The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1853-07-14
Correspondence Of the Journal.
MONTREAL, L. c., July Sd 1853.
To The EDiroR: 44-sltl i

srs On thursday last we AZ
rived at the noted Falls Of Niagara, at 81
o'clock; twenty seven hours from Cincinnati,
distance, 480 miles, fare nine dollars and fifty
cents. Many Passengers who came up in
the tram from Cincinnati, continued their
Railroad seat to Buffalo, while far greater
numoer' preferred the Like route. The
Steamer vas IN waiting; upon the arrival of
the cars passengers and baggage were soon
hurried on board, and at 8 O'clock, we were
coursing down the smooth waters Of Lake
Erie at twenty knots the hour. No accident
and the passage delightful. Alta O'Clock p.
d. we embarked at Lewistown in the straits
Of Niagara. on board the American Express
Steamer, Nsw York, Captain Chapman, and
running down five or six miles of the narrow
stream which divides the British from the
American territory, we entered Lake Onta-
rio. On the right hand OF our track we had
Fort Niagara with the American Flag Ayinp.
and on the left hand Fort George, and Fort
Missassauga, or the Rattlesnake in the Brit.
ish town of Niagara. These Forts were the
scenes of terrible and bloody achievements
during the war of 1912 and for many years
antcedent. Fort Niagara was long crime
mense strength, and covered all area of eight
acres in space; it was spot wo: thy to be call
ed by the expressive name originally be-
slowed on Kentucky-"the dark and bloody
ground" During the American Revolution,
all kinds of atros ites were perpetrated here
by an abandoned set OF miscreants, Who lived
by plumber and murder on this then remote
frontier.
Here it is said by an American writer, ciri-
lized Europe reveled with savage armies;
4 4. -. - .occ
led in the society of those whose only dis
tnction wos to WELD the bloody tomahawk
and scaIping knife. There in their strong
holds, like a nest of Vultures, they dwelt Sc
cureIy for seven years, sallying forth from
time to time, and praying upon the distant
settlements of the Mohawks and Susquehan
mas. 1t was at this same Fort, that a few
ysars since, a person named William Morgan
(who had disclosed all he knew of Free Ma
sonry, was kidnapped from the Jail of Can
andagua where he was confined for debit and
locked up in the Powder Magazine, kept there
three or four days without discovery or detec-
ton, and never heard of more. so 1fAI +
Our passage across Lake Ontario was most
agreeable. The weather was very fine, the
water smooth, the society intelligent; and
every thing connected 18th the management
Of the Steam boat admirably conducted. In
passing down the Lake we coasted along the
Southern shore, at a distance of from three to
FIVE miles from the land, touching at only two
points, Cape st. Vincent, opposite to Kings
ton, and 2l0 miles from Lewiston, and an.
other small village, the name of which, l do
not rccollect. The whole coast, though not
sufficiently broken and noun ainous to be
picturesque, was nevertheless often beautiful
and always pleasing. Wood is every where
abundant, and on the interior hills the pri-
mitive forest seems never to have been dis
turbed; but on the sloping land near the
shore, the cleared patches and little fields arc
frequent, many of these beautifully green, as
if laid out in grass, others of light yellow,
with waving fields Of wheat ready for the
harvest; while scattered over the surface, and
peepng through the woods, many substantial
and comfortable residences diversity and en-
liven The scene.
For the distance o. forty miles toward the
eastern termination of the Lake the "Thous-
and Isles" stretch themselves along the CEN
ter OF the st. Lawrence; and here we had al
abundant exercise for all our faculties. The
main stream of the st. Lawrence, as it flows
from the western termination Of Lake Onta-
rio 10 about twelve miles wide, but it is so
thickly studded with Islands, that it is like
passing thru vast Archipelago rather than
navigating a river. Though this extensive
range bears the name of "The Thousand
IsIes," it is said that there is more than 1900
OF them, which can readily believe. These
Isles are for the most part rocky, some times
rising in abrupt cliffs from the water, and so
bold and sleep that you may run the boat near
enough to almost touch the cliffs from the
vessel. The water oil the st. Lawrence is of
a light greene t.ige, and beautifully clear,
and from its majestic breadth, its rich and
varied scenery, aid the settled population
seen along its banks. the St. Lawrence has a
grandeur, as well US variety Of beauty
about it, which no other river that | ave
seen: can equal.
! At Ogdensburgh the traveller has the
choice ut two routs; one by Railroad to
Rouse's Point on Lake Champlain, distance
llS miles, thence to Vermont, Boston, and
New York, the other leads down the st. Law
renee to Montreal which is lao miles.
chose the latter; at Ogdecsburgh was part
ed from our friend X. and his new wife, who
pursued their way to New En- gland via Bur-
| iington; myselftook the fine Steamer british
Empire" Capt. Allen; and gliding into the
rapid current like an arrow, soon left Ogdens-
burgh in trice. Opposite to Ogdcnsburgh
is Prescott, where the insurgents were defeat.
ed in 1896. And now We come to the L0ngm
Sauh one Of the many turbulent rapids Of the
st. Lawrence, The most intense excitement
prevailed among the passengers as the strand
tossing and careering, hundred her swift way
among the rocks and whirlpools of the dam
perous pass; soon however We entered the
Lake st. Francis, an expansion of the ST.
Lawrence, through some fine scenery, with
number OF large and small isla nds scattered
over the stream; and after short trip OF 40
miles with the British shore now on both
sides, we come upon the rapids called the To-