The New York herald., 1873-07-19

America have done to accomplish that object. I
spent nearly the whole OF one delightful afternoon
nearly the rest oft in driving to it. People asked
me TO go In to bathe Il believe that after tweive
noo Er an our @ 1a Is 70 ad an
gagement, not even mentioning my destination
and purpose so anxious was l TO enjoy the dread.
iul sensation alone Az my driver neared the spot
ana pointed out the locality visions OF all the most
overwhelming and stupendous spectacles nature
affords nasaed before me In the most In
on grandeur IN order that ! might lore
taste IN imagination. iancled the aurora
sheeted with lire, or the storm described by Victor
Hugo in "rhc Toilcrs OF the sea' taking place on
and whirlwind simultaneously experienced WITHIN
the crater OF Mount 'esuvius. When, towards the
close OF q bright afternoon, my driver stopped his
horse beside a rail fence and offered to show me
the way determined 10 go alone. moments
reflection, however, convinced me that 1t would
not be safe. had read OF persons OF vivid imagi
nation hurting themselves, through some obscure
impulse from the tops or lighthouses whence they
were looking: suppose that in one rash moment,
huri myself from the brink aud find an early grave
Or ] happened to reach the bottom In time)
and said to myself that would give the
alive Some may think rate my lie dear. We
walked on for u lew minutes, ] in silence, the guide
gayly chatting. Some peop:e would chat gayly on
the brink OF the Styx, and crack a joke with the
pale boatman himself Presently ne stopped be-
fore o gully in the rocks which commanded u fine
view OF the sea: thought the youLg man was
tired and waited a few moments with the patience
which rs characteristic OF men. Then, as the alter
om % sss gong said
"Certainly." said l, ''let's make haste" and
began pushing rapidly forward.
certainly 40 my dear fellow" / exclaimed.
wei, this his IS Purgatory,'" said aid my guide, and
pointed down the gully IN the rocks.
looked down The gully. put my hands in my
pockets and stared the guide steadily in the lace.
l thought ne was loollng me. But no honesty
was written on his countenance, and | mad not
even the miserable satisfaction OF thinking he had
wished to play me a Joke. / walked up to The edge
aud looked in l tried to shuddcr, but my hair re-
fused to rise, my flesh to creep. The marrow in
my bones was as easy ana comfortable as though
were swallowing turtle soup. peered steadily
over the edge and tried to manufacture that SICK
which precipices judiciously administered are
said to promote 1t was OF no use, the frenzy
wouldn't come. Such wholesale fraud upon a
precipice | never saw before, and hope never
TO see again. 1t was beneath the contempt
OF the writer OF dime novel. II Sylvanus Cobb or
Ned Buntline should attempt to introduce such q
pitiml precpice as this into one OF his works
his reputation would be gone forever. Tradition
says lover was once dared by his mistress to
leap its "yawningn mouth for her glove. All that
have to say IS either that tradition lies (Which,
am sorry 10 say she often does or that the mouth
since
'll's fearful place to look into," said my guide,
Snuuuerlnk
at is indeed, said I. 81 wouldn't like to look
into 1t longs And as l walked away thought
would like to look into the people VINO PRINT such
dreaduT lies about such innocent localities CAN
"PurgatOryn u CONFUSION OF natures Why, 1t
isn't even q first cia ,s teething lit!
THE BATHING.
After this 1t became very difficult to persuade me
to go anywhere, unless you told me beIol chand
that 1t was not worth seeing. l took to slttug
suplncly ON the piazza, wishing tnat was at Long
Branch ana rejecting upon the variety and general
wretcaednsss OF life. Bntpne day was beguiled
to the beach convinced that II anything was going
on anywhere at Newport II must be there found
the ocean roaring and the surf sweeping, the bows
crested and the sands shining, just as had been
leu 20 expect. You can always depend upon these
things ii. :.e seashore. the ocean never goes back
on you, excc"i when ysu are Knocked down by 4
breaker. You Gnc things right there in the main.
This time | found ha.! dozen people there,
too. Yes, there were six; Tor [ counted
them w,ce and they wets iSr enough s "a
them were women, 1t would De right to call tMtl1
girl buoys. This was the extent OF the Newport
bathing. Now, whether the hour OF the day was
unfortunate ut was eleven A. NJ, when, believe,
every one bathes VINO Is supposed to battle at alD,
or whether bathing has gone out Of fashion at tins
enough TO accommodate more than six at q time
and tue bathers go IN oy instalments or whether
there is police regulation iOrbidding more than
halfadoZen AT once on account Oi the difficulty of
saving more than rnat number simultaneously 10
cases OF drowning, or whether all these reasons
In full force. VIII not undertake to explain.
made it a point OF asking every body whom met,
but the only satisfaction could get was that the
pose II hadn't.
Among the other institutions OF Newport ought
to be mentioned the Old Stone MILL upon whicn I
was disposed to look with veneratOn, until my
iaitl in human nature In general and nature at
manner above narrated. 1t stands upon large
plot OF green directly in front OF the Atlantic
House, and may be taken for any thing you wish to
imagine IL to be. Ii the band played IN 1t morning
and evening you would say 1t made good music
house, ana II somebody set up soda water 1Oun-
any rate, II furnishes every visitor VINO dabbes IN
archaeology something TO speculate about. good
many years ago the Society of Danish Antiquarles
at Copenhagen de cded that 1t was built by Morse
men IN the twelfth century. l have examined all
find myself in long lane that seems to
have no turning, or rather which turns again
into Itself and leads one over the same
ground al irJtaittm. Let us be thankful TO who
ever built the old Stone Mill, and let us be equally
thankful to those who didn't pull 1t down. What
should we do without these architectural num-
mics, come to US rom out OF dead and forgotten
ps,t and speaking to us with no intelligible IAN
guagar If there IL anything Tor which feel par
tculary Obliged to Father Time IL Is iOr surround
ing the niGe,eenth century with so many relics
which no one knSws anything ABOUT and which
professional antiqua.iSns shrewdly fOrbear utter
ing their opinions of Or iear they should be mis-
taken and be held in scorn aGd contumely. One OF
the advantages OF being monuI,snt Is that the
older you grow the more interesting you become
and the more people come to look at you. Every
body is anxious to take you away with them, sn,,
no one does SO maliciOusly.
ANTIQUITIES AND DRIVES
Nothing Is truer than that shoddyism is not
at home at Newport Here you find steady re-
spectabty and people OF hereditary wealth and
good family Whether people come here to battle,
or drive, or fish, or sail, or to peram0ulate the
piazzas and listen to the music will not pretend
to say. 1t Is easy to specify what they go to Sara
toga ana Long Branch for. There the show aud
the shoddy are too often hand IN hand. For
solemn elegance and comfortable decOrum give me
Newport. Some people, however, prefer old port
do not grudge them their tastes. Ii you want to
Z a
gOgue. which was built IN 1852; the Jewish ceme-
terry, which began to be occupied about the same
date; the Redwood LIBRARY, incorporated in ia. !;
the state House, built in I742; Trinity church.
where Bishop Berkeley preached in 1929. and ver-
non House, where Washington almost lived,
being entertained there by the Count de
Rochambeau. Wnat pity Washington couldn't
have died In as many houses as he lived in. Only
that thing can't be done. II you wish for drives,
and all OF them worth trying. Take q look at the
Cn cottages visit the Glen and pretty little val