Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1865-09-01
JosH BILLINGS al THE sEA SHORE.
LoNa BRANcH, July Is. 1865

LONG BRANCH, July 10, 1865.
Arrived here just in time tew see the
1 Atlantik Osean, which is now on exhi.
blshun, and dewing good business. teW
| full houses. Took bath tew onst, and
was astonished teW find the water so salt
uous; enquired the kauze ov an intelli-
gent natiff, and he informed me he didn't
care; | think the cuss lied There Is
about hundred and sixty thousand hu-
man beings, and other folks, here now. az
near az l kan get at it; I kounted till ]
got tired, and then estimated. It is per-
fectly harte renting tew see the femails
here in search oV natural protectors |
lkounted l6 yesterday in one pile; they
awl sighed az past bi them, with down
cast eyes.
I felt sorry for them, but couldn't help
them, for am thoroughly amarrid, and
intend to remain so. Thare iz teW breezes
mere, a -eea-hraeZn- and a jersee breeze
and advise aWl persons teW use the sea
breeze, for the other is so much used up
before it reaches here, that it soon uses
up everybody after it gifts here. Shoddy
and Petroleum are both here, and exsite
az much notis az patent churn warrant
ed teW make butter in 10 minits from
skim milk; but they say they shant re-
main long, bekauZe the air smells so
much like old brine Yesterday went
out krabbing and ketched apeck of Them
they bite sideways and hang on like a
dead boss shoe; they make good vittels
enuf, but they aint profitable tew eat, if
you kount your time wuth emmy thing.
They hav a singular bug here which
they call the musketoW; they roam about
in herds, and are much respekted bi the
inhabitants I caut Wun day before yis-
terday sticking sumthing sharp into me,
and carrid the bug into mi room and
smashed him on the sli.3 The bathing IL
luxurious, and the bathers resemble mer-
mades-half men and half women; they
awl dress in the choktaw kostu1n, and
when they emerge from the water, yu
kant tell which is1fWho, unless yu ask
them. After bathing yu feel a kind of
lackness or limberness, for which l was
advised tew bathe In whiskee l took
one immershun, about half tumbler,
and never felt so gstought-i in my life. /
thought could lift an aker of their land,
but bimeby. after the Ticker had let go,
felt az tho could foller an angle wurm
into hiz hole, and hadn't strength enuff
tew ask dog tew foller me-if ever
drink sum more jersee whiskee it will be
after i am ded and gone.
p Thare IL one church here, but it wont
hold but so fu that nobody don't go out
.OV Doliteness. Thare IL Il hotels, and
they are prinsipally bilt out doors, tew
Civ the guests as much brinaqueous air
az possible The lodging rooms are
small, but handy each one has door
tew5 them, and looking glass on the
wall, and two washboles and a towell.-
Dinner is served at 2 CLOCK, and opens
with soup and shuts up with huckleberry.
The servants are generally blak, but
menny ov them hav lived so long amung
the whites that they begin tew adoD our
kuller. The beach, bi moonlite, IL worthy
ov philosopher.
Luvers meet here from awl parts ov
the country teB vow and sware. and
menny hart that comes here tuf and
hearty, goes home smashed and bleedin
love at evry pour But the grand at
tFacshun IL the Atlantik 0sean, great
hemispheer of liquid life and power, blu
water evry WHARF the eye ken reach az
gentle as summer evening mill pond,
and then agin. az awful az water earth
quake. Upon the whole, Long Branch IL
a sensible place tew visit; I think thare IL
az little nonsenz thare generally az the
same number ov visitors are capable ov.
JOSH BILLINGS.