The New York Herald Newspaper, June 27, 1859, Page 8

NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, JUNE 27, 1859.—TRIPLE SHEET. OUR COUNTRY CORRESPONOECE. | EXCURSIONS TO THE SOUTH AND West, RAILROAD AND STEAMS3AT SKETCHES. The Potomac Richmond to Knvxvilic “ne Blue Ridge Mountains tne Virviala Springs—Bnoxvite to Memphis — tae Hbselsslppl—Uieksburg fo St. Louis and New York, Bey Ae. Rte Pleasure excareions and the of watering places tre as much ¢epeadevt on the caprices of fashion aa are sensation mivisters or femioine Axings, If it were other wise, the beautiful scenery of the Soath and Sruthwost would not be #0 unfamiliar to our tourists, health seskers apd pleasure excursioniste, Saratoga mens be pow and agein profitably exchsnged for the Suipbur Springs, Now port for Oid Point Comlort, Niagara for the caves of Koo wcky, and @ cail among tne Taousand Isiauds of the Ss Lawrence might be foregone for a season in exchange for & trip down the Missigeippl or up the Missouri, Ba fesbion bas for the time decreed that its gay volaries most patronize Saratoga, and Newport, and Niagara, and Cape May, and the St. Lawrence, and be utterly ovlivioas that the Virginia springs, the Kentucky caverns, tue Southern watering places, the Father of Watere, or the * Big Muddy,” as the Miesourl is sometimes irreverently called, bave avy place expt in geogrephies, or nave avy tlaims upon tourists or pleaenre gecker and yet, to such ag do not dread being deemed unfash- Yonable, we would venture to recommend # Southern summer trip. It might be Mpiched before the seasoa is fully opened at Saratoga or Newport. The mouths of May and June comprise probably the best season of the year for such a trip. What it Jacks in fashion will be more than made vp in novelty and interest; besides, one picks once Stash Cottar y, pot it has ap; of the Kenty cyy gintesmau, and bel fome more dignified aeuKn Dearing tne attire nT OD. W front of & 8wiD) Chay cell ahicn took place im 1856, PO ele ee eee A printed report of the pro: ceediD’ » on that ovcamon hangs framed in the spacious bab Avdland, smong its other attractions, haga rase course, "aid to by o0e of the Soest in the Un States. Tae wil lage seems (o be quite a fashionabie summer resort, hough ibere ac@ LO Springs, moun caus, lekes or other MaLural Ry tyactions In the vicwmity. It nas the reputation, however, of biog extremely calndriogs, aad eo invalids ceme here toseck beslth in the hot season The road between Aqota Creek and Richmond is uafenc. ed, and the cons quence i¢ that the engine driver is con stantly on the gui vive 'o prevent cows and pigs from be- ing prematerely coaverted into baef avd bacon. This be coseitates repeated stoppin; Then, at the varions cross roade, wherever u traveller appears aod waves @ bandker chief, aa a aignal chat be wants to get on board, the train balte'for his mocommovation, Tha the average rate o epeodis far front dangerous. Nevertheless, Richson! ‘Was reached in good time, RICHMOND, 4 saunter in and abou! Richmond, on a summer Sunday afternoon, is very ogreeadle, particularly aiter a long rail esd jaunt, Cspitel equare is the chief oautre 0° attraction for saunterers. From the steps of the Capito! the waters of the James river can be seen gl'stening in the acting eunlight, as they flow babbhingly through the counties ielets that evem striving to block ap the par and at that distauoe can be heard their waceasivg eong of triumph, a8 it were, a6 they succeed in cleariv, theae obstacks aud dash down the rapids or falls, then to flow smoothly and calmly ou im their passage to th: ocean, Turning northward from the steps of the Capito! much prized bailing, the design of which Thomas Joffor kon procured ip France—tbe eye ‘alls upon Orawford’s Urenze equestrian statue of Wosbington, the fame that was ipavgurated with go mueh éclat on the 22d of Febru ary, 1808. Is stands ona lofty pevesta’ of dno granive, quarried op the James river, Tia redestal nas six or eight eideg, the dase being desigved for the reception of a8 many full length bronze statues of emineat Virginians. There ave but two now 1a therr places, and vhese are from the etedio of Crawford, finisued before seath came to close bis career: act of addressing an a the Gre of eloquence, and bis whoie Ggure dilating, Wie, ap in this way @ practical acquaintance witn the ceogra- | bolding the suil scabbarded sword in bis right baad, he phy of the country, Its features become impressed upoa the mind; every mountain and valiey, and river and prairie, daguerreotype themselves in the memory; and town never possess while known ouly by the levers wh form their names. This it is which constitutes one of the greatest charms of travel. Phere is nothing like it in al the frivolous routine which goes to make up a tedious ill- pent day at Congress Hall or the Ocean House. Toere is, however, a sort of lingering saperstition con- ected with Southern travel. Timid peopte seem appre- hensive that the Munchausenish story with waich a Cock- wey uamed Arrowemith was galled a few years ago, ia reference toa sort of sanguinary melo-drams performed on one of the Georgia railroads, was nothing but arepresenta | '@ It tion of ordinary commonplace scenes iu the land of the ton plant, They imagine that revolver and bowie knife rea- eounters on the cars are matters that must be expected, and that the packe; boats on the Mississippi are no better Shan dosting gamb!ing houses, in which ianoceat commer- Giul travellers are boguiled to their ruin, fleeged of aly their reaty cash and spare clot! and esteemed lucky if allowed to ¢ We are afraid the) some such illusions haunt the minds of a great maay pie in the Northern Stases, and are not without their jm keeping tue South an vuknow4 land to those in this re- gion who Dave lelsure aod means to enable them to speat ape with a whole skin. pronounces thore celebrated words, ~Give me Wderty cr give me death.” The cloaked Ogure of Jefferson, with his head dont for. ward in an attitude of deop stady aad mediation, bis in thoaght,one band resting in the and citice are invested with an interest which they | POW compressed jn thongs, one Man te a) Boas @ pen, is gplendidiy suggestive of him who framed the Declaration of Independence. understand that the work of compl-ting thase sub ordinate figures bas been commitied to the care of a com petent artist. When they ere finisned tais moaumout ‘wil’ be the finest in the country. The grounds of the Capitol are wel! kept, and are the resort of she meat respectable peoole of tue city, Io wha, contrast do they stand with the parca of New York, which are a disgrace to the people and goveroment of tho metropolis. There are many objects of interest in and around this pleasant city, but I have already devoted tao mica spars Certainly, Richmond, alt ea its seven ntils, aot unspoiled by aby attempts at grading, is weil worthy of a vii. After Baltimore snd Washicgtoa, the tourist ant pleasure seeker taay profiiabiy spend a couple of days ia the capital of the Old Domiaiva. RICHMOND TO KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE. From Richmond to Knoxville the distance ia geome 459 mileg, and the time consumed in travellig it by railroat ig between twenty teven and twenty eight hours—that te, you leave Richmond at half past flee one morning aad find yourself in Kaoxyille at mine the next moraing. conrge there are several intermediate places where tho traveller may lay over fora day or night, and if he is merely making a pleasure trip, he cannot d> better thaa to etay at Lyachbarg or Wytheville, witnin tha region of the Blue Ridge, Tho worst of this great Southern mail ®everal months anpua! in travel. Of course ther: foundation whatever bugbear app for such The ordiaary politeness of cisilized lite Iine fa, that there is bet ove