Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1853-09-29
Notes by tho way, by our Reporter.


about O'Clock P. NJ. OF Thursday, and got TO Lew.
istown about four making the passage of forty miles
IN little less than two hours. The boat, Peerless"
In which sailed, is built of iron, and is model Of
beauty She was got up in Scotland and sent out
this Summer, for the Lake trade. As We approach
ep the shore, Fort Niagara, with its smooth, grassy
facades, its embstIed walls. and Of strength,
made conspicuous figure in the landscape. Ii lay
to our left, as entered Niagara river, and con.
fronted a struggling town the British side, mi.
agara,) which had wooden pier, an old frame
custom house, several new frame buildings, like
store houses, and a mean, dirty barracks. We
landed three men, dressed in COARSE dirty green, at
Niagara, who were Royal Canadian Rifemen, and,
OF coarse, pillars Of Queen Vicioria's throne Their
faces were very red, and very unntellecual. There
was not the fan,est expression of will m their coun-
tenances. They seemed mere machines for murder
--iutomatonS, ont of whose souls, all impulses of
feeling and sense had been drilled, and superseded
by the principle of obedience. One needs only to
see the faces of the mercenary soldiers of kings &c.
to understand the means by which nations are re.
tanned in political bondage.
We wnded, for miles, between the steep
and wooded banks of the Niagara, until we got to
Lewistown, immediately opposite Queenstown on
whose heights two kindred nations joined in 6gbt,'
and on the summit of which, the British erected
monument tc Brock. Lewistown and Queenstown
are two very Insignificant villages perched on the
American and British borders of the river They
look like rival towns watching each Others move.
ments,with jealous eagerness they are really the two
entrepots OF the ferry, over which John and Jona-
than transport their several articles of trade
Queenstown heights presented fair sight, clothed
in green, and dotted with handsome trees farer /
trOw, than they did that morning, when the Amer.
can forces crossed over, and dotted them with dead
men, dressed in red and giey. Brooks monument
has been removed, in order that a new one may be
erected in its stead think the hilltop looks much
handsomer without The stone memorial Of battle and
bloodshed that long defaced it,and Britain might
find better employment for her money, than keeping
alive the memory Of bitter, and foolish quarrels.
We climbed from the river to the eminence, on
which Lewistown stands, and took the stage, for
seven miles drive, to Niagara Falls. Four or FIVE
vehicles, called the sBufaIo ne'' of stages, we're
drawn up to receive l took the foremost and
congratulated myself in the prospect Of leading the
van into Niagara Falls village, but who can tell
what misiortunes lie hidden in rotten traces? Our
"Jehu" had no administered his " hip to the
lean cattle before him, and they had no sooner be.
gan 10 pull, than away went our traces, leaving us
sticking in the mud, and away went the other old
stages leaving us far behind. Patience and money
are the two essentials Of good traveller. Money
is power, aad patience is sound sleep and good di.
gestion. With money, the tourist commands the
faculties of others; with patience he keeps command
Of his own. Several of my fellow travellers thrust
their heads out Of The stage windows, to the mani
fest injury of their hats, and jeslicuaed and vocif.
Grated like madmen TO the driver, who was rushing
rantically round mis- team and swearing most Wig
orously at rotten leather. At last, another trace
was found, aud substituted for The broken one, and
away we Went The country round Lewislown is
great alluval basin, which has evidently been Sub
merged in water, at some period, but which is now
under high state Of cultivation. This plateau, or
basin, is surrounded by richly wooded heie hts which
swell up TO the level of Niagara, and terminate
where the general grade Of the land begins. II was
glorious sight, TO look from our old stage, AZ il
climbed the hillside, down upon the richly wooded
valley, studded with white farm houses and laid out
into fields, interlaced with zig gag fences. After
oling rutted roads till my teeth almost became
loose, and after passing through several villages
composed Of railroad aborer0' shanties, l caught
glimpse OF the falls. No lhunders gave evidence Of
this grandest OF NATURES Wonderland trembling Of
the ground announced onr approach to one of the
most awful Of the worlds phenomena spray Of
he -, IL:
ipce, and hung like veil upon it, and up between
the tree clad banks Of the river, a large mass Of
white water presented itself. And this is the Falls
Of Niagara, exclaimed. ! was sadly disappointed,
and begun to moralze upon the unreaity Of things,
when turning Of the road and jolt of the carriage
made my body ache with the reality Of bad roads in
Western New York.
Niagara Falls is handsome village, that seems
destined soon TO grow into city. A company Of
rich Boslonians are cutting a canal, into which the
waters Of the Niagara arc 10 be diverted and har.
messed TO mill wheels, &c. This artificial river
begins near the junction Of the Erie Canal with the
Niagara, and is to fall into it again about mile be-
low the falls Our unitarian Yankees will no longer
have cause TO fret the waste OF water power over
which sentimental tourists 60 into raptures, and
moonsIruck poeasters make sonnets. The upper
suspension bridge is being superseded by railroad
track, and will be removed this fall. The piers o.
the railroad are built, and have solid, subsian,a
look about them, they rise above the less preten.
tious vIaduct below.
delayed going to the ialls until the moon was up
which, luckily for me, was foil. | cannot describe
the sensations produced by my intimate visit 10
them. The first cursory glance obtained Of them
excited a smile; the closer drew to them and the
longer gazed upon them, made me leel more and
their awful majesty. The clear pale moon was
looking at them she looked thousands Of years
ago. The rapids leapi along towards the darksome
chasm like an army Of charging knights IN full ca
reer On they came, roaring, and plungng, and
shaking their silyery pIumes, until they dashed,
amidst spray and thunder, oyer the precipce into
the gulf below. crossed the wooden bridge which
ioine Bath Island with the main land the mad ran.