Arizona citizen., 1872-06-22
SOMETHING ABOUT SARATOGA

Present of the Celebrated Springs
 the Village and Country--GossiI About Certain Notables of the
 Land, Styles of Life, etc.
 SARATOGA STRINGS, June l.
 Whether for recreation, business ol
 health, it has been my good fortune
 or otherwise to have had @ glimpse
 of about every variety of soil and
 civilization on exhibition within the
 domains of our common Uncle. In
 conclusion, therefore, g. little .indul-
 gence is required of the reader, for
 this account of "the last of the feast "
 may prove more lengthy than inter
 esting. I will claim for the varied
 natural grandeur of the Columbia, and the awful wonders of the Colo
 rado and that sort of scenery, that power which makes one think more of
 his God and less of himself than all the preaching of first-class pulpits; but the Hudson river, with its costly i'm provements on either shore in the way of villas, residences, rustic stairways, and grottos, to be witnessed like pan- orama, for distance of one hundred and fifty miles, is something to excite the pride of the mortal spirit; in short, make one more ill conceit of human nature. The floating palaces that adorn that noble thoroughfare, are not the least of attractions. When 1 wentup by the Hudson River Railroad, the latter part of March, the evergreens and the ice and snow on every hand constituted 8 picture not easily for gotten; and by the close of May, the trip down from Albany to New York appears almost tropical by contrast. mere outline of all this must suffice. Soon after leaving the metropolis, the river is walled as 1t were for many miles by palisade formation of pie turesque rocks; the scene then changes into bluffs that take final shape in the Catskill mountains; after which, graceful highlands terminate ill the able lands dotted with lakes and rid yes that frame the water shed of the St. Lawrence on the north and Hud- son south. Groves of pine and fir are he prevalent timber, but almost every other variety is found throughout. It eems that any one with taste for he sort of thing in question, could lot complete the round without first ,r last "doing" the Hudson. The ,enius of Washington Irving could lot have helped producing the most delicious prose of all American au- hors with such surroundings; and he KnickerbOcker Dutch can never eel too much in debt to the historian f Rip Van Wrinkle, his houses and ousehold gods.
 Saratoga Springs (the village) is ne hundred and eighty-one miles lmost due north of New York city -thirty-six north of Albany. The own has but one railroad connection outh. It contains resident popula- on of about nine thousand, with otel and boarding-house accommoda- , ons for about thirty thousand, so I id. Historically, the place is worthy :, special remark. It was around ( ere where Gates and Burgoyne ma- C euvsred and fought for several days, sulting in the surrender of the Brit h commander, in TIT, and in which | sttle the lamented Benedict Arnold 1 d wonders of personal daring or r ol-hardiness, while under cloud d hich ultimately lowered over his t ,use forever. Not far from the place t 'emis' Hights), are to be seen the h ring and lone pine tree where the G dian escort of the beautiful Jane I cRea, quarreled and murdered her, il using the hair of her lover, who a waited her at Fort Edward, to turn n