The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-08-01
Josh BtlIings at Long Branch-..WhRt
He Saw and Felt There.
LONG RRANcH, .Julv rs. lsR5,

nkAFAzfi ASOSNh 1AkksNSNCt1H d uIyI To- 1850.
RStitQg cfthe Troy Mars: :i7 l. ta
Arrived here just in time to see the
Atlantik 0sean; which IL now on eXhi-
bishun,,a and dewing good bizzness.
teW tnll houses Took u bath teN! !Onst'
and was 'astonished tewi find the water
so Saltuous;s enQuiPed the kause oV an
Intelligent natih, and he informed me
he didn't care; / think the cuss lied.
Thafe IL about one hundred and sixty
thousand human beings, and other
tolkS, here now, az near az kan atit at
II; kounted till got tired, and then
estimated. 1t is perfek1y harte renting
tew see the femaiIs here IN search oynat9
lprotelStors, j kounted ltS Yesterday
in one pile, they awl sighed az / past 6i
them, With down cast eyes. Ifelt sorry
for them, but couldn't help them, for
amthoroughly marrid, and intend tew
remain so.- There i2 two breezes here,
a sea breeze, and a jersee breeze, and /
advise aul persons tew use the sea
breeze, for the other IL so much up be-
fore It reaches here, that it soon uses
up,eYerybody after 1t gifts here. Shod-
dy and Petroleum are both here, and
eXSite NJ muchnotiss az a patient churn
warrente1 tew make butter in 10 min
nitts from skim milk, but they say
they shant remain long, bekRuze the
air smells SO muclI1tlke old brine, Yes
5terdny Invent out krabbing and ketched
a PEEK ov them, they bite sideways, and
hang on like a dead hoss shoe, they
make good vittlcs enuff, but they aint
profitable tew eat, If you kount Your
time wuth ennytiIing. They have n
singular bug here, which they kali the
musketow, they roam about in herds,
and are much reSpekted hi the
Inhabitants; 1 cnut ono day before
yesterday, sticking sumthing sharp
into me, and carried the bug into
mi room, and smashed him on
the sli. The bathing liz luxurious, and
the bathers resemble mermades, half
men and half wimmin they nul dress
in the chOktaw kOstOm, and when they
emerge from the water, WI kant tell
which IL who, unless yu ask them. At
ter bathing yu feel kind oV lackness
or limberness, for which was advised
tew bathe in whiskee. I took one i'm
mershun, about -hnlf u tumbler, and
never felt sostoughtinm mi life. Thought
/ could lift an aker oV their land, but
bimcby, after the lickker had let 20
felt az tho could foller an angle worm
into his hole, and hadn't strength enuff
tew ask II dog tew foller me-if ever
drink sum more jersee whislSee, ii will
be after / am ded and gone. rhIlre iZ
one church here, but it wont hold but
so tu that nobOddy don't go out Ov pO-
likeness. Thnre is p hotels, and tlieV
are principally bilt out doors, tew Civ
the guests as much brinaqueOus mir az
possible. ThelOdgingrOo arc small,
buthandy, each one h;iz n door tew them,
and a looking glass on the wall, and two
washboles and IL towel. Dinner iz
scrNed-at 2-O'clOck, and-opons with
soup, and shuts up with huckleberry.
The servants are generally blnk, but
menny of them have lived SO long
amung the whites that they begin tow
adop our kuller. The beech by moon
lite, IL worthy of n philosopher. Low
.ers meet here from awl parts of the
kuntry tew vow and swarc, and menny
n harte Gums here tuff and hearty but
goes home smashed, and bleeding luv
at every pour. But the great attracl-
shun il the Atlantic Ocean, great
hemisphere ov liquid lifennd power, blu
water, evry WHARF the eye kan reach az
gentle az summer evening mill
pond, and then again, az awful az a
water earthquake, Upon the whole,
Long Brnnchiza sensible place to visit;
think there is a little nonsense there
generally, az the same number of visi-
tors are capable of.
JOSH BILLINGS.