throagh dally train; so that observed south of Mason and Dixon's | there is no possibility of avoiding night travel; aud there north of it, aud perhaps alittle more en; and the great | fore the opportunity of seeing much of the beautitul pufllng, flat boltomed steamboats thut ply tue Mississippi | Scenery througs which the roid paszessie Lost. On mon are ag elegent in their internal arrapgements and aa weil | toning this to Mr. McDaniel, the President of the Virg erdered in regard to the good cou ara ag | and Tennessee Raijroad, whose acquaiotance I made in ‘any of thoge that run between New York and Newpor | Lynchburg, he toformed me that his road was prepared We have been rece sbed by ove of our to ron two through trains deily, but that the roads east with notes of a trip acrose Virginia aud Teaaesses to | ard weet of bis were not yet prepared to do so; he ex Memphis, and tnence down the Miszissipai to Vickeburg, | pected, howeve 7 thet wrrangements would be made ic returning by wa: Cnsiaua\i aod Baltime They may prove interesting juzt att who csn afford to travel have left the city, and may perhaps in om the Lines of tr society, and to seek in es aud rushing rivers of p P t ssing ope of the inog covered rat the Jamee river at that city. Tae oczasioanl gimneex a4 bridges thas a get of the river op and down reveal deautiful ery, When you loa then, however. there te ne broad sayan- | country through which the road ra@e ts not remarkable to than | einer for beauty of landscape, or for “fertile fisid or o tem, | flowery vale’? But few dewelltogs are to be gern aud ard that | ibose are of the very poorest description There doves not seem tohave ever been any serious efforts mate to | reclaim the !and from the forest, and to bring it in'o cul | ture; and euéh efforts as were made haye not been c.o7n | ed with any very flattering success. Twenty two wiles from Richmond isa ham'et called | Powhatan. Tt does not, however, occupy the site secrived bis of owa by | lttle further to interest you for ecores of miles. , lowery pri Bew region of co ebange of so welts fas! aad ns. able coureer of ordinary summ TSE roromac. There are two routes between Washington aad x mond; the one is by steamer down the ereek, fifty Mve miles, and thence Fredericksburg snd Potomac Railroad, a peventy five miles; the other is by cars or boat tw Alex- | @ndria, thence by the Orange and Alezandria & the R by and | aru oa 18 made in or out of time, with the V ad to Richmond. far | ing a cot ver utero Spent in the c some few years 1 tral, Tchose tb non, one of a | i Washington at M., with the passengers | snd mails from the N The maile may hare heavy, but the passengers were few. A round score would have comprirea the whole of them, f Toute to New Orleans does not see ng business x Toe eail down th mac on a pl ing is one of the moet agreeable bit tire route to New Orleans. The scenery ticularly on & good many o shore, yence, however, being in favor of the Potomu Virginia side, the laud is more level aad i ed. Tae boat stops to land and take in passengers city of Alexancria, once a flourishing mut of coma Dut now dwindling away into ping at ite w ehip and one bark a@ ecore of litle 6 more aud Onio F Georgetown and A Peake and Objo Cana! these towns aad cent: After pasaing Alexan’ siderably. It has num’ y sify the ecenery and prevent ) Which Giver- coming monotonous The hgh banks on the Maryland shore, thickly Wooded, rest the view on tbat side, but on the Virg side the land gioves ‘away fn most desutifal park like skevches of country. Here aud there. at rare intervals, are seen the family by wattien as the royal residence of that famons Totian Prince. The ancient ems vetwean hie wigwam is exid to bave been locsted stil! stand, a mile or two down the river from Richmond, sod fa the neighbor- hood is a buge boulder known as Pownatan’s grave stone. Ido pet know thet the village which bears his name is remarkable for anything in particular, It certainly has little claim to beanty of location. At Borkeeville, fifty three miles from Richmond, pas- sengers wed half an hour for breskfast. Tne rai! road refectories of Virginia are usually bettar than tnoze of any other State I have travelled throngh. No matter how ‘unpromising the exterior, you generally fad good bread, milk, eggs, stewed chicken, ham and buck wheat ‘and ‘you are always waited on by emart colored Ihave never in Virginia fonod angtnins het line haf eo execrable as it is ip the dining saloon Jaltimore depot in Philadelphia, Barkeeville, which, so far as I could see, is composed of this single houge where we breakfasted, is the pont at which the Danville and the South Side, now called the ersburg Lynebborg, roads effect a junction. The eengers for the South ana West take the latwr roa! ‘h conveys them to Lynchburg, a distacce of eigaty miles. There is se little on this road to interest tne tra. voller ne there !s between Richmond an1 the junction The conntry through which the road passes partakes of the sam nerel characteristic, scrabby timber 1 with balf enitivated patches of gronod at rare and ong Je,and small hamlets or villas—us almost every of houses {# called in Virginia and the ing usually of a tavern, a county spd one or two poor looking shanties ‘The only village ofany pretensicns atall between Richmond avd Lynchburg is Farmville, where there appeared io be some figns of life and business. The road is 80 excorsive ly roogh that it wae bighiy amusing to watch the efforts of the colored brakeman, a swart, haray young fellow, cigs’ in mouth, eves half closed to avoid dust and cinders, and the peek of his cap turned up, to retain his geat on the band wheel of the prake, Noteithstanding tho rong Jolting be got, he was not thrown off; bat it was alartnin; Jo think of ‘he dangerous course of practice he must hay. gone through to enable bim to ride there in safety. 1" may be remarked here that on ail the ratirosd trains routh of Washington colored brakemen are usually ero oyed. x On the South Side road we witnessed one of those sa! partipgs of house bolds ano friends that are happily not so common wityua as they are on the other site of the At- mensions of landed proprietors, mostly crowning the euin mites of gently sloping hile; but besides these, ti 1 Kittie evidence of man’s presence in those solitudes. There are few cottages of the humbier farmers to be geen from the deck of the steamer. Some ten miles from Alexandria, on a high bluff of tbe Maryland shore, stands Fort Washington, {ts walis almoss Aidden from view by masses of foliage, and its garrison ‘ng, 1 believe, of oe old man, whose duty it is to are of tbe equally venerable guns and preserve them from rust aod decay. It ig. beautiful spot, hardly ieee inviting than the famous Fort Saelling; bat no ove Caree to make a land speculation op the Potomac §=6Way ‘that ‘s it would be aifiicult to answer, for there are few finer or handgomer rivere on the continent. e watcbing the receding oatiine of Fort Washiaz- ton wo were etariled by the tolling of the boat's hol tom that ie ob: 1 dy Steamers, a @ pts e tom of Wasbington, thus to do honor to the memory of the great maa. We crossed over to tho “Virginia “side of the boat aad saw, for 5 me, that Mount Veron ‘where Washington patriotic ladies of ever preserved 6: > an lonored pame now tradie y tone of thie reg st ed, died and ig buried, which the Sh Epes to be of the same the otner 2 vraw of a to the water's edge. We ealuted slouat Vernon and the boat staams ©n ; on past the White Bo @ tavern by wv mouch frequented tm tbe pier Smacks and screw pro 20 e080; OM past O Dorring up to. Alexau on paet ebing gromie whero ehad avd herring arc taken in west quantities; ou to Aqala creek, where we found the care in waiting to take passengers to Richmond. We tef\ tbe boat impressed