The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-06-30

nal improvements combination lobby contracts,
spoliation bills, indemnities, patent monopolies,
railroad and steamboat jobs &C., his first or 80
cond years expenditures and liabilities would
most likely reach the splendid figure of one
hundred and fifty millions of dollars. But the
best Of it Is that the nomination Of Seward
could not command more than 0ne-third of the
aggregate opposition vote Of the country; and
we would admonish his friends to take their
soundings in season, if they would not be ruined
by the lobby enthusiasm of the Chevalier Webb.
As an available candidate for the opposition
forces of all factions and sections we have mem
toned General Simon Cameron, of Pennsyl-
vania. His position, geographically and po-
litically, is central one, His antecedents are
democratic, and with little spicing of Know
Nothingism. he is, withal, republican, though
not an ultra republican. In fact, as nearly as
any other man in the country, he may now be
said to occupy the national conservative posi-
ton of General Taylor in 1S48. If any one of
our opposition contemporaries, North or South,
can name more available fusion candidate, let
him be named; but at all events, let the oppo-
sition managers, Of all sections and factions
remember this admonition none of their
old stagers-not even Fremont, and least of all
W. H. Seward-will be available for the fusion
of the opposition forces, North and South, in
1860; and that without such fusion they will run
the hazard of signal defeat like that of SO or 49,
or of doubtful scrub race, like that of 1924.
THE FASHIONABLE SEAsoN-PRosPECTs OF THE
WATERING PLACEs.-The heated term has,
among other things, set people thinking as to
where they shall spend their summer vacations
The pleasure seekers by the sea shore, at the
springs or the mountain side, are divided into
many classes. There is the parvenu who
passes the season at Newport or Saratoga, and
suffers all sorts of torments for the sake of ap-
pearing fashionable the restless business man
who knocks about from place to place, and
makes q tour offs thousand miles in a fortnight
and the quiet family parties who achieve
country board" in some sylvan retreat Soon
venient to a railway station" This season,
however, we believe will be distinguished by the
mixing up of these classes more or less. The re-
vulsion of last autumn and the succeeding dull
times have diminished the profits of the mer-
chants, 80 that 1ater .fdmilids cannot afford to
send madame and the young ladies to fashion
able place in fashionable style. The Saratoga
trunks will diminish in number and in bulk,
and the fashionable hotel registers ordinarily fat
will wax thin apace. The ladies who usually
sail about the piazzas at the Omitted States" or
the Ocean" will be compelled to hide themselves
in some less expensive retreat, and to console
themselves with the reflection that flush times
must come again sooner or later The fact is
that when the commercial world balances its
books, on the first of July next, the result will
be, nothing made.' Those merchants and
traders who can write nothing lost" are
lucky fellows. Even they must cut off their
luxuries, and we believe there are still some
people who call living at fashionable water
ing place hotel luxury.
From the scarcity of money aud the dulncss
of trade, any one can deduce the conclusion
that the season at the fashionable summer re-
sorts will be bad one. The landlords, by in
Producing certain reforms, such doing away
with the system Of bribiDg the walters, etc.
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FINALE OF THE OPERA SEAsoS.-The short
summer season at the Academy will be brought
to close this evening with the soiree d'adieu of
Nine. de Gazzaniga. The seventeen perform
ances already given have barely paid the ordi-
nary working expenses of the house-so that
the principal artists have been singing for
nothing. The Opera, at this season, depends
great deal upon strangers and sojourners but
they do not seem to be 30 numerous or to have
40 much loose casb "a usual At anv rate the