New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-03-21

our limbs and boots the remainder OF il was snugly
slowed from froRt TO back board with our luggage
and provisions, and such luggage !-knapsacks.
reabazs. saddle-bags, kits, saddles, TN ware and
iron ware tea kettle, stew pan, and ouuerean
Law pe!l nell all around The contents OF this med
lev were even more unique. Ham. tea and tobacco
here hsh-lines butter, and meal there; tinpia
clean socks and salt in this, sugar pork and onions
in that, all snugly swathed IN clean cotton shc
packed with single regard 10 bulk and weight but
the proof was nigh al hand which was 70 Demon
s,rste the good Judgment OF suffer IN the chaTac
ter and quality OF our equipments. The General
gathered up his lines flung his lash into the TANKS
OF his steeds and were soon on our way al Jolly
troLE
Our road took course North. East from Leyden,
leading through small hamlet called CoiinsViie'
Uniting on the way other hearty fellows 10 our
band, we continued the same course three miles by
several rapid descents 10 the High Fails on tne
Black River. The Black River Canal. II not al
ready de facto terminated by the stop policy OF our
Legislature will terminate at this spot, and be con-
nec,ed with the stream below the Falls by success
sion OF locks The road crosses the river Just above
the Falls and the bridge is hung as il were just
upon the edge of the foaming cataract Just before
Black River preciptates itself over the rock. It re-
ceives an accession from the waters OF the Moose
River flowing from the East and OF nearly equa!
volume. The united waters having leaped the aoyss'
pursue their Journey North about twenty miles to
the town Of Carthage, where bending due w est
they accumulate the immense manufacturing power
used at Watertown, Brownville and Dexter In inc
county of jefferson and lose themselves silently IN
the bosom of the Ontario near Sackeus Haroor.
The High Falls are not without romantic ana
picturesque scenery The itself IS not the
descent of solid sheet of water, but rather sort
of hop skip, and jump down an inclination OF ABOUT
seventy degrees over as may feet OF surface IN the
course of which meeting with sundry angular trag-
mems the water is ashed into foam and Is already
converted into froth and bubbles, when 1t reaches
lis seIher bed. The neghboring gentry, WHO prlde
themselves highly on this natural attraction OF their
country s,ou,Iy affirm that the roar Is audible often
more than mile; but when we crossed the bridge,
a saucy n,ill-saw right on the brink was whiting
its way through hemlock log with so much MINI
bleness and noise that the roar Of the cataract In
comparison with the grating, singing steel was about
as the plant of q nightingale TO the roar OF non.
Following the course of the Black River Norm
for couple of miles our road turned suddenly 10
the right and lead up succession OF mis- III we
reached an elevation OF q thousand teet ABOVE the
River. This level was not reached until we were
distant twelve miles from the Falls, and on the very
verge of civilization. The intervening country had
been but recently cleared, and wore no very IN
wiling appearance. The adveniuresome farmer,
who has pitched his habitaton upon the edge oil the
unbroken forest is Mr. Abbey, and within his capa'
cious barn we were TO stow our wagons ana mar
ness the road being no longer passaoie lor wheei'
carriages. HecelvlnS mere announcer aeces3ot W ~,
party we mustered seven men and SIX horses all
told. Our guide had preceded us by day in or
der TO provide boats for our conveyance on the
lakes The beasts were soon sadded. and we pre-
pared 10 sling our baggage. Now, this Is process
by no means as simple as il might appear flrst' II
is required ofeach horse to carry hundred pounds
besides his rider: secondly, these hundred pounds
are made up in part of iron-ware, which have ugly
long handles and enjoy cumbersome and crooked
noses: thirdly the load must not protrude much
bevond the horses Sides or the trees will draw II
off in traversng some narrow detile: fourthly, it
must be hung low, to enable the beast TO preserve
an equilibrium. Fancy, then. horse thus laden !:
Two meal bags, plethoric with hiiy pounds each Oh
assorted utensils and provisions and suspended by
strong hempen cord across the saddle. hang dang
ling JUS, behind his fore legs parallel with the
meal bags are the limbs Of the rider, who bears his
cloak in 'front.' Grams his pockets with every ODD
brandishes frying pan or tea kettle in one hand,
and guides his steed as best he may with the other