New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-06-13
NOTES OF A TRAVELLER
Correspondent. Of The N. Y. Tribune.
ISTERsATIoSAL HOTEL,

completed my exploration Of Ohio cutting towaf.o
the North from Cincinnati TO Sandusky and Cleveland
The charm not broken but increased, to see every
where freedom self asserting activity, pour out from
all the pores of the land. The region is emnently
| agricultural, and the general physognomy Of the
country awakens vivid recolections OF the land in
which was born, and over whose fate and whose
future in my youth dreamed Then my efforts tended
TO see that land covered with people Of Industrious
freemen, and NOT with nobility bOisterous in its
nationalism clustering, generous perhaps at times
but reckless, useless, and ncorigible - the oldest
kindred in all this world Of your Southern mock chv-
airy. Narrowing memories But let bygones be by
cones. The genius Of Humanity ever young, the
untired age must accomplish what my generation failed
in, by ways and means different from those tried p
years ago.
The West, more even than the East, is the
land Of the precedence Of women unhappily mis-
called ladies' 1t must seem strange and often raise
the bile Of European visitor his first tour TO find
in steamers and the respect and Difference paid to
Woman as Woman, without the slightest regard to
wealth or condition. 1t is right. The immense ma
Orty Of travelling females in the West are not astd
GUS fashionable bearers of fnery but mothers of little
citizens the hopes of the country for the future.
AS such they ought to be treated with special care the
more so since this is a civilized section and this
coming crop of bipeds is not to be rufiany chvalric
and flbusterous, but rational laborous, we-bred
opponents Of American destnies. These matrons
mostly young fulfill in the cars their maternal duties
to their musings with unconcemed navete. Here in
the West Woman is treated with difference not for her
station personal attractions, but incarnatng the
generating element and power. So she has stood
in the mythus Of all times from the remOtest antiquity.
Rhea, Isis, Aphrodite aud Here incarnated this
conception.
Travelling in the West would be on the whole enter
tanning, but for the filthy, nauseous tObaccochewing
and III consequenses. wonder how atobaccO-chewer
can ever get wife. The pores Ofhs flesh are soaked
with the offensive juice, and his breath is always pes
tilential.
So / reached Niagara. l shall not fall into the
Chaeaubrandic religious ecstacy, PROSTATE myseand
worship the Creator in tho wonder. Chateaubriand
was first in his Rene to make Europe acquainted with
this mighty phenomenon. After ALL Niagara, terribly
beautiful il is, is not the spontaneous, immediate
deed of the Creator, not contemporary with the first
days of creations but il is the result Of fatal unavOd
able physical laws forces and agencies uninteruptedy
vt work during countless times-drOps of wster per-
forang rocks AS for me, the feebest manifestation
of Psyche in the smallest insect endowed with will
and choice, is greater wonder than the most gigantic
phenomena of sOullcss matter explained by science,
which still remains dumb before the of thought
and Of life. This unique and gigantic scenery confirms
me anew in my belief of the insuilciency of words,
pencil or brush to render landscape All respect and
praise, however, to Churchs mastery picture. 1t APP
proaches as closely possible to nature, even in my
comprehension, who had never found any appreciation
painted scenery in all the galleries of the old world
Such terror-inspirpg fury Of clements, softly and
Ill Gill
Can the brush render it The intellectual worm, as
G0the's Faust calls himself in fit Of despair, has
erected in view OF the Falls migher woader in the
suspension bridge The yell of distant locomotives
those pghtingales of the New World-resounds above
the hunders of waters and air. Works of the Psyche
struggle on all sides with those of bndfod fatality
they utilize and subdue them. Such common wonder
is the paperm turned by the rapids, whose machinery
in ten seconds transforms the streaming pulp ntoa dry
neat white, innocenoOking papsr-the most powerful
and most explosive ally Of mans mind-the surest cor
ner-stone of progress and development Such wonders
of mans creation surround without attracting atten
ton They do not crush-Overwhelm; they seem mat
tiers ofcourse--everydayo occurrences Canals, turbines,
factores--in word, industry, utariansm divert
ing the waters of the river in various directions might
well in the course of some fifty years or SO things run
ming as now in geometrical progression transform the
terrorstrikirg waterfall into dusty brook, like the
Staubbach in the valley of Lauterbrunnen IN the Swiss
Oberand. Canada, when once joining the great body
for then only can it become animated with the all
subduing spirit of activity will take her part in this
work of destruction.
Who knows if the whirlpool may not become trans
formed into turbine Contemplate now this image
of life as the foamiDg waters, full Of youth, vgor
and hope ushes and precpates itself into the whlr-
pool of the world seized pushed and torn, 1t often
turns upon itself in false circle and by an issue not
less violent, dsapp ,ars we know not where Having
in the past bathed under the glaciers and In the
sources of most of the European rivers, could do no
less under the Horseshoe fall 1t was cold, but re-
freshing, genuine shower-bath, but too uncon-
Portable to be repeated. What splendid and invig-
Grating watercure establishments could be erected
here with every variety of plunge and douche, all fur
rished by Nature in the best and most vigorous STYLE
How is il that neither German nor Yankee enterprise
has tried its fortune here
foupd vegetation far more advanced here than in
Cincinnati In the fields and gardens, as well as in
the woods all is bloom The savants would do
well to explain this Niagara being much further
north, and the climate apparently no milder but
rather the contrary than it would be at this date IN
St. Petersburg At any rate, it is milder for this part
Of the month than what left behind in Ohio liav-
ipg the conviction that to enjoy views and prospects,
one ought TO walk and not drive-and this mode being,
beside, more in keeping with limited purse en-
loved Niagara and its environs as pedestrian be-
coming ten times day in rapid succession in fullest
peIspirston and then icy cold But the pure and
bamy air elates the whole system; Natures virgin
breath and kiss inhaled reach the heart with blessings
The rambles in groves and woods are full of charms,
;t - . ifvt hat n
ts of the song of birds in all those tunes and sounds
LII Ell IL, E,,rnnean fnrests of ell laiitndes.