New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-07-17


WESTWARD TRAyEL.-The line Of Railroads
from Albany to Buffalo now DO their work ia ex-
cellcnt time The train which leaves Buffalo at -
4. Mis- IN Albany about the next mormng-n
ample season ior the day boats 20 this City or the cars
to Boston Leaving this City by boat at p ". you
are taken to Albany by or next morning breakfast
and starr by cars at Z. A. ". reach Utica by T. A
dine and are taken 20 Syracuse before T. NJ take Tea
and proceed after halt Of thirty Of forty minutes
pass Auburn about Canandaieua a. II Rochester
from 4. NJ 10 halipast Batavia about and at OF
little later in the morning stop at Buffalo, breakfast
and are ready for steamboat up the lakes or cars
TO the Falls at 9 A. 81. having been 80 hours in
trayersng the distance from New-Nork 10 Buffalo
which (by route is little short oi 800 miles.
The hats all the principal places on thc route are
lust sufficient you have time 20 eat, and are charged
nothing for all the sleep sou can catch while the pace
il quite a. rapid the state of the roads will Justify
Most Of the companies replacing the old miserable
IA, rails with a far better article, snd banking up the
earth to THEN rickoty tmbers bat the track Is IN spots
very bad and needs thorough overhauing The matter
will not be entirely right until there Is good double
track of heavy T or II rail from the Hudson to Lake
Erie and then the whole distance can be run IN eighteen
hours far safely and comfortably than At present
The present charge SID Tor passage through i eN
orbitant but ii is some consolation that good part OF
the receipts devoted 70 the much needed improve
mcnt of the track II double track completed
and the fare reduced half with proper facilities for
immigrants We believe the receipts would be much
greater than they now arc We are reliably assured
that the present rates viii be reduced materially
Indeed they must be- or the Erie Railroad when finish
ed. will draw oil a great proportion OF the travel.
Another rival route 10 the Western halt of the great
artery il already doing handsome business. aud is de'
tined to increase it, By this you leave Buffalo At AN
for Niagara Falls have two or three hours to devote 10
the great wonder dine al the Eagle Cataract zone OF
the largest and best hotels in America take the cars 20
Lewiston (he ride affords one OF the finest views in
the country take the steamboat for Oswego, where
you arrive very early in the morning breakfast and
take packet for Syracuse stage 10y Plank Road for
Rome having in either case a ride through fine
try and heading by hours the train which reaches
Albany al next morning. BY this route you are put
back one train present but very soon the rairoad
from Syracuse to Ossego will be completed and then
travellers who leave this city al NJ will be taken to
oswego By evening then take boat and berth for
Lewiston cars to and breakfast al Niagara and OF hur
red) be in Buffalo early in the day, having made the
Journey hence 10 Lake Erie in forty hours sleeping
comfortably on steamboats, both nights When this
opportunity shall be proaered the Western Railroads
must carry much cheaper than and yet lose large
share of their trade An admirable new boat The
Ontario has Just been put the Lake and two more
are in eager preparation for the opening OF the Owego
Railroad. which think is expected to take place
next month After thai the beautiful valley OF the o.
weso River which combines remarkable fertility with
an amount Of wstcrpower rarely equsled viii be far
better known than It has yet been Osweso Itself
Il pace of much enterprise and thrift which IS Just
/ beginning 10 know iis resources. Inc I'VE next
wears will probably double is business and population
i've trust its growth will not be 1t the expense OF
Rochester and the villages the line of the Grand
/ Canal but paralleed and stimulated by theirs.