more thaz we ever were be- fore with the beauty and grat commerctal advantages of etomac, bavig pe ai it © for 2 of the largeat for nearly Wire huudred miles from ita mutt, abd watering a codntey of groat agric aiaie utural and pasteral mineral O°, FROM THR POTOMAC TO FICHOND. i Aqutis creek to Riv Lone. At heat it eupewe to Saer egion tur the taemer, but whatever d gree of fertility tt may have, remains to ve developed by future posseseors of ths coil. Tao pag tl | to net very Hille value upon it, and once ita prod acty will not add largely to the tgricuiturn! etat aides of the coun 4 very small portion of that waied is within the t Jer’s range ef vision as lhe is jo road is under cultivation, and what ie, ig not blo to tho taste or skill of the ; Aloog the en tire line of road there was not a6 CMege garden tobe geen, not arose bush to gladden the siga 4 v3 ov dence of e taete for flowers. pastas The only town of any protessions.ov the tins { ricksburg, an apparently thriging tows, plea ta ated on the Tappabannock, <Ashiaud, the birtbolies of Penry Oley, ig on this rows, flere i a ¢ tel, with picasant piazzis and well kept g Prom ee, and pr pably having t mora | arte #, Fred leptic. Ore@Pranch of a famnily—ovidently in indigeat cir- cumsetarces—-wag emigrating to the West in hopes of bet- tering their fortune. As the train was about moving cil, and az the relatives were being separaled— “Tt may be for years, and it may be forever” the pent up agony of fall hearts broke ont in bitter nov? and Wailings, and one roan, of those remaiging ovhin4, ae be dropped oif the platform. apoarently re or not he was cruebed under the wheels of th train, presented the most pitable apestacle of grief I bay: ever beheld. Bat the tra> moved on, bearing wita it hopeful bearta, aod leaving the mourning onve booind Tola was oot the only emigrant family that we noticed Toor three others took the cars atdif-reat points ip Virginia and Teop2esee, Some of them had their negro fema'e servants with them; and sbout a score of common fieid hance had seata in the emexing car. Tneas seemed, for the most part,to he of the pure unmixed plood. Botk men aad wom :n wore a sort of torban form ed out of gaudy colored calico banokerchiefz, and ore pleasant looking ath etic (ellow seemed to take great prive in bis hesd gear, which consisted of au old siilitary shako, ip the French etyle, and which he wore with the peek behind. Tusy were & gavage looking collection of human beinge—the women being even more rovoting than the mez; but all seemed t be epjaying their coange | of jocation and to have ‘‘no thought for toe morrow.” They bac been purchased ia Richmond, and wore being couveyed two the cotton tleidz of the South Lynchburg, which is also situated on the Jaines river, appears to be @ #tirring, proeperous, business place. Tne Jamea river and Kanawha cane!, which term‘nates at Richmond, roxe through this plsee. Railroad care ar made here, and there appear to be a number of manuf tories of various kinés in tall employmeat. Tae Vir; ana Tepnersee Railroad Company has extensive bafidings ‘orkshops. Its ite i¢ a good deal like that of Rich- Tacud embracing a oumber of small pills, Fhutia on tue mouniain side by Lai burg 1 ghouls judge 11 journ ip. © wud regpected m. the def of tho Pe gommary but feral & o bea very pleszant piace to 60- ter Judge Lyuch, who was an old crete of the cougty of Pittaylveoia ia On (i whaee introduction of a * of paw. the gange of borne | stealers in thore days bes given hte name a very queetion- ebdle stwle of jamortaiity in connection with a populer nisue Of puniehing olleadery in thege days, THE CLUE Rwox, The rovte from Lynchburg to Bristol, where tho Vir- givin and Tenueesce road makes 2 Junction wite tho Gast Teuneeece aud Virgina—a dietance of 2/4 miles-—cannot be execeted in beauty of scenery, it indeed it coxa be ique any road on this continent. The road wing through the valloyz, and by @ gradeal ascent cline the iils of the Biue Ridge region, aad sttwing ite highest ein Vation—sorme three biousacd feet abege tho sea—nt a Place called Mouat Airy, 145 mites from Lgnohburg. For Dearly il \ust distance the peake of Otter are iu aight, and st one polat of the road they are only nine wiles dis tan Yeo of Lhe mouataine, when geen from a diatance, dome like vullin The other, which is tac eoath- he A: bas asharpor aad beiter 4 on OUe Slope clogs to the summit there ess whether | moving | african | fe acleftor scarp ent ont, which, while tf may mar its FYMMetry, ad to tke picturerqueness Z There ara rome very Baudsome aud thriving villages 10 this region, among wich may be mentioned Liperty, Borsack’s ‘depot (where Coylers’ ep*tngs ere), and Salem (neetied ip a shaded valley amoog Beevtums), Too famous sulphur Sortogs of Vir @iuia he at short distances from the line of Toad avd ere very much frequented duriog the summer feason by Southera people. Siravgely enough, bus few of our Northern toursts of pleacure oF bealta eeckers Tesort lo those bade sithocgn pone of the planes toi they most prefer—Saratoge, or Lebanon, or Sharon, or Newport, can at al! approach them either for beauty feenery, good mountain air, meagaificest Goat team Tomanvc wa'ke, or for the bealib restoring quanties of the water. Perbaps, when prejudices pags away thes may become more fashiongole at Big Spring, te Roaneke, which is here a pleasant trout stream, wastes the base of an outjutting spur of the mountaio, whic very much resembles the rock knowa a8 the Crow's Nest ‘on the Hudson; and from ts point there is 9 ratiroad track cut through the mountain to the Montgomery springs. All the sniphor aprings of Virginia are within * forty mile circle; and a whole summer season can be moet deiigbifully apd bealthfully spent amoag sbhem Many of the mountain sides here proseat strange scarp Wke appearances. Some of tom, stauding @ «atte or £0 apart, have their sider oppurite exco other out do vo io corresponding forms. if trementoas landetides had bad eevered them i twain; and ibe swelliwg valleys at their bage would seom to give strength to thay hypo yer is. nee is ig not in the mountains alove, grand as they are, that the beauty of (his region coossts Tho fertiie aad well cultivated land is wetered by many a mouctain brook, anid by sucb streams as the plessans James river, the roiticking Roanoke and the New river, flowing in so- Joon, dignified beauty amoog mevowius whose pice crested tope are reflected in iis bine waters Evening came ov as #0 enjoyed this giorious landscave; and as we eaw the eun go down iv spiondor behind the anies, we breathed & silent prayer for adear ove at bome, whose Ofth year on carth that getting sun closed. We had intended remaining over at Wytheville, a pr village among the mountains; but as the Ratlroad Hotel, a Ge new buticiog, was not yet prepare} to accomm >. ate gverts for the nignt, aod as fhe village where accommo Oations could be Dad was some haifa mile distant, we de termived t contiv: e our joursey te Kooxvith Baring charged cara a’ Bristol, whica is oa the b Vine between Virginia and Tennessee, the eartiest rays of the morning sun showed us to de traversing erica, for- nile, well cultivated country, in which there were on all sices evidences of wealth and prosperity; and after const ing fer tome time along the rapid Colaton river, tha train brovght up at Kooxville about nine o'clock, aud we sought rest and refresument at the Lamar House, 1 only hotel of any pretensions —and, indeed, it has little to boas! of—in the town of Knoxville, Tennessee, KNOXVILLE TO MEMPHIS. Although Knoxville is the third most important town in the State of Tennessee, its pretensions are rather iosig nificant. Its whole trade is done in two blocks of the main street, and the shopkeepers seem to spend most of their time in gossipping at their enop doors, Tho town ia handsomely situated on the right bank of the Colston river, which is here some two or three hundred yards wice, and is the centre of arich agricaltural couarry, ‘The houses are scattered, without any regard to uniform.