The New York herald., 1866-09-16
The Prospects OF the Theatrical season.

The Prospects OF the Theatrical Season.
With the dfbm of Ristori at the French thea
tre on Thursday evening the theatrical season
will commence. It's prospects are on the whole
remarkably brilliant The arrival of the great
Queen Of Tragedy has been, as we anticipated,
the signal for general revival Of public inter-
est in the drama, and has occasioned unusual
activity among the managers. At almost every
theatre something popular has been prepared
for the new season Some managers may desert
the legitimate drama for circus performances,
and others for still more Objectionable repre-
sentations but at nearly every house the
public are sure Of being amused, and, after all,
that Is the object of amusements.
We expect to see very bright and dashing
winter in the metropolis this year. The thea
tres will be crowded, and there will be innu-
merable balls and private parties. FASHIONS
BILE society win miss the opera, Of course
but the Academy of Music Is far from being
rebuilt, and ought to be surrounded with
board fence and exhibited as ruins at twenty
five cents head The spirit Of the season
will be gaety and glitter. People begin to
feel that there may be trouble ahead, and are
determined to enjoy themselves while they
may. II is useless to deny the fact that per-
pctual war would be very good thing for
the theatrical managers During the rebellion
they grew rich and independent; but the
return Of peace has thinned their audiences,
emptied their pockets and reduced them to
the patience and the misfortunes Of job. In
troublous times people rush to the theatres
to forget their cares and laugh away their
fears. They did so in Paris during the great
war, and they followed this historical prece-
dent here during the civil war. Since the
managers, like doctors, lawyers and divlnes,
prosper upon the miseries of the rest Of man
kind, the universal clustering and threatening
which now alarm timid people will serve to
crowd the theatres, and, unless Providence
helps Us out Of our national muddles, we
shall have very lively and delightful time
this season.
Who can tell what under the sun is going
TO happen amid the whirl and the worry Of
this distracted and distracting c0untryf Here
is the Rev. Mr.. Brownlow going about from
town to town trying to raise . radical army
to invade the South again, kill Of oil tho
Southern people, burn up all the houses, barns,
chicken-coops and fences, and stake OF the
ground In village lots for the intelligent and
industrious freedmen. Here are the Fenians
skirmishing about and evidently contemplating
another raid upon Canada, which the old lady
Britannia has sent over one regiment Of beef
nj
Kanucks, who have organized . society called
the U-E-lans--or the U-LI-eans--to devastate
border towns, d Ia 81 Adams, and keep
the New England Fenians busy In defending
their own homes Then all Europe d begin
ming to talk about an alliance for purposes Of
offence and defence between the United States
and Russia, and will not allow us to have
little island for coal depot in the Mediterra-
mean, lest our government should mediate
joining Russia In free fight with the balance
Of the world. Besides this President johnson,
looking at affairs through tho medium Of the
Vermont and Maine elections, In refecting that
1t Is time for him 10 rouse the British lion
again by demanding indemnity for the Alabama
damages, and also TO give Mr.. Maximiiian .
parting kick in Mexico. Worse than sll,
contemporary, never before noted for its enter
prise, has actually discovered mares nest,
with four negro regiments IN 1t, in this city
and no good citizen can now 60 to bed with
any certainty that his head will not be chopped
of before morning by some. big, black revolu-
tionisl The times are out Of joint, and the
only way TO set them right Is to 60 often and
early TO the theatres and get ~ much enjoy
ment as possible out Of the ffeetlng moments.
We believe that the people will heartily adopt
this philosophy during the coming season.
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THAT TRACK ON BRoADwAy.-We are not
afflicted with . very curious disposition, but
we should really like to know what Ia the
meaning Of that railroad track on Broadway
between Union square and Thirteenth street.
Who does 1t belong TOT What il II doing
theref For about year 1t has lain In the
street, looking ~ If II had been dropped by
mistake. II does no good that We can see, and,
~ II catches every passing omnibus, makes
the drivers swear, and tosses the passengers
about, We suggest that it had better be taken
up, unless II be placed there for IN important
object. n Il intended rs constant menace to
Ar. A. T. Stewart Our citizens look at Il ss
they come down town in the morning, and look
at Il again a. they go mp town at night; but,
finding that IL does not grow, they soon cease
to notice it Perhaps some shrewd fellow has
planted il there with the idea that by and by
the people will get so accustomed to II that he
can add another block Of track, and then
another, and another, until finally we wake up
and discover railroad from Union square 70
the Battery, with six cents fare, straps 70 hang
mp the poor passengers, and all the other
modern improvements. II this be the design we
should like to know II; and, In order TO develop
iha iniontio.a of ths honora lln ocnflernnn who