The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-07-09
Our sharon Springs correspondence.

Tue EpRIpeE Horsg, SHARON, July 4, 1856
Sharon and lis Adranlages-The Sharonie Idea Of Pro
9ress--Independenoe Day in The Aountains, dc.
The this place has opened rather earlier than
usual the hotels having fair proportion OF inmates since
the first June The approach OF the Fourth of
brought large increase 10 their numbers and since the
beginning Of the the carriages and stages come in
heavily laden with cargoes Of equity and rheumatic pa
tents Tor whose ailments the waters Of Sharon deem
ed sovereign specific OF mere pleasure seekers
have yet fortunately but few the attractions Of
quiet village being Of character TO induce many Of
that stamp visit To those who desire 70 get rid Of
the city and its associations, this tell you is
small advantage. We sufficiently bored with the
tifcial Life the noise, dissipation and tiresoms ryoes
Of METROPOLITAN society, 70 find complete change Ike
this refreshing TO both mind and body and il Is therefore
with ospleasure that the old hGuSs Of the place like
ourselves witness any attempt to introduce here
the fashionable habits and extravagant expenditure
which render Saratoga, Newport, Cape May, and
such places but second editions Of town life. The great
charm Of sharon is its comparative freedom from such
pretensons consequence is that boast of
class Of society infinitely more intellectual and enjoyable
than any OF the places have named As this peculiarly
has obtained for sharon character for dulness among
fast people likely TO ENJOY undsturbcd the tran
gull pleasures and associations which have drawn US
here.
1t must not be assumed, however, from what have
ssd that sharon is at all stationary in It's notions and
but steadily the accomps hment OF its objects. Thus
for instance the improvements in the approaches 70 the
beginning deveope themselves in the form OF dozen
upright wooden posts intended 10 support railing and
gate which In the Of another year two, may
possibly be added The good people OF sharon strictly
conservative and do not like TO do things too fast They
argue wisely that too rapid progress only betokens
rapid decay and they prefer growing slowly to shooting
into too sudden an importance. They nevertheless
have sufficiently eye business 10 provide promptly
press ing sites thus the hotel accommodations,
which found insufficient last year, have this
been greatly extended Tho Pavilion mas added - its
rady mammoth proportions wing Of one hundred
feet in length which will accommodate about fifty
inmates, ana the Edridge House has made a similar adj
don which gives IL about thirty more sleeping
The Pavilion has already about two hundred guests,
and in the course Of another week will be entirely full
Among the company at present staying there Com
Perry Col Irving, Hon Luther Bradish. Capt. A. II.
Adams, L. e NJ Dr. Satterlee, U. g. ". Mr. Geo. Pitt,
Philadelphia; Capt Marshal, &c.
The E1dridge Is also rapidly filling, az indeed all the
other houses and In ten days more viii be difficult 10
find modatons here. The weather Il delightfully."-
cool and temperate, with, as yet but very little rain for
this mountainous region
We bad very respectable celebration TO day consider.
ing che quiet character OF the place and lis Of
noise. Capt. Tousey opened the anniversary with dis
charge Of small arms and penny crackers from the porch
q the Spring House which followed up, at the Pa
von, with an grafton by the Hon. Luther Bradish and
the recital Of ode composed for the occasion by Mr.
NAthania Gould, OF Boston, which, batting some little
stiffness in delivery, very creditable 10 the young
gentleman poetic talents. Hall Columbia" sung
In full force by the ladies Of the establishment seconded
by couple Of male dos who kept both their voices and
persons modestly in the background. In the evening
there grand display or fireworks the grounds Of
the Edridgc House, which attracted crowds from the
surrounding neghborhood and gave the village quite
an animated appearance.