Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1859-08-16
Correspondence,
For the Meigs County Telegraph.
WshY NOiRS.


last, the little city of Railway was all astir,
and soon might be seen carriages and
groupso pedestrians, all loaded with bas :
kets of provisions, and vending their way
to the dock, where lay the steamer "Alice
Gray" A grand excursion around Staten
Island, into the Atlantic, had brought out
hundreds of the elite of the city, anxious,
like ourselves, for sniff of sea air.
As the tide was fast receding, the boat
rang her bell to depart, and then rush
for the gangway commenced. Ladies'
tumbed down the bank and broke their
criuoline; others leaned their heads on
their husbands or lovers breasts. and tried
hard to faint from exhaustion, and amid
this confusion the boat showed off and left
many disappointed ones on the dock. But
these, with becoming perseverance,
jumped into wagons and drove mile TO
Brick Town, where we lay for some time
to take on the band from New York AT
ter lying half-hour, the band came on,
and we were off again, 20 the good old
tune of "Hail Columbia" and yankee
Doodle" The band soon divided and
changed instruments, and half taking the
upper cabin, and the other the lower
Then, all the room that could be found
among FIVE hundred passengers, was ap-
propriated to gripping the light, fantastic
toe;" each band playing for treble and
quadruple sets of dancers.
A sail OF four miles down the crooked
little Railway river brought us into Staten
Island Sound; thence we passed north
east through Newark Bay, and through
the hills into New York Bay; thence
through the Narrows into the broad Allan
tic. AS we passed through the Narrows,
Fort Hamilton on the one side, and Forts
Tompkins and Richmond on the other,
with their yawning mouths, seemed like
great monsters, lying quiet now, but only
needing the sound of the tocsn of war to
arouse them, and cause them to belcn forth
fire and death.
We expected 10 be gloriously sick, and
Our partners, two lady cousins, had ex'
pressed desire to see US in the agonies
of sea sickness; but no; old Ocean was
very quiet, his breast only disturbed by
gentle ripples. which shimmered and
bazed like Furnished silver in the noon
day sun.
At 12 NJ, we landed at Keyport, on
the Jersey shore, short way above Sandy
Hook, and all parties spread their dinners
as they could find room, and sat down to
dine with appetites sharpened by the salt
air.
AT two, we were off again, and few
hours sail brought us around the Island
and up the Railway river to the place, of
starting. IN our travels it has never been
our good luck to behold such sweet, en-
chanting places to live, as the residences
on Staten Island. God has lavished ex-
traordinary beauty on this Island, and
men Of wealth have improved it with be- ,
coming taste. The land is not cultivated
at all, but devoted solely to private resi- I
dences, than which, with their surround
ings, it seems to us, Paradise could
scarcely have been more enchanting.
Friday brought us to this beautiful city,
which, with its sister, is. and must ever
be, the metropolis of the New World &
The Fall trade is opening up lively. The !
Western and Southern merchants are
docking in. and everything bids fair for
an active business season. Broadway has r
much beside female beauty in it 10 ad- !
mire, if one could only get time and place a
TO admire, without being tramped under 6
foot BY the dense and crowded throng who
continually press its whole breadthys But /
nothing pleased us so much as Washing t
toms statue in bronze, in Union Square, at
the crossing of Broadway and 18th streets. t
The General is in military dress, seated on i
r noble charger, the whole standing on a
pedestal some fifteen feet high. 1t is as {
natural AS life, and no American, at least, .
can help admiring it. (
The weather is comfortably cool, and a
has been for weeks, and the health of both \
,ities good ?
A daily bath in the Sea, triweekly +
'ide to the celebrated watering place,
Coney Island, situated nine miles from o
Brooklyn, across the southwest corner of p
Long Island, is affording us much pleas f
Ire, as well as health and vigor. 2
BROOKLYN, Aug. 3, 1859. H. F. M. /
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