New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-10-01
THE GREAT OYSTER PLACER.
Millions of Dollars Worth Found.
GREAT EXCITEMENT ALONG SHORE.
Immense Fleet of Fishermen.
DESCRIPTION OF THE GROUNDS
OYSTERS GENERALLY.

They are marine, bvalvular testsceous and are
partsken of either raw, fried, roasted, stewed, or
escoIloped in pie or fntters. They are for sale in
considerable quantities in the city Of New York and
exc prepared for eating at sundry place. from Butter
cake Dicks to Delmonico's
During certain season Of the year-those mouths
when, by a strange cabasm the letter r has been
summariy ignored in their names-the maternal oys-
ter, in the peaceful tranquility of the lsst of the
ebb tide launches into the water the embryonic oys.
tiers, to be developed TO maturity for the sstisfac
OF the rapacious Dsws Of man and womankiud The
spawn bywhich uneuphonc name the infautle oysters
are called being by the memorable laws Of nature thus
cut off from the Mothers care begin to shift for them
selves. They cast about for resting place, where
destiny may fud them, because having no pedal ex-
treues as their legacy, they are unable TO follow
destiny. II the soft side Of stone or shell or piece of
wood touch their embry onc organism with instinct
i've egg otsm they appropriate the geological concho-
logical or vegetable substance, the may be- TO
their Own use, and forthwith the youthful oyster,
scarcely the size Of spangle-small in size but big
with promise-makes his first bow as an oyster-and
with yours in time" settles into an ocean cum dig
ntate TO grow. With the base Of the bivave down
and the edges np-they acquire upright habits not
witbs,anoing they indulge in the American practice
which the Engishmsn characterized as "demned
perpendicular drinking
years experience makes them the size of half
dollar. In two years they are large enough to be
marketable, and IN three years they assume proper
tons which command for them the respect which is
always accorded maturity.
Still they are no, oysters as is oysters A vegeta-
bic pbaee Of development has to be theirs before they
will sut the esthetic taste Of the epicure, and the
transition like all transitions, is painful. They must
be "psnted" In other words tbs unfeeiog oyster
mar in his boat throws overheard his dredge which
scrspes along the bed where the bvalves are at est
drags them from their places, and they fall into the
capacious network of the dredge and are brought to
the deck of the boat where they remain until sui-
cieIt quantity are secured to be PLANTED"
But oysternen don't mean putting them into the
earth as the seeds from which to raise Oysterpants-
lard the writer of this takes this opportunity of say
ing that that popular vegetable has nothing in com.
mon in its origin with oysters proper the two being
totally distinct and belonging to different natural
kir gdOms) but they taken to some point where
they Can absorb the nspritipg properties Of fresh
water, and which will not only take frem them the
strong taste which is peculiarly submarine, but will
make them adiposo-make the eyes sparkle to uphold
Them and the palate tickle they pass those portals
Of the human stomach in this last but evenul drama
of oyster life. A two months experience in vegets-
ton thus natures them, and when wanted they
again brought TO the surface and consigned to Fulton
or Washington Market and - the reader knows the
rest.
THINGS TOPO AND GEOGRAPHICAL.
On the north shore Of Long Island is an
inland bay called Huntington Bay. Branch.
ing from the Bay are four email hsrbors,
known as Lloyds, Huntington, Centerport,
and Nortbport hsrbors. On the east of Huntington
Bay is Eaton's Neck, and on the west Lloyds Neck,
each extending distance into Long leland Sound
At the edge Of Lloyds Harbor is F,esnel light, de-
signed to be guide to vessels in the Sound who seek
barbor during the prevalence of heavy nor' easter
On the point of Eatons Neck is large Fresne light,
which is an excellent guide to mariners going through
the Sound. Extending in line nor nor west from
Eatons Neck light is reef Of rocks which is from
81 to fsthcms of water 1t extends nearly half way
across to the Connecticut shore. Opposite is the
town OF Norwak, Conn., a distance of ten or twelve
miles. At the exremities Of the arms of Hurting.
| ton Bay on Long Island are the villages of North
port, Centerport ard Huntington.
Thirty miles down the Sound from Eaton's Neck
is located City Isand-ths residence of numberess
oystermen and oysters and the place where, two or
of n email s0op caught and examined, prior to
being transferred to White Plains to be hanged.
OYSTERS SPECIALLY.
The City Islanders are the planters Of the East
River oysters and at home and in half dozen har-
bors round about they have their moluscous plsn.a.
tions, furnishing good crop the year round. But
the City Islanders wanted more room--like Aexan-
der they sighed for new worlds to conquer-in other
words, they wanted more plantation room-more
TERROR msrini-tory. Fifteen years ago the inhab
itants of Northport held cut nducementsso the City
Isanders say-for them to plant their oysters in
Norbport Bay. The Nortbporters had ship-buid.
ing interest to look after end they thus sought the
vstson of the City Islanders in the hope TO get the
building of their oyster-boats. The c. LIS did pst
ronize the Norhport builders and the hearts Of the
ingenious marine architects then wa1ed joyful. Val
liable bushels upon bushels of the oysters
planted and from year to year, they matured they
were taken up and carried TO New-York but the de-
pletion did not equal the supply, aud Northport har
Dor this year was studded with gems Of the sea.
THE OYSTER WAR.
But the City Islanders say that the Northpoers and
Uurtingtonians gel ersly became covetous Of the
submarine wealth Of the City Islands, lying within
ropes length of Norhport dredges and they resolved
10 take possession thereof that acting in consonarce
with this spirit they last Spring passed law at town.
meeting cor fscaing the aforesaid weath OF the City
islanders to their use by making an oflense for
pon.resdens to take oysters from NorthPort Bay The
City Islanders. unfortunately coming within this de-
scrip,iop, found themselves outlaws if they should
attempt to reap the fruits of the seed they had soTn
broadcast on the waters of that inland bay IN fact
they looked upon it as an attempt, by force on the
part Of marsudipg uptipgtonians to prevent the iu
fment Of that passage of the Scriptures which says,