Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-07-14

THE RAPIDS. FOR LAKE CHAdPLAIN-
VERMONT AND THE GREEN NOUN
TAINs-CHARMNe WEATHER, ETC,
ETC.
NIAGARA FALLS, June 80.
Who says Niagara's dull? Who says
Niagara's stupid ? Who says Niagara's
"played out" Let them come and see
for themselves, let them come and "drive
dull care away" and fan the sinking fame
of hilarity, as Dick Swiveler says, and
see if Mother Nature furnishes more fer
tile field where the lovers of the grand
and beautiful may pursue their favorite
strolls, where health and happiness go
more lovingly hand in hand to meet each
journeying pilgrim, where more bewitch-
ing feminine loveliness, fully posted in
the arts of general fascination" can be
found, or where pleasanter times general
ly, can be found.
NIAGARA
Is unquestionably the modern wonder OF
the world. The mighty flow of many
waters, the ceaseless laundering of the
" fieet-winged flood can but make the
deepest impression ON the soul of man,
and direct his thoughts from "Nature
ND to Naturs's God"
WHO FIRST SAW NIAGARA? +?
Is question which often presents itself
to the awe-stricken beholder. What
must have been his emotion on beholding
the
Mighty, grand, majestic river,
Rumbling, tumbling, falling ever"
With its
eRoar ne'er eeasng, tide ne'er ending,
Rainbows in their beauty bending,
Telling of a gracious being,
Father, king, and God Ger ALL"
For the first time, the first white man
who ever beheld Niagara, is said to have
been Father Hennepin, a Jesuit Priest,
who upon his return to the civilized COM
munities, gave an account of his discoy-
cry; estimating the Falls to be six or
seven hundred feet high. Fair real height
however, is, the American Falls 164, and
the Horse Shoe 15S feet.
THE SUMMER SEASON
here " does beat all" For a few years
past Niagara, and visitors TO it have been
most outrageously abused, but they find
that that method of treatment isn't so
profitable in the end, and now, one can
visit Niagara as economically as any place
of resort on the line of the American sum-
mer tour with no more fear OF being
robbed or plundered than at Saratoga,
Lake George or the Green Mountains.
| THE COMPANY.
Is coming in faster and faster every day.
The famous international Hotel has its
! compliment of sweet sixteens, whilst the
bevy of brides always TO be found in this
season is far greater than ever before, until
the International is almost over run
with tourists even at this early day. Last
Sunday there were forty seven bran new
brides sojourniDg there, and there isn't
the least doubt but that next Sunday full
three score and ten happy pairs of souls,
just made happy by the genial Hymen.
will gather around Fulton's festal board
One thing is certain, the doings of Cupid
Hymen & Co., will most effectually in-
crease the years income Of the American
clergy, whilst in the same proportion it
will diminish the single bedstead business.
and add TO the sale of double furniture.
One of the most attractive and agreeable
features of Niagara Falls is
GOAT ISLAND.
This cozy shady nook, tastily laid out.
in the eoziest of walks and drives, is Just
the place to HE away at noon tide, when
the sun is at the highest, to seek the re-
freshing breezes which nestle through its
shady groves, TO watch the sprightly
squirrels and chipmucks as they skip from
bough to bough, to listen to the sweet
songs of the feathery tribes, or to sit on
the shores of the island, TO watch the
roaring tide as it takes its final plunge il
to the abyss below; to see the birds, as if
in defiance of old Onyakara's" power,
sail gracefully up till their very wings
touch the seething waters, and then with
sharp swoop glide into the air above;
or TO enjoy day dreams, lulled into a state
almost of somnambnlance, by the mighty
roar.
| THE EXODUS
Down the lake, through the famous thou
sands islands and the grand rapids of the
st. Lawrence to Montreal, and the Lower
Canada. A majority of the people who
leaves here, so Col Barber the gentle
manly ticket agent tells u, takes tickets
for the Lake Champlain route many stop
ping over at Burlington and going TO the
favorite Mount Mansfield and Stowe, in
the Green Mountains.
OUR WATERING PLACES
are all going to enjoy a season to eclipse
anything yet known, during the coming
| fashionable term of 1870.
| Yours &c,
CLAYTON