The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-05-22
From our Travelling Correspondent.
Ohio Fciver-Cincinnati
Mountains-NewY York.

NEW York, May 17.-It will be perceived, from
| the heading Of this letter. that have taken a
pretty considerable leap since my last, which, it
will be remembered, was dated from Louisville.
The fact Of the matter is that your correspondent
having grown tired OF his Bohemian " life, and
being particularly anxious to get back into his le-
gitimate traces at the good old
NEWS Office, had suddenly made up his mind to
take up his line Of march for "home, sweet home.
yet thought 1t just well to choose route tabout
| half thousand miles out Of the way, more or
less) thatwould afford an opportunity Of glance
q" pdssant at the Big City before returning home
to settle down once more. Your readers will OF
course, be delighted to learn that the Quaker Otu
which leaves here on Saturday next will number
Bohemian" among its distinguished (and sea.
sick) passengers.
In consequence Of the fact that since my last I
have been Ia state of confusion worse con-
founded, arising from the rapdity Of my tr anstion
from one place to another, or, more properly
speaking, from one place to several others, nv
letter is apt to reflect said confusion and present
at best, but aconglomerated mass of kaleidoscopic
views.
left Louisville for Cincinnati in a floating pal
ace called the General LytQe, at noon on Sun
day. At the came hour (on the same Sunday al
opposition palace, the Wild Wdgoner, started
from an adjacent wharf, and the two palaces
forthwith began to run race, which Was very
pretty and exceedingly exciting, yet disagreeably
suggestive Of general bow-up We had hardly
proceeded a mile on our way, the broad and beau
tiful banks Of Tho majestic river seeming to fit
past us with the velocity OF the wind, when OBJ
served that the two boats wero about to collide,
and Immediately made preparations for cool
bath and display of scientific swimming. They
did collide. but, mira5ic dictu! no damage was
done, and the two steamers whilst racing ran
alongside OF each other as closely as though
chained together, and many Of the passengers
(of course Bohemian" among the number) walked
backward and forward from one to the other du-
ring the exciting race. This happened often,
and learned from our captain that tho Wild
Wagner did 1t purposely to be drawn along by
the suction following thus in the wake OF our
steamer. Having occasion to land on opposite
sideS OF the river we got out of the, what I may
call, suction proximity, and We beat the race.
Arriving ut Cincinnati, I had an opportunity Of
seeing the longest suspension bridge in the world
(not yet quite completely which spans the Ohio
| st this point. -.
A stsy Of couple Of hours in Cincinnati only
allowed me to observe two things in hurried and
6enoiaA ulapuer-nfbts tnht IL lS 8 megnfhcent
and fourishing city; and secondly, that the break
fasts at tho Burnett House are not unacceptable
to the hungry traveller.
Before starting for Now York, ola the -,
think 1t is called Pennsylvania Central or Pan
Handle route-"Boheman" insured his life for
fortyeght hours for six thousand dollars, on pay
ment OF forty cents, and then jumped boldly into
| the cars.
The scenery along the Allegheny Mountains is
inexpressibly grand tho broad sidos OF tho noun
tains rising in Incompatible sublimity as though
seeking to penetrate the canopy of Heaven ITSELF
and raise thoir rugged peaks oven to the side of
the Great Throne blazing in tho retulgent splen-
dor canght from the luminous rays of million
| suns that tight tho mansions OF the Great Om-
nipotent. Hore bold and rocky precpces-horo
deep ravines-and anon We are whired along tho
| 'Horse- Shoe Gap" which, as it's namo implies,
| is shaped like horseshoe, where the coup Geil
Is 80 superbly magnificent that no pen (much
less my feeble one) can or dare attempt to paint
the sublime picture drawn by the hand of the
Great Architect himsolf.
Arriving in New York In due time-losing the
six thousand dollars and the forty cents for incur
ance premium--I find this great city as Ii ever is,
and ever shall bo the greatest city on the Amcri-
can Continent. There are many magnificent
cities In the United States, but Now York excels
them ell, as does the grandeur Of the majestic
mountain tho pretensionaof petty hill. Now
York Is the city after all.