The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-08-11
OUR SARATOGA CORRESPOND
ENCE.
The Weather-POIitics-M and Mrs.
TiltOn-The neutrality-suspicious.
Regarding VisitOrs--On the Hudson
by Daylight.


Regarding VisitOrs--On the Hudson
by Daylight.
SARATOGA, n. Y, August 8, 1874.
Editors Of the Register:
The weather has been so unexception-
ably fine this week that everybody has
been able to enjoy himself to the fullest.
The sun has shone with sufficient force
to give geniality to the mountain breeze
and add brightness to the charming
landscapes, and to the rich toilets of the
ladies. The air is bracing and the
nights are cool enough to bring sleep to
the eyelids of the most persistent "wide-
awake"
Vice-President Wilson is here, look
ing the picture of good health, though he
is said to be confirmed invalid. Helre-
ceived considerable attention from dis
tinguished political sojourners and 9TH
ers-much more than President Grant
did during his recent visit, it is said. In
fact it is limited that Grant exhibited
some dissatisfaction at the cool manner
in which he was received by the culti-'
waited society here and he was glad to
escape to Long Branch to the embrace
of his own Tom. Murphy and Jones of
Nevada.
Speaking of political matters-the tall
old Governor of your adjoining State,
VIM. Allen, of Ohio, is freely talked Of as
the probable nominee of the Democratic
party for President in 1876. Who knows
but it may be the destiny of this noble
old Roman to be placed at the helm and
to bring the ship of State back To the
old track of the Fathers? God grant 1t
may be So. But politics is out of place in
this "SahS souci,' So let Us refer to the
topic of chief conversation in the social
circle.
You have doubtless printed in full in
the REGISTER, the evidence Of Mrs. Til
ton on her cross examination. 1t Is one
of the saddeSt revelations ever made by
the human heart, and any one who can
read il and still believe the poor creature
10 have been criminal, must be- II be-
lever in total deprayity. 1t clearly
shows Tilton, what all level minded per-
sons have all along believed HIM to be,
either demented wretch or an unmlt-
tigatcd scoundrcl, or both. 1t is hardly
to be wondered at that the sympathies of
Henry Ward Beechcr and his wife were
stirred to their depths by the suffer
ings Of this poor creature.
Horace Greeley is said to have denom-
mated Mrs. TiltOn 'the God-blessedest
woman that ever lived, and her husband
has show himself to be the direct oppo
site.
Behind Tilton is plainly seen the chief
leaders in the Womens-Rights move
ment and plain to be seen behind the
veil is the great fact that all efforts at
masculning women leads in the end to
free love- free lust and the destruction
of all the virtues and SanctitieS of home.
| mentioned, in my letter Of Yesterday,
the hotels of Saratoga, the Lake, the
lovely drives and the elegant parks, but
overlooked the springs, There are, in
the town Of Saratoga, and immediate vi
cinity, twenty-nine mineral springs, each
one being more orr less rich in medic
inal qualities and yet each different from
the other. Only fourteen or fifteen of
these springs are much frequcnted, how
ever. Several of them flow out of
shallow valley near the centre of the
town, reaching the surface of the earth
within few rods of each other, yet dis
charging waters distinct in their consti-
tucnts, various in their medical effects,
and uniform in their tempera-
ture, quality aud curative powers
from wear to year. The waters of the
Congress. Excelsior and Settler Springs,
are known and used in every village and
hamlet, while thousands of gallons are
bottled every year for expectation to
Europe.
Of the ten thousand strangers now
here it would be curious to know how
many came with the expectation that
the Use of these waters would do them
GOOD: how many CAME for recreation;
how many for the social pleasures afford
ed; how many for purposes of tdISsipatl"n;
how many in obedience to the demands
of fashion; how many out OF the mereSt
curiosity. 1t would be curious to know
how MANY OF the thousands who constant
" come and 90 can really afford the cS-
nense: and how many must live Shabbi-
iy the remainder of the year on account
Of the consequence Oftheir purses. How
many of those who can fairly stand the
expense have honestly earned thrlr
mnney; how many inherited it;
how many came by it by some
sharr transaction. Such reflections will
arise. because life here is unreal unnatur-
sl, sham. a pretcnse. They are in
wotul minority who live in their own
real. sclf-possessed way-as must always
be- the case in any great centre "i lash
ion.
In coming from New York to Saratoga
n daylight boat on the Hudson Is the
conveyance to take. The distance to
Albany is l44 miles; and then 81 miles
bv rail through beautiful, rolling and
highly cultivated farming country brings
YOU to tho springs. The boats on the
Hudson are claimed to be the fastest rs
they are probably the most elegant i'll the
world. The scenery is varied, some OF 1t
exceedingly grand, much oft most high
" cultivated, and all of 1t naturally
beautiful. There are those who clam
for the scenery of the Hudson superior
itv over that of the world-famed Kline;
that. naturally. it is much finer and that
| the cultivation of the former Will soon
! equal the latter. Be that as it may,
daylight trip up this broad and heautl-
! fpi river in the summer time will well re-
pav the intelligent lover of cultivated
nature. The cost from New York 10
Saratoga and return is hut IU on one
line and s.. 40 on the other. y.