The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-07-24
,. .,,o, All, SUMMER WA4z.ss e y.


most fashionable Of all our summer watering places,
such rs Saratoga and Newport, have for some years
past presented features akin to those to be met
with in all similar resorts on the Continent, and
which are beginning to disgust and scare away oil
respectable society from these hitherto much adj
mired places. These disagreeable features in the
society of Newport, Saratoga, and other fashiona-
BILE rendezvous, are the congregation in them, for
several seasons back Of large numbers Of gamblers,
blacklegs loafers, SPECTATORS and other unprinci
pled characters, who make q show off for short
time, and instead Of contributing to the general
pleasure, OF improvement, or agreeableness of the
visiting community, only carry from the city to the
country the unhealthy manners and demoraizing
principles which prevail among corrupt circles in
the larger cities BY means of the growth of this
nuisance, our fashionable watering places have,
Of late years, been anything but desirable or
respectable. No doubt there are great
many estimable people to be found there,
and some with large fortunes and little brans who
parade about and chow off, and many without
fortunes, who make great parade on credit; but
no one who goes to Saratoga, or such places, mays
expect to enjoy any pleasure or comfort, except
that which consists in routs, dancing, dissipation,
camping, uTlnkluS, Intriguing, siuhuctmS, 'JihS,
and such like amusements.
In consequence of this decentralization of society, in
what we are wont to call our fashionable watering
places, the respectable portion Of summer visitors
are beginning to abandon them altogether, and
leave them in sole possession of the less estmable
portion. Persons of refined tastes and habits are
now selecting the less noted watering places where
they will be comparatively free from the tainted at
mosphere which hangs round the presence of the
blacklegs, gamblers and tricksters who haunt
Saratoga, Newport, and those other places
which used to be most admired and frequented
and here, in these comparatively secluded
places, they find moro quiet, more real en-
joyment, and more respectable society We
are also particularly struck with the general
taste now exhibited for rambling all over the noun
tains of New England, which, in point Of beauty
and magnifcence of scenery, are equal to most of
the celebrated mountain ranges OF Europe, though
not, generally speaking, of such altitude Even in
this particular, however, the White Mountains can
bear comparison with any in Europe, except those
Of Switzerland
As for Newport, hitherto the fashionable water
ing place, par erceilcnce, of this section of the
country, its name may, for this year at least, be
expupged from the catalogue of summer resorts.
The Maine Liquor law has completely annihilated
it as either o fashionable or gambling rendezvous.
Our correspondence from thence, which we pub
fish in another part of to-day's paper, describes
the effects which the success Of fanaticism
has wrought upon that once gay capital Of
Rhode Island. Most sincerely do we sympathize
with its oppressed inhabitants and ruined hotel
keepers, in this reign Of intolerance. Sara
toga, however, has had, through this means,
vast increase of that undesirable class Of visitors
who used to hover in such crowds about Newport;
and in Saratoga, and some other places, there is
such thing to be had as quiet, comfort, refine
ment from the Of noisy, disspated, gambling
and disreputable individuals who have got mixed
up with respectable, decently- behaved, decorous,
and well dressed people.
In this unattractive condition of fashionable
watering places, we would advise those DESTROYS OF
spending the summer pleasantly, quietly, and
BEAUTIFULLY, to take trip to the New Ems gland
mountains, or go to the Niagara Falls by the Erie
Railroad, or visit the mountains in the southern
part of New York. and make tour through part of
Canada ; or, perhaps better still, 60 down among
Of those delightfully."- salubrous bathing places
Long Islond shore. Tho Hamilton Honso offers
great attraction to vsters and is at present
crowded with highly respectable people. So
is New Brighton. Coney Island presents one
of the best, hardest, safest, and most beautiful
shores for bathing in the known world. The
smoothness of its beach is superior to Newport,
Long Branch, Cape May, or any Of our other
watering places and the air is pure and invigo-
rating. There ought to be n large hotel, capa-
BILE Of accommodating thousand persons, built on
the eastern end Of the island it is every day be-
coming better known and appreciated.
GENERAL PIERCE-TnE PERSONAL SLANDaRs
AGAINST HIM NAILED AT LAsT.--We have from
the beginning denounced the personal attacks upon
both the candidates for the Presidency particularly
the onslaught upon the private character of General
Pierce. We knew those imputatons were without
the shadow of foundation, and that they would
recol upon the heads of their authors. The most
conspicuous of the dirty and disreputable sheets
York Tribune. That journal inserted articles
describing General Pierce as drunken sot. What
is the result! Why, that it is now demonstrated
beyond all doubt-and as it never could have been
under other circumstances-that General Pierce is
pattern Of sobriety and moral purity.
We call attention to the letter Of our New Hamp-
shire correspondent, in another column, in which
documents are produced, not from democrats,
but from strong wings Of the most respect
able character, giving the lie to the in
famous calumnies propagated by the foul mouthed
organs of reckless party spirit. 1t viii also be
seen by the facts and figures adduced by our cor
respondent, that the Washington Republic, and
other journals which asserted that General Pierce
was opposed to the Fugitive Slave law are placed