Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-08-15
Letter from Saratoga.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, August 6, 1871
MeSas Editors The first objective point of
our vacation was Montpelier There we enjoyed
the kindly and bountiful hospitality of one of your
nearest neghbors and were instructed by more
teachers than ever before taught us in so short
space of time, and thence went for two weeks to
very familiar spot among the hills of New
Hampshire But before the harness il put on
again we must visit some new scene. An old
haunt is good, but an old haunt--not an early
home-will be Sleepy Hollow after little.
Once year we must see something Of the world
we never saw before, or have not seen for long.
Every brnin-working man ought to do that Else
the ruts grow deeper in which he treads, and he
himself staggers along where he ought to step
firmly and strong.
Nuts are scarce after the ground beneath the
trees has been twice raked over. Hence this time
we go to Saratoga which, in ten years since we
last saw it, has wonderfully changed All the
larger hotels, except the Clarendon and an unrec-
equitable part Of the Grand Union, have been
burned (some of them twice. and rebuilt more
spacously and gmndly. The streets and dwell
ings are greatly improved new water works have
been introduced, and newly-discovered mineral
springs have doubled the number of the previous
decade. Between the insipid Pavilion and the
pungent and foaming Champion fit only for the
stomach of rhinoceros) there is sufficient variety
Of waters to suit the whole catalogue Of unwhole-
some dyspeptics and digestics.
At DR. Strong's-whther we were lured by DR.
Cuyler's encomiums in the EcdngeiiSt-we find
good rooms, good table, and genial, rehned
Christian people. II one desires treatment there
al, nd lit # hp,, mi
appliances Onclnding Russian turkish Electro
Thermal and other Daths) III Tie mouse; or, you
can lodge and eat here, and drink ana recreate
elsewhere. Saratoga is no doubt wicked place
and has some peculiar temptations, but Ill the
week past since our arrival wehave neither heard
word of profanity nor seen an intoxicated per-
son. The Sunday is unusually quiet for summer
resort, and on weekday all the town ias to FUR
nish half the boisterousness oil Cincinnati or
Rochester beer-garden.
Dr. Cuyler, after four weeks stay leaves Dr.
Strongs to-day, 80 also Dr' flshe' Oh Ne"ourS-
port but there are left Rev prS' Means ana fur-
Der, of Mass, and President hubert IN such
company may we not trust ourselves Next door,
too, at Temple Grove are Professors Aiken, OF
Princeton, Goertner, OF Hamilton, ana ha'i score
of other divines besides the stately Colonel Leath'
OF Memphis, who after two "eeksat SAM johns
bury may be well las he often is) mistaken Tor
one of the hiJh church clergy
On Saturday morning we called On Miss smiley
AT her olrds-hest near tIe hNoeis'o' spring If
"a beautiful spot ON wayy knoll-the college
quite EMBODIED by and beneath the gracefully
curying branches of fine old elm, the grounds
adorned with flowers and shrubbery, While the
spring-house and the little brook in the dell be-
low and Just across fine grove, complete bit oil
| scenery and surroundings with which any oil the
Lake poets would have been delighted las'
evening, in Dr. Strong : parIors the devoted onak-
eress gave an excellent Bible reading on prayer
dwelling particularly on Its nature and It's llnltt
| tons ave could pray for the Spirit" she said
| % ., ,,o,i, ,nor tho heart of n friend II ws
| wa" ~. -.
prayed IN ialth' the oplrt "ouu WISH '''"' mart
| touch it, aud convict it, but yielding conversion
| denendad an the soul yisited-it might receive OF
wy $500,
resist tue spirit
| At the Second iresby terian church, last night,
| we had the nleasnre and the tedium of hearing a
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SERMON lo'N 'n'' o"e'""'' W" ''
| smelleth the battle from alar, pr' ueorge ID
| Cheeyer. of New York city Wckedness burn
al. ,;,,o ero >, ,,o. his ,axt and most gr,nhic
o'h INV nv ""' '' -, A.,
| ally, and, NJ nmes, ternh'aliy' he l'"ru"Seu 'i'
| fatal consequences of unbeel and sin. Hut {
sermon of AN hour WAS too long for a hot and sui