New Year's Day

In response to our iuvitation to the ladies who propose to receive calis on New Year's Day, to send In their Dames with the list of their frionds assiBtiug, we have the followmg : Mr3. Angelí, South University avenue. Mrs Beakes and daughter, afternoon and evening, assisted by Mrs. Sinclair, Mrs. Hubbard, Mrs. Swathel, Mrs. Millen, Mrs. Ashley, Mrs. Boudiuot, Mrs. Kmne, Mrs. Evans, Mra. Humilton, aml the Miases Ella Hlll, Louise Kichards, Sarah Henrique9,,Tennie James, Lulu Hubbard, aud Hattie Swathol. Mis. S. P. Jewett, West Hurou street. Mrs. S. T. ütis, West Huron street, assiated by Mrs. John F. Nichols, Misses Anna Nichols and Mary Backus, aud the two Mrs. Wardens. Mrs. and Miss Winchell, at No. 11 North University avenue, assisted by Misses Millie Knowlton, Jessio Tyler, Edith and Jessle Wood, Lulu Parish, Bossie Huut, Eebecca Brown. Lulu Bell, Lulu Gott, Bertha Hill, Hattie McEeynolds, aud Clemie Houghton, all of this city, and by Miss Mary Foster, of Ludiugtou, and Miss Clara Miller, of Detroit. The New England Society Festival. The New England Society of this city celebrated its twenty-first anniversary ou Friday üiiin' last at the Congregational Chuich. The public exereises were preceded by the business meeting, at which the following offlcers were elected for the eusuing year : President, Cyrus A. Lewis. Vice-Presideut, P. L. Page. Recordiug Secretary, A. W. Hamilton. CorreHpondingSecretary, Prof. C. E. Greene. Treasurer, Theodore Taylor. Executive Committee, Prof. W. H. Pettee, Prof. H. S. Frieze, and E. J. Knowlton. After the olection was over President Duuster called the public meeting to order and a voluntary upon the organ was given by Prof. Frieze, followed by prayer by the Rev. Dr. Brown. Then followed a solo and chorus f rom Mendelssohn's Oratorio of St. Paul, and after that the anniversary oratiou was given by Prof. W. H. Pettee. Prof. Pettee reviewed in a scholaily and attractive manner the early efforts of the New Englanders to establish institutions of learning, - primary, intermedíate and higher. It was historically iull of interest, and was a fitting tribute to those educated and iar-seeiug pioneers who laid so broad and deep the foundations of school and college, even while battling with the savages and chopping down the forests. After the address the audience joiuei the choir in singiug the following ode, writteu, as the programme advises us, for the occasion : FOEEFATHEBS' DAY, 1878. W'e come, we come to honor New Euíílaiid'a glorious band, Whose sulferings gave to frcedom A heritage so grand. A land where beaven's abundance The ltiborer's toil shall find, And not a cbain shall shactle The body or the niind. Theu bonor to the Pilgrinis On Plytnouth's wintry shore, And those who, coming later, Liike hardships also bore ; And honor freedoni's banner Which boldly they unfurled. A symbol of their earnest, A hope to all the world. Honor their patiënt labor, Honor their courage rare That breasted every Jungar, And conquered doubt in prayer; Their faith and their endurunoe Brought copious blessines down, So let New England's children Wltb praise their memory crown. The benediction was then pronouDCed by Rev. W. H. Kyder, after which the audience adjourned to the hospitable aud beautiful parlor iu the basement. The cali vvas soon given to the supper room, where the tables had been abuudantly aud bouutifully spread by the ladies of the church, and where the metnbers of the society, iuvited guest8 and friends to the uumber of some 120, were made hoartily welcome, courteously waited upon, and geuerously fea6ted The ladies iu charge of the tables vied with each other in makiug their guests at home aud in inimstering to their wants. After full justice had been doue to the feast Dr. Dunster, in a few happy remarks, introduced the exercises, by announcing that heretofore it had been the custom to toast "The Women of New England" and cali upon a geutleman to respond, but that this year the custom was to be reversed aud a lady called upou to speak for the steruer sex. He, therefore, gave as the firat toast, 1. The Meu of New Englaud : " They say best men are inoulded out of faults," theu what a sorry set New Euglanders once were, for "framed iu the prodigality of uature" they are "as pioper men as ever tiod upou neat's leather." The respouse by Miss Cora Benisou of the Law Departmeut was appropriate and well delivered,and the list of eminent New Englauders she named was a tickler to the pride of their descendants gathered to eulogize their aucestora. 2. Our Guests : Thauk you, good airs, we owe you more than one, tur it Is a well-settled paradox that the pleasures of hospitality are multiplied by dividing theia with utheri. Responded to in a humorous and happy vein by Hon T. W. Palmer, of Detroit, who proclaimed himself, though born in Michigan, "a Yankee Mosaic," with nis aucestors spreading all over New Englaud ani almost crowdiug the "Blue Noses" of Nova Scotia. 