The New York herald., 1871-09-03

and in the spirit to resist whatever tempestuOus
blasts may assail them.
The End Of the Summer Carnival in the
Countrywide Returning Tide to Town.
The 1st of September, as by law of the
Medes and Persians, is pretty much through
out the United States accepted as the end Of
the summer carnival in the country, and the
beginning of the fall season of business,
fashion and amusements in town. And so,
Notwithstanding the bright skies which have
ushered in this present September, and the
promise which they give Of term of many
days of pleasant summer weather, with the
1st of the month began general retreat of the
gay world from the seaside, the mountains
and the springs back to business in town.
We have had remarkable SUMNER
remarkable for its prevailing cold, cloudy and
tempestuous skies. From the tropical tenn
perature of May we were apprehensive Of the
hottest summer in the memory of the oldest
pensoner Of the War of 1872; but June held
back it's 'shower of shadowing roses, and
July with us here Gf the Hon. W. Fl.
Stewards testimony of Walrussia may be
accepted, and we think it good), was little
better than an average July in Alaska, where,
''while the American eagle scars aloft in all
his newborn glory, the humming bird does not
disdaiu to futter." But still, as the number Of
days of snow. hail or rain, and of rain, hail and
snow in year in Alaska is about two hun
dred and ninety-seven, we dare say that our
last July in NewoYork was little drier,
though not much, than the same month in
Sitka. And yet the amphibious poet who
aings,
OH carly me to Alaska,
Where 1t rains or SHOWS always,
has had no reason to complain Of drought at
Long Branch since the 1st of July last. But
it is over now. From those two great re-
servors of the Atlantic equatorial current of
warm water-the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf
of Mexco--those nurseries of earthquakes,
o""lo""~ -~a in',naatinns. there cana
towards the end Of August, into the United
States, by way of Florida and the Gulf
Stream, succession of cyclones, which,
spreading all over the country east of the
Rocky Mountains, wound up the summer in
numerous heavy rains and foods and freshets.
And So literally drowned out at the sea-
side, at the springs and in the mountains,
the gay world of fashion-pa, ma and the
children-with the clearing skies of the LIST of
September, began to pack up and pack of to
town, and they have been coming ever since,
and
The cry ls, "Sti they Gomez,
Long Branch begins to look lonesome,
he hot ctjJl and thOuCh
General Grant still fingers at his ''cosey cot
tagc by the sea" and may yet liuger there for
several weeks to come. And we think he will
be wise in doing so, for until after the first
frost the White House is subject to the ague-
breeding malaria from the broad expanse of
the swcltering fats of the fresh water
Potomac But, az we have already sug-
gested, the summer carnival in the country is
ended, and what Pat would call the spring
tide of the fall season is setting into town.
The main idea now is business and earnest
work to make mp for lost time. All the signs;
crops, good condition of the national
finances and the currency, general confidence
in business affairs and a general condition Of
health, peace and prosperity throughout the
couutry--callipg for devout Thanksgiving
day in November.
Meantime, however, the dreaded pestilence
of the Ganges is marching this way again. and
any day now ship from Hamburg, Bremen
or Liverpool may bring il to these shores.
And still New York, which ought to be the
cleanlicst and healthiest, remains the flthiest
and sickliest, to the naked eye, of any great
city in Christendom. And yet again, political
corruption in high places, and vice and crime
in their most horrid forms, arc walking like
the pcstilcnce at monday" in our midst.
Here, then, is work enough for our teachers
of the Gospel and preachers of political re-
form, in all our churches and in all approach
ing political elections.
Political Rcform-A New "Pa;cmt Comb l.
nation.''
We see little of good or little OF evil in the
declared purposes of the Council of Political