The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-08-24

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On Tuesday morning Isft.New York, BY the Eric
Railroad, fer Dunkirk. Crossing oyer 70 Jersey
City, We took the Paterson cars 10 Patersos, uars
we entered those OF the Erie Railroad. Those sars
are we'll constructed and spacious, handsomely
Gtted up and well filed by the pleasure seekers.
prefer the American cars to the boEed up cab
faSion Of Eogland and the European continent, and
their formal and sristocratic divisions into hrst
second, and third classes, and their disguskngly
nice range Of pricos for accommodation. and tho
various degrees Of civIity exhibited by the armies
Of porters they employ for opening and shutting the
doors. And can't help noticing that the faro
charged this beautiful railway ia loss than chat
Of tho third GLASS on the English railways, where
the passengers are conveyed simiiar to cattle and
luggage.
I was asked BY gentleman the reaeon why tho
fares on the American railways were lees than those
Of EDgland, where iron and lsbsr were much oheap-
or. The only reply could N axe was that like all
other institutions in England, railways were COZ
structed for the chief benefit OF favored fow,
rather than for the advantage Of tho masses. I'm
mense law and parliamentary s,penses, and heavy
compensation paid to aristocratc propriotors Of
land, who, before parliamentary railway commit
teo arc represented BY hosts Of counsel and attor.
Bcys. Again. cheap fares would hardly pay on the
English lines, for tho that only one Bsgish-
man travels on a railway in proportion TO Eve
Americans. Tho English mind is sottled, subdued
and contracted, and does not generally stretch
itself beyond the Locality of its own existence Be-
fore the opening the London Exhibition The great
English metropolis was scarcely known, except by
reputation, TO tho great Of the English people,
have travelled over all the principal railways in
England, and come On the continent, but was never
on one equal to the New York and Erie for magnif-
cence of scenery, comfort, and astonishing punctu-
ATTY. will not attempt to hazard description Of
the banks Of the Delaware, for believe it to DO be-
yond the power Of any pen, much less mine it
North, Scott for with all his destinations Of high
land scenery, the great unknown" has copjured
up nothing approaching it. Can Imagination ex-
coed it The aspects Of the material world are fer
in advance Of Qf may be allowed singular OK
pressi0n) terrestrial spirtualsm and which seeks to
comprehend them. The high rocky precipices, TO-
rest covered mountains stretching as far the eye
can reach, the deep and awful looking valleys, and
tie eddies and whirlpools sporting and "spittng in
heavens face" and the reflection that for thou
sands, and may be millions, Of years, its solitude
was unbroken by man, conspires to produce eff
feet on the mind which buries it in sublimty, gran
deur and solemnity.
The distance from Jersey City to Dunkirk, on
Lake Erie, is about $40 miles. took my seat in
the Paterson cars at quarter to seven A. NJ, and
arrived in Dunkirk 1t forty minutes after elevenP.
h.-punctual to minute of the specified time. We
made three soppages at the usual intervals and places
for luncheon, dinner and tea, for the dispatch Of
which We were allowed twenty minutes. Three
shllings the price charged for dinner, and two
and sixpence for tea. Whether the conductors of
these restaurants are advocates Of the Maine law,
don't know, but no other liquor than tea, coffee,
and lemonade, was to be obtained for any conside-
ration. However, no one found fault with this
After sound sleep at the Loder House, Dunkirk,
took the porning train to Buffalo, where arrived
just in time for the cars proceeding to the Falls.
The distance is twenty-five miles, and in about an
hour, We were within hearing Of those stupenduous
taracts. Having got out, was not long in reaching
the ferry, being oyertaken by sudden anxiety to
witness these phenomena Of tho worlds creation.
Paying tho extravagant fare Of one shilling and nine
pence for ferry and descentthe latter Of which put
entered the boat, together with some half dozen
other persons, and, alter obeying some peremptory
injunction, as to the manner in which we were to
take our seats, We pushed of from the shore, aud
here caught the FIRST glance Of the world-eno wned
"Fals Of Niagara / must confess that felt q
little disappointment as to tbey extent end height
for, as l had heard q good deal about them, ! had
raised my expectations to an imaginative height,
and fanced the would be tremendous ; but Il is
comparatively but little heard in the village al
though audible five miles distant But although
wasat first disappointed in comparison with my spe-
cultions, am not positively go. With the excep-
tion perhaps, Of one two Alpine SCENES the gran
deur, beauty and subimity Of the cataract and the
adjacent precipices, caverns and woods, combined
with the general effect of the immense spray number
less vhirlp0os and emerald green water, below the
white and foamrg cauldron, is unequalled. The
col0rs Of the rainbow were depicted on some Dor.
lions of the cataracts, and the small snow-white
spray nscends like smoke some hundred feet into the
air. and, being occasionally scattered by the wind,
falls and vets like rain was curious enough to
stand by the edge of the horseshoe cataract on the
Canada side, on the precipice, and, catching in my
hands some OF the descending water tasted it, and,
as may be expected found it warm and inspid.
/ am staying at the Clifton house, which has q
good share of yisiters, among whom are many Cana
dams and English. Society here is extremely dull,
and the guests make every exertion to get up some
kind of pastime or other.
think may say that / have mixed with society
of all classes in England from the scons of aristo
cratic houses down to those who to be found at
the foot Of Newgate, or Horsemonger lane, in Lon
don, certain occasions; and, therefore, taking
for myself little credit in the matter SHALL ia
my next letter, give my views upon the "compo-
stions which often to be met with in localities
Of this nature. 1t may be worth reading.
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