The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1845-11-01
Correspondence of the Spa.


The steamboat competition on the North River is of
Inc most vigorous and exciting character and has had
The effect to keep prices lower the present season. han
hey nave ever been kept before for long period of
time Still, 1t is said that some of the best boats carry
so many passengers that they make money by it, Six,
sevel aud eight hundred frequently carried at trip
The prices have ranged from fifty cents down TO twenty
five and occasionally still lower for the passage through
from New York to Albany or Troy This is in the night
boats, most of which do not stop at the Intermediate
landings. The day boats usually charge more An
ex charge is usually made for berths. but saw one
boat advertised day or two since al TWENTY-FIVE cents
and no extra charge for berhs There are many per-
sons in New York. who wou find this the cheapest mode
OF getting lodging
The fdIry-paace of boat, the Oregon is now running
on The rver as night boat, and goes at the before IN
heard-oi rate OF Nenty miles hour. LIN the sumplu.
BUSINESS OF her finish and urntue She probably excels
any thing OF the kind before butt From stem 10
stem, from top to Toe, the painting the guiding the
Panne work, every thing about her in fact is of the
most magnificent and perfect kind She is about $40
ieetm lengh--some $50 20 feet longer than that mon
slef OF the world, The Steamship Great Britain. Her
staie-rooms are lifted up with almost oriental luxurious
ness. she IS owed by Two three brokers IN Wall
street, and, by many, II supposed that their object is
10 use her Tor The purposes OF stock obbng operations
You may ecoec that She was first put upon the provi
dence route 1t is supposed that the owners cxpeced
to be able 10 arrive Providence as soon as the Sion
ngou line did, that the passengers gh, take the
same train to Boston Had they succeeded in this. they
would have been able, by putting the fare very low, to
draw of the travel from the Norwich and Stonlngton
adS f,o.a Inns a.
to runous rate and, in either case, they would have
pressed those stocks in the market But falling in that
ject. the Oregon was Immediately Withdrawn from
that route, and put upon the North river.
The beauties of The passage up the "noble Hudson y
have so often been said and sung that you need not
fear any attempt a repetition OF ii from me- Green.
though may be, in things, | am not quite y,esa
enough for that 1t is no WONDER however that persons
given 10 poetry and senmentaly, should indulge their
propensity such occasion The palisades rising
perpendicular from the western shore of the river 10 the
height OF 600 feet, Tor several miles in extent and then
tie highlands, those Wild rocky barren hills thrown up
in ali manner OF shapes, Of their SUBMITS l4CO
and 1900 feet high, and the river that II looks as
# you could cast stone from the summit into The water
the river itself quiet and peaceful. threading its way
through all this wild scenery, looking, every now and
them You pass upon its bosom, il the hills closed
in upon every sde so that, in few rods you must
come a dead stand all these should be seen to be
appreciated; aud none can see them without feel ng
how poor any description Of them must be.
The river quite broad ill you pass the palisades lin
going upward) sou then enter the highlands and be-
comes quite contracted and considerably orluous in its
course with two engagements the way. AS
through the opening before you, some dozen miles
into the better country above the highlands. As you
emerge from the highlands, you find Newbug on youi
leh the place from which this hasty note is dated by
your old crony, JACK Pay