New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-05-22
FROM NEw.voRx TO ST. LOUIS.
Matters I'm Illinois and Missouri.
From Or Own Correspondent

rrcm Ouf Owp Conesponcebr
rol Sr. LOUIS, May 10, 1s6l-P.s.
Sancho Psnza passed away too early. Were no
alive in this year of or Lord he would not only IN
woke blessings upon "ihe man who invented sleep
but extend his benedicton TO the person who intro
duced sleeping-ears. Who was the inventor The
name of that pbilantbropst, through whom the New
Yorker seek his pillow at night before leav-
ing the Great Metropolis and sleep at the rate OF 20
miles an hour, soundly il rocked in the cradle OF
the deep until he ia awakened for breakfast at Aha
n.y. should not be concealed from grateful posterity.
The Empire State as from the Erie road differs
radically from the view oft obtained upon The Central
One is forest the other garden. One is region Of
mountain, rock and woodland, where Nature, with
few checks, is still sovereign; the other series of
smiling valleys, dotted with "beehives ofthe human
kind "a land as Emerson says Of England, finished
with the pencil instead Of the plow.
reached Suspension Bridge on Sunday morning.
and was compelled 20 lie over until Monday; but there
may be more affective dispensa,ions, for tie i'm
patient traveller than Sabbath at Niagara Fails.
One mans meat is another mans poison, morally IS
well as phy sicaIly, ard perhaps there those who
would be injured by deyong the Day OF Rest to view
ing the Great Cataract from the neigbboring groves,
which were God first temples" but Others surely
may find true Sabbath in laying their tired heads
upon the breast of Nature and feeling the pusaiions OF
her great, loving heart.
IL is going to rain" remarked the landlord OF INC
hotel never hear the roar Of the Falls 80 PLAINLY
except before a Storm" He proved true prophet, as
indeed his hibernatons o1ght to make him. for though
living within two hundred yards OF the river he has
not crossed it for three years twonid be superfuons
TO add that be is not Of American birth. The vislng
season has not commenced; but the harpies OF the
Falls are already gathered, waiting for their victims.
Step out Of your hotel, turn corner, and one OF
them instantly pounces upon you Their DOMAIN IS
more tolerable than the pandemonium OF hackmen AZ
New-York depo: or steamboat landing, only because
they are more quiet. Decorous manners even III
leecbes are above all praise; and if one were SEN
tened to be hung, suppose polite Sheriff would
materially mitigate the unpleasantness OF his fate.
Everybody at the Falls is anxious to shield you from
the impositions Of everybody else. The driver whom
you are pay ing one dollar per hour the vender who IS
selling You Indian bead-work at aproft OF fifty per
cent, and the guide who 10 charging you small for
tune for conducting you places which you could find
oui,e as well without him each you against the
other; while the precocious boy who offers you a
bit of slate from under the Fas for two shimgs can
tons you to beware of them all. Such consideration
for your welfare is indeed gratifying but the man who
can be surprised or vexed high charges had better
avoid popular Summer resorts.
From the Suspension Bridge, two miles below, three
sections Of the cataract visible. First the lower
end of the American Fall, which ia nearly continual
ton Of the line Of vision from your standpoint to it,
lie hue is green, with Jets and streaks OF white and
is smooth face conveys the impression OF the seg'
Inent of slowly revolving wheel rather than of tum-
bling WATER Then beyond the dense foliage Of Goat
leland appears another section of the FALL parted IN
the middle by the the Island. ts water IL oil
snowy wilderness, and il looks like immense frozen
fountain Still further 10 the great Horseshoe Fall, Of
which Won obtain nearly full view. IL deep green
surface 10 draped at the base in clouds of pure white
mist.
Seen from the bridge, the Falls throw over you the
quiet, so,thing influence Of their beiuyi n when,
II the Canada iile you g. down beneath Table Re-
and past the long block Of ce which res t. thus far all
the wooing of Spring until you under the sheet Of
water, you feel their power and sublmty. Here You
look out uToa the Of snowy am below, or through
the rainbow hues of the vast sweeping curtain above
and feel the solid earth trembe at the unceasDg thun
dtrs Of the cataract. think one, however un
imaginative, could long remain here alone without
feeling somewhat akin TO the thought Of Mrs
Sigourney:
Flow on forever, IN thy glorious robe
Ofteuor and Of beauty. Yea, flow on
S9isihoS ed and ES'.s,. God hath ;s
Mantled around thy feet
To stand or lie upon Table Rock and look down
nearly two hundred feet into the seetbng cauldron
below il good schoo for the nerves. There are few