The New York herald., 1869-05-26
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| hours of summer must admonish the denizens
| of the city to pack up their trunks and betake
| themselves to the sheltered hooks, the bracing
mountains and cool waters of our numerous
summer resorts, where pleasure, health and
fashion unite in one embrace like the three
Graces of Canova. 1t is to be regretted that
| fashion commands so much and health and
pleasure so little of the time and objects Of
summer vacation. The truth is that what our
pleasure and leisure seekers should endeavor
to make the purpose Of their country trips is
repose, and not the hurry-skurry life which
| most of them lead at fashionable watering
places and summer resorts generally. Under
the prevailing pernicious system Of transferring
the city into the cOuntry-carrying there the
frivolities, the despotism of rule and cere-
mony which oppress fashionable life in the me-
tropolis-a summer season in the country Is
deprived of half its genuine pleasure and nearly
all it's hygienic advantages; and hence, instead
of greeting blooming cheeks on the return of
our tourists, 1t is too often the weared face and
exhausted form that we have to meet. They
comprehend this thing better in Europe. They
gointo the country during the heated season for
ease and rest, not for hurry and dissipation.
Comprehending the philosophy Of summer
touring, and recalling to mind just now that
From Frightening fields OF ether fair disclosed,
Child Of the Sun, refulgent summer comes
In pride OF YOUTH and felt through NATURES depths,
And ever-fannlng breezes on his way,
the next thing to be considered is how and
where to enjoy it. AS to the manner in which
the philosophy Of summer travel can be made
most appreciable we have already given hint.
When sensible people look for relief they do
not jump from the frying-pan into the fire.
Neither do they exchange the excitement of the
city for more intense round of excitement in
the country. When they talk of comfort, Sc,
fresh air, salubrious exercise, healthy food,
balmy breezes, chalybeate waters, and such
anti-dyspeptics furnished in all substantial or
visionary shapes, they do not hope to find
them in the crowded bathrooms of hotels at
night, or entirely at the luxurious dinner table,
although that is a part of the programme not
to be despised, when the landlord looks more
to digestion than epicureanism for the comfort
of his guests-which, we may add, Is rare
virtue in a landlord, and one that should be as
precious as treasures of Ophir, when it is
found.
AS for the localities suited to summer enjoy
ment, they are as broad as the Continent; and
we span the whole Continent now across the
Pacific Railroad, taking in the regions of gold
and silver, salt lakes, Indian reservations and
all the grand fresh phases OF nature which this
great highway has opened to us. But within
our own immediate reach we can number them
from the White Mountains, the st. Lawrence
and Lake Ontario at the North, down to the
Sulphur Springs Of Virginia, taking by the
way Niagara, with its historic and world known
cataract; Saratoga and Sharon, with their
healing waters; the Catskills, away up in the
clouds, overlooking the Hudson the coast
sites on the shores Of Maine, New Hampshire,
Connecticut and Long Island and the Jersey
salt water paradises at Long Branch, the High
lands, Red Bank and Cape May, with their
splendid combination of lake, sea and noun
tain scenery. Along the coast New London is
the most inviting harbor for our yachts, in
whose placid waters they yearly furl their
sails for time and make their starting point
for new cruise, skimming like flock Of.
snowy swans away out into the sea. The fair
and the brave, from shore and deck, con-
jointly welcome the arrival and deplore the
departure, which is touch of human nature
that is not foreign either to yachtmen
or their gentle admirers. Climbing the
Alleghanies we find on their summit the re-
tired, hermt-like spot at Cresson, almost at the
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Delaware Gap and other mountainous resorts
the grandest scenery invites the tourist and
the artist. But, as we are not writing guide
book, we may stop here and leave our SUM-
mer ramblers VI select for themselves, suggest
ing merely that at each one of these places,
and a hundred more, there are large draughts Of
vitality, mingled with pleasure, awaiting those
who understand how to enjoy vacation In the
true sense of that term, out Of the thousands
who are now preparing in few weeks hence
to take themselves off to our summer resorts.
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AMONG THEMsELvEs.-There is nowhere In
the world worse class of desperadoes than
the neighborhood Of Pitt, Sheriff and Stanton
streets with their horses and wagons and prey
on the community as licensed venders. Natu-
rally inclined to shoot, cut and kill, we may
for the present congratulate ourselves that
they are satisfied to take their exercise on one
another.
TT is ALL RIGHT WITH ENGLAND. We cannot
fight her, nor even find fault with her, what
ever Sumner requires; for Colorado Jewett has
laid before the President Gin writing" his
statement of the friendliness Of that Power