BALLSTON SPRINGS.

     The clustering buildings of this great watering place are discovered unexpectedly, in a little valley of sufficient depth to conceal them at a short distance.  Mr. Booth's female Academy is just South of the village.  There are here three principal houses for the reception of visitors.  The largest and most fashionable is Sans Souci:  and the most comfortable are Aldridge's and Corey's.  The price of board is ten dollars a week at the former place,and eight dollars at the two latter.  Besides these three places are several other boarding houses of inferior pretensions and price; for great numbers of persons of all classes are annually attracted to these great watering places.

MR. ALDRIDGE'S HOUSE

...was the first respectable one ever opened in this place for the accommodation of visitors.  Its size being sufficient also for a more limited number of persons, a visitor of quiet habits or in ill health, will here find himself retired from the noise and bustle which enter so largely into the amusements of the more gay and robust.  Very considerable improvements are also to be made here this season.  The house has a pleasant garden, with a long flight of steps leading to a commanding elevation which overlooks the village below.  In speaking of this house and Corey's at once, we may remark, that the tables are well furnished, the servants attentive, the rooms commodious, and the company no less genteel than at Sans Souci.