The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-08-02

power to legislate upon such matters as must
come before the next Congress to relieve us
from our present burthens and to place the
finances of the country upon healthy basis.
Tho Summer Exodus from New York.
We have often adverted to the claims Of
New York itself as q summer resort. We
might I'LL column in recapitulating these
claims. But the strangers from every part Of
the Union, from Cuba and the other West
India islands, and, we may now add, from far
off China, do not need to be reminded of them.
All these visitors contrive to keep cool here,
thanks to fans and ices, and iced drinks and
fruits of every description, and drives in the
Park and sails down the bay and up the Hud-
son, and delicious night breezes from the bay
and from river to river. The concerts of
Thomas admirable band at the Central Park
Garden, "Humpty Dumpty" at the ''coolest
theatrical resort in town." and, to mention no
other of our many summer dramatic attrac-
tions the crown of them all, the "Barbe
Bleue" at Niblo's, afford ample amusement for
the crowds of strangers who now Oil our
hotels.
But while the city is thronged with visitors,
including, of course, all whom the competition
between the splendid steamboats, of the Sound
bring here from the remotest points in New
England, the exodus from New York is i'm
mense. All who can afford to escape for
longer or shorter period from the cares and
dust of our daily city life have already fed to
the mountains and the lakes, to the seaside or
secluded shady hooks in the rural districts,
or have swollen the lists of passengers by the
various lines of steamers from this port to
Europe.
Almost all the fashionable churches are
closed. Pastors and focks have deserted
brown stone fronts and heated sidewalks for
green meadows and still rivers and distant
mountains. Men and women and children
of all the so-called comfortable classes
have gone out of town, even at
the risk of being bitten by mosquitoes,
of being rendered dyspeptic by unaccustomed
and ill-cooked food, and of being suffocated in
crowded hotels the diminutive attic rooms of
which offer very disagreeable contrast to
their own spacious and well-aired bedchambers
at home.
Not that we underrate the real advantages of
a change of air, of change of scene, of
elegant leisure in the place of exacting and
wearisome toll in the pursuit of wealth. We
duly appreciate all these and the other advan-
tages of "a summer vacation" Wherever our
summer excursionists have gone-whether to
Saratoga, where more than a Acknowledgements
now daily dine at single hotel, and not
mosquito nor scarcely fly is to be dreaded !;
or to Long Branch, with its manifold seaside
attractions or to the Highlands Of Neversink !;
or to Newport, with its delightful atmosphere;
or to the White Mountains, or to West Point,
to the Connecticut valley, or to the picturesque
coast of Maine or it's scarcely less picturesque
interior, or to the numerous fishing points on
Long Island, or to the Sulphur Springs of
Virginia (Which are happily recovering from
the interruption which the late war inflicted
on their former prosperity, or to Lake SUI
perior, or ''across the Continent wherever
they have gone we feel sure that they will be
invgorated in body and mind. Nor will the
yachtmen and their guests who pass the sum-
mer in cruising along our coast from Old Point
Comfort in Virginia, to Eastport, in Maine
''the uttermost point of the Atlantic coast
under protection Of the Stars and
Stripes'-fail to derive health and enjoyment
from the exhilarating pleasures which yachting
alone can afford
The extent to which our citizens are begin
ming to indulge their passion for summer excur-
sions is attested by the increasing number Of
useful and entertaining guide books for Ameri-
can travellers on their own Continent-such,
for instance. as Appletons Guide Books" and
Sweetser's Book Of Summer Resorts" and
Lossing's 'Hudson" aud the late Star Kings
white Hills and many others Of q similar
class. The American, and especially the
American who has travelled in Europe and in
the East, is rapidly learning to appreciate the
Incompatible scenery which is offered by our
own seashores and lakes and prairies and
mountains. And If the summer tourists who
leave New York to visit every accessible point
on our Continent will study not only our
American scenery, but also the grand spec
tacle which American life with its thrift and
its educational advantages and its amazing
material prosperity everywhere presents, in
villages and inland cities and in the most rural
districts, they will retur, to city activities with
fresh determination I, do all in their power
to make New York the worthy metropolis Of
80 great country.
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