The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-09-18

Few days since we were enjoying our second
heated or tropical term. All were wondering at the
intense warmth of the atmosphere and while rail-
road men were making short showers" Tor their
horses the Board OF Health Commissioners were
thinking OF cleaning the streets and the inevitable
Dr. Harris OF laying himself out" on 'zymotic dis
eases, their cause and their cure.r
This was week ago, and yesterday morning people
whose epidermes are particularly sensitive to ther-
mometrical influences" looked askance at the water
in their bathing tubs-Bridget not yet having thought
OF cheating up the steam"and looked up those over
coats and thick garments which were pleasant to the
body when last the ''ice king" reigned. week ago
thin linen trousers and waistcoats endured by
bipeds not overwhelmed with adipose matter, ana
now TALL you In whom benevoence is largely devel-
oped remember the poor coal is advancing in price.
We afraid we shall have long and bitter winter.
The indications are that way. And so feeling and be-
levng tbehooves every to prepare fort. We are
not among the respondent; but there are thousands
OF the hardisted" who find it hard work in ''clear
weather. to pay rent and buy food and raiment for
their families and themselves, and when the stormy
days come, as soon they will-days when the sun
will "ie long in bed" ana rain and snow and sleet
fill the air. and frost harden the now yielding earth
and the limpld waters that beautify rs well as fruc
tfy 1t. or course the winter is not all sad. There
are days of rejoicing i'll it for even the poorest in
goods and vanties of this world it will be 'gay,"
festive season. Well for these pleasures; If even
there are dulness and heayiness OF HEARTH
there be want In our neighbours lowly
house-f even death, masked in the garni-
ture of grim starvation. carries soul to
hades now and then-let us be thankful, more CRATE
full. The world Ia not OF drah. There he here and
there pleasant colors on its mother-like surface
coors that are pleasing to the eye cOors that raise
the soul to the contemplation OF the beautiful and,
in the unspeakabie language of exaltaton, move it
to adore the Giver of the evil rs Of the good. And
Is there evil IN this glorious world III the sense absO
lutte? No we have our contrasts in the moral as
in the physical and il is these that unfold the beau
tiful We have our rich, our poor, and we have our
goods, our evils. But richness and poverty, good
ness and darkness are essentials TO lite Without
and they, therefore, are welcome; and for these we
say to the rleh enjoy your wealth. anu to the poor,
struggle but let all your struggles be upward. The
victory is Tor those who have persistence Tor those
who faint not by the wayside.
But whittier are our reflections leading usS Hither
and thither into the highways and byways OF the
what Is and the what Is TO be.
Let us ''return to our subject'-talS OF the tner-
mometer and Of the pretty dance the zephyrs and
the breath of Boreas have whirled in the past
few days. On Monday, according to the Hudnut
thermometer, we were rejoicing in summer heat
at midday of eighty degrees, with an average tenn
perature in the previous. twenty-lour hours OF
seventy-two degrees. sunday was Of like ranges
both at noon and throughout the whole OF the day.
The wind steady, what there was OF IT, from the
south but un on tuesday Gycs nigh. IT,. suddenly
west and north and the mercury began to
shrink, falling rapidly that AT midnight OF Wednes
Indicated the extreme oil the thermal tenn
perature fftyye degrees, while the average for the
preceding twenty-fOur hours was SXty-ive degrees.
Yesterday at meridian the thermometer indicated
sixty degrees.
Now. particularly sensitive people may, like the
gentleman in the ''ThanautOpss," wrap their clOaks
about them and lie down to pleasant dreams; but
assure them, one and ALL that winter has not
yet "set in" We have many pleasant days in store.
and these are the browning moments OF the year the
glorious Indian summer, when the corn rpens fully
and forests paint themselves III cOlors that are
the envy of artists the theme OF poets the prayer Of
The Weather Throughout the Country.
The weather was quite cool on Wednesday night at
Rochester, and there a slight frost in that vi
cinisy.
Frost visited the vicinity Of Utica, n. Y. Wednes-
day night, and forty-twO miles south OF that city
(Sherburn) there was slight fall of snow.
Snow fell at Aurora, N. Y, "Wednesday afternoon.
At Emira and Albany slight frost occurred on
Wednesday night. At Albany last night the ther
mOmeter stood at fifty degrees.
The first light frost OF the season, at Scranton, Pa,
was the night OF the 14th inst, doing no damage
to vegetation. On the night OF the 10th O killing
frost fell there and last night 1t was expected to be
still more severe.
There was slight frost on the low lands OF Hamp
shire county, Mass, Wednesday night.
The first frost on the low lands about Lewiston,
Me-, occurred on Tuesday night september 1.
At Augusta, Ca, yesterday, the weather was very