Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 2, 1877, Page 11

: THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. DECEMBER 2, IS77—SIXTEEN PAGES. P, ) i THE OYSTEK. 7| studied oysters individual 3 i o s ly and collectively | lated a considerable pile of refuse shells, dead | is three fathoms deep, yet you can feel the mul- | of oysters and oyster-beds b; icti : . it tdirectaoss und_ perseverance of & bord. | starfish, whelks, Eravel, ele., which by susshin | titudo of ogsters rollfo in botroen o dredec's | tires, close times, und 146 1k sod it the whtie BOSTON be says, and truly, that the pure_seatimentalist Wi phe practiced vivisection relentlessly, | and shower has been freed from mud audanimal | iron jaws. ® Houl int A cabie’s lensth awav, a | the oyster crop has fallen of and tne prices of and stoic, the morbidt hermit, such as he had zo& ing the oyster’s internal changes day by | matter, aud otherwise fitted for the reception of | bottom qulte as wood as this would have yield- | oysters bas rison; they were S10 8 busnel u 1R\ hooit of resardiaz Thoveny, did not, su- £ ally show such a concern for weak and down- i The Culture on Our Atlan day, particularly during spawning-fime, until | spat. If the promise of an abundant spawning | ed nothing of value. Here the dredge comes up | 1562, and_more than seve o 3 : Coast. e az able to tell (rom on oyater's sppedrance | is good, ho will Aupplement this fin OF stools TOADED WITIL OYSTERS, i 1575 o ke mannee it hes bees: arcempred 1a | TL¢ Dead and Buried Boston Maga- | trodden fellow-creatures, or so practical and v abumn{ Whetlior thost of a given bed were | with some hundreds, perhaps thousauds, of | the most of them ranaing iu size from a silver | this country to thwart, by various enactments, zines---The Chagrin of Bes- .| ready a power to aid them. It was this that sel ' ’ Seatn ““-Pflr“n.bul when the spawning would | bushels of clean shells of oysters, clans, seal- | quarter to a hall-dollat piece. They are now in | the “interested ingeutiity” of oystermen, acd i i him to making a closer study of Thoreau. He i arative Merits of the Chesapeakes, | Soriing g Same tine Lo was as intently [ lops, and_the like, and miy_sloop-londs of | their secoud year, & few in clusters of two or | always with an effect contrary 0 what W ex- tonians. thinks there isa woaderful hieness between H Compal peakes, | studying the external conditions of successful | gravel, The depositing of these stools beeius | three, but thémajority sinzle andallstowing the | pected. The cure lies in the fery opposite diree this so-called stoic'” ol America, with bis sim- § Delavrares, and Long-Islands, thawaing,—by far the obscurer probiem of the | as soori as the oysters show signs of spawuing. | rounded outlive which defights the oyster-lover. | tion. If the depletion of our ovsterbeds is 12 " plicities and attractions for the lower creatures. 3 X e joume Seasons every object exposed to | Usually four or five hundred bushels of shells, | Here and there fn the pile {5 a waping sheil;sowe | be stayed, if a.constant supply suilicient to meet | The New Magnzine That Seems Born | €iC. toSt. Francis of Assiesi, whose life has k — PGl vl e found ~ covered. with | or from five to six tons of gravel, coarse and | with one valve shorter than the Gther, some | the steadiiy-ncreasing demand s o be mein Not to Di Hi cently been made fresh and real by Mrs. Oli- {4 Messrs. Hoyt’s Discorery of the Main R tere kpotlier times, though the parent | fine, are required for each ucrc of brecding- | witha pin-hole throuxh the purple spot where | tained, it Will be by Inercasing the interest— - Mot to Dic.--A History of Ebant” Very truly be expiuins that it % TheMessre. 3 ! oysters showed every, evidence of * good | ground,~the shells and ravel being castupon | the muscle was attached, “The former kave | personal, pecuniary interest—of oystermen in s Birth, Thoreaw’s luve of Nature that lormed the b i Conditions of Oyster-Breeding. lg—‘(_“'flfi coudition, - and were scen | the water by the shovelful as the boat drifts | been kilicd by star-fish, the lutter by drills,— | the oyster-beds, not by trying to thwart or re- of bis pecuhar sympathy and dislike of what 7 o fmit spawn b abundance, the young crop | with the 1idé. A marked advautage is gained | innoceut-tooking creatures buth of them, but | strainit. Oystormen must be allowed to_be Tas involved, doubtful, and morally_tertuous, = A .cnu;t fallure. A clew td the mys- | by using 3 dreadiully destructive 10 oysters. Fortunately, | something inore than oyster-catchers. The A Tittls W IUhas been urged against Thoreau that Internal Structuze of the Mollueke | h o Sine ity 000 tin moticing that ©” STOOLS OF UNEQUAL S1ZES} the drills confine their attucks to theyounst | ownerless buffaloes are dopmed Lo certain ex. ittle Woman Out of the West at the | carLyLe aND ENERSGN INILUENCED AND The Inte T | e wogaerul failure of spat cortain locali- | apparently uot so much for the greater range of | broods when thinufuz “out is not | termination; they are nubody’s property und Helm, and Boston's Frack Ap- ir. D STANTED Tio Miane Work of ike Oyster-Farmer, ties Would Le found in the fall thickly sct | chiofee presented to the younx sout, as for the | 5o injurious. The stars il at all | everybody’s prey. So likewise are the owherless t i Mr. Page makes a very clear showine of this w:ni;hsl-x(’?‘\nfi" oysters: and these were places | mechanieal action of the unequal stufl upon the Sometimes they come up from deep | oysters. b preciation. faliacy wEen he considers the strong originality \which hiad been much dug over during the sum- | botiom currents. The floatine spat doubtless | Water in swarns as countless as Colorado grass- | “The Oyster Commissioners of the Chesa- and innate power of Thorean. “Those wio know Osster-Farm Looks—3 Dasiness that Pavs | obaeesen srw.onsing for clams. Furtiier, it was | takes refuge in the Jittle cddics created by the | hoppers, aud ravuse an_ oyster-plantation as re- | peake predict that, if the steady exhaustion Emerson would jom very strorgly with Mr. o an 05 -4 Das Juserved that objects known to Have been lost | irregular ‘bottom, and remain until reads to | lenticssly as the latter 4o tho” wheat-fields of | of theoyster-beds of Maryland and Yirgizia con- | An Englishman’s Study.of Thorean--. | F15¢ dusinet this theory. For we all of us Letter than Agriculture. mv(u]r gnrg during the spawning season,—tongs | strikke, when otherwise they might, be swept | the border, Youder shflrp'le is cogaged in re- [ tiwues, the entire stock will be used up within Thorean and Em: P} know that however will, 5nd original, and inde- and dredges, rubier boots, bottles, 'anchor- | away and lost. At any rate, it has been repeat- | plantung a farze tract which che stars invaded | hulf a century, and we may be sure that uo dim- FrRaR: Qoms peadent Mr. Emerscn's wnitiows, especiall; | e Swonge, clam-shells opened for fish-bait, and so | edly observed that the miked stools huve ar- | lust syrivg, when the ouly oysters saved were | foution io the demand for oysters will cut short pared. carlier writings, Lis ccnduct and dail i Scrivner's 3ontnly. ““_,“.""