New-York daily tribune., 1851-08-30

noticed s.seTal very handsome houses, sut 81
churches atcu, ha'f dozen. manly of lie
trehuul orcel Of architecture. The saraaac
here falls some ior,y feet aforlirg arlnlln;
wa'er-gower. tut there is htle occa>,e1 - l>e
1t, ard ne few manufacturing est.t snmen's Go
nothing TO what they have ,hc mems O.. d'.a--
Halt mi,e south Of ,hc village IS handsome
banacA oi stone, wl,h ine star, and stripes loa.-
irc over J.. ard presume company or -. oi
lazy soldiers within what IS he u.e o' 4 ulI.
tary force here can't imagine On The S0u.hrrn
and estern frontiers. where there ale Indians ;o
he kep, N orcer, ,hey can ~ employed 20 adyan-
,ase, but why keep troops percheG on the saore
of this peaceful lake, wsere from one years end
to tie other. there Is not 4 call Tor ;her yalor -
Let the barracks be sold or let out 70 good ten-
ants. who VIII keep them N order and derive
some beneh; from their occupation. and send
away ,her brave defenders where they are want
cd, whether to South Carolina or agalns' the
gathered chiyalv OF the Apaches and Camanches.
The bay at whose head Patisbureh stands, Is
formed bya long tongue of land stretching around
southwark, called Cumberland Head On II Is a
lighthouse and the farm. which the Legislature
OF Vermont, q owe this fact 20 the culle.to0A.
"A great blessing % perlpateiic letter-wu,erl
gave 10 Macdonough the gallant Commodore
who, On the llth Of September. lSl4, hogged
the British fotllla. under Commodore Douae.
while the gallant Macomb gave the rest OF the
Brtlshers. under Gen. Provost, a cotemporane.
ous thrashing on the land | suppose Com.
Macdnough lived here IN fall view OF the scene
a. his exploits and the farm Is still one of the
neatesi have seen since leaving the Hudson.
But this sunny morning, as We sailed, It was al
most rs possible 70 believe that lovely bay had
ever been smoked and bloodied VITA warfare. as
1t was 70 reeardthree or four oily looking Eng
lshmen amJ The passengers. as our heredIta-
rs toes. Nature wipes the recollection OF enml-
" from the mind as she does the recollection
OF pain from the body. For one individual 70
bear malice against another Is mos, brutal and
degraded-propcr only to brutal and degraded
times but tor nations II Is absurd, and next to
inconceivable Between neighbors and relatives
BIKE the English IN Canada and the Yankees
across the line, It Is still more InconceUaoe. and
am glad to say find not trace OF II Wehaye
forgot that We were ever pItted IN deadly strife,
and God forbid we should remember It
Rounding Cumberland Head We came upon
South Hero, an island belonging to Vermont,
and big enough to make a township Of lts coun-
terpart is North Hero. which Is also a township,
though of much inferior oigness. South Hero
5 contined with the main shore by bridge two
miles leng North Hero boasts no such adyan-
tagc. Why these islands rejoice in names OF
such oplc meaning the gulde-book does not
communicate, but 50 much freer the field for
our surmlses At any rate, | doubt not thai he
foic hearts now beat IN the bosomS of their stur-
DIV sons, such as IN trial would do no dscredlt to
the Vermont fame and lineage. After the Heros
is Isle La Motto, likewise a township OF the
Mountain State, with It's Gallic appelaton,
pleasantly suggesting the fusion (not c0ntuSIon)
OF races and tongues 10 which, IN these cosmo-
polltan days, the world seems to be tending On
the New-Iork shore the farming, which, up to
plattsbuTg, was always poor, and sometimes
along the rocky hIll.sldes n0thlng at all, I'M
proves and becomes abou, as good as that OF the
Nermonters opposite Sull cannot say that 1t
is IN the highest style Of the arr Oh either side
The soil IS toerabe-on South Hero It is SAID
to be excel.en, but there Is nothing to induce
he best cultivation When the minerals and
watef-power which abound on both sides OF the
Lake come 20 be put 20 use, giving employment
t. hundreds of thousands Of artisans scattered
Throughout the entire region, the traveller viii see
agriculture Of A different and more productive
kind
Twenty five miles from plattshurgh the steam
er stops at Rouse's Point, where an immense
hotel and raIlroad-buildlngs show that great
deal ot business IS 20 be done The driving Of
pies for tie ral.roaG.track over the lake Is nearly
flushed, and the movable bridge which IS to
carry the trans acrcss the gap leit open for the
passage Of vessels, Will soon take lis place
With this the communication from Boston to
Ocdensburgh VIII be complete, and the New
England metropolis Will have another avenue OF
trade with the West, and with Canada, OF whose
commerce New-l0rk once had monopoly The
DOWN trade upon the lake must be seriously dl.
mlnshed 10y this and other new channels OF trai-
tic Whatever II may be IN reality, am aston
lshed a, Is apparent smallness yesterday and
today, OF the whole hundred and sixty vessels
from Whitehall. have counted only three or
four propellers and hafadozen sloops and barges
gong down or coming up
The frontier j. lust north OF Rouses Point
landing and close upon the line We Yankees are
building blg fort, at the cost OF | know not how
many ,housaods or millions OF money As We
PASSED. some hall dozen men were at work upon
IT, hitting huge stones TO Their places IN the walls
| looked carefully on the Canadian side but could
discover 10 signs OF an opposing iortlfcaton, and
vet according to the system, there ought TO be
one ready TO bang away al Us when We bang
away al them confess my inability 10 see INTO
the wisdom Of these expensive frontier defenses
standing army seems about rational an III
sttuuon as standing forts, and when one was
dispensed with the other ought 70 have been. A