Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-08-13
Letter from Vue de L'Eau,

VUE DE u Eau, August III wish that
could transport here some of the tired and
wesried readers of the Gazette who are doomed
by the ties Of business, duty and otherwise to
remain in town and worry through what Mr..
Mantalini would characterize as "demuation
hot spell. tits pleasant to be in spot where
the autter of fan is never seen, and where q
soda cocktail is never concocted even in the
midst of the dog days. Said wealthy aud we'll
known Baltimorean to me yesterday "Wel
| have brought large family here travel
because they want to, and | am Knocked up
with hard work and business, and | have been
trying to find some place where they can all be
satisfied, and | have found it here. I like goud
| fare and lazy time and find it. My wife
whist, good fare and cool place, fur she is
awful tat as you know, and she has got It, My
boys want bathing and foe fishing and they
wont leave. My daughters don't know exactly
! what they wish. but they seem to be satisfied
| With these moonlight nights aud those young
men, ana they give me some peace at last.
Young man have reached the promised land
| aod here remain, and SO Mr.. Money bags
takes his bath 10 the morning, his rubber at
! which his cobbler aud his map" and is blessed.
| lrrevelently says, niue inches of fat on her
| ribs, sits IN the cool porches, where the breeze
| from the ocean fans her massive form, and Cos
sips to her hearts content Her Sous, one of
whom is the prototype of Ri" iu SwaowBarn,
| and the others who Inmate the Dundreary
style, yet are fond OF sport, come home in the
| evening with strings of fish, some of such size
as to make us fresh water fishermen open our
eyes, ADD though they are burnt dark brown
still they enjoy 1t and keep it up and apparent
y never tire OF the sport. AS for the daught-
ers, some invisible chain binds them as does the
web OF Tennyson's heroine, and they take long
walks on the beach and long talks in the par
or, and they and their escort sit for hours on
the banks aud gaze at the grand old ocean, gem.
med with stars, aud at the new moon that
lights up aud softens the scene to one of rare
loneliness. Oh! that moon, it has much to
answer for. 10 many maiden Vue de l. Eau
and moonlight will lluger long IN her memory,
and she will sigh tor these scenes again. As
Byron says
~; The very devil in the moon for mischief.
| There's not day
| The longest the twenty fourth of June
| Sees halt SO much business in 4 wicked way
AS single hour OF moonshiue smile,
| And then she looks So modest all the while.
| | believe if this place was we'll known it
would be the most popular, as 1t is the cheap
est resort on the sea shore. Three times week
there are excursion parties from Norfolk and
Portsmouth, and then the German" holds
tull sway. The propretors do their utmost for
the qualification of their guests, and the chief
clerk is Mr.. George Chamberlain, of Norfolk,
one Of the most prominent gentlemen there,
and he ls rara avis, real one, and is the
only difhdent hotel clerk in America. MIR. VIM.
| narf 70 a. II
lar, and is genial, Whole-souled Virginia gen.
tlemau, and words can 20 no further than that.
| The success of Vue de L'Eau this season has
been mainly due to these gentlemen.
| While l write from this vicinity | must tell
you OF the reception the Georgians met With,
not from our people, whose guests they were;
| that OF course was expected and provoked no
remark, but the ovation that was rendered
them by the sailors who wore the blue was un.
expected and most gracefully given and heart
| lily received. 1t was the homage that brave
men tender each other, not caring what the
color Of their uniform was, only content to
know that the men who bore aloft that old tat
tered battle flag with its bars obliterated by
shot and shell, and its stars obscured by the
smoke of score Of battle fields, were Ameri-
can soldiers, and as the procession passed and
the one-arm Georgia veteran carried those COL
ors through the crowded streets of Norfolk,
that banner, which thousands oyed so madiy,
such q cheer went up from thousand threats
as made the welkin ring and many an eye, albeit
unused to the mel ting mood, softened with un-
hidden tears as the throng of memories, that
old battle flag called up rushed over him. o.
the way down the river the several men ef-wsr
paid them honors as they passed and saluted
them with music and the thunder of their can
uon. Such an act did more towards true re-
Cancellation than all the deeds doue by tana-
tic government IN ten years. ln fact it has re-
moved the barrier between the naval officers
and our people. Up to this summer the Off
GERS Of the several u. s. N vessels might as
we'll be posted in the midst of desert as in
Norfolk, AS tar as society was concerned for every
door was closed against them, and not lady 10
the city received them; but since their cordial
reception of the Norfolk military, on their re-
| turn from Boston, the ice barriers have com
pletely melted, the ban of social ostracism has
been abrogated, aud now every house has its
| door wide open, and the old times of Norfolk
have returned again, aod you see the, blue and
| the gold lace everywhere. Several engagements
have already been reported between the Nor
folk bellies and the lambs of the rotund Roben
SOD, which will be cOnsummated 10 the TALL OF
course the officers are the gamers by this, as
be ordered % duty, Norfolk bias now become
the most courted station in the Uoion. There
are many believe who regret this, but as it is
merely a question of time, and new genera
ton has sprung up who have no bitter recoec.
tons, nor sad memories, it is doubtless for the
best that even our women should forget and
forgive.
The palace steamer Plymouth Rock, with
e1cursioolsts from New York, will come 10
MORROW. She brings 90 board Gilmore's cele-
brated band. and large company. Steamipg
down the capes, she will return to her port
next day.
This region seems to be the tavorte theatre
upon which Fortune plays her tricks upon de-
serving huuaLity. aud to those who still wait
for their ships to come home from sea,
they should SIT on the beach Of this beaulitu
bay, and keep watch and ward for the white
winged vessels, with their prows turned home
ward, Tor there may be consigned to them by