“ be found in the fall well covered | rested an ubundance of spat where the un- that were Lastily “removed i advauce of | the work of destruction, That the predicted —— have naver offered anything wild, or original, 6; Tt is doubtTut whether the three spectes which | ¥itll young oysters, while the surroundiug ob~ | mixed stouls have failed. whost. By such attacks » man | extermination of ths oyster waters, or any of £From Dur Own Correspondent. indupendent, anything differcat, in short, in 2ny pataralicts lave. distinguished among. the oys- | J6E4S ere quite barren. L 1t is not enough thist these necded lodging- | may lose is entire fortunc before bis danger is | the wators of our Atlantic coast, will seally bap- |- BoSTON, Nov. 2A few yeurs a0, when the | OLLLE gssentials, from s ueighbors' g ters of cur Atlantic coast have more than a nom- MrE UY SHOULD THESE THINGS BE! Dlaces be scattered over the bottom in readiness | suspected, and at all times it isonly by constant | pen, however, Touiig Folks’ Jagth Ee b o g laul Mc_ss it is this ** practical common s¢ Mr. Hovt not ouly asked himself this ques- | for the home-s U they must be i | watchfulness and versistent dredging that these WE HAVE NOT THE SLIGUTSST PEAR, g Folks Jagazine vanisked fiom this Bus- | as 1L is termed, this living like other folk 5 i ton town that we are so proud cf, to be | that has saved Emercon froma like estimate pests are kepe within tolcrable limits. The N: 3 caunot afford it, and will pre- with woreau in the minds of a good many ence. The oyster is 50 affacted by the | tion again and again, but put the question re- proper condition to welcome their expected inal cxi conditions of its life that the prozeny of asingle | Pratediy to Nature, believiug that the auswer | tenant,—thut entirely free from slime. ¢, when the number of oyster- | vent it by giving to oyster-growers the best of, | *merzed,” as the polite phrase s when such » 2 anand prent may Tepresont ‘at watunity the. most | $ould make lim master of the secrt of suc | And, ws this Siiue quickly covers every. obje y iiereused, {Lnay be possibls, | ol ancouragemet, ~{reedom and srotection, - | Mtersry aeatbs oseur, in the St Vieheas, we il | 2C0Fe. Thoreau was prastical enouzh in bit cessful oyster-breeding. The story of his by united etfort and the maintenance of u spe- |- Tho country is well stocked with domestie [ felt a good deal of chagric thereal. Ard other ::(\Y(\Tlrl‘il f;%fm,‘"\s\f ‘Vgnmré‘gfisfifcufifefi,‘:é"' e workiog steam-redues, Lo keep the | catle, and there Is 1ttic danse 3 ¢ (el a.good dea c n ogster i - ider cGntrot I 0% 10 exLermingte Lo | Famnie out - g ager of U supply | iteracy deaths of the same vature have not | In some marked instanecs. he was far more fised, the cousistency of the bedin which it | failures, would furnish an cutertainig record | the almanuc, butby the gererai chaructor of | frow these waterss but formany years they ure | clared to be common property, as the oysters | (cnded taleal this feeliug First amonzst thy | oriitaland bolderthan Mr. Emersor. "No one rests.thedeptl, temperature, and saltness of the | Of Yankee acutencss, pluck, and perseverance; | the season, the position and nsture of the | lkely to remaln the ars, and 1o one allewed to hohl' a 3 permanct | important perlodicals went the pretuy Kiversidg; | WEO knew Thorzaa woutd feel donbtful of his Tator i tives ery circumstance of its en- a\)us ;;_u;;cn:s o spae gmmLu, Lhu.a‘,‘r{th otbllnc.wnmr,’n‘n.ll 2o on, Jux;d orshEr suuace oe. figf'frr.‘.\.?ififzf“ 1oss - ,,fi:_sum.lz terest in any he suffered to rerain | then the Young Poiks, thea the fine £ocry Satur- b Lr;! ‘r:}:‘x):ime world and acknowledging size. in ard ud jo'the | the following someties happens that the spaw: oyster, or a boring sponge riddie a shell und di- | of man s wissly eonservative; their numbers cames 0 divide bonors with the | agalnst the publisking of his letter of praise for avor of its meat. An oysier which beginsits | VITAL_IMFORTA OFSTER-COLTURE: | esswis aborten; the ova fuil to VEFLIES owier’s strenits 10 th Workk of main- | are. inereased and their quality improved by | MOst Bostouisr of all toe migazines—the Atian- | Wait Whitmas, on could underetand the com- certled exitence o 3 seallopshell wil carey | | £rt—Tiht the soung oysicre aro bru during in which case the most iuv Saining Uhe jutegrity of {18 peirly cuats now and | carefal selcction and cuitivation, Why shuald | Gie. Butwe have the satisfaction of knowing | featflaceness of u saly lite ot formed ita through ife the impress of its first resting-place; | (i cuoon, the . depih af th aascording to it | ten s violent stor will bury an oyster-bed | the ruls be reversed umier water! Suppose the | that the monthly really owes its breath and be- | it of it broke forth naw nd then fn fhel e tothe azcidents of place and surrcundingsas | Second—That the young cysters, or spat, | momment for SLoblpranting O A o Shujloms,—in othur words, land suitable | Cambridge by Mr. [fowells, who is, jn spite of | Garlyle. But it bas beou-a that o= erush it to death with drifted ice; but th for oyster-farming, —and make the ovster-grow- A 5 are the markings of its shell. Left to crowd | &Wim frediy for a ume? then attach themseives | of which many have thrown ozeasiomal aud minor oyils combared with the | crs Gile to the Sround o stocks and. the ceo | 145 dry Lits of humor at. Bostouiaus, mare Bos- | this or that person followed Carlslo or Emer- for Iife to ome solid ebject, i€ auy{hing suitable | and their lator, and jumpsd to 7 san, when to follow bim was besond the uader- widely variant forms of oyster-growth. The | cxperimeits, his unaccountable spon s, and ie subs: Ll i * er. Besides, the pre- | el natare of the substance on which an ogster is the ume) still wore unaccountable | cise momert of Spuw! ! 4 5 determined not by their stoo! e conel stauding and the pawer of th fepredations of the stars. he raises as secure as the upland farmer's is,— | tenian thad’many a native; that it is made up by b i one another ou su irrcgular surface, oysters b g 2 3 . e presenteds if not, ey die. that oyster-brceding Is more 1 mutier of luck ur host has been recountingthe troub- | would the qaantivg or the Guslity of ihe oystor- | the Riverside Dre gt g 3 grow ~ Fhird—The supporting object, which may be | than of seiont B! 5 of oyster-farning, WS tidy crafs | oo b oo o By o tle Qualty ot theogster- | the Riverside Press in the eame towi, and | Mr. Page brines ontail the salient points of CROORED AND GNSHATELT. any firm substatice, must be ciean,—that 15 [re THE INFANT OYSTERS us 0 another groiiud, from which | Tho ifect ~produced by a partial and | LToush and throuzh has all the proper tlavorof | Thureau’s character i a peculiarly clear man ‘Planted on soft imud, fto which they slok with | {rom the slime that ‘specdily covers eversthiug | bogin to be piainly visitle ia sbout a fortniaht e brinizs up an wttzactivelot of round | wncortain title, uch as os been eranted along | L €ity of *cultur Sowe cun still Lold on | BeF: tauchinz upon fhat power gret aud loge of increasing weisht, they build their shells almogt | UBder water. after they strise: nder specially favorable cou- | ¥sters, irom two to fou tquan- | the Connecticnt, shore, certainly docs not point | t0 the dtlantic. But : Lt L BEe ool o arue T every Yor the successful propagation of oysters, | ditions they huve beeu discernable in uties of uysters of this size ure annually opencd | that way. While the perpetuity of oyster-bi-ds ON THE RUINS OF ALL THIS tid or exotistic. Onc of the fine m,f,,_,s that e tower and temple of masazwe-building there | quotes from Mr. Channing’s letter about Tho- has arisen a new structure of which at this date | reauis this: * He made 0o useless professions, v faven, and the meats forwardea on common ground has everywhere been seriot i rw: q ccoming thine clmfie‘lxr:::‘ ;:::m :‘j. ’:‘r; ‘fl;d :’;;“’::’aml]m:’ two conditions are therefore vssential: the | For the first three or four months their growth cats | shelte 3 ¢ enough 1o | breeding oysters wust spawn, and the vagraut | is slow; after that they increase in size very ls to the interior citiesof New England | 1y threatened, a shadowy title to cultivated strugele acalust imnendiag suffocation, their | oyster-urood must be furnishéd with suitable | rapully, tor immediate use. And of late years a consid- | ground has sufficed to cover miies ami miles u n B L s