The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-01-01

| boast that he can change the name of New
York at will. Other Laura Fairs will emerge
| to prove the beauty of homicide, and fresh Mrs.
Millers attempt to demonstrate that Providence
| meant woman as a checkmate to man, moi
helpmato. Heaven grant that the future holds
| in the hollow of its hand no ruined Boston and
Chicago though statistics forbid us to believe
that no clergymen will be found in gambling
houses, or that the catalogue OF
murders and suicides will suffer any
material diminution. Poisoning cases will
probably loom up in Baltimore or nearer home
The frauds at the Custom House will survive.
In some shape or other, to be o godsend to
the writer's of didactic editorials, and ministers
like Theodore L. Cuyler will be visited with
just retribution for yielding their pulpits to
women. Philadelphia will have the oppor-
tunity of growing excited again over the pro-
posed purchase of Independence Hall by the
general government, and some question akin
in interest will supersede the Alabama claims.
Topics kindred e the French arms scandal
will share the attention given to Quarantine
abuses, and every other month the world ~ill
hear with CONSERVATION of the famines and
the epidemics being endured ct the end of it.
There will be other rescues of Erie and other
overthrows Of other Goulds. Black Fridays
will reduplicate themselves, and the Tichborne
trial shall see its lineaments reflected in the
mirror of the future. Earthquakes shall,
haply, shake the Atlantic as they have the
Pacific coast, and moral and intellectual
tidal wave run through all the affairs of men.
Fresh Professor Fishes shall lecture on new
aspects of the religion of cosmism, and the
orthodox world shall howl at Tyndar until he
charms it to silence with his Auorescent
light. There will be deaths from
hydrophobia in places far and near,
culinary explosions, miasma from manure
dumping grounds and the average number
of careless topers burned to crisp by spon-
taneous combustion. The servant girl ques-
ton and the expense of living will furnish the
confirmed letter-writer with his habitual news
paper complaint; and if we forget the frauds
in food and in Methodist Book Concerns it
will be because Gilmore will seduce us with q
miraculous jubilee. The Indians will pay US
CQ6lx poflOOlCol Vl5ltS, auO UAAhS NcAAlo OEuut
repeat her European tour, and Vanderbilt
underground railroad come up for discussion,
and day continue to break in Spain. Artists
like Rubinstein will charm the astonished ear
of music, and singers like Lucca and Kellogg
carry On . friendly war: Other Gembettas
viii DO triumphantly interviewed, and Theirs
solve the problem whether he is to become
s'doddering' old man. Sothern will be asked
his opinion of the Prince of Wales, and Train
give his on the mortality at the Tombs.
And If the coming year Esswake po Eixslriss
between Froude and Father Burke, depend
upon it 1873 will be quite lively enough with
out them. Fate, or Providence, or force-call
it what You will-win go on celebrating the
wonderful universe, and humanity will search
vainly after the unknowable and seek to attain
unto things that are too high for it. But let
us hope, meanwhile. that the world, on the
whole, tends to be better world, even when
the progress is sometimes imperceptble.