New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-09-20
Niagara FalIs-QueeDston Bridge-Buffalo-
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Niagara FalIs-QueeDston Bridge-Bufalo-
The StockjobberBs
Correspondence of Fhe Tribune,
Toronto, Monday, Sept, Is, 1850.
went TO the F alls Of Niagara last week, down
the old and rlcketty Forsyth stairs and bshind the
sheet of water called the horseshoe, till the spray
and wind drove rae back. Except the diminished
size Of the Table Rock, could remember novery
remark able change In the natural features Of the
cataract since frst saw it thirty years ago. The
weather, Which on Tuesday last was uncomforta'
bly, not, changed by Thursday TO sharp, cold,
clear sunshine, which, to passengers on the Niaga
ra river made great coats cloaks, and plaid shawls
very desirable The Welland Canal is supplied
from the Grand River, but | understood they are
deepehing it's channel between Port Coborne and
the W elland with tho intention of making aka
Erie the Hummt level. Navy Island remAlnA
pretty much in the came state in which 1t was IN
1885, except the growth OF timber where the In
surgenta constructed road around 1t, and the
denuding process carried on by q few aquatters,
who have cleared the trees away near their dwell
lngs Navy and Grand Island, and the whoe
Niagara Frontier, are asid to do g. large business
in the way of conraband goods, both ways
Whether this is 30 or not traders and cugtom-
house oflcers probably know best
IA, Stayner tour Postmaster Generals ne phew
who was committed to jail at Niagara, charged
with stealing the money out of letters in the
Queenston office, has at length been bailed. At
frat 81 600 were asked, bat $500 were taken, and
Collectors McMicken and Mccormick are bis sQ.
reties.
Z. w. serrell of your City is going on with the
Queenston Suspension Bridge. The road the
pisrs, and the TO- ers lea they are called on both
sides of the Niagara are completed, and while
remained rope and the frat wire were carried
across The bridge is 80 be suspended from ten
cables OF iron wire, made in ew.Jersey-No
wire. $50 strands to the cable. Three cables are
ready 10 be thrown across the stream and the
bridge calculated to sustain weight OF 500 tuns
las am toldl, will be ready in Two months If the
supDly of wire Ia kept up -Four additional cables
viii be used, if required and if railway ara
to crosa say gre US the additional four ny all
means The saddles OF the towers are prepared
to receive them Ii the Great Western Hallway
that Ia 70 BEL its Directors think them necessary.
The suspendegs, by which the carriage way, or
platform of 20 feet in width is fastened 10 the ca
bles above, are to be iron rods, not wire. From
tower to tower the distance across is ,045 feet
the bridge or platform below is 500 feet long.
When the bridge is finished the ferry will be use.
less, unless tha toll for crossing is very high.
twenty-five cents are charged at the other 5us-
pension Bridge, which is elevated nearly thrice as
high above the gtream, and is, and will long coa.
tinue to be, one Of the wonders OF The Niagara
frontier
Issopped day or two in Buffalo, surprising
place for business, travel and useful industry, lis
harbor is full shipping, it's streets and stores are
alive with an active, intelligent, enterprlsing popu,
lstion, natiyea Of many lands-Americans, Ger.
mans, IrAh, EngIisb, Scotch, Canadians, ETC. Main
st. is far wider than Broadway; and the storeJ,
the buildings, the hustle and activity ware very
much in keeping with what have seen in New
York. Two powerful low pressure staam engines
are 70 pump tbs pure, clear waters of Lake Erie
near Black Rock, which is igher than the city. A
tunnel il to be carried below the Erie Canal and
the Black Rock protection wall, out into the bed of
the Niagara River. From this and other relsr.
yoirs vill the city and shipping receive al abua-
dsnt supply of pure water lor ali purposes. The
Buffalo POst-Oiiice is an index to tho amount Of
bosnefs done az tL;a emporium. L. is open TO n
I'll the adies haze separate tie-s 4 b5z y,