New-York daily tribune., 1861-09-08

But tnid life is full Of melancholy. One cannot
doub, that she greatly suffers from her severe secluson
ths, Unrest of the fair that queen beauty OF the seas
the Haotide. She has foot aud could if she chose,
get along though slowly; but she dares not. AJAX her
why, and the will reply: 81 sm afraid. The Crab 10
continually watching me, and whole world OF yora-
cious fish continually swimming over my head
My cruel admirer, man, Furnishes me for my beauty;
pursuing me from the Indies to the Pole and is now
loading whole ships with me at golden California"
Butthe unfortunate though unable to go out has dis
covered subtle means Of procuring air aud water In
her house. she has little windows which communicate
with her little lungs Hunger at length eomPels her
to risk something, and toward evening she crawls a
little around, and feeds on some seaweed, her sole
nourshment.
Here let us remark, that those marvellous shells, not
only the Haliotide, but the Widow lback aud whitel
and tue Golden Mouth (of mingled pearly and gold
color are poor herbivo inoensive, temperate feed
ers. living and decisive refutation that, OF those
who fancy that beauty ia the daughter OF Death, Of
blood, of murder Of merely brutal accumulation OF
animal substance.
But to these, our beautiful sheenants, the mer-
eat modicum Of subsistence suices. Their chief ali
ment ia the light which they drink In by which they
are permeated by which they color and tint with more
than rainbow beauty and variety of TINT their inner
dwelling in which they conceal and cherish their SOL
itary love. Each Of them is double, hermapbrOditei
lover and loved 10 one AS the palaces OF the East are
concealed by dark and repusiye outer walls So hore
also without, all is rude, within all is OF the most
dazzling beauty; the hymeneal seclusion is hghtened
up by the cleaning and many -hued reflections Of lit
tie of mother OF pearl which, even when the house
is closed to the outer light, create iaery nyste
rous and most lovely twilight.
II is great consolation that when our poor prison.
ers cannot have the sun they at least have amoon
OF their own, paradise OF soft and trembling hgn's
ever changing yet ever renewed, and giving TO thst
sedentary life, that little variety wbich acsoiu'ey
needed by every creature.
The poor children who work in the Mines ask Welt
ors not for food, or sweetneas, or money or toys-
all they ask for is the means OF getting more ight
Aud it is the same with Ocean children, the Halo
tides. Every day. blind though they be, they feel ana
greedily welcome the return of the light receiving 1t,
aud contemplating IT, with the whole OF their tanspa-
rent bodies; and when the light has departed, from
without they still preserve and nurse some porhon OF
il within themselves. They watch, they wait, they
hope for it's return; their whole little soul consists oi
that hope that watching that eager desire, that inees
SAINT yearning. Who can doubt that Tue return oi Tue
glad light is as delightful TO them as II is to us nhy
even more so than ia to who have the manifold
distractions of so busy and varied lite!
Their whole lives pass in thinking, wishing, divinng,
hoping regrettng; thergreat lover the SUM- Never
seeing him, they yet, IN their own fashion, certainty
TO them from without and from great center, power
ful fecund and benefcent And they love that great
deeply felt, though never seen central light, which
caresses them fills them with JOY, foods them with life.
Had they the power they no doubt would rush to seek
his rays. And at least, attached as they are to their
abode they like the Brahmn ct the door OF the Pago-
da silently offer him up their homage, at once msda-
tive and thrilling. First flower Of instructive worship.
Already they love and pray who cay the little word
which the Holy prefers to all prayer-that On! that
heart utterance which contents and pieases Heaven.
When the Indian utters II at sunrise he well knows
that ali that ianocent world OF mother OF pearl pearl,
and humblest shells, utters Il with him, from the
depths Of the seas
But the most Micheletish fsncies are called
forth by the contemplation Of
rur pEApI
fully understand whit tho sight Of the pea.l sUg.
gess Of feeling and faucy to the chsrmDgy hntutored
heart the woman heart that dreams and fsncies and
ls stirred by sweet and strange, aud uncomprehepded
emotion. That pearl ia not exactly person bat nei-
thor on the other hand, ia IL exactly n thing. What
adorable whiteness no. call not mere whi,encss, but
conlor, virgnal candori no, Not virginia. but better
still For your young virgins, sweet aud modest as
they are have always slight dash Of young tariness,
and yerdancy. No, tie pearls candor rather rcsem-
bles that Of the innocent Young BRIDE 50 pure yet 20
submissive 10 love.
No ambition to SHINE. Our pearl sofiens, almost
suppresses, Its lights At fret, you see only dull
white it is only when you have taken second aud
closer glance that you discover it, mysterious iris its
exquisitely gancins and pure light.
Where lived il Ask the deep Ocean. On what
Ask the sunbeams; like clear spirit II lived on
love and light.
Great my steryl But our beautiful pearl herself
plains it, We cannot look upon her without feeling
that this creature at lovely and meek must
for long time have lived in quetude, waiting and
waited for, willing nothing and doing nothing, but the
will Of the beloved one.
The son of the sen put bis beautiful dream into his
she'll tie shell into tie mother OF pearl, and she into
the PEARL which is but a concentration OF herself.
But the pearl we are told only comes TO her mother
in consequence OF some wound some continued suffer
ing which withdraws absorbs all vulgar life into
that divine poetry.
have been told that the grea, ladies of the East,
more delicate and tasteful than vulgar rich, shun
the diamond and allow their soft skin 70 be touched
only by the pearl And in truth the brillaLcy OF the
diamond is not in accord with the light of love.
necklace and pair OF bracelets OF ne pearls The
harmonious and true decorations for woman instead
of divertng the glance of the lover, they move him.
make Tenderness more tender-say TO him, "No noise
| let us lovep' The pearl seems amorous Of woman,
and woman Of the pearl. The ladies OF the North
when they have once put on pearl ornaments, never
afterward remove them but carry them day and night
concealed beneath their attire. On very rare occa-
sions il the rich fur cape, lined with white satin
chances to slip aside, we may catch momentary
glance Of the happy ornament, the lnsepeable neck
| lace IL reminds ono OF the sken tunic which the
Odasque wears close to her person and loves go much
that she will not part with 1t until II Is worn and torn
beyond all possibility of repair believing il she does
to be talisman, an infalble love charm.
1t is Just go with the pearl like the silk il drinks in
and is npre gnated with the very life Of the wearer.
When It has sleptso many nights upon her far bosom
the ornament Is no longer an ornament II Is part OF
the person. and is longer to be seen by an ndiiier-
ent eye One alone has right TO know 1t aud to sur.
prise upon that necklace the mystery OF the beloved
woman.
Such is the odd combination of science and
sentimentaity, which always exercises an irresti-
BILE attraction over the dreamy, and sometimes
almost maudlin, associations of the author. In-
dulgDg in their too frequent expression, without
regard to the limits of good TASTE if not actually
oversteppng the bounds of decency, he becomes
moro wearisoIne in his piling up of ofieminate