Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-10-16


fifty more men is required to convert the
shells into ime-which department annually
produces about 500, 900 bushels. Altogether
nine thousand persons derive employment
from the trade, receiving nearly million of
dollars. Last season, 100000 bushels of
oysters were dispatched from Baltimore. The
prices by the cargo this season are twenty
five to forty cents per bushel.
A MODEL BUSINESS MAN.-We published
few days since, statement in regard to the
exertions of Western customer to meet his
payments in this city. Failing to obtain ex-
change, he procured and forwarded guam
tity of leather by express sufficient to cover
Indebtedness and expenses. We now learn
a pleasant quel to this transaction. The
party in question made his appearance in
town yesterday, with Boston funds sufficient
to liquidate all his Indebtedness, amounting
to several thousand dollars, which he imne-
diately applied to that object upon his .arri-
val. Such straight forward promptitude is
worthy of the highest praise.-BoSton jour.
AN EXCITED lNDIvIDUAL.-A Worcester
man arrived in the city yesterday morning,
with $500 worth of bills on Boston bank
and for which he wanted gold He had ta-
ken the paper in Worcester the day before
and given gold coin in exchange, making a
few dollars by the operation. When he
found that no specie was to be had at the
banks he became so excited that he fairly
jumped up and down and couldn't speak for
five minutes. When he did recover he ex-
pressed very decided opinion that he was
fool and wouln't attempt to speculate in cur
rency.-BoSton Herald.
Perkins Cleveland, at the Democratic
meeting at East Boston, the other night, said
that when N. P. Blanks, Anson Burlin-
game, Henry J. Gardner, or any other man,
said the Democratic party was the ally of
slavery, they lied in their teeth" The ques-
cion of veracity raised by MIR. Cleveland, is
merely question of terms. We more than
half agree with him that the Democratic
party is not the ally of slavery. 1t is ITS
SLAVE. If the indignities that have been
heaped upon the Northern Democracy during
the last few years by the slave power, were
put upon the slaves, there would be an in
surrection in less than a fortnight
JournDl,
The extent of grape culture among
the banks of the Hudson River is not gener-
ally appreciated. A good authority has said
that IN six years, at the present rate of its in
crease, enough wine will be produced along
those sunny and fertile slopes 10 supply the
whole wine consumption of New York.
Soon after the suspension of the banks in
this State, man who had been in the habit
of loaning money here, refused to give credit
any longer in non-specie paying place, and
invested his spare funds in one of the fsound
specie paying banks of New York" He
bought at 81, great decline from former
pricss. The stock when last heard from stood
at 59.--Pro0idence Journal.
The SKY.-It is strange thing how little,
in general, people know about the sky. 1t is
the part of creation in which nature has done
more for the sake of pleasing man, more for
the sole and evident purpose of talking to
him, and teaching him, than in any other of
her works; and it is just the part in which
we least attend to her. The noble scenes of
earth can be seen and known but by few, it
is not intended that man shold always live in
the midst of them-he Injuries them by his
presence-he ceases to feel them if he be al
ways with them. The sky is for all bright
as it is, it is not ''too bright nor good for hu-
man natures daily food; it is fitted in all its
functions for perpetual comfort and exating
Of the heart, soothing and purifying it from
dross and dust Sometimes gentle, sometimes
capricious, sometimes awful-never the same
for two moments together, almost human in
its passions, almost spiritualin its tenderness,
almost divine in its infrmity its appeal to
what is immortal in US is asdistinct as its min
istry of chastsement or of blessing to what is
mortal is essential And vet we never attend
to it, we never make it a subject of thought,
but as it has to do with our animal sensation.
We look upon all by which it speaks to us,
more clearly than to brutes, upon all which
bears witness to the intention of the Supreme
that we are to receive more from the covering
vault than the light and the dew that we
share with the weed and the worm, only as a
succession of meaningless and monotonous &C.
cident, too common and too vain to be wor-
thy of moment of watchfullness or glance
Of admiration. If in our moments OF utter
i6leness and insipidity we turn to the sky as
alast resource, which phenomena do we speak
Off One says it has been wet, and another it
has been windy, and still another it has been
| warm. Who, among the whole Gathering
crowd can tell me OF the forms and precipices
| of the chain of tall white mountains that gild-
| ed the horizon at noon yesterdays Who saw
| the narrow sunbeam that came out of the
south, and smote upon the SUBMITS until
they melted and mouldered away in dust of
blue rain Who saw the dance of the dead
clouds when the sunlight left them last night,
and the west wind blew them before it like
withered leavess All has passed unregretted or
unseen ; or, if the apathy be ever shaken off,
for an instant, it is only by what is extraor-
binary. Yet it is not in the broad and fierce
manifestations of the elemental energies, not
| in the clash of hail, nor the draft of whirl-
| wind, that the highest characters of the sub.
| lime are developed. God is not always so
| eloquent in the earthquake, nor in the fire,
as in "the still small voice. They are but
the blunt and the low faculties of our nature
which can only be addressed through lamp
black and lightning. 1t is in quiet and sub
dued passages of unobtrusive majesty, the
deep, and the calm, and the perpetual-that
which must be sought ere it is seen, and loved
ere it is understood-things which the angels
/ work out for US daily, and yet very eterhally,
| which are never wanting and never repeated
which are to be found always, yet each found
but once. 1t is through these that the lesson
of devotion is chiefly taught and the bless
ing of beauty is given.--JOhn Ruskin.
A romantic incident comes from
Spain. A municipal guard was condemned
| to be shot for INSTRUMENTATION. His sister pc.
| titioned the pardon of the Queen while the
latter was on her way to the theatre When
the curtain arose, Madame Ristori, in the
character of "Medea,' interceded for the Gull
| prit in few verses, which she detained
with her accustomed energy. Tho Queen,
after brief consultation with her ministers
] wrote tho pardon in her box.