The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-08-05
The Watering Places.
= THU oTATfb HOTEL,
SARATOGA srRIsos, July 81 Isl7.

~@' ~A'N'y''V S'e''' :" Sufdtogd-~d Grdnd Bali
at the u Hotel.
God has been munihcent to SARATOGA; the blood and
ashes of hecatombs Of forgotten dead turn to die
before mine fatten the pregnant earth upon
which stand these ofals nature has sucked nour
ishment and she appears before in a million wild and
solemn and sublime forms
Men the enjoyment Of these glorious gifts only
like nractable children who quarrel about the division
Of something which their noble father has given them
the child who gets most esteemed most fortunate and
that one who with nothing because he would
rath have nothing than be competitor in the angry
struggle because he is too weak to be successful Ia
henceforth accursed and outcast But man Is not
iron nor adamant his fine temper may be moulded into
any beautiful shape that fancy can suggest ne VIII,
therefore triumph even yeti he will be ransomed, and
in century whose confines not far dstanta brighter
morning will lawn upon Christendom than ever there
has since Adams eectment.
promised lately to write analysis Of the various
characters who here annually to remain quarter
Ola year In the midst Of this rural realization OF al
that the finest fancy desire Many go from here to
Niagara, and return again embrowned and swarthy,
many have lately returned. The hotels are full
and the season has reached its altitude is at the
height Of its grandeur and glory Amid such of
rich materials and subjects gathered it would
be impossible to parcuarze, or to give analysis Of
Every hundreds adventusers or fortune hum
tiers come to SARATOGA from Europe from the islands
which border the United States coast and from ali parts
OF this Unionprobably the majority of these adventur-
ers men (some of them elegant looking men who
| cultivate moustaehes and superhuous hair several
weeks before the opens in the belief probably
that prouson Of this article will improve their person
al appearance but herein lies imputaton upon any
gentleman who a mustache Many of these adj
venturers are lovely women (mysoginists) who travel
hundreds of miles alone Saratoga who occupy Sc
Guided apartments at the hotels These lsveiy adyen-
astute and cunning in their address and de-
pertinent In their efforts to procure rues alliance with
some victim millionaire they act from certain system
which has been previously digested and which they al
ways observe with precision in the most casual inter
They love intrigue (and all love IT'D they
often successful and they aso often fail shall not
doubt the legitimacy propr-ty OF tn. conduct OF these
he m he Ifslll AT
they exhibit great talent and sometimes genius often
results happily have regarded these women wboare
qu.ntiy angelic except The wipgs) with scrutiny. In
order IL understand them periectyi If them
superb hou ewomsn, and have them in the Early
cbe'ks and with fire IN Their eye, III, united upon tho
rough bred horses They would ride at he Derby or an
Enghsh fox hunt ana II the h"rse was right they wound
win the purse, be III AT the death have also seen
them in very close carriages III att udss Of devotion to
somebody upon the front seat In fact they are admi
rable men because they manage to b. unm peacha-
bic which ir more than Queens have BEEN they he
JOY and the glory OF society here they the objects Of
universal homage; they waltz with voiuptous grace;
they converse with passion, with voices hney mo du
perfectly acquainted with every thing fashionable and
their toilet Is attended to in an pnexcep,iopsoe
| done with them for the present.
That other class of adventurers, the men, to whom
have alluded, commonly called they are
medley of hardware clerks poetasters fleeing orphans
and gentlemen. Some Of them give didactc lectures
may be at every ball. every private party and at
every ride or promenade they punctual In their at
tendance at church. but they in late OF them
display great deal of taste In their equipages and
horses among which several nonpareis The grea,
object that of marrying rich wife, not forgotten but
kept constantly in view in the pursuit of this object
their advantages not proporoned to those OF their
contemporaries ofthe softer because wherever
she may be- Is uncomfortable and untrammeed, 80 long
She is esteemed But these gentlemen often succeed
and here is laid the foundation many after union OF
happiness
have thus briefly described one class department
OF society at Saratoga; in description of the other
classes hereafter nay 90 more into detail
| n Dali, which quite as magnificent, Except the
dress ba any that will here during the season,
given last night In the bal chambre Of this hotel
the invitations general, and there numerous
attendances from all the hotels. am charmed at the
simple elegance of American women whenever ar, able
to detect It, but Mortified ut their extraordinary
madness In COMPRISING their waists in n manner which
these mothers these American mothers who make their
sons cousin germans to the titmouses, and who make
dry automatic Of their daughters. This fashion is
late importation, and not bequest Of the Aneri
can mothers Of the last century.
