The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-08-29

now IN contetnplatOn, the tedSlOillty oil trying
McAdamized road, with toll privileges TO Black
water; whence, should the speculation prove
profitable enough in its returns, IT is TO be carried
out to Milton town.
These laudable undertakings will soon raise our
quiet little city to commercial and domestic inn
Fortance and prosperity. And we may compete
with Mobile the moment they are consummated
The railroad will direct from that place to our city
all the large cotton trade now centerng there,
VIII lie the several local improvements will each
tend TO animate the whole body of our inhabitants
from their long siesta and apathy obvious inte-
rests, when 1t is shown that the natural advanta-
ges oil Pensacola are 30 great, that If properly inn
proved, must raise to the first i'm portanee the
gulf.
In great haste for the mails, hastily bid you
adieu, and remain ever yours, TELLER.
Urea, August Is, 1876.
Trip from Saratoga.
We were induced last evening from the irress-
Springs" bound westward, to try the packet
boat from Schenectady to Utica. cit will afford
you rest, leisure to survey the country along the
Valley OF the Mohawk and time to write about it,"
We assented. We have the ticket now: "Mo-
hawk Valley packet-boat Herkimer, Capt. Harvey
Harter"-iare through to Utica. coo miles) one
dollar and found, that is days board and lodg-
ing, and the transportation of yourself and bag
gage all for a dollar ON the Herkmer. Unprece-
d~ntcdiy reasonable, that. We were among the
first aboard and things looked promising for a
while oil q small but agreeable party, and plenty
OF room. But with the Eastern train we were
taken by regular sortie from the cars. In the
midst oil ringing OF bells, the blowing of tin horns
the conclusion OF trunks overhead, and all sorts Of
voices, we turned from our perusal of the morn
ing papers from New York, to look around us ::
and glance satisfied us that the enchanting cry
of One dollar to Utica, /" had filled our establish
ment to the DIlm. and running hers
indeed, being turned away. One hundred pas.
sengers a canal boat, however, though prof.
table to the captain, Is positive infection to the
unintiated OF the company. But when you corse
pack away or hang up all these people, and
yourself among them, in room, the cubic dimen-
sons ef which are scarcely greater than the two
apartments OF solitary traveller at good hotel,
you are destined 10 try the benefit largely Of a
most liberal lnhalemsnt of carbonic acid gas. We
We're literally piled up as thickly as coffins in
vault, one above the other and what with the
brass band on deck-the walking overhead, the
cry OF a halt dozen babies, the general converse
ton all round, among men, women and children,
and with few bad fellows low Jokes, stale pro-
vinciliasms, and snatches of negro melodies, we
were not deficient In music. We had the fortune
oil securing a berth near a window, which we
kept open in spite OF all remonstrances, with our
lace to the fresh air, that streamed as a strong
wind to I'LL up the poisonous rarefied vacuum
within the body OF the packet Herkimer. Nest
OF our passengers were of the farming interest
men and women, tanned and wrinkled, and vast
ed by hard labor and exposure and to whom
the value OF dollar has its proper estimate from
having cost them so much OF sweat and toll
These good citizens as they are every where
were quiet unobtrusve and polite and in their
own nlotfensive familiarity, agreeable fellow voy-
ayers; but there was an ntermIxture of the b'hoys
who made the night hldeous with their barbarous
jargon. From our window we watched the stars
the frequent passing boats, and the gimmerlng
lights upon the shore, until we insensibly passed
into the relief OF an illusion, OF porch looking to
the setting sun, and OF one, the beautiful and the
good, Our own most beautiful and best at our
SIDE, discussing he dongs of the day in Congress.
We were awakened as by the groans of the
damned. Full fifty men around and below us,
as closely slowed away as mummies IN the Mem
phIan catacombs, were snoring IN happy obi
viousness. From the ladies' division, separated
by red curtain, there voices still in CONVEX
sation, whispers, and signs, and murmurings, and
FAINT dreamy EXPLANATIONS OF laughter or SORROW
Such night Horatio, thou hast not seen.
With the rising of the sun took to the shore,
and walk OF several miles on the t0wpath at rate
of four miles TO the hour, expelled the absorption
OF the deadly exhalations OF our crowded chamber.
We had good breakfast, fair dinner, and a
pleasant day over an interesting book in the cabin,
the bosy OF the company having taken the deck
IN the interim between the meals. The valley of
the Mohawk will speak for tself-it is a rich pic
turesque agricultural region, green with luxu-
RANT vegetation, even among the rocks and cliffs
that form fer miles the margin of the river. The
corn-fields looked admirably; indeed the whole
country wore the aspect oil the highest cultivation
But the ruins of conflicting legislatures lay thick
along the route, in the frequent piles of hewn stone,
and IN the abundant excavations for the enlarge
ment of the canal. In this business we were IN
formed that the satisfaction OF suspended contracts
would have completed within a trlfle the whole
enterprise OF the enlargement of this grand COM
mercial communication between the lakes and
the sea.
On the subject of politics, we find the people at
stand They know not what is to happen, but
they appear to dread more than any thing else the
anticipated resort to direct taxation in Congress.
In connexon with this alternative they ale anx-
ious for peace with Mexco-thcy don't as yet
understand either the necessity or the object of
This war. The enormous expenses alone per-
fectly apprehended and dreaded, they are anx-
ous for peace, because they are anxious to escape
direct taxation. We had few Infatuated aboi-
fionsts on board, who opposed the war because
II looked to the extension of the area of slavery.
Poor fellows, 1t is pity they can't find sufficient
employment in minding their own business. We
notice almost invariably that this class of men
have lean and hungry look, wild eye, only ex-
pressive of disordered brains, and that they are
generally as ignorant and stupid as they are OBJ
stinate and dogmatica
In day or two we expect to locate for a few
days, when we shall take time to write you more
deliberately upon matters Of publ interest com
ing under review. Respectfully,
The DocToR.