New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-07-28

roll, until crossing the Alps, they disappear in
Italy. But no spot in Europe, is like this, the
chosen soiourn for protracted length OF time for
numerous more orless wealthy families, where they
20 tostay and take de Rre and de factO profession
and ownership Of the soil. THIS gives to Newport
a peculiar stamp, and thus it has its o Fn mode oil
life fashions Of manners and dress, its sports
ga, ties and the like. All of them are o7erruleb
and receive impulson from the great, un4voldAo'e'
spicy element Of every sOclety-trom n"oa''o"'
which enjoys here the fullest liberty anu S''c"9
il self eelv and innoc entity sunshine s"eeP'"7
like the waves Of the ocean over the VIM
Newport. And there is again d'nereuoo 49,
,he cnstoms of the Old and New Word III Oi'
.,n,sssive particular. In Europe, hrtsuoh Is III
moe, .,clusively the appurtenance oil ini'r'u
-, o,d TINS becomes criminal here IL Is the
49, r ill sometimes ends in matrmony,
I a.norsllv remains rather innocent pastme'
The greater part of the inhabitants OIL Tue co'-
.sses and even some in the hotels, come mere 10
,eek rest and repose, after the various trying eA-
o;,emsnts of a winter season in towns. Others
90, IN mite repose with little noise, with the
chow Of their carriages of their Partisan or New
York dresses, their buggies and trottng horses
Finally, there is small number OF the anchored
Int great Of the cratic, who continue, undated
the pursuit of town life, and for whom the sum
mer in Newport is only prOlongation OF the par
ties, hops, pokas, schottishes, which the heat had
interrupted in the cities.
Hotel-life as it is carried on, not only here in
Newport, but generally everywhere in America
can be compared with nothing in Europe, with the
exception, it may he, of lnterlachen and even
there it is widely different. The American hotels,
with their public parlors drawing and reading
rooms. where the boarders meet together repre-
sent kind gilmore or less numerous community
a mixed brotherhood. In Europe, staying IN a
hotel does not throw you at all into company
with other inhabitants. But in America, and,
above all, here in Newport, the visitors who are
thronged together at any hotel very soon uncon-
sciously and tacitly conclude league for the SUI
premacy of their own hotel thus necessa' ily
against the society of the others. On the part OF
every boarder sort Of personal vanity becomes
identified or persOnifed with the name OF the no.
tel-it is the crack one has the best society.
ought to have the most snowy receptions, or the
most brilliant, animated hops and balls Tne
feelings get excited with the increasing excite.
ment of the season. Hotel 4 and its society viii
not 90 to hop given at hotel b, and rice cerSa.
Sometimes hops are given on the same evening Al
two hotels, for the sake of dividing the compIny
and running the regulation Of the antagonist.
Then the bOarders of this or that hotel will boast
that at Their sOirfe they had more cottage peo-
| pic, such and such notabilites from that class
which is the ne plus ultra of success-as cottage.
represent the upper ten. Thus the season goes
on, and thousand AFRO vs. and pin.st abs are dart
| ed mutually from one fortress to another. 1t is
| childish, but the gay season is devoted to non-
sense.
At this moment the three crack hotels are
nearly full. But still the great harvest is in Au
gust-when they are full to plethora with sample
of every kind of ton and fashion, form and sex.
The crowd of mascunes is still wanting. Offices
and counting desks keep them still nailed to the
hard, wooden stools, but August will open their
prisons, and Newport will be overhown. As yet,
according to the prevailing national fashion, thu
girls hop and polk with each other, expecting the
advent of the beaar (most vulgar-but thoroughly
naturalizcd or rather SdioOnized expression
Then you will allow me a word more upon he
Newport fashions and customs, as well as on their
beautiful, fair, pretty, comely, illustrious cx-
cusives responsibilities and other social in
gradients. {.