The New York Herald Newspaper, August 7, 1873, Page 4

4 ’ NEW YO RK HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. NEWPORT AGAIN, The Whole Place Transfigured at the First Touch of August. Principal Hotels Crammed and Cottages Overflowing. Charlotte Cushman, Ida Lewis, the Mixed Claims Commission and Psycho- logical Steam Baths. : Newport's Poor Side Contrasted with Its Rich. Jonanicut Park and Narragansett Pier Set Up a Rivalry. ‘Who Runs the Casino and the Recherche Entertainments There. Our Correspondent Regrets Not Being Like Mr. Boucicault, for if Mr. Boucicault Wanted a Shilling He Would Bor- row It from the French. Newronrt, August 6, 1873, ‘The law which the author of “Principles of Psy- chology” calls “the absoluteness of uniformities” hhas begun to operate in tavor of Newport, and the contrast between what that place now is and what it was a few weeks ago, when my first letter was ‘written, is too great to be passed over in silence, The Ocean Honse, which is the principal hotel, is as full of guests as asponge is Of pores, or a piece of moss of sporules, or a dictionary of definitions. The proprietors would almost be, Justified in put- ting up, after the manner of theatres, a placard bearing the announcement ‘Standing room only,” though I am afraia sitting room would still be in as much request asever, Board and lodging, like the kingdom of heaven, suffer violence, and the violent take them by force, so that it is but little of @ figure of speech to say that you have to battle for your accommodations betere you can get them. Old residents declare that it 1s a repetition of the story. Here Herbert Spencer’s law comes in. Giver the same condl- tions and Newport will show the same results. The cottages have filled up, the hotels are crowded and nearly everybody is or has been here who in- tends to come—at least among those who occupy private residences. At a close calculation the number of cottages either at present occupied by ‘their owners or rented and occupied by other per- sona is 350, Of these about one-half are either owned or occupied by New Yorkers. Of the New Yorkers now living here in cottages ninety-four own those which they occupy and sixty-nine rent them, the owners for the most part being in Eu- rope. And since New Yorkers are always imter- ested iu knowing where New Yorkers are, let me mention here some of those who are spending the season in cottages, premising that the word cot- tage is in many instances a very insignificant word for a magnificent fact. You might as well call the Mississippi a creek or Niagara a cascade as nine outof ten of the Bellevue residences cottages. But to proceed. All mentioned in tne following paragraph are New Yorkers:— Dr. V. Mott Francis is living in Everett street; Dr. ©. F. Heywood on top of Honeyman’s Hill, on one of the largest estates at Newport, its chief need being trees. General Irwin McDowell has Flagg’s cottage, Dixon street. Mr. Alexander Van Rensselaer occupies his own cottage on Beach View avenue. Professor J. H. Wilson is on Cottage street. Jacob Voorhis, Jr., has Hartshorn’s cot- tage on Halidon Hill, Augustus Whiting is at home on Bellevue avenue; Loring Andrews, ditto, Mrs, Bigelow Lawrence is occupying Hazard’s cottage, Catharine street. General R. B, Potter is at “The Rocks,” Ocean avenue; Judge Blatchford is living at Greenough place. John Auchincloss occupies his own residence on Washington street. Arthur Gil- man has Mrs. Oliver's cottage, Pelham street. Professor Vincenzo Botta has Brown’s cottage, Ayrault street. Mrs. H. Leroy Edgar ts living on Bellevue avenue. J. P, Kernochan is residing at the intersection of Marine avenue and Cliffs. Sidney Brooks has one of the finest residences on Bellevue avenue, a little below the Ocean House. Mrs. M. E. De Forest is in Hall's cottage. F. S. G. D'Hauteville is on Bellevue avenue. Arthur Bronson is living at Castle Hill. John Heckscher is occupying Mr. Bennett's cot- tage on Catharine street. Stuyvesant Leroy is on Mann avenue Mrs. Amelia Leroy ts occupying Bull's cottage.. M. Lazarus is on Bellevue avenue. Miss E. Callender is on East Narragansett avenue. Pierre and Louis Lorillard occupy Morton's cot- tage, Bellevue avenue. Mr4, Matt. Morgan has J. L. Hazard’s cottage, Kay street. Admiral D. D. Porter has been staying at tne Aquidneck House, and has not gone into cottage life. Charles Lanier fs at Wheatland’s, Rev, H.C. Potter is ou Rhode Island avenue. J. W. Chanler is at C1iff Lawn. F. W. Rhinelander is on Redwood street. Mrs. Louise Char- trand occupies Tesseire’s cottage, Brinley street. Mrs. Calford Jones is on Bellevue avenue. Cap- tain Charles Churchill is on Ayrault street. FE, H. Schermerhorn is on East Narragansett avenue; Frederick Sheldon ditto, Miss Stebbins has not yet come to Newport, having been detained at Hyde Park by the iliness of her mother. General T. W. Sherman has been at Greenough piace. Miss S. Gelston is at Hall's Cottage House. Dr. J. Ma- rion Sims occupies Creighton’s cottage, Kay street. Arthur Gilman is at Mrs. Oliver’s cottage. Miss Gilsey 18 at Hall's Cliff House, A. B, Stockwell has Barreda’s cottage, Bellevue avenue, Dr. J. K. Vanderveer (Brooklyn) has Bateman’s cottage, Kay street. H. G. Marquand is on Rhode Island avenue, and Rufus Hatch has Wilson’s cottage, Beacn street, FORFIGNERS AT NEWPORT. Enough foreigners are here to give us the pic- turesque contrasts of cosmopolitan tints. If you are not tired of names you shall hear who they | are to be | are, At Perrier’s, Bellevue avenue, found Maurice Deltosse, Coun’ the Belgian Minister; nnini, of the Italian Legation: the Mar- quis de la Porte; and M. Grip, of the Swedish Lega- | tion. At Armington’s, Touro street, are Baron Brin and the Count de Ganay, of the French Legation. Count Louis Cort), the Italian Minister, and 0. Stenersen, the Swe- dish, Minister, occupy Barker's, Elizabeth street. Mr, John Bruce, of London, has Newman's | cottage, Catharine street. De Grasset D'Avilley, of Italy, has Fiudder's cottage, Catharine street. ‘The Count de Kreutz, of the Russian Legation, is , ab Whbur’s, Kay strect. The Marquis de Noailles, ) the Frenoh Minister, has Ogden's cottage, Hast Narfagansett avenue. The Hon, Russell Gurney Pecupies Riggs’ cottage, Catharine street. Henry \ Howard, of the British Legation, 18 at Waring’s, Catharine street. The Admiral de Barnabe Polo, the Spanish Minister, has Hazard’s cottage, Church street, and the Marquis San Marzano, from italy, bas Parker's cottage, Bellevue avenue. THE CLIFF COTTAGES. These cottages, as novelists say of a favorite character, deserve @ chapter to themselves, ‘hey ure situated on an eminence that slopes down to tue beach, andare rented by the season. Eight ‘0 hucaver, delightfully located, they almost always Jind tenants, As you approach them from Gibi avenue the first building that meets the eye is the email hotel at whieh the cooking is done for the entire series, This is one of the peculiarities of Jace. Every household is relieved of