Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-06-19
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP

ihE HEATED IERA-Ihe brolllng sun is
fairly upon us in Washington, though winter
so recently took its departure as that the mem
DRY OF particular shivering days is still fresh in
the minds Of ALL As yet, fresh breezes have
protected us from suffering from the intensity
OF the suns rays. Ere the next month is half
gone, however, we shall all-in this region-be
thankful for breath Of air to cool our parched
skins Thousands of our readers in the towns
and cities will fly away by steam to escape such
localities for the time being. Our advice to
those who propose to take families on such
jaunts is, go either to farm houses on the sea
shore-if you seek sea breezes and saltwater
bathing-or else to the villages near the base
OF the Blue Ridge, in Virginia, if you desire
mountain air, exquisite country living medic
inal waters and really delightful associations.
We have before taken occasion to explain
that, at the village of Culpeper Court House
containing perhaps 200 inhabitants-within
three and half hours only, by rail, of
Washington city, family can sojourn far more
bountifully and comfortably, and enjoy every
real advantage obtainable at any interior wa
tering place in the Union, for less than half the
cost of remaining at any such establishment as
long
If, however, the reader be bent on jaunting
to g a watering place" Old Point Comfort and
the establishment at Hampton, in its immediate
vicinity, are the places, in case his taste leads
him towards the sea shore. The fishing, fowl.
ing, bathing, and the breezes where the Allan.
tic dashes into the mouth of the Chesapeake,
(there,) are unequalled in America. Neither
Cape May nor Long Branch are to be compared
to them and were they as accessible from the
large cities of the North, not a visitor would
Cape May and Long Branch have, until after
they were filled to Overfowing. At every other
sea-coast establishment fashionably patronised,
the visitor is at the mercy of the money of those
who pay literally for the privilege of forestall.
ing, if not insulting, everybody else-of parve-
nues, who seek to create a sensation by annoy
ing those by whom they are surrounded-a
class who never fail to rush in troops to the
watering places every summer. At Old Point
and Hampton, however, the tone of the mass of
the company they find there restraints them so
that they at once comprehend that, to hold any
position whatever, they must conduct them
selves like real ladies and gentlemen
To those who would seek interior watering
places, our advice is, go to the Capon-the
Mountain HOuse-or to the Fauquier White
Sulphur, than which no others are so we'll con.
Quoted, take them all in all. Science and ex-
perience have demonstrated the remarkable
health-giving properties of their waters, which
are excelled by no others One finds there
respectable visitors almost entirely; refined.
highly cultivated, and scrupuously careful to
observe all the amenities of polite society-no
rushing at table, and little dressing on the part
of the ladies, as though they have the run of
the jewelry spouted in New York pawnbro-
ker's shop. Nor is the cheraiier G'iuanstrie
the guest of all guests there most lionized. be-
cause his money flows out as easily as it comes
in.
The SPoILS.-Never did men of science more
closely devote themselves to the duty of analy-
sis, than do the seekers after the fat things in
the Administrations gift to that of ferreting
out all the facts supposed to bear in favor of
the doctrine of removals. They have turned
the Blue Book inside out, devoured its every
figure, placed the latter in all conceivable CON-
binations likely to sustain their position that il
Is the Executives duty to create a great many
vacancies as soon as possible. We have seen
great many tables, the result of their investi-
cations in their labor of love (of the loaves and
ishes.) Some of them are evidently mere
garblings to suit their ends in view while others
embrace solid and reliable information. OF the
latter kind is the table that will be found be-
low:
Statement shoving the amount of FEDERAL pa-
frondge reeetred by the North and South, Free
Stare States
STATES NORTH STATES Sorru