T et diiion, Jensth will be five orsix times their breadth, | Festing-places at the precise moment when they | | Would you like to see how an oster-farm | erable demand has arisen for such o of once unproductive Sound-bed with the finest | &VerY Bostouian cau afford to be jusuly proud, | SEETNNC BHE O TORE Gheations WA o sud thelr meat a wmere ribbon of fringed integ- | 3¢ 7e3dY to settle down for lite. Itis in sup- | Tuoks! You may be sure of a pleasant sail, this | served ou the b cll us appetizers before a | ovstors i the world. Were the title made | 4nd prophetic of a fiue and enduring fawe. | o Pinently relidble, - 1le was at the mm’.’; ament. On a eravelly bottom in a switt current, | P % the latter surciy and chieaply. and in a | fur October da rate; tor our host, the ! ept Withit | pood enough to borrow thoney on, there would | Andt this structure is that magazine for youns | of no caprice; of u reliable will and uncompro- av at answers for decp water as well as shal- neer in succasstul oyster-farming, bas plice ne, for voung oysters thus | he no lack of cupital to stock thie rest of the | peovle called the Wide-Awake. Three of four | mising sternness in is moral nature, he carrled cukbly dafuty aud delicious. | Sound, or of mei to eultivate its inviting acres | years azo, when it was first started from | the same qualitics nto s relation with others, boumnils is ot a b served are uu. the sume sl;ock L!Z‘ru‘;‘ d:(p. and broad, and low, that the superiority of American ogster- | a tidy smack ut_our disposal, and will | n massive; and, with abundant growing space, ture cor ud it is 1o the credit of Mr. | that the pursnit of kuowlege does not spoil | The zeneral use of sucl inmatiire oysters, how- | now untilled, ihe publishing-house of D. Lothrop & Co. cave pes ad wi e, Gevelop the ‘oval form, the larse and solid arles Hovt that, to or three years defore the | companiouship or lessen the enjovinent of 'sea | ever, is Our escelient and_servicesble National | which then bad ats offce in the old and erowded | “= '“mc"fn‘flzlel:yu &c ’g.;d D‘Em" e meat characteristic of the typieal Northern | famous studies and discoveries of Prof, Coste | and Sky. NOT TO BE COMMENDED, Fish Commisslon meht do well to move in | store on Cornhill, it made little impression | upon Thoreaw’s mind u-monlysimwn in the and of the the islunds and yon:le since it has nearly ruiued the F this matter. An nct of Congress author- | upon the general public, though cven toen it | expression of certain_woods or phases—that ground. the “shells will be | were berun v Frunce by comn nother, thin, tiue, and | French Government, he had anticipated the d with bre=ding oysters and duly | L s porceluin. Thus | aloneand unaided: dud, more, be Lad put I | wich shells and gravels a lalehour's run down | wble i ] ng enormously in form and | distoveries to a more successful use, employing | the barbor will bring wsto it. It is a pretty bit | glish coasts. The oyster” rarely spawns hefore WOULD 1ELI* THE WORK ESORMOUSLY. e ndvertising. But the months went | ias a fact. W] s Enalish critle, ve be nor only of the same | simpler. more matural, and more econoteal | of water, backed by low hills, brieht with the fourth year, and, it the buds are stripped av | The coastwise States, by supplementary enast- | by slowly the gazine mained ou a-.E,B:fc ,L':ma ‘;31‘;-.::1' }.eE‘\‘ugsz:s,L?su;’eFvum‘au as hus been largely the casein | meuts, could easily place the oyster-farmeron | its own merits to a great extent. Peo- | g There is one book of Thoreau's, Sod both o Jetter-pres and matter. | which any reader of Emerson is sure to catch, i ot impression was no doubt owing to | Mr. Page does not thoroushly see this, but It growers, and largely helped to destroy the v izing the sale of soundings along the coast | was ve: atural_beus nlong the Scotch and En- | exclusively for oyster-farming, oystezs, it character, 1 an carlier ag pectes, bt offspruc of tie same bareat. the | methods of ¢ stur-pni,.a;.n&an uian the French luxmldl] Colors. [()uly 3 few protru i = st as bus b : yster-furmers bave attained to eventhe present | give indication of thé wealth that lies Lurope, the fall of spat necessarily au equal foting with the ordinary agricultutist | ple began to see in the newspa he passes over; singutarly enoush, The Dest of the French methods, the | surfa let us see what report the dredge | recent — English - writer saif swith great advantage to them and to the coun- | pers **From the ¥ ke.”. The extracts isa bgllu:‘ Kkev-uote o the rvglly fine so” vhilosopher” than any- his *Letters to Varions nd not onlyasa key to Thurean as an expression of thought at onee high and comprehensive and ¢ 50 wond that they created an apoetite for questions of Jocal jurisdiction to settle, and “Waere §s the Wide-Auake published ¢ ommon rizitts to ordinary fisheries to ve ed a gond lady who thought she knew all | Persons.” protected, but these need not lead to any seri- | about mazazi s that time. W she was | himscif is it valuable, by s aiflicalties. Nor would navigation e iu- | 101 that it was in her own Boston her ama; térfered with o was uubounded. But I fancy few peapie | lucid” it will stand beside some of the grea w. The Wide-Awake now | books of any awe In Lringing all this up ayair There would be sume delicate | we inx of the oyster-breeders of ennes, the Isle de e, and other plac v Kitled Lhy 1orthe sake of ts roldea and now we are besinning 1o be t il oyster-culture is ot payue i £ and that the spat_has fmledd The exeu try ut lars iethods,’” developed by Dr. Kemnerer, | will ¢ Sottom suitablefor oyster i Lurtins, Isle de Ke, is at once fecble and 2 true that the Southern oyster is markedly diffe enormously expensive compared with the | jawed bag of wettingy i auother minute or eut from those prevailing between New York | American ~ method; and its spplication s | two the boat comes about, and th Ravand Cape Cod. and these frem the still | limited aimost exclu: [y to flats daily Iaid | hauleddn and emptied uhon the de M pedea in the Jeast. more Northern varictv; but the vara bare by the tide. In our climate such opera- [ rubbish, you are disposed to call the dirty Would seem to be easily accounted for by ditfer- | tions would not survive the first cold winter, of empty shells and gravel, with ony | swusings huw can they bave spat if there b ‘The productive area waich might be that question no; enees iy femperature and other externel condi- | even if it were possible to produce ovsters by | two or three fair-sized oyeters to keep company | oysters left to exude ité ¥+ Even il there were | added to the public dofsain by thus taking in | bas a distinct recognition, and, more than that, | aud in introdusing Therean perhaps Lo th ke the price which oysters | with a ragged, sprawling spide 10 serious risic of ultimate barrenness from the | the cultivable coast, is simply cnormous. It | as much of n literary circle of its own as the vounger generation Mr. Page deserves ou’ transplanted into Vir- | them at anything I is duc not to a Cam- | thunis. N. P tions. Northern oy and the cost of reclaim- | Atfantic. And all thi frinis waters speedify assume the form and oth- [ briuz i our markets. couple ot star-fish. - But_look clos, general destruction of munature oysters, 1t | lies at vur vers dov * speaific”? features of the nati ‘Though simple, K half an o, shell speckled wi Would iul, if not wicked, to kil thew | juy it would e small comparel with the weaith | Lridge or a Boston editor, but to a little woman s Inlike mauver, the Southern THE INTERNAL STRUCTORE ' things scarcely larger than piv-heads. They | st this stage (turther than may e neesssary fur | it would return. Once assured that their grow- | wio has cume o us out of the West. We have | 000K COUNTY CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS. 