culinary ud ® of the chief troubles of house- Keeping, “the trouvle with the cook,” is lopped off at a stroke, The flower enamelled #rass plats before cach cottage unite to torm one wenerai vatk, Consegueat i is an cagy place iu Le alia Al 2 which to learn to practice the golden rule, since 7c will never injure your neighbors pi rty when t belongs to you quive as much as to thm.” Some- times ® cottage is occupied by one family. some- times by more than one, No, 2, for ce, 18 inhabited several tenants, among whom are Messrs. D. W. James.and James T. Wilson, of New 3No. 1 is occu; by Mr, R. P, Huntington, Cy uisville; No, 3 by F. A, Brown, of la a 3 No. by Pn ute 2 (gS 3 re, Savi ol Philadelphia; No. 6. by, bi, I. Livingston, of Now Ry i ty No. 8 by J..M. Taber, of New York. No, 7.is the only one that has not been repted. The: sward that forms the Park, sloping by soft grades Lo the beach, ia brilliantly brooch wiih Cowes. The prospect of the 926 18 liberal and grand. The landscape is as wet and glowing as a iresh sheet of manuscript {rom the pen of an eared writer, and the surf, icon be heard fretting the tof the shore like @ memory that recurs unbidden. You have heard of love in @ cottage? Well, 1 think love could get al very comfort: in one of thege cottages. If Poverty came in at the door, Love, instead of Sying Out of the window, as she is cynically represented as doing, would. invit to take a or @ drink, aud would tl mol r into goiug about bis business. At least, thei re Iny impressions ; but, like the impreasions on 6 of the Oesnola antiquities, per! ape are not very distinct or altogether to be trusted. I know that these cliff cottages have been cried up in interested quarters, and that I may be sus- ut if the contracts were pected of vulgar puffery, shown to be as ult of faws as the Shah’s diamonds and the prospectuses ag full of menaacity as the average tombstones, that would not affect the tact that the spot is one of the most eligible at New- port, ‘and that it possesses a more cheerful and, omelike aspect than many & more pretentious place, It is precisely the locality for an amiable young couple who have just started in life together, as the phpase 48, and who have enough money to spend, but not too much. If love is the fulfilling of the law Romeo and Juliet ‘would make. excellent, citizens in this spot for two mouths of every year, surrounding. conditions Bre 80 favorable to $ng scections. Think what a blessing it must be to have your cooking, like your washing, done for you outside, and well done or underdone, just as you happen to, like it. . Why, that alone is worth the whole price of admission. ‘The straight, strong arrows of the air come barbed with vitaliging brine. The only .danger is that you will be too well to think of putting your nama to your will, and that, therefore, when you be- come mortbuiid, you will be classed with those who die and give no “sign.” You will understand that the seg air helps to poetize one’s perception, and that if afMictions come to you in a happy hour like this they will operate as a sort of moral strivil, scraping clean the cuticle of the soul. Your pal- aces along Bellevue avenue are beautiful and over- whelming. Une expects something more modest between sand on the one hand and surf on the other. Give me love, money, health, happiness and a Cliff cottage, and nothing could tempt me to leave except an invitation to @ balloon voyage in seventy-two hours across the Atlantic, PROMINENT HOTEL GUESTS. Among prominent hotel ye are J. B. Gates and family, Mr. and Mra. De Grasse Livingston, Miss Anna Messier, W. 0. Rhinelander and family, Dr. J. W. Gautier and family, William Cutting, Mrs, Angoaran, L, Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Long, Mr. G. B. Du Bois and wife, Mr. and Mrs. F. F. Gunther, T. T. Read and Miss Read, Mrs. B. McCoskey, Mr. and Mrs. J. R, Platt, Miss Lillie Platt, Miss Birdie Piatt, Mr, and Mrs. A. B, Lansing and family, Ww. B. Sharp and wife, J. S. Bryce and family, c. 8. Smith and family, Mr. and Mrs, John Dore, Dr. E. R. Peaslee and wife, Leonard W. Jerome, John R. Drake and wile, Miss C. Kilman, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Schiefilin, S. Mehrback and J.N. M. Caliand wile, Mrs. C,H. Leeds and fmily. E, St. Joon Hays and wife, Miss Hays, Miss Louderboek. and Arnold White and wile, all of New York. From Boston, there are Leopold Morse ana family, Geo. A. Miner and wife, H. C. Jackson and wife, Mr. and Mrs, A. 0. Baldwin, Mr. and Mrs. Bartlett and tamily. Mrs. Blake, Mr. and Mrs. J. B, Holden, Mr, and Mrs, Codman and daughter, and Mr. and S.C. Lawrence. From Baltimore there are the Hon. J. H. B. Latrobe, William T, De Ford and fam! |. D. E, Caswell, Jr., and the Misses Carroll. n there are A. L. Mellen and wife, and the Ceney family, of Wash- ington; Mr. J, Forbes Campbell and Mr, and Mrs. Arnoid W. White, of England; Captain Gore Jones, of the Royal Navy; and Mrs. Henry pee: and daughter, of Phi legit At the Ocean House rie Sunday not less than 450 guests sat down to inner. SUNDAY AT NEWPORT. Respect for the religious character of Newport constrains me to say that we do not go to church less on Sunday for having gone to the hop the night before, We are more pious than most watering ppera are, and lead not only a virtuous and decent (ife during the week, but a life of severity and sell!- denial on the Sabbath. None of us believe in original sin. Our sins are all selected, and might be classed under the head of “elegant extracts,” copied from the fascinating foibles of our neigh- bors. There are two sights worth seeing when the first day of the week comes around. One 18 Oid Trinity church, with its devout and tashionable worshij rs; the other is the linner hour at the Ocean House when every appetite isin full blast. You see the same people at both, and you might think that the bills of fare were righteousness irom the ardor with which we hunger and thiist alter them, Is there a sight on earth more edijying than that of @ hangry saint at a fashionable watering place, who mingles his tears with the cup of thanks- giving in the forenoon and grows unctuous and animal over soup and salmon a few hours after? Ana then after dinner, when we have justified, by appreciation, the silent grace, which let it be hoped we have said, what a sense of propriety, what a feeling of go-to-churchatlveness one has in sitting around soberly on the piazza and preserving that gentle conversational medium which lies between carnal delightson the one hand and metaphysical license on the other. [ insist that there is Petia ey. in Newport piety. It is just as well laid out and properly trimmed as the inter-sloping fleids which you be- hold at your feet fromthe top of Honeyman’s Hill, None of the Long Branch or Saratoga favor in it, Walk along our streets at noon or at five in the afternoon, and you shall see uscoming home from church in happy squads, the dew of the bene- diction upon us and the tex! nipgcy ite, Sop in our memories like