Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1851-05-31
A LETTER FROM NIAGARA FALLS.

I A LETTER FROM NIAGARA FALLS.
Editorial Correspondence Of the ~. y Express.
NIAsAnA FAILs, MAI Ill have paid my fourth visi
to Niagara Falls and each visit has but enhanced thu
glory the have before the Fds in the calm
beauty Of midnight when the starry host crowned the waters
with their sparkling gems Of gold. have .hem too
when the evening mist from the waters as if to show
70 the beholdsr that strange and beautiful spectacle the
spanning Of the arch of the heavens by the light Of the full
moon have bahed too, in the ea.hey spray Of the Ame
rican and Canadian fall when the waters seemed above
me like the music of the spheres Now after lapse Of
few years. all these wonderful creations Of nature reappear
with more glowing remembancss of the past and al refresh
ed BY new pictures and the Of beauties The
eternity OF all time to be personfed 10 such scene
There was the same Of heard thousand years
ago. and they will be heard for ages to The pillows
sun roll on and tumble down from cataract cataract a.
they did when they forced their way by the warning Of the
elements from lake to lake. Here and there but not oener
than once in lifetime. the rocks and trees have given way
before the csaseles wearing Of the foods Trees with the
marks Of upon them, and rocks that seemed 10 have been
laid by the Great Architect Of the earth for the deep ounda
tons of the world have fallen into the gulf below but 40 e
are the changes of long life, and longer traditions that is
impossible with good reason to realize the prophecies Of
those who have in the wonders Of present any GER
tain indications Of future change Some argue like Volney
that Lake Erie be drained waters through this ever
flowing channels Others that Lake Erie and Lake Ontario
to be brought level and their waters mingled
into and others STILL that the widespread level lands Of
the Canadian Shore after the palisades scaled become
the bed Of some lake sea- and many think that
these lands covered with water But all such
sPecuaons TO the vister abstract the charm from place
like this
10 uhofo
Thunder Of Waters to lie down the lullaby Of s
eodous music and refreshed and awakened by the same
sweet strains The music loses its monoony in the conscious
ness Of the great organic power which gives it, as it were
the inspiration Of song Next to the rolling thunder, which
almost makes the beangs Of the pulse echo back the music
the heavens the sound Of the of Niagara while
the influences Of such strains gentle and soothing as
the breathings Of the wind upon flower garden So next
the lightning piercing the black clouds which sometimes hang
from the sky, they the thick curtains Of night is the
sghto Niagara. Behold those Falls again and again. and each
view shan impar interest Look from the Aeri-
to the Canadian shore from sheltered point where
the waters have fallen. down from the dizzy heights above
where almost ~ Of danger slost very midst
of tand we realize something of this terrible power.
The whirlpool and rapids forever bubblng and boiling above
their rocky foundations and driven and oby warning cur
rents excite almost like amazemen It awe and majesty
ALL and nowhere else have such demonstration Of The
great power Of the Creator of the Universe.
There also here much that calm and snquizng as
there grand and imposing Some Of the prees country in
the world and Of the most highly cultivated may be seen
from the observatoes which have risen upon the field where
the terrible battle Of Lundy Lane fought The orchards
loaded with blossoms the fields wheat tipped with the deep
green the forests extending towards the lake. the
church spires rising many erected by re-
gous people for the worship Of God happy abore plough
ing the fields busy woshops visitors exhaated subdued
according to their varied temperamen and coming from all
lands to behold object Of interest villages whose
pretty dwellings give evidence Of taste and prosperity the
border Of rival countries and yet Of friendly neghborhoods
these the good impressions Of this portion Of the country
cannot fail to read more in such place. Ibehold the
rolling along the shores Of for thousands
Of miles. remember that the people sprung from the
origins that they speak the same language that they enjoy
many rights and privileges in common, wide may be the
contrast in the enjoyment of other privileges see the shores
Of these two linked literally in the iron bands Of mag
nec attraction, and held together by bridges Of ron owned
in by the citizens of each country The waters
which flow between these rockbound shores whatever their
origin, have common pathway.
g Like kindred drops they mingle into one'
Above and below Niagara, the bosom Of the Upper and
the Lower Lakes the stars and stripes Of America
side by side with the Cross Of St. George Of England. ALL
nature is harmonious PEACEFUL and typical Of the common
beginning and destiny Of the whole family Of and what
always deepens such Impressions with is that God here
has pepeuay set his bow in the Clouds spanning the Ae
can and the British shores, in token Of that perpetual
covenant Of which ought always keep in the bonds
Of mutual amity and respect in this misty arch,
rich and gorgeous in its colong graceful and perfect in
iscircu unusual in it's location sublime in its 6gura
ton that the mission Of country, and Of all countries, is
like that Of the great Divine Teacher Of on earth
and good will men,. There is therefore, sermon in
these wonderful creations Of power and beauty and we'll here,
and almost for the fst time, do realize oil Of the religious
contemplation Of Wordsworth, when he sung:
"My heart leaps up when behold
A Rainbow in the sky,
So was 1t when my life began,
So is it now when I'm man, .
So let it be when grow old,
So let me die. E. B.