The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-08-02

tons by a majority Of twenty thousand votes.
We hope, therefore, that Governor Fenton will
follow the course we suggest to him. There is
an Augean stable In our city government that
needs good cleaning. If Governor Fenton
only proves himself the Hercules of the day, he
may win the everlasting gratitude of the people,
and possibly save himself and his party from
humiliation.
Our Modern Places or Summer Resort.
Our Future Watering Places.
The summer season is at its height. New
York aud other large cities are deserted by
the votaries of fashion. Clergymen have for
sakcn their congregations. who in their turn
have deserted the churches, which are, neces-
cessarly, closed lawyers have left their clients,
with their briefs, cognovts, fiji. ia. and ca. so;
the bulls and bears Of Wall street have re-
Taxed their worship Of mammon, only to return
when renovated with greater avidity to their
accustomed idolatry; in short all who can
do so have, in company with their families,
sought those summer resorts by the seaside, or
intense heat of July and August, they may OBJ
tain that rest and relaxation which will enable
them again to engage, with renewed health
and spirits, in their accustomed occupations in
Wall street and Fifth avenue. Nor are the
fashonables alone in This nomadic movement.
The time has gone by when sniff of sea air,
the refreshing bath in the bosom Of old ocean,
the inhibition of mineral waters at our fash
ionable spas, or the enjoyment of cool
atmosphere and enchanting scenery on the
summit of our glorious mountains, was the ex-
elusive privilege of the wealthy people. In
these days all but the very poor can avail
themselves Of some one, at least, of these adj
vaniages. If the man of small income cannot
afford to spend his summer holiday at Saratoga,
Long Branch or Newport, Rhode Island, he
can, by prudent management, lay by the small
sum necessary for a trip TO the rural districts
of some one of the adjacent New England
States, where. in some snug farmhouse, he
of health and good spirits, which will work
wonders in enabling him to resume his
ordinary business with renewed vigor
at the end of his two or three weeks
holiday. II he happen to have family with
him, his pleasure at the benefit they will have
derived from their short period Of rustication
will be considerably enhanced. Persons in
moderate circumstances seem becoming aware
of the advantages they can derive from a
short sojourn in the country during the pre-
valence of the summer heats. and this year they
are largely availing themselves of the facilities
afforded them by railroad and steamer, which
are constantly crowded with passengers, bent
on leaving the city for time, with its tolls
and cares and anxieties, TO seek relaxation in a
purcr atmosphere. In fact, this temporary
exodus of persons who are new to the attrac-
tons of our places of summer resort, to judge
from the letters Of our correspondents at these
places, is quite unprecedented in point Of
numbers.
The usages and amusements are pretty much
the same at each Of the fashionable watering
places. In each the same passion prevails for
display of blood horses and superb carriages,
with mythical armoriai bearings on the panels !;
with the adjuncts of stalwart coachmen, grooms
and footmen, in gorgeous liveries; and immense
sums Of money are expended in maintaining
such luxuries as four-iu-hands, or even the
more unpretending, but still costly pairs, in the
style suitable to the notions of dignity that pre-
vail in such places To the millionaire, whose
income can bear the outlay, besides oontrbu-
ting largely to the support of the government,
and furnishing it with the means of diminishing
allowable but nothing except contempt is due
10 the snob, or the upstart vulgarian, suddenly
grown rich by some shoddy contract, who,
without adequate means, caricaturcs the display
Of the man of means and culture by falling
miserably short of the reality, or OVERRIDING the
thing, and thus making himself ridiculous.
Such persons are shoddy all over, and richly
deserve the unmerciful quizzing they are apt TO
receive from the young hoods who drink their
champagne and Hirt with their daughters.
Some of the usages OF the watering places
seem TO border on the ridiculous such, for in
stance, as the competition that is carried on al
Saratoga every morning by chronic and impro-
vised invalids to ascertain who can drink the
largest quantity OF mineral waters before break
fast. To persons of cynical disposition this
wholesale drinking of not very paa
table liquid is shrewdly susceptible Of
overnight dissipation, the effects Of which the
matuiinal drinking match is in reality intended
to remove. If this is really so, what an expos,
does this open up Of the nocturnal orgies o.
the popular parsons, eminent lawyers, pious
church members, solid men Of business, phi
lanthropsts, philosophers, staid matrons and
blooming maidcns, not to mention such legiti
mate topers as young men nbout-town, gam
blcrs and professional politicians, with which
Saratoga is always filed during the season
This lar-famed watering place can now boast
however, of an institution eminently calculated
to discourage irregular habits, namely, thu
new opera house, lately constructed by thu
Iolouda 10 IN IN bo.,cd tl,at tho Iivip.