Smyrna times., 1857-08-05

kle, ls SAID to have taken his long sleep. On
IA sIgn-board is a picture of the hunter, unde
winch is the remark he uttered on awaking, &C
that iagon, that wicked hagon, what excus
= snail make to Dame Van Wrinkle Z" Old Ri
u is not The only Que who has exeerated the in
ie huence of the Aagon. The Mountain House
large irregular building, comfortably furnished
{ and capable of accommodating three or tou
i hundred guests. The house was crowded
. many having to bunk wherever thew could
get a COT 1t stands upon table-rock, a few
yards from the sheerverge, an elevation of TWEEN
ty-seven hundred feet hundred feet above the
ievei OF the river. The most beautiful view is
at SUNRISE and next morning we were up " BY
+ tunes 10 see 1t. And such sight: we had
not imagined anything half SO beautiful. "a
} sea OF woods is at your feet, but so far below
'nat the large hills seem but slight heavings of
'he green blllowy mass before you vast land.
ScePe, stretching as far as the vision extends |;
armaP OF earth, with it's fields. It's meadows, It's
forests, and its villages aud cities scattered in
ahe distance; its streams and 1akes diminished
Ike the dwellings of man, into insgnifcance.
through the midst, winds the sweeping river
the mighty Hudson--lessened TO a rill; still
further on, are the swelling uplands, and then
far along the horizon mountains piled upon
| mountains hidden in the distance.-risino
range above range, till the last and loftiest
fades into the blue of the sky. Over this ma o.
nihcent panorama the morning sun pours q
misty radiance. half yelling, yet adding to its
beauty, and tinting the Hudson with silver.-I
Here and there the bright river is dotted with |
sails, and sometimes steamboat can be seen |
winding its apparently slow way along. The
clouds that fling their itful shadows over the
country below, are on a level with you,-even
the birds seldom soar higher than your feet"
The air is delightfully."- cool and pure--the
thermometer ranging fifteen or twenty degrees
lower IN the middle of the day. than in our eli.
mate. Two miles from the hotel are the Kaa-
terskill Fails, upon stream flowing from the
laHes' each about mile and half in circum-
ference. ~Fennemore Cooper thus describes
these Falls: 1.-THE water comes croa king and
winding among the rocks, first so slow that u
trout might swim in it, then starting and run
nlhg like any creature that wanted 10 make
lne spring, till it gets 10 where the mountains
divide like the cleft foot OF deer, leaving A
deep hollow for the brook to tumble into. The
hrst pitch is nigh 200 feet, and the water looks
Ike flakes OF snow before it touches the bottom.
and then gathers itself together again for
new start, and may be iutters over 90 feet OF
Hat rock before it falls another 100 feet, when =
It jumps from shelf to shelf, fl rst running this
way and that way, striving TO get out of the
hollow, till it finally gets to the plain" d
Our gude-book, however, differs with Mr. a
Cooper in regard TO the Falls: the first falls
IRE made by it l75 feet and the second IS feet =
nsre, making the whole descent of the catarac,
700 feet Ii the view from the house upon the
plain below exces in sublmty, that from the
Falls excels in the widest and most romantic
prospects. The mountains when not too steep :
md rocky, are covered with hemluck, spruce. )
'ine aud various other trees, with huckleber.
les, sira berries, currants, &C., growing wild
n PrOtusion. We were more surprised 10 find v
mosquitoes in these regions; but here they !;
we're, over half mile high, and just as eager x :
o presenting their bills Up here there is no B
'unday-the same round Of pleas ire charac- y
erizing this day as all others. The ladies B
pend most of their time in their rooms, and y y
wear different dresses every time they appear
elOw. Notwiths Onding so much fashion, there =
5 the utmost good will and sociabiity on the
art OF The guests,--no matter how great stran-
'ers, they treat each other as familiar friends.
The way they eat here is enough to kill one
sed TO plain living. Breakfast at 8, dinner at &
, and supper ats. On.Sunday we sat down to &c
inner at 3, aud arose at quarter 10 o'clock m
ne hour and three-quarters at the table! We
ever want to pass through another such siege. u
But here you must sit, and go through lhe II
courses seriGfim, or leave with only part of a
inner. The most of the company were fash. D.
enables, and consequently ndulged largely in l
he eatras. In all parts of the room was a
ontinuous popping of champagne bottles, while "
laret and MADEIRA were scarcely less circula. "
ed,-the ladies vieing with the gentlemen in y
heir devotion to the sparkling goblet. S
On Monday we took leave Of Catskill; and, IT
ur return being in the same course as our up.
yard trip, we have nothing special to record. :,
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ARREST OP Mas. Observation-Disclosures
fraud Attempted. Extraordinary DevefoD-
1p,tIe NM A..