The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-08-11
THE WATERING PLACES.

NEvASINK HIGHLANDS, THOMPsoS's.
August 9. IRA

Ths A1sAlanAs.
NEvAsNK HIGHLANDS, THoAPsoN's,I
August ., 1864.
.Necasink-S hye,osbury River and ito Sans
mer Resorts-Hs Commerce and Passenger
Tya6ic-Jersey Producfions-A Brief .dc-
count Of the Hmekleberry and blackberry
Trade, and its Profts-THe Lookout on
the atlantic, sc. sc.
At this point, where the Jersey Highlands, il
sharp elbow, infringe upon the Atlantic ooesn,
we begin to have some idea Of the passenger
travel between New York and the Shrewsbury
river, and of some of the great staples Of Con-.
modore Stockton's little empire Of New Jersey
Shrewsbury Is mere inlet from Sandy
ocean, for four or five miles, when it branches of
into the country, into two fine shallow salt water
bays, known as the Nevasink and Shrewsbury
rivers famous as Downing himself for their
delicious oysters, In every STYLE" Along this
inlet and its branches, we have the summer re-
sorts of Thompson's Atlantic Pavilion, and
Riell's Ocean House.
AT Port Washington, various establishments
at Red Bank, and to the left, number of ocun-
try boarding houses, scattered all the way
down to Long Branch, where, stretched along
for the distance of two or three miles upon the
main ocean shore, we have number Of hotels,
on the caravapserai style of Cape May and
Newport, and all pretty well crowded
with people, more SO than usual, from the
pressure of the cholera in the neighboriag
cities, from Philadelphia to New York. In
deed, this is the case from Point Lookout, at
Thompson's, for an indefinite distance down
within reach of the surf and the sea breezes.
But speaking of the trade and travel Of tA,
Shrewsbury inlet, the fact that they occupy
four daily steamboats, in both directions, to AID
from New York, will give the distant readers
Of the HBRALD some idea Of it. The boats como
down pretty well loaded with passengers ana
groceries, and they return with about the
same number of people, (for they are constant
agricultural products from the Jersey farmers,
such as potatoes, green corn, tomatoes, black ber-
ries and huckleberries, apples and peaches. The
yield of these Jersey hills and swamps In black
berries and huckleberries is perfectly astound-
ing. A raw hand will perhaps be occupied an
hour in picking from the bushes q quart Of
huckleberries, and yet each of these four steam
CTS Wakes up 70 New 1Ork iIOm toA W tWcuV
bushels daily. This fruit Ia the spontaneous
growth of the undershrubbery of these Jer-
sey woods, and all the expense which they
require is the picking and transportation
to market. Allowing half bushel Is days
picking to hand, it win require the labor If
twenty hands for whole day to gather ten
bushels. The berries are sold to the hucksters,
Wholesale, at about four cents quart, whieA
would give for the days labor of half bushel
Ia ~ VI nat
transportation and other contingents, and the
net return of days gathering Of huckleber-
ries is reduced to fifty cents
The blackberry business is far more prefita-
bic. One person, getting into . good patch,
may gather, rs l am informed. q bushel day.
and they sell readily to the hucksters at tive
dollars bushel These four boats from Shrews-
bury inlet carry up daily immense supplies b
the middlemen of Washington Market Like
the huckleberry, the blackberry Is an indigo
nous production of the prolific soil Of jersey,
but wkile the former grows In the woods, ~
latter is the produce of the old fields, and
biefy Of the fence corDers.
In addition to the above enumerated articles,
his inlet, and the neiehboring fishing banks Of
be open sea, furnish large supplies Of oysters
nd fresh fish for the New York mar
kets, and, to large extent, oystering and
fishing Ia these regions is . regular vocation,
intermixed q little further down on the coast
with considerable profits from the wre0king
business, They tell me that down along tho
treecherous coast Of Barnegat, the professional
wrecker knows better than the best barometer
when storm is brewing, and the quarter from
which 1t may be expected; and that II ever ho
prays at all, tits for thick fog, to be followed
closely by stiff Worcester.
Stuck in the send slip before US are few
fragments Of the ship North America, wrecked
there some years ago; and the surf siace yester-
day has | cen beating upon that riband Of sand
as if hungry for more. How it roared through
the night, more full and sonorous than the
heavy volume Of Niagara; and how savagely
the white breakers, in triple line, as far as the
eye can tr,ce the beach, are thrashing and
grinding the restless sand. In the porch Of
this house, the philosopher may sit for hours.
and find abundaht employment in contempla-
ting the vast outward and inward DO md . N
merce Of New York-from the little fishing
smack to the gigantic ocean steamer. The ilii-
mitable main. from day to day, is enIivened by
erful in the march Of conquest, in their results,
than the fleets Of Nelson, or Napier,o
-" The spoils OF Trafalgar"
We have here OF Th0mpson's party Of SO
veral hundred including proportion Of children
calculated to give us the liveliest hopes Of the
progress Of Young America for the next CEN
sus. SANDY HOOK.
ATTEMPT op MANIAC TO MURDER HER rwru
CHILDRHN--The wife Of one Cannon a tailor, re-
somewhat demehted recently, tue husband conolud-
cd to remove to some other locality, with view u
alternating the msady O. his wife by change a
scene and circumstances. To this end, he had %
Friday last packed up bis efccts and removed them
TO the rairt I'D depot at the place named and mado
final return to tho house for his family, when -
fouId his wife inside with her twin chi dren, anN
the doors oil fasts ned while she, armed with an axe,
%krAu IN Af<o al -
enter After much useless parleying, q ladder Was
procured, and some one undertook to secure psssr