Year: 1869

| hours of summer must admonish the denizens
| of the city to pack up their trunks and betake
| themselves to the sheltered hooks, the bracing
mountains and cool waters of our numerous
summer resorts, where pleasure, health and
fashion unite in one embrace like the three
Graces of Canova. 1t is to be regretted that
| fashion commands so much and health and
pleasure so little of the time and objects Of
summer vacation. The truth is that what our
pleasure and leisure seekers should endeavor
to make the purpose Of their country trips is
repose, and not the hurry-skurry life which
| most of them lead at fashionable watering
places and summer resorts generally. Under
the prevailing pernicious system Of transferring
the city into the cOuntry-carrying there the
frivolities, the despotism of rule and cere-


mony which oppress fashionable life in the me-
tropolis-a summer season in the country Is
deprived of half its genuine pleasure and nearly
all it's hygienic advantages; and hence, instead
of greeting blooming cheeks on the return of


our tourists, 1t is too often the weared face and
exhausted form that we have to meet. They
comprehend this thing better in Europe. They
gointo the country during the heated season for
ease and rest, not for hurry and dissipation.
Comprehending the philosophy Of summer
touring, and recalling to mind just now that
From Frightening fields OF ether fair disclosed,
Child Of the Sun, refulgent summer comes


In pride OF YOUTH and felt through NATURES depths,
And ever-fannlng breezes on his way,


the next thing to be considered is how and


where to enjoy it. AS to the manner in which


the philosophy Of summer travel can be made


most appreciable we have already given hint.


When sensible people look for relief they do


not jump from the frying-pan into the fire.


Neither do they exchange the excitement of the


city for more intense round of excitement in


the country. When they talk of comfort, Sc,


fresh air, salubrious exercise, healthy food,


balmy breezes, chalybeate waters, and such


anti-dyspeptics furnished in all substantial or


visionary shapes, they do not hope to find


them in the crowded bathrooms of hotels at


night, or entirely at the luxurious dinner table,


although that is a part of the programme not


to be despised, when the landlord looks more


to digestion than epicureanism for the comfort


of his guests-which, we may add, Is rare


virtue in a landlord, and one that should be as


precious as treasures of Ophir, when it is


found.


AS for the localities suited to summer enjoy


ment, they are as broad as the Continent; and


we span the whole Continent now across the


Pacific Railroad, taking in the regions of gold


and silver, salt lakes, Indian reservations and


all the grand fresh phases OF nature which this


great highway has opened to us. But within


our own immediate reach we can number them


from the White Mountains, the st. Lawrence


and Lake Ontario at the North, down to the


Sulphur Springs Of Virginia, taking by the


way Niagara, with its historic and world known


cataract; Saratoga and Sharon, with their


healing waters; the Catskills, away up in the


clouds, overlooking the Hudson the coast


sites on the shores Of Maine, New Hampshire,


Connecticut and Long Island and the Jersey


salt water paradises at Long Branch, the High


lands, Red Bank and Cape May, with their


splendid combination of lake, sea and noun


tain scenery. Along the coast New London is


the most inviting harbor for our yachts, in


whose placid waters they yearly furl their


sails for time and make their starting point
for new cruise, skimming like flock Of.


snowy swans away out into the sea. The fair


and the brave, from shore and deck, con-


jointly welcome the arrival and deplore the


departure, which is touch of human nature
that is not foreign either to yachtmen
or their gentle admirers. Climbing the
Alleghanies we find on their summit the re-
tired, hermt-like spot at Cresson, almost at the
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Delaware Gap and other mountainous resorts
the grandest scenery invites the tourist and
the artist. But, as we are not writing guide


book, we may stop here and leave our SUM-
mer ramblers VI select for themselves, suggest
ing merely that at each one of these places,


and a hundred more, there are large draughts Of
vitality, mingled with pleasure, awaiting those
who understand how to enjoy vacation In the
true sense of that term, out Of the thousands


who are now preparing in few weeks hence
to take themselves off to our summer resorts.
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AMONG THEMsELvEs.-There is nowhere In
the world worse class of desperadoes than
the neighborhood Of Pitt, Sheriff and Stanton
streets with their horses and wagons and prey
on the community as licensed venders. Natu-


rally inclined to shoot, cut and kill, we may
for the present congratulate ourselves that


they are satisfied to take their exercise on one


another.


TT is ALL RIGHT WITH ENGLAND. We cannot
fight her, nor even find fault with her, what


ever Sumner requires; for Colorado Jewett has


laid before the President Gin writing" his


statement of the friendliness Of that Power