Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-08-08

with the persistence of mosquitoes; on the
Canada side they bully you with the impu-
dence and offensivencss of Britons. If you
stand still they surround and interrupt you;
IL you walk they drive across your path
The breed Of huckstering guides and bully
ing hackmen about Niagara are the most
offensive and intolerable nuisance to be
found on this continent. The only way to
bluff them when they become too impu-
dent and persistent is to allow them to look
into the barrel of your revolver; they sud-
denly become docile and civil.
The undersigned expects to be excused
from attempting description OF Niagara
Falls. He does not wish to be responsible
for spelling the pleasure of any reader who
may hereafter visit the cataract, and he
would advise prospective tourists to take
the precaution to forget all book descrlp-
tionsand pictures before looking at the Won
der. He aspires only to record few obser-
vations there and thereabouts.
Although the Canada side is the best from
which to view the Falls, it is not the most
agreeable place for an American just at
this time. That shore appears to be inhab-
tied by three classes of people: runaway
negroes, native snobs, and a reserve force OF
bounty jumpers, deserters, Loyal Leaguers,
and Southern secessionlsts who are too lazy
to work, too cowardly to fight, and just in
tellgent enough to hate the Union. The
Clifton House has large custom from this
latter class, of whom only one out OF every
score is entitled to any respect, or receives
any. The negroes are the LATEST, and most
impudent shiftless, worthless set of rascals
in the world, and they find congenial asso-
ciates in the deserters and runaway con-
tractors and Loyal Leaguers whom they
patronize and sometimes employ. 1t is no
eXaggeration to say, that among all the
classes enumerated there is not particle of
sympathy or regard for the Government (that
is the Constitution) of the United States |;
but their favors are about equally divided
between Abe Lincoln and jeff. Davis. The
negroes and the runaway Leaguers admire
Abe Lincoln; the British and Secessionists
admire and approve of the course of JEFF.
Davis; but all agree in hating the govern
ment which both sides would aid in over
throwing.
The Kannucks about Niagara have habit
of depreciating government money, which
is decidedly to their profit. That for which
they say they will charge a shillingin Can
madam money, they will charge dollar in
greenbacks, and at this rate of discount they
are eager to relieve the "bloody Ameri-
cans" of their ''bloody shinplasters." They
appear to live by swindling Americans and
visitors, and if the American travel was to
be suddenly stopped, they would take de-
light in swindling each other. They are
wonderfully perplexed at times to know
how much extortion their victim will bear,
and when you pay thirty cents for glass
of water with rind of squeezed lemon in
it, the waiter will get fit of melancholy
because he did not charge fifty cents.
Hotels are numerous about the Falls, and
all are full at this time. Of them all the
Mont Eagle, at Suspension Bridge, is
the best most pleasantly situated, and ex-
cellently conducted. 1t is new and mag
nificent establishment, kept by MIR. o.
Camp, whose rates, So and 81 per day, are
the most reasonable to be met with on the
journey, as his house is the best.
After pleasant stay at the Falls, and a
pretty thorough inspection of all their Won
ders, our party crossed the lake on the steam
er Atlantic, and, taken altogether. had an
agreeable voyage, albeit a number of ladies
on board experienced the peculiar and unro-
mantle sensation of sea sickness. The trans
mission from Cleveland to Columbus was
safe and speedy, and we returned to the fa-
miliar haunts and routine duties, con-
vinced of the truth of the observation OF
an ancient wanderer, that ''howsoever
pleasant it may be, the banquet of jour
ney is the arrival at home" w.