a nosegay in a button hole. You cannot sit alone in your hotel room en Sunday evening without hymn tunes floating to you from Various parts of the house, So much the better if ardor, seeing that its powers expire on the 25th of vember, and upwards of one uundred claims are still undisposed Ol. In confection with this it might be worth while for me to mention that | am intormed by an English gentleman that in letters recently received by him from leading members of Parliament inténde dissatisiaction is expressed at many of the decisions of this Commission; that when the Commission 8 its doings will be severely handled tn the heX¢ session-of the british Parliament; that Mr. Russell Gurney’s conduct will probably cost him his seat for Southampton, but that as a sop of consolation Mr. Gladstone may Perhaps make him a peer, CONANICUT PARK, Fi wd dd a Parks, ple is sak 2 ie map oO! pographicat engineer, a1 e oes: is that in LBnOUe Loo Eorote the ene Co ip, Because you don’ ve to go y hae and there is a good deal mapre shade there. It te better laid Gul tag and, if Iocan make use Of ach an expression, has more egal in it. On the map there are ail sorts of pretty triangular Pines, such a8 Sylvan place, Warwick place, Bay jew place, to say no! of the Commons, Woodlawn ‘Park, Sunnyside rk, Conanicat Meadow, Orchard Grove and Island Park, with the magnificent drives and shady nooks, Before I went to Conanicat Park (an excursion ticket from Newport costs forty cents), I calculated the price ofan elaborate drive around It by carriage, and came to the conclusion that, judging from the map and the guide book (which [should oall a lamp to the feet of the traveller, were It not quite as often a will o’ the wisp), $10 would be well invested. Now don’t for a moment imagine that I intend to disp: Conanicut Park. 1 should never dare to look the agent or the topo- graphical engineer ih the faee agaiv. The first of these gentlemen has a great deal of hope and the last a lovely nation, and the Conanicut Park map is merely the expression of these valuable es. What, then, is Oonanicut Park? Is it a hum- ug? Not by any means, In all iaith and serious- ness it isa very pretty and 6) and bids fair some any to peodine to er eity of Providence something what Newport is to Boston and New York. miles ride by Stoamboes, eight boats touch at it daily, Its principal need at present is inhabitants and ‘trees, Eight miles of road have already been built, The principal drive, named Bay View, is round the shore, which itis the intention of the Conanicut Park Company to keep forever open to the public, and is three and a halt miles long. Four roads have thus far been opened in all—the Ray, View, Narragansett ave- nue, Broadway and immit avenue. There is & small hotel, which is the only ohe to be allowed in the place, as it 1s the desire of the company to keep the Park free from picnics, clambakes and other festivities which rural hotels do much to en-- courage. Colonel Henry Lippitt, of Providence, who 1s spending his Summer in a cottage to the rear of George Francis Train’s magnificently situated villa at the end of Ocean avenue, Newport, has a cottage in process of compietion here. Fifty thousand dollars have been laid out on the place during the present season, and contracts have sbeen made for forty cottages. It is expected that most of the patronage will come from Providence, Worcester and the cities in that direction, though there have been bids from New York, and even Chicago. Only two cottages are occupied at present, and the company, therefore, is not very numerous, To those who have faith and fancy enough to perceive what the place will be like when there are more plants and people it is impossible for the prospect not to seem Jair. From the top of Summit il @ varied circu- lar panorama of large circumference is to be en- joyed. The deep biue water rolis by like a Noating sky and the suris complain with a melodious monot- ony to the shore of the hard usage they have met with from their father Ocean. A great stretch of beach seems to promise better natural tacilities It ts about twenty from Newport, and for bathing than you find at most places around Newport. Half a dozen bathing houses are in pro- cess of erection, but everything is, of course, in an inchoate stage as yet. The land covers 500 acres. That so great interest should have been manuested in the enterprise at so early a point in its history {8 an augury worth bearing in mind. NARRAGANSETT PIER. This is the name otf a growing watering place colony, within three-quarters of an hour’s ride by steamboat of Newport. It contains not iess than seventeen hotels, large and small, and of al! vari- eties. Beginning at the north end, they might be mentioned, according to their relative iocall- ties, in the following order:—Tower Hill, Mansion, Hazard, Moxon,* Ocean, Metatoxet, Elmwood, Seaview, Delevan, Narragansett, Matnewson, Atlantic, Atwood, Revere, Contt- nental, Mount Hope and Ubaley. The Continental, Mount Hope, Tower Hill and Maxon range to- CS cxirg in point of excellence. At the best o1 these jotels board ranges (rom $3 to $4 per day. The class of people who bestow most patronage are mainly 1} the West. Without disparagement te Narragansett Pier, it may be remarked that there is DO present prospect of its ever rivalling New- ort. Une misses the breeding, the elegance and he style which it is dificult ior him not to en- counter at the last-mentioned place. The female faces he sees at Narragansett Pier have a hardier hue than at the fashionable watering place par excellence. ‘The fibre is rougher and the bloom less delicate. Narragansett Pter, how- ever, has the advantage of a bathing beach two or three times as Nea as that at Newport and at least equally safe. Bathing is very general there, the favorite hours being eleven in the morn- ing and three in the afternoon. There are several fine drives, too, in the direction of Wakefield, Point Judith, Rockey Brook, Peacedale and King- ston. The place has sprung up within the last few years. All the principal hotels face the beach and look immediately out to the open sea. Passengers in the little steamboat which plies between this place and Newport frequently succamb to seasick- ness; but, happily, the malady cannot in this case Jast longer than ‘forty-five minutes. Quite long enough, however. POOR SIDE OF NEWPORT. Something might be done to ameliorate the or side of Newport. Dens exist there quite as vad as any in New York, and some of the tenement houses are outrageous. Let the Pia authorities inspect Young and Tanner and Levin streets, all ot which are in a Althy condition—a disgrace to any locality in which so much retinement, wealth and culture are to be found, If the work of renovation is begun with No. 47 Levin street, one of the moss violent Les ted spots of the poorer classes, we shall be cleansed at once. MISCKLLANKOUS MENTION, I say nothing of the bathing at Newp because these tunes add a meaning to the solemn color of the