Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-07-25

not fail to notice the great improvement
in agriculture within the last few years.
The farms yield abundant returns for
labor, and everywhere the moving aud
resping machines have usurped the
place of the scythe and cradle, The
grain is nearly all harvested, and / am
told the crops are very large throughout
the whole country have passed through.
There are no signs of devastating war,
but the Goddess of Plenty has poured
from the Southern into the Northern lap
How unlike the South, with its aban-
doned homes, dssolate fields, and beg
CARED inbabitantsl The hay crop this
season is unusually large and fne.
Corn stands well, and is Of good color,
bat gradually diminishes in size as one
approaches this latitude. On the
whole, the prospects we're never more
hattering for farmers than now.
The gay season at this place has fairly
commenced, and crowds of visitors are
arriving by every train. The first i'm
preston is that many of them will have
to camp out, and that those human
storehouses known as hotels will not ae-
commodate them ALL The International
and Gatewood houses are great institu-
tions-spacious, airy and convenient.
At the former house, where am stop
ping, fine band is in constant attend
ance, and handbill almost invariably
announces Hop this evening" Those
who do not hop can look on gratui-
tousIy. The most charming thing
in such society is the ease and
simplicity noticeable in all All
the restraints of society are thrown of,
pleasure is the object Of all, and TO seek
this each one acts as he or she pleases,
and no one seems to care for the opin.
ions of others, except in the drawing
room, where beauty and dress have the
usual sway. One lady appears at the
breakfast table in morning wrapper,
another in full costume; one party rides
to the Falls, another walks, and all
seem equally delighted. Of course, no
one comes here without plenty of mo.
ney, so poverty or stinginess are never
char ged to any ones account. The
people seem very attentive, and almost
anticipate every wish. Every carriage
driver knows you want to ride, or ought
to, and where you want or ought to go;
and one dollar will take you there, just
as easily and invariably as FIVE viii
bring you back. 1t 10 no trouble to
ride, but on the contrary to walk, and
the driver can never understand the
joke if one says be prefers to walk
The grand joke to-day on everybody
tongue is of an exorbitant carriage
driver who got handsomely fogged, and
did not afterwards try to collect any
portion of his fare. That incident
pleasss everybody.
Nearly every shop is bazaar where
all sorts of Indian curiosities are ex
hibited, and presume scOuId be sold or
proper application. Fans with birt
in the centre cool the air; slippers sucl
as Cinderella might have envied, ant
trinkets supposed 10y the sellsrs) to b
indispensable to human happiness, ar
rest the eye at almost every step. Some
shops are modest enough to advertis
for some one particular nation, but on
fourishes the name of Six Nations.
As for the sights, they are the sam
as heretofore. Goat Island, Cave-in
Wind (where / received a handsom
sprinkling under the Falls), Tabl
Rock, and Museum, one could neve
tire of I met Judge Iglehart an,
Mayor Baker, with their families, her
this morning. q
Tomorrow / shall start down the 81
Lawrence River to Montreal, and theme
| shall go by the Grand Trunk Railroa
to Portland, probably stopping at tn
White Mountains. fl see or hear AM
. thing interesting, you shall hear fror
, me again.
Truly yours, l..