The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-08-24
The Watering Places.

| SHARON SPRINGS, August 10, l647
On Sunday evening, the night when all 10 quiet, 81
bonnie Azure just every sinking Into the arms
VI Morpheus into dreams of love- aud visions oflovs
Illness such had charmed the eyes during the waking
hours Of day, beginning to hover around the start
ling of"are fire.! reused every one IN moment 70
their feet and sent motley crowd into the narrow pas
sascs and although after brought the rsits-
rated cry Of safety, it long before the assurance
could be made sufficiently to stop the confusoa,
and restore comPosure to many beating hearts Here
mother, startled from her slumbers, with Q blanket
thrown over her head lovely babe arm, and the
other claspips an older one, with pAliid cheek and
anxious eye-there, terrified Irish nurse casping
boys too large to carry and shrekng her In
place some ladies fantng at rsmsm brancs Of the
lady Justify bawDg to big Hb+rnian body eervant 70
have for tho safety Of his precious charge her
engng to tho skirts Of her mothers wrapper Alto.
gether, IL was perfect Babel Of strange sounds And
then the costume From every door and every passage
Here lovely nymph, with dishevelsd hair, besuti-
ful enough 10 be observed, even at that momsut.-
Was the dark hair pulled down to give effect TO the
pure white dr.ss The latter certainly In contrast
with the rich lowered dressing gown OF the 10 ys-
low slippers whose better ha to size stood look
iag from behind her green blind door crying vsitsr
waiter =, Are the fashionablss going! Good heavens
look ut that man. He has Iefthis wig upon tbs tablet
who can II be Surely not Mr., the man with hand
some curls' Reader, did you ever see Jim along"
or, the fashionabes cali it. "Josey!'' There they
Of every colorred blue. white and yellow; some
short some long some with sleeves, and some Without
some looked young and some looked lovely among the
wearers, and some-ooked like old maids We scarcely
should have known how old. in the day time Ons
bright spirited young creature Of rushed
from her room and encountered In her descent young
gentleman, dragging his immense trunk sfter him down
stairs saving Lis clothes! How neaable her contempt
Get OUT Of the way, sirr get out Of the wayn-hs
must have been young IN years love- that bright
form up before him, whom he might hope to
at peril OF bis lie or limb But In sooth wen nsught
Of thisfor he not the only who his vsua-
bss and left poor womansindto waste her shreks upon
the midnight air Where all the other gents IN the
midst OF these alarms Finding they were causelsss.
they crowded up the stairs how looked the bellies
without their starched and patent skirts
And what the of all this hubbub and alarmf
Why damsel had left her candle burning where the
wind might watt tho curtain within the reach Of the tiny
that 1t seemed the wooden house 20. and Its
Inmates turned out to the night upon the hills,
should they escape with life One fair sister lay asleep
while numbers rushed In TO extpgush the hrssnd the
other now stosd amid group OF bsaux explaining how
10 all occurred until suddenly reooecting that her form
was robed only In her night dress she exclaimed
"Oh. pray dear gentlemen, 10 away!
Don't you see I'm all undrest'
Well talk It over when tits day,
For now ] feel too much distrest"
Little innocent creature that she was but there
Others In the same predicament Another lady remind
I'd by this remark. that her curls all enpopHsfs
nto her own In her haste but into the next
door, the occupant OF which, portly bachelor,
pidy inserting hisowe limbs into pair OF "inexpressi
sbles " We heard gentleman receiving q vote Of
thanks for his efficient aid in bringing bottle ofsuphur
to pour upon the burning curtain But IL IL Ill
over! Quiet has settled down upon the scene the la
dies dear souls have talked the matter ont the geus
men are snoring In their pointed night Gaps he dress.
has dropped asleep upon his mstrssss bed and his
footed attendant IL again dismissed TO his rest We
leave you to sunbsr and bright b. your dreams Good
night.
The LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE or PORTLAND,
MArNE.-Wc have received from MAJOR j.
Graham, of the corps Of Typographical Engineers prin
cp astronomer aud head OF the scientific corps OF the
com mi SaiO of