On the top ov each little round box, iz these words, in a forrin tung, "_Hocus pocus, quod constallus_," which being biled down means, "_purely vegetabels_." For sum more partikulars, cummune with the author. (Signed) BARNABASS BONESETT, M.D. XVIII. JOSH IN SARATOGA. SARATOGA, _Sept. 8, 1867_. DEAR WEEKLY:--Don't think I am going to ruin, don't think i am totaly spilte, bekauze yu happen to hear from me at this grate drinking place. I am here on urgent and melankolly bizzness, looking for mi Newfoundland pup, not quite 5 months old yet, that I lost lately. Saratogy never appeared tew me so free from _white swellings_ az it duz now. I haint seen a dozen people ov the ballon purswashion, but almost evry one i meets ackts just az tho they had sum good common sense, and had brought enuff along with them to last while they staid. Shoddy & Petroleus hav gone tew Europe, to astonish Paris with their paste diamonds and fire gilt familys. Thare is about 4 thousand strangers here just now, and the liberal way that they invest in the katharticks ov the situation iz suggestive. Yesterday i saw a bride and her new feller at Congress Spring. She waz a rosy and a roomy bride. He waz bilt to run in shallow water, rather a light draft chap, i thought; but he took 9 consekutiff glasses without flinching, and, i think, would have held one more. He looked a hundred pounds bigger. I waz filled with horror at the sight, but soon had aul mi fears soothed, when i saw almost everybody present wash themsels internally with five or six tumblers full ov this liquid salts and perilash. Congress Hall iz being rebuilt with bricks on the old ground, and iz at least 15 rods front on Broadway, with 2 wings az menny rods deep, and will cost 400 thousand dollars, and will feed, sleep, and physick one thousand festive sons and daughters at onst. Evry house here, except the churches, iz a boarding house; aul the femail seminiaries, and akademys of the arts and sciences, fill up their summer vakations with spring-water pupils. The great tiger ov the place iz the hi rock spring; this now flows over its conical summit, something that it haz not done before for 300 years, and besides being a good artickle ov physick, is probably the greatest natral curiousness this side ov the temple of Solomon, his 500 wives and 300 good-looking collaterals inkluded. Take the kathartics out ov Saratogy, and thare wouldn't be ennything left ov deep interest, but a pale yeller, sandy sile, that haint got moral strength enuff in it tew hold a fense-post up straight, unless the hole waz well manured first. But, with some 10 or 15 ov theze mineral springs that will kure ennything, from a broken heart tew the spring halt--water the most sparkling--water that biles and bubbles, without money, and without even stamps, and has biled ever since Cain waz a babe--I say, with such a legacy, Saratogy iz today the surest place on the breast ov the earth to git a good loose drink.