The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-07-25


wild dashIng outlet of Lake George We were con-
stantly reminded Of the excellence of the Yankee
ilroads, the superior methods, and activity skill
and enterprise Of that people, In all the business
pursuits Of life, and have had frequent reasons for
commentators OF the smool illness OF their noun
tain highways and the accommodations of their
hotels. We have remarked the politeness and in
telhgtnce Of all the attaches of the railroads, the
common roads, and the public houses, and the
uniform courtesy and kindness Of the people. In
all this detour We have met with but single beg
CARA poor lrlshwoman, with three children, wan
deriDg in the streets OF Burlington. The soil of
New England is rocky and rigid, the climate sub
Ject 10 the intenslties of Jamaica and Labrador;
1t appears TO be populated to its capacity, and yet
every man is busy, and every village is projecting
improvements In the cars one would think that
all the population are Irave ling; in the settlements
one would conclude that they were all engaged in
the factories; and on the FARMS that the mass OF
the people were employed in the fields.
The result OF this circuit of examination is, that
the Yankees are great people, and that their
glory is as durable as that Of their fathers:
They are people of pilh, and stamina, and
substance, and practical results
Diverglng from their busy empire, blistered and
blackened 10 the complexion OF Camaache,
pause we here, day in grateful relaxation, among
the gay frvolities OF fashionable life, aud in the
anti-scoIbuue lmblbation OF coplous draughts of
the eXhllarating Congress water, fresh from the
spring.
Sir, the follIes of fashion are conceded; but
whatever opinion a philosopher, (and when
soclaD may have of fashionable life at Sarato-
go, there is no humbug about the Congress
water. As an old gentleman expressed himself
to-day: "It is heating and cooling. II refreshes,
it reisxes, it stimulates 1t has fixed air into
IT, and it breaks up from your diaphragm, like
the explosion of soda, sweetened with syrup of
strawberries. 1t is good IN the morning, and good
10 sleep on and dlink three bottles before break
fact. always drink 1t. AT home, il comes to me in
boxes, but here get il out of the spring fresh,
parking, and with the fixed air, all into it, that
bonlc acid gas, or whatever you call 1t. Others
have analysed it, but have realized 1t. Boy, give
me lass OF Congress water! There, sir Look
at the fixed air. All those gobules are fixed air.
What fortune DIR. Clarke has in this spring
the deserts Of Arabia 1t would be the spring of
Mahomet-the sacred fountain-the pool of Be-
thesda-the healing water. Boy give me glass
Of Congress water-dip down deep, and get the
liked AR mo IT,"
We concur. Our old friend was right; and we
have doubt that MIR. b., Of Brooklyn, who Is
at Congress Hall, with his beautiful daughters,
Will approve OF every word we say.
Speaking OF Congress water, we recollect, many
Yeas ego, picking up a literary magazine, with an
engraving Of Congress Hail. giving Its huge piazza
with It's lofty columns, and the vines wreaihed
around them, with several ladies' nading It,
in Tremendously big bonnets, full of ribbons and
beauknois, and wearing the old style of mutton
leg sleeves. The scene Is changed. The piazza
is there, but the coonnade has been replaced, the
vines removed and the big bonnets and the nation
I
fully dressed, and bare arms, some Of which the
sculptor of the Greek Slave would give the slave
| 10 see.
But, although Mr.. Brown has given deservedly
new character OF popularity TO the old Congress,
the United States is the head quarters of Saratoga,
so indispptaby, that 10 say is disparagemeat
To eliher the well kept Union or The good old Con-
gIess, each of which has their devoted friends
But The United States IL the house of the citizen
and the cosmopolite, the planter, the merchant,
the editor, the lawyer, the Yankee, the Yorker,
the Hoosier, and The Soutbron--of the young, Of
the old-of The staid and practical. who come for
the waier-and ct the gay and be autifu who come
| for the sports of the season. Ana The commagling
Of all these elements gives sparkling vvdclty 10
| the combination.
There were 73 arrivals at this house yesterday,
and, amopg the visIters Of the last tive nty. four
! hours, are:-Mrs. Dr. Rush, Philadelp hia; Mrs.
1 Fearing ard daughters, New York; T.. Van Rem
sselaer, Albany; Walter r. Wood, New Y )rk
Auguste B,monte, do; Doctor Graham, BIRTHS
Army, and others. w.