New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-06-22
MR. BILES At NIAGARA AND ON
STEECHES
.a.iosal Boston Corespondent.


can conceive TO be necessary. However it may be
in the eternal fitness Of things, here it IT, regular,
pouring, pitiless rn. "TOO much OF water have /,
Ike the poor Ophelia; and yet my chief provOcatOn
- thai it keeps me from having more. Its worse
tb., rainy Sunday in country inn, like that once
urder, one By Mr.. GeOfrey CrayOn, Gent; for in
that co, try town there was nothing to see, where
- N ,bi, here is what one can see no where else
nor .rvtbiro like it. However. honest Corporal
Nm. pbjlosophv is the best after all: " Things
..,nust be- a. they may" and 50 | will see whether
bv bestOwinp INV ted,, iusDess upon you and million
or two Of your reader. may not commute it so
infnitesimally that my own present share may be
hardly appreciable
And, in point of fact, IbaTe not much reason to
complain. For have had thr,'e AS me days as the
heart of Dan could desire which | have used to the
best advantage. ! entirely agree WIN IarsOh
Adams and your excellent correspondent - u. as
to 1.-THE superiority Of the pedestrious over the We
hiCular exploitation" at such placed as lhls
never had 81 thorough an enjoyment OF Inc scene
and the scenery any former visit as on lhls one
And this because / made myself Kissing ana
reprOach to the whole of hackDey.CDachmen,
whose contempt, disgust and exeeration beca me,
because ! chose to Bake my excursions with only
" the tandem nature gave me-" But was con-
soled for the ignOminy endured by the advantages
of this method Of lOcOmOtiOn. One knows nothing
Of the beauties of the banks of the river above and
below the Falls and both sides, if they are seen
only from the seat OF o barOucbe. he series vi
pictures on the British side, made up OF the Falls IN
the distance combined with the PERCEPTIONS and
beautifully wooded banks. sometimes taking in the
whole and Mt others one portion another, but al
ways with the green rushing of the arrowy river
fecked with foam, far below can only be htly seen
by choosing the exact point of view at ones leisure
! had charming walk the other morning, up the
river, keeping along the bank, instead OF diverglng
into the road that climbs the hight, and which -
usually taken. Truth compels me 10 say that the
walking could not be accurately described good;
what was not muddy was stony-and stony with
stones Of lTateTnatural rOug hncss and anguarity.
Still kept on TO the infinite disgust OF my French
boots lin one Of which l cut a great hole, which
still gapes reprOachtully at me-, and had my re-
ward Though but little way above the Horse
shoe Fall the smoke Of which 8scends forever aud
ever | seemed to be as far removed from the i'll
tusiOns of tourists and the impertnences OF coach
men and guides as if there were none such within
hundred miles. In the current cut of from the
main stream by pretty little wooded island ducks
aud geese conveyed their brOOds across the swat
channel struggling against its speed, or rode quietly
at anchor in its hooks and bays after they had con-
uered the passage. Cows grazed, or lay lazily
chewing the cud as if there were nothing e1traOr-
dinary hard by. They did not seem to understand
the thing much better than the tourists i bad left
lust before on Table Rock chewing the qaid, squirt
ING t0baccO.juice and giving and taking hgMs (Of
ciQars) but they were the cleanller aud peasanter
animals to cOnsOrt with of the two. AT certain
points along the shore, by placing yourself close to
l. the effect of the Rapids was singuary fine. 1t
seemed as if the windows of Heaven had been
opened and the waters were rushing and tumblng
down upon earth with fresh catacysmatlc design
on the human race.
thrust am not getting toward the period OF life,
or at least that have not the turn OF mind, which
made the old Don in Gil Bias maintain that the
peaches had degenerated since he was young. L
atter myself rather belong to the category of that
other Castilian q think it was), SOuthey tells OF,
who used to put his spcctacles when he ate cher
ries that they might seem the larger and airer But,
must mention it TO you in confidence, the Falls are
a little the worse for wear, even since l knew
them. Like some of the rest of u.s. they are not as
we'll looking as they were iveand-twenty years ago.
This take rather hard One expects changes in
the looks of ones acquaintance and friends, even
if their countenances have not been changed entirely
and they sest away. No one can approach Inc me
dieyal perod-the mtzzO cammin-ot life and not
feel the force of one of jolly Captain Morriss Rea
SONS for Drinking"
"There's many lad have loved is dead
And many lass grown old
And when This lesson strikes my head
Nv weary heart grows cold!'
Rnt the face Of Nature one depends upon seeing
alNays tbe same or with only varying expressions
of hca,ity But the changes here are for the worse
and not for the better since my eyes first opened on
the scene.
And do not here speak of the industrious efforts
which men (the nasty brutes have made To spoll H.
and which have been crowned with reasonaoe
share of success ! don't mean the cutting down
of the trees. the walk through which on the British
side made so fitting an approach TO the great
snectace though that is bad enough Nor yet the 0O-
seryatories and museums and tea-gardens and cake
sbops and shows of various kinds, which strive u
make the Cataract only bigger kind of Wild beast To
be shown for two York shings, children half price
| But the aspect Of the Falls themselves is changed
and not for the better. In the first place, the los:
| of Table Rock is "A great miss II made ~ hne q
| frame To the magnificent picture and was so lmpOs
inc an object in ITSELF that no one who has seen the
| Falls with that addition can ever look upon then
| with the same eyes without IT, Then, again
| the shape of the Falls, on both sides, Il
| nerceptbly altered. When first saw them, vii
rot .ay how long ago, the Horseshoe Fall 'cas 8
| Horseshoe. The curve was perfect and mos
| Graceful in IFS outline Now great piece has faer
0ut Of the center, which makes il angular instead
| of curyilinear. And on the American side, too,
great aicL has dropped down, breaking the straight
line of that fall which contrasted 50 finely with tn,
sweep of the other. Still would not be understood
AS disparaging the value OF the Fails as they stan,
| NOW. Persons seeing them for the first time VII
| end II hard TO believe that they ever could have
been better than they are. lgreatyrejoice in wha
is left Of them only am glad to have their picture
as it hangs up in my minds gallery as when hrs
mt il there. | am far from agreeing with irlenC
Of ours. after seeing Tiyoi and Term and thos'
other Italian aud Swiss fellows, that il Is nothing
but "a great, fat clumsy, oyergrown, vulgar water
| fall" IN.
eta ,ay ON both sides of the river. Merely croSsn.
over in the ferry.boat or driving round by the SuS
nnsinn Rridoc is mol enough 70 give one that ieen.