Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1849-1856, 1849-07-26
ThurSdaN Jly 26.

FASHIONABLE WATERING PLAcEs-FAsH-
IoNABLE TRAvEL.-A complete revolution
seems 10 have taken place during the present
season, in the amount of fashionable travel,
ard attendance at fashi nabe watering pla-
Ss. In comparison with former seasons at
this day and date, the railroad cars and steam
boats are half deserted, and Saratoga, New.
port, Sharon, and other places of fashionable
.esort, presen, nothing but emptiness and
melancholy. The correspondents whom we
sent to those places, that they might pick up
the gcssipplng and news, have tried 10 make
the best out OF the scanty materials but not
IN twenty years, we are free to say, has the
$umber been so comparatively few as now is
presented at the fashionable watering places,
and along the lines Of fashionable travel.--
The United States Hotel at Saratoga, has on
ly as yet numbered about two hundred at the
Sinner table Congress Hall. and the Ameri-
can House, reach far more diminished mum
ber. Sharon Springs are hardy heard of.
and probably are untenaned. A few old
women, OF the last century, some of them in
breeches, equally antiquaied, are said to have
sighed in melancholy solitude in the halls a,
Rockaway. Newport, so iashonably crowd
ed last year, presents pothing but emptiness
@ud desolation-s splendid scenes upon the sea
shore, and splendid misery in the unf led cor
rldors. The Ocean House counts only about
twenty families up TO Saturday last, and the
Atlantic about thirty y-five, including children
k0d servan,s.-N. Y. Herald.
The above precious announcement is from
that most contemplate of all lying sheets, Ben
net's Herald To those who are acquainted
with the character of the paper, which nev.
er yet told the truth, unless it was by acci
dent and which expresses one oIinion this
week and Just the rev erse next week, on the
same subject, and when there has been TO
change of facts or circumstances to warrant a
different conclusion,-it is hardly necessary
for US to say that there IS not the slightest
truth in the above assertions, as far as New
port is concerned Every one now here knows
that the charge that Newport presents, at this
time nothing but emptiness and melancholy,
is a windy, wholesale faIsehood The writer
Of the Herald probably makes this remark
because he is not here himself if he was
among us, we should be quite sure that it
"OuIU DC HltIdly 'OITcCt,-Dut pTCSCHl,
Providence aflcts US with no such scourge.
ave are lot aware that the correspondents
sent here by the Herald have tried very hard
10 pick up gossip and news, or to make the
best Of scanty materials. If thay see fit to
write that which is not true, and Bennett pub
fishes the same, knowing it to be false, he
comes before the public with lie in his
hand, and publicly confesses that it is such
We rarely ever look into The Herald, in these
days, to see what il does contain.-because
its news is no later and no, half as reliable a.
that Ct other and more respectable journals.
and It's editorial ar iclcs are entitled to nc
more weight or consideration than the proph.
ccics of an Almanac maker, in regard to the
weather six months hence
We have SAID, and we distinctly say again
uat there arc more strangers in this town, at
this time, than have ever boen here before, al
corresponding period the daily arrivals al
the large Hotels are far more numerous than
they were during the same days last year, cr
aoy PievioTs Que and ihcsprva,e houses.