The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-08-12
Closing of Nssed Lsndsn Pleasure Car.

~Aossnx u Neted London Pleasure Gar.
| The celebrated .vauxhall Gardens which
for one hundred and nifty years have been q
feature Of London, were opened for the last
time on the night Of the 23d ult, and closed
forever the next day. The ground where Ho-
garth and Handel and their contemporaries
have revelled and where Rubini and Lablache
have sung, and where all the great old actors
have played, is about to be cut ND for build
| ing lots. The London Bulletin says:
This is the Spring Garden where the Spec
tator and Sir Roger de Coverley, in 17f2. took
an airing and which the Spectator. on account
Of the fragrant walks and bowers, the choirs
of birds that sang upon the trees and the beau
tiful hours who walked beneath their shady
boughs, could not help regarding as q kind Of
Mahometan paradise. Sir Roger less imagi.
native, remarked that it put him in mind OF n
| coppice, which his chaplain used to call an
.ayiary of nightingales. But this did not pre-
vent him from telling the mistress of the tay-
ern, who sat in the bar, that he should be n
better customer to her garden if there were
more nightingales and fewer ladies of light
character. II was here that, in 1872, Mr. Tyers
gave his grand "RidottO al freseo, j. to which.
says the advertisement, "no person will ne
admitted with swords, or without a printed
ticket which will be delivered at Mr. PowelI,s
at the G Ioucester Tavern, ST. James, street
&c, at one guinea EACH" This entertainment
however attracted few persons. owing. per
haps, to the high price of admission Here.
also his Royal Highness the Prince fafter
wards George I'LL, and several noblemen and
gentlemen of distinction would come AS early
seven O'Clock in the evening, partake of ten
and coffee and supper, and be SO well pleased
with the spleDdors,o of the entertainment as to
remain until one in the morning Terrible
hours, no doubt, in those days.
Those who visited FauxhalI some thirty.
five or SIX years ago, will not have forgotten
the fairy-like vision of Madame Saqui stand
ing in the air on a rope, with rockets and blue
lights blazing around her. That indeed was
a sight worth seeing, and when seen, ALWAYS to
te remembered When opened of late years,
Fauxhall was blank and dreary place half
lighted, badly attended, insufFerabIy dull and
stupid, and irretrievabiy snobbish All that
once rendered 1t attractive has departed, and
after this brief resuscitation, it will disappear
forever Let us, then, bid farewell to its
Druids walk and its rotunda. its Illuminated
orchestra, its horse riding, its balloouing its
fireworks and Madame Saqui, whom an ir-
reyerent joker spoke Of as 'the lady above
doing her business" its supper boxes, trans
parent ham, head-racking punch, and all it's
other bygone flames and follies
The ceremony of parting came to an end
last night, when the gardens, venerable from
their association with all the vices that fou-
rished vigorously under some of the Stuarts
and not feebly after the Hanoyeran success
sion, were opened for the last time. They
were brilliantly lighted, and attended by
crowd dense that though there was no
lack of miscellaneous amusements, elbowing
and pushing formed the chief occupations of
the evening. In few days will begin the
work OF destruction that will level to the
ground the tail trees and wooden edifces, that
look like spectres of dead stun" to the travel
ers by the Southwestern Railway, and, there
fore, people probably screwed themselves up
into the fancy that they We're about to incur
a loss. We can only wonder that Vauxhall
has lasted so long Constructed for night
reyels only, and, therefore, so different from
Cremorne, which is equally attractive as an
TO nfan In nr,6 x&ln, e.
turnal hilarity, it had long lost all chance of
riyaling the 'Chelsea Elysium.'' II has re-
ceiyed the honor of merry funeral, is sup
ported by very mixed body of mourners and
as no living soul can, on reflection, lament it's
disease, the solemnity may be deemed perfectly
appropriate. The words Farewell forever"
formed by lamps, blazed from conspicuous
part OF the premises, and Lambeth might
have responded with the motto "Sma' grief at
cur parting.'
RAILROAD FROM DANvILLE TO GERMANToN.
A meeting of the friends of the proposed
railroad from Danville, Va. to Germanton, N.
c., was held recently at the latter town. We
extract the following from the business record
of the meeting:
Resolred, That the necessities Of the country
lying on the upper waters of the Dan and Yad-
kin rivers. require that q road should be built
from German ton to DanviIle
ReSotred, That we believe that the country
through which 1T would pass is not only more
favorable for the construction of a road than
any other of similar extent in the Piedmont
region, but that 1T will afford as much, or more
freight to sustain it when built.
Resolved, That we think it Ell tireiy practica-
bic to raise the necessary funds to construct
the road, and that all that is requisite is con-
cert among the friends of the scheme and
prompt action.
Resotrsd, That the county of Stokes can. and
wH, construct so much of the road as may be
located in her limits and that she calls on her
sister counties Of Rockingham, Forsyth, Yad-
KIN and Surry, TO do their duty towards
work in which they are SO deeply interested
RsSotred, That In view of the large amount
of freight which would pass over this road to
the Richmond and Danville Road, we can but
believe that that road, and the portion of Vir-
ginia interested, will construct that part of
the road from the State line to Danville.
Resotred, That as the county of Rocking
ham lies between Us and the point on the
State line which ii is proposed to touch, and
Is SO deeply interested, We expect her TO take
the lead, and respectfully cali on her to show
what the old county can do.
On motion of w. A. Lash. the chairman
was instructed to appoint committee of four
to correspond and confer with other friends
of the scheme, in compliance with which, the
chairman appointed w. A. Lash, G. II. Math-
ews, r. ID. Golding, Esqs, and Captain J. w.
Chambers; and, on motion, the Chairman and
Were added.
THE U. S. CHECK FoRGRRY.-A correspon-
dent of the New York Times writes from
Camp Floyd, about the discovery Of the forged
q uar rtermaster's checks on New York and ST.
Louis. He says:
Gen. Johnston had received an intiIpafon
Of what was going on, and. for a.
week had been having Il -
Yesterday man mar Is!