The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-07-01
THE WATERING PLACES.
Our Seaside corrsspo~As.Os.

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Our Scsside CorFespoaAsacs.
NEWPORT, Rhode Island. Jass 81. 1866.
n 1rp to Fdu RiUer. Tiverton and Nescporf-
Fsskssg Is Rhode Lsland-Histsricat, TPogra'
phieai, Geological, GsOgvophcaI. and Pathological
Researches-THe Hotels and the Black Fish
The Nec Steamer Mefr polls Incidenfs, &c.
party Of fozr persons three Journalists aud
private gentlemen, the latter not 30 long and thin
he of Wall strest cut sal notoriety. migrstea from
isw York city early In the week via the stsa nsr
EetroDolis, Csotsin Brown, (not Blown Of the
larines') and by the continual recurrence Of Q
Hes Il remarkable ph.nomens, to witt the revolu.
ions Of The wheels OF said steamer, they wore pro
elied to Fan River, which ID manufacturing town
oducing great deal Of machinery, c1ttou, caltc,,
city girls. Know N,things, abolitionists, tempe
acc men. and hack drivers.
IL was nasty morniog whsn we arrived 10 this
llsge, whore mono Of US had ever beea before. II
sd raiaed during tho night, and the town present
the appearance Of . hool boy with face half
ashsd, and tho fragment Of soiled nethsr gar.
sat hanging out O.ke General Oaen Ssckea's Dag
truce from the rear. On one side Of tho boat
~ coal yard, and the other clayey looking hill
ith no particular beginning or ending. Tire, or
nr dsconsclate looking females, dec grated with
Attsboro' jewelry," were seated In ths
sica, anxiousy swatting the arrival Of their hus.
10y. or friends to "tote'' thsm homa 1t was five
spYk, dissustingly early hour for city psopls.
,s0bre u anything that r.laly looks miserable 1t
ss3one horse t3wn at (. ls O'Clock oa rainy
ming. NoS, Fall River IL lone horse town.
III don't care tenpence for McColloch OF Mayor
Bufangsor). did see 1t at five o'clock; it WAS
rainy; everything was all wet everything did look
miserable, and everybody did feel "blus."
Your Correspondent, . sort Of msjordomo or
volA de place to the crowd thought that breakfast
must cheer their spirits. We had it-such break
fast,-at the Exchange Hotel. It ID the "bessn in
town. do not know on what "plsn" the Exchange
Is kept, but it is q remarkable establishment, well
worthy the attention OF "all the HowArds." Our
party had eggs for breakfast, luxury only vouch-
safed to wsytarers. In the reading room" of tbs
Exchange was mysterious pile Of unber, which
told Of the departed gioriss Of . bsr. The "reei
ing matter Was confined 10 . very handsome
showbin Of Wech's cir,us. tho agent whereof, Mr..
Adams, WAS at breakfast, but tS ists for the eggs;
md proclamation from the Asyor ordering the
police and night watch to rigidly enforce tho new
prchibitory liquor law. Pail River In terribly dry
place just now, and all the old soaksrs se fearfaIly
exercised in mind on account Of this melancholy
fact Liquor 10 sod, however, privasely and under
fear.
Bidding 8 lingering and pathetic adieu to the Ex-
change, No chartered carriage aud were soon roll
ing al ing the shore road towards the Stone Bridge at
Tveston, six miles from Fall River on the chores OF
Mount Hope Bay, and overshsdoxed by the historic
heights where Granny Spencer" WAS encamped
In the year Of grace seventeen hundred and seven
ty-seven. Az we approached the classic ground,
the sun, a. if sharing in the general joy, poked his
nose through the fog soon burning II up and reveal
ing in the fun flush OF It's glorious morning beauty
the delicious scenery around us.
An hours ride brings us to the Stone Bridge
House, the terminus OF journey for the present
In another hour we are upon the shores Of the bay
catching tautog, or blackfsh, they are called in
New York. Frank Forester, in his work on I" Fish
and Fishing" rather sus the bIackdsh, which Is
piece Of injustice in regard to ths: noble animsl,
who Ia delicious when broiled and buttered He
bites in the spring and early In the summer. He
runs from ole pound to ten, bus three pound fish,
caught by your correspondent, was considered some
pnmptias. piscatorialIy speaking.
The bisckaah mus. b pulled up q soon ~ he
not ecme st all. He ID game fab, bites saarply,
and gives . strong and lively pull Our party
rad very good sport although It Il little late in
Mount Hope Bay is An inlst Of Nsrrsgausstt Bay,
and divides the island OF Rhode Island from the
main land, or the Providence Plantations. The
isand was Laued after the sncient Rhodes OF Colos
disc Of New Elsisnd. II forms only small part of
the State, and wAs settled some time after Roger
Williams set up his Plantations at Providence. Toe
dsand was at first Independent, but Afterwards was
l~A~ A~sk kh> d.
brated Charles tho Second charter. The Pokono.
ket and Nssrag ansett Indians inhsbtei t. and they
must have had very good time. Toe country was
well wooded-the bay swarmed with fsh--the air
Ia Pure and braciDg and nothing seems wanting 20
make ii second Garden Of Eden. Miantunomiu, the
senior chief of the allied tribes received the white
men gfaci0usy- gave them corn and embraced their
leader, Master Coddipgton, friend Of Gov Henry
ions hold by Anne Hutchinson. Cauonc Ret, the
9th chief was also friendly, and the island was
convey cd to Coddngton and his fellows for twenty
three coat. and thirteen hoes: pure democratic
government was then established Wars ong
other Indian tribes broke out, but tie Rhode
lslanders were never molested. Az last tho old
chief, when On diplomatic mission, Vas taken
prisooer BY some white Puritsns belonging to Ply
mouth colony, given up to his Indian enemy Uncas,
and KILLED. Urc1 ate piece Of his sh ulder, say.
ing that IL "made his bears strong Who sho we'd
the most barba,ity, Uncss, the savage, or the
Cultivated Christians, who gave up their old friend
to the stskef
Years rolled by, until, in 1876, Philip and Ca
ncnchet reigccd the Nam aasetts the Pokono-
kets and tho Wampanoagues. Philip was bolied
into war By the Massachusetts, men, and Canonchet
joined him 70 aveSge the murder OF his father, ~
before Narrated. Inc tribes we're aroused. In the
summer OF 1915, they came down like whirlwind
upon tho VOTES. Fer nearly year the war CRY Of
the Pckoookets sounded ike death kneu to the
settlers In Massachusetts. Thirteen towns were
burned, aud six hundred men (the best blood in the
colony) we're killed, all TOR the treachary of their
fathers - poor old man, and their cowardy con.
duct to one they considered q fallen fos but
~. Philip WAS betrayed by ms own friends, and
shot BY renegade Nara gsnsett, in swamp 1t the
foot OF Mount Hope, and near where ~ are en-
deavoripQ TO seduce the black Ash. After hsariuR