New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-08-06

| day and night they did not hear it nor catch q
glimpse of the meaning which little Paul cried
for as be died away to i's music They climbed
up q mountain, perhaps, but they soed their
clothes, and the sunrise was failure. Mothers
failed to marry away their daughters, although
the virgins eat with trimmed lamps as long as
the lights Of the ballroom glared, and the band
stormed out their polka and gaop. or else they
did marry them, and that was worse if town
revealed that their "great catch was mock.
cry, aud the gay cheyalier of the watering place
ghost on Change.
TIE tocsin of War has broken the laDguld
Summer air. and there are landlords with broken
hearts, and rows Of waiting waters that are
truly too dismal even for Imagination. The cot
tages of Newport are full, which only prove that
the idea of fashionable watering place is to
transfer the City somewhere else for few
weeks. Every year, and amid their elegant deni.
zeDs the chief charm of existence would seem to
be the daily arrival of papers from town, which,
indeed, always was the oasis regarded with
steady animation beyond the waste of toiettes
and solemn repasts. For the rest of the SIRE
sorts" We arc generally Indebted to Mr.. Jenkins
for minute information, end the mind refuses to
contemplate their fororn state when that bright
recorder ia not heard FROM at all. We can only
speculate on the fixed attitude Of despair of the
Contemplating and affsble proprietor" Jenkiad
has sheathed his facile quill, and we can only
fancy the balfdozen :" wel-known and very
81 gentee guests" following each other through
the echong hall. Of their endless hotel; quang
before the concentrated gaze of file Of awful
" alters, and eating their meals in apprehension
Df a grand charge Of the same upon their help
ess persons; wandering in vacancy and silence
orever. The lights are fled, and the garlands
ire dead. THIS much may be relied upon
There is an ominous rumor, moreover, winch
nay or may not be credited that, ut ooe OF the
resorts once all alive with hopping and Irritation
r. N July to September there is now hermit
hidden away in the depths of hotel that has
been known TO accommodate eight hundred per-
ons. He meets bis 4" psins-tskog and agreeable
propr etorr furtiyely at long intervals, and flies
rom tho sight of the speechess waters to the
nj. tude of his inaccessible bedroom. The sole
of this " ample and luxurious
. bo.telry," be appears 10 the surf at the APP
'ointed hour each day but holds communion
With DO mortal. and disappears dripping over
be sands, to be seen no more until Tomorrow
rings its new round of the same duties.
OF course it is bad for the landlords. BoBiface
bould be ever fat and smllIng, and the profit.
ast season aud the season before added several
o his row of unctuous cbios. And yet in lean
ices there is often repentance, aud IN solitude
be specters of bill, too long by half. and the |
lin ghosts Of rudely broken promises may rise
,eforp hs startled soul and remind him how the
3 niface Of history Is not graspng contractor,
,ut a fellow as honest a. jovial. Ii may be bad
or jenkins, although hat young gentleman was
n danger Of getting blase, and people who stay
It hone beginning to weary of his pinch
,eck rhetorical splendors, and season OF per-
ect rest may restore his sly le TO naturabess and
IeceDey. Ii is bot bad. but better than they
,Dow, for the bellies who have 6uttered through
hs Summers ps.i, and tho brau1 that have met
hem in the eddles Of the fashionable maelstrom,
Is they all whlred round together. For it is 80
much off their chance Of sinking into utter
apidity and uselessness, and SO much
II the frightfl roll Of consumption,
when there il an end OF small.talk and damp
Irritation under the moon, aud there comes into
he haze OF tho dog-days spectacle Of stern
human suffering. and the cres of soldiers rush.
us to glory and death drown the petty hubbub
If ballroom and grand saloon.
All that can be pleasantly said for our sea
side watering places, as they lie in this August
sun, is that a spice Of adventure is added to
their usual dry routine of living; for the pri
yateers OF Jefferson ID. have been seen in low,
black, rakish.looklng outline against the horizon
from more than shelly and weedy bower,
and what is to prevent their descent upon the
hotels or their capture of a whole surf-tull OF
bathersl Meanwhile how graceful are the
branches that shade both sides Of our street, aud
how menpr.s.ible is the benefit Of q morning or
evening plunge into water free from salt or
sad