New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-07-29
FROM LONG BRANCH.

For reascrs not transparent, anu Eot fefuAic" "
clear. WAS never at Long Branch til THIS date,
when come ike shadow and depart so. And get
Know no place better worth visiting than Long
Branch 1t is the only blGf between New Ensl,n
ard Florida Of its kind. The super-exceleut ad
vansce Of its hotels Is that they lie directly on tue
edge of the buff staring Tito the ninitude Of the
sublime waters, and receiving the buKem breezes
vithou. the slightest excavation or impuuty. The
air i not so uucilagirous that Of Newport but
= "a more brscipe. 1t struck me as the acme Of
eert rous purity. There IS heavenly loving deP'nof
temper in the manner in which it sautes the city
crustel epdermis Of the editor and sets him 10 Woik
to find out parallel to il; aud though 1t may be his
partiality for the IEoment, be cannot cite ts
equal. The trees at Long Branch are lew ana
scraeov and vet the heat is modest and oearaoe,
for out of the sea comes a neyerwearying refrgera-
ton that compensates for the suns herceness. ms
night is superb. The moon in her oval plentude IL
PLAYING ampIghter 70 the heavens. and such ls the
blaze that reading is easy. The horizon Is anbro-
ken on all sides. Ships and steamers are freely
seen they going on their way rejoicing. Inc
sempiterna roar of the is most perfect now,
when the noise of the day is over. IL Is special
quality of the ocean that it is never tedious. us
waves and its diapason forbid familiarity, and 1t
always showers panthelstic subhmlty unhnown 70
all else on earth-Niagara not excepted. As the
eve scans the waters TO where they meet and are
blent with the skies, the earth seems the heavens
and the heavens the EARTH aud paradise Is come
again.
The hotels here are numerous there are hall
four -and-twenty all in q They are not oppres-
siyely superfine. Howlands. where am stopping
is quite the reverse, and Tor that like 1t. Ii 10 the
old fashioned place Of many years; where lovers
sighed before haste locomotives came to yey
mankind, and where clean floors and fresh air stood
in the place OF modern grandeur. i'll some quarters
cotangent with what is less deectsble. Man de.
lighteth in sets and sects. These dozen hotels
have their sets and sects The Rowland is mostly
Philadelphia: some others are mostly New. York;
others mostly something else. Each brings his
pint pot OF c0nyentiOnality to the mmeas-
unable. There is abundance of good fishing in the
neghborhood. The "South" and the North "
Rivers, with scenery beautiful as dream of child.
hood, are passed we drive over TO the Branch.
AT the place where the steamboat stops and the
traveller takes coach for this short turn to bis hotel
on the side are numerous fishermen who will
accommodate the amateur: where he can catch
quantities OF the article and get broDzed in the
shortest possible space of time. 1t to me
that the fishermans ought to be the oest of lives
1t is multitoned, ampbibious, and what not. 1t is
more social than the farmers: rot mOnotonOus like
most Of the sailors and mixes up the elements
cbarmiDgly in its exhibitions. We never hear of
men Of leisure becoming bewers Of wood and draw.
ers Of water, or of digging and blowing, for sport
but the most PASSIONATE of sportsmen are they
that fish; and judging thereirom, it appears to me
that the professional fishermen must find sport in
work which is at once exciting and healthful.
o, what new can be- said OF watering-of sea.
bathing places There are the red and the white
flags TO point the house of masculine and feminine
bathing. There are young children enough TO make
Nautilus howl. There are saccharIne sixteens, and
sorghum g'ances Of youth. There are gentle moth
ers and much Berlin wool. There is the piano. forte
able to stand up though its CHASTITY worn out tones
would indicate that it is on its last legs; and there
is the young lady with one Of those sweet poetic
voices which Apollo has brought over from Parnas-
sus TO the New World, who sings with Italian pas.
sion and methods and there are billiards and Bour.
bon whisky End the cOlored waiter, who is never
so happy as when standing behind the chairs of
" the quality and who can teach the hard Anglo
Saxon man much Of the savoir- faire by his rounded
ease OF manner, good nature, aud carpediemsm.
But, beside all these there is the Wit, the belle, TIE
good fellow, the several specialtes of the place
who may perhaps lot like to be advertised But il
seems to me that locking at the odor Of publicity
which has come over the sacredness of private
life within few years-by which hardly anybody
and hardly anything are longer segregated, hid
away, deprived of light, of recorder, scribe poet
or painter-tbat the oldtasbiOned custom Of leaving
the nonpublc to its on-publicy is dead as Thomas
Day, and that the writer who stichles ut following
the bold innovation in this particular may be
applauded for delicacy but Will be cursed for his
dulness. Ny observation OF mankind is that | 600
VIII read gossip do not say sesndal-ghere one
VIII read facts OF principles which underlie the
grsndest and dearest interests Of the race The
"nter who would describe how the national wealth
could be sextupled in the next ak years would not
find readers, where the Riviere and Corcoran
romances" would go through editions by hundred,
OF thousands. II the present mode of gazetting
people be only slightly extended, il would be diff.
cult TO cay what Is private and what is public. |
went lately to hear an amateur work performed by
amateurs. Ii was strictly private. But all the
papers but one published IT, They could not have
done more for the Academy. The commonest
thing, toe, is to describe private marriages inst az
if they were affairs of State. Dresses and looks
folly and hirtaiioDs at watering places, each char
acter labeled in full, and vulgar as letter-writing
man may tbmk he lie escaping bores or getting
into The woods, when he is simply ahorling
material Tor letter - from Our Special Core
spondent," with capitalized iLdex to the subject
matter. In Europe, where the ari..Ocratic ca' ses
-women as We'll as men-are all political, and
hence all public, the ball dresses of the one as well
a. the Parliamentary votes OF the other consid
cred general property; and, rs flunkeyism is the
chief profession Of letters and art there, We viii DO
The descriptions Of aristocracy the justice TO say
that they are admirably made. But here where
We have no such reasons for putting women into
the blazing, staring openness Of print, we do it. II
the good cannot escape such notice. neither can the
bad; snd herein lies the compensation. for with q
country as large as continent, without spies or
bsyoIets to guard it, we find police in the press.
which ferrets out the rogue aud pInons him in the
oveitDess Of the newspaper.
BY Way Of following the rev lights, let ire men.
ton that public character, Mr.. Walack, has a
private house at Long Branch. next to Howland's.
isIm reaching down to Ion water mark, house