Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-06-08

which all the business is crowded. narrow
valley opens into it, down which come the
trade and travel of fertile farming country.
1t is fortunate for such towns as these that the
towering rocks above are firmly fixed, else, in
the event of a land slide, the incipieat million
aires might find themselves penniess in
moment.
We passed these towns in the morning and
swept on up the Mississippi, in our habitual
easy and dignified manner, now moving along
close to the bluffs on one side, and then fol-
lowing the channel as it swept round by the
other, almost grazing the rocks and taking
the branches from the trees, as we pass
ed irresistibly on. This day was a lit
tie hazy, and so warm, it seemed that
we could almost see the leaves growing
greener upon the huge trees which stood with
their trunks flooded to the height Of several
feet. The passengers sat summing themselves
sedately, or moved listlessly about from one
place to another. The confinement of the boat
was evidently becoming somewhat irksome.
And now, my dear b., l have brought
you along thus far, and pointed out some of
the objects of interest along the shore as we
passed Would you not like to take look at
my compdgnonS du voydge? Well, take my
arm let us go in and walk through the cabin,
and they shall be daguerreotyped for you. a
pretty picture, doubtless, but very like any one
taken at random on any of the boats on the
Upper Mississippi. trust they will not con-
slider us other than pinks of poiteness that we
stare at them little. ImprimiS on the right;
woman with faded calico baby ; next, piously
disposed young Norseman, who reads inces-
sanity i'll the New Testament; young Holland
couple, not many years married, attectionately-
disposed toward infant; Notwithstanding
man who skins the NeU York Herald; adven-
turous youth who peruses ku Carson; dyspep-
tic individual who broods over the atlantic,
and calls it cable y verdant lady, adolescent, in
appropriate green; lady with accordion, hay
ing none of the modesty usually pertaining to
musical amateurs dignified gentleman with
much pendent gold, probably President of the
Musquesh Bank; and many more, who, hay
ing been "born to blush unseen, &C., have lost
the only chance OF being immortalized that
they ever possessed and SO, must consent to
sink away into obscurity and to let the dark
waters of oblivion roll over them.
And now this April day and this river voyage
are drawing to a close. The boat presses on
untiringly up the endless river, and still
the same changeess perspective Of giant hills,
trees half submerged, and pale green islands,
stretches out before us. We stop occasionally
at little towns, with a little local reputation,
which the holders ofproperty therein consider
fame, and again pass on. Sometimes we pass
the mouth of small river, up whose valley
we can see for miles, and on either side of it,
and where the vision is bounded in the dis
lance, the hill, f'like giants at a hunting" lie
as Browning saw them in "Childe Roland to
the Dark Sewer came" Anon we pass the
euph0nious BadaXe, of aboriginal memory, and
after many miles more of monotonous travel,
we come to Lacrosse, Wis. where the writer
must leave the boat and his indulgent readers,
until some future day. S.