Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-08-04

! presence OF thor superior, and the benighted Al
| ricHns worship fetish made of old rags but
neither the Negroes aor the Mongolians are "a hit
| more absurd than Americans, when the PROSTATE
themselves 10 the thing called fashion. And Of
all follies connected with fashionth of fashion
| aide watering places Is the most superaiYely
| ridiculous.
Mrs. Nervous. for example, wants chnnge Of
air. But unfortunately for the dear lady, she
| cannot consent TO be cured except mt the most
| t7nnish Watering place aud accordingly her
husband, though he cen i'll afford any eNtraYa-
| gnncc~ j. compelled 10 take her 10 such n re-
! sort. Whit matters il that the rooms are close,
| the table scantiiy provided, and the proprietor
! cXtortionate in every why This fashionable
LADY, or that boards there, or has boarded there,
! lcnving behind her odor of gentility 10 all
| time. II il amazing what Inconvenience, and
even insults, Mrs Nervous aud han lrcds like
her, win put mp With. IN order to eat at the sumo
table ns the "uppen-ten," and be bullicI by the
same landlord.
Nor i, this all for at fashionable watering
places would think that health the last
thug they sought. Mrs. Manuuyrc has gone
there to marry off her daughters. Mrs. Ephe-
sian has come 10 catch II second husband Miss
Flirt is there 10 coquet with the gentlemen. Miss
Dash to raise n sensation by her oddities. In
the little world of five hundred borders, tempo
rarily inhabiting the hotel, there ARE ~ many
clque-, intrinues, aud ryalric- at the court of
"A Louis NV. Mrs. Tnowchnndlcr turns up
her nose at Mrs. Soapiat because the hussnnd
of the latter retnils his goods, while her sells
out at wholesale. Mr. Drono will not speak to
Mr.. | scful, because the latter works for his liy
ing, while the former spends in idl'nr.s the for
tune acquired by hs father. Even the gentle
men and ladies of Color who, according to their
own account purity for recreation, and partly 10
obise the fashionable world, consent to whit at
table, make bed, and binck boots, partabe Of
La.
tlcman" boasts another. with pompous self suits
fuctlon, Of his tonnish mistress, and pronounces
the employer of another of ''no account be-
cause he made his money IN salt pork instead Of
in sugar.
Thousands of dollars are annually sacrificed
at these fashionable watering places by families
really unable to afford it. While husbands are
borrowing money III the hot town at two per
cent II month, wives are sporting lace capcs TINT
cost "a hundred dollars, al hotels where the FUN
~ bill is another hundred per week. While faith
cr~ nrc trembling with the fear Of failure IN the
Fab, daughters ARE ilnunting at watering places
IN the costIcst jewery, or sons are sporting fast
horses, giving champagne suppcrs and perhaps
gaming aud drink ny half the night. Deliver US
from fashionable hotels AT the sea shore or the
springs. They would swallow up the purse of II
millionaire, and destroy the health of Il Samson.
They would teach airs 10 the grs of the best
mo,hers, and make the sons OF the thriiicst faith
cr imWovldent.
Ostcnsibly, people go out of town for health.
But how many ARE better for soiourn at fash
iouabc watering place. Instead of returning
~ ia blooming checks, Indies come back faded
with late hours; and gentlemen, iustcnd of being
more vigorous nfe paying the penalty of wine
supprrs. \ fortnight at some quiet place, where
the air is fre~h and the hours early, Is better than
month at one ei these scenes of fashionable dis
sipotion. In the one eose, you get what you
contract for, and nt II moderate price too; in the
other you pay six dollar, for board and are cheat
ed in both.
CHARLES DICKENS. A London correspondent
of the New DIRK National Democrat writes that
Dickens, who every one supposed was earning
gold at the rate Of $50 1000 per annum is hopeless
ly,hclple,sy bankrupt that he has been obliged
to visit the continent in other words, take leg
bail, ia order 10 escape the penalty of his debts
The writer saYs='b During several years his in
come even cquallcd Sluu,OUU, and hc might have
u~sod nearly million IN ALL But SO com
plrtcly did he realize the old story of II 'bcggar
on horseback thai he WINS obliged to fly 10 es-
c"pe Imprisonment for II pal'ry wine bill. lie
hn, also recently committed the Incredible mean
ness of selling one OF his children to Miss Bur
dott toatts, an antiqnatcd wealthy lady, to whom
be made an appeal for money. Miss (outts re
fused to comply second time with his request,
but she offered to bring up one of his daughters
and Dickens actually parted with one of his chill
dr,n IN Il Runner which any mechanic earning
thirty sldllings week would have spurned at
When Walter Scott was involved in pccuuary
difficulties, he refused all assistance, but took
lodgings at fifteen shillings II week until he work
ed himself out Il his embarras oments.
|. luEoLp AND TIE NEW ''CYANE. The Boston
journal ~aNs:
Now the truth Is that the British vessel (C,ane)
cAptur. d with her eonsort. the I.cvant, or the
10Th of February, l6l5, off Madpia, by Captain
Stewart in the Constitution, was second class
frigntc % 81 guns; whereas tho present American
Cyune is sloo9 of wnr of ~ guns. The captur-
ed English trlgate, escaping out of Porto Praya
from British sqaadi on, aaout three weeks inter
the Constitution had taken her. arrived at New
York in Charge ot Lieut. Hoffman, and was laid
up a, it is proved, to decay and be condemned.
The existing Cyane is a very beautiful vessel one
of our largest sloops-of- war, and launched
from the Navy lard at Charlestown in le3.
The journal evidently like ourselves, is not "A
believer in that kind of naval metcmsychosis
which our correspondent "Salt Water explained
day or two SINCE
STRANGE Casa very novel and intcrest sting
case was tried at the July term of our County
| Court. A negro hoy, mere child, nine years
old, was charged with obstructng the Manassas
Gap Railroad. by placing fence rail across the
track. The evidence was clear and convincing
no possible DOUBT existed rs to the guilt of tle
accused. He was seen by the conductor, who
stopped the ears, gave chase and caught the boy
who confessed that he had placed the rail there
to see the cars "hounce,' and that lac had placed
a stone on the rail before. rhe question
of guilt was therefore clear and unquestioned
and the only question with the Court was, whether
one of SO tender years could be the subject of