Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-08-15
On the Wing.
| Correspondence Of The Sfar.l


Correspondence Of The Starl
NIAGARA FALLS, y. Y, Aug. g. 1-60.
TRENTON FALLs-BoTTLED ENoTIoN-SYRAcUsE
-GESNEssEE FALLs-SAM PA1cH-THE PEIcE
OF SuBLINITT AT NIAsARA-WHY YoUSs La
DIES LIKE NIAeARA-A CONVENIENT ApvEK-
Using MEDIUN-MR. FERGUSON ALLOWS HIS
ANGRY PASSIONS TO RISE
Dear Star Coming up from Albany by the
rich valley Of the Mohawk, stopped over at Utica
TO visit the Trenton Falls fifteen miles from Utica
considered by lovers Of the picturesque to present
points Of romantic interest surprising INV thing
| Niagara can show These falls are upon the West
Canada creek, branch of the Mohawk There
are here series Of cataracts and rapids extending
| some two miles, and deeply sunk in a rock
walled chasm, that the visitor in looking over the
landscape in quest Of the torrent be hears thunder.
| ing in his neighborhOod. is completely at loss
where to locate 1t. Ispent memorable day here
examining the wonders Of these aby,mal cataracts,
and emerged at night, wet, muddy, tired, and
! hungry, but sufficiently impressed by the wild
lovelness Of the scenery TO consider myself repad
for the time and toll. Trenton Falls deserves what
| advertisers would call - first rate notice" and
took some most enthusiastic notes but really the
weather Is too hot to write them out especiallvss
| am just now busy with the Titantic display, Of
| Niagara
| Next morning came on through Onondaga
county, noted for apples, salt, and Syracuse con-
| ventions. stopped long enough at Syracuse to
take look at few OF Its $50 salt distilleries and
at It's acres Of evaporatng watts with their sliding
shed-roOfs for rainy weather use Then on to
| Rochester, using the twenty five minutes waiting
time for visit to the tennessee Falls TO take note
| Of the spot where sam Patch made his last leap
and demonstrated that some things can NOT be done
| as well as others My cicerOne said that sam had
| premUnitlon Of his fate and drank freely Of
brandy to nerve himself for his task AS be sprang
| into the air II was noticed that he failed to keep
| his feet well under him, and pitching forward he
| struck heavily upon his face and breast The
tradition goes that he jumped twice with impu-
nifty over Niagara Falls but the truth is his leaTs
there (at Niagara Were made, not the les feet
depth Of the falls, but, from platform raised
little more than half this height below Goat
| Island
On to kPort-Pekin-Suspe Bridge
| Listened for rosr Of Niagara. Nary roar Man
said wind was wrong way. Reached the Falls
| station at p. Wind wrong wav vet Nary
| roar Walked TO brink of American Fall held
| on to bushes and peeped over. Looked steep.
! stepped back feet or more, and held on tighter.
| Passed bridge TO Goat Island sentimental Young
| ladies on benches waiting for moon to rise TO see
| lunar rainbows. To bed, and up in the morning
| to see Niagara in earnest Result Of three DAYS
| experiences at Niagara have seen one hundred
| thousand rainbows, more or less have expe
rienced various emotions Of the sublime which
have cost me, as near as I can calculate 50 cents
an emotion, viz: Goat Island . cents Maid Of the
| Mist Is cents, Cave Of the Winds 81 Termira
ton Rock al, Canada Ferry sundry trips at 40
| cents, do Staircase Railway 10 American Falls at
| 10 cents Suspension Bridge rs cents, and so on;
| have walked up and down various stairways to
| the amount Of 9,765 steps have encountered the
| autographs Of Smith, Brown, Jones and Robin
son, on every rock, fence, railing staircase tree
or other material object within ght Of the Falls;
have been tanalized at every turning by the sight
| Of lovely woman clinging to the manly arm like
| ivy to the oak, &c, &c /; and have come to the
conclusion that If there is any article ia which
Niagara is OverstoCked, beside rainbows It IS in
| "Indian Curiosity Emporiums" Niagara must
| be the Paradise Of counting couples ! suppose
there is no place in the known world where f. is
SO excusable and imPeratively necessary that the
| female waist should be encirCled 10y the male
arm. The fate of Miss Martha Rugg. who los;
her life (as the inscri pton SAYS by falling Over
| the precipiCe, 167 feet, while Plucking flower
| Aug 81 l-ii =" is 4 sufficient warning 10 damsels
| Niagara seems to answer good purpose, too,
| iOt 'IVSr -LV ~isA 20 al 'UTtisc their wares or
their grefs. Goat Island, in particular, is pls,-
| tered Win dlslnt6rested recommendations IN
| travel or not 10 travel by this or that parllc-
| ulaf route, or to purchase not % purchase
at this or that repository Of Indian wares On
| Sunday yesterday morning, the attention OF
all Passers across the little foot bridge TO Terrapin
| rock was fixed by the following unique poster
| which had been pasted lngenOusly for notor!etyl
| upon the plank walk, where eye could miss il.
| Jared B, who IS now supposed 10 have hts
| esidence in or near Buffalo in The Stale of New
| \ ork, and who, Ia the month of February last
| succeeded In seduclng and carving away my
/ VIE Cat1arlne, taking with them three Of NV
| children, leaving two behind; was lrft in tn
| street, exposed 10 the lnClemenCV Of the weather
| In severe winter Gay, and besides carried AWAY
| great portion Of tES most valuable of INV house
| bold furniture aud effects [ took Iegal nrocesd
| ings against the said B, and Obtained iudg
meht for ~ 900, and he was Is well convicted Of
| nuisdemeanor by court Of magistrates but
| effected his escape and fed to Buffalo: the said
| Ii Is about y years of age, feet 6 inches in
nlBht, rather thick act little bowed knee,d fair
| complexion, whls kers under his chin. a Roman
nose very long and brandy colored his teeth stand
| open in front, considerably decayed his moUtb
10 continually open, and he may De easily identi-
| he'd by an enormous guild Of tobacco in his teeth
| continually showing u FFEErsoy :,
| supply the dashes, the exasperated Fergus,n
| gave names in fun.
| There is large company at Niagara and every
| train brings accessions Saratoga Springs. too. /
| hear, has an overlooking crowd, indeed the
| interior pleasure resorts seem to be much more
| visited this year than the sea shore CSN