The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-09-04

are nine times a. large as those Of all the rest Of
Massachusetts united. The manufacture OF salt was
commenced In lI76.
Besides the articles already mentioned, there are
manufactured in Barastable county, chairs cabinet
ware, saddles leather boots. shoes. trunks, bricks
tin ware railroad cars, blocks and pumps backing
lamp black, Goldfish oil, palmeaf hats, oil casks can
die boxes, rails wearing apparel all kinds of vehicles
hollowware and castings, axes fish oil, copper ware
building stone, iron axles, &C., &c.
Barnstable is an essentially maritime county, and
the amount OF its shipping stands fourth In the
Suffolk, Bristol and Essex alone leading IL:
and 1t is but little behind Essex. In 1850 it had
72,04S tons, which must have received considerable
additions during the last three years. One fourth OF
this tonnage is owned at Barnstsbc, Provincetown
has about one-sixth, Dennis little less than one
seventh, and Yarmouth one. tenth. Chatham aud
Harwich come next In order. Eastman is the small
est town in this respect. Every town has some
shipping and has more or less connection with the
ocean. Some vessels and many boats are built.
The Cape men participate largely in the American
fisheries. They catch whales, Goldfish, mackcrel,
alewiyes shad Holsters oysters, and everything else
that can be speared hooked, netted trapped. raked
or otherwise obtained from seas, aud banks, and
bays and rivers. It must be very remote and out
ofthe-way piece of water that Cape Cod fisherman
has not "vexed" in some way or other. Mem
bers OF the same family cannot unfreqnenty
in the Pacific, in the Indian ocean, aud close
to our own shores, in order to supply imme-
date wants in the fishing line. They are daring,
almost reckless race OF men, ana expose them
selves to the perils of maritime life with careless
less that speaks much for their nerves. But they
do not always escape unframed. / suppose there
is not navigable part OF the waters OF the earth
which has not received its tribute of Barnstable's
Cape's shidren into her bosom as the solid earth.
Not month passes which does not see many bold
seaman of the Cape depart who is destined to be
Hidden by the rolling waves which hide
Already many n ono love beaten heart
Deep in the cavsrns of the deadly tide.
The fishing fleets not seldom encounter severe
storms, in which many lives are lost, There is no
part of the world where SO many widows are to be
found rs in this county, the number Of its people
considered. It was stated, some fifteen years since,
and good authority, that there were then almost
one thousand widows on the Cape, whose husbands
had persisted at sea. About one-quarter OF this
1t is not likely that the number has decreased.
Many woman on the Cape much resembles, in one
respect, the old housekeeper at Jakshoff, in
SCOTS Pirate" who dreamed that she was
listening to the signal of her lover, aud wax.
ened to the recollection that he had been sleeping
in the frozen waves of Greenland for many long
year The women of the Cape are very beautiful,
being generally blondes, and having much of that
deicacy of complexion for which the sex are re-
nowned in Nantucket, Newport, and other places
which exist under the immed ate influences OF the
oceans breezes They are industrious, economical,
and, generally speaking, thriving. Left as so many
to rear. they never despair, but enter upon the
baetie Of life with that determination to win which
is SO often the chief cause of success NOtwithstand
ing the death OF SO many heads of families at sea-
there few places in the world whore there is so
little poverty as Barnstable county TO look at it,
you would not think the whole county capable of
supporting the people of one of its towns comfort
ably; and perhaps it would not be, but that the
people have subdued the ocean to their will, much
more effectively than ever accomplished by theVe
netans There are few large fortunes in the county
but on the other hand there is as little poverty as
marked an absence of social i'll as can be found any
where on the surface Of the globe
The following are some of the modes of property
in Barnstable, not before misunderstanding
houses, $685. barns, 223 shops, 1856; tan houses3;
mills Of all kinds, 60; and factories, superficial
feet of wharf, 497 1853; amount of stock In trade,
$4S25l8; value Of public securities, 49, $50; amount
Of money at interest, $72S ,053; money on hand,
sl55 lib; bank and insurance stocks 1904 02 share
property of other kinds $72 900; ounces of plate,
4l9a OF buildings not previously alluded to- there
were, in 1850, 79l.
The Otis family are Of Barnstable origin. James
OTIS who founded the family which has since played
so high part in our political history, who was to
Massachusetts what Patrick Henry was to Virginia,
was born at Barnstable in 1925. When but twenty
three he removed to Boston, where he soon rose to
father Of Harrison Gray Otis Lemle Shaw, who
has been Chief Justice of the Supreme Court OF Mas
sachusetts for twentythree years. is native of Barn.
stable. Mr.. Halett now u. S. District Attorney OF
Massachusetts, belongs to the place. Several of
the most eminent Boston merchants were born on
the Cape. They still maintain their connection with
their birthplace, the people of the Cape being as
much attached to their first home as any race that
breathes. CHARLES LIE CHAUvE.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY, August 8, 1858.
TIE Extreme Counties Of Massachusetts, -Berkshire