The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-08-16

fon TINS "hl Much THANKs."-THE
"EAih.A AAfF JvED.-We have seen a fairy
pan.o"'". IN which there was what was called
Oh '-e bills magical transformation" The
delighted audience were gazing with admira-
ton upon the efforts Of the scenic artists skill
in the display of the glores of midsummer-the
fields glistening with grain, the cattle drinking
at the pellucid stream or luxuriously reclining
in the shade OF some veteran forest tree-~the
iewer garden, brilliant with thousand hues
the orchards filled with fruit trees bending
beneath their golden weight-and over all the
midsummer sun shedding his benignant rays.
Then came a change. "and such changeW
The fruit trees, gardens villas, faded away!
The stream which dashed along SO laughingly.
and merrily leaped the little distractions which
barred its way, was fettered with ice-the
| forest trees stripped Of their leaves and their
branches, bowed down with hanging icicles,
shining like FURNISHED silver-it was mid
| winter.
But this was fiction. This is the reality.
During the past four days New York has been
| brOiled. Her citizens suffered and groaned
under the infection, men and horses dropped
dead in the streets; the stalworth aborer dropped
and expired under the scorching rays of the
| "Giver of light and heat" Business was par
alysed-the intellectual faculties were Supplied
The only topic of conversation was the state Of
the thermometer-Ne York seemed like unto
an immense cooking range, and all her citizens
were menaced with the probability of being
roasted. fried broiled and served up in every
style" Bar-keepers at the fashionable hotels
actually lost the elegance of their manners
the air distinguf which makes their presence
so overpowering-andg rowled at the immense
amount Of ice consumed in the manufacture
/ of various cooling "vanities." Starch.
the master invention of a Brummel, succumbed
to perspiration and gentlemen with limited
amount of shirts were reduced to the extreme of
despair. The bathing houses were crowded, and
we are happy to say that young New York"
was clean for once. The hotels were vacated
| by crowds-thc lists of arrivals dropped to the
smallest dimensions, and the registering clerks
occupied their precious time in listless languor
| and the smallest Of small talk. There was no
balm in Gilead" at the usual cooling-of
places'-at the Battery it seemed as hot as any,
where else; and in voyage to Hoboken-the
mathematical rule-that what you gain in
power you lose in time applied very well, in
deed, to say nothing Of various nuisances ind-
genous to that watering place-such as hand
organs, New Jersey liquors. and small children.
The latter specimens Of the genus homo inaulg-
ing in all those little eccentricities so delight
full to their papas aua pamas, and so disgusting
to individuals who have ndscapital invested in
| that rather uncertain stock"
| Such is weak description Of what New York
! suffered But the change came. Yesterday
morning the FUN did no appear; the weather
was cloudy. the thermometer had receded. and
| the wind was not from the south west All
| New York cried Laus DeO! and went to work.
| In France the TIE Deum would have been
chaunted at Notre Dame; but in New York the
| people thanked God in their own way and
| went about their business. The transformation
was more than magical, because the Black Art
is not always pleasant, and sometimes eXhausts
| rather than recuperates our energies We are
now all men and women again; we were mise
rable wilted weeds. We cannot say how much
we admire the first and detest the last Let us
| have no more Of it, We can stand being drench-
ed but we really cannot see the necessity Of SO
much caloric to dry us again.