New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-10-01

mouth A ltle further 70 the eastward the Island
Of Mount Desert the mssicn Of s.. Saviour had been
founoed in 1913 by the French Jesuit Father Pisrre
Baird and destroy ed together with other French settle
peDta in Maine, by Sir Samuel Argsl Of Virginia. At
later period Il adventurous Baron de ST. Castine
from Canada and built fortress on the site Of the
| town which low bears his name. He married the
| daughter of the great Modocawa DO tue most pow
erfu sachsm Cf tie east, and had wild aud romantic
career till his castle was taken and pluodered by SIR
| Edmond Andros, Governor of Massachusetts. Over
these waters during toe same period had crused the
Hugusnot La Tour, the Baron Estienne the Lord Of
| Acadia, of whom Whittier sings:
| "St. Saviour had lookd
| On the hereto coil,
| AZ the songs Of the Huguenot
Rose on tue gale.
| The PALE ghostly fathers
Remen beTed her veil
| Ard had cursed her while passing
With taper and bell;
But the men Of Monhegan
OF Papiss abhorIed,
Had welcom, d and Toasted
The heret Lord.
They had loaded his shaIop
With dun-feh and ball,
With stOres for his lsrder
And steel for his wall"
The breeze being fair and steady, we held on our
course without stopping, till, at p. M, reached
Owls Head, an exceedingly picturesque pronontory
where a large white lighthouse crowned high rock
rising abruptly from the water. Here anchored in
bread chanuelbetween The maioland aadtwo issnds,
amid fleet of vessels. The channel is much frequent
ed by coasters and fishermen, and five hundred sail
have d en seen passing Owls Head in one day.
Afer supper the Assyrisn persuaded the Artist and
me 10 70 ashore and walk with him 10 the large Of
Rocklano, where he was assured By the Skipper that
whisky could be obtained without fail. To make
proper In resicn on the people Of that place be ar
rayed himself in his best attire putting on for the oc
csson, for the frat time, las onable stovep2e hat
which he had carefully reserved for great emergen-
cy. In spte of his rsmonsIances, we perysrsely
adhered to red Shirts fshy pantaoons and old felt
hats, and consequently made rather rowdy appear
snce by the side of
"Our oiled and curled Assyrian bulL-
We get of at good round pace, and the defiance TO
ROcklaDd, according TO the skppsr being only three
miles, and the weathe, fine, though growing cold We
highly pleased at the prospect of stretching our
legs IL walk after being cramped up in the
little sloop. We went on ehsorfally for perhaps
compile of miles, a road bOrdered by woods, till we
met man driving wagon apparently on bis way to
Owls Head. We stopped ind asked:
" Is this the road TO Rocklandl"
oval tits"
" How lar is il ?"
oval little morn three miles,"
The wsgoner drove on, leaving MS not very well
satisfied with the result of our inquiries. We kept
on, however, for about mile further where we en-
countered 3 traveller foot who assured that Rock
lana It'll about three miles iis.ant. The distance
was evidently diminishing, aud we pushed vigorously
onward, ull at length after walking, as computed,
in all about five miles We reached the TO wn Of which
we were in search, about 9 p. M. To our surprise, it
proved to be a handsome, cty>ike place, with WELL
built brick blocks and granite sidewalks. The whole
population appeared to be in the street. returning we
learned, from brass band concert
The Assyrian, peroeiving that most Of the shops
Shut directed his seps to a hotel where he made
inquiries 70 the fluid resources of the towH. The
answer was discouHsiDg. Nothing stronger than
lageT-bter was to be had for love money. Unwil-
ling to credit 60 fearful state of d.stuton in place
OF such size and apparent business ouI thirsty friend
went forth to explore leaving Ne 10 peruse the
papers and gather the ne Of the last few weeks.
In abou, half an hour he rstarned toeraby succ ssu
lie had found al ap0thecarys, several bottles Of
Woas Aromatic Schiodan SohUapps, which, in spite Of
ia pre,ensous TO be medicine, he said was really a
pretty good article Of gin, though abomipsbly diluted
with water sill, it was fit for drink, and, 10 the alb
sepce of better liquor, might be endared.
We set out at once on our return each alternately
bearing the precious package which was confoundedly
heavy, and rached Owls Head just at midnight,
scarcely able to stand we were so fa,ieued from want
Of practice in walking for the last MONTH Toe weather
had changed greatly in the course of the evening. It
had grown quite cold and the clouds indicated speedy
RAIN. With some difficulty, standing on the shors we
detected the Helen amid crowd Of vessels of al sizes
The Asyrab hailed Der:
HALO! the Helen, the Helen ahoy"
There was 10 response In fact, all on board we're
BOUND asleep having turned in under the doa gathered
from some idle remark of Of us as we left item,
that we should stay NJ Rockand all night. TIE As-
syrian hailed again repeatedly and with the utmost
ioroe OF bis luugs and joined him in the out'ry'
III ere was st no answer from ths sloop; bat msn On
board other vessels hsloed 3. us Ia wrath for making
such disturbance and dogs the shore Sc, mp fu-
rloua barking There evidently no use IL aitemp.
ing to rouse oar sleepng friends. and 80 We walked
about the village for while, seeking for tavern.
None WAS to be seen. AT length, growing desperate