Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-12-01

BosTON, Nov. 30, 1858.
Boston is preparing quietly for an important
elec,ion-veTy important, it would seem, as the
amount Of municipal expenses and the course Of
municipal movements are largely pending upon
the result. Still, but very little is said of IT, as
yet, and, most likely there will not be, until the
political machinery shall have developed who
probably best pull the most telling wires.
The temperance men have nominated the popu
lar Mr.. JOSIAH Quincy, Jr., al whose house the
generous flow Of wine" was SO gracefully spo-
ken of in public by Southern visitor, who lit.
tie thought the tale be was telling but Mr.
Quincy proposes waiting bit before accepting
this movement There are now some five or six
factions in BOstons in reference to municipal is
sues and elections. All want power and the
proceeds. Factions are fashionable. National
politics somewhat broken into factions, and
the promise is. that there will be some warm
work IN Washington thus winter. Some new
movements are spoken Of, and some persons
think that an equivalent to the slave trade issue
may be raised, even so soon as this coming ses-
sion of Congress. That It will come up ultimate.
ly, seems probable enough, but this winter will
be rather hasty, perhaps.
To come back again to local matters. We are
likely to have rather gay winter, although some
pinchIng OF poverty will accompany it, and, even
in Boston, hunger will have its victims.
We are to have two skating fields made for us
on a rather large scale, the City Government be-
ing about to oUerRoio part OF the Common. and
also the South End Agricultural and Race
Grounds aad it is then expected, il it gets fro
zen good, that an array of beauty and crinoline
will be presented Of the most bewitching order
For effective flirting facilities the ball room must
yield to the skating grounds, most decidedly.
We are to have opera, too, pretty sO0n-opera,
with Piccolomini II is to be hoped that her
playful fascination of manners" will be more at
trac!ve than represented by the pictures in the
shop windows.
She will probably be closely criticised in BOs-
ton That much think is already determined
upon by the powers that be-
Business generally is fair in a small way. Pub
fishers are somewhat busy issuing medium works
on rather dry venture frequently. The new
translation of the New Testament is an excep-
ton.
The book trade generally is oyerdone and yet
the word is more-each publisher hoping his issue
will sell, let the others go as they may.
Newspaper business is in the same way, yet we
promised another weekly papef-a CONNER
cial issue by an experienced publisher. And vet
another is talked Ola critical issue. This latter
is no certainty, however, although there Is ample
room and opportunity for it, il well conducted
boldly and fearlessly, yet with moderation and
JUDGMENT, even in well deserved censure.
New novels are not abundantly issued in BOs-
ton this year. New York and Philadelphia take
the lead in this respect, decidedly. The general
taste Of readers has changed somewhat within a
few years, and the light fiction of recent time is
going into idlsfavor, so far as book readers are
concerned, and more intellectual productions are
in demand and it is clairhed by some that the
atlantic Monthly has worked the change
1t is probably no news to some of your readers
that Edwin Booth was reported unable to play
his part Cincinnati, account of amortization,
and quite recently the widowed young wife of
another equally talented actor-the late W. K.
Goodall-was brought home 10 die from thu con
sequences of restitution. induced by his habits,
and resulting death. So goes the world, rapidly
"a share of it, rather. Yours,
Bernardo.