Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-08-08
WARRINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.
SKETCHES OF SUMNER TRAVEL


THE HARBoR, CITY, &c.-THK TRIP To THE
FALLs-ITs CRowD-BLoNDIN-OFF AGAIN
The approach to Buffalo, on Lake Erie. Is very
fine, showing off the harbor and its appurtenapces
OF steamers, ProPellers, brigantines, schooners,
ana canal boats-the latter innumerable-to fne
advantage. dozen sailing craft were being
moved about II by tugs as entered its moles
and breakwaters; while twice as many were in
sight on the Lake, under sail Altogether, the
scene presented reminded me not little of the
port OF thrifty Atlantic coast CITY, far mere than
any other lake hsrbor have vet seen On landing
at the steamers dock Were at once transfer, d
In omnibuses over to the depot of the Central
Railroad-an imposition on the part of the man.
agers Of the boat, az the distance travelled was
hardly more than hundred yards and could
have been easily walked. They and the ON.
nibus people Of have an understanding
about the division Of that inevitable quarter thus
extracted from every traveller who goes over the
route for the first time-no incOnsiderabe item to
such spectators, when it is remembered that
each trip they thus transport for the 100 yards
perhaps an average Of POO passengers
Taking the train of the Central Railroads.&c.
greatest such enterprise in the United States ex
Cept the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad-we were
at once carried cut of the limits of the built.up
city Of Buffalo, having that laying immediately
10 the south OF us for perhaps mile and a half
and the lake aud river bordering the rail t,act
on the north. Buffalo, from the car windows.
wears the aspect Of substantially built CITY Ct
100000 inhabitants, alive with an industrious.
intelligent, and enterprIsing people, bent on get
tng rich BY commerce and manufactures; all the
usual eoneomitants of which. and of abundant
Capital to prosecute them and to live well at the
same time, being visible on all hands Already
Buffalo, thus seen, shows few traces of the fact
that its growth is Of yesterday, as it were In
this particular il differs widely from the app.sr
ance of the towns of Ohio through which I
journeYed yesterday, wherein tue buildings gen.
orally seemed knocked up only for temporary
occupancy.
We were spirited away from Buffalo's suburbs
at the rate OF forty miles per hour over a level
plain cut up with fences into little patches or
farms, cultivated with great thrift; reaching Tc-
nawanda, the first considerable town or village,
In twelve miles. The contrast between the man
ner in which it and the villages of Northern
Ohio are built up is very great indeed, and
strikes the observer most agTeeably. At Tona-
wanda we crossed the Erie canal, covered with
boats and saw-logs that had come down the lakes
10 De sawed, probably at that point; the canals
expansive basins there being full of them
From Buffalo the route to Niagara Falls laws
as far as have yet trave,sed it, upon the bank Of
Niagara river, with Grand Island in full view.
Out presenting no features worth noting here
Much Of the country Immediately bordering the
railroad track on the south IS cultivated with
degree Of neatness unknown in our section of the
Union, except Immediately adjoining our large
cites, while not little Of it is sin the stump
or In the original TIMBER the latter take H. be
ing almost entirely undrained patches of swamp
arabic land being too valuable hereabout to b.
held ulcult N theao
the ground are remarkably fine, the wheat especi-
ally much Of which, by-theby, is not vet ready for
the reaper, by perhaps a week though our wheat
harvest in Virginia and Maryland was entirely
over quite a month ago. Their oats on the othe;
hand seem half to have been cut; reversing the
order Of things with US.
On reaching Niagara Falls found at the Inter
national It's usual summer crowd numbering ,ix
or eight hundred Of pleasure seekers embracing
large portion Of Southerners Of wealth and fash
Ion. The enpressario, Mr.. Coleman, also of the
Eutaw House, Baltimore, has greatly extended
the capacity Of the establishment since last sea
son, and completed the establishment of the
grounds then In progress My stay there was
necessarily short only long enough to afford me
an opportunity 10 run over the usual haunts of
Inc sightseeing world congregating here at this
unle OF the year, and more especially to-day.
rope suspended over the Niagara river, a short
distance above the Suspension Bridge. as when
was here last summer. At least ten thousand
gaping persons in all must have attended to wit
ness his performance from the snrrouDding dis
trlcs OF New York and Canada besides thousan6s
VINO are no" soJourning at the many hotels here
on Doth sides Of the river. At the international
the guests, most Of them, ate dinner like mad IN
hasten down to the bridge to catch a glimpse Of
the wonder OF the hour. AS had often seen
Blondin upon the tight rope when a member nj
the Ravel troupe, probably in the identical pink
ughs ana rusted spangles in which he exhibited
MS agility this afternoon, l preferred leisure,y
discussing mine host Coleman . dinner, to ma X NO
one OF the humbugging Frenchman's follower;
tne oihner Aforesaid being one Of the most re-
etsrehs feeds ever sat down to-
As, last summer, on a similar tour discou,sed
the STAYS readers al HaEssHnl, l fear, concern
ing Niagara Falls, its curiosity shops, quartz
breed Canada Indian female traders. bedizeued
so as TO attract the attention Of green youuq ,uns
Of the other with change LAYING around
loose In their pockets especially; It's Suspension
Bridge, persevering but unusually ell-behaved
hackmen; It's spruce, but essentially self-impor-
tant copPer-colored hotel walters; and the mi
versal habit Of nearly all incident 20 the locatt,
on both sides Of the water, Of managing to ret .
quarter out OF every stranger from distance
coming here. without absolutely asking for tt
shall refrain from treating more at length of nj.
agara Falls in this letter
Late this afternoon. again took train upon
the Central Railroad, this time for Rochester
AT the Bridge s,opping-Place there came aboard
at least five hundred Blondin sight-seers Of both
sexes, indigenous to the region round about,
wide awake and fun Of uproarious fun, all OF
them To get them aboard and comfortably
seated caused delay Of near fifteen minutes. 40
great was the crowd in the huge depot of the
company awaiting, also, the departure of succeed
Ing trains In other directions. A case of pock,t
Pieking, on being made known, swayed the
tnrong TO and fro as overcrowded audience
In theatre will be sgitated by cry of ERE
ne new corners in our train being settled, we
SCI on again-sPeedIng at the rate Of full forty
miles per hour, over the most artistIc,IIv cnI,i.
waited plains 10 this country 1t really does nv
heart good to see the agriculture Of mis- par,ic.
uiar section Of New York once a wear: for I
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