New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-08-10
NEWPORT IN THE SEASON.

Csue,poudcaoe Of The n. Y. Tribune
NEWPORT, X. l., Aug. 6, 1857.
III should give you the first half of the Newport
Sunday and omit to add the second, it would be
like grace before meat and the meat left out-an
enjoyment to which the rich and pious frequently
e1bort the poor and hungry. Let US, however
you and I-endeavor TO give both. and to represent
tie thing in its completeness.
left you, think, in the church of the Reverend
AID poetical Brooks, listening to good and great
words from Moncure Conway. This is all over,
now; servce.time is ended, and there is rush of
well dressed people, and refreshing swoop Of
Young ladies' in gauzy bonnets, who smile and nod at
each other like the peoples i'll field of corn. Those
creditaby gottenup ccachmen, whose legs and lices
astonish us, now come into play, and with their
assistance the stream Of piety is decanted from the
church. and carried of to be bottled up for home
consumpton. Costly dinners are now eaten-as
costly MS il there were pearls in the gravy and gold
dust in the seasoning. Gentlemen wink and look
knowing over their wine, their servants looking much
more knowing behind their chairs Conversation is
carried on to this effect: " Stocks-hm-potatoes
bm-cTOps-W GATHER another glass OF wlne-oh!
are the Mumpsys in town ard does Grampus's great
fete really come off tomorrow ~ Coffee follows,
the two phenomena somehow, invariably accom-
panying each other. But these things are alike in
oil places: why do mention them! Only to lead
to the GROWING glory of the day, the Sunday even
ing's walk upon the cliffs. For when the after
NJ OH sky begins to mellow, and the last and sweetest
breeze awakes, then the sober hOuse-doors burst
open and away go the young people, with faces all
the fresher for one days restriction in short, with
most emaneipsted air. toward that welI-beOved
promenade Here you shall see so many smiling
pairs that you shall think all the world is mated,
and very much to its mind, too. Here you shall
meet deyout eyes, and read professions of faith not
recorded in any ritual. There is some laying on Of
hands. too in helping through stiles and over stone
walls, though if might speak So there are not I'M
sediments enough left in the way to call out all the
zeal of which these young people seem capable
How these sympathetic couples are ever caught AT
night and brought back to sober common sense and
tea is more than your correspondent can tell. Inc
chaperones, those police officers OF society, have
their ON secrets aud will not let us know how 1t Is
done.
But now the gorgeous sunset changes and fades
out in Qray-the demure evening primroses open
wide their eyes sstorshed Mt the things they see,
but " i'll not RI veal How often have hunted them
with childish feet these very cliffs, shining here
and there Ike golden butterflies in the grass. The
dew begins to tell, not refreslincy on pretty boots
and bonnets Papa and msmma are thought Of-aunt
ia making herself felt in the distance. So there is
little huryying homeward followed by kissing Of
hands and kind partngs; and We cannot Go better
than 10 take advantage Of these, and say reluctantly
goodbye.