The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-07-17
The Watering Places.
OUR FASHIONABLE CORRESPONDENCE.

SARATOGA, July Ia, 1850
Peculiar Characteristics Of Saratoga -Antsqaity of
It's Celebrity-Hsstor,cat "Reminiscences.
In the leafy months, the season Of BIRDS and
flowers and music, Saratoga, Of all the numerous
watering places in oar country, is the most charm
ing 1t is not indebted for It's fame to its one, or
its dozen sparkling springs-t is literally the
valley of springs, extending along lap of green
hills for seventeen miles, electiZng the atmosphere
with their health giving and life-preserving pro-
perties-recognizable well by bird and flower,
and the wild deer bounding along the green forest
slopes, as by the jaded metropolitan belle, recover
ing, under its balmy and nvigoralug influence, The
roses dropped from her cheek, and the elasticity
faded from her limbs, by the excitements ana Ia
tisues of The winters campaign.
For 1--WE hundred and forty years, according 10
Written his,cry-and legend goes still further back
Saratoga has been the great place of resort in
the waIm season. The copper coored foresters Of
various tbes who originally Peopled this continent,
annually gathered around these springs IN the
mer, with much regularity the bulilloes visit
in troops the saii ioks OF the praine. " The sum
meT SUM- said The hgufatIye aud p9eucaI red man,
snakes us thirst for the white spirit waters" And
kind Of rude religion, with IT'S sacrament OF pure
and sparkling water, freshly drawn from what Is
now known Congress Spring, faithfully OH
served BY these superstitiuus aud chdIke people.
/ often amuse myself, as lie watching The sunset
clouds lowering like vast Hooks oil birds over the
distant mountains, by drawing cOnpaI isOns IA ms
imag nation between the scenes of three centuries
age, enacted around these forest guarded springs,
aud those which III THIS very hour pass before and
around me. The bellies OF those times, they
sauntered about with their pretty legs encased in
buckskin leggDcs, terminated by neat wnmpumed
mocassins, aBd their swarthy shoulders and bosOms
exposed almost low the whittier aud thinner
ones OF their Anglo Saxon successors; o. sluaiied
on the green s~aid, with their oraMny lovers be-
| side the Pavilion Fountain. cut rather different
| figure from the fair snd dashing daughters OF our
| New York arlstocracy, who promenade the broad
| Iouicoes Of the United States, and Congress and
| Union Halls, swaibed in clouds OF daphonous mus
Inns, their pale cheeks glowing with an etulgence,
| and their mincng feet encased IN the dainuesI OF
| hid clippers Aud the beaux! le gods, what a
| contrast! Figure to yourself a herculean Mohawk
| warrior, his lmmease shoulders and muscular legs
. bare, his face aud breast beautifully tauooed
! in red ocbre and blue pant, and hrs bees
| suTmounted by a crescent Of bright colored fea-
| thers-his blanket carelessly thrown around his
| loins, and tOmahawk and III twin scalping knife
oet,ntauously display d in his wampum bet--struI-
| ting about with the air Of turkey cock; and thea
| compare him with The lanky and attennaied split
parsnips IN Jockey Joseys and checkered tfowsers,
| who have usurped the favorie walks OF the red
| mon, and dawdle around ms most sacred haunt-.
| Could the spirits Of Uncas and Chingacgook. and
| Magua and Hawkeye, return to this sio', IS II now
| appears, wouldn't The Hcrud be glad to PRINT their
| "frst Impressions of all they would and hear
|
Rock Would they take ride upon tbo circu-
lar railway" only a shilling for four times round
| Would they subscribe 10 the hop al Congress HAL,
| or stroll arm in arm through the beautiisl grounds
~ the Union, or settle their old differences and
ddnt each others health IN a bottle Of sparkling
chompagne-the genuine FIRE water-"iih Marvin
OF The States
The romantic Frcnchman, who lelt his name
with the lake little 70 the north, was told by the
Alronquins that liulc further on-about tween y
lesgues-ai the valley ofthe " splut waters, great
numbers Of the BerequOis cnemy might be found,
a. they came there 10 refresh themselves with the
waters hen ue sun was hot that gll along the
great extent Of The valley the pines end OAKS grew
tell enough 10 shade al the Herequos (sncc spelled
IToquos) nations; and that the warnurs VINO had
| AWAY resOrtcd there, were strong aod powerful by
reason Of these waters, and the great pune forest,
aud the pure air and strengthening deer and gsme.
| But Chsmpain was satisfied with the deeds he had
| already achieved m the memorable bsttie near IT,
coDderogs July. 1900, and came no further. This
| battle, by the by, the first occasion IA which
eunpowder had been use IN this country-which,
beng the case, shall beg PENN ssen to 20 TO
dinner AMATEUR.