- ty, over apomber of smal hills. One of these, extend- ing on ove side to the river, seems to be a town reserva tien, and would make a@ deligbtfui park. The view froa it, down the river, is very fine, a* the uniformity of the river is here broken by several email isiaads of limestone formanon, well wooded, Although the river i@ navigaic up to Kuoxvilie, and although steamers of ligat draught used fo ascend it, there are no loager any such evidences of prosperity to be seen there. While +be railroad coo. nections Fast and West bave drawa the trade from the river, the change does not seem to uve much benested the town. [te present population can narviy exceed th thourand. Tt contains foar or five charctes, and two ho tels, of whica tue princtpal ie tne Lamar Aonge. On a criek or stream which empties itself inla the Co ston ut Knoxville, there is aflouriog mil, a say miil aud ove or two factories of various kinds, Lime-toos ts very ab: dant, and there are indications of marhia in the ¥ The Usiversity of East Tennessee te lo. 0 Tatiroad companies have preity extevs) ilaings The route from Kuoxville Memphis ts by the East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad to Dalton, tn Gaorsia, a ance of 110 miles; thence hy the Western and ation tic road, owned by the State of Georgia, to Uaattaoooea, a distance of thirty-eight miler; and thease by the Mum pbis and Cbarieston road to Memphis, 2 distance of 319 miles, The whole journey is mage 1a thirty hours. The Colston river is crossed 4: a tbriviag manafs toring towa called Loudoa, tweaty nice miles from Kooxvitte, This and a jgwa cated Uieveland ara the 0: Pinces of any importance on the entire route, there are several Dew Lowns epringing ute existence along the line. country is for the moat part rich fertile, and all the settlemenis appear to be prosperiog. Dation ie situated ia a rich ley, with nigh Hille in the: background. Being a railroa’ juuction, there is conai: able show of bneipess. It is expected, townver, that in the courre of afew months tae road between Cleveland and Chattanooga will be completed, waich will save forty or fifty wiles wavel Dalton, and ent offa nd raag through @ level country, of whivn the stapic proauctions are to bacco ond cotton, The depots at the varivaa stopping pleces are built in asubetentiat manner, aod the whole appearance of things along the route indicates consider. able egricuitural prosperity. This road is the property of the State of Georgi Chattanooga is sitnated on the Tennessee river, and is backed by bigh mountains, in which coal mining is car- ried on to & consieravie extent fhe Lovk Out Mouatain rears ite tall head bigo over the racge,. gud presents a very picturesque appearance. It was from wis region of country that the Creek Indians were removed some twenty years ago; aud \k 18 for the Bo-carled depredations committed by them at that time that the States of Georgia and Alabama bave been makiog ciatme on tae gonerai | goverpment, There are seversi handsome resideaces here, and 6 fine hotel—the Crutch'ey House, It was dark when the train left Chatianooga, and I, therefore, cannot speak of the features of tae couatey through which we pasted. Ose buudred end sixvy-four miles westward of it we came to Cuscumbia,ia Alabama— a piace which apparently. at some oot very remote period bad made & desperate #iruggio to attain importauc:, had since given up the aviempt a3 4 hopeless uuder- taking. The large hotel and substantial brick stores waicl? were then erveted, nave been suffered to fall into a mel- ancholy state of dilapidation, the Turcumbiaus seem to have quietly renigned themeelves to tne exuaguiah ment of the hopes covnected with toe icipated great- ness of their settlement. Taere were dressed loungers Joitering around the botel awuitiog their breukiast and the arrival of the tris; aud among them I was particularly struck with the dsnsilisi ap Pesrance of one geptieman, in full eveving costume, wito glossy ringiets falling uncer aa vnex-eptionaple’ bat hands daincily gloved, and a gold beaded owe, carried under his arm, with an air that would usyo do % to a Beau Brummel. It was « sty!iea apparition, whl 2 would bardly have expected to ee in av ont of ls way hamlet of Alabaiwa. Joka is the only other place of importauce oa the route It bus a hotel of some pretensions, and a fow pre reridences. It appears to bave cousideravie cotton, Ata point fifty-two miles from Memphis fe the Grand Junetion, as it 18 called, whera a conection is formed tht Mississippi Central’ road, Althougn there are ral br im the couttuuiiy ot this roal, ngers bound to New Orieans ud places in Mississippi changed cars here in preference to gong Wemphis and taking a boat down the river: and the Ne Orteuns ma'l was aio transferred to tis route, at. even With stages plying between the gaps ia tae road there is a saving of some twenty foar hoas by taking the Mississippi Ceotrai When ty road shall be completed it will cut off mach of the travel from Men phis, abd must conelderably injure that city, aud wleos the whole commerce of the Missiesippi. MEMPDIS TO VICKSBUAG. ‘We found Memphis to be a handgome, well built, bust ling business town. The stores in Main street would com- pare not unfavorably with thoreia Broadway. Tae Mom- phians have a race coarge, where races were bolag held | 88 we passed; a bandsore taeatre—the Variettes—a firat | class botel, called tho Gayoso, with w {air supply of | claims to architectural beauty; anda hantsome public promenade ground, called Court Square, whare there ia @ marble bust of the great Tennessean—the glory of Tam many Hall Andrew Juckeon, | The place at which the boats land is a wharf boat, | moored at the foot of the biuif, and all the embarwations | and disernbarkations are done here, Unlike St. Lo whore wharves hundreds of those double o' | treble decked huge morsters—the flat votiomed river boate—are to be econ, there are orldom az many as a cps ee be together at Memphiz, although from St. | Louis to New Oricaus it has not a single rival towa | Vickebmrg and Natchez. id rains We took passage on a fine, handeom>, now boat--the Capitol—whicn, in ascending tue river, had mado tha up trip from New Orleans in something leas than thren daga, thongh it ordinarily takes from four te fie Toe agaat time from Memphis to Vicksburg is two days The Capi tol made it in twenty-five hours, 80 that pasrongers who left New York Monday morning reached Vicksburg Satar- day evening. There is this to be sald in favor of Southern routes, that not a single connection wat mizsed, nor a sin “@ bour ins’ by accident or neglect in the who! from New York to Vicksburg. I mame re. mark to make on a Northern or Northwestern route, The Ottloge up of the Capito! were in a stylo commen- furate with ber performances. Tee saloon was finely corated end forniehed, and the staterooms models of neat- nere and taste. Stateroome with valances of crimeon-and gold demask, and rich lace curtaing, are not ueca! on river oats, nor on sea going eleamers cither. Thero ars such on the Capitol. The panels of the stateroom doore are do- eorated with ‘ilustrations of Mizeisstpp! seortrr—chiefly the residences of planters. As io the table, tho bill of fere compriees w!! the delicacios that eouid be looked for in a first claes hotel, There is little in the sail down the river to bogutle the traveller's time; the ecenery is ¢* the best of times mono- tonoug It is now, to the last degree, dreary an! teas Jate. The river hae ewollen so Wgh thet for miles and miles on either side the