Connecticut western news., 1871-07-28
COrresDOndence.
sARAToeA--THE sABBATH--sPRINGs-.
 NERY, &c., &c.

sARAToGA--THE sABBATH--sPRINGs-'s
 NERY, &c.,. &c.
 SARATOGA, July, 1871.
 Sunday passed quietly but pleasantly in Saratoga. A good many of the sporting fraternity had acknowledged to each other on Saturday that they did not know how they should get through the Sabbath. Dur ing yesterday they could be seen about the piazzas and streets in small parties, looking anything but happy. The weather, how ever, was perfect, and the steady-going part of the gay community spent their time in an old-fashioned and most comfortable way, attending church in the forenoon, walking or driving in the afternoon, and occupying the evening at church again or in conversation on the piazzas. All the places of worship were crowded, especially the Congregational Church, where the HUTCHINSON family sang in the choir. After the meetings broke up every one walked of course to the springs. A crowd of several hundred persons collected about the Con- gress and Columbian, awaiting their turn, | and the active little boys who dealt out the waters from them made the biggest haul of half dimes which has gladdened them this season. The rush at the Columbian Spring developed the fact that It is not wise to dip it to fast, for before two-thirds of the crowd were supplied the water was running so thick with particles of iron as to be quite opaque in the tumhlers, looking about as inviting as if it had been dipped from some neighboring mud-puddle.
 DRIVE TO THE LAKE.
 The points of interest which attracted the greatest numbers of carriages in the afternoon were Saratoga Lake" and the ''Geyser Spring." The lake is, as every body knows, beautiful sheet of water, seven miles long and two miles wide, sit- uated about four miles from Congress Hall at the nearest point, and approached by @ boulevard-the pride of the village. A great deal of money has been spent in grading and laying out this road, which,
 when completed, will be one of the finest inland drives in the country. The scenery along the road and at the lake itself is very beautiful. Saratoga lies in sort of wide basin between the Kayaderosseras Noun tain on the north and west, the Green Mountains of Vermont on the east, and the Catskills on the south. The land of the valley is rich, bearing fine crops of corn and other grains, and the ordinary attrac- tions of a pretty farm neighborhood are supplemented by numerous ancient groves,
 which have been preserved with admirable judgement to add to the attractions of the great watering-place. The life of the land- scape, of course-the only element which can for moment bring it into comparison
 with the ocean scenes of Newport and Long Branch-is the mountains which rise
 on all sides sublimely, until their tops are
 blended with the sky, stirring the soul with their grandeur. On a much larger scale
 the valley resembles that beautiful Berkshire
 nook in the centre of which Williams
 College is nestled.
 THE SHOUTING SPRING.
 3 The uniqueness of the Geyser Spring t makes it, in the opinion of many, the most l attractive phenomenon of this wonderful | neighborhood. The name "Geyser" is - properly applied, for this is genuine . "spouting spring." It is under bolt-fac-
 tory about mile and half from the city,
 and has been in action but short time.
 The proprietors of the factory smote the
 rock about year ago, being, like Moses, filled with faith that water was there, and | oyonur1, thu tad tu o stream thirty feet high. They had to smite @ good many times before it came through, boring the rock to a depth of l40 feet. The water is the most delicious to the aver
 age taste of any spring in Saratoga, con- taining forty per cent. more mineral than g any other water, with carbonic acid gas in d it in such quantities that it foams like : champagne when drawn, and spouts from
 the pipes like the stream of a fire-engine, r never stopping nor even slackening Winter l. or Summer. In the tank from which the l. Geyser is bottled the water boils and foams s with absolute fury, under the influence of '- the rising bubbles of gas. The first person Il among the party of visitors yesterday after
 noon who looked into the tank was an in- r. quisitive' lady of scientific turn. The
 instant her face came near the tank she n gave sudden jump and rushed headlong
 down the steps with loud shriek, much to
 the astonishment of the crowd of visitors and the inextinguishable delight of the :. malicious dipper boys. The exhalation of z z carbonic acid gas from the tank snites the "A olfactory nerves like an electric shock, as
 these young rascals we'll know, and in the case of incautious persons like this unlucky ' lady, it never fails on first acquaintance to produce startling effect, sending great twitch through the whole nervous system.
 Near by is the Ellis Spring, little, una. i, dorned Till, running out of the hillside, and j. falling into small basin. In taste 1t is il rather disagreeable, suggesting strong e decoction of birthstone, though it is doubtless n what it is claimed to be, an excellent water e for purifying the blood. BORN.