New-York daily tribune., 1856-08-26

gambling ard the FIR alton, innocent or other glse
ard the other psstmes which they provide or pro-
woke All these things are incidental, if not ac,i
deI tsl 10 the life in que.cn. and not necessarily
ir'cgrel parts oft The vanity aud he vice might
be pitldnwn and the substantial virtues remain
tsart-wbo'e As tie SIllIcnnial period is frequent
ly announced as At hand, let us hope that the
change may soon occur.
The virtues Of healing waters baye always At.
frsc,ed to their brink those III need Of cure The
sick end MANNED and halt have sought to drink
in life and streI 9Th at these springs ever since
chance or interest indicated that the angel OF
l,alth lad come down and stirred them. When
they first became the resort Of the well and the
gay we do not precisely recOliect and We have not
conveniently tt hand the autt or ties which might
settle the question But so.long ago as the merry
dsys OF CbaIles III Tubbrdge wells were sought
for other purposes than those of healing by the fair
end fail orCl ole ofthe Lely portraits at Hampton
Court. if Count Anthony Hamilton and Mr.
Samuel Pepys are authentic chronicers. Bath
was sought by The lovers Of pleasure well as the
seekers after health in the century certainly,
h place of pilgrimage for it; associations as well
as for its waters or its gaye.ies. Ga this side of
the Atlantic, Balls,on was the earliest Recognized
wa'eIlI O. place if We are Lot ais aken- taat
''rOtoiieus sisug httI house of time, Autho1y
Ey. rgroen described it in Sslnagundi, half Can
tury sg0 His droll account of il ia curious 10
Ietd at this DAY FIR II, rcseubaLc,s AID its differ
Il ces with regald 10 ihose that have usurped its
place in popular favor. He declares that Balston
on'y waits six thpgs-gOcd air, good wine,
" good living, good beds, good company AMI good
" tuu uor-to be the most enchaling place in the
"world, excfp,irg Bo'any Bay, Mu.quitO Cove,
"Disual Sw,mp, aud dtbt Black ii lie at Calcutta.
Saratoga soon ecppstd he elories of this cbarm
il z re.ort, snd in the troin Of Saratoga have fol-
lowed mutitu6e Of other spots whose water or
wboe sir contended with il for the palm OF fashion.
One Of the rrany proofs of the groaing riches ald
prosperity o. The wealthy closs of the country ia
he number of these resorts where those in need of
such depletion can be- rid of their diseases of their
tine sDt of tier money. all aorg the coast and
trriphl,d up aid Gown through the inland do we
fDd rival establishments, cour.ing our favor by
their waters, by tber air, By their cbcapues',
ty their eXptp.yencss, generally the la.'er) by
II cir 9,icines or by their gaye'y From Mount Ka-
taLd Il awoy toward the Diputed Territory, along
by The b, ach al Rye and the roch-girded peuin'u-
la Of Nopant, we can come to the green fields and
blue waters of Newport, and ther ce TO the sandy
plsns of Saratoga Aid - away by the roar of
Log B;onch aud Cape May to those Virg'nian
Springs where Of late the hero Brooks reposed his
good rigtt srD, weary with his ctory over Sum-
ner, aid refreshed bis spirit and planned his feathers
especially bis nhue ones) far from the atrufng
image of Burpgame. Aud further ye. through
The Southern c,unt.y are 10 be found shabby little
gloups OF Luts around some sulphurous or chaly-
beate fuI,ain, to which the fair danes of chiv-
airy resort, VITO can no longer Afford as Mr. Ever
green says they used to do o. B,ilston, "to carry
- hog ad of tobacco on their heads or trail II
"bsle Of sea irlsnd cotton ut thtir heels for the
astOnstmeLt aid envy Of the North. AMI ] lst
now ibe ness has reached us Of thu island 10 the
Gul Of Mexico whics the late s'orm br"ke oSet,
rid swept away two hundred seekers afer health
or pleasure, from he far South, INTO tie ream
The multiplication If these resorts, we cay, ia a
proof of the multipl ca'ion or concentration Of
wealth in the country And they are good iastitu'
tom il bot exactly "domestic. nor yet peculiar
TO any One portion Of our country. They take peo-
pie ont of the i-hOrse round of their ordinary life
be il . round of business OF study, of pleasure,
-and mix them up together and bring them ac
auainttd with strange b, d fellows. All classes and
conditions oi meh ard women are brought into
-k.l... l.p -. rh.,
can "loy their u.t haIds on the golden key that
opens the gates of there beatifc retreats. No harm
can come of all this, but much good may 1t is
tue that close at band at oil the cheapest resorts,
il the mysterious door, opened only to habituts AMI
such De ihey brig with them, where the board,
ever 'eperi.hed with tempting yiauds and crowned
with dtciOls vines is but the yestibule to another
table decktd as the altar of she blind goddess VINO
by the revolution Of her wheel transfers the golden
ht APPS from hand 10 haId and kin1es the eye with
transport or deadens it with despair. And in more
dt cOIOus club rooms il is true that pOrtly mer.
chants, and sbarp-eyed liwyers, and gentlemen
who degrade not themselves by traffic or prOfes-
sion, ri,k 10 mean sums on their skill in the occult
mysteries of whist. But these things come of the
men, and OF OF the place They are thu projec.
toDs Of the passion for gain without labor that en-
tody themselves in some shspe whenever they
d, maid relief We stsbd therefore, on the
whole by these institutions of our country, the
Wattrip Places and the Airing Places thereof
snd commend them to all whose opportunity aud
meals consist with them.
Frederick Douglass wss born slave on Mary
lard plantation never knew his father, lost his