low lands are overflowed, and the helt of woodland which fimits the view prvzeate tao ap pearance of a floating forert. Toe houses of the uafor tunate dwellers in these swamps bave been in so blancs Bwept away entirely. avd ia others they with the water level at various helguta—in zom the windows, in others up tothe raves. Teaw ‘enement far out in tho streain, with a row Doob we Slougeide in cape the fonntation shoo!d give way, 9" the occupanis siuck to their home, desolute thoogh |: way, and the emoke cui! xacendet from the household hearth There is but one place of any protaoviany alung ths four bundred miice of Ned. Tass p' Sapoteon, riteatet on the month of tho A-kansay, bi pop: diy _resgher a tho: two ofber places where tha poou to intolge iteel? with the luxury of @ ob others; over a dozen churches, some of them having H ENT Ma, tha onynty sant of Washington sounty, ecatiad Miaghence, tbe farmer coud GbUFCD, the hater of 140 Ik @ 64 romeshst ludicrous wo so the putllog mou ster of | preammoat weih row to getup tom dank where w poet office messenger would be waiting to band 40 F'2@ Wali MReDE Ao euapeY wai! Dax, Bua to zs (row the Distencer a vouole of cegars Both these impustaut oo oe Deing attained, the vost wonld cas’ off ant resame way AL one place ® puesenger was landed on a ils) bout laden Wit wool, which was lying moored aloug whut prior to the jrandation was the sbore Ine, bat which was now possib.y many miles fiom dry laad, How he got to dry lend, or Whether be ever got there at all, is aa open question, On the whole, nothing could present a moro dreary, eaddelig sepect than the Missias ppl at thie season. The opty woucer ja that people can be found desperate enough to settlo on the low, alluvial lands of this dismat region. My icopreesions of Vicksburg and the scenes that were trargacted in the Southern Uonvention during my stay there have been already recorded. A week’s residence in Vickeborg or any place below Memphis oo the Misais Fipp! Ought to satiefy any one. lt is x uevelty which fow woul! desire to enjoy more than once in a jifetime, VICKSBUR@ TO Sf. LOUIS. Toe distance between these points is about $00 miles, and the tine required, np the river, four days. The pre: dominant impression that one receives in voyagiog on the Miseiesippi ie that of profound solitude, Ag the baat pur, sues her course among islands ant wong low shores covered wth an impenvtrable growth of colton woot trees, there may be seen at many miles jotor va's, log cabing, without doors or windows, from which the floods have driven away the occupacta. Somet mes half a dozen or more of these rude habitations, are clustered together and dignifled with some high sounding appellation suggestive of anything but such a wretched cotiection of gars, With all (uc commerce of the Miseis tippi one watrd expect to be constantly in sight of steam- Doris parsing up and down; but such is not the cass. A whole day wil rometimes pass without a single weamer being paseed. Of sail boa's there is not one to be seen, the current being too strong for that sort of navigation Rafts are rarely 10 be seen betow St. Louis. Apart from theee few indications of iife and movement ail the sur rounding? sposk Of utter solitude aad desolaten, No change comes over the monotony of the taudecape, Rav in the varying clouds that they sail along, mirro= themselves iu the glass Bus wherever tue channel, Kes bo. iween islands, the wiade are | perfume of flowers and biossoms, that of the magaolia Deing quite perceptibie. Ab ibe day progresses, and the deck hands have nothing more to do in the way of loading or uuloading freight or taking iv wood Or coal, thoy scatier tnemscives along the deck in every variety of uttitude, Some yo the guards of the boat with their leet davgiivg io the water, some lin huddled vp 19 coile-uf rope, wooieg * tired bature’s sweet restorer, balmy alegp,”’ otbers form kuots for teliiug yarns Or reading the Lewspapers—and altogettier they look a idle aud piretical a crew as evor basked on the deck of a filibuster cruising along the Spauich sfain, Tho passen- gers beguile the time wish rewiing, aud in the evevinge they amuse themselves with mastic avd daucing. Taere is Uo gambling permitted, and litte card playing indauiged in, [418 @ quiet, monotonous period of exisience, aad yer ig bot without its peculiar cbarma. As Memphis is neared, the shores loge their flatacss ana sameness of outline. The young coitoawood brakes give way to splendid growths of oak and hickory, and tocast and hemlock, ali festooned to 1 very suamks with vines. Nature appears to revel here 1m the luxurtance of vegetation. The vine stems hang ike thick ropes from the branches of tall trees, and sometimes the vines stretching from tree to tree, form beautiful gothic archer, which appear in the distauce like the ivy clat oriel win dows of ancient cathedrals. Now and then a tree, having the foil waebed away from its roots, falle with a dui splath into the sushing river, and is touted off We reached Cairo the third day after leaving Vicksbarg. ‘This famous swamp town is situated on tho contluease of the Obio and Missiesippt. Iteievel is below the ordinary le vel of the river, #0 thet were it not for ac excellant ievee tbe town would be constantly instead of generaily, under wat Ab it js, all the hourer except those standiag oa tae leve are standing pretty deep in the water, sary for ,0cootioa from houee to bi whe floods fall there ia Do way of ¢ the town except by pomping it out. They might have Punts are neces £0, Even whe: % the water out oO seized with convulsions of tbe stomach if they dare to risk themselves On tit lake, Now, we do not wish our Chicago trands to isk (heir weal stomachs on Lake Michigan, we aro sure, the Chicoyo papers notwithrtindiog, thas the farm and mercbonts {som our healthful prairies would @ thousand times prefer tho froth breeze of Lake Michigan to the ocoreue atmosphere of Sbicago, The word Chicago is the Indian pame for a place of a skank—a very appro- priate name for this Western Cologne, which, with its Wega and deve avd hideous wenches | Counts over two unc #eventy atenches. The effects of the June froat in this region can pow be pretty accuraicly determined, aud it may be said that everything of the vioe kind has been killed, as aleo what jitile rye there is. Corn and have suffered very reverciy; but they are gradually reviving, aud in very few iwatances bas it been necessary w replant. Toe winter wheat was badly hurt before tho frost, aod will not be a good crop, The spring wheat, however, which ig Our great siaplo, was very litte injured, ead will be @ food crop if the weather continues favorable, This Ju frost, athough calied many bard names, did sowe good; ip various sectious where the wheat was sufferiag from tbe ravagee of inscots, the frost pub an ead W those de- siructive creatures, and thus saved the wheat which it blighted, At present the whole country cries out for rain, but no rain comes, und if we are much longer withuut it serious darcage will be cansed by the drouth. A great number of those bardy handa we depenged on to do our barvest Javor bave been carried off by the Pike's Peak fever. To show how Wisconsin has suffered from this sovrce, it is etated that durirg nine weeks the wa- gens which crossed Cedar Kapide bridge, Towa, were trom the following Siates:—From Lowa, ninety-five; Wiseoesin, two huntred and forty-ous; Thine 8, eighty-two fIndiana, two; Minvesota, one; Oaio cae; New York, one. Harveet hands must be got somesbere to fill the places of those Pike’s Peakers, for there is more ground in crop than last year, and we will peed more Tewpers. Bosinese of ali kinds is dull bere, Little is being done in our grain roarket; there is little wheat coming for ward, and little to come, ‘From January w the