sunset and the mournful calmness ef the sea. OLD HOUSES. There are plenty of places in the city interesting on account of their age; but after all, associations are everything, and in some instances places in themselves are almost nothing. An exception 1s to be made in favor of the Vernon House—a large, two story double house, at the intersection of Mar; and C.arke streets, It was formerly owned aui | occupied by the late William Vernon, butis now inhabited by the family of Mr. W. W. Hazard, who have been there since last October. There are many who wiil feel a delicacy in visiting a house, no Matter how absorbing tts historical associations: may be, which has passed into private hands; but the forieit a private mdividual pays for occupying such a residence ts the obligation he feeis to keep it tu some measure dg to the public, and cer- tainly the urbanity of the Hazard iamily wiil war- rant a visit trom any one who ieels interested in inspecting the place where Rochambeau enter- tained Wastington. The Panel Room with its quaint and expensive mantel-piece, the historical knicknacks that adorn the hall, the little room to the back, on the right, with ite odd cupboard, bring to the mind that strange feeling of reverence and far-awayness with which one stands upona spot hallowed many a year ago by the tread of the good and great. I believe that the hall of this quaint old house recently turnished the New York artist, Mr. E. L. Henry, with a theme for a picture representing Count Rochambeau’s reception of | Washington, And now that I have referred to old houses it would | not do to omit mention of that occupied by vr. | Argyle Watson, at the intersection of John and Spring streets. It is one of the most venerable in the place. You fee! like taking off your hat to it, and hesitate before making iree with the knocker. The old fashioned marbie fags that lead up to the door, the antique door itseli, which seems made not for time, but eternity, the quaint paneled | rooms, the stalwart ratters, the littie flignts ol | steps leading hither and thither, and the many- | angled stairway of the century betore last, are the principal features that strike the eye, independent of the collection of rare engravings and a well-as- sorted Shakspearian library. DRIVES—OLD AND NEW. | Everybody drives very much in Newport—except | the servants, and they are very much driven. Do not fear that lam going to ask you to accompany me through an elaborate tour. ‘That is au enjoy- | ment which consists in the doing of tt, and not in | reading a description, Bellevue avenue, of course, | remains the fashionable drive, and when you have Seen all that lies between the estate o! Sidney | Brooks and that of Mr. Train you will coniess to some little admiration of the architectural beauty | | displayed in Newport. The residences of J. Carter Brown, John A. brown, Augustus Whiting, Gardner Brewer, Colonel Davis, Charles H, Russell and Daniel Parish are among the finest on this ie, and hold prominent place among those | h rivet the regard o/ strangers. A new road | has lately been opened caiied the Ocean Road, which, from its comparative lonelimess and wild- ness, has the irresistibie charm of variety, Here | the waves, instead oi rolling up bevelled beaches, dash themselves against fantustic rocks; the smell of seaweed becomes strong, are encountered, and the © horizon toits search over the sea, After having gone religiously through the conventional tour, alter having trembied on the brink of “Purgatory” and shrunk in shaddering silence betore the “oid Stone Mili;” alter having gone to the three cemet the Redwood Library, the Newport Club, the House, ‘Irinity Church, @ drive along Ocean avenue brings one in contact with a certain rugged grandeur which points apew the biunted sensi- bilities. Time, however, should be saved for the MUSIC AT FORT ADAMS, | where, on Tuesdays and Fridays, the band plays | for au nour in the early evening, say from five to | six o'clock, The scene then is animated and pretty. The ground, enclosed by the four sides of the fort, is filled with scores of carriages of every description, most of them occupied by weil dressed people, listening to the music. The large square space is liberally plotted with grass, and the band occupies a central position. Flowers are planted in suficient profusion to give the relief of bright color, and groups of ladies, gentlemen and children walking about the ramparts impart the sense of stray Indian tents finds no limit save the bathing is an infinitesimal part of the diver- sions. So far as the beach is concerned there ig absolutely nothing worth mentioning. Two of the finest views to be had are [rom the top of Honey- man’s Hill and Miantonomi Hill. The latter is particularly interesting from the remains of a ruined fort and of a tower once sixty feet high. So far as yane racing is concerned, & race by the New York Yacht Club is set down jor the last Tuesday in October, on the usual Newport course. The hops at the prea hotel here are Well attended, but do not form a striking feature. A number of West Point cadets graced the one given at the Ocean House last Saturday evening. Let any amiable student of human nature fond of ‘characters’? inquire for John Graham. He belongs to the colored race, but 13 one of the pillars of Newport. Of pubiic amuse- ments, such as the theatre, the concert, the ros trum, there are none worth mentioning. Of pri- vate culture there is pienty. Of this class Mr. Joseph Watson, who intends to devote the remain- der of bis lie mainly to the study of Shakspeare, aud who has already made a lair commencement, 18 a valuable member. IDA LEWIS, “NIP AND “HECTOR."? Miss Ida Lewis, whose married name is Mrs. Wilson, still lives at Lime Rock, almost @ stone’s throw from Newport, with her mother, a younger sister and two brothers. Her father has been dead for some Months and the family are in mourning for him, Ida, whom | saw at Ler home yesterday afternoon, and who was kind enough to converse | with me with that ireedom and frankness which are so often the accompaniments of great Consti- | tutional courage, has not recently been im such good health as usual. She looks thin, and those who have never seen her will be interested in hearing that, though every inch @ heroine | in spirit, there is littie that is heroic, and nothing that is masculine in her appearance. Time was when Ida Lewis had 10,000 visitors in three months, and sometimes 500 in one day. Now her visitors are very few. She is in the unfortunate Position of ap artist with a declining reputation, and aniess she is enabled to save another life very goon her renown must proportionally dwindle. This ts unlucky; for wrecks cannot be made to order, and people wiil not come next door to drowning tn order tu ep Miss Lewis’ reputa- tion afloat. And then Miss Lewis has this fearful reflection: I! lie is @ curse, a8 the philosopher Shopenhauer maintains, what Must be the feelings of a woman of generous in- Sstincts, who, on eleven