New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-06-09

brick walls Under what roof shall we find
undiluted milk, digestible bread and the homely,
genuine fare that shall fill our shrunken veins
with new blood The heavy, respectable old
gentlemen, who are as irrevccably welded to
routine as the British Government, will go to
Saratoga Thitber also will go shoals of fast
younc men. ambitious mammas and eligible
daughters, who will drink of the waters out of
custom and coquetry, and prefer an evening hop
in the ballroom to morning rOmp in the fields.
The more stately the more literary and the more
fastidious congre gate in romantic Newport,
where they enjoy in calmer style the quiet
beauty of the island and the eternal freshness Of
the ocean. Smaller parties find their way to
Cape May, Long Branch, Nahant, Sharon
Springs, Trenton or Niagara A still lesser
lumber settle among the White Mountains,
plunge into the wild Adirondac region, or boldly
venture into our new Scandinavia on the shores
of Lake Superior.
But probably not one in ten of the thousands
who every summer leave New-iork for their
season of holiday recreation ever forsake the
OLD beaten tracks of travel. Fashion in most
instances determines the place of resort, and
has fixed on certain localities or courts of its
acknowledged leaders, where not to have been
seen, at least, is to have been buried for the
season. But shall not they who enjoy the Sum-
mer for its own sake, who have still some fresh
ness of appreciation for varied natural scenery,
try the new fields which are being opened for
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health in the breath Of the country, strength in
the pulses of the sea, everywhere; but may not
recreation be so directed as to procure US, in
the course of a few seasons, store of rich and
instructive experience-to enlarge our ac-
auaintance with what is grandest and most
Characteristic in the scenery of our own land,
and what is native and peculiar in the character
and manners of the inhabitants Of its different
sectiOnsl One Summer spent in the northeast,
another in the northwest, another in the south,
would WELD no less recuperation than three Sum-
mers at some familiar watering-place, while at
their close the intelligent tourist would find
himself enriched by the study of new phases of
society and the enjoyment of widely different
aspects of Nature.
A large proportion of the Southern tourists
come northward to find their Summer elysium,
but there is no reciprocal southwark movement
from the Northern cities. Yet much OF the
finest mountsn scenery between the Rocky
Mountains and the Atlantic is to be found in
Virginia and North Carolina. Black Mountain,
in the latter State, lifts its head two or three
hundred feet above Mount Washington; and the
whole Allegheny range thence northward to the
Peaks Of Otter, on James River, near the Nat
ural Bridge, abounds with the grandest mountain
landscapes. The Red and White Sulphur
Springs Of Virginia-noted resorts Of Southern
planters-le in the very heart of the Allie
shanies, within reach of piDy solitudes as Sc
cuded and picturesque as those of the Black
Forest. They are now but little beyond the
limit of railroad travel, and more accessible
from this City than was Niagara few years
since. When the roads now in progress are
pushed a little further they will open up to the
curious tourist the splendid Valley of the Ken
hawa, and that terra ineognita in Southwestern
Virginia and Southeastern Kentucky, whose
inhabitants form a race by themselves, less
known to us than the natives of France and
Germany.
The scenery of North Carolina is more diff
cult of access, and much of it cannot be seen
without roughing which the luxurious citizen
would shrink from undergoing. In Georgia
howeyer-wbich is, all thisgs considered, the
most enterprising State of the South-there are
railroads from the seaboard to the Tennessee
frontier, and comfortable accommodations can
be found in all the inland towns. In the north
ern part, where the great waves of the Ale
ghanies finally subside, are the Falls of Toccos
and Taloelah, the gigantic Stone Mountain near
ATLANTA, and many other interesting natural
objects which would well repay fortnight's
trip.
The West claims to be visited for its own sake
independent of its scenery, but much of it is
seen to better advantage in Spring and Autumn
than in Summer when railroad travel is apt to
be dusty and disagreeable. The river journeys
performed in magnificent boats are always
delightful, and there could be no more agreea-
Bile Summer tour Of two or three weeks, than to
descend the Ohio from Pittsburgh, ascend the
Mississippi to st. Paul's, and return eastward
by way OF the Lakes. No one who visits the West
should omit making an excursion to the Man,
moth Cave, which may be reached in day from
Louisville. He will there find net only the
greatest natural curiosity in America, offering
him week of wonder and of admiration if he
should explore it thoroughly, but an excellent
hotel, fine forest scenery aud the pure air of the
hills. 1t is little remarkable that this wonder
full subterranean world, visited by almost every
foreign tourist who comes over to us, should