The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-07-13
ATLANTIC House,


NEWPORT, IL. l., July, 1917.
Stlendor of Amer,oan Host,iry-Tas heterogeneous
Confur Of People to Nsrport-Iiow they are
Disposed of-A Curious Story of Terrible
Mortality Items Of Fashionable Movements.
went over the Ocean House yesterday; its size
COMFORTS with its name. Ii is calculated for the
comfortable accommodation Of $50 boarders. 1t
is a splendid specimen Of American hostelry on
the grandest scale. 1t strongly called up to my
mind, as looked through Its Gothic halls and rich
drawing rooms and parlors, especially the dining
hall, recollections Of Kings College, Cambridge,
or the halls Of Elton, or Westminster, in England.
A European would hardly expect to find such
sumptuousncss IN a republic. To most OF them
rlty and rudeness; but IL they were to come TO
Newport, they would find themselves egrc-
giousy mistaken. The Ocean is kept by bro
ther 10 the amiable and worthy host Of the
Atlantic House. Both houses are conducted on a
scale Of the greatest magnificence, with admirable
order, propriety, and good management, combining
every conceivable comfort and accommodation.
There is also the. Bellevue, Hazards, &c, besides
excellent private houses, afiordlng every variety
of comfort and convenience.
All sorts Of persons come to Newport for where
there is good deal Of money spent, there will he
great crowd OF scrambers to puck up what they
can in the scramble. Money makes a market, all
the world over; and men and wares will rush TO the
spot where II ~ 10 be picked up, as the folks are
rushing with their goods and labor to California.
We have here teachers Of French, writing
tiers, dancing-masters, drawing masters, Phreno-
ogisis, dsgueneotypisis, talbOtyplsts, lecturers,
millners, playactors, singers, musicians. costum-
ers, parsons, doctors, and quacks,-a but lawyers;
for all narmonne together, and come for ENJOY
ment, leaving the quarrelling 20 be done at home.
All this he Us TO increase the life and animation of
the scene, and to manure the place with moneys;
for each one must expend a good deal by way of
capital; and thus al help together TO help ano-
a.. he far
The rich and The fashionable take up their quarters
in the great notes.-the Atlantic, the Ocean, or the
Bellevue, Baieman's, or private houses-whlle the
small-fry are varously distributed IN geniee but
rather more humble boarding houses. All this vo-
luntary retinue which hangs on the skirts of the
gay and afuent, is not without It's uses, and could
not well be dispensed with it is the foil which
helps to set of the brlancy Of the diamond
What, indeed, would rich equlpsges and costly
expenditure be, without due proportion OF less
favored lookers-on TO envy, gaze and admire
II all were rich there would be no riches to envy
and covet. II champagne were as common as W A.
ter. where would be the PRIDE and exultaton one
lifted up the sparkling chrysia glass, and said
Gay, this Is something distinguished" We do
not II ~ true, exactly say to ourselves, that in ha-
wing what all have not, we ara distinguished but
somehow or other there ~ KIND " feeling Of II.
The fact IL, we should take no pleasure in aay
thing if the socialists had their way and rythng
was common and in common.
You have heard, no doubt, teri bic accounts Of
on the plantations in the South. A thrilling ac-
count was given TO us the other day in a social
circle, by gentleman just arrived from Louisiana,
If the doings Of the dire disease a plantation IN
that State. The planter to whom the estate in
question belonged, received by almost every mail,
an account Of the heavy losses he was suffering
his plantation. Az one time his overseer wrote to
inform him that Pompey was dead, Juba and Cato,
some Of his best hands were gone, and Caesar was
dying Then accounts came that Black Sue was
dead, and yellow Jim, and three fingered Jack,
and others of familiar names TO the affl lctcd plant
er. SO the mortality went on, and the mail
brought daily the account Of some death. At
length. however, the planter either got wind Of
the matter, or else his suspicious were excited.
lie went to his estate, and sure enough, he found
IL was too frue--they ell gone; but not dead,
nor by the cholera. They had been carried off BY
what's called an underground railway, and had
been transferred by the overseer to another estate
IN nelehborIpQ State, where he himself had
plantation, and being only new beginner, was in
want OF negroes to carry out his speculation. So