New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-06-23
Mr.. BILES ON HIS RETURN
From Our Occasional Boston Correspondent.

till Yesterday; but shall never forget it. And yet
| have had no reason to speak i'll of it. wonder
who Hornell was that be should have rifle to him
SELF Nobody that have asked has seemed to
know anything about him. But have no doubt
he was COED fellow. The way l came acquainted
with bis rifle was on this wise. Wishing to see
the Portage Railway bridge, set out from the
Falls on Wednesday afternoon and came to Buffalo,
in order to take the Erie Road and so on to New
York. There was another reason to be sure, and
that was that the virtue Of our yellow tahsmans had
gone cut Of them on the Ncw-lork Central Road,
that Cooperation having declined To come INTO the
extension for four days, while on the Ere they were
coed until the 10Th. OF course did not wish 10
be- subjected to the ndignity OF paying my fare 80
long as il could be avoided. and naturally desired
10 show M respect for Corporation that had done
so much 10 contradict the prevalent opinion that
such have no souls to be id any more than no
BODIES to kicked.
There were unpleasant rimors Of breach OF
continuity Of the road aud consequent Interruption
Of trains But this did not prevent me from taking
the freight train at 80, and proceeding with deo-
crate dignity to Portage. This you may believe
when tell YOU we were seven and hall hours
going sixty miles. But il gave me couple oil hours
TO see the Bridge ard the Falls of the River Gene
see at that place. The bridge IT, as you know web
erouph. a splendid piece Of engineering and abso-
lutelS partakes Of the sublime If terror be one of
the elements of that emotion. As il is 23i feet
above the water, one could not look down without
some instructive shrinking OF horror at the idea OF
the consequences Of a tumble. Stairs conduct you
10 all parts of it, and to the bottom, where you
have view Of the whole structure. The effect was
wonderfully fine, relieved as it happened to be on
that occasion against black, laundering sky. The
Fall of the Genesee is 20 feet III hight under the
bridge, and would be thought very pretty cascade
were it not for its BIG neighbOr, at Niagara; aud
little below il has fall of hundred feet. This last,
however, / did not see, as the black cloud
lust mentioLed was altogether too threatening
10 BE- abided for the requisite time. This
bridge is well worth journey over the road and
stop At the bridge Ia see. Ii Is as marvellous III Its
way as the SUSPENSION bridge at Niagara, with the
advantage of conveying the idea of absolute, tried,
settled security, which the other has not had time,
irom the newness of its principle Cor It's apphcaton)
to acquire
At the precise moment promised i'll the timetable
- :53-the express from Buffalo arrived and
| came on hher There was no further communica-
ron eastward that night, and had to seek for enter
tarment as beet could, BIT it seemed mar, &c
find. The break in the road had caused an accumu.
aton OF travellers at this point, which had already
filled up every hotel and every house. So / set up
the staff Of ny rest at the Osborne House by all odds
the first in the place, with the promise of something
o eat and chair to sit in all night if could find
one The first promise was kept to the hope as well
AS 10 the ear. and very excellent aud welseryed
supper fortified me TO endure the watches of the
night. But just as / was making such extempore
preparations AS could with my travelling shawl and
a chair cushion or two, q clerk came to me and
asked me if ] should like bed. gave answer most
unequiyocally in the affirmative upon which he told
me that the landlord Of the house would give up his
own bed TO me OF course, | demonstrated against
such all excess Of hospitality, and endeayored to dis
suade lin from tie extravaganza. But as he per-
sisted in his d,sperate design, what could | do!
1t would have been pity to dsappont him, and 80
Welded the point, and submitted to be treated bet
ter than deserved.
l have often laughed at new spaper correspondents
for their talk about cOurty and hOsptable hosts aud
eentltnaDy and accomplished clerks-but shall do
90 no more after NY experience with this phenix OF
landlords. this pink Of Causes this pearl of BOn
faces, this Innkeeper and Good Samaritan of the
uarable rolled into one. | cannot account for the
pheDomenon. trust it could not have been from
iespect to my gray hairs. Is it possible that
the circumstance that the intense anxetles
Of Occasional Correspondence have shed I'M
timely snow upon my brOws could have given him
the idea that | was one well strcken in years Ii
cannot be. Nor set, feryently hope, did it arise
from fond delusion that was Doctor OF Diylnl-
"! No. 10! II could not have been as bad as
that Ii must be that this host above all price had
A keen INSIGHT into modest merit, that common eyes
might not have discovered. Perhaps he thought he
Was entertaining all angel unawares. AT any rate,
ycu will not wonder after this, that did thug
never expected 10 do, VIZ. assist at u meeting to
vote thanks to him ard all else concerned for mer-
cies received. We all know what We have done;
but We know not what We may do.
The gray hair hypothesis put me IN mind OF an
adventure OF gentleman of my acquaintance, who
bad lost his hair ia early youth and Was as bald as
the first Cesar at five andtwenty. One night IN
the Dit of the ibeater, Ia the good old days when
theaier, had pits, he had dispute with a neighbOr
about seat From words they came to blows,
ana in the course OF the struggle the hat OF my bali
friend Was knocked Off AS soon as his antagonist
raw his .mooth poll, be withdrew at once from the
eoi tsst with many apologies, declaring that be had
always been brought up 10 reverence old age, and
that il be had known his competitor to be man
in wears he should have yielded the point at first.
I rect how il ended, whether my acquaintance
accepted the privileges OF old age or whether he
waved them in consideration OF the handsome con
duct Of his adversary. But il shows that advan
tares NAV be derived from personal phenomena,
from an error as 10 the state they indicate, and this
rsy have been NY case. But stand To It, at all
hazards that such man could not keep bad
house aid have the whole Of my ielo"-eue'ts 70
back me in The assertion thlt his Is an excefs<t
good one.
After breakfast we took our places in the train
snd abided our time patiently two hours waiting
the moving of the waters, for l take it they must
move before the steam does. But the advces from
ne damaged part Of the road were such as COM
PEELED tie agent to put stopper on our hopes OF
going forward directly. So We are now waiting to
be carried by circaitous route TO EImira, by way
Of Batavia and arandaigua. and thence by the Enc
again to New-York, where hope to arrive to-mor-