3 the thinning out of areas under cultivation), | ing crops would be as secure agaiust trespass | 2fit for ourselves a Boston magazine, pubiished 5o the Eolidp bf The Teibuine. & when brought to the North becanie | of the oyster is much more curious and nter- | are . L 1l (when they can endure the climate) the rivals | esting than might be supposed.. Let us YOUNG OYSTERS. siuce they are now past the more serious cares | us the upland farme of the Nofthern natives in_tirmuess of flesh | cxamine one as it lies, a tempting morset, on | Count them! Seventy-nize! Take nother | nud dangers of oyster-farminz, and fu s year or | Island Sound wi 0 on extending their | edurine pride and_glory to us. But a little SO0 and depth of body. rule, however, they | the half-shell before us. At first sight it scems | shell at random; you. count 100 such spots, | more will have doubled in size and greatly im- | operations until_eve e of the Sound-bed | woman outof the West has built it up for us. | cussed in Tur TRIBUNE by correspondents, the do nut maintain themselves more than a single | to consist of two almost structureless parts | aud tiicre are more on the othier side. Those | proved in quality. | would be brought under cultivation. The | Some years azo, I have forzotten just how | method of purchasing supplies for our public scaron in the colder Northern waters; nor do | only,—a central tough portion, commouly mis- | £olden spots are not oysters, but young *gin- Yonder is au oyster-sloop nearly Joaded with | depth of the waters would offer no obst: many, there was published in the Aflantic | charities has found a place recently, and the they bear transportation to Europe or to Cali~ | called the heart, anda larger mass of whiter | zles”: the majority are—oysters cuousn to 1ill MARKETABLE OVSTERS; eitner to the zrowth of oysters or the u very notuble and futeresting marrative en- | ooy "or prrmacine by contract has In some 1ornia s well as the oysters of the North, and more tender substance edeed with black. | 3 bushel-basket when fully erown. This peb- | let us runalongside and look at them. How | wation, siuce the finest natural os: titled ystem of pi 2 by ot bias I The toush part is the strong muscle with which | ble, no larzer than a_hickory-nut, carries a | bright and clean they rise from this gravelly | Sound has produced were found 1 the deepest instances been condemned. I think the fault v “ TWO GIRLS WHO TRIED PARMING.” i e the oystercloses and holds together the two | Score or more; and similarly every particls | bottom, swept almost constantly by ‘a tude | depression of that subifierzed valley, and the | Perhaps not a dozen persons who read it had | is not in the systew but fn its perversion. here can be no | American method of cultivation answers as svell s or Baitimore, the | valves of its shell. Wien the musele is re- [ of this seeming rubbish i3 loaded with [ that runs fike a mitl-race. any idea thavthis narrative had auything more | The Department of Public Charities was es- g admit that itis | laxed, the valves are slizhtly thrust apart by | promises of future profiz and enjoyment. | better l':\!v.('uulz-li'ruuxul. Observe this haud- | jn deep water as in shallow. By the aradual | than a sugzestion of the truth. Yet in every | tan)ished soon after the ormupization of the ble to find roud Oysters outside of | meaus of a small elastic lizament in the hinge, | If no more than one in ten survives, the crop | some four-vear-old,—a typical Saddle Rock, | extension of cultivated ground, the 3 but, tora perfect” ovster, | the oyster's normul condition at rest being with | will be 2 good one. Drop the dredge anv- | nearly as broad as lons, aud half as thick as it is | other pests of the oyster-bed weuld be brought > e wilt tell sou that it § to looktoany’ | its doors a iittle ajar. ‘The softer portion of the | Where on this well-stocked ground und the | broad. Itwas well-tortned when transolanted | more and more under subjection; and, with the { 85 o provable means ol solvinx the A u see the lines of | jessening of the risk and lossts, the cost of | conundruza of what we shall eat, and w other 1 The Pbilau an s equally | oyster’s body comprises the various organs of | same favorable revort will be returue o year ago, but thin, You o | X A oo calls it the old shiell, and how great the inereasein | raising ovsters swould be reduced, aad the price | shall drink, and wherewithal we shall be cloth- 35, the ity e | Bt 2 s ids tie oyster-men of Long | BFfa Boston house, which bids fair to be an Cimresao, Dee. 1—Among the topics dis- ; 2 At chase by contract upon samples of the system. s0 bought was fon made on show- quite pos: hesspeake Bays 1aw, and pu exhibited was mude . pu: Deawing upon the suprii authorized only upon requi sure that the eetuary of the Delaware is tie | hfe. common toall animals of the bigher grades. | promising pateh, the owne 8 0 k gring, perfect oyster’s only home, local prejudice | The pulsating, purse-like transoarent hody in | indeed, the acres inclosed by its corner-stakes | thickness bas been. With searcely any change in | would fall accordingly. The employment of | ed. One ol these girls, the one who teiis the 1 the naniBer AL nersons b9 be provideile - wl er-cater of New York attributes | the caviu k of the great muscle, is the heart. | doscem buta upon the broad Surf: area, the bulk of its meat bas nearly dousled. | steam power for propulsion and for hauling | story, was Ella Forman, the editress of the = iEtions. 1o lhc'm“ aftvcinproval 'by o 2 deplorable ivnorance of what a_first-rate | In smte of the rough usage the anunal has re- | this beantiful bay, itself a mere pateh compared | This six-year-old other beauty, so r dredees would more than make up for the extra | IWide-swake. Something of her literary abilil aperintendeat of Public Charitics.” healthy in uppearance; and. ths Jabor of dredgmg in deep water; and, with the crceived {n this simple, strughiorvard | the " Supethondent of Puphe Clisitioe ™, 5 of upening, the heart keeps | With the square miles of oyster-ficlds along the | in form, i B ud also something of tuepluck and 6t b thits peot mine the numoer of perst ter really is. Doctors differ; and the un- | ceived in the proc 5 prejudieed can only rejuice tiat, auywhere be- | ou slowly beating. Life persists,—sensitive life, | Couneeticat shore. are not unll 1t is nowat its best, I m; improvement in modes and means of working t o o 3 tween the purallels of nd 40 degrees North, | too, as readily appears on touching the border Next swnmer the spawn of the season just | Ive a dozen y lunger without much enta likely to come frow the cultivation of large | endurancewhich have carried the Wide-Awwake up e before approving the reqaisitions for the o one may find oysters worthy of any human | of fringe around the oyster’s outer cdge. | passed, grown by that time to the size-0f a | ment sase inthe thickuess of its shell. arcad, the productivencss of the grounds— nt Leight The magazine, as one | oo 0o This was dune by aseertairin Here, in New York. the favorites ure, | See how it sliriuks from the touch as though | nickel coin, will 'be combed aud the clusters ¢ been wrought fu th ALREADY WORTII MOKE, ACRE FCR ACRE, THAN t say, was her fuspiratiou. Loug before | 5055 Coil B ie Yo 4 cceding mont first and loreisost, the Saddle Rocks,—a variety | ju pain. And notice the quivering motion | removed for making up deficiencies on otuer s ¢ elfort to attain the typleal TILZ BEST FALM-LAND— the Atantic readers knew of her she had been | gt o0 Sy il wants condt be determined - ¢ x L When trausplanted they wer6 thin | might be wreatly inereased. writing books for children, which had been pub- | © 05 00, S Yok y an inventory of the which Jerseymen usist has been exierminated | of the flaments of the dark border when | grounds; by the same operation the loose y e ng glass. Tt is | seed " will be hfted out of the mud, and the | and crovked; duriuz the past year they L The aemand Jor American oysters at Iy a quiet way by Lothrop & Co.” At | e ihen'on hapd. these ma ill remain, how Jooked at through a mu: 1 not valy by the movement of these fleshy thread: ground prepared for another fulling of spat. | a:dded nothing to their length, but vers much to | home and abroad advances cven more rapidly 1t will he scen th The second year the combing and thining will | their breadth and thic Here s one that | chan the supoly. And, if every acve of avay O O R BRI o . 