The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1845-03-10

ming to anticipate the pleasures OF the travelling
season. There is every reason to believe thatnex
summer the watering places will be thronged by
| great numbers Of vslters, and that greater multi
tsdes than ever will seek the pure air of the
Try, leaving the hot and dusty cities half depopu
lated. The facilities for travelling have been i'm
mensely increased, and the locomotive propensi
ties OF the people can be gratiiied ut half The
cost, and without 1.-THE OF the Inconvenience t.
| which il was formerly necessary to submit. Be
sides, the times are prosperous-monev is plenty
| and however anxious we Americans are TO make
money, we certainly cannot be accused Of an,
| stinginess in expending it.
great many new watering places are prepar
ing to come into the field this season, whilst Others
heretofore known to fame will be comparatively
deserted. The fashion OF watering places is quite
as mutable as the fashion of any thing else. Green
port, at the terminus of the Long Island Railroad
will be very popular resort. Its location is de-
lightul. The air is as fresh and pure as that Of
Paradise, and the facilities for bathing are un.
surpassed. There are also abundant opportunities
for hunting and fishing, and the enjoyment of all
sorts of outdoor exercise For invalids seeking
health, or for the vigorous in pursuit of amusement
and excitement,we do not know any of the water
ing places more inviting than Greenport
Rockaway appears to have quite fallen into the
scar and yellow leaf. Since the time of Grams
toun it has been holding up its head with great diff
fculty, and it will hardly be able during the mex,
season, to compete with its numerous rivals with
any degree Of responsibility. Nature has been
rather adverse to Rockaway. The sea pillows are
very magnificent, but the swamps are anything but
agreeable either to the eye or to the organ of SMELL
two senses which will insist on being graft
fled, and take no excuse from any assailant.
Pieris has abandoned the Clifton House near the
Telegraph station, on Staten Island, as bad Spec
ulation. He is an excellent and capable host, and
his lady manages household with consumate abil-
ity, but the Clifton House is badly constructed and
there is malicious hill in the background which
deprives you of the softened radiance Of the set
ting sun, and condemns you in the evening 10 the
premature chilly embraces Of the night air, and
swarms Of industrious mosquitoes. New Brighton,
the other hand, is as hot at all hours as the seat
of newly elected President, and the beach is
strewed with the bodies of unfortunate dogs and
kittens, that have met an untimely fate, like the
sickly newspapers which the smallbeer Hterati are
starting every week in New York. Staten island,
indeed, we are inclined to believe, will not be
much frequented this season, and so also it is like
ly to be with the Hamilton House.
Saratoga will be crowded of coursc-by the
paruenpes. All the cod fish arstocracy for hun
dreds of miles around, will flock there, and cram
every tavern from cellar to attic. Gin.sings and
bad brandy will be poured out like water; all the
fnery Of Division street and the Bowery will
fount in the dusty streets of the village and daily
at noon, the great room at Marvin's will reek with
one hundred Yagouts in ocean of gravy, and
three hundred and fifty human beings in state Of
profuse perspiration.
1t will, indeed, be in the interior of the country
in quiet villages, far from the dust and turn | OF
the crowd, lin pleasant hamlets lying sheltered
and secluded in some smiling valley,-in unosten-
tatious inns, away among the mountains, adjacent to
cool springs of healing virtues gushing from the
rock, that those who really know how to enjoy
the warm season, will be found. The fashiona-
bles and exclusives will seek such pac es as She
ron Springs and Rich6eld Springs, land other
delightful and sequestered retreats, leaving to the
crowd the flaring edifces at the common watering
places, with their noisy bar-rooms-their eating.
house table d'hote-and their sleeping. apartments
confined and odoriferous as the cages Of a mana
gerie.
OLD Mn. NOAH STILL ALIVE AND KICKING
Poor old Mr.. Noah, every now and then, makes
desperate splutter, in the hope Of attracting little
public attention, very much like the drunken Irish
man at Donnybrook Fair, who throws down his
ragged greatcoat, and shouts out, evil nobody
have the goodness to put his foot on that !"--de-
string thus to excite some charitable by-stander
into quarrel but only gets laughed at, and pelted
with mud by the boys, for his pains Yesterday he
came out IN an obscure Sunday print, claiming old
acquaintance with William l.. Marcy, and boast
ing Of the great political victories they achieved
together in this State. Poor old Noah
TAKING THE VEIL.-Every now and then we hear
OF several young and beautiful women taking the
veil, and retiring to the gloom Of convent Re-
Gently Miss Waggaman, niece of Elk President
Tyler, thus retired from the world, and several in
stances of similar kind have occurred Of late in
different parts Of the country. 1t is sort of cpl
demic, occasionally breaking out and effecting, it
would seem by sympathy, young and sensitive fe-
males of a morbid religio-poetical temperament
brief term Of probation generally effects cure
Of the malady. The sweet creatures find that the
human heart is the same within as without the
walls of convent, and that the imposing rites at
the altar do not in this, any more than in certain
other ceremony, admit the novitiate into heaven
of perfect bessedness and peace.
"SHoRTEsT PASSAGE EVER MADK."-We have
received the following note from Captain Durfey
of the packet ship Auburn, relative to his last trip
from New Orleans
OK BOARD SHIP AUBURN,
New YoRx, March s. l845.
DEAR Sin -
In looking severalof the city papers, notice that
the length my recent passage from New Orleans and
also that Of the Saratoga Captain Russell from the
port, are incorrectly reported. left the Balize, the
mouth of the MlssisspPi the Gath ul side by side
with the Saratoga We parted company soon after. I
proceeded my pass sge, and arrived CE Sandy Hook
five hours before the g. and received pilot three hours
before she did. merely mention these facts because
most OF the papers have stated that my ship beaten
thirty six hours by the Saratoga. Truly, yours.
N T. DURFEY.
II is well known fact that the Auburn is one Of
the fastest sailers out of this port. She has made
the passage hence to the Balize in nine days, and
from city to city in ten days, beating the mail
at the time. The Saratoga is a capital ship, but
we lunw tho Auhuvn foo wall IN e,,nnoca tho,