New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-06-19
summer Travel.


tree has furnished mean quota 10 the Literature
OF Humor. Why, then, may not those com.
PEELED by inexorable Business TO spend the dog
days between the glowing brick walls Of cities give
their inagina,ions airing by taking an interest In
the goings on Of those who have means and leisure
to spend few weeks among the cool shades and
gurging waters of the ever glorious Country I've
have been running over in our mind various places
of Summer resort, and have resolved 10 say g few
words of each in reference to its attractions
SARATocA-first of American watering places
has been visited by almost every body who travels,
and can need no description. II was last year i'm.
proved by the steamboat R. B. Coleman Saratoga Lake
"a beautiful sheet Of crystal surrounded by quiet
woody hils and discovery opening public of
the Sulphur Spring its farther extremity. That Sui
phur ought be wholesome, for the taste Is
dstestable it doubtless s most eectual In all scro
fous and probably in other malsdies The Baths which
have constructed be sxcelled for u1u
rywe speak, Of course of the sulphur water, wherein
you battle tho n1ings nothing extra-Another i'm
provement at Saratoga is the Punishment OF Intoxicating
Liquors from Congress Hail. oneof the largest and best Of
the great houses. The others, hear will continue 10
sell the fre-water' under licenses from the village on
GERS, though the town has voted No License We did
hope that the reputation for pety OF Union Hall would
have exile of the decan,ers from that popular
also, but let have patience. These things will
right time. Sufcei for the present that there
rs-cless house well several Of the cheaper Sort
In which visitors will encounter fumes of Alcohol
while those Of opposite tastes also be accommodated
AT BALLsToN SPA, seven miles this side Of
Saratoga-the glories of the old Sans Souci' have
been revived by Mr.. HUxrosp and Mrs CRANE, who last
year KEEP; with great popularity and success This is
probably the coolest house in hot day this side Of the
White Mountains being embowered In ample shades and
to grateful breezes from side For quiet people,
who like Saratoga and do like Saratoga gaeties
1t is the very spot and nearly all who visit the great
porum of giddy excitement may spend few days here
right pleasantly.
SHARON SPRINGS, up among the hills OF Scho-
harie, some miles South of the Erie Canal, we sus-
pect of being well worth a visit from the fact we
note that many the very best class of Summer tourists
families Of intellect, cultivation and tasesteal quietly
up there every season and away again. saying little
multitude taking friends of the right with
them each We suspect II is not the place fer
ignorance, vuSary or the giddy
votaries OF dissipation; but those who have week or two
Of vacation spend among the hills, and who like free
scope for rambling and chance for quiet
lon with select companions and their thoughts will
be apt to like the Sharon
of RlcHFIELD SPRINGS (Whitney's White
Sulphur not far from the Sharon, in Otsego County.
we have like favorable Impressions but we believe this
less secluded and visited than the former friend
informs that several families have engaged rooms al
rcady-that the Fishing and Hunting Of that vicinity are
that such diseases Salt Rheum and
Rheumatism stand chance all with this water, being
cured in very short time.
AVON SPRINGS, in the valley Of the Genesee,
South of Rochester, is among the places which the
traveller pleasure health should whrl by the
twenty miles hour just because the line OF Rail-
road does happen through them. 1t is good
deal visited though yet mainly by people OF the neigh
boring Counties.
The GENEsEE FALLS lie still farther from the
Railroad line in the same direction. They will one
day be resort. but yet visited by very
TRENTON FALLS, near Utica are far better known
to the million. Here fine mills stream falls several
hundred succession Of cascades with intervening
pools. running through deep and wooded gorge wild
as Nature be. The only memorial OF the work-day
world you the way Is single MILL and that
has evidently business there We there when the
stream quite f late in autumn, when the
strongly colored by the falling leaves and the pools looked
deep. W. apprehend the stream would APP
pear scanty in dry season.
NIAGARA speaks for itself. The coarses, admi-
ration cannot vulgerize it. Description is shamed
by it, Nobody ever found it TO correspond with
their preconceved idea of il, What Byron says of
St. Peters al Rome-that Of the mind papahy enarg
Ing itself 10 take in the vasness OF the giant wonders
true OF the great Cataract also No really
Niagara in visit few hours. Weeks are needed but
three days the shortest time that will answer for the
enlargement Of ones comprehension SO as 10 grasp
It, This is not the best time OF year 10 see Niagara It's
stern saoity hsrmonzes with the sere nakedness
aud hoarse gales OF November two weeks OF
October The absence of the noisy houshess throng is
no drawback, though many thoughtful and grave at
Niagara who are Siddy and foolish where
SO when you can, and be miss chance OF
seeing this stupendous exhibition Of Creative power.
-UP THE LANES TO Cleveland, Detroit Lake
Huron, Mackinaw, Chicago, Milwaukee, and the
Sault 81. Marie-yea, even up Lake Superior with
It's cold rugged, barren COASTS, now alive with treasure.
seskers-wi yet become fashionable resort though q,
yet but few eoaoads make the TIP for pleasure mere
l On al the Lakes below superior there are steamboats,
that hardly be excslled IN the world
Going North from Saratoga through Lakes
George and champlan 10 ns.on-perhaps TO
Montreal and Quebec--but more usually across Yer.
iuoiA huu IcI 1TScu AOuDtalpS, me connecticut
and through New-Hampshre to the WHITE Noun
rAlss, is trip which THIS Continent can scarcely
surpass and yet our s,srs have hitherto denied Us
the pleasure of making it. The drawback on this
as on all American pleasureravelins usually is the .
circumstance THAI our people are aptto make bust
ness of it-riding through State as if flying from
the Cholera and scranbling up and down mountains
as ii in pursuit of Senior General Arista and has
flying artillery. This is unfortunate bunder
Every one who afford il ought 10 travel espe-
cislly in midsummer; it invigorates the frame and /
opens the pores Of the understanding in no other
way can pleasure and instruction be 80 well COM
,ined. But nobody is obliged TO see every thing in
me season /; and he who has bat month to be alb
ent from bis daily round of cares should under
axe no more than be can leisurely accomplish in his
ime. LIE. him go one year, say 10 Saratoga. Lake
George and Montreal the next TO the White Noun
sins, passing up the valley of the Connection, and
Town that of the Merrimac or the Ssco 10 Portland
md Boston the next 10 Niagsrs. and so on. To
% hurried IN business 10 often inevitable; bu, to be
hurried through round Of what is intended for
means