The Herald

The Battery.--New Yorkers are all proud of the Battery, and some of them go there to walk of a pleasant evening. Castle Garden has some attractions, and young ladies and gentlemen sometimes go there to lounge, and talk over the affairs of the nation.--Boat clubs are fine things, and rowing is a good exercise. We are glad to see our young gentlemen enjoying it. There is life, animation, and energy about it. If it hardens the hands a little, it likewise expands the chest, strengthens the arms, and gives a freshness to the cheeks.

One beautiful morning last week, a boating party went to Castle Garden, got out their little water-bird, took the skulls, and made her glide over the rippling waters in a way that very much interested, and exceedingly delighted some young ladies who were taking a morning walk on the battery, inhaling the healthful breezes of Spring, and listening to a little bird that was singing merrily in one of the elms, with which the place is decorated.

The young gentlemen--gentlemen they must have been, for they wore fine coats, and have respectable connections--were in the best of possible humors.--They had had a fine time, and were in good spirits but unfortunately they did not understand physiology. It is a great pity that young gentlemen won't study that useful science. It would have taught them that it is very dangerous to take even moderate quantities of liquor, after violent exercise, and upon an empty stomach. It would have taught them that in such cases the liquor mounts into the head, and expels every little morsel of good sense, modesty, or discretion, which ever found a place there, and is exceeding apt to make them say and do things, improper and unbecoming at any time, and much more so in the presence of ladies.

We do not assert that this was the case in that instance; indeed we should be very sorry to hint in the most gentle manner, or ever so covertly to insinuate that the gentlemen in question committed the least impropriety on the occasion referred to. We only wish to inform them of a physiological fact, and hope they will profit by the information, without making it necessary to give them another lesson.