New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-09-30

Inquired of stu lent efsnairs whose judgment often
good about the Republican prospects to carry this State
in the fall election. Said no g" think the chances
better TO carry the State than they after Garfield
died. when 1t easily went Republican. There is better
feeling In the party. The exasperatons of few po
longer affect wide circles of minor politicians
There being boss In the party the workers
drawn nearer each other. Albany politicians
general rule think that Cleveland has not the eastt
chance at the Presidency"
Few American. have any idea about the weiIsnd
Canal looked at this achievement Of the Cana
dams last week the Great Western Railroad Of Canada
runs beneath the canal by tunnel; the old eiland
Canal which still used. lies two three miles to
the OF the present The old canal towpath
aud did not admit steam-tug ccncident with
the vessel fourteen feet of water when
high water but in summer drouth II Is said 10 be
less than fourteen feet II m9gncently constructed
work eIctes surprise that the Americans should have
permitted the Canadians TO anticipate them Yet viii
be observed that tho facilities for this canal through
Canada much better than through the United States.
The axis OF the two lakes Erie and Ontario. passes
through Canada tho Niagara River issues from tho
extreme eastern end Of Lake Erie, while Lake ontario
oyerlaps Erie considerably in Canada Is rather
| startling TO moving through the apparently solid
ground for country high where the new Wei
land Canal Is blt, tall massive ocean steamers, full
rugged ships etc. sometimes continuous caravan
the desert They 90 along silently not sound
or whistle escaping thcm and the visitor sometimes
thinks mind deceived aad that the Handicapped
| haunted.
current objection TO many OF these great apartment
houses their undressing exterior this can DO said
OF the costly building in Fifth toye the Brunswick
which is built OF pale intrusive stone and all its
mentation be high up In the air. The portals OF
few OF these any proportion to their height
and they consequently look like jas or converts. or
negnbory italian palaces in the midst OF the other
wise genial town.
During the week paid flying visit 10 st. GATHERINGS
in Canada place OF ten thousand people and in parts
duplicate OF many English towns II has the same kind
OF circular winding in the business portion with
small wo-stOry OF nearly uniform height and
style completely inciosing 1t this street the
brow OF Bluff below which winds the twelve milo
creek The little weand Canal just out Of town to the
south and the big welland Canal Just out OF town
to the north The business Of 81. GATHERINGS Il chiefly
shipping and It q thing 20 see In the saloon
windows models wood OF the lake aud canal steamers
some OF them yars long pans seem TO be taken
In Canadian towns initiate ngsh church architecture
and 10 build the villas IN the enyirons IA the
abbey style common IN England The Canadian people
neither English A. ericsn they are slower than
the English, queter thA.. Americana. anu there y
remarkable scotch adnKtnre among them which espec-
tally tells Ia features OF the women VINO otea have
line eyes and with stuned noses aud very long lips
The Canadian men arc polite retiring. not full OF
information AID carry idea OF very genial pro-
persons not quite sure OF their status or conVe-
tons and who would rather halt than do anything.
Governor Dorshsmer who Is friend OF Frederick t.
| O,n,t, d. tho landscape gardener remarked 20 mo
recently While goiug up the Hudson River Railroad
How shlnefuy railroads have been allowed 10 take
the banks and streams for the own the public
having had nothing say In the matter But in England
they have river commission which has in the case OF
almost every sylvan stream or irequened Hight
way forced the railroad and made respect the prop
erty Of the people in tho beauties Of nature Sec tic
Hudson riyer-dcstroyed The malaria that has 50
much cheapened its villa properties ana adcctcd The
growth towns, arises nom railroads enlDabkng
the mouths creeks throwing causewa with amin
sufficient calvert them add creating an inner
lagoon siekly and unsghtly In some places now aman
cannot drive or ride the peril Of his life, the
great of the country that have become green Win
aged trees generally crossed and recrossed as
needle through corkscrew by the private cor
poration Often railroad builds for miles right be-
side the old road asfying to force travet abandon
We can never recover our Tho Thames, RON
its source tho Is tie same sylvan thhg u was
The Hudson, the Connecticut the Delaware, the Lenigh
are connscatd far Joy 10 horse more fatal
to pictures ueness than which entered Troy"
Isaw the new bridge few feet from the old suspcn
1
ing thing right rivers edge III that deep gorge
rise two lron lattice bolted into stone founda-
tons When they have become 10 feet high, they arc
not up to the level Of the plateau Behind them, against
| the almost perpendicular scare, higher timber
trestles hear that trusses, projected from these to
| TO gers, arch like are to hold the bridge up.
Almost every nan OF ordinary notorety not TO say
reputation having done anything above the COM
mon is pescred by autograph solicitors Many OF these
are coarse Ignorant people their letters sho" others
are pedders autographs clerks III stores ana
Young Hebrews intent money from infancy VINO nave
heard that there il some money to be made in auto
graphs and that they cost nothing and who therefore,
while underngs APPRENTICESHIP into beg them oy man,
The use these autographs afterward put TO Is tte
short OF forgery patent medicine man recently used
them for his almanac A" precocious boy rs his parents
described him, having gotten from various people Ny
letters awakening encouragement or sympathy,
sltographc bits of sentiment recently puOllshed them
In newspaper as proof of the "precocy OF the boy. ae
probably .upposng like actors mo study par snas
he wrote piece. gentleman, to give TINS young
Nimrod of autographs respectable philosophy OF life.
wrote for hum There eau be happiness without sue
cess peanng that mind and duty and misunderstood
! ness gave more Joy than vulgar prosperity. Ins
Samaritan found himself speedily credted with the ssn
| ment: "Thore can be happiness without success
| He at least sends more autographs. The goose IL
| killed that laid those cabastiacggs
| Riding through New-York State, met an Emira man
and asked him what OF Bcecher the Rev. Thomas
Beecner hore uight be- Said he: Hesa good preacher
| bnt odd ms others OF the family. He wears queer
slouched hats aud goes amongst publicans and sinners
and his last religious performance is to uphold suicide as
in sone casss Christian duty" Perhaps Mr. Beeeher
| wa misunderstood.
| The Grand Trunk Railroad OF Canada, now OF tue
United States too has become almost monopoly, hay
| ing only tho Canadian Pscdc Railroad for rival IL
has eaten up the Great Western oil Canada ana thst Is
why the New-York Central and Michigan Central Rail-
roads are building now bridge the Niagara River.
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