The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1864-06-14
Fashion and Politics at ehs Watering
Places.

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| Fashion and Politics at eas Watering
| Places.
| Although the weather OF tho past few days
has been unseasonaby cool, our citizens are
already preparing for the watering places.
The advertisements of summer hotels begin to
crowd our columns. Here and there on our
| fashionable streets and avenues we notice
! closed houses, with "gone into the country"
| look. Heads Of families are making recon-
noissances in every direction in search Of rural
| boarding places. Ladies are getting ready
their p. p. G. cards. Saratoga, Newport, Long
| Branch, West Point and other fashionable re-
sorts are open for occupants or engage
ments. There is every prospect that the sea-
son will commence very early and last very
late and be very brilliant This year is, we
| hope, the end OF the reign of King Saoddy;
but, like old King Beshazzar, he will give q
great feast before he submits to fate and recog-
nizes the handwriting on the wall.
| Still, in spite of the people who have left the
city and the thousands who are pre- ,arng to
| leave. W Y TX is as full as ever. Ia the
summer the Inhabitants of country villages,
little Boston and Philadelphia, and of Western
| provincial towns, like Cincinnati, Chicago and
st. Louis, come on here to see the
only great metropolis Of the country.
Some of the Western and New Z gland dele
| gates to tic Baltimore Convention VITO stopped
here on their way home, are so delighted W tn
Wall street aud the theatres that they cannot
| tear themselves away. We pissed one of them
| yesterday, o! whom it could not be said. as Of
| Banquo's ghost, there is no speculation in his
| eyes" Our floating population is further
| increased by numerous refugees from Southern
| cities, who have assisted to overcrowd our pub
lie and private hotels l. is not likely, therefore,
tlat New York will he empty even during the
hottest portion Of the heated term. What with
| the political exc temcnt AID the mass meetings,
| the stirring news from the seat Of war, the
| bubble aud trouble OF tie witches caudron at
| tie stock market, the old ard new comedies
| at Waiirck's, the speciaces at tie Olympic
| and at N.bios, tie burlesque; at the Win
| ter Garden and the Broadway, and tso
| ccascless life and hustle of our streets, the
| stay a-homes and the visiting brethren will
| have plenty to amuse and Interest them.
Besides all this, our splendid Park is a rus in
| urJe, and its beautiful landscapes its process
sions OF magnificent eqa pages, its sylvan lakes
aud It's increasing curio-ties, supply unlai'ing
enjoyment to rich and poor, to old and you,g.
| alike.
| During this summer everybody will be Pre-
sident m kin :. Only two candidates are in the
| field and, ~ neither Of them is General Grant,
neither Of them is the caud date tie people
want The democrats talk about pos.poning
the Chicago Convention until September, which
is about equivalent to postponing il alto .ether.
II tic den ocracy lad ouc leader with brains
we might expect something OF them; but under
existing circumstances We do not. Tie peace
democrats may perhaps nominate some scare
crow to drive the voters over to the shoddy
republicans, in accordance with barga be.
tween the reace men and tie Lincoln men; but
the democratic party, as party. appears to
lave shut up shop, like bankrupt concern.
SancuiEe as is our temperament, we express TO
hope that General Grant will he nominated at
CHICAGO. especially if that ''Shent-per shent'
Convention slou.d display lis lack of patriot
ism by deciinD g to meet uron the Fourth OF
July. Ticre is good ard gnc;ent rule, how
| ever, which directs us to take Tie best we can
| get when we fiud it imposs be TO get what We
want. Acting uron this rule, the opposition
elements will possibly unite upon Fremont,
| who is o better mar than Lincoln any day in
| the week. Indeed, We should not be surprised
to see Fremont standing much the better
chance when the summer season is over and
the fall campaign begins to develop the roiiti-
cal strength OF the rival nominees. Shoddy can
not stand sunshine and neither can a shoddy
ko MI nr ft,a
suggest The impurity OF Lincoln's corrupt adj
ministration. Tie seaside will remind the So
! journer of the imbccility of Bunsby Welles.
| The mountains will recall the mountains OK
| debt that Chase has hcapcu upon tie nation.
| Nature, thus enlisted in the canvass, will con-
vert every pleasure seeker into an anti-Lincoln
| man.
The regular watering places will be moro
| frcquented this year than ever; but II will be
| by o new class Of visitors. Last year they
were part shoddy and part old aristocracy; but
| this year shoddy will have an undivided sway.
| The price Of board will be 80 enormously high
that no one but atoddy contractor would
think Of paying IL, unless as matter Of caprice.
Little villas, scattered along the seashorc or
| high up upon breezy hills, are becoming more
| and more the fashion for those who cannot
afford to keep up suburban establishments all
the year round, in addition to their town
houses Other people, who cannot even afford
to hire villas for the season, will distribute
| themselves among farmers families, in distant
| villages and wales, where they can occupy
rooms about the size Of an ordinary bcdstead,
be supplied with fresh meat once month, and
eat potatoes and points," as poor Powers used
to say, every day. Such picture
does not seem enchanting; but there
| Ia considerable rural felicity on n small