The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-10-03

Inc Y mon, MOTH anu OOutf.
RETURNING ACTIVITY OF CRY LIrE.-The
present week will b. one sy move ent In
the religious, theatrical, financial and legal
circles Of GU city. With Octobe the active
life of our fall season commences, after the
paralysis superinduced by the suffoc It ng heat
of the dog days. II usually completes the
refux of the tide of that more fortunate class
OF our population whose means enable them to
exchange, during the summer months, the sala-
mander tempera ure and presidential visitatons
of a crowded city for the pure mountain air or
refreshing breezes of the sea. Those who have
prolonged their stay at the watering places
from sanitary nsiderations, regardless of the
earlier desertion of the votaries of fashion, will
now reluctantly he compelled to resume their
professional or business avocations. Even those
who are fortunate enough to be Independent of
the necessity of daily exertion will be obliged
TO return to the city to fulfil the duties imposed
upon them by the various religious social and
financial gatherings that usually take place at
this time of the year.
The week upon which we have Just entered
WILL therefore, as we have Just observed, be
one Of more than usual hustle and animation in
the monotonous current of our city life. 1t is,
in the first place, commemorated by an event
OF considerable Importance in religious, and
namely, the convocation of the first Provincial
Council of Roman Catholic Ecclesiastics that
has ever been held in the State of New York
Most of the Catholic bishops and other reli
gious dignitaries of the Union, including the
bishops Of Albany, Boston, Buffalo, H artford,
Brooklyn, Newark, and Burlington, attend the
sittings of the Council, which will probably be
continued during the whole of this week. Then,
on Thursday next, commences the anniversary
of another religious body-the American Bible
Union-whose labors and services entitle them
to equal consideration in the eyes of the pub
lie A host of distinguished speakers, including
the Rev. DR.. Cone; the Rev. G. G. Conner, OF
Tennessee; Elder D. S. Burnett, of Cincinna ii;
Rev. J. NJ. Pendleton, of Kentucky; Rev. DR..
Baker, of Williamsburg; Charles S. Bryant,
Esq, OF Cincinnati, and Rev. Fl. j. Eddy, of
New York, will take part in its proceedings.
oday, the opening of the State Agricultural
Exhibition and the general me citing Of the
stockholders of the New Haven Railroad Com
papy will bring prodigious influx OF strangers
from all parts Of the country. They come
appropriately together, for they will afford the
curious in such matters an opportunity of in
specting at once specimens both of the feeced
and unfeeced. The courts, too, will be in full
blast, and will contribute their usual proportion
of victims to the sum total of human suffering
But to counterbalance these unpleasant renli-
ties, it is consolation to reflect that there
never was period when our city presented
such an infinite variety Of ngrfmens to enable
men to dissipate their cares. Between thea
tres lectures, and exhibitions, there is no city
in the world perhaps in which an evening can
be more pleasantly and even probably spent
In the way of music we now enjoy as great ad
vantages as any Of the European capitals. Last
night the Academy of Music--one of the noblest
lyrical temples in the world-opened its doors
for the first time to the public. 1t could not
have been more appropriately inaugurated thar
by the two great artists who have so long ell
Dyed the admiration, and we are justified in
say ing the warm attachment, Of the most refined
audiences Of Europe. Thus our city moves ra-
pidly onward in its progress to the foremost
rank of metropolitan communities. Fifty years
since it crept along at snail like pace at its
present rate of exp, nsion and Improvement
another half century will leave it without
rival.