present tive the amount of our grain receipts is very souch behiod that of the correepondiag period last year. Iu flone aud wheat the total decrease is avout baifa miltion of bushere, We are on this account fallieg very much into the cebt of our Kastern frien Exchange on New York 18 very vearce, abd copinues Orm at two per ceat, Iu Caicago it is two and a balf per cent, Our city improvements are as extensive ibis yeer a8 last, notwithstending tbe dail tica%, An enterprising citizen nas made out an accurate state ment ot buildings now in process of erection w#ituin the city limits, ano they have beev found to amouat ia value to ubout $860,000. Something rather novel in the commerce of the Weet took place here the other day. fhe schooner MG Scout, of this port, set sail on a voyage direct to Hambarg. Sae had a cargo of assorted timber, consisting of black wainut, oak, ash, maple, &c .the product of Wisvonsia forcets, Sbe bad in all 170,000 feet, and some of the sticks would dety the world. Three or four of our Germaa brewers have sbipped by ber some kegs of lager, for the magis- tretes of Hamburg, to show the friends in faderiand that “their sone cyen under the etars and stripes still love the ager. Afew evenings since a large and enthusiastic meet ing of German citizens was held, the object of which was to take eome steps to induce their German friends in Europe and el-ewhere to emigrate to this Sate, and a committee wis appointed to draft a circular setiing forth the inducersents which Wisconsia affords to the emigrant. Politics ave very dull hereat present ; alittle shaking is beg uping to be felt as the time draws on for the nomina. von of candidates for the November election. By the principle of a division ef honors, the democratic nomiaa. tion belonys to the Thira district, and in that district there can be no dovbt but Onarles D. Robinson, of Green Bay, is the moet likely mau. Who the republicans may oomiuate defies Conjecture, Some of rhe repobiicans speak stroagly in favor of nominating Randall, because his admiatstration bas been eo wise and bouedt. Ail our Goveraors have been considered wite and hovest while in office, aud it ony required an invesvgating committee to dispel tne iivsion; apd we think tbe people of Wisconsia know too much to risk the reelection of Ran dat!, aod the republicans, unless blind, will not revomi- nate bim. Neither the democrats nor republicans of Wie ¢ con borst of any very great men in the'r rauks We do not expect greet ihinge, and the nost that cau bo said ip a colltclan 8 {uvor bere is, at be bas done no- thing very wrong. The results of Wisconsin elections are unacrountable. In the Cong J elections the repab | ane newevspers take in reminding the people of Wisconsin of the Ikebibood of their being carry the State, mm Of State offivers the de- niccra'e 6060, A majority of the present State offlcers are drmocrats, and Renoail, the republican Governor, was eleted by ony 159 majority, This yeur everything favorable for tbe democrats, aud we believe tney canal with siuice gate, but taey have not, Tae toaguav! ‘und which furme the give of tho towa bears gome regain biaxce in outlive to tue lower part of Maotattan isiand— the Hudeon being represented by the His-iss\pol aud th East river by the Onto. The Jevee ant basiness portiv of the town ig oo the side next tha Ono Here is woe ter Goverpor. Anyening that gcevts the least minus of the Tilis ntral Rod, waich has passenge ingiem must die in Wiseorsin, and thy ac end freight depots at thie pont, The company oxs a> | Non of thore in Massachusetts who control the repubii ow Gover he republican candidate undertaken to build @ fue botel nasr ta. can party bas killed 10 Last year the founcatious gave way, aud wie rear wai pern Wie ‘at There i¢ even jal ta They have been seek aud the cdidse is now | among the republicars of Wirconsin a decided tinge of pearly cotnpieted Kosw Nethipg'sm, eod itis a noticeable fact that at tae F n Cairo wo St. Louis the country appears to improve Jast Stat r candidate for Lieut, © or, and by ell ods (be ablest man on their ticket, no other reason but becaure the tive repubiicans did pot supgort him. These tellas the coming e » for the time is tow ® consider kicked, even by repnb icans. ivia © aro Re ations of progress. Louis tue river banks become clills present many sivgular aad fantastic shapes of te ers, buttresees, osetle gates and otlier pic.uresque objects. wor bide of tart fed, ane f Sf LOUIS TO NEW YORK, Bt, Louis ise’ ia to tho whole western eountry wha' OUR MINNESOTA CORRESPONDENCE, New York Avlantic seaboard. So crowded are _ St. ANTHOsy, May 24, 1859 Summer Prowl in the Northwest—Spring Pluds of Ov Mississippi—Seil and Clima: of Minnesota—4 New Yorker's Opinion fi the Agricutture, Commeres and Fi nance of the State, de, Tastes difter as well as opiniocs, and my fancies led me to tuke my summer nooning under the sound of this ancient waterfall, And truly tt 18 gpotto make the lovees with steamboats plying on the Missouri, thy Miseiepptand the Onio, that it requires more time fora steamer to land her passengers at St, Louis thaa tt does for an emigraatebip to get to her berth in tne docks at New York. It isa fine, well built, haa isome city, with ali the bnatle and activity that bespeaks great trate and proeperity. Several routes may be selected from between St, Loui iS The quickest is by the Lake Shore aay Erio or Centra'—the time between the two cities beiag oply forty-eight hours. A pleasant route, though not a quick, is. by the Ohio and Mississippi road to Cin vinnat!, thence through Columbus to Beowood, on the Obi river, where conzection is made with the Baltimore and Onio The sceuery on this later ous is very beauiiful, ant the touriat may, with great pleasure to himself, stop'a day oF two at Piedmort, or some other of the mountain viligee,and at Bacper’s ferry. He ia told that he can ha7ague priv Jege of calling at Washington, getting a revarn Sekt frocs reduced rate; but he Gale, whea he gate the janetion g to ihe junction, that unless he made up bis mia aad gh ths return ticket at \de time De got his turougn ticket he capnot avali himecif of toe promised p-ivilege ‘This ig ra‘her a email pice of tricke fa railroad com pauy to be guilty of, and perhaps it ta oniy necessary i call their atiention to it, It is unnecetsary to Bay & word as to the road botween Wardington and New York. Its incoaveatece-s are fa. 5 all traveliers in this rogion, Some time ago th Phiiadeipnia discomforts of tae trip were reuoved by &@b arrangement ubuer which the passeugers were traas ferred from the cara to the boat and then carried across to Cemden, Another change was Wo carry passengers iu the city care from Kensington ¢epot to the Battimore Gepos; but ce if becauge either of these plans was too womotive of comfort, the old pian of packing travellers in omnibuses and jolting them over tne roughly paved etreete has been resortea to, Oa the whole the journey from New York to Washivgton ig by far the most unplea- fant Dit of travel between New York and New Orleans, OUR WISCONSIN CORRESPONDENCE. MiWavKEH, June 16, 1859. Our Viviters—New Route to the Exst—The Crops—Harves Hands and Pike's Peak—State of Business—The First of Our Homburg Line—Politics in Wisconsin, dc. Since Milwaukee wag a city it has not seen suck a stir and bustie as it does to-day. Our hotels and streets are crowded with visiters—gome on business, but by far the greater nurober on pleasure. There are three important conventicus in eession here. In the first place there is the Western Unitarian Convention, which is attended by all the “big guus’’ of that denomination from St. Paul to Boston. Then there is a meeting of the Grand Lodge of ‘Wisconsin, which is attended by between two and three hundred of the free and accepted brethren from all paris of the State, They were addressed last night by Judge A. D. Smith, and are to-night to have a grand eupper at the Newall Houge, and a good time generally. .