring with shouts and
laughter scarce heard amid the DIN and c!atcr and
whistle Of the storm. Happily Thursday night the
storm abatcd its rage and The wind which. as Poo has
IT, had travelled wings from tho 'boreal pole, for
the very purpose OF whskng in peoples faces.
grew less and less fercc and and more
intermittent in LIS gusts The snow settisd
and scld1ed itself and rpened for sleghng purposes;
aud New York, which had mutiered oaths at the
driving blast but tho day BEFORE woke up Friday
ing with the Simultaneous yawn OF . million mouths,
and the simultaneous flying open OF couplc Of million
Info Ilnn hiaek nYauv md Vrosu and of orv
mixed color and venturcd the remark tha. tho elghDg
was excellent. rhen New York put on its dressing
mercury trifs below zero The next business OF
| the two million handed monster was 70 serze naf as
financial. commercial European and general One or
two trng murders during the night had not dis
perfectly natural In their way, had taken place. the
monster had not been aware OF IL few bur-
glaries had not shaken its nerves sufficiently to impair
It's rest and New York read the daily papors In the
| morning with the utmost possible eqaanlnty. Then,
| simultaneously. the city opened It's milton mouths
gulped breakfast a tho expense o. baf million of
dollars and began 10 make ready for the busDcss Of the
day. 0ut from lars and dcns crcpt tho beegars and
warrants OF the metropolis with holes IN their boots
booiicss altogether and these muttered on the
snow, and on The wind, and on ths thermometer; out
from hal bedrooms aud boarding houses ard encnsnts
crept clerks and saissmen aud working people and only
wished for sleigh and . day OF leisure; and out
IRON palaces Of marble and brown stone looked the
srisiocracy or the metropolis ordered siogh and spsn
20 be put 10 readiness, and eoved AMI furred Itself Tor
DAY Of enjoyment
scig ghs for days Venetian csrpisalNew York behaved
In TACT, mostly 40 usual 10 the way of getting and
making all due preparations for business nowihstand-
Jog The fact that the srlshns vas excellent ono day
OF good sleighing was necessary 10 draw tho cork OF
metropolitan enthusiasm and sot the liquid, which had
been bostlsd longer than many . gentIeman's oideg
port, In perfect Axx aud ebaihtion of doknL That
one day tfrday which operated after the maaner Of
her enthusiasm, New York had in The sport OF
tho day before; and yesterday every member OF hsr
household woke up With fever IN the blsod-a fever
for sls1n riding. which hardly permitted tho usual
length OF time Tor toe ming toilet Even tins daily
papers had ost neir fascination Tao trsrvesonco had
begun and the feast OF fun mnss bs for another day
consnnet. Iurno1is, long rusty, were ordered out;
livery stables we're eesiesed and taken BY storm aui
tnougb not remsrxsby artistic answered tho purpose
Of the improvisor for days jaunt on runners.
street or juggling bells and laughing bellies and. from
that hour Until late in tho afternoon, the rerment Of
the occasion wnxed wilder and wilder nppTos,mstlng
nearer and absolute climax OK shouts aurh
ter and enjoy ment-enoy meut novel degree 10
ssh. ~ sy.rv svs .os, nUs9 p,ny
gaysy oi color glded, or rather Eosted past show
windows ~ and down and 10 aud FRO from every corner
and around svory corner like some thousand fairy
summer Nights Dream" Among all these, scarlet
striped with msuve and sonnet mes with Thread Of eoit,
was tho prevailing coor--s hue n exceiient winter
tasFe owing 20 its warmth, wh ch cave tlio
vehicle appearance as II ashesn Of liquid sunshine
had been poured over 10 slender anatomy. Crimson,
with is dark. deep insinuaiops or sIaouiderins nrs,
,sen ed io have aksn ne next rank . scas as eoer
Tor winter vehicies, nsxt followed green, With iu
hints of sumrperlks feeling. A. blades OF waving
srass lad pressed, preserved and moulded into
sorething 70 ride in and aud then, wtr atsste
which hAd no appropriateness aoout ~ afary swan Of
blue noased past, making tho discrm natvo spectator
shsser With arantuss OF agne from inner and instinct.
iso sense OF ths zd unseasonabeness or the color.
Recovered from this, neuirh 'naurc, color
seGI. pscsGmMy 10 vosns ,as season, s,,,r @sa
color for ncnozrams sesoral ornamcntaoD, swept
past headed wi,hs magnIncen. spsn, ihe uspplngs of
which drppsd and g'it,eed With large gold ornaments
and tho warmth Of feeling awakened by the harisy