The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-08-24
a M e RiC AN SP A S.
he Way the americans Get Through the
SUMMER.
NEyEsrSK HIGHLANDS


Tsoyrsoss ArLAsric PavrLIos.
NEvEsrsK HronLASps, ". j., Aug Is 1896.
tLe Herald. Possfics and tls Fass.oas al ns
Hatering Plscss--A Raa.iag Rsc,ssc If tssse
Reg.ons-A Promise Of ths Gosp.i, g.. Sc.
"Pohtics-politics-th nIKRALr, and all the
,spers, these days, are stuffed with poiitiss' THIS
the complaint OF the dear creatures arouad ~, Who
refer lighter Newspaper diet They say That me
IxsALD mas shamefally neglected the fashions, ioi
es beauties and gossip OF the watering places tals
eason, and they demand some repariti"n. They
nv that for years past the fashionable corsspoo-
ence Of the HsRALp he'd been the crcwnlag gioryo
he paper, rich In that a,hshtfui chi.chai, and 70
nance. and poetry and nonrcnse which are the
ery orange blossoms Of existence % our sumner
utterfes in the country.
We say tina, all this has been In a great measure
speneded ~ the grand crisis q this Presidential
ecton-that the Union must Be saved-tha Pre-
ont has become the Il .ket 90 the HKaALp-tha,
ops and bale, masquerAdes and airtations, &c. At
e springs or by the seashore, must give way % the
rvssnre Of the Niger question, the border rutsns,
be doiDgs Of Congress, and the advancing strides 81
be great progressive Fremont reyoiutiou-that se
ave never had more important Presidential cam.
h'gn, and that II IL AZ rich In great and beautiful
bings, In folly, claptrap, romance. poetry and
(oonshine as any feminine admirer Of byron or
ul~er Niagara Falls, moonlight, Congress water
bd the latest fashions could possibly desire:
Against this plea the ladies' OF ''our set INSIST
orid know something Of the good time
Pat we are enjoying, not only here. eat
nong orr agreeable neighbors alongside
the Sea View House. and among the quiet folks
Schencks, and among the sojoarners over q. the
cean House on the peninsula, where Ci2tain iAz.
erty is "lord OF all he surveys" from the centre
round to the SEA" and what they are doing at the
|mmer camp OF the Neptune Club, around the cor
n under the hill, and at all the romantic white
ttlements Of these curious salt water inlets, from
Ie fishermen at the Horse Shoe, OF Sandy Hook,
the way up TO Long Branch on the le!t, and u
e roasting little Jersey village OF Red Bank on the
ght We are asked 70 review all this interesting
I'D OF research, including certain sailing expedi-
on, in which distinguished editor and party OF
dies were in danger Of shpwreck from sudden
orm among these hills; and including also Ger.
" festival rscsnsy given Sy CsSnsm,n WILD a
lrty Of the friends Of Fremont and freedom. AMI
are also requested to take passing note OF the
dies fair Ut Eatontown for church purposes, and
the amiable Jersey beauties OF that neglected To-
lity.
These are our orders. In reply, we have 70 say
ut the HERALD has done much 20 bring these pic
RESCUE and health imparting waters and mountains
bdseashores into public notice. and that little more
oney, little more enterprise and little more
vertising would, in two or three years. make these
aions, highlands and owlands, seaside and inland,
most attractive, popular accessible and desirable
any summer station along our whole Atlantic
est At other places, our sea-bathing IL sur
unded by blistering, binding waste Of sand.
Long Branch the green fields and slluvial soil
ach to the very brink Of the sea, as II II were but
e bank of an inland river while here chain Of
hter.
Secondly, in the matter Of the fashions we have
thing TO report-in fact, we have no fsshi here
bis, as Squire Hsrdcastle would say, lis Liberty
XII lron o.A 40 xrott vunrh -
ease We have none OF the snobbery Of Saratoga,
a nothing Of the funkyism Of Newport. moirt
tiqus or muslin for dinner, dress cloth coat or
linen sack it IA all the same; and whether we take
ampagne Jersey cider, it Is not matter Of after
pner criticism on the piazza. We have too many
Itter-of fact people here for display Of nncom
OPP nonsense; and we find the practical routine
day sufficient employment We have the surf,
river, the woods, ten pins, billiards, music
ncing, &c. and the steamboats, coming and going,
ring and leaving passengers with every arrival
d we have the HERALD every morning 70 keep n
sted up with the Fremont merriment, the Ksnsa
rder ruffians, the yellow fever, Congress and the
i Of mankind. In addition to oil this, we have
day an interesting bridal party from town, viii CHI
kes precedence over all other subjects.
The arrangement OF the boats this season secure
in the morning and one 10 the evening from
w York, and rice rer4aj except in very stormy
ather-
And the raging Winds DO blow.
Md thus far, we are pleased to say, there has
En- no running aground in this estuary. Hereto
e, from bad management, and senseless compet
for the last passengers, without regard TO tides,
detention OF several hours on the Hats near the
ok, was q com mon occurrence, disgusting the
weller, and damaging steamboats,, hotels, real es
e, and all concerned, from the less OF customers.
existing arrangements have shown that, as the
will not wait for the boat the boat, by waiting
BIN the tide, can get through with either fifty or
hun dred passengers.
We have pretty much all the accessories of civil
ID pleasuring here, except what Mr.. Benjamin +.
Ter would call /" the stated preaching OF the
pel.r Within q radius Of two or three miles
have a summer population OF several thousand,
no church. An Episcopal clergyman here last
day said that we spend the sabbath here ike
then, and that next summer we shall have mis-
barry, and perhaps church. SO mote II bel
NEWPORT.
NEWPORT. X. l., Aug. Is, 1856.
beeyts and Concert Gocrs-Nocport Audiences-
ocisty at the Watering Places Scandal and
ossip--TAe late Mr.. Ring, &C., &c.
ince our last the musical feature has been most
ninent here. At the concert on the sth inst,
had Signor Guidi and Carl Wells, with Madame
phsni and Mr.. Aptomas. The weather, how
was not propitious, and the audience much
her than IL might otherwise have been or
chance our concertgoing people may have re-
red themselves for the great affair Of last evening
lame La Grange and Mr.. Gottschaks grand mu-
entertainment-whiche came OF in the Ocean
zee dining hall, as per programmes very
kthy one by the ways IL gave both the singer
pianist very fair opportunity TO display their
hliar excellencies Of style and execution.
Re reached the Ocean House and entered the long
promenade some half hour previous to the
hing Of the doors, and found the hall and spa
parlor filed with the greatest jam Of the
On. II was evidently general turn out-a sort
|mnium gatheyum Of everybody most liberal
by the by, when translated in Its watering
sense, as IL means millionaires and milliners,
ties and blacklegs, upper crust and under crust.
an ambassador with lovely woman at his side,
vs. the keeper Of a New York hell aud there
kme Polywog, the celebrated modiste, brushes
york she has just sent home to one Of her very
customers. In a word, the town sends forth it,
keepers, the cottages their aristocrscy," and
\. .h.s~ o,xoafa had rnod and fndifant "a