The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-09-03

aindo-tili It becomes the great question Of the
day; and all who seek Office from the people will
have 70 declare either for or against the freedom
Of Sunday o. well e. Of the other six days Of the
week.
WHERE Is THE GREAT EASTERN TO CoME To-
The destina ion of the Great Eastern ID mani.
fe~i'v. we think. hv no means settled thing
vet. If the company have aoceded to MI Ls
vers offer to start her IN Galway, she will u.
doubtedIy come to New YM.s; but If she sails
from any other port in Great Brlss 'n the chances
are In favor of Portland. Let US looS at all the
evidence we have for and against the PROBABILITY
that Mr.. Lever has secured her, and We will find
that the probability is rather on his side.
A letter from Mr.. Yestes, the Secretary Of the
company, dated the 18th ult, announced that
Levers offer had been declined, but it does not
say whether 1t was the $4,000 or the 100000
offer, for he has made both. The Arica's news
which left Liverpool ON the goth, reiterates
the statement. But the news by the Jason,
from Galway, which left six hours later
than the Africa, confirms the report fur
nished US by private dispatches, that
the offer has been accepted; and the same intel
ligenee reached the agents of the Galway line at
Boston. Again, our London correspondent, in .
private letter received by the Africa, and dated
the 10th, says: "there is now a prospect that
Lever gets the ship" We learn since that, in
addition to the slO0,OO offered by Mr.. Lever, be
has made further proposition to coal the vessel
at his own expense. Might not that have in
creased the prospect that Lever gets the ship"
We established beyond doubt in our columns
yesterday the possibility Of the Great Eastern
entering this harbor through Long Island Sound,
and we have since been assured by two skilfal
New York pilots that if she only draws twenty
six feet Of water they can bring her through
Gedney's charnel and the Narrows right up to
the Battery, at high tide Her minimum draught
IL said to be twenty.six feet, and it is presuma-
Die that she will arrive if she comes at all, with
very light cargo and small quantity of coal,
so that she may be able to enter by this channel
after all. Moreover, both cargo and passengers
could be taken off in lighters and steamtcgs be-
low the bar, thus reducing her to her minimum
draught, when, by waiting for the top Of the
tide, she might easily be brought up. So that
in spite of rumoIs and croakipgs in all quarters,
it is still probable that we may yet see her float
ing in tie waters of our barbor.
The GAY SEASON CoMMENcrNG.-Just at the
present moment this great metropolis presents
scene Of hustle, business activity gayety, fashion
ard fiiyolity of sill kinds. 1t is a great city in
its busiest and most entertaining aspect. Down
town the wholesale traders and importers are
overrun with buyers from all sections of the
country, and the steamers aud railways are loaded
down with freight and crowded with passengers
Tie Broadway bazaars are doing an unprece-
denied retail trade, finding their best customers
among our Southern brethren, who have turned
the fashionable hotels into colonies for them
selves. As for the hotel keepers, they are in
state of sublime beatitude. They say there never
was such season before, their houses having
been crowded since the beginning of August
The new Fifth Avenue Hotel has been such
success that another house. still further up town,
is talked about already. The theatres and other
places Of public amusement are crowded every
night, and not altogether with strangers. The
pyramids of big trunks which one sees any day
ut the railway stations prove that even Miss
Flora McFlimsey and her suite have been tempt.
ed back to town by the fine cool weather we are
now enjoying. Doubtless there will be q fair
muster Of the fashionable world at the Opera,
which commences next week.
Our splendid thoroughfare, Broadway, with
palaces epriDgirg up On every side, has returned
to Its old life. Here upon the crowded trottoir
may be seen all ranks and conditions of men and
women, representatives of almost every nation
on the face of the earch. As cosmopolitan in its
aspect as the Bouievards of Paris or the Strand
Of London, it is even, from the individuality Of
our people, more entertaining than either of
then. 1t may be said with truth that just now
Broadway is New York and New York is the
United States with fair sprinkling of the rest
Of mankind.
While we congratulate our merchants upon the
early revival of trade "a fact which is impressed
very forcibly upon us by the pressure upon our
advertising colulnns), we trust that they will not
60 too far and too fast. Like the French army,
their impetuosity ia the only thing to be dread
ed. Let them make hay while the sun shines,
but keep sharp lookout ahead TO prevent
repetition OF the revulsion Of two years ago.
We have gotten out Of it 60 quickly that almost
everybody seems to have forgotten that it ever
occurred.
The ATLANTIC CABLE-CHANCE FOR INVENT
oRs-When the Atlantic cable failed to work
last year, we were inundated with communica-
tons suggesting all kinds Of improvements In the
manufacture Of cables, the construction of ma
chinery for paying out, and SO forth; but they all
came little too late to affect the success of the
experiment at that time Another attempt to