New-York tribune., 1873-07-26
TIE GUIDE BOOKS DISCUSSED AND
AMENDED.

A FEW CORRECTIONS - SARATOGA HISTORY, WITH
ORIGINAL CoNMENTs-sOME OF THE BEAUTIES OF
THE GUIDE BOOKS THE SPRINGS CONsCIEN-
TIoUsLY AND REGULARLY VISITED.
rFRoM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF TIE TRrBUSEl
SARATOGA, July elf THE TRIBUNE will
kindly omit from one issue half the editorials most all
the news teegraphic and otherwise the foreign CORE
srundence wholly; everything, In short which Is OF
value 10 any one beside its owner and give me say half
the paper for few corrections and explanations can
die in peace with myself and possibly with the forgive
ness Of infuriated fellow mortas.
First did call the vendors Of prize packages OF
candy "friends." Fiends what wrote; and,
whether 1t hurts the feelings Of the wretches or not
refuse to take it back Some OF my friends may be
fends to Others but these hends Of mine friends to
no one and consequently can be abused with impunity
and the applause Of all well regulated minds. In the
most pathetic stanza Of that sweet little lyric which you
did me the honor to print, wrote:
"who ne'er to cut my hair did try
Jabbing the scissors In my eye,
And cutting every hair awry Z"
The printer made it "away got away with me, II
the expression may be allowed The word substituted
indexes the meaning exactly tells the truth Of how the
thing was done to dot but does not rhyme well.
have tried TO make "away" rhyme with "try" and
"eye" but the effort is vain. And yesterday, when
said that "IOng mines" not the smoking clergy
mans "strong sort" really wrote it strong soot"
SCOT being a more natural Seqldtur TO smoke.
so much for typographical mistakes. Now as regards
tho facts" which have been given, very little
ton is necessary. In the Temple Grove" mention hit
il exactly except that Temple Grove does not stand
hill is not surrounded by trees, and what trees there
are are not cold " its name not suggested by
the One OF Gods first temples" line, but comes from
the circumstance that late family by the name Of TEN
ple built and occupied II private residence Clergy
men do not "stOp" there rule, but at Dr. StrODgs,
directly opposite-Dr S. s. strOngs-and this statement
may be relied upon the very triple s-ence OF truth
Prof North is not piOus professor at all, and lastly
there is no Temple house here and il there was it
would be located at Ballston only twenty miles away
like Sheridan from the battleand wouldn't be called
Temple Grove, probably. any one can take anything
back more completely, would like 10 see the man do it,
and be there when he does it. No OF
unwiingness to correct little errors Of fact.
As TO the charge of avoring mineral water more
than another have endeavOred not TO; have par
tcular choiceany of them bad enough for meand
as 10 not doing them and the village justice Will start
in at once, with the Handbook Of Saratoga" for
which have Just paid seventyhve cents so as 10 be
snr5 Of nv facts this te before me t0E reieIfnce'
Wherever quotation marks are used hold the "Hand-
bookn etween which and the various commentaries on
Shakespeare you viii detect remarkable seEbances
responsible Wherever quotation marks are not used, 1t
is in proper person. and you may rely upon these lat
OF unadulterated truth. To begin:
osaraoga is an Indian word Of the IrOquois language
derived from Sardghaga or ogo." This is not Indian
for AgedSarah, the rash reader might hastily con-
clude but "according to Sir William johnson, means
The Place Of Herrngs.'" Saratoga is place
OF sardines and the present Col Johnson OF Congress
Spring is not the Sir william above mentioned who dis
covered it, though his age might lead you suppose
The Baronet died in the year l76 ana in this
that the Colonel and the American Union were born.
an the battle OF Lake George on the 9Th Of septem
ber 1855. Sir william johnson received severe bull
let wound in OF his thighs" He knew
there had been battle by tho bulletin after the
battle. The Indians, whom we may imagine TO have en-
tertaned feelings OF particular anmosty towards their
white brethren who were then overrunnlng the country
and trading string Of glass beads with them for dozen
or so OF beaver skins decided TO reveal to their beloved
brother the medicine spring OF the Great Spirit" and
piloted him TO the High Rock. " Pausing few rods
from the Spring the Baronet eaves the litter and for
moment his manly form, wrapped In his scarlet blanket
bordered with gold lace, stands towering ana erect
above the waving plumes Of his Mohawk braves" The
Handbook go say how the braves liked his
standing on their heads this the end they knew
was near and they are supposed 10 have b0rneit with
resignation. "Then, approaching the spring he kneels
with uncovered head and reverently places upon the
rock roll OF fragrant tobacco; this was giving qud
pro quo and accounts 10 highly satisfactory manner
Tor the se ana taste that the waters haVo ever since
had. "Afer soOurn Of four days at tho High Rock,
the Baronet was summoned home" Nothing could be
neater than The in which this natural conclusion Of
the story is told. OF course, neither OF his thighs
troubled him subsequently, nor did he trouble them
much with carrying him arOund and IA monument was
built by general subscription OF tho gentle savages, on
which the inscription engraved ia erse but guteral
Iroanis: saratoga cured me; here hci
Passing over much interesting information re-
garding The carly settlement OF the country, and
tine exact number OF TN tomahawks and pewtcr-baded