New-York daily tribune., 1858-11-17

ny thirsty hTs between
IN. Grecisn's moand, the Roman. urn,
Are sien: when we cell,
fss 'iill The Purple sIsPe' return
twasa brish, immoIt.fs head
They ciIcled with the vine,
And DER their beet and hravsst dea5
They poured the dsIA Ted wine.
"Me,hlnk, o'er every sparkling glass
Yolne Eros waves his wings,
And echoes o'er its dimpes pass
S'n .a..s dead ,aa.S hassTssn. g, h.:sdS :s.Sf: s,
Their locss Of hos,ins god
Wi:h oacchsnt dance and choral hymn
Return the nymphs Of old.
a welcome then 20 jo, and mir;A,
From hearts 40 fresn ~ ours,
To '.r the dust N earth
Their swestly mingled flowers;
'Tis wisdom's self the cup that hls,
Aud Mature from her vinecsd hills
Ths, rain, her life blood down
Then again, before part,
My empty glass shall ring;
And he that has the wsrm,s heart
Shall loudest laugh and sing
The applause was immense. Round upon round
of clapping rolled over the harbor shaking the fog
and reyerberatlng among the piles of granite.
"DO you remember. c." said the Assyrlan
where we heard that song before :"
"Ay well do remember" The question car
ried me back from the fogs and fishermen of Cape
Ann to far different scene in Boston, where amid
gay circle that included some of the foremost
wits and poets of New England, the brilliant Auto
crat of the Breakfast Table had sung the song HIM
self
Agsin the voice from the Venus began to sing.
Drink 70 me only with thine eyes
And vail pledge with niue -
Where did you first hear that before ~ said
to the Assyran. q In the OF your three or
four thousand years of Pythagorean existence you
must have heard ii somewhere, long ago, either Ia
the original Greek or in Ben Jonsons English.
II probably first heard it sixteen hundred years
ago, sung BY some Greek fisherman in an island of
the Egean-perhaps at Lemnos itself. Who knows ?
But the circumstance has escaped my memory.
Skipper" continued the Assyrian, turning to that
parsonage, who was sitting on the tahrail soberly
sOlacing himself with pipe, 4" take the dory and
carry bottle of claret to the Venus, with the
compliments of the Helen to the man who has been
singing"
"Nonsensc" interposed the Professor. Don't
send them claret-they will take it for bad vinegar.
couple Of bottles of ale will be much more accept
able"
The amendment was accepted by the original
mover. and in moment or two the skipper sculled
away in the dory, his pipe cleaning through the
with the thanks of the Venus for the present. The
vessel he said, was msckerel fisher, with eight
or ten men on board aud was waiting for the fog
to lift before she started for the fishing grounds.
The singer was goodlooking young man who
seemed to be the mate.
The Professor, whose Summer cruises in past
years had brought him much in contact with the
fishermen, said they were remarkably intelligent
and efficient body of men. a slow stupid, lazy
fellow could not succeed in their VOCATION which,
as pursued on our shores was well calculated 10
call out each mans individual smartness aud
pumption OF the hundreds Of fishermen then ia
the harbor where We lay probably every one had
received h good cOmmOu-schOOl education, and
pine-tenths of them were qualified, by character
and intelligence, to take command of vessels.
IL was now midnight and the air had become
chilly. So we went below and turned in t0 sleep
The next morning, Friday July Ii, the fog was
very dense, but the sun was shining and the air
soon grew hot The old pilot sald he thought the
fog would lit at noon, 50 we r0wed the sloOp out
upon the ocean to be ready for the breeze If 1t
should spring up. Of IlaIbut Point the Professor
dredged but got little the bottom being muddy.
The rest Of and caught among other things,
couple of conger about two feet each length.
They were OF a yellowish white. mottled with
dirty spots, the head and neck thick, the mouth
large, but the body slender and snake-llke. These
creatures have been caught ten feet long and as
thick AS mans arm. The Professor dissected
those took, and found in their stomachs large
quantity Of crustaceans belonging TO the order
Tetradecapoda-li legged. This order, he told us,
is very numerous in species, and contains two prin-
cpal groups: the fret group consisting of vertl-
cally compressed species-tbe second OF horl-
zOntaliy fattened species. The hrst group,
from the form of their bodies, walk upon their
sides and the second upon their bellies. About fifty
species Of the first group have been found on our
coast. They are very active little creatures and
are interesting in aquaria, because they are very
qusrrelsome and are generally engaged in mischief
except when they are at work building their houses,
which consist of little tubes. They are found at all
depths, from high-water mark to 30 fathoms. Some
kinds are found floating at the surface, and are
known sand-boppers. beach-ileas, sea-feas, sea
screws OF the tlattened forms, come are known
as sea-cockroaches sea-pllbugs, aud other strange
appellatiOns.
About the middle Of the forenoon, 70 our great
rehef--for We were heartily tired OF the fog, and
longed to be on our way Down East-a light south
east breeze sprung up. We started at once for
the Isles Of Shoals, which lay nearly due west from
us about twenty miles distant. We headed some
hat eastery to counteract the current which sets
into Ipswich Bay on the food tide. The breeze
increased aud We dashed on finely through the
fog. keeping sharp lookout ahead. After running
about two hours, We suddenly met large schooner
bearing down upon Us. She emerged from the iog
like a speeter and passed close to ~. Her skipper
standing on the tstrai hailed as she swept by
Whereaway Is Cape Ann ~
Ten or twelve miles south by west, responded
our pilot. who said the stranger was lnackercl
vessel, probably on her wa. home from the Isles
of Stoal. In c,umgut slg ynns he'd into the mist.