New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-07-02

The railroad itself, hung along on hin sides across
sbysses through bushy gorges, is ten tine. q.
sublime as all the peculiar features that she b..
here TO show, hundred thousand times as useful
and infinitely more of triumph. And even after
the wilder portion of the line is trayersed and We
are brought out into the civilized country on the
Susquehannah and Chemung il is ine and lovely,
but not astonishing, and our enjoyment OF the fit
ting landscapes charms should not express itself in
too strong comparisons. Ii is by no means the
grandest or the most beautiful scenery Of the coun
Try or OF the world. Berkshire and the Connscucut
RIVER beat 1t hollow, and the Green Mountains
ana Lake Champlain will in a moment Danish It
rom your recollection. But these judicious re-
nectons once made, 1t is to be enjoyed, neverthe-
less, ana was enjoyed on we passed among its
beauties, that cool and dustless summer day. IN
I'll we reached Deposit and stopped for dinner
Ofthat dinner it were enough to say that il was
in every sense inhuman and execrable but duty to
the public compels the saying of something more.
In the first place it is no excuse for such an affair
that it takes place in wild and sparsely settled
country. 1t is nearer the truth to say it takes
place on a great and prosperous line Of railroad
connecting the East and the West and daily ira
veed by thousands of persons. The road itself
and all its appointments are admirable and per-
feet in whatever concerns the comfort OF the pas
senger and the speed and safety OF his transit.
They ought to be equally perfect in what con-
Germs his meals, taken while under the care ofthe
Company. The stations where these are served
should be spacious and elegant, the attendance
sufficient and proper, and the food abundant, suit
ably cooked and put upon the table with taste and
neatness. OF course nobody expects or desires
in the half hour spared for the purpose, to eat or
70 nav for such dinner as at the Astor House,
but all have right to expect, and the Company
ought TO that they are provided with, dinner
that is perfect in its own kind. But, instead Of this,
description fails to render the confusion, the
crowd the Dirt the vain shouts to GREATNESS and
aghasted walters, the greedy snatching aud the
hoggish devouring of that awful agglomeration Of
unpleasant food. Evidently the hosts meant that
all should be well, but for want Of knowledge, OF
skill and of sufficient accommodations all very
ILL., The meat, good enough originally hope, was
so bewildered in the cooking, so mangled up into
shapeless junks, and so bedeviled in the pitching
into dishes for the table, that one vainy essayed
| to get up courage to try piece. Some gentlemen
| aud ladies who sat next me- and who seemed to be
accustomed to this peculiar order of exercises and
| no way squeamish, were obliged to declare them
selves conquered and pay their three shillings for
that hch was not dinner. My mind instinc-
lively reverted to one day three or four years
since, when travelling from Paris TO Brussels on
great railway train, we stopped to dine at some
| French. town on the road. A great number ~
/ passengers were to be fed, but all was done de.
| Gently and in order. A hall attached to the mag
| nifcent station building received them ALL the ia
BILE stood ready, spread with perfect elegance, and
| by some means, all dined within the appointed
| time without noise confusion or complaint, pay
| ing fifty cents each. Now there would seem to
be no reason why equally good arrangements
should not be instituted on such thoroushfare as
] the Erie road. The matter is not q triding one,
| for it affects the comfort and content OF all the
through passengers. Besides there is an absurd
inconsistency after riding in such cars, over such
| a track, through such scenery, on delicious sum-
mer day, in being submitted to such disagreea-
| bic and brutal operation by way of dinner. More
| over they manage these things better in Michi-
| gan. At Marshall, on the Central railroad, they
| give five hundred passengers quite model dinner
in u model wsy. This is an example in point.
Punctual almost to a moment we arrived at
| Dunkirk before midnight, making the entire dis
| lance, 400 miles, in little more than IL hours,
including stops. In few moments we were on
| board the steamboat that lay in waiting and she
was out of the harbor with her head turned up the
| Lake.
The Railroad Company whose invitation had
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lessy following, have three splendid steamboats,,
| the Northern Indiana, and the Southern Michi-
gan and the Empire State to carry passengers and
freight between the terminus oftheir road at Mon
roe and the lower end of the Lake. In these
boats the Erie Railroad Company part owners
on the condition that they shall touch at Dun
kirk, both going down and coming up. The ex-
cursion party had gone up in the Northern Indiana
| at noon, to be at Monroe and pass over the rail-
| road the next morning, at least twelve hours be-
fore could count on being there.
| But on entering Cleveland Iiarbor next day, we
found the Northern Indiana lying there. Ii seems
| that at about o'clock at night she had down
| schooner and damaged her own bows so severely
as to compel her to put into Cleveland for re-
! pairs Eight persons were on board the schooner,
but though she sunk instantly, being cut in two
amdships, and though strong gale was blowing
at the time, no lives were lost. They had small
boat towing astem in which they saved them
selves till picked up by the steamer. The shock
of the collision not very great on the latter,
and though most of the party had gone to bed, it
was not case of screams and rushing out in
night.clothes and pale alright. The schooner's
people were taken on board and the Northern In.
diana proceeded on her way, till, presently, il was
discovered that she was leaking quite rapidly. For
a time it was thought doubtful whether she would
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