The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1867-08-31
A DisIssndcd volunteer.
SAINT NIcKLAs HOTEL, !
New York, June Is, 1867. +


I hey sum thorts Of leven the meatrop-
oils for fcH weeks. and goin to grass ike
Neyerendneysir Thars nuthin stirrin
here eggscpt murder, and sueyside, and
burglary and forgery, witclris too COM
mon to be interestin TO enuybody but the
parties consarped The bntifuf wimmin
also is packin mp for the fasliionabul airt.
in grounds, and when they Vamose for tho.
summer, | allus feel inklined to 90 into.
the interior to rustykate IF I ockapides
good picayunary pcrsishun on the in
cum list, and could afford profigut egg.
spenditoor, should mebbe 90 to Newport.
With good telescope, and tase for.
studdyin fcmmenine fzziology in pickle,
it's plcsent place for an old man to renew
the tender recolleckshins of his youth in.
Sum people considers it more improyin to
study the feemale s:atoos at Rome, or in
the Lover at Payris, but for my part I
prefer meat to marble Taint so classikle.
in coarse. but the sensashin is more agree.
able. Twenty or thirty First Family
Hebes and Sikcys. washin themselves in
the troft Of the sea, is regreshIn spcck-
ticle; and few brokers splashin among
the breakers adds TO the picktareskness
Of the seen. The salt Of the airth seems
to take materially to the oshin brine, and
menDy who finds it difficult to keep thar
heds abuy water in Wall street, gifts along
swimminly at Newport on the wreck of
thar fortins. I'm awar that its consider
ed affinity eggclusive, and that nobody
who hesn't shaved eether the government
or the publick or his confden frens outer
haf q million or so, is reckognized BY the
best sosity thar; but for all that its an
am,lsin place for fllasofieal outsiders as
hes a taste for contcmplatin human natur
on stills with u pecock's fethcr in its cap.
Saritoga, understand, il not likely to
be as nobbish as Newport this secsin.-
The crcamdelacream doosent consider it
the cheese. It Is al very well for hum
dred- -thouslnd-d dollar shoddycrais, and
that kind Of trash; bat my friend Hector
Macswindle, who made four miliyons out
er contTiband cotton doorin the war, ses
that his set looks upon it as low kinder
waterin place. oney fit for the canal
DIR. Macswindlc hes ben 20 France senst
he made his pile. and speaks the lang
wiage ike Parishoner.
| persoom that purity much all the Lead
in fammaies who have risen to distink-
shin within the last FIVE years will go
uther to Newport or the Springs; and
the display Of coat-oEarms and liverys at
those resorts CT the aristockracy is egg
/ spected to provoke the envy Of Europe.
The carrdge painters hes ben doin tre-
menus bizne=s for scYral weeks past, get
tin up crests and esgudgeons for the bay
rushes and phetons and dogcarts of our
nobs; but buddy Englishman of my
acquaintance insists that the devices is all
bored from forrin eckwipedgee, and he
he's the blasted impotence to say that the
individyals as indulges in 'em is nuthin
better'n panel thieves. / think, in my
opinyon, howsever, that our new nobility
hes jest as much rightto put bores' heads,
bulls and bars, nightly casks, and flowers
de-lics onto their buggies and bayrushes
as the blamed Britishers. / should like.
; to know eff welthy tavern keeper hesent
as good show to assoom the bar sinister
as the desendent of emmy bastard that FL
libustered with William the Conkerer
i Stands to resin he hes. And spose a free
American hes made fortin by confeek
shinary, why skuldent he hev his arms
on lozenge! It's about time that the
Roblemen of the muther kentry should
Understand that paytents of nobility taken.
out ebroad is not purtected by the law in
this Repubhek IF welthy American
faro dealer chooses to adopt fghtin tiger
as his device, wot is it to him that the
Dook of Fitzjungle hes the same animal
onto his bearings?
/ A good menny of our Knickerbockers
and uther obskcwer people is goin inter
the quiet rooral deestricks this summer,
jist to git out of the way of guilt ginger
bread and fuss and fethers. Poor obso-
leet critters ! They belong to former
age, when seteh frases as s'T'o be yertuous
IS to be happy" EVIL eommunicashins
corrupts good manners" and Honesty is
tho bess pollysee," was in voag. Setch
old fogey maxims hes long gone outer
fashion. You cannot even find 'em in the
public skool copy bucks. Its as we'll, on
the hull, that these birds of fether
Eshould flock together They would be q
disgrace to the fashinable spaws and bath
IN places with thar slow ways and antica-
ted noshins. Prehaps, howsever, may
beat up thar onpretenden quarters doorin
the summer outer curiosity-merely to
see how setch critters manages to kill time
in this chain lightnen erie. A little
sketch of thar habits and manners would
be amusin to the Slapdash classes. Meb-
be I'll write a descripshin of 'em. It
would be plesent light readin for our fast
men.
In few years more we shell be red of
the few steddy goin old fellers that still
lives to remind US of the stoopidity of the
Past, and the neok-or-nuthin spectators
and plesher seekers will hev the, wurld en-
tirely to tharselyes. Thenthe MILLENNIUM
will commence in airnest, and all the
lams and lions will cotton to wun another
i promiskuously on the principle of Free
luy aud the largest liberty
Ankshusly lookin forwardto that happy
epock,
Iremain fastly,
Yours allus,
A DISBANDED VOLUNTEERS.