Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1856-08-29

d, Ginning sunlight with resplendent brigh
y ness-ever falling, falling, falling, y,
E. never ceasing; rousing in ones bosom
IS klndliDg excitement that feared to st
e lest the radiant vision should vanish, "
'e yearncd to leap into its rushing torren,
p aud share their jubilant gambols It's tos.
5, ing spray and titful rainbow, now full
y now faint, all seemed as if rushing head
c long, with wierd and solemn exultation
If to the opening seals of apocalyptic visions
G or hurrying to lift the veil from unknown
y and unlmaginable scenes of splendor an,
y g!ory.-There l guess that will do. l
= not, just fix it up to suit yourselves.
r The first approach is everything upor
, such occasions, and stumbled, by pur,
t accident, upon exactly the right spot and
the right moment to realize more than my
t highest expectations.
A closer acquaintance proved the Amer
can to be tame and trivial, in comparison
: with the massive and more magnificent
Horse Shoe fall; which pours over its
central arch, stream of water twenty.
ilve feet deep, BY experiment-one mil.
lion tons of water being estimated to fall
over every minute, plunging into the abyss
below with an incessant roar of thunder,
a Ponderous aceiya Of sound, unlike any
other, aud for which one in vain seeks 4
comparison. 1t seems impossible that
such scene could last; the river surely
must exhaust itself in an hour, or its
rocky pea ciuiuLlc aud disappva, uudor
the pressure OF such resistless forces. But
then it rolls unchanging and eternal
The cataract is white foam at either
side, but along the middle the stopping
waters are of a surprisingly beautiful
green color, like falling mass of molten
emeralds; and, as they descend, frs.
streaked and spangled with jewcled foam,
beautiful exceedingly" in the glittering
sunlight, then wholly changed to white as
they disappear in the tossing spray.
A visit behind the falls well repays the
risk risk INCURRED. Laying aside eeat-a.,,~,,
mel shirt, yellow oil cloth pants, and coat
and bonnet Of the same material, and de-
scend hundred feet down the face of the I
cliff by an irregular path and steps, from
the hard limestone at the top to the strata
of soft slate, so soft you can dig it out
with your fingers. From this point, the
loose rocks and crumbled shale slope down
to the water, leaving room at the upper
part, for narrow path under the project
ing cliff, which reaches far over like
sheltering canopy. Following on, some
times erect, sometimes STOPPING, you reach
the hell of waters" you stand in goth
ic arch of natures own cathedral, rock on
one side, dissolving crystal on the other,
hundred feet up from the path and thir-
ty wide at the base, the spray dashing up
like a summer shower, and as you grope
along till its bliudins buffetings prevent
all progress except by the sense of feeling,
and threaten to whirl you into the yawn-
ing gulf, you wheel about and edge back
to seeing point, to enjoy the sublime
spectacle-it seeming as if Noah's deluge
were pouring its flood of waters back
again into the fountains of the great deep,
with the deafening thunders Of dissolv-
ing universe.
/ Picking out specimens Of rock to send
you-bringing down bushel or two
more about my head than was desirable
and trying to seize some of the young eels
that are at home here, | made my exit;
as glad to get out, and stay out, as l was
to get in-as is the case with most per-
sons, after the first flush of excitement
has passed oil. Aside from the danger Of
falling, there is, whether one is behind or
above the falls, an indefnable longing to
jump in: singular temptation that is q
specific danger in itself Another more
palpablc danger on this particular visit, Is
Table Rock, what is left of it, huge
projecting mass, cracked clear across
above, and half way down, as l discovered
in passing under it on my return, that
nav tumble down in five days, or five
gears. Wo to the passing visiter when it
. does fall !
Quit the Clifton House yesterday afternoon
and came around to the American side. The
! walters at that house by the way are mostly
runaway slaves very polite and attentive,but
with an undeiinable something, in their air
q and manner, that seems TO say, "Sambo owns
himself, sah!" Southern gentlemen, l find
dislike the house on that account
Crossed at the Suspension Bridge,iwo miles
down; a fragile looking structure, 500 feet
long, in single span, and 200 feet above the
: river, with carriage way below,and railroad
. track on top-yet feeling as solid and secure
when on it, as the most timid could desire
Just below the bridge the river becomes cramp
ed into narrow gorge Of less than quarter
of mile, through which the angry water:
tear their way with mad im2etuous fury pil