The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-08-20

by birth and education, dressed In all simpIici-
ty-no affectatlon OF being the things they are
not
The ladies dance in the ball room in morning
dresses, and not bedecked out in unpaid for
silks, satins and diamonds. How different from
Saratoga, with its parvenus, broken down
spectators, gamblers match makers and
husband hunting mothers, people assuming
money, position and virtues they never had, or
never knew the value Of! Give me, next sum-
mer, the Springs Of Old Virginia never tire.
To get along here, you must be posted Why
on earth don't these people here advertise their
para6ises in the Northern newspapers! When
you 60 to the mountains, You do not want much
money, except for actual board. The place
grows on yon, end Mr.. Bias is the necromancer
who uses the witchcraft which detains you.
The attractions and the splendid baths-new
ones. opened this summer--the water, and the
brandy and water! Lemuel B0wser, ESD.
(colored gentleman beats the world in making
juleps, and gives the French good claret and iu-
ftrnal segars.
We have bowling and billiards, and lastly, a
menagerie--tbe latter has at present but
one animal in it-a tiger: but gracious! such
an animal. so fierce. we usually 90 see him at
night--'tis then he's fed. And don't he bite
He's peculiar breed, and covered all over with
spots. He bit man very badly fortnight
since, to the tune Of some $500, struck right at
his pocket book. from which his pocket never
recovered. When You leave the Spring, which
you must do 10y night, and give it out you were
spirited away they all oppose your going
take Favish Il Co.'s line of stages, and get your
ticket through to Richmond, of Mr.. Undertake
for IS 50. At the junction, where you leave
the 50 South side railroad" he sure and get q
ticket, in their ticket sbanty, or else you pay
ten cents for our upintentional neglect. This
is safe road, as they take four hours TO 60
some fifty miles. Next summer they will have
railroads to the White Sulphur Springs"
saving some twenty-five miles staging we now
endure
All! what happy days are in reserve for the
frequenters Of the "White!" A new era will
dawn upon them; then will they have bread but
two days old from Lynchburg, and it Is to
be hoped enough for one whole meal at once.
Then will the walters have an opportunity Of
furnishing their patrons with good eggs and an
occasional chicken, at little less than the pre-
sent cost. Then will the denizens of Lynchburg
cipient hops, and gentlemen whom the tiger
has bitten, can leave unnoticed in an early run
ming tram. Then will New Workers he furnish
ed with "white sulphur water" at Sc barrel,
which now costs $l2. No longer can the cry
be, We only charge you, gentlemen for the
water, nothing for board, as the railways will
offer facilities IOr their having every thing in
good order and plenty. Then shall we eat our
dinners at the regular table, and not at the
restaurant underneath at treble price; and such
will be the reformation, we shall have the
" AugeaL stable,' and its accursed inmates un-
dernealh the piazza, " swept to their DOOM"
Alas the day approaches, dear HERALD,
when must return to your Sodom and incor-
perate myself with it's busy hum Farewell,
mountain slopes and shades, with grassy rivu-
lets; farewell tho dizzy waltz, the bubbling
springs, rcjuvepatiDg bath, the sy lph-like forms
which fit across my sleeping memory; farewell
that horrid band for ever playing that tune,
which has indeli6ly impressed on my mind that
Jordan is hard road to travel;" farewell to
deer hunting, feasting, pic-nicking. smoking,
drinking tiger hunting, ten pins, billiards---all
farewell till August 1865.
An ENCHANTED GorHAMrrE.