The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1862-05-15

Gus trains; to get another sprinkling in the
spray which yet surrounds the boiling tor.
rent OF Niagara, and to look around Buffalo
fsw hours, not having been there before
since 4s. It now numbers, they say, a..
600 inhabitants. Wesaw an iron propeller
on Che stocks, 275 feet in length, designed
for the lake trade, and witnessed the open.
ing OF the canal, an event of some impor-
lance which happened on the day we were
there. The Lake feet, with grain from
Chicago was just commencing to arrive
$50 were on the way.
We took passage on the Erie Railway
from Buffalo. This road runs through trains
from both Buffalo and Dunkirk to New York.
It is now under very able management, and
is doing large business. 1t is broad guage,
and the cars are unusually easy and pleas
ant to ride in. The scenery, too, is attract
i've, not so marked as the Baltimore and Ohio.
but of the same character, mountains,
streams, expensive bridges, deep cuts, &c.
Near New York is tunnel over mile in
length. The residence of Hon. D. s. Dick
inson, near the track, in Binghampton, was
pointed ont to us. The towns on the line
of this road are numerous, some quite large,
and most Of them beautiful. This road ia
some 40 miles long. and still they run it ia
some g Or Ia hours. The landing is on
North river, directly opposite the foot of
Chambers street. fiiisitta .iea r, !;
In New York, the metropolis Of the con-
tlnent, yet the metropolis, spite Of rebellion,
the same countless throng rushes ceaselesly
thro' Oh her streets; ponderous machines
are yet laboring to supply millions with
news from the four quarters of the globe ;
Wall street still counts her exhaustless stores
of treasure the same dense forest of masts
ris up all round on East and North Rivers,
and her marble palace Hotels are still crowd.
ed with every nation, people and kindred
under thesun. No consequences of war are
visible on the surface at New York. Take
rice from the Battery to Central Park
Get into horse car, pay cents, and ride
D miles, nearly straight ahead, through
dense blocks Of buildings, and you get some
idea of the size of New York. Go up in the
evening. we did, and wander around an
hour or so through the Their solitude of the
TOO acres which New York has dedicated To
the health other millions of people. Here
you will find every variety of scenery, from
the lawn and flower garden, to the rock
covered Hill, the winding lake, the sparkling
fountain, forest, shade and ornamental trees.
twas wonderful change from the glare Of
innumerable gas lights and thronging thou
sands, to the solitude of Central Pnrk.
A great place. is New York and contains
many curiositics besides Barnum's Museum,
but it is 2 o'clock, and we are off into New
Jersey, the land ofapples, peaches and blue
chickens. We pass the classic shades Of
Princeton, came to Trenton. then Whining
ton, Philadelphia with her nuisance Of six
.A-ssS" VI HoioS i0utOdu, tLtH OVcT Ifl6 lSTTy,
cars and all into Maryland, on to Baltimore.
and forty miles to Washington, evidences Of
war becoming quite noticeable as soon as
we entered Maryland, in the shape of senti-
nels guarding bridges and standing guard
along the track and encamped at intervals.
Baltimore was abundently supplied with
soldiers. aa eaaf .oea "a
But having deposited ourselfat Kirk
woods, the best Hotel in the Federal Capt.
tol, we must rest, reserving what we have
to say of Congress, the Departments, the
blacks, and over the Potomac, un-
til next week, only abiding here to the fact
that we met end were very politely and
kindly treated by numerous Towans, among
the number our Delegation in Con-
gress, Messrs. Grimes, Harlan, and Wilson.
Hon. j. A. Kasson, first assistant, then Act
ting, Post Master General, Hawkins TAYLOR
Esq, and others. To Hon. James F. VIII.
son we are under Especial obligations for
grateful attentions saza
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