Year: 1863

ton the forces which had conquered the known
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The Opera and the Watering Places.


Most of our operatic celebrities have left the
city and are recruiting at the watering places.
Maretzek and his forces are encamped upon
Staten Island, where Garibaldi made candles
and dreamed of Italy regenerated. Brignoli
has announced bis intention to make Newport
his headquarters and to devote himself exclu-
sively to his horses Manager Grau, having
discovered more gold mines In the West than
the Chevalier Jewett has in Colorado, sailed for
Europe yesterday to procure q prima donna
and two or three other 6rst class artists THUS
reinforced, he will return to New York next
fall give opera in some theatre for three or four
weeks, by way of advertisement, and taen fol-
low the star of empire westward and exchange
his musical notes for greenbacks or solid specie
in Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis and other
smaller towns At about the same time Mo-
retzek will reopen the Academy of Music with
the magnificent Mazzoleni and his splendid
company, and Medori will again visit this
country, bringing with her Signor Petrella, the
composer of "Ione," and new opera written
especially for this city. The operate prospects
for next winter are therefore unusually bril-
liant


Beyond the presence Of these singers the
watering places present nothing worthy of
record this season. About one hotel at each
place Is full but the other houses are but little
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successful season have been disappointed, and
the shoddy aristocracy has succumbed to cir
cumstances. The rebel invasion of Pennsylva-
mia, the unexpected enforcement Of the national
conscription and the recent riots in this city
and elsewhere have suddenly checked the
exodus to the watering places, and caused the
summer hotel keepers to curse their adverse
fates and unlucky stars as roundIy as poor
Greeley abuses Governor Seymour. Besides
the rebels and the rioters, there is another
reason for this comparative failure of the
season. A great many sensible people have
adopted the good advice which the HERALD has
reiterated from year to year, and have resolved
to pass the heated term on country farms, or at
secluded villages, or in quiet villas, leaving the
fashionable haunts to their glory and dissipa-
tions That this is much better than the old
way cannot be denied. The people of New
York do not need to 60 to the seaside or to
medicinal springs. They are at the seaside here
at home, and if they require tho water of any of
the springs they can obtain it by sending to
the druggist, without the trouble and expense
of stopping for the season at watering place
hotel, where more health Is lost in q single
night Of fashionable folly than can be gained
by month Of water drinking. For change Of
air, therefore, New Yorkcrs must push inland
to the mountains, to the woods and to the green
fields, ard there lay in . stock Of health with
which to defy the doctors for another year.


Those who are kept In town, either by busi-
ness or by fear Of renewal Of the riots, which
the radical journals seem 80 anxious to effect,
or by anxiety to be on hand when the conscrp-
tion is put in force, find the city is not destitute
Of attractions. The Park is now more beauti.
full than ever, and although deserted, except by
fugitive negroes, during the reign Of terror last
week. 1t already begins to be crowded by its
usual throngs Of delighted visitors. Rich and
poor alike appreciate and enjoy the varied
charms Of the Park-its splendid drives it's
pleasant walks, its cool and shady rambles its
miniature lakes, Its thousands Of fragrant
flowers and its choice collection OF natural Gu
riosities, which will soon he no increased. we
hope, - to form geological and botani-
cal garden. In spite Of the rawlings Of
certain silly journals New York has sell
dom been more quiet and peaceful than at
present, and there Is probably no place on the
continent where so much enjoyment may be
had for 20 small an expenditure Of time and
money. Our readers at the watering places
must not suppose, therefore, that they are hav-
ing all the pleasure 10 themselves. When this
affair Of the draft Is properly arranged, as il
doubtless will be In very few days, every
thing will resume its usual course, and BY the
LIST of August the summer season will be more
generally observed by our citizens Then the
watering places may have brief month OF
crowds and prosperity; and by the time the
fashionablcs have returned home and the
shoddy aristocrats are again comfortably set.
tied In their new up town residences Maretzek
AID Grau will be ready TO open thcir fall cam
paign and. from present indications. we shall
celebrate the reunion OF the States by a winter
al uncxampicd fsycty and snparsl,cicd public
s0d private rcls!ciHxA