The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-08-06
The Watering Places.

The Watering Places.
U. s. HOTEL, SARATOGA SPRINGS, Aug 3, 1s47
The Grand Fancy Dress Ball Occupations of the Psi
ters-.4rripdisThe Herr .AieraRder-The Concert
Of Here and Stvo,i, &c. &c.
Costly and extensive preparations being made
for the grand fancy Gress ball to be given this hotel
the 18th instant Hair dressers and curling tongs have
been imported in profuson and the lovely women,
OF whom there are bevy, group most admirable and
matchicss fitting garments of fine texture to their
pretty limbs Costumers arriving and have arrived
with packages of dresses of every imaginable style and
quality. The gentlemen making selections, and
expect that every parsonage of note and not of note
from Cromwell to the Bourbons, will be persopifed at
this great carnival
In the suspending interim, these DEAR amabe women
and thess fne-toned elegant men, still going it with
perfect abandonment. SO far comprehend, they
have here all the prominent appointments Of heaven
except perhaps that holy purity and sinessness which
is a feature in the courts Of heaven in which
not partae until they resolve to do AS for myself
believe that the germs and the elements of purity exist
in the world and that their development will not be de-
layed for 1t is here eternal routine of fascina
ton and fascinating pleasure; in the immortal Polka
when trembling little hearts hustle each ttherwhen
the crimson lips meetand the eyes lose themselves in
the eyes abyss have noticed exhaatons Of soft sghs
and mpalpabe whispers and terrible agitation refer
insolent auiocrat
Among the company here, have observed there is
son OF John O. Calhoun, the great South Caronan He
spasse but verv polite and may become man OF dis
tinction The British Consul is also here.
AT dinner the Herr Alexander. after havingagitated
his cerrebrum with bottle of heidsic suddenly relieves
some persons wastcoat pocket of cabbage head
OF TINS years GROWTH digestion IL OF assisted and
the entire table is convulsed with laughter The other
day at table, the Herr bet four bottles of champagne
certain bali from under tumber which was standing
upon the table bottom upwards, without raising the
tnmber the bet was taken, and the Herr folded piece
Of paper about the lumber nd placed the ball under Il
upon the table with the paper around the turnbler OF
the bail could not be After certain mean
atons aud gyratops by the antiquarian raised
the tumbler TO the ball had disappeared the ball
which remained there instantly taken away by the
Herr thus you will observe that the Herr won the
champagne he took the ball away without raising the
tumoer because the tubler raised by the antigua
rian the man Of musy manuscripts ordered the cham
paisne
We have incompatible steward, Mr. Morris; he is
the monarch Of the dining ROOM through his watch
Suness and skill the citoyenne Of this miniature metro
polls are gorgeu with ps atabe succulens OF the most
nourishipg qualities
heard Herr also sivori says he plays upon Pagannis
fdde-it is the very same the immortal Pagan used
These artists comorted and assured by immense
audience Of rich men. with their wives and children
Sivors Mel pu ineffable and Understandable;
twas tumultuous ami wd 1t bolted through the brain
like the shock OF thousand electric batteries; 1t un.
moored the heart from its anchorage of dignity, and
made it laugh sardonicsy; 1t made the soul and the
reel aud it received wtha yell of enthusiasm
that vbrated through the lofty passages Of the model
hotel like discharges Of artillery over rock bound
river it grand and gloomy and solemn and peculiar
Svor lisa little DIT Of god and Herr paragon pianist;
cold calculating and iron cannot be musical critics;
and that person who, in the metropolis of New York,
has undertook to dictate conventional rule to metro
posn audiences, and who has pronounced 1t pebeian
to applaud great genius-a maesfrO-that person Is q
chamelOn-a doggerel criticwthout those angelic and
fine feelings which suddenly impel men to love and
approve sweet and lovely things this bald earth.
Such persons made society automaton machinethey
made it cold and pulseless and roten their hearts
conserved in air tight easements their eyes gluey
and expressionless-
"Avaunt and quit my sight Let the earth hide thee!
Thy bones marrowless, thy blood is cold
Thou hast no speculation in those eyes
Which thou dost glare with!''-
Many they for whom life Is q prelude of unctous
and complacent joy to their entrance into hope, the
cove OF heaven many they whom superfuty has
made insensbe to the vile agony Of those that remain
without the pale of fortuneto those poor that wear
bastard hearts in their breasswhose eyes shrunk
with the procrasnation Of woe, and whose hearts
like turbid pool without purity, without beauty, with
out anything good or these first this bright and
happy bevy of and who have congregated at
Saratoga of these last the noxons Of the popu
lous cities OF Europe and America Thus augur that
God has apparently evnced Partially for portions Of
mankind and that he has also, apparently, vouchsafed
pre-eminent and peculiar blessings to particular lati
tudes OF the continents.