Places Of Amusement In New York

From the N. Y. Herald. New York has never been so gay, so extravagant, as in these daya of war and strife. High prices seem but to have increased tho deinand for luxuries, and, to judge froni the immense orowds which fill nightly our theatres and concert rooms, raoney was never more plentily or so lavishly expended. In this city and Brooklyn there are some thirty-five or forty place3 of amusement, and one and all turn away nuinbers of people each evening, being filled to repletion. - It is computed that in Paris there are uot less than eighty thousand fraucs (tifteen thousand dollars) spent nightly for amusements. In New York the amount is still greater, it being well kuown that at least twenty-five thousand dollars are uightlv speut in a similar mauner by the public. A strauger arriviug now in this city, could never realize that lbo country ig engaged in the most gigantic struggle tüe-w.cjid has ever kuown. Broadway was never so filled with maguificently dresaed ladies.. Tliere were never seen before in New Yorksach uunibers of private and public equipagea, gucl) evi(lences of great wealtli and prosperity. - SUreLy vi.u hav.e not as yet realized the anuoyances or privations of war.