The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-07-21
LONG BRANCH
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD.

The First Grand Hop at Stetson's and Some
Account of Ii-Backwardness and Dizziness
of the Season-The Reasons why fe"t""I
nv Blnc berries-The Flush Times Sone ana
War Prices Continued.
SryrsoS HoUsf, LONG BRAsoa. July w. 1867
The frs, grand hop Of the season at the stetson
House was the topic OF day at the Branch yester
day, and the speclal event Of the night
From morn to noon. frOn noon to dewy owe
A summers day
the ladies' at all the hotels as busy in discussing the
subject Ia Flora McFlimsey and in making their pre-.
parations ss were the armies OF Richmond,
With cllnk of hammer. closing riyets up.
on the Of the great break down OF Bosworth Field
And by every incoming train by both railway lines from
the hundred gated city OF Manhattan island, the rein
ocesnts Of galants and the arrival Of dainty parcels
OF merchandise, and the fourishng business Of 'ahs
bouquet man. and the general buzz and hustle around
the settlement. promised . crowded house. But be-
tween eight and nine o'clock squally Mr. Easter.
which had been fitting around the horizon all day in
broken doses, down from the Hook like regular
equinoctial, which was equal to Jefersons embargo
against all the other houses scattered for miles along
these extensive green and level plains Of 'hs Branch
In such night nothing but the presence OF some lion
with long name, ionsss with all the world in
her train would have brought the beauties from the
other hotels, 'just for hop"
As was however when at half past ten, entered
the brilliantly illuminated dining room sixty feet by
hundred and twenty and twenty feet high, cleared
tor the dance, found some four or five hundred per-
present. and half the number going through the
motions " OF a lively quadrlie. The music was from
Glllmores Boston band, and tho select and execu
ton, as an enthusiastic young damscl expressed IT,
&c were perfectly splendid"
Thore few distinguished public characters
present in epauletes gold lace; few living statesmen
payed-out politicians; but the backcoaed division
OF the house, for all that presented good front OF
culture md FeinemeuL There
feminine celebrities present familiar to newspaperdom,
but many beautiful women VINO needed neither
coronets diamonds. nor the star and garter
OF the blue stocking 70 heigheu their attractions
There were NO extravagantly magnificent costumes
among them; but without an exception they were
tastefuliy equipped from top toe, excepting those
horrd chgpons, aways q 0ishguration and those dust
Sredomisant color among she dear creatures and
black that stupid law Of the Medes and Persans In this
iashionrued republic, being universal among the men,
the contrast after all presented very agreeable admir-
Of whites and blacks Many Of the Loyal League
OF ladies understand, had prepared themselves for
q patriotic reception Of General Grant, and we still
resolved TO flank him and bring him down They want
genuine sensation. and they want to see our next
President right away.
Tue hop closed at midnight with the German and we
knew thereafter other sound was to be heard in all
this vast caravanserai save
The sobbing OF the sad
"The Branch" this season Is comparatively dull lts
hotels and boarding houses equal to 'rush Of ten
Thousand VISITORS and perhaps less than one fourth that
figure are here The flush times of the war are over;
the cream of our CAV world has been drawn OF to
FASHIONS paradise-gay Paris; the old time summer
birds of passage from the South have had their wings
broken and do not return dry goods ars down; hotel
charges still keep up but the jubilee OF shoddy exirava.
10 ended there are damages to be repaired and
shoals to be avoided and economy the prevailing law
of reconstruction lady who has seen the Pope
thinks that tho grand gathering Of the Catholic hierarchy
at Rome, next u the Paris exhibition has spoiled tho
calculations of watering places One Of 'the
Branch professors Of salt bathing is that
Mr. has done the business bringing that cold
climate OF walrussa down into the United States
hotel says the railroad fares too high A
railway man says it Is the prices OF the
hotels "a aud SIS day) whom beef and potatoes have
fallen from prices hundred per cent; Wall street
says that the trouble is in tho uncertainties OF the
money and an old line democrat copperfastened, ut
Chicago, charges the whole responsibility upon old
1had stevens and his violations of the constitution.
LASTLY learned freedman says its oil because the white
folks Is gttln afraid Of the niggers, and don't know
what to do But under all these opinions there 10 pre-
vaing hope that cold July will bring hot. August
and that then tho cities will be emptied among the
mountains and all along the seashore One thing Is GER
tain; II Long Branch and all the beautiful woodlands
aud highlands along the seashorc to Sandy Hook and
Port Monmouth, mandy TO Wall street, by rail and boat
and convenient to men Of business waiting for
the tide. all places remote must be at low water.
Preaching and prayer in the big tent every evening