1 i azine for cuildren to is she suzgestsa m or cilia, that the oyster ketps up the cireu: Th lation of water turough and around its body to | be repeated, Jest the crop become tou er cerve the purpose ol respiration and the cap- | and, if all goes weil, a further thinning out. wi v g caf after, by which tme the | transplavting, ful inclt of ous vaive was | tion, it is doubedul whether the supply of ates adopted mouy other koown metl tition amon muddy bottom, and | ple coast-water, from Cape Cod to the mo; about the ori 1n f of the Chesapuake, were broughe under euit otker localities {ur it was not a distinet had been fett too fong on had developed into,a regular - Shangha ion is aceepted as a bap- de-Awake I3 rousht out co Cors ¢ eives U~ publish e, but only eption ture of food. Lift up the upper flap of the | be required the y j ¥ 2 y wit bed of coinmon natives,—a grade | fleshy mantle which covers the snimal’s oysters of this year's birth will be ready for | broken off ac the erid. and a uew begivuing was | ters’ could ever outrun the deman orman . tlon o8 Pue Bambles of urster that ar ‘ y and con- | The four-told series of frills thus disclosed are | transference: to the fattening-grounds, where | made at the broken e % the present commercial and alimenta home for two vears she attends to ber e Swhichi are kept sectre it aguinst fraud in guzi VERY CURIOUS tance of the oyster trade has become, dutics, while the Wide-4waks inds its e Rttt e Ao cut away the | another year's development will fit them for the I 1 s fuct rmly during the time. A& year s abihe conti o b oot b¢ mentioned | the oyster’s gitl Lish capable of alumiost infinite | Stan etautly rivals, k the Blue Po from Great | liited ap, and the greater part of the oyster's | market as ure the alterations often made fn ill-formed | in its infancy. 1t v i South Bay, Long Island; the samie as the form- | internal ceonomy FANGCY SADDLE-ROCKS. glills i catisequetice of removal 103 ditferent ou§ and, whep the supply is draw, ot bl am ou fiding hee ‘::llx;?;;ug:;“;m_; hrchmie aoat ol o Lrbontia L s oysters), | bottum,—all shuwing the susceptibility of the e chiefly from unprotected natural ; €0 rapudly as to be ¢ unt 24 ap | PES e A i LR, e o, o s Mercly ob il ks i ance from its moutily debut, M whom he may deal for nnty. such a s {152 | The orinance which establizhed the <ysicia woodh, s far 4o the magazine and the literary | ities”) avd the reports of ghat oificer were re Gircle_ which centre about har are concerned, | QUred o show the cost por Couh, a8 WeL itk ver month, of suvplying cach jmate of the Pour- In the meantiwe, the seed 1!.’.\-%) 5§ now being transpiauted, will have undergone | oyster to changes n the extermal coudition of | heds, chance-sown and aceidentally devcluh 1 and so differing somewbat in favor. The prod- | Yery Ji s 3 ¢ " L Sirea e ieie N 4 prabible toime c“}:;{l";:{i;”,{,"o{sflg?:‘{m planation, THS | the same course of treatment. There 1s no | i A most remarkabie ilfustration of the | bu from lurzer areas svstematicatly stocl ere formerly transplanted nauves | il toward the hinge, passing to the mouth | davger of over-combing, for the seed which | oyster’s ability to withstaud roush usa cultivated, and defended against vermin proved by developmentinthe | gyroush the temacles, which, like s.psi- | SHps through the mesties of the dredge will be | shown in @ specimen in which the s the unrezulated greed of ‘man,” the r favorable waters of the Shrewsbury 3 but more | gjve lips, select from the contents of the stream | 811 the ground can carry, und the | been caught somchow by an oystermun’s tougs | crop will rank amoug the first of Ameri- v e har " = more the bottom is disturbed in this | or dredze, unhinced, aud the “vaives turued : can resources in point of - value, as it | -And Boston kas been greatly the guiver In- Tlotse the Incane Asylan i way the surer the mew crop. The sur- | Tight angles to their normal position. Iuspite | now dous in point of excellence. It is nour- | stead of sending their contribution With fovd, -dothing, medi bedding, tutl, qecennly, we are informel; e sced 1S commonly | gpe vk atoms which eoustitute the ovsier's roughit from Lons Island Sound. : for the oyster is Dot an omuivorous : i ) o3 3 g 4l Tus sced removed in the Drocess of comp. | of this Lerrible wreneh, the anital not oul imexhaustibie sea: It steadily enc | Michizun, consributers drop du—if ! ! T as PR Lieonn i o 17 it | the yicinity of Boston—te the new fin sularizs of oflicials, aad misc ¢rin stodk, but bred under ditferent conditions, WILL BE LAID BARE. o TREMT TEARS AG0, & ser, as las been thought, buta dainty | T n i : the iness was carried on at the North | fou G s ocet tiought, buta dainty | fug usually finds o ready market amony the | Vived, but constructed a new linge, wali To Tipocerisbinie the Hod : ; : 7 salaris of ol Very Bineth 2% 1 now Is in more Souther wa | e el pa U5 | oySter-zrowers of adjacent Waters, who mow | the exposed ancles, and rearraned its fuerual | the avesae vield s several titwes mar Lotirap & Co, on Erankie stret fust aopo- | 24 194 The natural beds were wirdleesyy | oTSAMBIS, Al ecledtad particles pass i | Graw their supplics from the Sound father than | econoiy to conlorin to its new eoudition. When | dant and remunerative than auy grain-erop. 1 | sivs to Lee & Shepard's, aud foilowing a courte- | 4% 1 i e an tional folly, tharefore, to pride | ous clerk's dircetion take their way tua small, | dUged ters, dredmed.—as they sull are, for that mattery and the perpctudtion of the supbly was left for | gulisequent - from the Chesapeake or other Southern waters; | taken, it was zlive and hearty, its ceeentric | j; ; ; a o and latterly a considerable demand has arisen | shape alone drawiug attention to1ts strauge ex- | ourselves ou practical thrift, while slighting a | pretty room at the further end of the building { 404" )it savige over any w for- Northern sced for_ transportation to | perience. L J field_of productive industry so prem and there meet the Wide-dwake's editress face to pumer retieved being consradred. and il The changes wrought by civilization in tbe | this is; still worse to discouraze houest enter- | fuce. a favorable comparisen with avy . sul the stream, which, taking up in s ¢ the wasteand refuse of the thie most purt to accident. Yoess System, Serve common sewer to this close- who uwned a mill-pond, or_claimed the control | yoalied realm, The stomach lies below the | Evgland and to the Pacitie Coast; the scourag 3 . of a limited natural bed in shallow water, m'lll.fn ianen ,,‘?m,c,m\,s.iab,,‘;,d;ug becinning, no doubt, of a large and | oyster's outside appesrance are wot more re- | prise in it, us has been done bitherso, by feeni 1 IAVE SEEN A GOOD MUNTE ZDITORL | vear down to this . £ o 5 protitable trade, likely to make sced-raising u | markable than the improvement of its meat. | resgraints, What has already been accomplished 1 never saw gne more thoroughly identified, In_ 1573 the Bual of County Commi. wouid endeavor to make up for the deficien: | ghe Jarie ¥ S Jiter: 1 a g orough it cies of Nature by the iml{)vfl-‘niufl of sced ffi: {'::'ET:;;;’;?!v’fl:‘(fir‘.fifflffigé 33,2{-‘5‘55.’0,‘,‘9:,‘ specitic branch of oyster-farming, The body erows deep, and Lirge, and solid; the | i the face of popular vpposition, financial difli- | more tharoughiy mler:sL}\lFlunrt ung £obl, from the Hudson or clsewhere: but, for all | pot only for the oyster’s need, but also for the | . UP to this time, however, the forelan demand | iautle, naturaily thin and skinny, thickens 1o | culty, and needless risk, is a guarantee that the | 1u s or her work thau Miss oratan, 1t Is that, the supply steadily diminished. The mo- | yeed of the man,wio estsit, It is this abnl- | for Younz oysters kas not been of general ud- | the vdge with firm, white fieshs and the | fieldis well worth working, and alsa that thers | erally hbor"lo( love.l ufil aviEen | i was 1o stand a3 acheck avainst frads i ment 5 chance-5own bed was discovered a fleet | jprof the uncodked oyster to digest itself | vantagt to the home trade. le 1o com- | Qua { the meal surp: that of the unicul- | would be no lack ot workmen werc they offered | when she brought n:nLu h:ers; .