New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-09-25
THE TrRy or THE YEAR.

These dull drilling sunless days, coming
with the EUmnoX,-thCse suddenly belated
mornings ami over-hasty evening twilights,
which come upon us unprcparcd To adapt our
selves to the clangc,-mark much more sharply
than usual the succession of the seasons EYen
metcorolosically the Centennial Year, thus far,
seems To distinguish itself from other years.
From the middle Of May until week ago,
there was no violent atmospheric disturbance:
the Summer has been Of a wholly exceptional
character; and the transition stage through
which We are now passing does not exhibit MS
ordinary features. The rise of temperature, at
the beginning Of Summer, WIS as gradual and
orderly as it's fall at present A comparison
with last year, as given day by day, and
week by week, in our columns, gives evil
dcnce of n remarkable regumllty-wc might
almost say, normal condition-Of increase
and decrease. The pulse OF Nature shows
marked absence of sudden fiuShes and chills.
Its beats quckencd steadily with the ripening
season, kept at their hight for an unprcco-
dented length of time, and then became slower
as the sun retrcated from his Summer alti-
tude. Now that he has passed from our hem
isphcre, and is bringing the first faint promises
of Spring to Chill, Patagonia, aud the Austria
Ian Continent, we may almost measure his
progress by the record of the temperature.
After such heats as we have endured, and
such n far-spreading cyclone as that which
has lust cxtiuguished them. VIC might reason
ably expect a strong Teactionary cold but the
frosts are still imprisoned in some stronghold
Of the Northern Rocky Mountains, and Septem-
Der goes ont like April, with soft, moist air
and reviying pastures.
In spite of the unusual drOuths which have
visited some parts of the country, the year has
been bouTtiful. and all the political excite
ment which has been developed up to this
time has not made it otherwise than peaceful
ID has given us an unusual number of fair
! tranquil days. Somehow, in spite of the great
prostration. of business during the past months
and other" material discouraGements, a more
CHEEKY and hopeful spirit has come upon the
people The days now approaching may be
called "sadn in q pOctical sense, but they
seem brighter than those which last opened
for us the leaf-buds and quickcned the slum-
bering life OF seeds.
Summer Gibbs leach day that follows
IL rcnux from on high,
Tending TO the darksOme hollows
Where the frosts Of Winter lie"
So sings Wordsworth: but who can particu-
larly regard the shortening sunshine, the SOM
Der cOloring Of field and forest or the Ger
tainty of coming storm and cold, when the
grim endurance of three years is little re-
Taxed at last There is double tonic in even
these gloomy days; for the physical and moral
relief come together. The fibers slackened by
the long Summer begin to recover their elias
ITCHY; and, this year, the need and the oppor-
tunity for action accompany the returning
power. Autumn is only sad to large class
because of the Winter which succeeds; but
Winter loses half its tcrrors when coal and
rents drop down toward where they should be,
and the chances of labor increase. While this
prospect husband every day strengthens the
probability that it will last-we may cheerfully
watch our planet dipping deeper into its an