Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-10-01

sake subject US to no other such
ordeal.
YESTERDAY was, we believe, New
Years with the Germans. The
merchants kept the day with closed
doOrs.-[COlumbus Index, Sept
9th.
Now If there is a person, for
whose opinion we have the most
unbounded respect, that person is
Stevens, the editor of the Index.
We know him to be rigidly exact in
every thing and particularly so in
figures. He is beyond doubt the
best Judge Of age of any physi-
ognomist In the State. And even
the most indifferent reader of
character would at once accord to
him n full and thorough knowl-
edge Of everything connected
with biblical lore, from his pecu-
liar and strikingly clerical ap
pearancc. His general make up
is not so much the staid and pre-
else Quaker; the finished and
polished Episcopalian the earnest
and determined Methodist the
jealous and interchangeable Catholic;
the austerc and solemn Presbyter.
ian, but a happy and delightful
blending of all the characteristics
in one, where ifany one religious
REGULARITY preponderates, it is a
natural and inherent tendency,
which he has towards MOrmondom.
But the latter leaning was born
in him and he should not there
fore be called to a strict accounta-
bility for it.
Now the investigations of this
learned sAvant has developed the
fact that the Germans observe
the same new year with the Jers.
We had thought the Jews alone
differed from the balance of the
civilized world in the observance
of this day and we are under last,
ing obligations to our friend
Stevens for directing our atten
ton to q similar custom which
obtains with the Germans. We
have not learned how this custom
originated with the Germans, but
presume it was founded upon the
same command as that which in
Auences the Jews, and which, we
believe is as follows:
Monday. the Goth inst, was the
LIST Of Tisri, the first month Of the
civil though the seventh of the
sacred year Of the Jews, and on
which occasion they indulge in
celebration of the ROh Hashdndh
or the new year. The ordinance
for this celebration is found in LIE.
viticus XIII 24-"In the seventh
month, in the first day of the
month, shall We have q Sabbath, a
memorial of blowing Of trumpets.
and a holy convocation. Ye shall
do no servile work therein" Ac.
cordingly the day is strictly cele.
brated by the Jews everywhere, so
far as permitted by the laws Of
the country, and is regarded, next
to the feast of the Passover, as
their greatest festival. From sun
set to sunset-as the Hebrew day
begins. on what is otherwise reck-
oned as the evening Of the previ
Gus day-business is religiously
suspended the new year is ush.
cred in by the blowing Of trum-
pets, with religious services, which
are resumed in the morning. In
our country, custom restricts the
public celebration 10 the syna-
gogue, as compulsion does in many
other lands, but in some countries
the festival demonstrations are ex.
tended to the streets.
TIE Columbus Index very wise.
ly suggest that there should be
early and effective organization of
the Democratic party in anticipa-
ton of an order from the Cover.
nor for the election of Congress-
men this fall. 1t says lit may be
the demagogue Governor is hold.
ing off his order for an election
for the very purpose of forestall,
ing the effects Of Democratic or
ganization in this State. II we
wait on him and the order is is
sued a few weeks before the time,
Democratic chances are as dead
as a mackerel in Mississippi. Our