New-York daily tribune., 1851-08-29
A WEEKS VACATION.
THE HUDSON AND LAKE CHAMPLAIN
Editorial Correspondence II The v. Tribune
PIITTsBUFGf Ssturday Aug. q, 49,


well as The Tr,6pfs people quits work now
and then, and one Of It's servants and feeders
may do likewise. So | took advantage Of
Grand Fifteen Days Excursion to Quebec and
The Saguenay River, and left the City the other
evening in Troy steamboat
1t is strange these excursions have been so
long getting domesucated among 50 shrewd
folk as ours Perhaps one reason Is, that we are
40 much given to gaddlng without special in
sucement that the idea Of doing IT cheaper by
wholesale did not strike us. But the Parlsans
and Londoners and Germans have been prohiing
by this moral application OF the associative
economy these three years, and we have hardly
bequnto try it, There s no reason why 1t should
not flourish and luxurate among US, and no doubt
we shall presently have Grand Excursions 10
The Falls Of 81 Anthony, or the Rocky Noun
tans, with return tickets and the privilege Of
,topping to study the domestic life Of the Paw
nees by the way all a, rates Of astonishing
sheap1ess Or, not to go so far in search Of such
dubious pleasure, why should not some knowing
.,fr,p,,n,ur take the Newly orkers 10 the Ma
tural Bridge and the Mammoth Cave, bringing
them home again by way OF Lake Enc and Nj
apara, for about half the cost of locomotlon lnd-
vidually paid for ! am confident schemes OF
this sort will come into great vogue and pros
perity, making many an else hali-vegetatlve
citizen acquainted with something of the extent
of his country and ITS variety of sod, climate and
population Meanwhile, let me return my per
sonal acknowledgements 10 Messrs Bachelor
Co. the inventors of and my courteous invlters
% tins expedition to the Saguenay River, ON
which am now one among many adventures.
| know not which OF the three water ap
pIoaches to NewYork TO pronounce the finer
slough no one who has ever come up the bay
after a long rm-tossed and tedious voyage by
sea, can doubt which is the most cheerful and
sonsolatory | do not think that in point OF PIC
turesqueness either can boast very greatly,
though am aware the bay has It's points and is
the subject of great deal of admiration and
Dragging | confess to having recently heard
French gentleman Of not partial taste and truly
mundane travel declare II the finest harbor IN
the world But 1t turned out that he was think
,ng Of It's commercial advantages and could not
dlspnte my suggestion that perhaps the Bay of
Naples ard the Bosphorus were both more
lovely.
A city itself is not and cannot be beautiful
All that II can hope Is to impose on the mind OF
the bchoder by the display Of a vast aggrega-
non of human power. This Impression is abun-
dainty produced as YOU approach New-Nork by
either oi It's rivers (London, too, Is best ap-
preached by the Thames or AS yOu depart by
either of them. The long lines OF shipping the
lusy movement of the wharyes, the piles OF
warehouses and the tali chmneys OF manuiacto-
mes that succeed each other IN seeming endless
ness as the boat rapidly bears You along. with the
background of compact buildings and many
spires make You feel the creative iorce of mans
energies and the intensity of his life. You are
absorbed IN the single idea of Power and of Tn.
umph You feel that such omnipoence mus,
sNcceed wherever II is directed, and that the
curses that YOU know are burning within the
heart OF tha, great city, the misery lurking hope.
less, and the vice Haunting defiant, are there
only because II has no, been wllled that they
should no, be and as the steamer carries us ont
OF sight OF the last chimney stack YOU are ready
TO defy the gloom OF night and storm settling
upon the rlyer like an Ill omen al the very door
sill OF your excursion.
Everybody knows the day voyage Up the Mud.
son, and many sentimental souls have tried the
same by moonlight. Those IN whom sentimental
iiy is ingIained and Byronlc, ought to try II OF
stormy night Then,as the ram pours IN torrents
upon the root that shelters the promenade deck,
they may behold the hills along the shore, loom
ing huge and spectral and the lights III cottage
windows hlckeung desperately, and the steamer
rushes past solitary sloops, that hold their way
stern and silent, like Young men Of eighteen OF
OF twenty, confronting the difficulties OF fate and
making up their minds to die early, ,mys,erously.
and unloVed
For my part | was luohier, and found among
The passengers an o,d Brook Farmer, and talked
with him OF those days and years OF hope idylhc,
when We thought TO reform the world at Rox.
bury Ii is refreshing TO meet these old friends
Unexpectedly and fnd them, settled down III this
OF that calling, thriving fellows, some then un.
marred, now fathers OF promising children,
others still bachelors and poets, and all chnging
fast TO the noble faith IN behalf Of which We
then planted cabbages and made shoes and
taught school They are dispersed everywhere
one might suppose. for never go tar from home
without CHANGING on one OF them IN Berlin,
Paris, or London. we seem 10 come together by
am, sterious magnetism and here on this stormy
nigh, one appeared on this Troy steamboat,
We devoted the murky hours OF the evening 20
the sunshine OF Brook farn-lis clouds are
forgot on these occaslons-and IN the morning
lost each other IN the crowd Fastening to the
cars and so parted without good-bye. sure
sign, | take II, that we shall meet again
Saratoga looked drenched and dismal as the
cars grumbled up into the station. Here and
there. IN the streets, was some forlorn waytarer,
picking his way through the mud, and about the
station doors stood carriages. whittier ladies tha,