The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-06-26

Clinton Hotel, in New York. The West Point Hotel -
The sale Of liquor; Guests, OF course. e.:
rooms th.X see t have passed several days st u
Msst Point Hotel very pleasantly have uniformly four
b ds The sw o s r1s, o tSe y ~
house . Of tie finest between New York and Abaay;
and tho leeaton Of the hotel such to command
Ibs6ve - charge at both hotels Is fourteen dsars
week: ~ - West Point Hotel to transient boasdsrs,
you wish to 20 to Cozzenss by the cars arrisons ID
the station to stop At and not Cold Spring. the sonda
tor told me- S.t h MopDs who ;SSps. ;S the
take people back and forth the rver for the sua
infer from his occupation highly valuable member Il
the community In which he lives as Seth Hasangs,
formerly member Of Congress from Msssachusstts sl
q corpslent man, and puing and blowing hs he 10
tine surface he shouted to the bystandsrGet cut,
Mr.. Hopper did mako . little miscalculatioA the
other day, and failed to reach the wharf untn
friends Of mine; but he thus afforded the pleasure
Of their society several hours longer and he he
guesses such thing won't happen again this summer"
curious ana sometimes ludicrous in the association q
ideas but believe step into boat to BE- rowsA
. river without thinking Of that grin and mys-
terious parsonage who shall one day over ths
Styx
But far peasanter way of getting to West Point this
noise Of the execrsble. There three gsoA
steamboats the river which land ct West Point.
since the recent notice Of her in the HxRALD has bes
loaded with passeDgers She often reaches west Psint
pass on the opposite side of the river d. not know
that this la ary recommendation for safety IL infinitely
more important than great speed but Captain harstsn
who IL . reliable man, pledges himself that she shan
never be crowded while under his charge He says her
boilers are entirely new, and built Of the best stsra
without regard to cost The George Washington is .
good boat She makes very fair tne, and her eicera
are polite and gentlemaLly men. she leaves In the
pamed h. r.s Iao lass IS
tho face Of the globe. She L. nisd, perfsst floating
palace. Her saloons magnificent and there Is .
On board Of her more than land. The carved wood
and the gliding Of the boat expensive ornate and
the same a. at Delmonico's, 50 that yes ret vAs3
you want, and pay for only what you have. The Nsv
World s commanded by Captain Peck, an sxpsrienssl
and we'll known officer. She Is proyidsa with pumps,
life boats life peservers and orher thngs fer the ener
gences of accidents; but the captain By way extra
caution has had the CRATES lowered that only Limit
ed amount of coal be put under the boilers av
time She is allowed by to carry forty Eve inches Of
steam On Monday went up in her, and she making
twenty i've miles An hour with only twenty three inches
Of steam. gentleman board who had been living at
St Louis twenty five said that he thought thsv
thing, but they had TO compare with her. Anoag
the most plainly dressed and least ostentstous passen
gers on board the Earl Of Eesmere and his family
Look like a king than that man there"
The cadets here-the plebs they are called.
Such comcal figure they make undergoing their pro-
lminary drills 1t difficult to realize that the dig
nfed, graceful military officers whom around u
have sprung from such awkward beginnings I say
these interesting youth, q day two since geing
through the " broom and wheelb arrow sxerciss"-
that is sweeping the encampment ground, and runA-
ling round wheeibarrows and shoveag up the dirt
into them Others marching in lipe, each carryax
bucket Of water to the tents For the first year they
perform much drudsery and have pretty hard tims.
Many okes too pracced upon them for which they
generally take their in practicinG the
upon the pebs Of the succeeding year. Ooca
sioDay, however, under the exterior n greeahOrn
little grit is found than the Jester ba gians for
cadet who still here, undertook buff off Of the
plebs on guard aud to get by him without giving ths
word when the latter thrust him through thigh
with his bay oDet.
The tents all up now forming pretty feature ID
the front view from the West Point Hotel One al the
Board of Vsters started for las hour ons
evening last week He directed to pursue straight
bbe but getting little out Of his recksnhg he en-
croached upon the encsmpment ground. He ppel
by the guard, who demanded Of him the coantersiRn
"A frieRd he replied but "a friend" could not pass.
ard the ogn6ed visiter Obliged to call loudly fer a
officer whom he in ths dis suce come and deliver
HIM from the hapds Of young gentleman who had stood
trenblDgly before him undergoing an exsmnatisa
short time before.
II is said that when Fanny Esser was here strouins
about one evening she encountered the guard. sTho
nounteraan' was imperiously dsman Z am Fanny
klssler she replied ''Dance, then" said the guard
Having proved her identity dancing she permitted
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