distinct occasions, has per- petuated an existence which was almost at its last ’ Let us vot pursue the argument. Miss Lewis {8 a dauntiess woman, inheriting her courage irom her father, vellent mother is meek and blue-eyed. ghthouse home 18 as cl as a soul in Pas e, There are two di “Nip” and “Hector.” ‘Nip’! is @ little dog, who receives you with a bark and dismisses you with a bite, unless you are careful, lda says site iikes life in the light- house. It has the advantage of not having any next door neighbor. The boathouse built by the late James Fisk, Jr., i8 in good condition. I iorgot to say that ‘Hector’ isa big dog, who treats you with royal indifference, THE “HUSH BE STILL” HOUSE. There is little public house in Newport which calls itself a hotel, and which L will not further designate than by the above title, The price of living is $450 per day, but I should think the would let you die there for nothing, You, would think that the majority of the inmates had been brought up from early chiluhood to playing funeral, ‘The dining room ts darkened to the twilight of the tomb, and when you learn that the champagne is on ice there is a ghastly appropriateness in the expression. This is what i called @& quiet hotel. To use @ popular figure of speech, itis quiet with a vengeance, ifso demon- Strative a noun can pfoperly be so coupled. There is a aelightial degree of hesitation and uncertainty in all the answers given to questions of business, Ifyou want a@ New York newspaper none are sold in the louse. Ifyou desire to get shaved no bar- ber exists on the domain, Ifyou ask for a lemonade you are conducted gioomily to @ locked door, Which, being opened, you enter @ mysterious aud dark apartment, where the beverage 18 concocted as secretly as though it, were @ plot. Upstairs and down atalrn and in my eons chamber there is brooding silence— not the kind of silence that comes betore or alter ‘motion, without which the scene would grow in time a little too still, You are aware that THB MIXED CLAIMS COMMISSION {a pursning its labors at Newoort with redonbled @ storm, but the silence of the tomb and eternity, that never knew what 4 storm was, and never Will know, A paralysed in her I @ painter gone blind. a pianist with hands smputate aod @ donna who had lost her voice, might, per- aps, choose some such place asthe “Hust-be-still- House” in which to eke out the aad remainder of their days. I have heard this place praised for what some pedantic admirer termed the pulchri- tude of ite ensembie. Sepuichritude, { think, would be better, Still it is eminently respectabie, method- ical 80 far as it and patronized by some very particalar and emihent personages. STEAM BATHS AND PSYCHOLOGY. An elderly gentieman—who will forgive my say- ing that his name is Mr. Charles B, Peckham— keeps some oriental batns not one hundred miles irom ‘the excellent Aquidneck Hotel. Suct know!- edge a8 Ihave of human nature permits me to di- vine that the proprietor of the HERALD will pardon, if not approve, of the entirely gratuitous adverts: ment of that gentleman which this paragrapo will be found to contain. There are people who are fond of steam baths; there are others who are fond of psychology. Occasionally you may meet one who is eq fond of both, who can go off into an ontologic dream while bis body drips with arti- ficial moisture, and fuotuate between Cousin and Comte while cooling down between the fannels. 1 advise all such who visit Newport to go to my gentleman who keeps the Oriental baths. He ta a3 umque ag & Greek cameo and quite as well worth studying. Living ali glone, like an amiable Dioge- nes, unbdlessed with chick or child, versed in the lore of spiritualism, fond of all questions in which the progress of manhood and womanhood ts con- cerned, getting up his own steam, and more than equal to supplying the best part of the conversation, he is one of the curiosities of the lace—a curiosity little known, I am afraid, but all @ more worth visiting on that account. It is something to run across an elderly man who has been battered by the world and who yet has a fresh atream of thought and charity in him. Lown toa symp: shy for crotanety people, when their crochets are dignified by consciousness of purpose and deli- cacy of feeling. I will not say much for the strict ortentalness of the bath you will obtain from the gentleman thus specified, but 1 will vouch for the exeeptionality of the character, the Ingenuousness of the conversation and the eccentricity of the sur- roundings. oHAR! CUSHMAN. It I were good at rhetorical intaglio I should like to indicate in sharp and delicate strokes the ex- terior and interior of the cottage of Charlotte Cushman, who, however many celebrated people may, make Newport their home, will always mono- philze a large proportion of the interest so long as she resides there. The cottage is situated at the junction of Rhode Island avenue and Catherine street, in a locality that is quiet but very beautiful. The sterling common sense of Miss Cushman, which apprehends that all the surroundings of @ person of eminence are interesting to_ the ablic, will pardon me _ for adding that the furniture and adornments of this secluded Summer residence are in exquisite taste. Miss Cushman herself has been leading a quict and retired life, merely entertaining a few private, un- proiessional friends, and seeing little other com- pany. The health and vigor of her personal appearance, the apriahiness and magic of her conversation, the deep and cordial sweetness of her smile, her warm and unaffected oot ret) unite, ag ‘they have for 80 many years united, to win the stranger and to retain their magnetism over old friends, It will readily be understood that I cannot repeat ail that was said dori her conversation with your correspondent, but it will not be out of place 30 mention that she spoke enthusiastically of Sal- vini, the Italian actor who appears in New York in September, as being, in co! ny with Rossi and Ristori, @ worthy pupil of Gui pe Modena, who instructed them all. Of his Othello she spoke in un- Measured praise; not so much so of his Hamlet, One word in regard to Miss Oushman’s personal appearance. It gathers sweetness as she gathers qae I defy any one who observes her in her own ome to see Anything but a femininity, sweet and bina as itis passionate and energetic alike, in e brilliant, undimmed eyes, in the sensitive mouth, and in those heart-rooted tones of her voice which, even in ordinary conversa- tion, tell of sorrow that has been survived, Just as I was leaving she called me back and asked me af I knew the whereabouts of a certain popular young actreas, I gave such information as was in Mmy power. “Ah! she is very clever,” said the grease actress, ‘very clever.’ And so I left her, he great actress, entering the decline of life, pay- ing & tribute to one scarcely out of its dawn. Her gray hair, her clasped hands, her white morning dress, her wonderfui old face, her deep smile, 80 wonderful in its transfiguration of her countenance’ to that of youth—these formed a picture of them- selves upon the porch, and all around was the sun- shine o! a glorious day, and the fair landscape stir- THE CASINO less and we | “The Casino’™s a name given to a private enter- tainment among the ladies and gentlemen of New- port. It has now assumed ped ade ted ofa regularly established custom, and was, I believe, originaily created by Mrs. August Belmont and the Cushings. Last season it was held in the Academy of Music, @ stylish little building adjoining the Perry House, which monopolizes the site once occupied by the residence of Com- modore 0. H. Perry. of Lake Erie renown, and the only magnate in connection with Erie who deserves the title of “Prince.” During the first season of “The Casino,’ the ladies who sustained it used to take their books and work, and the Academy was alive with their tongues and needies—the one exe- cuting the embroidery of conversation, the other that of various little articles of ornament and dress. The entertainment has undergone some modification since, and bids fair to pass into an ““pstitution.” If so, its longevity is assured, for a deeply rooted institution 18 almost as hard to kill a¥ time, a'though it may jar against our pre- possessions, excepting those of the wretched peo- ple who cannot gain admission. [tis now held two days la the week, at a house once owned by Mr. Alexander Van Rensselaer, but purchased irom him by Mr. 8. D. Bradiord Jay, who died last March. The hours are {rom five to eight on Monday evening, and from twelve to three on Friday aiternoon. ‘The cards of invitation read thus:—‘The honor of your company is requested at Bradford Cottage, Catherine street, on the tollowing days—July 25, 28, and August 1, 4, 8 Ul, 15, 18, 22 and 25." The names attached to these cards are those of T. Forbes Cushing, Hollis Hunvewe' Edward Tem- leton Snelling, George Peabody Wetmore, and irs. Robert M. Cushing, Mrs, G. Griswold Gray, Mrs. Richard M. Hart, Mrs. Charles Hunter, Mrs, Henry Ingersoll, Mrs. James P. Kernochan, Mrs. George Peabody Wetmore, Mrs. T. Bigclow Lawrence, La Marquise de Noaiiles, Mra Wm. Redmond, Jr.; Mrs. Frederick Shel- don, Mrs. Edward ‘rempleton Sneling, Mrs. W. W. Tucker, m. Wadsworth and Mrs. Tucker There is some talk of giving midnight ‘Genuig The entertainment con- sists mainly of dancing and conversation. The house, which is on Rhode Island avenue, imme- diately opposite to Miss Cushman’s cot , is chamingly situated, handsome without and luxu- riously furnished within. There are several good paintings, ot which the most striking is a horse's head by William P. W. Dana. This graces the bil- lard room. In endeavoring to draw a picture of retined manners und good breeding there is the constant danger of overdoing the thing and oi be- coming fastidious, prudish and finical, when navu- ralness, simplicity and delicacy are most desired. 1 say nothing, therefore, respecting the social status of those who have given to ‘The Casino” ita, reputation, excepting that, like the various crea- tions mentioned in the first chapter of Genesis, it 13 “all very good.” Personal experience assures me that some of the principal people have @ way about them which mignt be mistaken for the way of wisdom, it so full of pleasancness and peace. The Bradford Cottage is one of luxury. An liad of comfort has been compressed into this villa nutshell. Objects de vertu abound as rare as Saratoga piety, and as easily broken as the seventh commandment, The refreshments at the Cagino meetings are as delicate as Delmonico himself could provide and as nice as the distinc- tion between insanity and crime—and we all know how exceedingly nice that is! If pistols and cof- fee were ever ordered there I am sure that the istols Would be miracles of Workmanship, and he coffee such a8 & man about to die could drink without blushing for the duplicity ot his grocer. There has been some talk about private theatri- cals, but private theatricais do not seem to be popular at Newport. { do not know why this should be so, for in the Summer there are enough idle people here to suggest the pleasures of that sort of modic industry, which an amusement of this description renders necessary. But here am at the end oi my present tether, we to visit such other watering places as the worid yet contains, or to return home, as circumstances may require. For those iew places, whose tables have been bare and inten- tiona better than their performances I have nothing but forgiveness and biessing, My spoetite un- fortunately, is more exacti than Mrs. Hailer’s. I demand something more varied than a “morsel of bread, moistened with the tear of penitence.” That may be very good in its way and for certain constitutions, but it don’t do for @ hotel table, even when the tear of penitence comes trom the laud- jord. Icould tell you of bread that I have eaten that was as hard as the way of the tansgressor, and as broken a8 & woman’s work. But time fatls and money is growing short, and Iam not like Mr, Boucicault. If Mr. Boucicauit wanted a shilling, he‘would borrow it from the French. THE BIGHTH WARD MUBDER. Identification of t Victim—Wit Committed to the Tombs and House of Detention. Captain Williams, of the Eighth precinct, yester- day received information that the man who was murdered corner of Spring and Greene streets on Monday night last, as heretofore published in the Herap, had been Identified at the Morgue as An- drew Gargon, late a fireman on board the Sound steamer Providence, plying between this city and Fail River, Mass, Captain Walliams has secured nearly, if not all, the important witnesses in the case, and Coroner Young will soon proceed with investigation, Deceased was a native of Kng- Jand and has left a widow and two children, who live in Liverpool, One Armstrong, a fellow work- man of deceased on board the steamer, is the person b who identified the body. Oharies Cobern, arrested on suspicion of striking the, fatal blow, was yesterday alternoon trans- ferred to the Tombs on the commitment of Coroner Young, to await the result of the offictat: invest by A ' the de- Margaret Young, alias “Boston Mi praved woman Ben whom decoused’ had been nding the day previous to his death, and Neitte Wain , Who witnessed the assault by Cobern, wore sent to the House of Detention a8 witnesses by Goroner Herrman, ROME. How the Inhabitants of the Eter- nal City Contemplate the Visit of the Shah. THE HEALTH AND SPIRITS OF THE POPE. The Hopes and Aspirations of the Papal Government---A Prediction from the Vatican. WILL VICTOR EMMANUEL FALL? The Degree of Development of the Religious Reaction Through- out Europe. Significant Attitude -” of France. ROMAN VANDALISM. Roms, July 17, 1873. If Dr. Tholozan, the Shah of Persia’s medical attendant, could only feel how hot it is in Rome just now, with the thermometer at 90 in the shade, he would congratulate himself on having projes- sionally dissuaded his sovereign from visiting the capital of Italy in