\nd last, but by bo meang least, the intellect and enterprise or Wiscousin have gathered here to attend the Editoria! Convention, at which there is a representative from every paper in the State, numbering, in all, over one hundred. After baviog 'istened to an ora tion and poom by members of the convention, and trans acting what business was before them, the editors are now sting the city; and—who would beliove it ?—they seem to be particularly interested in our browerics, To- morrow they are to take a trip across Lake gan, 00 the invitation of the Detroitand Milwaukee Railroad Com. pany. Itis particularly interesting for an onteider to contemplate with what cordiality thore etitors meet around the flowing champagne, who cease not week after week to blackguard cach offer in the choicest terms through their papers. When we sow rabid abolitionis's and pro-slavery editors in “sweet herrooy,” our faith war strengthened in the probaolur that toe time is at handjwhen the “lion and the |im') 9! lie down together, and a little child shall lead thes.” Besides these three conyeotions, ts morrow an excarsion party of three or four nund ed from Cincin- nat) and Chicago, and in a few days wa aro to have a viait from the Chicugs Fire Brigade, who are wo bring one of their cteam fire engines along with thom, to gratify the curtosity of those of us who have nover seen those won- derful muchises. ‘The opening of the Detroit and Milwaukeo Railroad hos heen the tonroe of great advantages not only to Mileau- kee, but Wivcouein atiarge. This rouse is cheapor, a yy miles shorter than the olf one round the sot of the lake, via Chicago, and it will be atiii farther siaort- ened waen the Port Sarnia road {6 Gnished, fur wa will hen have eb air line Lom Milwaukee to Niagara F.lle This week our mail began to be sent over this A and will in foture cofinue to beso fz tris arrange- ment the turough mail from Nee York, Buifila, &:, is received by our citizen’ twenty-four hours omriler, ‘anil the loon! mail twelve hours carlior than by the ronad- about way of Chicago. Some pooole, especially those neer Chicago, think that it will be imposs'dle ta use this route in winter on account of the joe in Like 4 We believe there are no grounde for such fours, ¢ winter very juferior boata crossed the tke, evunactiag with the railroad at Grand Haven with perfoot regatarity, jue new Bteamers Detroit and Milwaakes, whiok have been pulit at Baflalo for this tine, are alroaty Tanachod, God ere expected to be ficished and on the lake by tae ond of Avguat. They are the large mort perfect in naval aronttectare Y va th have ever floted to the best coat font ero but what we ein (9 eva how the mere a frisade males tue 2 injand sear, and wre equal Sy rose Tak mintlys 0’ Bene e happy, if not wieer, provided he has nny sensibility to nature or appreciation of ber charms, Yet how won- drous'y the scene has changed. The *t, Authony of our geographiva, our h story, of ¢ childigh imagination, isno more. Her forming cataract on the one side, her ftiver, tranqnil flow upon the other, reflecting from its bosom the giory of a thousaad gaw and moons, with the sweet prowize tout it saowid “tow on forever”—the music of ita darhing waters, wole thrice weloome to the escending vosazer, from it fiat est whisper to iis loudest rour—tae foam cloud and epray which rose from the cataract below, a coronet to dock with random glory the sweetness of her brow—all thar once Lad power to charm me is either shaded or obssur and the sweet music of nature well nigh lost in the no and jargon of a senseless world. And 80 must every grand and beautifal feature of our country be invaded or swept away by the ruthioss spirit of a vandal or mercenary age. Even Niagara itself, yield- ing to the mania for ‘‘improvement,’’ so called, mingles its emeraid waters with the filta of the eewer and canal, while St. Anthony, once the regidence of the fairies and the gods, now turned into one vast ‘water power,” is harnesged to the engine and the saw. The ride to this place from St. Paul, for the most part duil and monotonous by land, by water is one of grea interest and beauty, and the region about the fatis, ag wel! ag about St. Paul, one of surpassing beauty and lovelin«es The river banks, which have not yet been'sborn of their charming foliage and oncient glories, gradually riee in height a8 you ascend, till approaching within soand of the cataract they Jorm a precipitous gorge of near one huadred feet, at the base of which the Father of Waters win g his rapid couree, diepley ing for miles hia foam caps aad eddies to the enchanted travetler who lingers along its banks to enjoy the sweet sights and wandering eounds, or breathe the fragrant freshness of its carly bioom. This who ¢ region, now only the suburbs of New York is fast becoming a place of resort and of residence as well for thoee of liberal taste, not oaly from the South, bat also from the Fast, Transient visiters finds strong induce ment in the superior quality of the hotels at shanespotis, St. Anthony and St. Paul, Dow among the first in the coun try, while those who know how to cast themaolvea on the bosom of nature experienc? little diMeulty in pleasing their fancics with more permanext homes, whether their tastes lead them to a roansion on the river bane, or a hut of logs upon the neiebboring prai The former will s00n be appropriated for miles below to :he uves of those who poesees the means and taste toenjoy them. Some of the prettiest of these are already ao used ‘You find here peop'e of fortune and of sterling merit from the large towns and cities of the South and even of the Fast, leaving ancient and cillient homes eurrounted by every attraction which nature or art cua there cice them, coming here to enjoy the superior healinfulnose and ealubrity of the country. I have mot euch here from some of the faireat cities cf Western New York. On con yersing with them they ainte that though thetr former homcs were beaithful, there are far more #0; that if there summers are delighifal, their winters are no less 80; that the wid frnite and flowers and the endless profusion of choice berries which decorate and cheer tarir woo t. Janos ond prairies, make uo and more for the fruits and flowers they have left behiodtnem; that bright skies ond green foliage “where breath and bird can fin? them,” are more to them than the g’are ant glitter of a conveulis rat Existence, while the seve voices of natare and tay goog of the oriole beard in their bowers is more geutatul to theirear than the revsoless suond and jargon of that mixed medley which ve are accustomed to eall goclety Tneee views wiiof course not be coutned to the opu- Tent, who can choose torir residence, but wil rap tend tothe berdy ycomaury of owr dwn aod oth Such @ country as thiz, nowhere mosotonoyt, byt y rolling and Inid ont in einal undalations, with ths vory finest so!! and chmate, with the beet of wood wad water almost everywhere abounding, with almost every varia pao natural resources and facili'ies, and the country wll ted over with little lakes—such a country cannot long Ne unimproved, The weary emigrant returning in sain ant Gisappointment from hie wriehied for A De au do, grown witer hy hia bitter éxnorienoa will dend his foowteps” hither to giean fom. tule virgin 80,1 9 richer ané more honorable harvost than ever floated in hie fancier or seduced him ty a fruition: search for imaginary treaswes Nothtag {5 mo © common, even now, than for the traveller here 19 mest ; opie whd hare emigrated trom Michigan, from Ohio, Tadiana, Ultacs— from the whole region south of tnie—attracted hither a) porently