New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-08-10
Baltimore, Ulrica and Arcola the
Winners.
Scenes and Incidents of the Three
Contests
From Our Special Correspondent.

The ruifs and flowers, tempt one foifh IRON the u"e
ing. There is sober mind amount of glare, stare,
glitter and gddy whrl which like most rare pleasures
pals upon the and makes one sigh f'r the
camer retreat of the woods, or The indiSfinsushabe
city home Just now there is the experience Of
being left for uncertan term houseless and home
less in this city Of hotels and boarding houses Every
hotel is filed and crammed its capacity. The
Union which leads the list after providing dormitoIies
for 1900 and subsisting l5o0 guests, has CON-
enced Transforming its paroTs into bed rooms. Con.
gress Hall has nearly many Then come the
clarendon. the most select and the American. beside
inbred smaller and less pretending houses. There
.nnot be many less than 900 strangers in the place.
THE HIGHT OF THE SEASON
The trains keep bringing more than they take away.
Every day poor disconsoate young women may be
zen in groups sitting on their huge piles Of baggage
waiting for their attentive cavaliers to provide them
with storage. slight stretch of ingenuity is sug
gested by the sight Of OF these TRUNKS that If
wheels were placed under them and doors placed on
the end they might convenient lodyng.houses
when emptied OF their freight OF silks bonnes.
and hair adornments.
This may be called the very hight Of the season.
Heretofore the hotels have been comfortably full.
Hereafter they will generally decline. This week will
part with great many Of the transient customers.
But there will remain great many of the thorough.
going. veteran pleasure-seekers-men who deter
mined to make another vigorous siege TO obdu
rate heart maidens who bent little desperate
Irritation; and ewidows resolved 10 lose op.
portunty of conquest-all these will remain for
month longer. The young men stated with drives.
bowling allies. billiards iisb dinners. &C.. will now
surn to the dance and the ohaImers of them to
reflect that there is pleasure with little alloy as
prasenco of Oyely and loving woman
PLEA FOR sHoDDY.
am disposed to put in plea in behalf of that much
abused class whose wealth is of rather sudden origin.
and who boast TO have lived long lives Of opu
ence and splendor. commonly called the "shoddy arts
tocracy" There repre- entaves of this class here
but they have the satisfaction of knowing that all
tho silly and vulgar wiicisms at their expense
born of envy and superciousness find the sboddy as
we'll behaved as courteous generous and with AS
much Of that Unborn courtesy as any OF the patrcian
FAMILIES True tley do no, usually air their bad French,
nor direct their discourse TO dletantsms about art
literature and society, but they have good sound
of hard sense, which is preferable. They
their jewels much "a the negroes and Indians do,
profusely and not always with reference TO the
stness Of things. but they serve 10 point out how
vain and silly 10 all such extravaganza. In word
they indulge in their newfound wealth children do
in sweelmees till they see the folly of it, Besides,
they essentially democratic. They affect caste only
to despise IT, They more honest in their ignorance
and more candid in their weaknesses than the super
refined of country. Their wealth after all pur.
chases them all that money bring including suit
ors beaux and friends find that like the poor lords
and counts OF Europe. tie morey-bags of an old
chant, or contractor Goldfish dealer quite at
tractive the needy young spendthrs of the first
farui Tha oF hnma 10 lou
enough. so low that of their distinctions nre
odious. For my poor part find the shoddyiies very
companionabe OF people and the genuine srstoc
cracy 30 far they be distinguished quite stale
fat and Improbable.
HOW The DAY is sPENT.
day in Saratoga Is divided up differently BY diff
ferent parties First there are the gouty old nv.
pocondriacs and highly respectable but faded females
and males whose eyes always open to any attention
They visit the Springs early say by ak in the morning
and after stroll through the Park return to breakfast
wondering If that gentleman that lady single and
why he she glanced the Spring at particular
moment. This cnss Of visitors and the old lady saeers
60 to church at nine; at weye TO shopping; three
TO dinner after another dressing. After dinner they
receive company. Toward nightfa another stroll or
drive and after lounge through the paIlors they re.
tire early leaving the reyes to tho younger snd fa.ei
people.
The others and the larger class retire late and conse.
queptly from to IL. They are dressed in the
most charming morning robes waited upon to the
Spring sfierward by last nights favored beau. they
return to breakfast and then TO dress and gossip and
scandal; tie young men TO cigars and newspapers.
The more wicked and daring go to the races in the
most stylish Of carriages Dinner at 5, when en-
tirely new dress is Tie hair which monopoizes
The greater portion OF the toilet is slightly altered A
semitra spaIent skirt and antess pedicular integu
ments sprnklng Of jewelry and overdose Of per
umery constitute the staple Of the costume. After
dinner. driving gossip chat; the men to read the
Newfork papers the politicians to schemes for cleo
ton and the battered old rakes to discussing the
oiemishes In the characters Of their neigfborS.
TIL DANCING AND DRESSING.
At nighifal the grand dissipation OF ennui com
menees. Forth fom their little closets Of ROOMS
swarm thousands Of glowing women, spread out in
Inc utmos, amplitude Of attire, their countenances done
"'ne utmost nicely. BY parenthesis let me say that
@ hateful rouge and powder is fast disappearing, and
De found only with the distant mitators and bung
s susts One celebrated lady has started the FASH
V VI undermining her large AID burning eyes with
A wan 10 as TO give If possible a delicate and
P'''ionse look To her otherwise passive face. As
e 'Ae'e Is much less cosmetic used than formerly.
N aso less diamonds. The parlors crowded. the
''aHuans thro2eed Al nine the music strikes up in
"irOons. Tie regular hop at each Of the large
very properly the mos. appreciated. 1t re-
ess ufess' and on the part Of the men is much
1 VI 'hat account The grand balls as they are
u' come OIL two or three times week At the
'onuoh last night there present In all the mag.
ence OF dress OF the IobilNy Of the ulace and