the dog days. But the Romans are excessively disappointed at los ing their chance of gazing at the Shah, and speculating on the value of his famous dia- mond aigrette. It is no uncommon thing to see European sovereigns lionizing the Eternal City nowadays; but not even the “oldest inhabi- tant’ can boast of ever having seena ‘King of Kings” contemplating through a pair of gold Spectacles the massive arches of the Colosseum or the ample cupola of St. Peter's, If the Shah tra- verses the north of Italy he will most likely shake hands with Victor Emmanuel somewhere, and it is stated that he will do so at Turin on the 22a; but as His Imperial Majesty, even if so inclined, would not be able to kiss the Pope’s foot without coming to the Vatican, itis to be presumed that his be- nevolent feelings towards the head of the Catholic Teligion, as reported by the Papal Nuncio at 8rus- sels, will not be corroborated by an actual inter- view. Clerical journgis express equal indifference at the presence or absence of A MUSSULMAN POTENTATE from the Holy City, and [observe that the Arch- bishop of Paris declined doing the honors of Notre Dame to the Shah when he visited that cathedral on the 14th, and likewise refused his permission for the illamination of the venerable church in honor of the Persian monarch, In case of the Shan’s not visiting Italy it is said that he will send one of his royal relations, with an autograph letter, to compliment the King at Valdieri, or at any hunting station where he may be residing at the time. If Nassr-ed-Din had carried out his origi- nal programme of visiting the Vatican he would have found Pius IX. in a much better state of health than when His Holiness was visited by so many sovereigns and royal princes during the recent Winter and Spring. The continued warm weather has so much bene- fited THE PONTIFF, whose illness was from the beginning essentially of a rheumatic character, that he is now able not only to get about without the support of the pair of crutches which he used facetiously to call his aid-de-camps, but even without leaning u) his walking stick, which is only carried alter Hls Holi- ness by an attendant when he prolongs his prom- enade in the iong halls of the Library or the shady alleys of the Vatican garden. Several of my friends have seen His Holiness quite recently, and they all give me the same account of bis returning strength, and, above all, of his excellent spirits; for, although Pius [X. in his pablic speeches la- ments over the present persecution of the Church, and enumerates the catastrophes, such as inun- dations, earthquakes, hailstorms, cholera, diph- therite, &c., which now afflict Italy, and are ‘‘un- doubted proofs” of God’s wrath at the conduct of the present government and the enormities com- mitted by it, in his private conversations the Pope is as cheery and as fond of his joke as ever, THE POPE’S HABITS, Moreover, Pius IX. has resumed his usual hours and mode of living, hearing mass every morning @t half-past seven, only he does not always, as be- fore his malady, celebrate mass himself first. While Tam speaking of the Vatican I may as well men- tion the singular conviction which seems to prevail among its inmates that the days of the Italian government are numbered and that its future duration of existence will be avery short one. A friend of mine was dining with a prelate in the Vatican on Sunday, and after dinner he paid a few visits to other residents there with whom he was acquainted. One of these, whose name and office I, out of delieacy, refrain from mentionjgg, positively assured my friend that the Italian gov- ernment could not last above another couple of months. “You'll see,’ said he, ‘one of these fine mornings all these newcomers will have disap- peared, and the Pontifical government will be re- stored without the least opposition!” I know that at the Vatican there isa great deal of stress laid on the change of government in France and the progress of the Carlists in Spain. Clerical journals here are always reporting that France will be made the instrument of a terrible chastisement to be inflicted on those who have dared to lay hands upon the Church, and I observe that the liberal journals of Rome have been com- platning for several days of the return to this city of a number of noted Pontifical Zouaves, whose presence is considered as indicative of proximate disturbances. It is superfluous to add that the language of French journals of the Univers type and the aspirations of the pilgrims who, thousands in number, are daily flocking to old and new Shrines in France and Belgium, to say nothing of Italy, and more recently still, England, tend to show that just now RELIGIOUS REACTION throughout Europe bas reached a sufficient degree of development to justify the expectations of the Holy See. Apropos of pilgrimages, great preparations are being made for the festival of St. Francis of Assisi on the 4th of August, This celebrated sanctuary has been thronged on that day tor centuries by bona Jide pilgrims anxious to obtain the “pardon” of St. Francis, but the crowds who used to collect during the Middie Ages for this pious purpose have dwindled away in our times, and nothing short of the fervor of political partisanship could have re- vived the waning veneration attached to the sanc- tuary ot Assisi, The pilgrimage this year is being organized on a vast scale by the clerical party abroad and in different cities of Italy, and espe- cially at Naples, and the pilgrims are expected to beso numerous that they are advised by the di- recting committees to take with them provisions for three days. There isa good deal of counter agitation among the liberals of the neighboring towns and the surrounding province of Umbria, who have called meetings and threatened to op- pose THE PULGRIMS? DEMONSTRATION, which they look upon as @ mere manifestation of hostility to the present government of Italy, by force if tt not previously prohibited by the aa thorities, Botit is mot apparentiy the intention of governmnt to proceed to this prohibition, limit- ing {ta action only to @ strict supervision of the pilgrima’ orogeedipgs and ay (muediate reprem aion of sny infraction, of public grder, may come from the liberals or Soke yt 6 It ts to be very much nted that tility ta the Church pls ‘eas bal an itself here i#Rome by acts of owhich re- cently bave not respected even St. Peter's majeatus temple. The alabaster cornice which ornaments the base of the bronze statue of St. Peter has been broken of the base for a consi ble length on the side opposite the Pa- pal altar. This must have been either the work of some malicious destroyer, out of hatred te everything ecclesiastical, or of some unscrupulous depredator, desirous Of carrying away some tangi- ble souvenir from the grandest church in the world. Whichever class of vandal the raMfian be- longed to, he ta cqually detestable, and the mere so as it was evidently not a s0le case—a sort of irre- sistible idiosyncracy—for