The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-09-11
TIE RAIN sToan YESTERDAY.
The WELCOME RAIN

Welccme good friend-thricc velcoms--
! Welccm - the 'wers Of May.
"The heated term" the long cheated term" sAs
| ever memorable, drouehtcreatpg. famine produe-
ing, hope destroying, deathdeaing, aud paralysisg
cheated term" Of 1854 Is extisguished. It expirel
with the last Of the dogdays. A word or two upon
this point
On Saturday last In tho coolest and breeziest part
Of the HERALD Office, the thermometer stood, as oos
O'Clock, P. NJ, above ninety and rising. But .
glance at the sky through Fulton and down assam
street. satisfied US that there was "good time 60
ming" and near at hand. Clouds were gatherug-
honest rain clouds, heavy, massive voluminous, aaA
wstery. We had been apprised by telegraph Of o.
pious storms up along the East, out West and dowu
South. and we felt as well convinced as il assured
by Professor Espy in the right ear and by Mr.. Msr.
Ram in the left that "the crisis had arrived" and
that now II was our turn, In aud round about the
great city Of New York. including the contiguous
islands highlands, and dry lands, for an indie finite
distance in every direction.
Rapidly, after Saturdays sunset. the SKY, whlcA
had been thic kening with clouds for several hours.
became wholly obscured ths wind, which had beea
chopping about from point to point, freshened froa
the West faint flashes Of lightning cleaned ali around
us and the rain began softly to fall . little
after nine O'Clock, P. M. There was no haY.
ricane, no destruction among loose awuings chimney
pipes and window shutters, no piercing arrows e
lightning, no terrific crashes OF thunder, torreos
Of hail strengthening the fearful uproar Of Wese
India tempest nothing of the kind. The rain begAA
softly and steadily to fall, o. if he,tating betwoon
good thorough drenching a0d another disappoiat
ment and then it held up little, upon the sober
second thought" An hour or two-as the old back
woods heroine said OF her good man John" After
an hour or two his mind was made up, and w.
happy" And, from midnight till Sabbath morn.
trained freely, plenteously, muscay and deiciousy
Yea, as the post hath expressed, or doth express
it,
II rained all night,
Till the broad day light,
And didn't hold up N the morning
But the gracious, glorious, gladdeong, refreshing
and rdeeming outpouring coatinued on, undor .
brisk strong wind, direct from the northeasteen
fishing banks and the Gulf Stream off Nova Scotia
till Sabbath roop. Then it slackened, and then Il
suspended operations till night fall the wind having
whipped found to the northwest. But the sky
continued very heavily overcast, still holding in
reserve an inexhaustible supply of aqua rita for.
perhaps, other and thrstier regions, far away Our
meteorological predictions have thus been literally
fulfilled, our hores have been speedily realized,
and our Judgment in advance Of this vista.
ticn that TIE bs, kbone Of the drought was broken
reads almost like prophecy.
We rejoice at the result. Our streets, washed to
the granite snd the coboe stones, juice. Aud Ia
those 10 quarters where the exaalasions from tae
cutters for the last three months nave besn doubly
nauseous from fcrmentins garbaye, we are quite
sure that whole regiments Of men, women and chN-
| tren will rejoice. Out street inspector and oa-
street contractors, we suppose, will rejoice and the
dark pestlence, which has been lingering among N
since May, wasting our people, and paralyxing
prosperity, now hope, with the reduction Of the
Alsh the missma, and the heat, win lift his gloomy
wings and fy away.
We have no doubt that tbis liberal northeas.e
bas extended over vas. region Of our psrohed and
thirsty country. It's deliberate accumulation, it
volume and duration, fully warrant the infereace
that this rain may have reached from the csnanss
Of Canada, at least to Cape Hatteras and from shs
windy waste Of Coney Island to the withsred pas.
lures Of Ohio and Kentucky. It's range may have
been much wider-we can scarcely 81 Dpose Il 70
have been less. Another day, we think, Will fully
confirm the moderation Of our estimates. In the
single item Of the recovery Of the grass, how.
ever, by these latter rains, the most modest
financial estimates Of the aggregate gain and
saving 10 the country would, psima facie.
be deemed incredible and fabulous. Bot coun-
try horses, cattle, sheep, and even hogs, ars
largely dependent npon grass till the winter ssts in
The substantial articles of beef milk butter cheese,
mutton and pork enter largely, therefore, into the
inappreciable value of these latter rains.
II is the season Of the year for sowing wheat aad
rye. The watering Of the dry ground in this view,
will be Of inestimable value to the farmers in this
important work, and In aiding the termination a
the grain VIXEN put in the soil. Thus We are yet in
time for good foundation for the small grain crops
for the next harvest.
We arc sanguine in the anticipation Of the general
setting In Of rainy season, and Of such general
change In the atmosphere, in all quarters, from ths
breaking up Of the late cheated term" as will not
only result in the reclamation Of vegetation but In
the rapid extinction Of the cholera and the yellow
fever We may rely, at all events, upon the wisdom
of Providence.
Nature and time, and sarth and skies
Thy heavenly skill proclaim.
What shall we do TO make WISE
But learn TO read Thy manner
THE GTORM IN Wilt MARTHA