New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-08-05
FROM NEWPORT.
Of The N. Y. Tribune,

Correspondence Of The N. Y. Tribune
NEWPORT, Aug. 2, 1857.
The states of Newport are, l suppose, well
known to you and yours. Its dyDamics alone can
present newness and variety to your readers. Yet,
before passing on to the latter likes to retouch
the outlines of the former, and to pause at the
quaint and pretty picture before taking ones seat
as spectator of the moving panorama Of Fashion
and Gayety.
The picture is best seen on Sunday, when there
is some respite from the thropging of the streets,
and the raging of the fashionable mob. That mob
is, SO to speak, caught and penned apart in variety
of churches with the usual variety oi denominations
So. quiet man can walk abroad without fear of
fine folks, and finer horses ard observe the narrow
streets the old houses, the signs and shops which
have not changed in fifty years, or If he like to go
further, he will find an outlet into broad avenues
with green borders dotted with what are technically
called the abOdes Of luxury and wealth, and in every
direction, if goes far enough, the sealn its Sum-
mer att re OF blue and silver.
But, az We are speaking Of Newport in service.
time it will be only decorOus to occupy ourselves
little with what may 90 on In the interior OF me
churches whose architecture may be found elaborated
in the Newport gude-book, if any list to look for it
there. The Episcopalians worship, according to
their wont in cool. dOzy bowers Of ease, the Ia
yorite minister tanning them with his pastoral wings
and keeping comfortably above the heads of his
congregation. He is hard upon wckedness in gen.
erai. and hits out at some who must be very tar
,sf, The Dissenters have warmer work, as dealing
more directly with sin and the enemy. sanitary
sense Of not being too fine to be damned
seems to pervade these assemblies, and
there is more attention, and, IN short,
more liz. state of feeling. The preacher is per.
haps little INSCRIPTIONS in establishing raw, and
in touching up thereon perpetually. Still, he keeps
his team at creditable pace and the crack OF his
whip means something. He seems exercised like
old Tiff, " How to get desc yere children to Hea-
ven, and it is charitable to hope that, in time, he
may succeed But our quiet man shall not be found
| in their ranks. He shall seek the pastures OF a
| flock that has pleasant shepherd-One who allows
bis sheep to DRINK at the wells of the German Lyric,
| and whose wdif is not the great Goethe.
| He shall not hear Mr.. Brooks to-day, however,
I but in his place one of the most eloquent young
| men of the tme-a man not less excel
lent in the present because he promises so much
more in the future. This is Moncure Conway,
whom Washington would not have, and whom GIN
cipnat now unwilling ly spares. passionate soul,
poetic mind, ard an honest heart, are three good
things made one in this man. He gathers up the
hearts of his bearers and stamps them with his own
high purpose. He exercises the cold, the base, the
sOrdid things that run in mems rheumatic blood, and
| make them old before their time. Boston should
| hear him, New-YOrk should hear him; and as his
| sermon was certainly, the best thing which New
| port gave the world that day, its commentator
| Shall optly conclude this letter.