New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-05-19

The river here flows through the spacious and
finely foressed valley, with graceful reaches o.
ripping. CLASSY waters, under the trees thar grow
along the very margin. There are some few snan
ties here-a few houses; bat at Nine Mile creek
We cross into the Indian Reservations region
CT pure wilderness, on which there are l'o1u
Indians Of the Seneca tribe, among whom are
some Csyugn and OnondagI, who thought they
had secured 10 miles square Of territory, bat dis
covered upon arriving there that they had 40
square miles. A physician named Dolit.le, who
went among the Indians here, was Of so great
service to them that they persuaded him to remain
and he was always Afterward called "Dolisae
Good" The Indians a. this point call the Ale
gheny the Ohio.
With that pleasant fact making the whole
region, the neghborhood Of the Rocky mountains
we sped along by the Allegheny, while sena-
tor Douglas unfolded splendid plans OF Pacific
Railways by which within twelve years we
should ply from the Atlantic shore 30 San Fran
cisco upon the Pacific in five days-and all this
be would build by the same means that the
great Chicago road was building, after lying NOR
ibund for several years. Proposals so large sta
ted with the arithmetical precision of msshe
matician and Statesman instead of being the excl
ted dreams of a poet were the proper subjects
for the incredible speed at which we went,-some-
times at the rate of forsy.ive miles an hour. 1t
was entirely impossible and mai apropos to speak
Of any railroad under eight hundred miles In
length or of any company except that Of Presi
dents, Senators and Governors. But il was curl
ous to see in Senator Douglas the genuine Ameri-
can statesman. We Eastern men are ell more or
less mongrel We have an English education
and French manners. Our models and types are
usually from the other side OF the sea. 1t is i'm.
possible not to remark that Webster remembers
Burke and Pitt, aud has moulded himself upon
them, unwilling to allow speech to be angar.
nished with poetical quotstions-even Latin and
Greek-msinly, we fancy, because the model
speeches have such ornaments. But the Western
man is az original as the Indian He is especial
ly American and Senator of great ability and
fame sets curled up on a seat, smoking his friend
ly cigar, chatting with every one about every.
thing-havng no separate atmosphere Of dignity
and wishing to be among the frat, intellectually
by no other right than he would claim the place,
physcally-tha 10, by actual superiority. As q
gentleman very happily said, Nj Douglas has
plenty Of loose change, Mr. Webster has nothing
but ESQ notes.
In the Indian Reservation we came suddenly,
in one of the broadcast and most Characteristic
points of the valley upon several groups OF Indians
clustered together, wrapped in their brilliant ma
tive costume, red and yellow blankets and elabo-
rate mocasins and large, lustrous metal orns-
ments. One particular group stood little back
upon wood pile and close to the shore Of the
river, a sumptuous strain of savagery among the
natural and artistic splendors Of this great way.
These were genuine Indians, the women with
shining, but soft black eyes and straight black
hair, one with papoose stretched upon board
and bound to her back. The men were still and
stern. They stood entirely impossible. There
was something almost defiant in the rigid erect
ness and solemnity of their MEN, bat the women
looked with passioness curiosity upon the eager,
sharp featured, brow wrinkled, palefsces that
dashed with such shrin shrieks and deafening
rattle through the aboriginal and majestic soil
tudes of these mountain vallies.
An Indian warrior of unusual cultivation and
intelligence requested to see General Jackson,
and did not seem readily to comprehend why his
request was not complied With. But DR.. Wilson,
the Indian agent and himself an Indian, was here
taken up on the train, and We left the beautiful,
and picturesque groups upon the banks of the Al.
legheny-by far the most striking form of lifs that
the course Of the road presents-and bowled on
ward into Chausauque county, in which the first
white child was born in 1909. Ii is in the ex-
treme south. western corner OF the ate, and has
been more like part of a Western than of middle
State as its trade has hitherto alSays passed
down the Allegheny and the Ohio. TIE Erie
Railroad, as Governor Seward sad, "annexes
Chautsuque to the State" /. has now popula
Ton OF $4,000, bu: the country seems often like
the Western wilderness.
At Dayton, near the line of Chautauque in Cat
taraugus County, melancholy accident occurred
Three men had charge Of 4 gun, with orders to
fire when they first heard the train and again
when they frat saw It. Ii had been heard and
the gun had been once fred and two men stood
swabbing out and were hurrying to load, while
the third stood with the match, intensely excited
and solely intent upon the train which he had
never seen. The moment !tappeared he touched
the cannon with his match, while the other men
were directly in front Of it, and blew off their
arms and broke their legs. They were, however
living when we returned the next morning.
Leaving the Allegheny valley, we ran along the
mountain side, looking downward hundreds of feet
over the tree tops, into wild valley The scenery
here is grand and imposing in the highest degree.
It is, however, merely the combination OF steep
mountain sides, shaggy with forests, with the
level, open reach beneath, covered With burnt
stumPs, yet smoking, and wrapping the b,ses OF
the hills in azure fleece.
But as we hurry along through this primevs
forest, we reach az open space, 20 miles from
Lake Erie, where the train stops and a thousand
ezea nok from the receding aIona Of the mountain