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NAvENx HeHLAxDs Jersey Coast
August 10, 1857.
rne venerable ''sam Jones'" the famous fisherman OF
Bandy Hook, has Captain Cutie would express i,
been taking observation and making calculation
from which he predicts that shall have our summer
this year In the fall and thH. September win be q
Toas.er from Cape Cod all the way down 10 Cape
Hatteras- 'a ON
That stormy Cape, marked BY a thoussnd wrecks
6am'e opinion 10 doubtless that Of the potentaes Of
Ill our seaside summer caravansaries FOR without .
roasting September, driving the town back into the
country the seasons balances Of Of these pcten
tAtes viii be on the wrong side Of the ledger. The
SEASON. 90 far has been nucuatng and dull the usual
Cocks Of fashions butterflies have appeared
neither among the mountains, by the sea Paris,
with It's world absorbing ascnations has taken OF The
cream. and then there more fortunes made in
night by fat contracts gold speculations or petro-
leum On the contrary the times tight, and many
men who for three or four summers past had their
thousands for a summer froc have not now more
than q few hundred nfiios to spare. So IL is,
tina, the Saratoga Long Branch Niagara or the
White Mouptans of yesterday is TO be on this morn
tns and so 1t 10 that while the numbers Of pleasure
seekers the wing to be large as usual the
numbers constantly going home appear TO equal the
numbers going Their soppages here and there
shorter that In last summers circuit Of
three four weeks is cut down TO eight ten days
according the reduced surplus Of potsv Jamilias.
here these Jersey coast Highlands, only hours
from Chambers or Barclay street. and accessible
q. almost any hour Of the day. by the
Red Bank steamers, sea Bird. Meta and Helen,
for twenty-five cents, and by the soashore
boats aud railroad for dollar tho round trip this
place; We have and have had full house since the
Fourth 6f July II there were hotel accommodations
oT ten 10 Long Branch seven miles
mountains, boundess forests, and delightful inland
waters there thousand attractions Of which "the
Branch" 10 utterly denied At "ths Branch" three
years ago this day, there ten thousand people
Today there not half The number although Setson
The Continental the Mansion and the Metropolitan
. good SHOW for Probable campaign.
Thompson, our landlord BY industry and enterprise,
has from small beginnings to the dignity Of one OF
The nabobe Of New Jersey In the the expense
sailboat TO him luxury far in the distance; but
to-day he sports little river pleasure steamer for the
yiages for land excursions He has this season. more
over, In the handsome and accomplished Neschut on
Of the most efficient stewards and caterers Jersey
seaboard Not many moons ago distinguished ira
Weller accompanied by half dozen attendants and
wants after perous voyage Of exploration IN pretty
the treacherous shoals Of Raran Bay, and thence
through the dark woods Of these Highlands rainy
Charmed with this locality after having exhausted the
sights and scenes OF Europe from Moscow to Madrid
and from the bonnie DOOM TO the Danube this dis
hnguished traveller remaiped here q week, in cosy
cottage by the while the accompanying party at
Ssa ,ss ans Ss,. from the Psrs
smother coast surveying expedition the welcome and
fascinating traveller Aforesaid the attending party
reminded Of the Mason Doree, and his dinner SOUP
sdibles and wines white crsvated waters and ALL
resist the temptation to recall this pleasant
hste chapter in this summers record Of these High
Iands says no more IL is because he was enjossd
md took the tesS oath 70 say nothing
When Vie '1 vii sn:.. l"nd soap tire tn. v,sw
dozen summer sojourn with this witness have not
corners and outlooking promontories And then they
% abound in tales and traditions and tragedies and rj
book Of the Arabian Nsh.s En- paans 10. long v AGO
thcre out In the bay Sandy Hook od.ook ing
steam propeller, which had the smsl Of New Bedford
carsoes Of OIL To the iesward you would smell II two
lnaes on, and there was always great smoke around
board probably working up into oil those bony but oily
Ash called moss bunken, with which these waters
abound But day the old chip disappeared and then
she story got abroad that The NOES bunken and the oil
ali sham for that the old propeller had been dis
severed BY some pryns astecvs to DC cSn,raoand dis
the law for al such cases made and provided This Is
Abe story, and not true you will doubtless soon DO In
u
true for otherwise why did this company abandon their
nshng grounds and the moss bankers in the height Of
the bunker season.
The people Of the Jersey coast rule, make very
hlle show Of their worldly possessions Here for in
stance Captain Parker the steamboat Sea Bird and
Captain Coree Of the Meta plain, unprstendiug men,
neither Of whom the stranger would suspect TO DO rich
but both Of whom mon Of substance. The man
rowed the river this morning for ten cents
OF estate, and those In thor little
boats In the bay raking up clans rake sometimes
from SIS TO $40 . day In fact these Jerseymsn and
lhcir meadows and q
their blsckbernes and huckleberies, are . money
making people and there very few who have not
something laid up for rainy day. Even our old COL
ored head waiter lives IN bis house. the savings OF
honest life time Great preparations are making by the
Neptune Club the pleasant and beautiful retreat mp
ths rvsp, for their annual midsummer nights dream,
and tho jackson Club below, h their daily ptcnics and
intakes making the most OF their intervals OF
sunshine The young people at this house discuss
ing be project or fancy dress ball, and are In the
mel preparing for their usual Saturday nights
hop or he enter,a nmcnt OF The beaus down
50 heavy reinforcemenis every Saturday evening" We
81 loss for amusemens at these Highlands
for have woods and mcuntains, and lakes here,
addition The sun, the surf and the sand and the
hnaALp. But enough: for We are called from the
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Come unto shese yellow sands