\I that | ey and quardity of the ouds need pete with foreign buyers point of | tivated oyster as sigually as high-bred, statl-fed { proper encourmgement. uvalanche of toil otl i planaing [ A0C e S erpases. The omission to eloet s of dredgers would gatier in hot baste, and i a Skt 3t suih o we . 4 C plann: : ey ) csomarniae 6 e beaf docs the product of Texan pasturcs. g insaih FEETEEE aud correspondence with her projest of tie | SR laian o daet tuially abrozated the office of the Superinten- dene, thus remoying the only otliver waose dng; in every obtainable oyster would e | giomach of the dyspeptic. Drice, many oyster-growers, particularly those ot e o s 3 Nothing was doné to repress the 2 i) P of Long Ishind who bave not learne:d to raise :y come from the fattening-giounds, the . i Dolls’ Fair, I asked her vne day S BObR | Coving b Y Tavames of the Starich aud OLher enomios of | ov it i arSter 13 comploto in Meolf, th | ucit own sexd, have. resolved to plant no mur | oysters arc naturally charged with bitter sea- THE OLD STONE-QUARRY. grreat weariugss. Her fuce brigitencd. & Wel | S5 s done for disticust purpgses, Wit 10 the. oyster, and its utter estermination was | jndividual; and every malure oyster is capable | oysters untfl the prive of seed is reduced; a | Water, more or less muddy, and the finre stom- e A with tanplod weeds, get ured, ol _tpursT “hfi ok w:rh‘ SEI0 [ 3 certain taat the opzration clion was seriousiy threatencd. of beiugr the parcnt of miflions.” Revroduction | Wise cnouzh resolution, provided they adupt | ach is filled with undigestéd food. Tu it them | Grown with geass and with tanglod weadd, - f one senses itis u delieht to me.f was et i | 4y e a5 would e thiz delivery by a contras- Fromtime to time local lawswere enacted | yeeins the tlird or fourth yt The ova are | the one lexitimate aud certain means for cheap- | for the table, \\h:rel eole:;‘m‘ S s ot punt Bruste s swer _And out of ’l‘l;gl gl,k .n:,d.: w tor toa remitnent of soldiers whatever quantity of restricting thie amount of oysters that mizht be | 500 at unce cast upon the water for develop- | enivg seed, namelv: . THEY MOST BE * FLOATED,"'— Antzp i hundreds of younz MWide.diake roacers o7 | supphies the Colonel awled for, witbout apurusal taken by any one man in oue day, and forbid | ment, a5 in the case of most. other Molusks, 'ARTIFICIAL PROPAGATION. that s, expused for n tide o swecterater, | oo s uributed frou il quarters of the country a dal | SHPRLLSLS o olfeoes, wio krow (he atrcngth e he working of oyster-beds during the sum- | by retained i the folds of the gilis for | Thus far. unfortunately, they lave’ not taken | e ovsir-grover's landstation s usually ab | BAESS NI A Wl S have theown dresssd by the o, bauds, wihie v aly | o e, Sron the morming eyorts, Sl cindly 5 vork. e v e cr. e ks « broken gaps 2 £ o Cd e8! il 3 ] v 0 crmas indly to good worl retofere they and e i )l o YSLers are | igound the broken gaps 1n the Jagted stone. grew the Society of Wule-Awake Helpe: Af,‘-).{ X,"};’L,’I}.‘m“s‘,,',",f«‘n utio e e mer scason; but these stforded no real protec- | parehing. At un early stage the ova are fecun- inthe cheanest v their fatners bave been satistied with the unaid- | brought in, they arc aliowed to rest for a day or Ehe hospital and needs wafs of bumani psules which con- hers Hatlel d utieshaliow Honts il 3 i ingis by ed efforts of Nature, trusting to_chance-sown | soinlargeshallow tluatsopen tothecurrent. Here | 1, wae opened—I know not how lony ago— throust all this work, and her editoria ¥ of buyingis by Mardf=stly, the upon exhibitel contract with the tion to the more valuable nastural beds in deep | qated; and, burs owest bis while the clise time, fro.n =hich <o much | 1ain them, they swim Jreely in a thick white ed, proved a hindrance rother than | fuid prepared for their reception. is Liime | Deds of seed for the replenishing of their | the oysters are washed by the upper Juver of | -Gpened. and left nalf-worked, and so hirouzh and her odit 3 T B ininan o ra. O Aot preared Jor thoir reception. At this Uine | - oands. (Vhen ogstermon were fens the areas \water, which purzes them of all fpuri- | Thiate Fagged hollow the rnk weeds Grow. which 1 2 bold to say no cditor exer yul Ui~ | gumpies, or kuown brands,—aud the surest way © 1w, however, indircetly and_uuwittingly | ally the fluid thickens, until the swarmine | under cultivation ‘smafl, and the demand for | ties aud leaves them woite and Sweet. In thi T o st i | of guarding against over-suvs s the system of ) turpisied a basis for the development of Amer- ung are ready to be turned from tueir pareatal | O¥sters comparatively limited, such happy-go- | condition they will live and retain their flavor | Why les it idle—this beantiful atone? h Xam ol st interess i seriats that Lisye | Fequisitions bised upon the number to be ‘pro- E fean- oyster-culture,—the only really practical | 2jwiter to shift for themeelves. ‘lhen they are | lucky methods may “have answered very well. | out of water Tor three mouths, i elosely packed | o for the pickaze! One by one el Sinsareating o vided for. X end profitable system of oyster-propagation the | gjceted in But times have changed, and wen must yield to | and kept cool. i Tiew out these blocke—here is work undone. ever beeu W g peonle. 3 But to do this without the aid of an tde- world has seen. To t her citizens - the logic of events or retire from the conte: When the inquiries weremade for this article, P T s o rotiva tht 20 far to redeem the | Pendent accounting clliver, i3 Ramiet(” with PUELDOF MILAT CLOUD, ‘The winners in this. 88 in every othier competi- | ovster-grounds were valued at from $30 to $500 | There are possible towers in this serpents’ den— stories bt 2 far 1o vedeem the § BLEVCE G Tt 1o o, 1ot home.cs3 wen. oued literatare—so-called-—for _ ehil- | "p, 506 be huped that the new County Board I the work of restoring and preser -l YOUDT OV ick| ¥ £ the pasty coasting of each young oyster QUickIy [ yion inve P SRS, s ol 2 S o st b Droshr s v- | Possivle hom tion nvolvinguatural processes, must fnevitably | and morc an uere. It 1 to be preswned, how- | Tossivle hozmes ot pomercssien, oy iy ter-beds of ihe Sound, the State \ ileath: chell s T d iz 10 ohis Ot : ¢ the oyster-beds of the ine e, | hardeutng into ‘s delicate shell”as soon as it | yo'thiode who leave nothing 1o a cidenty—who | evor, thut there has been a ebrinkage in th Areh BULIEDuE s s in one thing—that | or thotoughly investisate the subject, Lod it u, of educatlon still more | o5 g the system of buying by contract from ot Counccticut passed an act frnting to # o o ith s his 5 comes in contact with ecawater. At this stuge | 1 he condi der which N: s Sl Tues the case of all oth rope euy resident of the coast the privilese of | GUMC YIS fove Tiude fikeness to therr | KUQW the conditious under which Nature sue- | values 43 in the wse ol OLUCE propechys n ill, Ked. unsought— complicated and difficult than it was before by p L 1y ceeds, and skillfully supply such conditiuns. nder favorable -circumstances, an averare | Must they lie here still, unmatked. s mplicato it . the lowest bidder the best, they will donltle:s o y supply s nditivns. 