Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-09-02


the goth left Niagara for a short cruise on
Lake Ontario and down the st. Lawrence. At
Lewiston, at the mouth of the Niagara River,
just under the memorable heights of Queens
town, and the shadow of a monument, erected
by the British Government, to the mem
DRY of British soldiers, who fell on the spot,
took the American Express Line, check
ed through to Ogdensburg. This would carry
us tie whole length of the Lake, and down
the river past the Thousand Islands. As we
passed into the Lake, on our left arose the
stern battlements of Fort George, and on the
right those of Fort Niagara, the first British,
the latter American. They stand in solemn
stiffness, having but few troops and few
stand of arms each, seeming to greet each 9TH
er in friendship, and with feelings as placid as
the beautiful waters which they overlook.
The flags of each wave gracefully and uuhur-
tied in the gentle breeze-and so forebode no.
thing of the stern alarums of war which of
late lowered upon that spot. Our course dur
ing the evening lay northwardly across the
Lake, touching first at Toronto. Within afew
years past this has grown to be of the first
| Importance among the towns of Upper Cana
da. The Americans have colonizsd here in
large numbers, and made it in fact and es-
sence, in business and appearance an Ameri-
can city. The site upon which it is built is
one of the most eligible anywhere to be found,
and is most handsomely laid out in perfect
| squares, and constructed of the finest mate
rails. Here the present Governor General Of
Canada resides, and from flagstaff raised
high above the top of bis stately mansion, the
British flag floats, with grace and stateliness,
which is inseparable from the very idea of the
British power. Many sciOns of the nobility Of
the Empire of the Isles, transplanted hither,
have their elegant establishments here, and
hold their courtly levees. Here too the Pro-
vincial Parliament holds its sessions, and dis
plays more nearly than elsewhere on earth
democracy prevailing through the forms af an
oligarchy.
The evening closed with magnificent sun
| set-scene, casting its golden reflections back
upon the calm, chrystal waters beneath us.
During the night we made the length of the
Lake, and in the clear light of the morning
passed within the banks Of the St. Lawrence
Just as the sun rose. shorn of his scintillations
by the thin vapors which rose gently from the
rivers broad bosom, we deserted the lower ex-
tremity of Grand Island, the first of that won
derful series which for their number are de-
nominated the Thousand Islands, and might as
we'll have been called another thou sand or two
The air was clear-the sun soon bright
the steamer which bore US maiestic-and ev-
| ar inrr OH
make the scene of the most delightful charac-
ter. Many of the islands are inhabited, and
highly cultivated-almost all of them are COW
cred with trees and grass, and as the river
divides and winds itself about them-such a
miDgling of varying landscape and waterscape
is presented as would fill she eye and soul of
the poet or the painter with raptures-and the
dullest proser with the most pleasurable emo
tions. Alto o'clock we had sometime passed
the last of the islands, and sped by the town
of Brockville, on the Canada shore The
banks of the river here are studded with the
mansions of the cis-Atlantic nobility, giving
out an air Of great elegance and neatness. At
the hour indicated, we landed at Ogdensburg
"a handsome frontier town, having a custom
LlOuSSs many 20 1uuIUSE Observation-Disclosures anu
Tanneries and considerable business. On the
opposite shore is situated the town of Pres
colt with its custom house, and train of pub
lie offices and officers. Between these two I
spent the 21st. Each have private residences
of considerable pretensions, and public build
ings of spaciousness. L was greatly interested
here; but cannot enter further into details.
At z P. NJ. l took a different line of steam
ers to return, to-wit: that running from Mon
treal to Rochester. The one going down went
directly through making but few stOppages-
the latter coasts along the southern shore of
the Lake, touching at all the principal points
among which have only time to mention
Os wego. This is fourishing city of some
80 to $4,000 inhabitants-its chief points of
interest and commerce being its manufactures
of flour, wood, iron, leather &C. 1t lies on
both sides of the Oswego river and canal; and
the harbOr and river are literally filed with
vessels, Tugs and canal boats. Its Touring es-
establishments are the most numerous and Sx-
| tensive have anywhere seen. We reached
this place last night, and l am now at the Os-
burn House, one of the finest hotels in the
State outside of New York. NJ.