But the bal-a hundred alabaster lamps diused their
beams through that immense hall; there might have
been hundred betrothments Civilians declared
to be behind military men in their conspicuous doatry
Of women; In these matters Wellington and Scott
phenomena in their prime their devotion has given them
fame in which the entire army has shared; this reputa
ton for gaanry In the tented field aud In courts
fully sustained by the army officers who present
who appeared in full uniform Scott need therefore
have no apprehension for the army at home, when II s
in the hands OF such representatives
wish that the love of woman could not be concentra
ted upon anything tangible but that it's genial purity
might be directed every animated
being alike-there are few Of them who are angels OF
mercy who visit the sick poor and who devote their
lives TO the giving Of aims.
The bail went OMIT was most brilliant and the com
pany was larger than at any previous ball the program
me ofncidens including the pyramids OF dessert which
were circulated Mt intervals need not be recspitulsted
day, in elaborate manner, and the descriptive
programme must be condensed and contracted into
single sentence-it counterpart of of those
fine parties that diurnaly at the French cap
| ital during the fashionable season
Robert H. Morris Is here.
There is very strong probability that Lsdy Suffolk
and other quick horses will come here the lsth
OF August next contend for the purse which the pro
pretors Of this excellent course have lately offered
At Uniontown Ky, on the 10th Of July an ARRAY
CURED between ~ J. Cartme and T kersey resulting
tailed are such justify Cartmel ths eyes Of the
coroners jury The attack out Of an old grudge
held BY kersey against the partner Of csrtms ksrssy
gum which no endeavored to FIRE Mt him Cartmel SEN
cd the muzze and threw II up firing his revolver seve
raj times at him, piercing him with three balls.
On Monday about IL o'clock, lad about ten years Of
age, named g. w Meyers, employed In the paper hang
ing mandatory Of Charles Longsreth Il Son, In La
grange street, had his right twisted completely OF
in the machinery While reaching up to put strap
upon shaft the strap caught him around the arm and
drew him to the top Of the shaft when extricsted
from his dreadful situation tn. limb found hanging
by few shreds of flesh. The sufferer conveyed to
tue hospital.-Phs!. North .ame'1can.
A criminal prosecution has been commenced against
the officers Of the lake steamer Oh sapeake for the neg
aence which ocsasoned its loss. In the United States
District curt ri columbus Col Bradbury. who
an. f The Surviving passengers and has been active in
exposing the negligence has been summoned to appear
~ a vitDcss-.3i5eay Zee MAS.
within the past weeks 656 emigrants have died
| nj the Quebec quarantine groun- Last Wednesday
1867 arrived ut Crosse Isle I'VE ships
# fen Bremen, with 32e passengers Few sick
few deaths.
| A named Eiihu Trssk, OF this town, about rs
years old. elop.d about the 10th OF July with a
youug girl ~ years DID, named Evirs Frisbi., west
hampton. The girl was persuaded by Trask some four
weeks previous to leave her mother In Westbsmp on,
aud TO come and live fos short time In his family On
tn. 18th Trssk carried his wife, who af dumb
aud his young child to the house relative and since
that day nothing has been heard of him the girl
| springfield Gazette.
| very pretty girl, only 10 years Of age named Marga
ret Blackburn, whose mother resides at No u Wharf
street, left home about week ago accompanied by her
aunt for the purpose Of going to pic mic ut Reading
| While there she observed In conversation with
man named smith and has not since been heard