New-York daily tribune., 1858-09-24
FROM MASSACHUSETTS.
rronl "a occs.,ooa, Correspondent.

doUsed and drenched awsy the Summer hours AZ
Sarstoga. Nshsnt. Newport and other retreats
from sun-stroke and our notorioSs street nosegsy.
are rapidly returning. are burnishrgthe eikuobs,
are resuming With the butcher.
the baker, the lscteo-aqustic gentleman who halls
from Orange County, and that large c6s's'of hamaa
beings who having been burned out. sh:pwrccked.
or Prostrsted by pestilence, are not abore scoept
ing one of our common Uncle's three cent piec~s
in the las' stages Of verdgris mutitudes are strip
ping the Holland epidermis from chints snd chSn-
deher' and are thinking seriously of sending for
Brown. am told that my CAV neighbors of Nahsnt,
OF whom and Of whose fine horses new edition
Of Beauty and the Besst-we have had rlimpses al,
summer, have turned the heads Of their ,te.xi.
homeward; and no doubt some of the tw o. forty
prancers. who not long ago startled our mermsids
with their qusdupdsntic tattoo are standing. this
fine Fall morning, quietly before Stewards, whils
the otcsl in silver buttons waits patiently for the
return Of the dowager and demoisele from tho
inner hsunts of Fashion do not know whether
Fashion. this winter, ia to be- gay or gloomy ysrie-
gated or ylrtuousy sober, prismatic or PLAIN; but
II the town taste Is To run this year. in the road OF
the rainbow, We could have given the designers Q
lesson last night superb enough to have repaid tho
Academy mean the Academy where they paint
upon csnyss-for coming here in body with a
steamboat load of pigments, flexible tubes, brushes,
pencils, palettes, msu-sticks aud short to-
bacco pipes. know very little about poor Mr.
Turner, though suppose his real merit is fixed 10
msdio tgtissinHs somewhere between his foes and
his fatterers, a. that Of all great men il wont 10
be- But coming from our excursion up the beach
last evening, we had an odd mixture OF storm, sea
and sunset, which am sure no painter could put
upon canvas without being laughed At. The clouds
heaped themselves up into one great basaltic col-
umn iringed aud triezed with fire, while above and
around and behind its grotcsque capital the serene
blue sky, cold and pure and beautiful as Death,
gave us immcasurabe ylstss and long drawn aisles
which seemed to tempt US away from our troubles
and our many tears into their peaceful aud passion
less asylums All this was before and us,
while the song of the surges, that miraculous mono
tone which concenters all the sadness Of Nsturr,
and is yet 80 heroic withal, gave something OF
largeness TO our thoughts and called US to Ear OG
lands where We might rest forever in the whits
arms Of Peace, and dream forever in the light of
her smile. The ships, which We could just SEA
through the shlmmering twilight, appeared like
pilgrims little nearer the Isles of the Blest than
We were, and yet how far away were they from tho
golden shore and the stormless hsrbOr! Tho
and the under her wings; but We whispered
to each other rs We srolled in the thickening shad.
ows, that Hesper had gently wrestled through the
cloud, and still ruled the world in the old, imperial
way.
Some commentator DIR. Porson, am SURE
for gallons OF gin never carried him an inch
above the dead level of verbal crticism-has re-
marked Of Homer that he is ever greatest when
singing Of the sea. And have noticed that some.
.,f
love of tradition than in manners, is always 10 bs
observed in the character Of those who dwell by
the oceans gray and melancholy waste" Nine
tenths of the inhabitants of this little shoe city arc
poetical without knowing il, and once in half oeu.
tmry the poet like Whittier. breaks out into full,
clear utterance, after learning of the restless
waves the secret of sinewy and compacted
utterance. (By the way, if any Of your
readers will peruse Byron's Roll on, thou DARK
:" and deep blue ocean, roll :" by the sad sea wave,
they will, to their WONDER discover that Byron's
ocean is very much like the muslin mains in tho
theater, which are certainly melancholy ones st
the Dest) You cannot be two days in Lynn with
out being offered at least peep at half dozen
curious localities. There are Sprouting Horn.
High Rock, Dungeon Rock, Pirates Gen-not to
mention others. Ii will 60 hard with them il they
do not treat you 10 mirage before your departure.
Then they pave, too, tnat never failing provocative
of thought-a messy, crowded and genuine church
yard, century or two old, with the primitive peO-
pie sleeping well under primitive tombstones scup-
tured in primitive style with skulls, cross-bOnes,
hour glasses and other primitive m0rtuary en-
blems. OF all these, az well ss Of Gray the Scotch
hermit; of Thomas Veal, tho last of the Pirates;
of Mol Pitcher, the Witch, you may have your
I'LL Of stories. You will be told that the hermit
was OF good family in ScOtlsnd-was supposed To
have killed his brother in love affair, was gen.
tleman in his manners and well educated, and that
he lived by himself in an odd, desoate house, slept
standing in kind of perpendicular ." bunk hated
women TO that extent that he would not suffer ono
upon his premises, walked TO Boston frequently 10
attend lectures, was slovenly in his costume, and
Was found several days after his death stark and
cold in bis standing bed place. For the rest he s
said 10 have been sour and abusive old solitary,
with turn for mechanical inventions, but without
the slightest talent for getting on in society. Ho
left considerable estate in land, and the Common
wealth of Massachusetts, was his heir. Hs died
only few years ago, and has respectable tomb
stone in the old cemetery. The ghost Of the said
Gray is unusually rampant in these days, and in this
special LOCALITY Of rappings," and has been known
to swear tablefull Of yirtuous and modest " me-
dums quite out of countenance-whch is saying
great deal for his powers Of profanity, natural or
scquired.
Mr.. Veal, the pirate, is an older celebrity, and
approaches the dignity of n yeritable antique. In
IoJr-sO runs the story-Mr. veal, win tnrco
companions left a small vessel which bad just an
chored near the mouth Of Saugus River, aud row.
ed up the stream. On that day one Of the work
men in the iron foundry found a paper ordering
.undry shackles handouts and hatchets ~ be left
at a spot designated and stating that the purchase
money thereof would be found in the same place.
The articles were carried there, and the money was
found tbere-good, hard Spanish dollars. The pi-
rates sailed away after their successful little nego
tiation, but some months subsequently returned,
built n but planted a garden and dug n we'll