5! : UL | Purrets and temples, uncarved. unwrongbi, putting a premium upou pertuess and smart- | £12 BROS LS T G e Aaibnb oL Panlic hels of oysters to the acre counted om, very much but their free lie quickly ends. Their | ™ 5" o5t “the relative beneficence of aided | yield of 500 b having surseyed and set off for his own usea | Hie ¥ cllthickens, ana, losing their capacits for | 4 yeaided nature, let us cast the dredge | can be reaso smail area of Sound-bed, not already productive, [ T Till the cnd of tme? “Tisa sorrowful thoughtl | pess. ~And to the stors-telling gift this little | Giarities of the. county, who should be 3 com- e woman.out of the West adds that of pact, petent. physiclan as well s a «ond execative on tue sole coudition that 1t be stocked and : fuaee, U re forced to adobt the settled a B kept withoysters. Immediatelyalarse number | SEimming, they are forses ot ted | on uncultivated ground as we proceed to that | larger erops being common. From four to o % RS RGET nan ou 2 oty x B o e | Jser teir kind,—unless thor happento set- | yortion of our hos's dumnain devoted to oysiers [ six years are required for the * matur e O .« ollier day I picked c-;lr;ic?ugullic“:co\'( bogk for | Siier. JCLICs WetrE. ‘romise of » ereat remewal of once famous | Leon the back of a crab or other traveling ob- | of maturer growth,” Uere, in the broad chan. | ing of a erop of spat, in which time an acre of | fnoy creep snd biosin over unouilt towers, ealiren"with the/ enticiug, ditleof, 3 Shens R ShEe i cdé which had peen dejdeted by overdredging | J6t nel between the islands, is a tract of common | seed will have increased to 2,000 or 3,000 bush- w':m:l;z somebody ouglit to sead us 8 photo- SHADOWS. or by the ravazes of star-tish. Jsut the prowise | The prime seeret of successful oyster-breed- | ground,~that isto say, it Las always borue | ls, if proberly habdieit and cared for. ‘This, it | ae1sit here, percued on the grass-grown wall, brabh of this farm where fis poet tried to solve 4 NOT FOLEILLED. fug les, us already Lm‘n_cq, in hmulllfrxug.lhc oysters, aud vonsequently no one has | I to be feared,but rarely happens, most oyster- | Town to the bollow the brown leaves Zall, "‘.t,;‘;im,,mt tonutdcuh 3 this Tife, awd this Sbadoiva *ronnd our pathway falling The measures adovted for restocking the | youug vagrant justat the time the character of | ever been allowed to” cultivate it. | #rowers frusting too nuch to Nature for the | Little by httle covering all. Tarm sbouid be cngraved o the Wide-dwake ey oot antarall as one of the “poet homes.” How much more Of dead hupes, =ad thoughts recalling s; nothing | their fe changes. In this it will not do to | The dredge passes freely over the clean, | development of their stock. Left to thewmselves, trust to Nature alone,—in other words, to ac- | pravelly bottom, and comes up but seantily | the oysters crowd each other and become pinch- | So month after month, and yesr after year. When Life's morn {3 vanisted all. grounds were inadequate or us this lictle woman out of the West can acc g rhen bifeomera 1y vintiled all Svas done to jusure the ixing of $pat, or to pro- | iF ! y ' . : B oTew tuehy | cident. Nature fuils too frequentlys 50 Art | foaded, thoueh it hes beendown mueh longer | ed aud ill-developed. Many die; more ave Kill- | The ranh weeds creep and the leaves tarn sote, ’ ¥ accom ‘wn{{m’,‘_,;’r’?,‘ff.,,’,‘,'):floblu}wfi‘_d.‘.J,,u O onl | Steps in and makes sure thab the conditions | than any previous cast. wil by stars and other vermin;_and those that | Anda thicker mautle 1s weuving beze. . phits hus ol yel trauspired, Bus in view padge it dead P ecping b Bt “to b c a under which Nature succeeds are uniformly WHAT HAVE WE IN IT? are feit_are, in the end, sadly inferior in size : of what she’ has doue o creating for Vivid ns the highining leaping vhat they oughi to be. In And 2 doy may come when the passer-by, ° us a magazine that we are all gettine to be e aSry stum-clond o'er us he Shdowa ail our lives Burprisicg. bed happeried to be suceesstul, it was more hie critical mombnt. The first to attract attentivn.are three or | and quality to proud of, & magaziue that & Bostot editor m e secured at eld a | seiee Inrcadics the underwood, thea grown big ic. likely tu be stripped by tlueves than to 2L monons . o be.. i pped by e e O Jeee diz | The oystér-furmer’s work falls natarally into | four ungainly spider-crabs, nily but harmless, | farmug, s in otiier ugeupation, it is only Yo i o e swa afl 6 B B 0 e o e Ducieds | £0 pafts. During dhe cooler miouths e 15 | FIalf oen oyatars, mastly Uvd of Chrce years | the imicilisent, dilizent, and witehfal that com- | SHl sec but s bollow whore desd lesves Maee matle Gt erer d cwe srt L 10 LEAgalos 59 deciies aur dae sould manage such ¢ advantageously: | chicly engared in harvesting his crop aud pre- | old, a numder of haif-grown scallops, a multi- | maud higll succe: d AL J0e ] it A A oy chase twas T sould manage euch property, acvantage ar Ket. As W: th s, i 3 3 S v i There are human souls that seem to me story of all this has been so pleasant in the Can those a y d radualiy (and in_soite of streuuous ooo- | BEEY e besins this.more. spuclie work op | Loueor doilis ginsles, fouble inker Rliopiiy;belire the Wak of the Rebellfon; Like the anrogeht stone—tor a1 rou sco tiling that. [ am tempicd 10 linger too long | Shulows gaunt s teecs in Aucunun, Hilon frowm’ Hiose 0 lle Yo Bivers | Making ready for the spawning season. As the { qud empry sheils,—these worchiass comead tfes | Wwere represcuted by Gov. Wise as huving an | 142 Shapeless qUirey of that mght be, e b e I eht to o | Shidows grth, where neer we iousht ‘e, P what had always heen yster tequires from three 10 iive years to | complete”the cateh. You may look loug wirh- | area of ueariy 2,000,000 acres, averaging YLyinz idle, and overzrown notable event in the literary world of eriticism— from us Hope s sweet light. ummon_rght) the more valuable allot- it 15 evident that the grounds of auy | out fiyding a single oyster of s years spaw- | 40 bushels 10 the acre. The Vighi L eicd Weets. e this beantifal stone— e T rout by da Eugitihe b mavoly ife comprisiag, ents Te0b 1 % the bands of pro- ¢ grower will present beds of oysters | qng. Observe, howeser, this ehell with a large ers are cuormously prolific, and thes ssible victories left unwom. 