The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-08-30

properly MI. frenchs success In this particular
OF the confectionery cannot speak In too much
praise. 1t is equal in every respect to the best city
confectionery, Is supplied in abundance and Is ac-
companied by the finest water ices and ice creams
that can be made The attendance Of the servants
Is also unexceptionable. They are all colored, of
course. IN this region and more attentive, polite,
and dilgent set never met with at any watering
place. The conduct of the ceremonies at the table
Is admirable, and would contrast favorably with
that adopted at far-famed Saratoga.
But the bathlng-the laving OF the body by the
salt brine-what of that? II IS what everybody
Genes Tor. II is found in perfection. There are
two very spacious bathing houses, standing. on
they have close rooms for disrobing and robing.
The communication with the bath is by stair
way from your room; and, in moment, you fad
waters of Hampton Roads, at high tide, and
standing upon a fine, hard, sandy bottom, very
pleasant TO the feet. wicket surrounds the
outside piles, which prevents the ingress of
monsters should be roaming about the shores,
which Is very seldom. The ladies' use one of these
bath houses, and the gentlemen the other. They
who prefer the surf find it breaking upon that
shore of the peninsula which is exrosed to the
Atlantic towards the capes of Virginia. On that
shore there Is a line OF rocks some two hun
died yards out, and you can battle with impunty
between them and the shore when steady breeze
Is on When the wind is strong from the north
east the surf breaks from five to ten feet in height
There is not an hour in the day In which you may
not walk or ride In carriages or horseback upon
the hard beach for some five or eight miles, and
have Your face famed by pleasant breezes. The
prevailing winds are from the sea, and il is seldom
that one needs TO sleep with his windows open.
Mosquitoes. saDdfies and gnats are occasionally
seen; but they are never troblesome. have been
much more annoyed with mosquitoes In New York
city at night than here Nobody thinks of sleeping
under musquto bars at this hotel When this
place was first settled, and for many years after
wards, these insects were abundant but within the
laSt IN air antlr
peared. There is nothing now on the Point to
produce them, and the proximity to the man land
is not close enough to admit Of their migration in
any great numbers. The attendance at this hotel,
dufing the present season, has not been as large
during previous seasons, In consequence Of the
alarm in the public mind respecting cholera. 1t has
averaged, learn, about $50 per day. The visi-
ters are of the best material from the States of
Map land, Virginia. and North Carolina There
is daily mail by boats from Baltimore and Rich
mond TO this Point, where there is postmaster; so
that the visiter is by no means outot the world,
while he is escaping from the heat and desolation
of the city, or the loneliness and unhealthiness of
the country. We get the Herald regularly, and it
is The only journal that finds a ready sale among
the inmates Of the house. 1t supplies us with the
daily topics of conversation, whether they be the
follles OF Saratoga, which have been so ably ex-
posed 10 the ridcule of the just-thinkiDg by your
able pen, or whether they be the glorious successes
TRANS, led on by that devil. Haynau, whom you so
justly held up TO infamy a few days since.
A day or two ago we had the pleasure of wit
Messing the departure Of the steamship Allegheny
from the Roads to sea. She gave out volumes of
black smoke, and crept along at hurried pace, to
the admiration of every one, against flood tide
and head wind. She passed Just as the sun was
setting, and soon faded from the eye, when abreast
Of Cape Henry light, which is visible from this
Point. The Vandalia Is now lying 10 the Roads,
ready for sea. IL is said here that she has beea
ordered TO the Havana. When the wires are
drawn from Norfolk 10 Petersburgh, your valuable
paper will be in houily communication with this
no small value TO the shipping interests of the
north. The wires are up as far as Suffolk already.
The. decided feeling among the vlsiers TO this
Point Is, that Cuba ought to be annexed to the
Union. When men come TO think that thing
ought 10 be done they generally begin to think Of
bringing II TO pass My belief is that Cuban
annexation and the means TO bring il about, are
more generally the objects of study and design in
the Southern and Western States than the public
press is aware of. Time will tell.
l must close this long letter, or fear shall tire
not only the reader, but your own amlable self
p. :. MEM.-We have fine music every morning
and every other evening, from the regimenta band,
consisting OF twenty performers
There is no I" snobbisnl," such az you pro-
perry condemn in your paper of the 22d inst, at
this hotel Everybody is served alike, and the
negroes not allowed to receive brides, on pain
of dismissal
Mir French has over $4,000 invested in the
buildings, furniture, &c, OF this establishment.
The green turtle soup to-day rivalling belmont
cos best.