Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1859-08-09
WARRINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

WA8H1N0TON NBWb AND 0O0oAks
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Editorial Correspondence Of The Star.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. VI
mo. III July 30, 1859
Matters arranged here that q dining -room
servant is assigned to attend one every six persons
at the table, and he is rigidly made to wait on
those six and no others. The consequence is, that
though six hundred persons sat down TO the tables
Of Union Hall this afternoon all Jared alike and
were amply attended to, each i'm his or her turn.
The cooking was admirable, and all seemed as
much pleased with their dinner previously
with their breakfast Wis wonderful how capital
feeding together softens the hearts of men and
women to each other. I really have not seen the
first scontented person in the house; which fact
attribute to the Of its managers In insist
ing that all shall fare alike, and taking due care
that all fare well as reasonable persons can pos
IDLY desire. -f Fr.t esq
At about Ave this afternoon the streets before
all the hotels were thronged with vehicles, and
hundreds of parties set forth afternoon drives,
that being universal amusement here, j perceive.
The country surrounding the village is lovely be-
yond description and the roads as fine for display
driving Pennsylvania avenue itself. Ii Is not
wonderful, therefore, that five or six hundred
ladies and gentlemen spent the afternoon in this
way, due proportion Of the juniors preferring
exercise ON horseback; -'.-.
l visited on my evening STROLL two Indian en-.
campments on the outskirts Of the village-an
Oneida tribe encampment and one Of some small
trih he If Canadian nd how said To
main about here most Of the season. industriously
getting up the birch bark, buckskin, and bead
work curiosities, now sold everywhere being
manufactured by Northern Indians. Their basket
work, fancy canes, &C., &c, evince great skill
and capacity for patient labor never before saw
displayed by Indians. They make many toys
also. and seem to be perfect Swiss in their incli-
nation to devote themselves to the production Of
| such wares. Hundreds Of the company here were
in and around the white canvas tents in which
they live at this season, buying from them at
great rate, and shooting their bows and blow
guns at so much dozen shots. 1t is very certain
| that these Indians are thrifty money-making set
as astonishing as the fact may appear to those
knowing the tribes only that are not yet civ
ilized. Judge that out Of hundred, men, wo-
| men, and children in all not ten of them were
full breeds, and not more than half of them half
| breeds-the rest being but slightly tinctured with
| aboriginal blood Here they follow for the time
being the nomadic life of the gypsy with us-their
| Tents however, well as their persons, being ap
parently quite clearly.
perceive that much less spirits-drinking takes
place here than at southern watering places;
| most commendable fact as men who drink at
| such establishments usually drink too much for
| their own health, as well as for the comfort of
quiet people surrounding them.
was prepared to witness much more extrava-
gance in dressing on the part of the ladies than
see at Union Hall. Indeed this season, that seems
| to be eschewed as being exceedingly vulgar
fact at which husbands and fathers everywhere
VIII rejoice; as being calculated to bring the cost
OF brief sojourn at such a watering place within
the means of nearly all in society who can spare
| time to that end. The snobs of both sexes, how
ever, dress deliberately they live to dress under
the mistaken belief that the coat pettcoat kes
| the man OF woman. as the case may he.
The various highly improved lots In which the
different springs located the property Of the
parties owning the Springs. Their profits are made
by bottling the waters for sale throughout the
country. To make their respective Springs re-
nowned and attractive, they spare expense to in
duce the visitors here to saunter around them, by
varied arrangements Of walks. shade and sylvan
ornaments The proprietors of the Congress and
Columbian Springs are said to enjoy an annual
revenue of quite sixty thousand dollars from the
sale Of their waters, certainly exceedingly efica-
cious in bringing costive bowels to healthy con-
dition.
A new spring, called the Washington Spring
has lately been opened and improved within six
or eight hundred feet of the Congress Spring
which bids fair TO cell pse them all In the foreign
demand for its bottled water Its mineral COM
ponents are regarded by the faculty as being more,
valuable than those Of any other Saratoga spring,
while the flow of water from II is perhaps ten or
twelve thousand gallons in fifteen minutes. Great
rivalry exists among the proprietors Of the differ
ent springs in the matter Of selling Off their waters
Tor consumption abroad, and very heavy expenses
are encountered to secure all the natural flow from
each, excluding from their tubes through which
pshe mineral waters flow, the flow Of any casua,
ordinary spring gushing forth In the same vicip.
ity. presume that much money must have been
expended thus upon this new Washington Spriny
ere bottle Of the water was ventured to he sold
for use abroad.
Among the curiositcs of Saratoga is the High
rock Spring, the water of which Is a powerful
tonic The mineral substances held in solution In
us gas are line, magnesia, and iron. Its waters
as they flow out, deposit them, and thus the rock
out OF which they flow has increased gradually in
height and size, as combining with other sur
rounding things, these minerals form a rock
This particular spring was priced by the abo-
regimes for its medicinal virtues a knowledge OF
which they communicated to the whites; Gov
ernor Sir VIM. Johnson being the first white man
known to have resorted hither TO be cured b.
Saratoga waters. There are, indeed, a dozen
other different natural fountains here each evolv-
Ing mineral gases If different combinations, and
each rePuted best for mans constitution in partic-
uiar stages OF ailment-the empire, the tonic,
iron magnesia, and other flows
w. ID. W-H,
WHERE is BONNER
The thirteenth ANIMAL meefnr Of tha moi