Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1840-07-28
Correspondence OF the Berald.l
SARAToeA SpRINos. Julv I'd Is


JANIS GORDON BENNETT, ESQ.
Dear Sir-lf you wish TO enjoy visit to Sarato.
ga, come now, before the place is crowded and fad
a refuge from the ovenlike heat Of New York.
Come and inhae the pure, sweet, balmy country
air. and drink deep, deg tfsl draughts OF sparkling
Congress water View the delightful scenss in the
vicinity some sublime, yet beautiful in their gran
dsur; others lovely and quiet, the light Of fair
maidsn's eye. Wander in the cool green shades of
the pine forests, with carpet Of pine assels soft
velvet TO the foot and the straight tall trunks Of the
pines forming natural collonade where il is delight
tn ramble. Our pine forests are, no doubt, one Of
the many causes OF the saubrity OF this place for
il is well known that, during the cholera, the pine
plain regions both in Russia and elsewhere, escaped
the sceuIg e.
The United States Hotel and Union Hall are full
the Congress Hall has over hundred, and their
pumber Increasing daily the Pavilion about sixty
OF the smaller houses, the Columbian, the Ameri-
can, sometimes called the " independent Column
Hotel" and the Montgomery Hotels, are doing q
fine business.
All the most fashionable people Of the country ap
pear to have selected Saratoga their summer re-
tire At; and, among them ALL the fair bellies Of your
city first, in fashion and beauty. philadelphia
and Baltimore have also sent their beautiful repre-
sentatives to contest the palm. We expect TO see
many Of the members OF Congress here in a few
days; they will add much TO the fashion, bat more
to the dissi pation ofthe place.
Kenda's band plays alternately at the two fashion
able houscs-United States Hotel and Congress r. ell
They add harmony to the scenes Of beauty and Ia
one Of these houses.
Though amongrcl race, we Yankees can produce
some ofthe most beautiful specimens Of the fair
Our ladies beautiful, and gifted with the highest
order Of mind but our men, what a contrast see
our efeminate slips, aping the Wallets and lackey
ofsristocracy. Disgusting, under a bunch Of hair
the senseless expression OF their unmeanng lantern
jawed visages; wearing lions beard, fancy them
selves lions when. in truth, they but the Jack
ass in the lions skin"
This place is blessed, all country villages usu
ally are, with blue-stocking gentry. They are the
refri orators Of society, casting chill over every
one they come in contact with Such pretences N
| science and knowledge some IF them make, are
truly ridiculous studying geology in the cutters
botany among the pig.weeds, and anatomy and per
fumery, by dissecting stray kittens.
Some of the ladies have mad with mate h-ma
king. Having {" struck each their whale" they en-
deavor to entice into the matrimonial act the sill
little fat fish. who, Just able to mobile, play inJ
around, unconscious of their danger
IL has bees conceded 90 the fair SEX that in leap
year, they may lay aside the reserve which custom
| imposes on them. and love " make love without re
strsnt They have here asserted that privilege q
some purpose. Victim after victim has fallen unde r
the darts Of Cupid, until very good. sized pyramic
could now be built Of the empty skulls Of these vic
| tins Of love
Dear Bennett, yours ever,