The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-03-14
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CLBF8LkNu, OHI0, march Se0, 1851
DEAR DIsPA1cH: Thinking i would NOT be alto
gether unnteresting 70 some Of your many readcrs
70 know how things are done and look In this part
q the world ct this season Of the rear, viii an
deavor 70 post you up. 1st a. to the travelling.
these YANKEES do get over the ground some, tell
you. LEFT the city of Now York ON Saturday at 5
r. M, arrived ct Albany, at g. crossing the Hudson
On the Ice In sleigh drawn BY four horses the lee
being only about four feet thick there was but Nile
danger Of getting !uckine: Leaving Albany It
eleven l arrived at Niagara Falls, distance Tum
New York OF four hundred and seventv.Dine mile.
by 9 1-2 on Sunday morning. passed the day
there viewing the Falls, and although the dav was
bitter cold was more than repaid for my trouble
crossed the river, just below the Falls ON the ice
where It Is at least twenty feet thick Toe view Of
the Falls from this bridge Of ice Is grand beyond
any description / can give Just above you the
mighty river falling distance of les feet with 4
roar that may be heard for miles around, and ON
each side of you the high banks of the river Gov
cred with icicies, reaching from the bank to the
waters edge with the spray rising from the foam
ing river below the Falls being concealed and fal
ling around you as If you were in heavy snow
storm. made Il altogether the most magnificent and
grandest sight ever saw or ever expect to Sec
Just at the Southern edge of the British fall belsw
Goat Island, there s pyramid Of ice about 100
feet In diameter at the base and rising up nearly to
the river above the Falls. was told there is large
rock there and this pyramid has been formed by
the spray falling on and freezing. The great Ia
bic Rock about which SO much has been said and
Hten IL now covered with ice Gas il lies at the
side of the river) until now has the appearance of
hugh lump of ice and could but think on look.
ing at It, how many nice juleps it would make.
ieft the Falls at P. NJ, and came down to Buf
iaio, where remained until IL A. M to-day, taking
the Lake Shore RsiIroad and passing through the
city OF Erie, where the ladies tore up the railroad
track. Buffalo is beautiful and Qike all other
YANKEE towns) thriving city, perfectly level and
regularly laid out with many elegant and hand
some s public and private buildings The Lake
Shore abroad passes in some places just along
the shore OF Lake Erie. The Lake 10 now frozen
over and the ice covered with snow, and with the
sur shining on it it, was beautiful sight do not
know how it all looks in the summer season but ii
IS very hne now. should like it much better if it
was not SO cold
The passage of the Nebraska bill by the Senate il
creating quite an excitement all through here A
large public meeting was held in Buffalo last Satur.
day night Speeches were made and resolutions
passed. condemning it, and instructing their repre-
sentative In Congress to oppose its passage In the
House have travelled one hundred and ninety.
tour miles to-day in railroad car and feel quite
fatlgued, and will close and go to bed. SO good
night to you, Mr.. Dispatch
Yours very truly, CS.M.