New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-06-20

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is diffusion Of sound views and a wear
ing away of prejudices. A County or
District whose people have thus recognl-
zed point of reunion and habit of assem-
bling there in the heat Of summer-nOt
merely for a days festivity, but for weeks
social intercourse and enjoyment-will in a
few years enjoy an evident superiority over
one destitute of such gathering-place. OF
course, we are not now considering the case
of those who know no better in this 1850
than TO make beasts of themselves with AL
coholic poison-those can come to no good,
at home nor abroad. But men Of sense and
of observation, who know how at the same
time to enjoy relaxation and improve it, can
better afford to give themselves weeks
rest in the course ola summer Of hard work
than to 90 without it, and we trust that the
habit Of assembling at watering-places is
destined to become very general.
But there is a class who have leisure and
inclination for an extensive tOur-whither
shall they direct their steps? Were we
among them, we should, by way of Boston
and the Hampshire or Maine Rail
roads, visit the glorious scenery Of the
White Mountains then cross Vermont to
Burlington thence, via Montreal (Ogdens-
burgh Railroad neat year, and the St.
Lawrence to Toronto; thence via Lake Sim
coe and Georgian Bay to Lake Huron and
the Saul St. Marie; up Lake Superior to
La Pointe, and across to the St. Croix and
so down the Mississippi to Galena, or some
lower point; thence overland to Milwaukee
or Chicago, and home by Mackinac, Detroit,
Buffalo and Niagara Falls-(a glorious
resting-place by the way. lie wastes life
who, being able, leaves Niagara the week Of
his arrival. 1t takes a week for an ordinary
mind to attain the fit expansion for cOntem-
plating that magnificent wonder.
There are of course other delightful tours
but it is not yet time to visit the Falls of
the st. Louis, Lake of the Woods, &c. in
the far Northwest. Two or three years
will bring them within reach. 1t might be
well, on reaching the Mississippi, to run up
to the Falls Of st. Anthony but what are
they to Niagara? For those who journey
directly westward from this, the Erie Rail
road exhibits some delightful scenery-in
fact, great deal. Leave the City in the
morning, and nearly the whole of the first
days travel is amid towering hills and deep
chasms of almost Alpine ruggedness. And,
when you travel for pleasure, be entreated
not to fatigue yourself to deaths door for
the sake of getting through day sooner.
Riding night and day must serve the turn of
ayaricious Merchants, hard-driven Editors
and Reporters, hawk-eyed Spectators, and
Beeves on their way to the slaughter house;
but he who sets out to fill his lungs with
fresh air, yet knows no better than to ride
all night, is a very poor economist of time
or money.
As to Fishing and Hunting, they are very
well for those who like them-mostly boys,
we hope. There are very good trout for those
who understand them, in Delaware County,
near the Erie Railroad, as also in the North,
near the Ogdensburgh. But going up into
the Adirondack, or any other heather will
derness, to fish or hunt for month or so, is
an amazingly green operation. Two-thrds
of those who try it are home-sick to the core
before they have spent three days under
canvas, and only stay through fear of being
laughed at if they back out. The scenery
is yerv fine, where the leaves will let
Won see it, and the fish would be well
enough if the mosketoes and gnats did
not give you a million bites to their one.
0 no-keep out of the deep, dense forest IN
June and July-wc speak feelingly and
from personal experience. Go in Septem-
her. if at all, when the insects have disap-
peared or, better still, in October, when
the woods have put on their dying foliage
and remain till their bare boughS permit
Won to see the wealth Ofrock and water that
their summer drapery cOncealS from view.
No matter if the fish refuse to bite or are
not worth taking; the glory Of an Autumn
in the great wilderness will make amends
for all. o that we could spend week of
of October in the heart of John Browns
tract? 1t would be years addition to a
frail lease of life.
But the subject expands, and its fur
Their consideration must lie over.
C3' We have received letter from Mr. Henry |
NJ Paine Of Worcester in which he replies, with
scme seyerty of language 10 the remarks Of Prof |