Daily Republican., 1879-06-05
LETTER FROM LEwEs.

ger-HOw the Inhabitants are
GrOwn-Their Occupation Gone
A Queer Edlt0r-SOsne strange
Things.
=. ecIAl Correspondence Of the Republican.
LEwKs, June Sd, 1879.
.Lewes is a queer place. 1t oddity
strikes one with peculiar impression
that forms q strange combination of ex-
cited interest and ludicrous sense Of an
effect. There is no bottom to the land,
absolutely nothing but sand. Sand ev-
srywhere. With each eddying wind
great rolling volumes are lifted from
the streets and byeways and being car
ried hither and thither envelop every
thing in an unsightly gray, which per-
tolating as it does, through the small
est crevioe, grinds into everything upon
which 1t lights. This characteristic OF
the place has an effect upon the inhab-
itant. @
He Is fat, rough looking and in his
everyday garments decidedly homely.
He is good natured withal, and as a
conversational is fresh and original.
The emphatics with which his flow of
Lawistown vernacular is adorned comes
from the everescent state of his convic-
tions, and not from any idea Of being
coarse or less refined than his more in
land neighbOr. He is as dusty looking
as is the sand from which he is taken,
and when you gaze upon him, there
seems to radiate from his very presence
that arid atmosphere that floats up
ward from sun-scorched sand bank.
With his feet elevated upon d conve-
nient ban;stsr and his burly form twist
ed into the shape Of an inverted pile
driver with a bar room chair or dry
goods box for base, he is in posi-
ton for ventilation.
In one breath he discusses political
ethics with the zest Ofa party leader
and the next he is expatiating upon
the peculiar relationship "atwsen ia
ter beetle an the ingenyoos modes as
helps the pesky thing to scallop around
the french pizzen and go off alive with
sweetened gums and full stumic."
He is a pilot, an agrilculturst, fish
erman, in fact anythin. whereby he
may turn in penny. In years not
so far back as to be veiled by the mist
of tn. past, the Lewistown inhabitants
in order to turn that penny" may
have often in the shaded twilight, gone
spinning across the unruffled surface of
the ofing, and when beyond the gaze of
the custom officers swerved from his
course and stealthily glided towards a
dark hulk that loomed up spectre like
amid the oceans vapors, and the un-
appreciative world Las called it Snug
Cling.
To him it was legitimate. His fathers
had done it before him and why
shouldn't he! When the custom
house officials did take action, and vul-
ture like with claws set and wings dis
tended, ,swooped down upon the luckless
offenders, the revelations that followed
read like a page OF Sir Walter Scots
creation. All this has passed. The
custom. house officials are more wary
and the inhabitant Of Lewistown in
gloomy contemplative silence, with his
eye rcstlessly sweeping the broad ex-
parse before him, sits, like Othello,
with his Occupation gone"
The town Of Lewes, or that portion OF
it fronting the Breakwater, is irregular,
and is a counterpart of those fishing
hamlets that dot the English coast.
That portion nearer the depot is more
modern, and as far as appearances 60,
a half century ahead of the more anti
quated half. Notwithstanding their I'M
slightly aspect the old lanes and irregu-
lar alleys, afford the most attraction,
from the fact of their being more active
and inmon centre for the gathering
Of the crews relieved from the respsc
tive vessels in the harbor.
The privilege Of sitting conveniently
near and listening to the animated
voices is all enjoyable one especially i
til. evening be fair and the wind il
the right quarter. bearing to the ear the
low musical notes Of the restless waters
as they roll upon the strand in the dis
tance.
An evening here is an evening not tt
be experienced anywhere else along thu
coast. At sunset the harbor is covereo
with fleets of vessels riding at anchor
Here and there projecting many fee'
above The surface can be seen many
masts, standing like mounted shafts, in
dicating where many stout vessel has
filled and foundered.
As the shadows lengthen and the
mist rises upon the water the outlines
gradually grow ia inter and less distinc
until nothing can be discerned but th'
vessels twinkling lights, which througf
the gathering darkness look upon thu
murky horizon like SO many fitting
). meteors. Everything that smacks o
Lewestop peculiarities is of interest
AT the best Of times in fact at all times
p newspaper editor is conundrum
\ At this place they have good slze'
:, Specimen of this species, and he is no
pnly interesting but is so far f. ON th'
" common run Of journalists that he i
n nothing less than a curiosity.
His Office stands back from the stree
:, Hnd is supported in the rear by fin
y Fruck patch. When this editor tires Q
Pxerting the prerogative of his profes
lion, he in the mellow glow of the sun
Jet with fat fists encircling the circum
erence Of hoe handle, glides throus
he back doorway and fer the mex
\ lour he astonishes the inhabitant
i, vith the agility with which he repel
h' he rapacious invader upon the accumu
" ating value of his potato crop. 7
h. hat depths may Lewessown inhabl
q, ant not precipitate himself. A news
10 |aper editor so far forgetting what b
he ives to himself and his profession as t
!" bake public exhibition of himse
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