The New York herald., 1863-09-02
per New York. There is room behind her fsr
smaller craft.
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The Close sf tAael sum- mer season.
fiU cool weather OF the past few days be-
gins 10 bring our fashionablcs home from the
watering places. As we predicted, the sum-
mer season has been very brilliant and profit
able. Before the.hat'le OF Gettysburg the popu-
lar anxiety in REGARD 10 Lees Invasion kept
everybody at home; but after that battle was
fought and won, and The Army Of the Potomac
once more rested in pe,ce upon its laureis. the
watering places filied up rapidly. and an i'm
mense amount Of mercy was expended by our
shoddy aristocraoy. Saratogs was very crowd
cl with a ncw set Of pcop,c. and gambling and
horse recing were the order of the day. At
Newpor' the old ariftocracy sciourned q the
cnt'ages. and ate, drank, bathed. danced and
slcpt in aristocratic seciusion while Che shoddy
arstocracy spent money like water, ard drank
Champagne like water. st the hotols. Long
Branch, Nagara Fails, ard ether second c'css
VILLAGES along the beautiful! Hudson were
throngcd with rurali2crs.
Prcsiden. Lincoln w-s cyrecled to honor the
seasoa by tour through The prircipsl water
ing places this year; bat he has been Obliged
to stay at Washington 10 watch Chase AID Stan
ton aud to nrepara his forthcoming letter To the
Illinois and New York politicians. which poor
Greeley 90 eagerly expects. 10 his stead Mrs.
Lincoln, accompanied by her eldest son and
suite Of distinguished persoragcs visited the
White Mountains. is now visiting the Green
Mountains, and will probably visit the Blue
Mountains on her way back to the capital.
The most important event Of the season, how
ever. was the diplomatic tour of Secretary
Seward and the foreign ambassadors at Wash
iugton through New York State to Niagara
Falls II may interest Darcy McGoe to know
that tho motive Of this visit was to show the
representatives Of foreign Powers how narrow
is the dividing line between this country and
Canada. and that Secretary Seward took occa-
sion to remark tha. the British possessions
would slide into the Unop as soon as we we're
ready 10 receive them. as easily as the waters
elided over the Falls. To this the significant
reply Of Lord Lyons was, '.Let 'em slide The
erratic and inconsistent McGee may make this
a text for another eensation letter IN favor OF a
Canadian monarchy, If he likes. and may thank
us for saving him the trouble Of sgair listening
at keyholes or doyetailisg hearsay scraps Of
private conversations.
Our fashionables do not iiad this city emoty
upon their return TO town. The country folks
are here ia strong force, and the managers Of
amascments are doing their utmost to provide
for the crowd. Bandmann, new tragelinp.
who speaks English with foreign accent and
makes Shylock German Jew, is at Niblois
That inevitable old stager Edwin Forrest. the
big Indian Of the Biackbawk school, sppcans
for the last but twentieth season at the sane
theatre. At most Of the other houses the Ghost
tefrifes aud delights the masses and has Gre
atcd as great an excitement in the town as the
news OF the Manassas massacre did in the T,i-
b,Ne Office, or as Gillmore's Greek fre in Beau
regards rear did in Charleston Nixon has
picked up n dozen agile light complexioued
contrabands, whom ne calls Bedouin Arabs. and
exhibits through the streets. in the Park lin
spite Of the Commissonc,s). and at an estab-
ishmcnt which he has sci up in opposition to
the Academy Of Music. Not 10 be owtdonc at
his own tricks. the indelatigable Barnum has
equipped few wild Irishmen az Win
nebago Indians and displays them in the
'green corn" or hot corn dance, aud in the
''tire water" dance. commonly known as the
Donnybrook jig. Besides all these entertain
ments, many more are in preparation. and when
the regular winter season begins. and our ope-
ratio singers again exchange their silvery notes
for grcenbacks at q high premium. there will
be over twenty places Of public amusement
open in New York, without counting any OF
the political meetings or Loya, League gather
ings. There is plenty OF money in the city.
and there are plenty OF chances 10 make more
in Wall street spcculaiions and government
contracts. and there will be plenty OF ways
provided TO spend this surplus cash We can
therefore confidently predict that the coming
winter will be one of the gayest and mos, bril-
liant on record, and that the country will wit
ness the collapse Of the rebellion and the rcslo-
ration OF the Union in perfect blaze OF glory.
WHy ENGLAND BACKED DowN ox rBg
POLISH QuEsTIoN.--1he conduct of the Eng
lish government in backing down from
the warlike position which il had origi-
nally assumed, in conjunction with France
and Austria, rs against. Russia. has pre-
aucsa in Europe mingled sensation Of disgust
and astonistmeni. We are ID Possession or m.
formation which ought to tend TO remove al,
FEELING OF establishment as to England's with
drawal from position which threatened TO in.
volve her in war In doing SO she was only
aaordng another illustration Of the truth that
Conscience doth make towards OF Us all
She feared the rctributivc Justice which she
knew her piratical partnership with tho south
ern corfederacy would be sure 10 bring upon
her. and this kent her from aniiinn inin a wnr