The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1863-10-06

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We trust that they will not fool away CHS op-
poxtanity and place . man In the chair OF cAies
magistrate of the city who will DO psrsIyseA
with fesr when nerve. decislon and prompt 40
ton are necessary.
OPeains or che Osers seasom-pns Are
OF shoddy.
Last evening the trrepressible Maretzek be
gan new opera season at tho Academy q
Music. The house was Of course overorowded.
and the display Of costly dresses and magma
cent diamonds was almost unprecedented.
Irving place Numbered with the roll Of nev
equipages. aad inside the Academy the favo-
rite artists locked around upon a sea Of new
faces To add 10 the eoiat OF the affair Maret
xek brought Oui q now opera. with new scenery.
and. both on aud Of the stage. We notices
several new improvements in the house. From
the indications Of last evening we shonld do
cidediy say that Maretzsk Is about to make his
fortuSe at last He has woOed Che ackie jade
long and faithfully. indifferent TO her frequent
frowns, encouraged by her occasional smiles,
jolly when he has beeo able TO make both ends
meet. aud still more Jolly when no has disastrous
iy failed. During his last season this operate
Mark Tapley had promise OF the good things
to come. This season hs Goats upon the 6ooA
tide Of prosperity. We have no doubt that he
far surpass anything hitherto known. either il
this country or in Europe.
The same brilliant story is also true Of other
| places of Amusement. All our theatres ere
open except Mrs. John Woods which will open
ON Thursday, and they are ell crowded agility
The kind of entertainment given seems to DO Of
little account. Provided the prices are high
aud the place fashionable nothing moro 10 10
quired. All the hotels are as crowded -
costly accommodations, in both hotels end
theatres are the 6rst and most eagerly taken
| Our merchants report the same phenomenon II
their stores the richest silks, lsces and jewelRS
are the soonest sold. At least five. hundred
new turnouts may be seen any 6ne aftor-
noon at the Park; and neither Rotten Row,
London, nor the Bots de Boulogns, Paris, oaa
show more splendid sight. Before the golden
days of the Indian summer are over these i've
hundred new equipages will be increased
| to thousand Not to keep . CARRIAGE
not to wear diamonds, not to be attired
in robe which cost small fortune, Is now
equivalent to being nobody. This war haa
entirely changed the American character. The
lavish profusion in which the old Southern cot.
ton aristocracy used TO indulge 10 completely
eclipsed by the DASH parade and magnifoense
of the new Northern shoddy arlstocracy Of THE
period. Ideas of cheapness and economy are
l 10 M Ind Tha ind - N
makes the most money-no matter how--and
spends the most monsyno matter for what
is considered the greatest man. To be sx-
travagant is to be fashionable. These Aots
sufficiently account for the immense and bril-
liant audiences at the opera and the theatresi
and until the final crash comes such audiences
will undoubtedly continue.
The world has seen it's iron age, its silves
age, its golden age and its brssen age. This
is the age Of sboddy. The new brown stone
palaces ON Fifth avenue, the new equipagss -
the Park, the new diamonds which dassls un
accustomed eyes, the new silks and satius
which rustic over loudly, a. II to demand attsu
ton, the new people who live in the palaces an4
ride in the carriages and wear the diamonds snA
slks-all are shoddy. From DEVILS dust 49,
spraug and unto devils dust they shall return.
They live in shoddy houses. They ride -
shoddy carriages drawn by shoddy horses, saA
driven by shoddy coachmen who wear shoddy
liveries They lie upon shoddy beds which
have just come from the upholsterer'a. and stalS
smell of shoddy varnish. They wear shoddy
clothes purchased from shoddy merchants, whe
have erected mammoth stores, which appear -
be marble, but are really shoddy. They set on
follow the shoddy fashions, and fondly In,
agine themselves Ia mode de Paris, when tAsy
are only a la mode lie shoddy. Their profss'
sions and occupations are pure shoddy. They
are shoddy brokers in Wall street, or shoddy
manufacturers of shoddy goods, or shoddy con
tractors for shoddy articles for a shoddy gov
'ernment Six days in the week they are
shoddy business men. On the seventh day they
are shoddy Christians. They ride luxuriously
to a shoddy church, where shoddy clergymsa
reads TO them from shOddy Bible and breaches
shoddy sermon written upon giltedged Paperl
and, during the appropriate passages, this shoddy
successor to the old Apostles wipes his weak
eyes with shoddy lace handkerchief % he
mildly pleads with biz hearers, who are sleep
ing soundly upon their shoddy cushions, and
begs of them to bel!eys that tbs Saviour ~.
oruciaed with intoierable torments in ordei
that the shoddy aristocracy might be gently
waited upon the wings Of sboddy angels to Q
shoddy heaven. Nor are their politics lsss
shoddy than their religion. They belong "a
the shoddy party, which is always loyal 10
sboddy, and they vote the sboddy ticket, and
support the shoddy administration which 10
conducting this shoddy war. not for the obso-
lete idea Of the restoration Of the Union. but
for the profit and perpesuation OF shoddy
dynasty. Oh, for come shoady Junus, with Q
pen ss keen a. shoddy steel and words thaa
burn like shoddy Greek IRE" to write the his