The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1851-09-08
Correspondence of the Dispatch.
A Half Hour with Old Friends.
ADRIAN, Mich, Aug. 81. 1851.

Iacl; lney can leave on one Oi our packets on
"a Monday rnornlng--arrive in Cincinnati in
time TO take the morning train Of cars for
Cleveland and from there take The Tuesday
evening packet for Buffalo; there jump on
board the morning cars or steamboat and ar
rive a the Falls by 10 o'clock, making the
trip in lorty-six hours--at cost OF $l2,50
for passage money and what you choose to
give the porters forservices and your dinner
lat Columbus or wherever you choose TO eat.
The best st,accommodaiions can be had al the
Falls for 81 prrday--so that the trip can be
made in less ihana week and at small cost
and three days very agreeably spent, where
you will sea the fmost wonderful and PERI
haps the most beautiful and romantic spot
on earth. How it is that more of our citi.
zpns who are Bile, do not embrace the priv
ilege and enjoy the luxury, is more than |
can tell. have known persons to pass thro'
Buffalo without going to see the Falls. when
they could have done SO for 81 so. We are
TO conclude, Isuppose thgt this is all a mat.
ter Of taste. Well, SO il is. and they are
doubtless ali very sentimental in their way.
They must possess sentiments something
like the live Yankee met there the other
day. He came walking out on that portion
of table rock yet remaining. where l was
standing, and after asking me if was not
afraid the rock would slip 10, seeing that it
was cracked in the same way as all the
guides said ihe other part was, for number
Of years bebrp i gave way. After having
answered il the negative, he looked on for
some moments in breathless silence. stood
still, waiting with patience to hear some
startling exc damalion Of wonder and surprise,
as tits customary with large majority, up,
on first viewing this wonder of wonders
Sure enough was not disappointed, for af-
ter standing a few seconds he exclaimed
" Well. 7 g,lly, | kinder hate to sec all that
great sheet f acater going to waste, don't you?
BY Judy. itwould turn all the machinery in
Connecticut and Massachusetts," Every
thing that makes an impression on The souls
Of such sodess people must glitter through
the sordid dust ofthe Almighty Dollar.
Nothing occurred going down the River
from our pace TO Cincinnati, worthy OF note
except that after the passengers bad retired,
some drunken, disappearing wletches, kept
up such noise playing cards, that no per-
son could sleep near them. ] roomed with
| Mr.. Cole. late Of Buckhorn Furnace in our
county, but now, believe, of the Star Fur
mace, in Kentucky. The plan he suggested
to stop the noise was good one, but per-
haps had better not mention it here. Hs
thought as did, that friend Hurd was either
at the WHEEL or so sound asleep that thunder
would not arouse him. or the disturbance
would hive been stopped. for it was after
10 o'clock, when all games where at all al
lowed should cease by universal rule. | Of
ten wonder how it is that such confolnded
drunken whelps, trifling vagabonds are per-
mitttd TO annoy everybody, without being
in the least checked, more especially when
all the substantial support and patronage Of
boa Is and everything else, by way Of ma
king an honest living, depend upon the sup
port of sober, industrious and honorable men.
The only excuse | ever heard offered for it,
on any Of The many boats have been on,
was 50 we don't won't TO raise fuss. p
Very cool, truly, and consoliGg to passengers.
Every body must submit and be content TO
hear fuss TO which the one raised in 81
lencing ii would be perfect calm, merely
because the officers OF boats don't want 10
comply with their own rules, and the rules
of all boats and at least to require these
privileged gentry to comply with The rules
OF oroprieiy and decency; but what does a
drunken man know about deceney? you may
ask, and well you may. Otcourse he knows
nothing, and The only way TO prevent the
re- petition Of such things is for every man
to speak out against them, and when men
, get drunk and uncomfortable on the boat,
let the officers that permitted them 20 be
made drunk, put them 10 the hold, or some
other place Of safe keeping.
We had on the cars going to Cleveland two
messengers, who called forth by their extreme
efforts some atteniion--one was a Kentuckian
| who declared war upon everything Ohian, from
her Senators down to her Railroads, because
they were, as he alledged, too 'freesolisb!' He
was one of the old, rotten, conservative stock o.
ancient federalism and modern whiggery COM
bined, opposed to all reforms or innovations upon
: the usages and ways of his fathers, He alledged
as the cause OF Powell's election, that the peo-
ple were disguised with the new constitution,
that the election of all officers by the people,
was absurd, and therefore the people stayed al
home, and the Locos went to. the polls and
: elected Powell Good heaven grant, that
sucb people may always stav away from the polls
every place, ana that Old Kentucky may forev-
er hereafter. continue 10 have as good and able
, Democratic Governor as Col. POWELL. This
fellow was good, faithful and life-like repre-
sentaton of the southern arlstocracy-- who
did not believe in the 'poetcsl," Gas he term
S ed it) doctrine Of Jefferson "That allmen are
II born free and equal" or that man was capable
of self lG-government-- a man from every pore in
: whose physiognomy peeped forth viceygluttony
I. and liceniiouSness, the very compounds that &c
to make IN nine -tenths Of all men, who live
upon the unrequttej toll and sweat Of Others
. and play the petty tyrant with the poor and un.
|. proiected who happen to be within their power
: They are men who have no feeling for SUFFERING
bumanity--no sympathy for the oppressed ant
down troddenof earth--no KIND word toi The
sorrowing, Except they be in heather lands,l
They are the kin of men who preach Liberty
eloouently for themselves and shout Justify II
I favor of slavery for others (that is, at home
: here) but for those abroad. they preach hbert,
a and send IL 10 them. II requires no grea
stretch Of the mind to come to the conclusion
FIAT all such christian professions are hsartles
and false, that they nre alibeluponheayen ans
disgrace 10 the moral character Of the people
7 of earth, 10, consistency, thou art a jewel,
.I,ll take 50 and so for myself and servant HI
! would erowl ont when lie purchased anything
/; ,how much is it"--and when answered woull
say "cheap enough. everything was cneal
! enough with him. The passengersi in the car
d had but little to say 10 him--I did not speak
> word to him although ! set Immediately behin'