The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-07-31


DISCRETION or THE WATERING PLACES Jeff.
Davis has played havoc with the fashio, liable
watering places. Poverty and desttutj m are
described as regning there supreme. At Sharon,
which was last year so crowded that numbers
could not get accommodation, there , re not as
many visiters would pay the serva ats wages
Even the old equity and rheumatic III ,bit,fs. who
have never before been known to ID iss a season.
are absent" Newport Saratoga Jape May and
Nahant present the same vacuW IS and dreary
aspect. The huge barracks of hotels which
fashionable caprice has helped to build up are
full only of the echoes made by few unem-
ployed walters. 1t has been stated that the cot
tages at Newport are almoS all occupied but
tho fact of their being 8 does not help the
hotels. They are oecuP led by families that
either own them or th9 find an economy in
hiring them Tor the 81 ason, thus reducing the
expense of their costly town establishments
NOTWITHSTANDING Inv efforts made by the hotel
proprietors TO pat ny best face on things, it is
evident that there will be grand smash up
this season at W. iat are called the first class
watering places The expenses of the large
hotels are fflgb tful, and one season like the
present is sumo tent to absorb all the profits of
past years. etween the periodical recurrence
OF commesev panics and the distress caused by
the war, 1S .s class of property will soon cease
to have ly value. 1t is founded upon too
artlllciaA' and capricious a taste for capitalists
any iqi4 er to desire to invest their money in it.
And a good thing it is that it is so; for nothing
hss one more to impart extravagant ideas and
as" It's to our people. The money annually
! So wandered at these places has been the
l'luin of many family, whilst it has helped
for business occupations 1t is time that
we Should return to more rational no.
tcp, and habits. We are now engaged
: u. struggle which will compel every one to
l. odapt his expenditures to diminished resources
: and a taxation thai will press heavily upon us
q for the next two or three generations There
y must be an end to the extrayagances of living
% and the ruinous competition in expenditure
lie that were beginning to characterize us al
lie people. We are entering upon an era o
'e hard facts, and the sooner we become sensible
:" TO the realities Of our position the better it vii
&c be for all. The desertion of those haunts o
IN vice and folly-the fashionable watering places
Il we hail as one Of the first evidences Of return
- ing reason.
An ARMY OF CoLoNELs-The largest arm,
.. =. ever nut into the field by the government ofth
~ ~ United States, VAS that which was assembled
90 Bull run. Yet, in the whole field, there was no
bo single General Of three Notwithstanding. Ever.
al division was commanded by Colonel, and evel
a. General Mcdowell had held only Colonel
~ commission prior to the 10th Of April whel
no President Lincoln issued his proclamation
80 Many regiments at Bull run were also weakene,
- BY having their Colonies taken away from then
=. to head brigades. This shows how imperfectl
~ the Union forces have hitherto, been organized
=. and how'necessary the reforms are which Genera
>, Mcclellan is introducing.
"a. EXPENSES OF THE WAN.-How is il that III
sir war to suppress rebellion has already cost be
tween sl50,000,o0O and 5000, 100000, when til
re whole Crimean war cost England scarcely 6
he muchg Who is accountable for the prodigiou
sr o6tlsys that have been made, with such con
~ parativsly small resultsl Mr.. Van Wyck's con
i'll mittee cannot proceed too vigorously with
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