New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-08-09
DILL. IlisLS.

Tie people OF cities and villages are now seeing
what are distinguished az Ii ri 1imes. There is
little trade. because the last YEARS. crop is substan-
italy eaten up AID yer, lti'e # this years is yet
ready Tor market. The farmers are busy with their
crops; the country merchants are working oil their
stocks and trying to scrape together the means OF
meeting their fall payments manufacturers and art
sans find small demand for their wares aud are dis
cLtreng hands so as to reduce their production; the
cit, mere ant doing little but laying ia and arrang
pg his goods for the fall trade; the courts mainly
in vacation ~ the lawyers of hi the Springs or in
the woods the wealthy real or supposititious)
are inhaling sea.sir at Newport, Nahant Vr
Ctpe MAY: so our hotels are empty the
railroad trains running with few Passe ayers; our
newspapers bare Of advertisements, and Broad
way far from crowded at the hours when
IT. tide Wells highest The worlo is out Of town
at present. aud those whom iuexor bic Necessity
dOOms 10 II main here losing money by their bust
nsss, which the! yet cannot suspend. July and Au-
gust usually Gull months in our Atlantic cities;
but this year they far duler than they have been
stree ls57. Even our people rambling by the SEA-
shore or clambeTirg over the mountains paTtlse OF
the general collapse: they far less numerous than
last year, aud OF those on the wing twOthrds are
short Of cash, aid must make dunes where they
layshed dollars last year. They make noise about
it, but actions. more eloquent than words proclaim
that they, Ike The rest o. u, ere hard up.
Yet all this approaches ito termination. Next
month, Wheat ind Flour viii be coming forward,
followed in due time by Corn and Cotton. Fork and
Sugar; next month, Wanderers will return to
regbt their learthhres rendered grateful By the
cool evening air, aud will meet their customers the
country merchants with elasticity in their steps sud
health in their slightly bionzed faces Some Of our
merchants will have broken meantime and will have
cut the City hencetorth for potato growing on Lake
Superior or lumb,r-sa~ Dg the Minnesota: but tie
great majority will be back. poorer perhaps sud
more circunspeet in their outgoes but prepared 10
play the dizzy game of trade as snuguinrly IS ever
For the world will not 20 lie end whit the
sooner because OF our dull season. Impoverished
so many are there still faces and bareges, Cash
mere sba~ Is ard diamond necklaces, champagne and
game suIpers. with people able and whug to pay for
them And in spite OF the devastating rains of April
tie iaeness Of the Spring sndth destructive drcIth
Of the Sumucr-so Pcrvading that we estimate the
losses from this source ia State alone at Twenty
and in tue Union at Oae Hundred Millions of Dollar.
there IL yet fair crop secured the ground
Leayy II the Norh.Wc.t. fair in the south aud South
West. md about mddnng in the Center aud East.
Our own State las suffered ,e'otey e.pecisly IN the
northeastern Counties; perhaps much lees in the
south-west: yet in tie average We sblli have a md
ding larytst. Throughout the Union. We estimate
the yield of Wheat LITTLE below the average; Grass
about uiddlipg; Indian Corn our great staple de.
cdedy good We believe there will br msny mil
ioL Of bushels more Of thu. grain grown this year than
before, and the u edible ,Ors. Aud il is
the prosperity Of the Farme rs-the realization the
prospect OF generous Haryests-wLch TO raise tie
sieee Of cities by General Stagnaton aud set u,
al our feet sgain
We are 10 have cheaper Food after bar
ytst-thst Is inevitable. Tens OF thousands #
stslwsrt lsborers have already been discharged
from suspended buildrgs. finished OF unfinished
railroads grading streets. sc. to swell the nun
Der who are cultvAting the soil. Thousands
more will follow in their footsteps before another
spring Canada is to pour in her heavy crop of Grain
upon Us free Of DUTY; and while macy farmers will
bold TN for the great prices Of asst winter there are
more who owe debts that must be paid aud VII have
to sell soon. Should Peace be made this year in
Europe wheat will fell to dollar bushel at Roches-
ter. Or ten shillings here should the War continue
ard extend it Ia! hold ~ 70 dollar aud half Il,