The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-08-20
S,.n6Ea AAusExEsrs--OpNrNo OF THE BusI

s.GGEa AAusEMENrs--OPMINo OF THE BusI- |
/ NESS SEAsoS.-Our watering place CORES
pond nee to-day will be found curious and in
.ere ting From New Hampshire to Old vir-
gina from the summt of Mount Washington
to the bubbles of the White Sulphur Springs,
webave br ant accounts Of the doiugs of
bellies and beaux. Money is lavished like run
ing wdter, while notes are protested and bills
remain unpaid.
Our correspondence from the spas of Old
Virginia Will be found particularly attractive,
as 1T gives accounts of pleasant places and
pleasant people previously unknown to the ma
jority 'oi Northern tourists. 1t would seem
that She minority in this case are more fortu-
nate than minorities generally, and it appears
that the aristocracy of the Old Dominion have
set up certain fashions at variance with water
ug place etiquette, such IS appearing at din
yer in morning dresses, etc. very sensible
idea, and worthy Of imitation, especially BY
| people with limited incomes, though it must be
confessed that the dining room hall of
| a great hotel, filed with well-dressed la
dies and gentlemen, presents most en-
char fing ensemble. The main difficulty
at :Sarstoga, Cape May 'aad Newport arises
fro IA desire to excel and outshine, on the part
of the ladies, which feeling gives'rise to an ex-
Es 1f adornsRent that not only detesiorates
rom the effect Of the natural beauty Of the
female so adorned, but makes G serious inroad
into the pockets Of the unhappy man who is
expected to pay the bills.
There is no doubt great deal Of heartless-
ness, frivoiity, affsctation and coquetry at the
fashionable watering places; but we do not see
that it isin good taste for outsiders to complain
or that eny complaint will have . tendency to
remove the evils alluded to, which will probably
exist until the Fourierite philosophers succeed
in re. organizing society. We are panied to be
obliged to lacerate the feelings Of some Of our
susceptible neighbors, but we must say that the
prospects Of these philosophers are not very
brilliant just at present.
The season at the summer retreats bids fair
to be longer than usual. Various circumstances
have Joined to bring about this result. The bu-
siness season has been unusually dull--a natural
consequence Of the activity of business men last
summer, and the extraordinary tightness of the
money market.
The exaggerated cholera reports which have
been spread all over the country haze kept
many traders away from New York, and we shall
not be blessed with their cheerful countenances
in our shops, hotels, promenades, and theatres
until the arrival Of the cool days Of October.
The facilities for rapid and cheap travelling, and
the quick transit of freight which we now enjoy,
make it unnecessary for merchants to CON-
mence the fall business before the middle of
September, and both sellers and buyers are,
therefore, tempted to l0iter at the watering
places, and there spend the time which was for
| merly occupied in the wholesale warehouse or
at the retail counter. Formerly our merchants
! depended principally on river navigation for
freight transit; and when the streams were
bound up by the Ice King, business was closed
also. Now, we have railways from Canada to
the Gulf, from Boston to st. Louis, and freight
| can be transmitted in any season with marvel
lous celebrity. just as much, and more business
is done, but with such, improved facilities that
it occupies only half the time previously con-
sidered necessary.
In consequence of all these Facts, the water
ing places will be pretty we'll filed up till the
middle Of September, when business and poll
tics will break up many pleasant reunions and
sever many warm attachments There is no
stronger bond Of union than these same merry
meetings, attended by citizens of all parts o.
the Uhionn The dashing Californian fraternizes
with the prim New Englander--the generous,
refined, elegant and impulsive Ssutherner
shakes hands with the blunt Western farmer
\ and both are on the best of terms with the
Broadway exquisite. We have Southerners at
the North for the summer, and No~therners
| at the South for the winter. There is SO
much social union, that fanatics will endeavor in
vain to bring about their reasonable schemes
II political DISCRIMINATION.
WAR AMONG THE VIRGINIA DExocHAcY.-Mr.
Senator Hunter, of Virginia, In his bill provid-
ing to cede the public lands to the States in
which they lie; to railroad corporations for
nsehing; and to actual settlers at various
prices, graduated down to shilling an acre, has
been playing the very deuce among the vir-
ginis democracy. The Richmond Examiner
the organ Of the Calhoun State rights demo
Gratis, denounces this bill of Mr.. Hunter as
| most bareiaced federal imposition. while the
Richmond Enquirer, one Of the confidential Or
| cams of the administration, backed up hy the
Cabinet organ at Washington, is laborng hard
to prove the obnoxious bill entirely consist
ent with the views of Mr.. Calhoun. We rather
like this. 1t looks as If the rotten FREQ soil
administration regency ut Richmond were