Demoine courier., 1854-10-05

SANDWICH, New Hampshire. ?

health, AID the fatigue of a long journey,
and having a lite leisure, | am remind.
ed of a partial promise TO write few
lines for The Courier. We EFF Ottum
wa, as you are aware, On the s,h of
August. while preparations were being
made TO hang our bell, barely escaping
the compliment Of being rang on. of
town, which was designed by scme of
our friends. After hot and tedious ride
in Iowa. we arrived in Davenport in
time to take the morning train of cars
Tor Chicago on the 23d. In abou, nine
hours we reached Chicago, the distance
of abou. $50 miles, in time for an early
supper. In regard to supper and other
creature comforts, if one is not satisfied
at the Sherman House, which i, but one
of many in the city, he had better con-
clude tina, he is an invalid and needs
more pure air than he can obtain here.
Fresh air did hot abound when we were
there, but if there was anything else not
TO be obtained in Chicago we did not
happen to fee, the need of it. es
About half pas. Il o'clock, on the
Gath, we found ourselves rushing on to-
wards Detroit, over the Central Mich
gnn Railroad, at the rate of about %
miles an hour. Passing around the
poin. Of the Lake and whirlng away in
a north. easterly direction we coon found
as much cool air as was agreeable, 10 say
nothing Of smoke aud cinders from the
engine-no, SO agreeable. Abou, TWEEN
ty-eigh' hours by railroad, and by steam
boat over Lake Erie brought US to Buf.
falo, distance OF more than 600 miles.
Saturday and Sunday, the 26ih and eth,
with a portion of Friday and Monday,
were spent at Niagara Falls and Lewis.
ton, at the head of Lake Ontario, about
seven miles below The Falls, not a bad
place for one who would like to spend a
a few days in one Of the most 70.
mantle regions on the American CONT
nent. few miles below the Falls is a
place called Devils Hole, where eighty
British soldiers, with their horses, bag.
gage and munitions Of war, were driven
by the French and Indians over preci.
pice, falling about $50 feet on tree tops
AMI ragged rocks below. where it is not
necessary for an enemy to fall but once.
But tie cataract! Who shall describe
il! An immense body of water from all
. The great Lakes above Ontario, plunging
over precipice of $50 feet or more, in
perpendicular height; raging, dashng,
boiling and foaming, till one is dazzled
with the sight and stunned with the
, sound. You may stand and gaze till
you are bewildered with sense of lis
yastness and grandeur. and voice seems
TO say, "Be still and know that / am
God"
As you turn to leave. boy steps qui
city forward and hands YOU a prism,
which has the power OF magnify ing and
slightly coloring. You look through
this, and Of all that is beautiful, grand, or
sublime, the view is probably before any
thing that you will ever again see on
earth. The boy charges y on nothing Tor
the sight, bu, he who can fail to give him
a piece of money, il he has il, has no
| right 10 be there.
Abou, mile below the Falls is the
Suspension Bridge. being, as am in.
formed, about $50 feet above the water.
About twenty feet directly above This, a
rail road bridge is TO be suspended from
the same towers. On this work they are
now vigorously engaged. Should the
cars ever run off the track here, 10 fee,
above the stream, which dashes and
foams along below, to use the expressive
language OF the toll ga,herer, '.!hey would
not be worth looking for
About six miles lower down the stream,
near Lewiston, is another suspension
bridge, only "A feet above the stream,
about loco feet long and 20 wide. The
wire ropes which support il, sweeping
downwards mewhai, as they naturally
hang, measure l245 fee, from tower to
tower on each side, from which they are
suspended. The cos, of the bridge was
about 100000. The toll-gatherer says
it don't near pay, and tina. the upper or
Niagara bridge would never pay were i,
no, for those who cross as visitors 10 the
Falls.
\ Lewiston itself furnishes fine lesson
for those who would be monopolis.s and
spectators. Situated a, the head of
navigation Ct Lake Ontario and lhs< river
81. Lawrence, and having bridge across
the Niagara river at that point. properly
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