Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1855-10-03
3 From the cerrespondenos of the Providence Journal
The Fun of aSeason at Newport, Financially
SCI II Considered. Ia


ture in this place during the season You may ask
for some estimate of the whole amount that changes
hands in the course of the six weeks that the city
is deRsely crowded, but no means are afforded me
to obtain the necessary information, and as any
calculation that might make would have no sound
basis it is hardly worth while to deal in guess work
! 1t may, however, prove interesting to know into
| what channels the money brought here falls; and
with this in hand every can make an estimate
of the amount necessary to cover expenses in his
particular case, should he decide to visit Newport
| next season.
We will suppose the parties to be gentleman
and his wife, without servants children, and dis
posed to live economically, yet enjoy in a reasona-
BILE way the means at their disposal. They arrive
at one of the leading hotels the last of July the
! first of August, and occupy a room engaged July
LIST, paying for it from that time at the rate of forty
two dollars week. The trunks are put under the
bed, dresses and coats hung the spaces
on the walls, and day or two is occupied in stor-
ing away all the traps SO to leave room for one
! to pass without disturbing Madames whalebone
| skirts too much. very moderate wash amounts
| to three dollars more week, and half that amount
to the waiter to insure fair share of attention at
| table.
! Life at hotel without amusement or some way
of passing the time is uncomfortable and any thing
of the kind at watering place costs pretty penny.
expense of hack, two seats, up and down, in an
| omnibus, ffty-cents; twenty-five cents each for
car and much for the hire of suitable dres-
| ses-n all nine dollars week. Two concerts
| tickets dollar each also carriage twice week
to ride the island and visit the most attractive
points; at eight dollars each ride; and five dollars
for excursions on the water-which last is extreme
| ly moderate, and will not admit OF fishing. A cou-
pie of suppers week at the Jungle" for husband,
and carriage on the nights for wife to take
tea at the cottages, twenty dollars.
And we might add to this by the hour, but here
is a hundred dollars week, without going in
to excess; to which must be added, in the run of
the season, ten dollars for hops" any number of
tens for shooting galleries. bowling Saloons fishing
excursions, occasional dinner to friends at Down.
ings, (well served and well charged) entrance fee
at the club house, Gf so fortunate to get admttauce
at all) wines, segars, &c-to say nothing of the
necessary outlay in the way of an outfit suitable
for all occasions-so that the expense of couple
for ten weeks, if they would enjoy the amusements
offered, and indulge in the luxury of bathing, rid
ing, sailing and eating, may safely be set down at
not less than two thousand dollars.
Hundreds spend that amount in less than half
that time; and when man is blessed with a large
family, composed in great part of manageable
daughters, the extent to which the trapping is
ried, is beyond all calculation. To escape the
nous bills thus run up at hotel, pa" rents cot
tage at the moderate rate of one thousand twelve
hundred dollars for the season; engages servants,
trots out his carriage, sends for the butcher
and the baker, and having made all his arrange
ments, prepares to enjoy lfe-a dream from which
he is only aroused on learning from his banker
that the drafts already honored will absorb of
his finest estates.
Hundreds yearly visit watering place who can
hardly sustain themselves at home, and expend the
little that they have in one brief summer, to regret
ever after their foolish extravaganza; others, who
never pay their bills at home, frequently give the
hotels much trouble, and those not over conscien-
tious, slip away the first opportunity, without
much asking the amount of their Indebtedness
This all results from vain desire to initiate those
who having wealth at command live in extra
VACANT and reckless manner, doing themselves and
others much injury, and often bringing about the
most serious results
True enjoyment at watering place should
sst in throwing off alike the and restraints of
a city life. The mind and the body, thus relaxed,
recover their wonted strength, fitting the man to
enter with greater zeal and renewed energies upon
the duties of life But it is, the city is literally
brought to the country. We have the same Ell
quete, the routine of fashionable follies, the
same rigid laws of society, and the whole heighten
ed by greater dissipation greater extravaganza and
series of absurdities that would not be admissible
at home. The enjoyment is not real, but artificial
bathing is not resorted to for health but because it
is fashionable others ride, and ride and
the same arbitrary laws govern all our movements
till the time comes for US to leave.
The gayer portion, like the swallows that all sum-
share with them the piazza at the hotels, take
their flight in body, leaving the island to those
who know how to appreciate the privilege of pass
ing the season here. When all are gone the balance
is struck With the hotels it is not always the
side of profit, for their expenses are always very
heavy, and the seasons sometimes short; but
with nearly all the others who supply the wants of
the thousands who come here, the gain is sufficient
to satisfy reasonable mind. AoUIDNEcK.
The DEPOSITION OF BISHOP DoANE's SoN.-It was
stated under telegraph head on Saturday that
Bishop Doane, of New Jersey. had deposed his own
son from the Episcopal ministry for joining the Ro
man Catholic Church. The following is the SEN
tence of the bishop:
To all, everywhere, who are in communion with
the one Holy Catholic Church and Apostolic Church..
Be it known that George Hobart Doane, M. D.,
Deacon of the Docease, having declared to me in
writing his remuneration of the ministry. which he
received at my hands, from the Lord Jesus Christ,
and his design not to ociate in future in of the
the offices thereof, intending to submit himself to
the schismatcal Roman intrusion, is deposed from
the ministry and hereby pronounce and declared
him to be deposed, in the name of the Father and
Of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost"
The deposition is given at the Episcopal residence,
Riverside the 10Th of September in the presence
of Milo Mahan, d. D., and Marcus F. Hyde, A. NJ,
Presbyters of the Protestant Episcopal Church
The Bishop adds
This sentence not executed until the provi-
sion of the cannon where the party has acted
nnadvsedly and hastily which is preeminenty the
the present case, had been offered, urged and refus
ed 1t only remaius for humby to ask the prayers
Of the faithful in Christ Jesus that hemay be /,
brought back to the way of truth and peace and for
myself, that may have grace to bear and do the !
aoly will of Cod :,
The SOUTH OF OLDEN TIMEs-In Mr.. Benton's :
volume of his thirty years in the Sem
ate occurs the following passage, in allusion to the
decline of the commerce of the Southern States
at is tradition of the colonies that the South
had been the seat of wealth and happiness, of pow
,r and onoIence. that rich ooDulafion covared