The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-08-30
The Fall seasen Of business, Politics
Fashion and Amusement.

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days we shall be enjoying the cool, invigorat-
ing breezes Of an American fall Already the
summer resorts after a brilliant and profit
able season, exhibit the familiar, unmistakable
symptoms of thinning out. With the approach
Of September beauty begins to weary OF
watering place conquests, and to sigh, ike
Alexander, for new worlds; fashion COM
mences to look jaded, silks and laces have
grown limp, and the money of holiday keepers
and the credit of Bohemians are both
exhausted. The politicians, as usual, lead
the returning throng and come prepared for
war. They have heard the mutterings of an
approaching storm amid the melting heat of
the summer months, and they are eager to
change the cool waves of the ocean for the hot
water of primaries and conventions. They
will be speedily followed by the great body of
satiated pleasure-seekers, and our city will
once again be crowded with the busy thou
sands who year. after year are drawn into the
whirpools of business, politics, fashion and
amusement which make up fall season in
New York.
The month of September has seldom opened
| with more brilliant prospects than those which
spread before us this year. The wheat crop
all over the country has been good, the corn
crop will be unprecedentedly and astonishingly
large, and there will be more than an average
crop of cotton, despite the WORKOUT predic-
tons Of those interested in spreading a con-
trary report. The effect of heavy crops will
soon be benefcially felt in the steadiness of
exchange, and with an increasing trade and
decreasing debt we have right to predict
general revival of business in every direction.
The prosperity of the farmer is already max
ing itself manifest in the orders received by our
Wholesale houses, and as there are unmstak-
| able evidences of an unusual influx of visitors
to the metropolis our hotels, boarding houses,
railroads and retail dealers are in fair way
of reaping golden harvest. The commerce
Of the port offers fair index of the general
prosperity. and we understand that the returns
show striking increase in the number as well
as in the tonnage ofvessels arriving and in the
amount of importations
In connection with the material thrift Of the
city we come naturally to consider its political
prospects; and in this direction, also, we find
promise of busting and exciting season.
The sitting heat of ninety-fve in the shade
has not deferred the virtuous outs from their
customary assaults on reprobate officials,
and with the cooling OF the atmosphere comes
promise of yet hotter work in the approaching
campaign. As rule New York is assured
at every succeeding election that she is being
robbed more and more by the wicked office
holders and as a rule New York evinces but
little concern and seems to take pride in her
ability to afford to be plundered. But now
we are warned on every. hand that her
patience is exhausted, and that with the chill
blasts of November is to come general
sweeping away of all official corruption and
millennium of political honesty and govern
mental economy. However this may be, it is
| certain that the politicians on both sides, in
| and out, are fairly aroused; and, in view of the
fact that the coming fall election is the 0Uant
c0u7vtcY of the Presidential contest, we may
expect to see a fight of Tammanyites and anti
Tammanyites unprecedented in the annals
of the Wigwam. 1t is not alone the spois that
are now at stake. The position and influence of
the New York politicians, on both the demo-
cratic and republican sides, in their national
conventions of next year, will be affected, if
not determined, by the exhibition of strength
they may respectively make in the present
fall election and hence each faction, in both
organizations, will do its best to win
leading position In the campaign, and to
carry real or apparent strength with it to
the polls. On the democratic side the old
heads and the young muscle must test their
mettle with view to the Convention of ~,
| and to the same end the shillelah of Murphy
| must try conclusions with the stiletto of the
| Chautauqua Senator. So we may clear the
| field for free fight and general raising of
hair in the approaching political campaign.
While our business and commercial classes
have thus gratifying prospect before them,
and while our Tammany braves and city re-
formers are putting on their war paint and
girding themselves up for the fight, there is a
promise of more than usual hustle and enjoy
ment in the circles of fashion and amusement
during the fall season. The Central Park
| growing year dlJeT year LII ueduty anu dtua az
| tiveness, and the boulevards, the future pride
of the metropolis, are destined to be crowded
this fall, as they have never been crowded be-
fore, with dashing equipages and valuable
horses, threatening to cast the famous Rotten
Row of Hyde Park into the shade before many
years shall have passed away. Our operate
and theatrical managers, keeping pace with
the advancing spirit Of the age and the pros
perity of the city, have prepared for us pro-
grammes before which the achievements Of
| former seasons must hide their diminished
heads. Nilsson, brilliant season in herself,
will be with us. Parepa-Rosa with a new
troupe. is to afford the lovers of English opera