The New York herald., 1871-01-01
NEW YEARS DAY.
What 1t Ii and How 1t WIFE
BE HOnOrcd.
New hopes bo heirs 10 the old ones dead.
Let us pray for "a New Year Kind,
May fairer vista before us spread
Than the dead ones left behind,

ago. the brandy and wines are in the cellar or on
the sideboard the dresses gorgeous or simply neat,
have received the last STITCH aud to those who look
on the festival as one purely made for vanity or
hilarious and tinerant sprceng this quiet Sabbath
Will bear the dsagreeable features OF the nadurdts
Qldrt Theure of Rabelais. 1t Is so much the ten
dency OF modern civilization TO turn solemn Iesti-
walls into many days OF revelry with as little god
liness in them as possible that 1t ts good thing
the old cync. Time, steps In now and again with his
New Year on Sunday. Here one must halt awhile
and give up the day 10 piety though
PERIPATETIC PLEASANTLY
monopOlzes the morrow. Last night the city was
bright with happy faces. ramble through Washing
ton Market would have repaid any one who wanted
an insight TO the poor mans New Years Eve The
tolstained mechanic, with his teeming basket, beat
Ing the ruddy marketmen to the utmost cent and
then smiling on his buxom wife at his own acute
ness, while all three part In q merry humor at the
bargain. On they jostle through the jolly crowd
and struggle for place on the over-laden
cars, stopping. mayhlp, to buy doll for
the little girl at home. Up town they
are decorating hall and salon for the work Of Mon
day. and, as reporters love to say, "a futter of eX
s streets gradually darssnnE sa asit aes
many man husky in voice and owning very un-
steady pair OF legs, mocks his outward shabDiness
and inward cargo OF Brooklyn bourbon or New Jer.
sey rum by de ;laring vocally:-
Champagne Charlie my name,
-. So as fold when on the spree
slaet and phandons the wine for
Even he finds a rest to his singing at home or at
the nearest precinct station house, and the New
Year comes. with Its CHEEKY chimes from Trinltyi5
sieePs ~ @ 10 ey d aa ha the town IN bed H
few celebrating "Watch Night,' and great many
busiy engaged in putting the
EVERLASTING FINISHING TOUCH
to everything With the profound thoughts of those
whs ponder on Times mutations and periods they
TO scorn and tell him TO 90 home and help draw
the turkey If he told them
stood a tow'r in the wet,
AND s9h years .,n that m mes; in ,sars
Selhshness is the secret of existence, and people
care little for knowing the origin OF custom so
long they participate in its amenities. Hence
there will be few to ask why friends visit friends
and are given glass Of Wine and piece OF cake
once year. But there are not few IN this great
| throbbing Gotham who VIII look for moment over
| the waters to homes Germany. where Santa
| Claus will come In vain; for. though there are
children that prattle under the roof tree there Is
father lying cold and stark In a soldiers grave
| watching in the trenches this very day. with the
soldiers fortune as his
There many here who will know that this is
the jour de ran In France, and that brothers
at Sedan, that friend In German prison
mourns over severed ties and the fate OF la 0a,4de
nation.
have not been forgotten and the thought there
"De beggars at our gale' hungry and atnirst should
tend make all feel more happy. At these times
sometimes suspicious large neartedness enters into
peoples breasts, and their wishes and c0rdiattes
occasionally wear on with the breath that utters
them Yet, with the "cas' tomorrow the distant
friends Will not be forgotten In the visits to the
ana dear, and poor relations Will be honored as
well as the richer with hearty pull at the bell 1t
Will be.--
glance at the glare Of the wealthy,
A halt at the homes OF the poor,
A laugh In the face of the healthy,
A sigh tor the sick beyond cure;
wait oy yi,s .ns cSuGn eS is3r o. ae ne, weary, weary,
shoa aass amd wi' 'y WITH ana hs oSesy
burden to every song.
Many, 1t Is to be feared, will be the thoughts at
church to-day that wander or to Monday. 'How
shall lookan quoth the young lady. ''Where shall
gof" quoth the young gentleman. Between them
SWEET PROMISE OF ETERNITY
will be secondary question. After church ut can
not be hepedl young men Will agree TO take car
rage tomorrow and visit their mutual friends-an
arrangement by which several hOsteSses will be
blessed If the number or callers be consideration.
Some, it is Iurther to be feared, Will commence their
festivities to-day and run good risk OF awakening
to make their New Years "cas" on Tuesday morn
ing. as happened once before in an authentic in
stance. Again, the being sans sOuci who left his
own house on New Years morning and called three
times at every house IN the block, until the shades
OF evening found him In "dssolute state'' on MS
own stoop, Will doubtless find his annual type this
year as before
Mayer Han finds time to joke with his subordi-
mates, to whom he yesterday sent the following let
ter
The retiring Mayor this day ending his term of Office de-
ses to the gentlemen OF his office his regards and
thanks uniform courleses and attention he begs
them that he has conferred with his VINO
begins a term January l. and has obtained from the latter
satisfactory TO their retention under the lately
elected incumbent
He VIII receive his usual calls at the City Hail. and
the bland Sheriff Brennan and the eicient ana
courteous County Clerk Loew Will tender
THEIR HANDS AND THEIR HOsPITALTTIEs
at the Shern7s Office. There will, OF course, be the
usual significance attached to the comparative
heartiness Of shake IN these cases by the undering
politicians, who look for fav0rs III the future the
continuance or those already in possession. The
genial George RoOme Will receive his many friends,
as usual, in his marble halls.
But to the great mass OF people-from those who
receive Fifth avenue to those who are ''at homen
in Baxter street. from his Honor the Mayor down 10
the smallest politician IN the town-thls season Will
be regarded as day set apart to the joining OF
severed ties, the grasping OF friendly hands the
smiles on beamng 1aCes the CLEAN OF ray OF God
sent charity pervadlng all and ilumining the rough
road lle In this spirit, then, can one say 10 each
and all
HAPPY NEW YEAR.