New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-08-09

child
aod1 wayward careless boy thought life would ever be-
AS free from care and full Of joy then was 10 ne
ye, II not weep that Age hath comethat Chdhood'S
day. flown
FOR Age hath blessings pure and fair that Age hath only
known;
And as remembrance DER the shades of Sorrow cast
We give the golden light that gds the Future with the Past
Then hail ye relics Of the Past, companions Of my
Beneath you hopes have sprung and pe'sd are In
fears
And till life drswe,h TO its close on may own your sway
Your power deepen every JOYS and drive each care away
Near Woodb1tdge n. j. A.D F RANDOLPH.
The Great Cataract-John Quincy Adams.
Correspondence Of the \. Y American
NIAGARA FALLS, July "A, 1913.
This is indeed the land of the +" sublime and the
beautiful" Here is the wonder of the world
You have gazed on it; and if you had not J
should not essay description. Hundreds OF
travellers have attempted 1t, and all have failed,
from Father Henepn a. d. 1878, to the nous
tached dandy, with simpering Miss on his arm,
whom Audubon saw sketching the vast cataract
on visiting card, and Dickens, who in 1912 was
Immediately filled, on looking at it. with calm
thoughts OF absent and deceased friends y. :.
cataract but the latter is always the victor.
Here, too, are g Fort Erie g Chippewa
sc Queenston," and Lnndy's Lane"-sublime
from the heroisrn, and awful from the carnage of
which they were the theatre. The battle Of
Lundy's Lane, fought at night, by the side Of
Niagara,-the blaze and roar of the red art-
lery, and the shrieks of the wounded vieing with
the cataract, whose fierce dashings threw back
on the battlefield the flashes of the full moon,
was the widest and most poetic scene In the mill
tary annals.
Bat what all the that rung
From wars vain trumpet, by thy laundering side =
Here too, is the beautiful for the eyes never
rested on lovelier scene than where the waters
of Superior, Huron, Michigan, and Erie, having
made the wild leap Of Niagara, flow gently away
through broad forests and waving wheat-helds,
into the bosom of Ontario.
A most agreeable incident of our visit has been
the presence of the illustrious cx-President John
Quincy Adams. He arrived late on Saturday
evening" after long, rapid and iatgung Journey,
by way Of Montreal and Ogdensburg, and yester-
day morning, accompanied by Gen. Peter b. Por-
ter, and other friends, went to the Iilscarora
reservation, and attended the public worship of
the Indians-many of whom, before and during
the service, were lying in picturesque groups un-
ucI 7tile tiCtS ABDUL llle CNdptl Will uleH DtOnu
cloth blankets, their ears hats, leggings and moe
casns gittering with beads, medals and other
fnery. The little papooses were snug y strapped
to fat boards about as long as themselves, with
only the head exposed, cncased like little Egyp-
fian mummies, except that they were bandaged
with embroidered scarlet instead Of cerements
They were thus IN the laps OF the squaws or sus-
pended on their backs, or leaned up against trees
or rocks, much as you would place an umbrella
against the wall or IN n corner. They lolled
their little tawny heads about and with their
bright black eyes gazed wonderingly over the
beautiful domains of their fathers.
In the chapel the sermon was rendered into the
Indian language, sentence by sentence, by the
Chief. The congregation were about as somno-
lent as white Christians arc apt to be; and the
new blue silk shawl, in which Gnstead of her
blanket a young and beautiful squaw had en-
peloped herself, produced about us much sensa.
ton among the other dark bellies, as any similar
spendor would among the palcr beauties Of a
city congregation. The singing by the Indians
was delightful, and have rarely heard sweeter
and softer voices. After the services were con-
clud,d the ex-Presidcnt was desired to address
them. When it was announced that he would
do so, the Indians looked and listened with great
intentness. Mr.. Adamss unprecedented dis
course was admirable, and delivered with much
feeling and effect. The Chief rendered It, as he
had done the sermon, sentence by sentence into
the Indian language.
MIR. Adams alluded to his advanced age, and TO
this being the first time that he had ever looked
upon their beautiful fields and forests-that he
was truly happy to meet them there and Join with
them In the worship of our common Parent
reminded them that In years past he had ad
dressed them from the position which he then
occupied IN language at once that of his station
and his heart, as :" his children and that now,
as private citizen, he hailed them In terms of
equal warmth and endearment as his .'brethrcn
and sisters He alluded, with simple eloquence
which seemed to'move the Indians much 20 the
equal care and love with which God regards all
his children, whether savage or civilized and to
the common destiny which awaits them hereafter,
however various their lot here. He touched
briefly and forclby on the topics OF the sermon
which they had heard, and concluded with a
beautiful and touching benedcron upon them
Among the elders of the congregation were
several who had fought at Fort Erie, Chippewa.
and Lundy's Lane, under General Porter, to whom
they look up with affection and reverence as
their steady friend and as the great counsellor
and warrior
Mr.. Adams seems incapable of fatigue either
Physlcal or inehta. Alter orlpe III the morning
to Lewiston, he stopped, on his return TO the
Falls, at the whirlpool. The descent to the
waters edge, which is not often made, is, as YOU
will remember, all but vertical, down steep of
some three hundred and sixty feet. One of the
party was about going down, when Mr.. Adams
remarked that he would accompany him. Gen.
Porter and the other gentlemen present, renon-
strated, and told him that it was a very severe
undertaking for a young and hearty man, and
that he would find II, in such hot day, quite
1mpracticahle He seemed, however, TO know
his capacities; and this old man, verging on four