Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-07-22
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/ LETTER FRoW A DlsBANDKD VoLUNTEER.-Our
old friend is off on a summer tour, it seems, and
halls us in the following letter from Niagara
( He is getting poetical, too, in his old age; but
/ his blank verse is so very blank, hat it should
I be properly designated as point-blank twattlc.
! However, the letter, taken altogether, is de-
cidedy amusing one:
CLIFTON House, NIAGARY FAILS, July Is, 1857.
/ E,idyttrs or the Sunday Times:
! Iarroye yesterday in the presents of this all
stupendious nonnyment of antickity, and sOr
for the fust time the almity jump of its waters
and heerd that prculyer rore As every boldly
that goes to see Niagara is expected to state
how they felt when the catarack bust upon thar
eyes, you shall hev my fust impresshin, as
writ it down loosely in my daily diaree. 1t is
in these wurds: "What an evcrlastin shame it is
that the biggest hnfe of this cnormus water
privilege should be on the British sideim Next
went off in kinder riveree calculatin wot
John Bull mought sell out his sheer for. The
hull exhibishin Sartinly ort to be oned by one ma
shin; the idee of dividen itup is redickaeS.-
Unklp Sam has plenty of surplis tin in his cash
box, and why not offer the Britishers few mil
lions for the Horse Shoe down on the nail? liz
coarse they'd be reddy enuf TO grab it, bekase
they want all the munuy they can beg, borry, or
steel, TO iikidate thar amense nayshinal Diet. /
wunder CT a partiShin on the subjeck to Com
gross wouldent put the noshin throo? When
lley take Sucu pains 10 give sLnliJiliS Ol TIC
publick achers to sPeckylaters, it would be rath
or inconsistent not to shell out trifnl for the
excluSiy perseeshin of the most valuable water
pour on the face of the airth
Altho I've oney ben hecr twenty-four hours,
heV seen all the principal .ites-setch rs Cote
Island, SO called from the number OF gotees you
see thar in the faShionabul SeeSOn; the Cave of
Wins, whar- delikit yuHg wimmen risk thar
nccks to see bow in the spray; the Whirlpool
whar the water with trunks of trees in it, is
continually gon round like a bOle of SOop jest
stirred; and divers luther places, incloOdin tho
spot whar Sam Patch drapt inter drink, and
kun to the surtiS agin rite side up with kerr
Poor Teller! he he'd wurse luck in the Jenny
Sea.
But the most amusin of all the performances
at Siagary is the trip to the foot of the falls,
made in the Maid of the Mist The PASSENGERS
all hes to put on lecloth cloRcs and hood to save
EN- from shour-bath, and you'd suppose from
thar appearance that Abbot, who commands the
bote, he'd cargo of friers on board, setch is
thar monkefied aspeck. In the cabbin thars n
book for the expreshin of sentyment in relashin
to the crate lickwid Phenomenon, and everybod-
.dy and his wife is expected to set down and rite
whatever Gums inter thar beds in this album.
As don't like to be dsobligin, complide with
the nshil custom of persons maxim n passidge
in the Maid; but before glvin my own infushin,
| make the foliering eXtracks from those as he'd
preceded me. They are given, us tho Latin
Skoilards say, eTrGtum ct litterntem:
"a mill streams falls cursed sham,
Compared with God Almishtys dana" CEEHiCUs
Branard the poet The seutres notched into the
rocks at Niagara but hant saGie since IEe
ben hera-".- OBSERVER.
CLOUD gtrdled tlunderer, ct ectera, ct cetera,
AsneareF approach ce very much the Eetter are
LoSGFRLL0w.
profound, immense, prodGiouS, mighty, vast,
Thy preset thunder Is Just like thy past;
Tireless unWearled, thy great waters drop,
And while Time lasts, guess they'll never stop.
Poets have come to see thee from afar,
And, shuddeTng viewed thy elementalroar;
/, too, an humble bard, unknown to fame,
Tny glorious friendship am thrice proud to claim"
HOMER.
Neher the American the Horse Shoe Falls appear to
to be Of the altitude ascribed 10 them. wish had the
apparatus here to them with should also like
know the precise number Of tons per minute that dis
charged the precPces Strange that the calculation
has never been made :" MATHEAATIcus.
Here is my own contribushin:
"Ilc like to see scr-mil big enun
To up all this pour. Could a wheel
OF size SuG1shent he constructed? MOI
1t isunpossabul; but eff itcOuld,
q! what n site sublire-and then the soy!
The sulIeck is too grand for human ihoTt,
And so drap it" TIE DL5BANDED
Thar, Mr. Eddyturs, what do you think of
my fust effort in blank yers2 Don't be hard on
a young beginner. Yours allus,
a DIsBNNDED v oLUSTEEn.