the flugers of the marble angels who decorate and, as it were, preside over the fonts of holy water on each side of the great nave of St. Peter's, have been recently and bar- barously knocked of! Everybody who has seen and admired these colossal puttt, the stupendous creation of Bermini’s genius, will shudder at such A OOLD-BLOODED PROPANATION Of art as well as religion. Everybody is running away from Rome. The Court fled long ago, preceded by the ephemeral flock of foreign sightseers, Senators and Deputies availed themselves of the new Prime Minister's “notice to quit” as soon as he officially announced the formation of bis Cabinet, and he himself, Signor Marco Minghetti, is onthe pcint of depar- ture for Legnazo, to inform his electors there, in true parliamentary style, of the programme which he intends to follow in his future government of the constitutional Kingdom of Italy, All the Roman nobility and the bourgeoisie are off to the seaside, to the mountains or the mineral waters, I may add that your correspondent means to follow the prevailing example by running up to Northern Italy, 80 as to cavch a glimpse of the fes- tivities that may be offered to Nagsir-ed-Din and his royal relatives of the Lion and Sun by the hos- pitable House of Savoy, hoping to offer your read- ers a few characteristic items on this subject, 1 was anxious to send this letter before leaving Rome, because there were some newspaper re- ports during the last few days that the Pope was rather worse again, while I have positive informa- tion to the contrary. His Holiness gave audience this morning to all the representatives of the Catholic societies of Rome, YACHTING. The Cruise of the New York Club and the Entries=The Josephine Not in- jured. / The preparations for the annual cruise of the New York yacht squadron are hurrying toward completion, The dry docks have during the past few weeks done much toward fitting out the craft tor this enjoyabie trip. Invitations have been extended by the yachtsmen to their friends, and on Monday next the fortunate ones who are to accompany the fleet as guests will betake themselves, with their satchels, to Glen Cove, the piace of rendezvous, There they will find fifteen or twenty yachts riding at anchor, whose owners will be waiting their ar- rival, Then will follow two) weeks or more of de- lightiul Summer idling along the New England coast. THE FLEET. The squadron will not be unusually large, and wa lar is pow known, consist. of the following yachts :— SCHOONERS, Name of Yacht, i Resolute. Tarotinta eesic EE teks e w Yor! New York. A CORRECTION. The schooner yacht Josephine, Lloyd pees arrived yesterday irom Newport. The report that she was stranded near that place is untrue. The Josephine did not return to Newport, but uot on account of any damage sustained. The mere fact oi her return may have free rise to the rumored damage, and the amplification of this before it reached New York probably even yet accounts tor the loss of a schooner and all on board. So much for anotaer rumored yacht disaster. The Atlantic Yacht Flect at New London, New Lonpon, Conn., August 6, 1873, The weather did not look very promising at day- break this morning, as there was hardly a breath of wind. The Atlantic Yacht Club feet lay at anchor in Morris Cove last night, and ip the morning were joined by the Alert and Nellie G@. Vice Commo- dore Monsell waited until a breeze sprang up before he gave the signal to start, and it was past nine o'clock before the feet weighed anchor for New London. There was a very light southerly breeze, and the Sound was as smooth glass, with its surface just broken by a gentle ripple that swept across from the Long Island shore. The littie Un- dine and the Alert were the first to get off, and, close hauled, they made short stretches in order to beat out of the Cove. The Orion, Kete (late Jose- phine) and Agnes came next, followed shortly af- terward by the Mystic, Triton, Stella and Eddie. The Nimbus did not leave with the squadron, but will join them to-morrow at Greenport. As soon as the yachts cleared the Lighthouse Point they lay their course right along the shore for the New Lonaon Lightship. During the early part of the morning the air was very light, but towards afternoon it grew fresher. The Agnes and Triton passed the Alert and took the lead of the fleet, leaving the other schooners in the rear. The Orion followed ajiter the Alert, with the Stella and Nellie G. close behind. The Alert held her position next the schooners throughout the day, and although hunted pretty closely by the Orion, succeeded in being the first sioop in New London Harbor. The Agnes and ‘Triton had a very pretty race together, passing and repassing one another, and they finally arrived in harbor so close to one another that there was Teally no difference in their time. The yachta all anchored in the harbor off the town, with the exception of two or three that pre- ferred remaining for the night of the Edgcomb House, The yachts passed the latter place as lol- lows Yachts, a. M. &. — Yaches. a OM. S. Agnes. Et ¢ 0 Oo Triton. 3 39 4 30 Alert. 3 87 5 8 The Mystic, Eddie and Kate arrived shortly afterwards. ‘The fleet leaves to-morrow lor Green- port. Yachting Notes. The steam yacht Lurline, N.Y.Y.C., built for P. Lerillard, has been sold to P, Phoenix. The schooner Phantom, N.Y.Y.C., has been par- chased by William H. Osgood, of Osgood Brothers. The schooner Columbia, Lester Wallack, N.Y.Y.0., Taw Cf anchor yesterday of Quarantine, Staten slond. The steam yacht America, Henry N. Smith, is completing her outfit at Hoboken preparatory toa short cruise. The following passed Whitestone yesterday :— Vinyera Yacht che (sloop), Mr. Dickenson, Haven for New York. Yacht Princess (sloop), Mr. Mettler, New London for New York. Yacht Resolute, N.Y.Y.C,, Mr. Hatch, fram New York for Newport. SAVINGS BANK CHEOKS. Southside Railroad Company’s New System of Paying Their Employes. The Southside Railroad Company have recently instituted a sysvem of paying its employés with in- terest-bearing checks denominated “ savings bank checks.” Attached to each check are four coupons, Payable one in each quarter, the interest being at the rate of eight per cent per andum, and the ulti- mate payment is guaranteed by a special deposit ofthe Com ‘s firat mortgage bonds with the New york Bond Deposit Sompeny, The checks are is- sued in denominations of $6, $10, $20, $50 and $100 each, and are exchangeable at the Company’s amice at the convenience of the holders. The checks ate, of course, good for their face at any time upon demand, but if held until the interest coupons become due, willbe worth the interest in add@iuon, When the Jast coupon becomes due the check may be collected or exchanged for a new one with codpons for another on at Pa 1a . reciprocal ) paymen' butit, is believed that it will Pepe uly vam: 2 us to the “Sapioyés, who wu ‘thas be induced to habits ofeconomy. Indeed, the “savings hank la already coming into great favor with Aug. ’