The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-08-01

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OaAa DtarATca--Ny Lest letter to you ives from
~ lll1siasApt snd obio. l found Louisvile a
veg pesesy cty-ens quite bcyosd my sxpecta
Dr.. Ia slssss are ample and cleanly. the
bundlap q nofs than oriinary good appearance
anA he whole presenting an aspect of great scdv'
~ aad sArih. Perhaps ought mot TO log into these
ranbling lstt9s private name but ! forget,
Gsosee D. Prsusiceis net private, but nation
Il name. called on, or rsther dropt Into
the anceum Of APPRENTICE" of the Louisville
yosraal. wsose salient pen and keen repartee
have made his name fort Of defence to his friends
"a terror 10 his focs everywhere. He was seat
a iaboriously q his editorial work, do yoa know
what shss b In this hot weafhers) and In place Of
the large, porsly looking personage-vith rudy
faes end jocund twinkiing eye, giving promise OF
thoss sallies Of ris and humor and satire combin'
I'd, with which he 90 often convulses or surprises
the publie-I found only y plain, quiet, rather
spare, saturuine gentleman, whose frame spoks
Of labor, and whose countenance indicated inteec-
tual toll but whose dark eye welland deep seated
secounted 70 me at once for the source OF his pow
or. playfuily said to him, that had expected to
6nd him danked BY big stick, or barricaded and
ssntineled, but that | had entered his sanctum,
frseay, from the street, without even "who goes
thssess cot few minutes, conversing, q know
what an editsrs time is,) and withdrew How dh
eTept In appearance are persons. when we come
10 look ct them, from what we had imagined ana
how lss does the world knowthat those ebuiiiIion'
ofthousht or OF w.t. which seem to them 70 bubble
up spontansously, are the fruit of toil-deeP ana
aevsre-even In one whe seems not to labor
Ipassed 10 Dayton, &C.. and then to Cincinnati,
which saw frss BY the early dawn. and then By
day light, but only In roundabout omnibus ride to
Tbs depot. IT. long sloping and gradual river bank
and Ane looking buildings and clesniy appearance
agreeably surprised me. for had imagined "Porko-
poIis," the only city of America quite worthy OF
that impressive and expressive blast q know not
what else to call it, which Coleridge poured out
J ON the City Of Cologne, that city of stenches,
which yet furnishes the genuine "eau de cologne
de Jean Marie Farina,' Of which the ladies are so
/, tond. Ihave not Coleridgeby me or would quote
the lines; but they are too pungent themselves to
have very agreeble odor.
At ssndusky, / took the splendid steamer Missis.
sippi through Lake Erie to Bafalo. did this
though travelling not at my swn expense-beeause
other route. need not tell you Lake Erie Is beau.
fu or that though you get out of sight of land you
have none of the horrors of sea voyage Nor
need tell you how beautiful city Buffalo 10. Has
not oil this been written thousand tinesl Nor,
perhaps, lest be considered one of adirari
sort, ought to confess my stupidity in looking
On the great Falls OF Niagara with but little greater
emotion than feel when go down, as do some
times and watch our tumbling rapids on the
James River. Thisis confession candid as any Of
Rousseau's, though 1t involves crminality
ofhis did Perhaps it was owing to my own deadened
sensbilides after 90 long and hot Journey; but
rather think It owing to the fact that greatly in
famed accounts of Niagara are generally present
ed, which when 1t is viewed by gentlemen of some
little ardor of inauguration, are not realized.
can well conceive that an Englishman like Tom
Moore, (he was 1rsh,) who is accustomed to still
water and not much of the grand, might grow exta
tic at beholding 1t but an American, whose whole
horison IL bounded by the grand and sublime, will
be apt to conclude with the tailor "what splendid
place to sponge coat" or with the Yankee Miller |
"what tarnation mill it would turn"
Rochester, Syracuse, Utica, Schenectady. Here |
staid two days to attend the annual commence
ment of Union College, the third in numbers in the
Union-over which DR.. Mott. the more than octa |
generian, still presides and where, fifteen years |
ago, !, Richmond youth, received my first degree
i was beside the commencement, great occasion |
DR.. Mott has recently donated to the college seve
raj hundred thousand, out of his own means, and |
the Alumni from all parts had assembled to hold
grand festival will not recount the etes or name
the distinguished men who were present. DIR. Mott
spoke long and feelingy he has presided over the |
College more than fifty years. His address evinced
no loss ct the vigor or eloquence which made his
earlier years famous or of that paternal affection
which has caused his unnumbsred and wide spread
pupils to cling to him to father. DR. Wayland,
President of Brown University, delivered an adj
dress, John g SAKE delivered Poem, and host Of
names. not unknown to fame, followed in speeches
The services occupied three days. of which to day
the last and now, for me, having renewed some
links Of memory-some pleasant and some painful
i hasten, after nearly 200 miles of travel sincel
LEFT It when get back, by New York, Philadelphia,
&C., TO Richmond-to the city of my birth and my
lovs-where are buried-but will not speak OF
that
In haste, your townsman, 9.