New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-10-13

Having promised to attend the Delaware
.ountv Agricultural Fair at Delhi on Thurs


Having promised to attend the Delaware
County Agricultural Fair at Delhi on Thurs
day, We took, almost by accident, the Hudson Aiver
Railroad in preference to a steamboat on tues
day evening, were sped quietly to Catskiii IN four
hours had fair nights rest, and started al hVe next
morning by Delhi stage which, a4er waiting an nouf
for the steamboat from this City for Albany winch
stous by the way, was obliged 20 leave without It's
passengers-a dense fog the Riverhavlng detained
II below. Had we taken the boat, we should OF
eourse have been left behind at Catskiil, and COM
pelled 10 make forced march OF seventy miles, Gay
and night BY special conveyance IN order 70 iuihii
our engagement at Delhi. When those VINO lms'
CINE that the Hudson River Road is 20 be ruined py
steamboat competition consider that for the pas "eeA
especially those who trusted the boats must nave
been frequently and sorely DISAPPOINTED oy ociay'
caused by low water and fogs their ieafs VIII Oe
likely to vanish Steamboats, are excehehl 'hine'
in their way but few business men can ano'u "
travel nv boats when Railroads directly compete
18th them sspecialy such Railroads as run l4s mixes
an $40
We had counted much on the enjoy
ment of that ride through Greene and Del
aware Counties, across the Cstskill range to the
Had NJ Delaware and thence to Delhi, and were not
di.appointed. That region is now suffering from
drouh though less severely than the Counties around
Nev-Yoyk, but the abundant woods are clothed IN
the most gorgeous and varied hues OF Autumn, ana
our three DAYS in the Country were among the love
Hest we have ever known. Not cloud was visible
from first to last each day was bright, warm anu
genial, with an atmosphere as clear, goiden ana
sladdening as mortal ever basked in. The remeTn'
hvance Of these three days Will furnish sunshine for
many gloomy hour.
Delaware, long impoverished by profu-
sion of valuable Timber, is now nearly
cleared of all but its Hemlock and has gradually De.
come one a the most extensive Grazing Counties OF
the State Its hills covered with Cattie ana 's
Diaries are among the best to be found anywhere
The County is high, rugged and hilly, so that much
OF its surface can never be productive OF anything
except Wood but many of It's mountains AFFORD eh
cellent pasturage to their SUBMITS, and some oil the
hos, farms in the County average fully two thousand
feet above the level of the ocean Delhi village IT.
,elf living Immediately in the narrow valley of the
West Branch of the Delaware, is some 1860 feet
above Underwater. There is scarcely marsh in the
County, and its atmosphere pure keen and bracmg
With proper dietetic habits, people hundred years
old ought to be very common here
. The County Fair was not large one,
but the show of Live Stock, especially
Horned Cattle was very good, and there was a very
fair display also of the products Of Female Taste and
Industry. There must have been at least Three
Thousand persons in attendance on Thursday, tthe
second and closing day. Except in the Address,
which was rambling and rather long, there was little
70 be improved In this Fair. BY p. NJ. the People
had begun to dsperse and by sunset the village was
nearly restored to its usual evening quiet.
Some fifteen Of us left at this (fri-
day. morning in the stage for the Erie Kali
road at Hancock via Walton and the admirable Plank
Road thence to Hancock cChehocton,) which we
reached about noon. As during the two previous
days. the dense fog, which rose little before day,
cleared away between and 9, giving us a delightful
ride through the enmile forest, now beginning to be
dotted with cabins, which was first pierced by the
Plank Road last year. This road is unexceled in its
line and a finer drive III Summer or Autumn cannot
Be found.
Why will not some of our City people
who have leisure, but especially our For
eign residents, take a short ride up the Delaware,
and view the feeting glores OF our Autumn woods,
which are confessedly without rival In the oid
World Taking the Erie Mail Train In the morn
ing they would reach Hancock eisurey IN the alter
noon. and friend who has tired II assures us that
the Faulkner House is admirably managed tThis,
we believe, is not conducted on Temperance prnci-
cipes, but there is fair Temperance house also
kept here0 Taking light wagon next morning.
they could not fail to ENJOY the ride to walton t22
miles half through the forest aforesaid the residue
up the cultivated valley of the West Branch, every
where ovethung by noble hills now radiant with
hues eQualing those of the dying dolphin. Those
who could afford TO be absent four days would of
course proceed 10 miles further to Delhi, one OF
the pleasantes rural villages IN our State, returning
next day others might return the same day to Han
cock, and so home next day spending but three
DAYS in the excursion. There are many Europeans
preparing TO leave us without having seen the glo-
ries Of October in our American forests If We could
only induce them 10 take morning Express Tram
NJ the Enc Road and ride till they met adown tram
so as TO to the City on the evening OF the
came day we should feel that this article had not
been written III vain.
Whig Nominations.