The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-07-27
MIDSUMMER RESORTS.
Long Branch Sweltering by
the Sea.
How President Grant "Stole March" on New
York-The Weather Fervently Discussed by
seashore Loungers-Mrs. Grants Re-
oeption-The Washington Lobby
Cliquss Bogus Correspond
ence-The Americas Club.

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city this morning, Admiral Porter accompanying
him. He left in the ten minutes to eight o'clock
ID. train and returned on the ten minutes to sever
O'Clock P. NJ train. AS his intended departure
was unknown there was only the usual crowd Of
the depot When he took his seat, however, ir
the oars tho throng gathered about gazing In
the window, as such throngs always will,
and as the train started they checred him. Al
might be supposed, there was good deal OF
speculation to the nature OF the business taking
him to New York. The weather being SO very
hot and his having kept himself SO closely at home
on this account since coming here, opened wide
field of conjecture to political quidnuncs and
others. These prolific indulgences in imagination,
some asserting that he had gone on business con-
nected with the federal Offices in Now York,
Others that he was to meet some Of the Cabinet
In the city to consult about calling an extra SEES
sion Of Congress, aud still others that his sole pur
pose was to recupcrate his energies by days alb
sence from the unreenting thraldom of enervat-
ing heat were, if wholly unsatisfactory, wholly
harmless.
The positive knowledge on the subject has this
extent and no more-that he went away and
came back again.
HIS CARRIAGE WAS WAITING
for him on his return, and OH his mounting to the
seat and taking the reus there was renewal
OF the morning cheers, ard driving at
ratting pace he was speedily home
again In his cottage by the sea-" Meaatime the
fashionable people here are in a state Of lively
futter over Mrs. Grants first reception, which is
to be given this evening. 1t is expected that it
win equal III brilliancy, though Of course lacking
some Of the stately formalities Of the latter, her
receptions at The Whine House.
A steam yacht this afternoon-one Of the
numerous yachts, doubtless, watching and wait
ing the expected arrival Of the Dauntlcss and
CambrIa-passed up by the Presidents cottage,
FIRING A SALUTE
as she passed. On her return she fred another
salute. Her name could not be ascertained; but
in the water she was certainly magnificent
appearing yacht and attracted good deal Of at
tention from all the hotels.
All the magnificent wealth Of our language, SUI
supremey adequate as it is to describe monster
revolutions, overturning thrones and dynasties,
fearful earthquakes, engulhng Cities villages and
hamlets, and the superbest sc emery Of mountain
and lake and river and woodland; however
grandly it serves to describe great enterprises,
great men, great deeds and the widest wreck of
human passions; however .,exquisitely subtle in
dellneating cloves young drenm' however potent
In portrayng the highest "martyrdom of woe;"
however pertinent and forcble in short in all
other kinds of description, it utterly fails to fur
uish words that convey any just conception Of
the
BOILING AND CLUSTERING HEAT
and seething and sweleriug suGerance at present
nd hora Of tha c1v
excited temperature. The worst of it is, there is
no .'let up" in it. The heat continues with unin.
termttcd force. The sky Is great brazen
dome of heat. The ocean reflects the heat, giving
il intensified fercepess The air is furnace of
heat, borne from inland wide wastes Of
burning sands. No sirocco could be hotter, no
Intensity of human woe greater. OF course the
heat and Its continuance is the absorbing topic
of talk. | heard one gentleman, whose thoughts
lifted themselves above the current COM
m0nplace observations about the matter,
quote the Doge of Venice in "The Two Fos-'
carl" which quotation happily expresses an
approximate idea OF what the heat here Isl
Methinks we must have sinn'd IN some old world,
And this Is hell the best is that it is not eternal.
cit acts "a though it was going TO be eternal,r
prosacal phrase, responded the gentleman
with whom he was talking.
'sBut there was slight intcrmission, 10 the
shower last evening"" insisted the first one
"That thunder snowerW
"Yes.u
at did cool the Dir little for time but 1t is
as hot as blazes again this morning."
"That's so; thermometer nincty-tlree degrees
In the shade"
"Jt's fearful"
"1he old Doge had the right idea," continued
the quoter from Byron. "Ths is a sinful place,
and mean to get cut OF it before it is burned up
like ancient Sodom aud Gomorrah. Give me my
London Terrace and my bow window In New
York; it's cooler there than here"
AS TO THAT THUNDER STORM,
it is worthy few words Of description. 1t com
mcnced about eleven o'clock. The thermometer
stood at eighty-seven degrees. The air was
charged with electricity. There had been fitful
flashes of sheet lightning all the evening. Little
clouds rolled up from the west, and then they
became lower and more dense and blacker, when
suddenly, during the overspreading pail, came q
most vivid fash of lightning. From midheaven
ocean. The intensity of their light was almost
binding. The din Of loud thunder followed, and
then moro lightning and more thunder, and
then the rain camo down IN torrents,
uniting their awful voices with the tumult Of
thunder and the fell fury of the falling
flood. More fearful and majestic beauty rarely
shows itself In the midsummer storms Of the tro.
pics. The thermometer, however, singular to re.
late, only fell five degrees, and to-day, as stated
above. Is travelling again upward as II to put TO
the farthest test the powers Of human endur.
nnco.
The most extensive preparations are already
beginning to be made for
THE COMING RACES.
The track has been put IN the best Of order,
most of the racing horses are here undergoing
daily exercises to fit them for the coming con.
test, and all that Is wanted is the advent of
the time for the races to begin, and the
crowds which will throng here to participate In
this rare and brilliant season of equine sporting.
marked feature will be the arrivals, which
is announced for the I'd of August, of the Ameri-
Gus Club, with WIN. M. Tweed at the head, and all
to be dressed in their club uniform.
Still lingering here, and evidently the only per-
sons who are not most painfully affected by the
oppressive heat, are
THE WASHINGTON LOBBYISTS.
They have gone through so many heated contests
In that great hotbed Of strife, our national Ca
pital, that they seem utterly indifferent
to any atmospheric fluctuations Not one Of them