The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-01-25

who has been of the frequent excursions to
the fishing banks, gives society the benefit of his
experience in an article entitled "Scuppaug,'
which is the aboriginal name of the fish known in
Gotham as "porgy." Here is the description of the
most exciting moment of
FISHING EXCURSION
Notwithstanding the storm of Yesterday, from
which the discontented foreboded stampede of the
fish to deeper waters, porgies to extraordinary
amount were soon heaped on the decks, at the feet
of each fisherman, the more careful of whom put
them into baskets or barrels. But in general they
were thrown carelessly on the deck, with a string
passed through their gills to keep them from stray
ing out of their proper lots. When these bright
fishes are lying on the deck, it is curious to watch
them flushing and gaSping there, with that singular,
dubious expression of mouth peculiar to fishes out of
water, if more struck by the absence of that ee-
ment than by their novel position among the acces-
sories of dry life. Now and then black fish was
hauled in-an event greeted with loud cheer
from all parts of the boat. When a very large
one was announced, people came rushing from all
quarters to see it; but the greatest tribute to
! argeness in fish that | remember anywhere to
have seen the altered expression on the face of
baby some six months old, whose features settled
permanently down into the collapse of imbeclity
from the moment of the arrival on the upper deck
of black fish two feet long.
BY this time the scene on the forecaste was
| quite picture of the Dutch school. Grouped
everywhere among the fish and fishers were ma
| tronly women and unbonnetted damses, most of
| them with handkerchief tied upon their heads; for
they had got over their sea-sckness now, and were
| coming by twos and threes from the saloon, to
breathe little fresh air aud look at the sport One
pretty, Jewish-lOokng girl, wrapped in a red and
white shawl, sitting the big anchor the
bows, and three four others looked quite pic
tureSque, they recned the heavy coils of the
great cable. All along the bulwarks on both sides
of the boat, men and boys were crowding upon
each other, casting out and hauling in their lines
with untagging spirit. Slim city children blistered
whOlesomely to their legs, from knee to ankle,
by the and the salt air. harnessed themselves to
little heaps of fish, and were driven about the up
per deck in various fashionable styles, including
four hand and tandem, by other slim city chill
dren, whose lower extremties had been treated in
the same beneficial manner by the same eminent
physicians.
The musicians had laid away their cornopeans
and other cunningly twisted horns upon the broad
disc of the big drum, in a dark alcove between
decks, and were fishing savageIy in German and
broken English, according to the nationality with
which their affairs happened to get entangled.-.
Even the colored chef de cuisine, a muscular mu-
latto, with beard of 4 rash disposition, coming
out on wrong parts Of his face in little eruptiye
pustues Of black wool, spored his lines out of the
galley air-holes; and his pOrgies were simmering
in the pan while their memories were vet green in
the submarine parishes from which they came
Have these tnny creatures their full revenge upon
hsher-mankind, when n smack sinks fOundered into
the swallowing deep Do the midnight jewellers
in the sea caverns call out in broad Scuppaug to
the attendant mermaid for a"halEd0zen arge-sized
ioter-heads on the half mOnkey-iscket p"
To these queries hope that Poetical Justice if
still living, will forward reply at her earliest
convenience. POrgy began to pervade the
air with an astTingeut perfume of the sea; poGe of
your Fulton Market smells of stagnating fish, but
a clean, wholesome, corane odor, such as we may
imagine supplied to the peris "beneath the dark sea-
by the scay fellows in the toilet line down there who
are likely to keep ii for sale in cOnch.shes-quarts
and pints. POrgy prevailed to that extent, in fact
that it came to be talked Of by and-by, as a crcu.
lating medium; and hard-fsted mechanic averred
his intention of cOmpensating his landady for his
board with porgy for the week that passing
away.
OBtrUAaY.-A deep gloom hung over Mobile on
the morning of the l4th inst, when it was an
nounced that Mrs. Walton, of Mobile, had ''passed
to that bourne whence no traveller returns" and
her friends and those of her distinguished daugh-
ter, Madame Levert, throughout America and Eu-
rope, will drop the silent tear of sympathy at this
bereavement. Mrs Walton died of disease of the
heart, at the age of sixty-eight years. She was a
AUpusta ha damn rofG