The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-08-07

Anticipated Arrival OF Mrs. President
Lincoln. !.
Thus far the present season has been the dull
est and most drcary that our watering places
have experienced in forty years At Newport
and Saratoga the hotels arc almost deserted,
and are not paying expenses; while at Lebanon,
Sharon, Nahant and other places Of lesser note,
there is no stir or life whatever. Families
which usually rustcatc at one or the other of
our watering places now board with or visit
country friends and relatives, or stay here In
the city and patronize excursions up the liud-
son or down the bay. Thus cut of from their
usual customers by the necessary economy OF
the times, the Summer resorts Of beauty and
fashion" are in very bad way, and the hotel
keepers sulkily entertain the solitary guest, or
idly abuse the more idle walters.
Well, most OF the watering place landlords
deserve their fate, and we have no sympathy to
spare them and no hopes of better times to
offer. AT Long Branch, however, an event is
anticipated which will set the hotels ablaze
with excitement, and which promises to
result in the concentration of all our float
| ing fashiOnables at that popular resort.
Mrs. President Lincoln has selected Long
Branch for her Vichy or Isle of Wight this
summer, and is expected to arrive there in the
course of few days. During her trip from
Springfield to Washington the lady of the Pre-
sident was accompanied by select escort; and,
of late, during her visits to the camps about
Washington, her suite was composed of such
distinguished military and official personages as
Generals Sandford and Walbridge, and Mr..
| Commissioner Woods. Now, whether these
gentlemen will attend her at Long Branch we
are not informed but certainly the suite Of
! Mrs Lincoln will be as numerous and brilliant
as becomes her rank as TIE first lady in the
land-the republican queen. In addition to
this, all the foreigners at present vi
sitting this country will of course go
to Long Branch, and all of our fash
| ionables, great and small, will fol-
low suit and swell the cortege of the Presi-
dents lady. There is no fear, therefore, that
her seaside court will be eclipsed by that of any
Of the European queens in beauty, talent,
fashion and attractiveness.
Most assuredly the beauty and chivalry which
may gather there will not be disappointed in
Mrs. Lincoln, and will find her deserving of all
the honors and attentions they can bestow. The
lady of the President is at once the highest and
the best instance of the adaptabiity Of the
American character, and Of the facility with
which true born American woman can occupy
and adorn any station to which she may be
called. AS bright young girl, the daughter of
one of the best and Oldest Kentucky families,
Mrs. Lincoln is still held in the most fond and
loving remembrance by those who knew her in
her girlhood. As the wife Of Honest
Abe Lincoln, Of Springfield, she was esteemed
as a modest, unassuming, kind hearted, benevo-
lent, housewifely, matronly little woman-re-
spected by her neighbors, beloved by the
! poor, honored by ala genuine helpmate to
rising lawyer, who had to achieve his fame and
fortune by sheer force of talent and hard work.
Presently, by sudden turn in the tide of
political fortune, Mrs. Lincoln was obliged to
assume new character upon a larger stage,
and with the country and the world as an
audience. She was no longer the wife
| Of a Western lawyer. but of the President of
great nation. She was introduced to the people
during her tour from Springfield to Washington,
and her unassuming yet dignifed manner, her
infinite tact and her womany virtues, attracted
attention and won all hearts. At the capital
she was thrown suddenly among number of
Od-time fashiOnables, to whom her simplicity
seemed rustic and her cordially ill-bred.
and who would gladly have patron
lied and controlled her. Without any
apparent effort, however, the Presi-
dents lady quietly ignored her would-be
mentors, and took the lead of society with as
easy grace as if she had been born to the station
of mistress of the White House. Soon after, she
came to the metropolis, visited the most modish
stores, and-like the Empress Eugene, who was
as suddenly elevated in rank--dsplayed such
exquisite taste in the selection of the materials
she desired, and of the fashion of their make,
that oil the fashionable ladies of New York
were astir with wonder and surprise. Re-
turning to Washington, the Presidents lady
received and entertained the most polished
diplomats and the most fastidious courtiers
of Europe with an ease and elegance which
made republican simplicity seem almost regal.
Her state dinner to the Prince Napoleon, on
Saturday last, was model Of completeness,
taste and geniality; and, altogether this Ken
lucky girl. this Western matron, this republican
queen, puts to the blush and entirely eclipses
the first ladies of EurOpe-the excellent Victo-
ria, the pensive Eugene and the brilliant ka-
bella
Thus having burst upon the fashionable
world as suddenly and as brilliantly as the Last
comet did upon the celestial, Mrs. Lincoln is
now about to leave Washington for time to
enjoy the purer mir and more healthful breezes
of Long Branch, and to achieve new triumphs
in brief summer campaign. Let all of our
best society prepare to follow in her train.
The CROPa-Accordng 10 all accounts this
seasons crops will be the finest and most album
dant ever known. The demand which has set
in from Europe for our cereals, although not as
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