New-York daily tribune., 1858-08-09
LETTTGs FROM THE vk1EhI'"-
PLACES.
LONG BRANoa.
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LoyG BR,NcF, AS. :, letc.
Tbs plsoe i. now il sl i.s glory, and i1e no'e"
are iuL To d,y, ! saP2ess, over 'h'usaod
strangers bsve arrived. The s;ssuen Alice Pnce'
I.ss B,.Hcb, Oeesa Wave, and Highland L'ga-
SINE u ;aeE making tao trps each to-dsy-haVe
h,ovchs down cl:uds Of yi,itoTs, some OF whom
,e,urp With :se boa.s, ba. ms5y remain over, a.
last f.r S dsy or iso. h,se been here now
ns.,i, five ueekr sad oDiy regre. tia: rny stay Is
combs 20 close. No place 10 the world offers
h. Ter re.res. from the dust and heat o! city hfe
.hsu ,his Long Branch, snd ye: .t il k'nd OF out
ofths.way place of which bu. few OF our citizens
knox much. | have several times iet Ike writing
you letter, but IL is not place Tor "orK. lou
s.tup .o breakfast; after breakfast YOU take
bath and L is dinner time; then take dinner ana
sl,ep. and il s tea time: then take tea ana mop
and call 10 see I" Barney, and II Is bed uue' 10
day foreeo my sleep TO Try 70 make your readers
experience that feeling Ii,
There are ten or twelve hotels mere, 80 called
though some Of them are merely boarding. houses,
and others Of considerable pre.enslon. They are all
in row along the beach, from fifty % hundred
paces from the beach. As | do not stop at any oil
Them speak only from occasional visits. Com-
mencipg a. the south end OF tie beach and, ei
course. turthes. from NewYork, We have Conover 5,
very comfortable little house, with very select
and elegant company of boarders, among whom
notice the Hon. John MckeOu, of our city and fam
lly. who have been regular visitors at the Branch
for many wears Here also are Mrs. Commodore
Read and Mrs j. Rodgers. Next comes how
lands a very comfortable house, 10 which our friend
Fry has referred in a recent letter from TINS place
Gr ell g Bath House comes next; among lts slslters
b. r. Butler esq, and his son, "Iiiiam Aneh put
Ter who spent several days here, presume, giving
Of
Here. also, / notice my old friend, John I. Mont
oomery formerly of Philadelphls, and now of our
c;tv Then we have the Pavilion, next the United
States. where our young friend Grlsw0id gave
concert before an elegant audience last night Next
in order is the Mansion House, which this season Is
quite a comfortable and pleasant home 70 many Oh
our New. York people. Here have met Mr.. Hor-
ace Brooks and family, DR.. Powers and family
Judge Welsh. Alderman Clancy, Mr. Lynch OF
Syracuse, and family. Next comes the National
where Just now are stopping Governors DAILY West
and McElrOy, with several 0f our prominent
New. .Yorkers. Next We have the Monmouth, the
only hotel built the ocean side OF the avenue, ana
nearly opposite is the ST. Nicholas: back
| Of which ard a considerable distance from the
| shore ia the Allegheny. Last and nearest to New
York is the Metropolitan. This is the newest and
much the finest looking hotel. The ventilation Is
very GOOD; the halls and parlors and rooms are
large and airy; and at present very line company
are quests of this hotel. Among the New Workers,
| netce Mr.. Dtvn and family, Mr.. Nathan and
family, MIR. Deiorest and family M Stokes and
| family Mr.. Donnelly and family, Mr.. Isaac ton
and family. Then We have Mr.. Zabriske and fam.
iIy of jersey City, Col. Babbitt of Trenton, and
William l.. Dayton, your candidate for Vice Presi-
dent of the United States, with their several iaml'
lies. At this house there is hop every night.
The ladies dress elegantly aud dance diyinely; but
there surely ought to be some dance introduced to
relieve the "Lancers." 1t may be elegantto dance
it, but If might be prudent to try something else.
1t is ike Burton's eptaph N Dombey. 1t has done
great deal of service to great many worthy peo-
pie here this season, and should get little rest.
! The other hotels, / should have tad, have hops
one, two or three nights in the week. Other means
Of spending the time are resorted 20. Billiards,
| ten pins, a quiet game Of cards, chess, backgam.
mon, and stroll on the beach when the moon
is silyering the surface of the oceaD, or the
stars spaDglng its bosom with diamonds.
Then there several nice boarding houses along
the shore-one kept by Mr.. Cooper, formerly pro-
pretor of the National House. and father of ne
propretOrs of the Metropolitan and situated in the
rear Of that hotel The price of board at the hotels
| Is about So week, one or two of them SO, and
at the boarding houses So BY the day, it is from
| 81 so TO 80 80 per day There are also some very
pretty cottages aeDg the beach, in range with the
hotels. Our friend Robert Bowyer has nice cot
tage little way back from the water and knows,
and is known by, everybody. Mr. Wallack has an
elegant little cottage next to Howlands with quite
productive and well-regulated farm, running with
al extensive front to the ocean. He has one of
the finest fields of corn you ever saw, and just
ly brag on his oats, potatoes and other farm pro-
ducts. Mr.. Mccormick Of New York, has fine
cottage on the beach and several Others dot them.
selves in like punctuation marks between the hotels
| The great drswback to Long Branch is the diff
| Guilty OF reaching il. There are three bOats-the
Ocean Wave, Long Branch and Highland Light
belonging to the old Company, and the Alice Price
the opposition bose The time to Long Branch from
New.YOrk is about three hours, if you don't get
aground. The fare to the Branch, as far as the
boats run, is twenty-five cents; the staging from
the Ocean House to the hotels, abeut FIVE miles is
fifty cents. But you can up to Pleasure Bay
on the small boats Laura or Leader without ad.
dtional charge, and cross to the hotels about mile
and half for twenty-five cents or shilling.
In the foregoing have given your readers some
hints which may be useful if they are coming here
to spend few of the hot days. OF the pleasures
OF the shore, OF the glorious sunrises and glowing
sunsets, OF the crimson rispgs of the moon
and OF the gorgeous golngs down Of the
storms upon the ocean, whose forces march with
steady tread and nOdding plumes Of foam to their
eternal charge upon the shore of the splendid eiec-
trica displays which We have had, particularly upon
Thursday night, when We first heard Of the sue.
cessful laying Of the Atlantic cable, at which we
gozed TIL our eyes almost became cOnductOrs-of
these and thousand other things hereuntO anent,
have lett myself no room 10 speak. IL YOU can fud