The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-08-04

The unwonted bustle and confusAn which for the
last TOW days, completely interrupted the serenity Of
this fashionable ssjourn, has again departed, and
permitted peace and quietaess to rctarn to her fa
yosits abeds. The QIsp trap orators, noisy poti.
cians, gaping sight-seers, embroidered soldiers,
bncklegs and pickpockets, and Indians and drunk-
ards, who frightened the quiet summer visitauts,
have all evacuated the place. and left it again to
respectable and fashionable people. The crowds
with which the Lundy's Lane celebration overrun
this village, seemed not unlike . horde Of soldery
descending some quiet mountain hamlet, where
man Of war had never been seen before, and quar-
tcring themselves on the converts and monasteries
with this exception, that here they willing to
pay for what accommodation they could get-and
well they had to pay for everything The bar
rooms must have made, in tho four days,
(Sunday and Wednesday incusive,) more than,
on ordinary occasions they would do for
the whole season. Charging double price
for everything, and even then the supply not
being equal to the demand. The boarders ut the
International, Cataract and Falls hotels must have
'rejoiced with exceeding great joy at the de-
parture Of the Goths and Vandals who came ruth
!essy to disturb their classic equanimity. crowd up
their bedrooms, and deyour everything at table.
Those at the Clifton do not feel the change much,
as they were not much affected by the incursion.
put up at the latter house, but felt rather incom.
forts of that establishment, but that could not
the river after ten in the evening" on account
Of the miserable, contemplate policy pursued by
the propretors Of the ferry. But Of this, in
my next letter.
Lundys Lane, the great battle from which Scott
has got one of his MONS dc plume II visited the
scene to day. Nothing is there to mark the oc-
| currence of such great fact in American his
tory. ono column trophied for triumphal show"
| A pretty considerable age--Drummondville--
is situated adjacent to, AID partly on. the field.
That plain looking school house, with the little
children playing in 'front.' and its equally unpretend-
ing neghbor the Methodist chapel, and that little
graveyard, overgrown with long grass, and utterly
negected-looking, they stand on the very spot
where the daring Colonel Miller attacked and cap
tured the English artillery And there, just across
where the road now runs and within that thicket, the
enemy, after desperate fight, retired, leaving our
troops masters of the field, with the loss in killed
and wounded nearly equal-between seven and eight
hundred men each-with the odds in our favor of
the nine guns which the Americans were obliged to
leave behind them, and General Riell, twenty Off
GERS, and two hundred men prisoners. And in that
little graveyard just spoken of, were buried peace
fully in death, officers who had fallen in the mortal
STRIFE and by the roadside under those large trees
were piled together the dead rank and file OF either
army, and with layers Of wood funeral pyre was
built, and the bodies Of all burnt together. And
years afterwards, an old British sergeant used to
point out the spot and show under the grass the
remnants Of the charcoal srewn about. The sergeant
has Joined his old comrades The dust and sand from
the road have obliterated all trace of the charcoal
and the village children play around, unconscious
that the scene of their infantile mirth has BEEN
years ago, the scene of human holocausts, offered
upon the shrine Of the demon of war.
And this was tho battle which the whg party of
the country had resolved to celebrate in honor of
| General Scott, who bore distinguished part in it,
But the rene had to be laid in another territory,
and among people differing in political sentiments
and government from that which occupies the neigh
| boyhood of the field Of Lundys Lane. The spot
| chosen was grove, on the American side, in the
immediate vicinity of the village and falls. Two
platforms erected for the speakers and various
stands and tents occupied the ground for the sale of
ice creams, gingerbread, lemonade, rum, and such
refreshments and for the exhibition Of all the other
great travelling curosites-fat oxen, sea dog, Anne
ricsn giantess, Sc : which the occasion held
out inducements to Strange place to congregate a
mass OF people in, thought |, when as early Sun
day afternoon ! could not get q bed in any Of the
three principal hotels. And at that time not one
ffth OF the crowd had collected. But, said one of
tie committee of arrangements, We have procured
ales mammoth tent, which will accommodate
nearly ten thousand persons And the tent was
ptclitG q, but the committee elected 10 furnish
straw or hay, and after the first night the chairman
wrote to the proprietor that they did require it
any longs', aud would pay him for one day.
THIS was the say the committee OF man y, ment mis-
managed. and gave over the thousands who had
come ON their representation, TO be preyed upon by
all tlo notoiious baclleGs and pchpockets that the
principal cities Of the Union could furnish.
IN point u numbers, in point Of speaking and in
point OF enthusiasm, the Lundy's Lane celebration
wasa notable failure Don't believe these hyperbo-
SITS who affirm there were $4,000 persons present.
During the whole time the number Of arrivals did
not reach than one-third Of that figure, and
half of them mi ht safely be set down coming
from motives OF curiosity, induced by the reduction
IL the cost OF travelling. OF the speakers annoum-
ced ny the committee, in their programme, but one
-boyernor Jones made his appearance on the
stand, ana the only other speakers Of ability or
uote. during the two days, Governor Hunt,
Mr. PAWS of Indiana. and Judge Johnston of Ohio.
They were listened to sometimes with stolid indf
ference, and sometimes were applauded with the
mere ghosts Of cheers
Tins was the character Of both days proceedings,
If do not except the evening convention of Tues
day. which certainly did present objects of interest
lou entered the crowd through labyrinth of stands
and tents where rum and politics were di scussed,
and ice cream put in requisition to cool the
threat Of burning eloquence. Further in the grove
you passed large camp fires with some drunken
loaiers lying about, and, then you came to
hollow. around the sides Of which were
seated ~ semi circle some three thousand people,
mostly in couples OF boys and girls, clasping each
other very lovingly, at the same time that they
seemed to be paying attention 70 the eloquent speech
Of Governor Jones. Fancy two lantens
hung up here and there, and the moon shedding her
silver ght down through the openings Of the trees
then clap in hundred Indian girls with bloomer
hats, scattered in groups, and you will have con-
ccived something Ike the picturesque scene Of Tues
day evening.
About the termination Of the proceedings on
Wednesday afternoon, the want of orators during
the day had reduced the attendance to one or two
hundred. few countrymen still kept gazing at
the puffy little man who addre ssing them: one
else was attending 70 him. We then noticed com.
zeal looking old man walking up and down in an i.
excited and apparently insane manner, with his
hand to his hat, somewhat in the style OF mil
itary salute. His manner amused the boys and
girls more than anything the orator could say or do
Presently the old man made his appearance on the
PLATFORM and as the benches were empty,
we beckoned him to a seat. We then found
h wanted to make speech. or read a let.
ter which be held in his hand, addressed
70 brother Horace Greeley. The Chairman declared
him out Of order and would not suffer him to pro-
ceed so, as he said his communication very i'm
portant, be gave it to me to publish. After the
convention Was declared terminated he got up and
addressing the people, said, Ladies and gentlemen:
you all want to know who am Wen thcn, per.
haps you have all read of the villanous old King
Amlnon, whose deeds arc recorded in the scriptures