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


Fanny too is waiting. As to the Cbaperone, she has
waited till more or lees makes no difference and al
things look alike TO her. Tea has becomea myth bed.
time movable feast in her distracted mind. Still 70
is 80 hard to get those girls away! Each ssemen
have got entaneed with midshipman. and Ia sons
convenient shadow is, she assures you, doing her ut
most to get away. Finally, BY series Of success
ful dsshes you grasp them ALL and carry them 10 the
vessels side, and down the gangwsy, where two q
three of the roundackets cling STILL and into the boat
which pushes off with an impatient snort.
Some like shadows 90 depart"
You nutter to yourself, you quietly clip away
from the huge black hull over the smooth mirror Of the
bay. rejecting now tender moon, with the that
have stood Godmo.hers for 90 many You have gone
forward seating yourself little apart from the rest,
and only pancing at the in the hole, who s work.
inc bis passage as usual, and at the cabin and tiny
INNER deck swarmng again with the feathersd tribe.
Before you attained this peace you had something OF
sousbbe in wrapping up the girls, who, all en- mogs
with dancing insist upon that their laees and mus
Inns keep them quite warm enough, and struggle hks
90 many colts while you halter each fair neck WITH
handkerchief. This point you VIII not give UPS
and threat ming all with Dphthera, you enforce the
shaws and retire TO moraze and cool yourself deep
| ly; Such Is human lfe,' you say: dance ana
| death, dance and DEATH and how little distance u
there between the and the otherP Then, you
think with pleasure that you are taking at least inc
tirst steps toward home and begin TO work ont inc
| usual familiar equation between the miles ana
the minutes. But what's this Here We are
alongside of the Constitution again, while
q smothered litter from the after part Of the
boat informs you that somcthing Is going on.
Then one mdshipman, and another and another leaps
from the gunwale TO the gsngway, and disappears up
the dark stacsse followed by peals Of laughter aud
YOU are off again. "What, the mdshipmen on board
after hoursl Really, young ladies, this is too bad.
"Ob, mamma, il wasn't l, nor l., nor i, says
the usual chorus You risk er0sS-eramtndtsons, but
only remark that somebody must be much to blame.
At which somebody, in the depths of the dark, laughs
| IN a hardened manner. So ends the hidshipmen's
Hop.
Other hons have also been this Summer, but r1e.
thinks they have been very partial and one'egged
affairs. few Of the dancing men are here, onI the
greater part are better employed elsewhere and dis-
play their muscular graces TO more manly music than
the dueet tones of the German. But even now, whle
YOU and hold in tie open air. the loveiiess
sunlight and shadows dodging each other over my pa
per- the waterfall rustiDg, clos- at hand andth pretty
inc trees standing like sentlnes to guard my fetfe
ment-while write, from stone seat, with ooard
table before me- the old accutomed thing going on
at the Ocean House. They have got up maf'Hee
there tie frst aud last of the season. Don wo
envy them, TRIBUNE, with the thermometer at W 10
the shaded There will be all the rats, aud all the
crnolihes and all the high-heeled shoes which make
no the multiplication table Of society 10 these days.
There will be also much perspraton, If we mistake
not; and The sblebodied LabOrers of the German will
| ~ aat.u u,rU hrOw
will deform her hair with new mountainous fa-hicns,
tie Itle hills rejoicing on either side of her
forehead while a huge tumulus projects from
the back Of the head, surmounied by the ridge OF
Kilt or coral comb-tbe whole having de-
cidedly geographical aspect and interest What
describe, that have seen, though am well content
NOT 10 see IT today while the trees and the Humboldt
and tho waterfall, make smenis for the round and
square movements accompanied by the fddng Of the
Germanians and watched by Helsenmuer's treacher-
Gus smile But my solitary matinee, like the sociai
one has its end. 20 TO town, and learn with grim
satisfaction that the affair ut the Ocean House has
. been the most decided Of failures Why this The
names on the card Of invitation strong and aitrac
tive Yes but man In his nobler sspect WAS wanting,
and woman necessarily dropped and still in her line
clothes and didn't have good time. You and were
not there TRIBUNE; but it doubtful whether 'even
our reserve great it could have saved the fortune
of the day. Other things learn in town. There has
teen another fright; but Ty was not cut off, thank
Coda brave action and successful one. May these
shyers of fear soon eliminate in good hot fever Of
wrath and courage in whose generous delirium we
may little outdo our sober, everyday performances
fbd Joseph Holls speech, too-how good IL s, and
how well he would look as a Cabinet Minister! He
has spoken one Of the best words have heard yet,
viz: tbat commerce may fail, and the grass grow in
the city streets but we must fight for all that, and
believe and persevsre This is the true doctrne-the
end is CREST and glorious, and what is more neces-
ssry Az the troubles that lie between IL and us, We
5 must say, guand meme. Among new notices this
} would not be a bad one. Picture, Central Park
deserted by private carriages; Fith-Avenne to let for
tenement houses-inscription, quand meme. Picture
No. 2, you, and T. and all of us at work upon small
farm, the boys digging and driving the girls making
butter and raising poultry, wreck OF piano In cor
ner, a volume of Horace our only polite luxury
motto: ''guand meme" Picture No. 3, the exodus Of
cur families a mournful train, with many women and
children, going forth TO seek observation-disclosures
ln tie distance CORY with our last defest-motto:
gnaad meme. Picture No. 4. Queen Victoria and JEFF.
Davis in,erchangmg compliments. Prince Of Wales
making pleasure trip in priva'eer. Mrs. Senator
Gwin embracing the Duchess of Sutherland ct aliis,
rigners Of certain petition relative to Slavery. soms
eight ears since. Mrs Julia ex-President Tyler,
laughing with those duehe,ses about the spicy corrs
spondence. London Times and Ner- York Herald hob.
nobbing together. Lord Pslmerston very merry al
oysters with Mayors Wood and Wiehtmsn. Toombs
calling his slave-roll on Bunker HILL "only because
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