Alexandria Gazette

Letter from New York.

The decrease of the ravages of the epidemic seems to have been the signal for strangers to flock to New York, as the hotels are already crowded. This argues the immediate commencement of the fall trade: so our merchants are busy with their preparations, having been taken by surprise, as it were. Usually their season commences full a month later: but the presence of the cholera here having prevented well-nigh all from coming to trade in the summer months, purchasers come so much the sooner for fall supplies.

The caterers for the amusement of the public, who are usually keenest of all in watching the fluctuations of business travel, are already in the field. Burton's theatre is again open with the best dramatic stock ever collected together in this country, while Chippendale has Niblo's Garden, (the new theatre,) with the Ravel and Lehman families. The Broadway opens tomorrow night with a combination of Italian opera and the ballet: Tedesco and a host of other fine singers in the first, and the superb Montplaisir troop in the ballet. I am curious to know how this combination of opera and ballet will turn out as a speculation. The cost must be enormous; yet as these entertainments are designed for the million, rather than the upper ten, the chances are that, like everything undertaken at this house, it will turn out fortunate. It will be funny, indeed, if the result goes to show that, while our fashionables of large wealth, with extravagant pretensions to musical taste and science, failed to support an opera, the Toms, Dicks, and Harries of the city, who merely "like good songs," shall be able to have their opera, every whit as good as that essayed last season in Astor Place.—Corresp. of Union.