The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1845-08-17
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.4rripai-.4 Queer SET Comfort The Flats-Dinner al
Sarafoga-fish Flesh aud Fowi--Ladiss Of Certain
.ase-7Hs .arf Of Painting G,and Ball Game Sum-
per, Sc.
The morning train from Troy and Albany has Just arry
ed bringing curious and sngu of mis-
cradle humanity What they have for not even them
selves tell and it would puzzle II
to divine So strange a mixture never saw before
aud devoutly pray never may again. Issuing from
the close, uncomfortable cars, all covered with dust
were Broadway dandies dressed in Hindraughs latest
style ostled by their butchers and
young ladies, in silks and satns in close contact with
their milliners, mantuanekers and stay makers-rch
young widows, and laughing, merry, cherry -cheeked
maidens-old bachelors in search of wives and old
maids in want Of husbands-fat aldermen and sleek
divines-ladies in delicate healthohers as well as
could be expected and Brunettes hoping to i'm
prove their complies bydrinkng the
shoe Makers tailors hatters ekeepers clerks
merchants otbacks gamblers, members Of Congress-
loaisrs, editors New Workers, Jerseymen, Yankees,
Pennsy lvanans, Hawkeyes Buckeye s Pukes, Suckers
Hoosers-n of every trade proies
sion or calling il the country When such heereoge.
neous collection this visits the Springs of Saratoga
un iiolic gaety bon ton, gambling, vugarism, afecta
ton much that IS and all that ridic ulous be
object oil their search Comfort that purely
word which Gallo friends having an equva-
lent have been forced, boaconstrictor-lke, to gulp
down whole, does not exist. Imagine Dime table
several hundred people, il not accommodated are,
all events plcedhe guests in that pleasing OF
evaporation represented by the steam OF boiling
heat-the flats evolving vapor nearly equal in volume
10 that discharged by North River steamer. Walters
running and fro with the speed OF Glldersleeve at
prize iooracc with the exception in favor OF the latte
he nai all events, goal in whereas the un
fortunate walters distracted by the multitude Of orders
perform the crcumvolution ofthe tables object
less like many pirouetting Dervishes Orders given
by everybody for everything, which nobody gets. A
fierce of cries for appetzng Dishes sngulary
reminiscent Of the and hustle OF highly re- pee
table restaurant of the faramed Sweeny Of Ann street
Hurry up them cakes" fish that have been cooked too
little, flesh that has been cooked too much, fow ls an
Athenan Tor whose years ought to have stay
ed the cruel hand Of the staying poulierer Birdsthe
green thread of whose existence the sister Fates, in
pity to the gastronome, ought to have cut
Bellies the bright ganccs of whose seek in vain
penetrate through the hazy atmosphere BeauX
Ill but the substantial qualification of craving and
and patience in wise sotened by the inability
procure any thing they ask for, and mutterng courses
loud but deep" Ladies of certain age (the dear
creatures grow old endeavoring to create
icsl air by most diligent exercise of the fam while
their conn MONS, in happy state of dissolution and
commixure, afford practical essay the grace of
painting, beyond the reach Of to catch The
equal the irregular firing OF six volunteer companies
field day. Imagine all this, and ten times more, of
hustle, din noise confusion worse coniounied, and you
dine at Saratoga-which is, after all if does but
rightly understand it, of the most delightful and
charming spots in the universe
The grand ball Of the comes off tonight The
Messrs Marvin, with their accustomed liberality intend
ome forty hunters out shooting and Staying the inhab
OF the forest and the tables tonight will be suppl
ed with the plumber and in fact all the delcaces of the