Year: 1875

The lake, though four miles distant
is being rapidly drawn into close connec.
ton with the village, and becoming more
and more a part Of its daily summer life.
The roadway is broadened and shaded
and watered, omnibuses run to and fro all
day-,a horse railroad and a narrow. gauge
steam track are talked of; little hotels
are located at attractive points around
its shores, and baby steamboats, ply back
and forth over its waters; while expert.
ment and expectation point to resident
villas upon the favorite bluffs or rolling
banks Of this beautiful sheet of water.
Mr.. Frank Leslie, Of illustrated paper re-
nown, already has dainty Swiss cottage
hanging like birds nest under the
western bank, and is preparing on his ex.
tensive adjoining estate for grand villa
home; while, with a view to future de.
mand from others for this sort OF things,
be has gained possession Of the still more
beautiful opposite shore Of the lake for
several miles. A charming discovery,
since the use of the little excursion steam.
boats, is that the still, deep and dark
waters Of little creek connecting the
Saratoga with Lonely Lake have power
of rejecting the banks and trees and
fences and sky above them with fidelity
and TO an extent that are truly marvellous
and which rivals, if it does not surpass
the same quality of the famous Mirror
lake in the Yosemite valley. Another
element in the permanent attraction oil
Saratoga for health and pleasure as o
summer home, is the peculiar dryness and
GOODNESS OF the air In these respects il
has the quality Of the mountain air
though located upon the plain, not many
feet above tide.water. The explanation
OF this pheuoineaou is not simple, but the
fact is patent and valuable. Probably
that which gives the character to the
marvellous mincral waters has to do with
this, also but the sandy soil, the pine
forests, aud the high hills to the north
and west are more obvious elements in
the rare possession.


The gathering Of so many and SO vari.
Gus people here during the summer has
long made Saratoga better theater for
the social study of America, and for its
own interchange of thought and opinion,
than any other place. You will find
here. during the season, not only the cur
rent fashions and manners Of our times
and peoples, some Of them, indeed, most
fcarfuly and wonderfully made,-but
every variety and shade Of opinion in
politics, business and theology, also. Be-
tween the morning drinking of the waters
and the evening ride to the lake, there
are abundant opportunities for the CON.
parison of facts and thoughts between
men of different sections and schools on
politics and trade and religion, Better
even than Washington in winter, as l
have suggested, is Saratoga as the great
exchange house of the country. More
aud more and more in this view is it be.
ing utilized and more and more it is be.
coming through its opportunities and
freedom and leisure, valuable factor in
the homogeneity of America. The horo.
scope of the political or business future,
made as the result Of Il Saratoga seasvu,
will certainly have the advantages Of
more knowledge than that reached from
any other point The Democrats have
long been in the habit of settling their
presidential election up here, and Judging
from the men who are gathering from the
West and East and South for the ostensi
BILE fructifcation of their bowels, there i.
considerable business 10 that line going
on with reference 20 next years canvass
A. any rate, it is not a wild remark that
if Mr.. Tilden is elected president, next
year, the flow of Congress spring during
the season of 1875 will deserve o geper
GUS share Of credit.-Cor, Springfield
Republican.