Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-08-15

FFom New York.

NEW YoRK, Aug. u, 1861.
koRErEe LlADER:--As you make private
opinions and impressions known to the
world, msy net ask yOu 20 print mins.-
Lake all correspondents who wish to COM
municate their thoughts to the public, l
have no doubt that what shall have TO
say will be just what Is reeded, and will
fll a void that would have been severely
felt had churlishly maintained silence, or
not made this trip 10 the Metropolitan city.
It Is a pleasant thing to See ones ideas in
print but how much more agreeable when
one knows he can say just what is most at
lrac'ive and entertaining to a fastidiOus pub
lie. AllwFiiers think just as do, but many
are more sly in their self-praise, from fear
that they will bethought egOtistical. never
like to fnd that ont in any writer through
numerous repedtiOns in sly way, for It is
20 much time wasted.
Railroads IS modern institution are a
very nice thing in their way, and to go ay-
ing along, luxuriously seated, at a speed of
thirty miles an hour, over ground that you
have toiled painfully but as many miles
day, gives one feelings Of peculiar satisfac-
tion, but cannot be brought to admit that
= railroad carriage, however elegant how
eter comfortable, csn be compared to the
steamboat, when brought mo competition.
mean such boats as make their nightly trips
between Buffalo and Cleveland. Those two
leviathans are no more like what the lake
steamers twenty years ago were, than an old
fashioned stage coach Is like a railroad car.
The relative speed Is about the same, but
the water craft take the lead so far as com
fort is concerned, for night travel.
The President of the United Sta'es is con-
csded TO be the FIRST parsonage In the land,
butt was long disputed point who stood
second. Public opinion varied as 70 wheth-
er It was the steamboat captain OF the rail-
road conductor, but that was a good while
ago, when there were only disconnected
stretchesof railroad between Buffalo and AL.
bany when the Empire and Wisconsin were
the proud queens Of the lakes. The traveller
of that day will remember how small and
humble he felt when approached by the
great man who demanded, in a voice COM
mensurate with his importance, ';your ticket,
sir, and how meekly he took the iostling
and croWding at the stations to obtain his
baggage. He can never forget with what
awe he looked upon the exalted prsonage of
the autocrat of the deck, as be strobe pomp-
ously up and down, possessed with the gran
deur Of his position, telling the little world
around him, in unmistakable language 81
am hel" How be mounted the wheel house
in going into port and grandly gave out his
orders, swearing big oaths, which were echoed
and re-echoed BY his mates till they found
port into the ears OF the labbers of
the deck hands. The names Of many Of
these great men are remembered by us old
felix's, but how sad to think that before
score more Of years have pissed they will
not live even in the page of history. The
ignorant young people of to-day have little
knowledge of these past great men, and
know nothing Of either only as very COM
mon and obligng individnal, who makes very
little show and attends simply to his bust
ness.
One peculiarly pleasant feature in travel
ing on the Buffalo md Cleveland boats is
the quiet with which they are managed
You hear no orders given, you see no one
who puts on the airs Of a boss but at the
tinkling of a bell, the engine, as if irnbued
with human intelligence, moves like giant
refreshed with slumber, and the huge craft
moves off into the dsrk waste Of waters, and
with the speed Of an arrow and the strength
Of q Titan she goes on her way. You retire
10 luxurious bed, sleep soundly and awake
two hundred wiies away, rested cooled by
the bracing breeze, and after eating good
breakfast with hunger for your sauce, step
on shore in Buffalo, fresh and prepared for
any exertion.
have taken you TO the quiet and melan-
choly city Of Buffalo, and lets you begin to
draw comparisons between me and the great
dry bore at the Ohio State capital, viii stop.
Yours, DnAcOS.