1S o Rten a life of De . Tempt unwaty 300l astray; ELTEGE pbter Juiu fell 1660 PO | S vari ses of development, With othier o I one valy e $ it ‘whair | 0! man, I1.'A. Page, who has wril Strons above oir Wilks npristag. etertnen. fu various Stages of development, with othier | roiind hole througli one valve, A& boring whelk | Were none but “human encavies to ffwit their 3 Quiticey and a mémoir of Hawhorne, It ouzht T s cver anil for aval At ihe titne referred to, twenty years or o | aveas from which the tnatured crop bas just | did that; and, io Killing one oyster, made op- | fucrense; yet so unsparing and per: And that is a waste that is worse than thi b erery American of culture who, out of Shadows with the mists are falling, i 3 3 1 howevel il B X < f n to pigke evel 1 ago, there were among the oystermen of Nor- | been gathered. In mo case, however, will [ portunity fora dozen others Lo start on the | toe pursuit f thewm become that toey wer Sharper tne edge of the hidden abyss; 115 OWN NARNOSY OSE-SIDEDNESS, ‘Sombre as Night's shades appear; alk o vouns men, brothers, by the name of | the oysters of any bed be of absolutely uniform | hozardous road to maturity. See these browa ( imminent danger of extermination. The War | Deadlier serpents crawl and biss. has scafled_and steered at Thoreau ashamed Shadows *rom she tomb are calling Hoxt, who held possession of "y few acres of | mre. It would be a protitless task to 1ake all | geales on the clean white of the inuer surfaces: | ave the oystersof the Chesapedkea respite, 1o read tins true uml just estumate Couwe, revose ia silence Ler ovitererogund. Nwhich they anpually replen- | the oysters from a feld; and there is generally younit ovsters, which, thanks to the | and the work of depletion was stayeds but it | Andn day eholl come when the desalatescene, [ 10 FORA BUS, JHE S, JER o PTG Shadows from immortal resions, e ' i from the Hud- | an abundance left after @ crop bus been ather ¢ wble 1o find a tunely restingz-place. | Was speediiy taken up awain, and already the | Thoun ccauned by eyusibat are clve: ond keen, - L gl N e Veilinz vofily things unscen— el @th. -beed, - litousliv: 0L iy any desired amount of spawn, in cise -shelt also is fairly wel b crmen of those parts are deploring bl thow no track of fts *- uugbt bave been. mever u man " Shatlows forus whonuniber lezions on River. The * younz oysters, attach- | 10 supply any od amour spuwn, h i w-shell also is fairly well tenunted; it crmen of those barts are deploring the ex- | Shalls BuRbLbave been. x| temper aud the understanding of his feliow- O It taene hignis sercae. 3 o oty ahelis and other | ruvbish, | the zround should be wauted for braediug-pur- | was opened for bait by some summer-fisherung, | Laustion of - their most valuabte beds,’and the bk ento such an extent as Henry Thoreau. Mr. S oo when Night is ended; were s hered and travsplanted iy the | POS! oL Jikelybnud thriwn futo the water jus ? v of going farther and farther out for - Phse himself eavs that until within a few sears A fatoa upes to perfect D: sumaer-time, when nothing was doing 1 the | As the work of gathering for market slackens | time to watclia few spat. - But the rest of the polies. The natural advantages af the {* I'f QUITE A POET. s ame of ‘Thoreau stood to him for morbid o P feavias own Liht fs blended—~ seanlur oyster-rade; and it was repeatedly ob- | ju May, the oysterman begins 1o sbells and ull this gravel must have been too peake aud its trivutary waters for the e wesk rebetiion, sud bontempt for A Eyaition bath fult sway. s jerved tiat Jaier i the season a pleatiful ciop osin ™ THE DEDS foul Lo receive the spat, and_consequently the | rapid growth of oysters are unsurp 1m quite a Foet, people sey: ety "% particular sty led him at lengi | Nov. 20, Coxstasce Hensenr, of st1ll vonnser ovsters had established them- | that contain bis srowime stock, by meaus of | prospect is not envouruging for those who may | Nevertheless, those seemingly exhaustle 1'm Shakspeare’s equal any day. fnto close contact with Thoreau. And it was —e—— salves on the iniported £eed. o dredses. In this operation, the | Wish, four vears hence, 1o Teap the benciits of | are fariug preasels us ovsier-beds have the 1 taughe the great aud renial Harte then that be 1onnd that, thouzh he was some- THE GOLDEN. AGE. S EaE DiD SHEY CoNE? cters which have settted into the mud ddring | thi> ‘common ground. ~Nature i3 a carcless | world over when left o the mercy of men who The mystties of dram-sucatts Timas atyeme in bis expressions of distike for prgwicl 3 fith the others when too | tle winter ave Hited out, scoured of slime, and mother at best: aud, of the countless milions | have but oue vbject in conneetivn with ' gaore than 31oore was iu n;a gnm:. i lebti believes of modern scciety, T ecn, Or Were they the spring of | lvosely scattered upun the surfuce. At the of embryu uysters that swarmed in these wu- | and that 1s to gather each davtbe In I'm Lope among the ricats of rhyme. T ity bentath all the loved Individual Y”';'J:E’mu'mukuupan i T Ay e e IT thie | same time the laryer clusters are removed and | ters Lust suibier, very few were able Lo fud @ e regardices of | the iugwse, J i B ey whias was indiyidnal in them, showing | 450 §am 2010 take o BarL 1, Ule ot ite latger w rcE:—uL why should not the spat be | broken up for transplanting to thinner beds; | suitable restiug-pluce. Nature betrayed tham yet was a useful natural growth, When common ?h“""’.fl’fiéfa 2 the utmost patience and toleration In 'his 8s50- | Yith glorions projects that divinely tend raually plentifu! where no plauting had been | the predatory star-tish aud whelks are canght | at the critical moment, and now tley are wot. | however vizorous and nwhfifi that could hoid 1 biace Bpn K feer strang and stent, ciatlon with others. Hislove of animals and | To anify the natious, and to rend * Zomel The question was bard 1o answer, Even | and kilied, aud the ground is loft in condition | Had these grounds beey subject to individual | its own agiiust human greed untempered by o it e Tatent feniug but of Nature did noty he found, lead him into a | The boads of evi~thus canobling lite Sinong professiopal naturalists, st that time, | to receive Kindly the younir spat which will soon oprm';sh.m arlx’d ?::Js(unul care, they would not | personat owners! mn " : When mnsiard thus, the Moses all sour retreat from society, but to seek a mew &y :nmm' .'é?wfi’cf;; p{‘)m‘} Rl rm in the water. bave been allowed to remain in_barrenness, No fisnery,” ubserved & prominent miember 1n unison hegin 1o o2 s Doint of relation toit. What especially strikes sn“-.'rfh i Tt this Englisman is the fact that the solitary of For Meience, aneelof the toreh and Key, r-Flsheries' Co:nmission fhias T pass away the time - | Walden was the first man_who came forward | £orSeientes MU0 ol Vioov curac, Posy ' sters | s ; plipsidlogy ol . {hie feprouetion of_ostens would have Isstor | of the British O z beds recelve a very different | Whether the general publ 'y SLErY "¢ e ¥ he propagati) L 1 ermflex:»m-'z‘i-l:‘xlxx%cilxfihz hffm".‘,‘,’ui{’ bea roa wreatment, On these there will bea few oid gained by a surrender of its proiitless right to | lately, “ uo fisherycan fail to be destroyed if ion for what they saw, and that, if they vould | oysters left for sced, o1 selected oysters will b those who would have made & thousand Oysters | left to the interested fnzenuity of mam,—~the 1n weaving rpiders’ webs of rhyme, and spoke decidedly in pablic for Tnlocks the gatee of ebon Doubt, 30 we i mactor it ihey would nat’ omiy be saved | placed there as & brood-stock; and, as spwning | grow where scarcely one now avpears, may be | vysterfishery least of all.” The ovimion s & Though winds o common-sense esch day Joits BROWS, OF HARPE'S PERRT, o eh Leinmpliant on onr upward way, e cost of bringing seed from abroad, but they | tme approaches, the oyster-farmer will make | left to the reader’s judgment to decide, , | plausible one, Blow all my Nimay webs away. il anid who also ran risks by Ins personal eforts | Armed with the seciets of the Lniverse! ould be able to produce regularly the bigher | ready the “stools™ which are to afford resting- [ As we pags another lincof stakes marking the BUT IT 1S GITERLY MISTAREN. low. winds of common-sense, at will— S Troed not o few slaves Mr. Page's atteu- cop, 2 S0% BRUBAKEE. lacas for_the comingcrop In assorting the | boundary of private property, the dredec is cast | The British Government has acted on it for T'm greas bigh-cockutoramatll | A e O This With pecubiar force, because, | Guaswoop, Ia., Nor. 2 E ysters it bout o & b Aot hfifi%&ffl’. m?[t‘g?}nlu‘:nd‘ Rfir.‘?hgfi‘snuoyt Eyatcrs s0ld the previous scason, he basaccuwy- | 8gain. Lay your hand on the rope; the waier | years, vainly striving to foster the multiplication