3. The Inventive genius of New England : 'He put a girdle round the earth iu foity minutes." Response bv Prof. J. W. Langley, who was very happy iu his roference to New Euglaud iuveutors. Whituey, Morse, Morton, Goodyear, and Howe were named, and the work their iuvenhons had done for the world briefly sketched. Before the next toast the choir saug "Israel's Sous with one Accord" - solo and chorus. 4. OurEiiucatioual System- New Eugland's Precious gift to Michigan : A scion of New England stock,- in unity of orgamzatiou and completeuess of developmeut it has even outstripped its noble ancestry. Prof. Adams, in response, credited the educutioual system of Michigau and the Northwest to the ordinauce of 1787, especially to the clauses prohibiting slavery and setting apart a portion of the public land 3 for the support of schools both of primary and higher grades, which clauses he claimed, in the light of recenj disclosures, for a son of Massachusetts,- the Iiev. Manasseh Cutler, agent of capitalists for the purchase of Iands in Ohio. 5. New Englaud's Place iu Literature ; Built upou a foundatiou whose corner stone waa "The Book of Books" ahe has now a proud and enviable positiou in the world oi letters, in spite of material disadvantages. Respouse by Rev. J. T. Sunderland, who named many of the well-knowu authors of New Eugland in the several departnients of literature, history, poetry, theology, law, fiction, etc. The speaker attributed any supposed 6hort comings in any departmeut to the fact that while the old world authors whose names are so famous were aud are the products of centuries of culture, New England iustitations and New England scholars are the growth of to-day. 6. The Judiciary : "Let us consider the reabou of the cause, for nothing is law that is not reasou." Responso by Hon. O. M. Barnes, of Lansing, who iound in that compact ordained in the Mayflovver the germ of our judiciary system. Mr. Barnes paid a handsome tribute to the early New Eugland jurista, and set forth the important functions of the courta in the admiuistratiou of the law, which in its growth marks the bouudaries of individual rights. Mr. Barnes claimed that Massachusetts had furnished Michigan her judicial as well as her educational system, and asserted that Michigau's first statutes were nearly literal copies of the statutea of Massachusetts. 7. The Iuquisitive and Acquisitive Yankee: Iu inquisitiveuess, "One that would peep and botanice Upon his mother's grave." In acquiaitivenesa oue that might say " But in the way of a bargain, mark ye me, 111 cavil on the ninth part of a hair" Kesponse by Rev. B. B. Pope, who though a bom "Buckeye" seemed to have made a atudy of the "Yankee." He took as the national bird of New Ëagland the "Lobster," and from the claws of that beautiful symbol naturally arranged his remarka under two clauses,- the inquisitive Yankee always exclaiming "how d'ye know" and "du teil," and the acquisitive Yankee grasping and grabbing lands, housos, and merchandise. The typical New Englauder lookod down upon all outside barbarians and longed for a "New Boston" in the future world. Sarcasm and humor rail a tilt .■iguin.it each other throughout his remarks, wlnch were received with great applause. After a song by the choir, "The Breaking WavBS Dashed High," the uext toast was giveu. 8. New Kiigland's Exporta : They speak for themselves,- at least they alwaya do ou occasions like the present. Qov. Felch responded, and after a brief refereuce to the material prosperity and material exporta from New England, found that her great work had been the exportation of men and women and ideas and iustitutions, all of which had been spread over the Statea of the Northwest. 9. The Peninsular State of the Northwest : Beautiful for situation ; still more beautiiul in the lustre and renowu shed upon her name by the achievements of her aons and daughters. Kesponse by ex-Gov. Bagley, who congratulated our city on benig the only one in the State maintaiuing a New Eugland Society, and expressed a wish that the example be fullowed by every city in the State. He had responded to th inyitation to be present with ploasure, and had been made glad. In his references to New Eugland and his list of mutual obligations the Governor was exceedingly happy, and gare assurance that he was "at home" as an after-diuner talker. H. W. Kogers, Eaq., had been expected to respond to "Plymouth Bock" but the lateness of the hour had made it uecessary for him to leave, and the exercises were concluded by Dr. Duuster reading brief extracts from letters from Gov. Croswell, Judge Graves, Hon. G. V. N. Lothrop, ex-Gov. Blair, and others, in response to iuvitations to be present. Aiter that "Auld Lang Syne" was sung, all oining with the choir and dispersión was in order, the town doek having toled the hour of midnight.