by motives of thrift, and etili more by thore of On being quontion yout the rich bottows nod fertile goll they have left bebiad them, about the wermo: ekies aod D wintere and eonay village, they ery yea; hut § to on if we cannot live thore with any rT; and oa for the win }, they lees here than thoy did even i But I mart hasten on leat you grow weary. The valioy Of the Upper Misstesippl!, ai@sye bovutifa: in sum hegiug to be pesutiarly ttractive to the trate! bature will roon be arrayed in her pre'tiogs at travel vod Duenesa of the seneon opens tigit, im by far the bottert plac: even there the dealeya comp'an, Tha atyest of things however, to amOobterver, is one of considerable avtiel sod lta ihg a Mb. nthe Upper Wiesierippt, Pan bbeen weueh turpriced at the muount of bails tuprovomont gory forward, both there apd at } the falis. St. Paul in perticuiar exhibits uomistakable #8 gue of rapid progress ana commercial importance. Hor own ple appear sufficiently awake to ber '. for the timits of the city ure already large enough to accommodate a pore on of @ million, making BO mention of the which - Many ftores, aud even whole biocks, of a very, superior class, are Dow in progress of bollaieg, and bi © Bp | pears, on the whole, reasonably healthful ve. Tho property and business of the 8 evidently settling in- to stronger hands. A very large proportion of all the real estate of the city is i ide oyun —some far beyond its value. Nearly all must go im them,, whilo the golden dreams of many rich vanish. into thin air, The newspapers are crowded with “legal notices,” and the shert call for bidders almost duliy heard from “the fropt door of the court house.” But no: matter, the businers of the city aud couatry go on, Somebody owns it all—it matters little who, ao far as the: Reveral progress is concerned. ‘The epring floods of the Miasiesippi have not only come: earlier, but tbe river has been higher thao for many years. It is fair to infer that this is also the case wita tae streams at the northwest of us, for people about this neigh- Dorhoad are talking about goog over to the Pacitlc in stenmboais. ‘Water lote at West St. Pau), Dubuque and many othor towns wlong the river are something more than nominally 80, and owners are for a while saved the trouble of show- them. "the sigos of the times, on the whol, appear encou ing. Mipneroia is hegtouiny to develope her agrivuls tural resources and to sep ward the products of her rich goil to other marke: {rom nearly all the levees you see them moving off, while the boate bear awa; the precious burden to a welcome and grateful ag far away. As for the railroad system of the State, it is hard to say what condition it is ins but I judge fiom all that I learm that the roads are likely to be built soon enough, that the people will keep turning them over in one way and ir another til tuey yet them through, and then comes the usual ac. compapiment of mortage bonds and deot in every form. How many clagses it is customary to make at the Enst I bave forgotten, but itis likety they wil! fll op the full complement bere, though they may not be able to turn ope Clase into avother quite as easily 98 Mr Moran or sme of your railroad kings. Tot a'l this makes little dif- ference.” The business avd progress of ‘he State will go eo and the people be served with factities for travel and UP ID: BB. The tinances of the peop'e bereahouts are not jn a ver! flourishing condition, for they bave no currency that ratisfactory eitber to tbemeelves or w otber people, end bave had rove gince the currency of the East was drawn, The land offices of the State «ré all closed ous of compliment to the needy settiere (in other words the sales postponed), acd the peope expect to lie along im this way tii] eomething turns up to put their affairs 1a bet~ ter condition. ButT weery you Let me pass over to the prairies and forcets of the ibterior and take an evening pipe with the acttler®, and I will write £9 you sgatv, provided you give mea friendly reception. Ia this fetter I have told you nothing but just the truth. If however, you shoud not have the politenes# properly to acknowledge my merit, tt je not unlikely thet I muy be tempted prewently to give you a string of eutrageous hes, OUR VERMONT CORRESPONDENCE. Buruaton, Vt., June 23, 1859. A Drip to M ntreal—Church Ville Marie— Victoria Bridge-— Montreal Waterworks—The Donegana Hotel—The Lake House ct Buslington—The Vermont Demverucy—The Vermont Central Railvoad—-Mownt Mansfield, de. A fow days since I made a pleasant visit of a day or two in Montreal, and in that time examined auch objecta of ine terest as prominently present themselves to the tourist. Montreal, rich in historic and legendary memories, ig built on an island of the same came, at the bead of out- ward navigation, and at the foot of river, lake and canal navigation, which extends westward to Chicago and Fond du Lac, The moet expensive buildiogs ia Montreal ara the Church Ville Marie, the new Coat Hovge, acd tha Donegapa Hotel on Notre Dame street, the Canadian In- ftitute, Bonsecour’s Market, the Mechanica’ Iosutave and Reading Room, and the Bank of Montreal. The Freach Catbedra!, or Church Ville Marie, wae built at an expeore of five miliione of dollars. It 18 360 fev long by 100 fea wide, will seat 8,000 and accommodate 20,000 sitting and standing. It has two towers 260 feet bigo; witaio are seven altars avd twenty four cov fessionals,and twelve coptessiopais op the ontside, Bes.des other pictures, the Walls are hung with fourteea iff rent representations of the eutierings of Cnrist’ The services of the church are admipistered by thirty-six priests Within and a#ith- outitis a church of great maguificence and a beautifal specimen of Casholic taste, The Vicloria Bridge, the grandest work of tae kind ever pnderteken thie side of the Atiastic, or evea the other, ig pow near.y completed It wili_be reaty for travel ta Oo~ tober, This bridge rests ou two loug abutments ac& twenty four piers of solid muasoury; it 1s very near two wiles long, sbd will Coat between soven wad eight cautions of dollare; the ron nv: ts and ty 6 all Drought (ron bugland, ready fiited foe miaie tube, three bandred api fitty feet tong, 1s the longert aud pighest from the ater; ke tubular form und dark distance appear to tra. Veliers as unpromising ax the entrance to Dante's “L)[q- ferne,” akvough pet forbidding “ogni speranza”’ to those trusting in the rkyil of engineers Te nity of Monwvea! is supplied with water drawn up from the St Lawrence, a mile aod # nalf above the cbice ly is conc ucted & distance of five miles panl to a basi, from which 1 in forced ourths ales to a reservoir on the brow of The works Cost Loe erty $1,260,000 *as my good for ane w enjoy the prbspities, eegancies and at-hone-ative comforts of the Loveyenm Hotel, whore perfec: appiances and reginea cab ever be surpassed 12 the great hovel. dom of nomadic Awerica, The clean od inviolate yaris, the mag five silver ao maboguoy, the wiry hails aud par- Mo ‘ While m Mont t Rove ore, the nutomatic wainrs, with their souliers diy stience, the epicurcan viaoda, ths choice and never farting wines, the ousic of the splendid bao of ibe Seventeenth regimen , give to the house more the alr of the home of some odd wmpered pobiemaa playing Mecwnes to the sanderiog puniis, tna of a ho- te), where Dates wre entered wut ree koning paid for aday, © fact, the Dopepana Diisis a mort of ton awoog n0- tela, from which, if you do not wieh to descend ia tha courer of & summer tour to ine Cepadas—gotug, tike Sir “round by tne water, the water vetle and quickiy that is This houge, with ite rom which ali the boanttul i ropes are atmoet 00! &EA pleasans thinge that jie about mediately vieidle; stolesome table, coay pars Jorg, cooled by ‘the foontsin without, and ehtefly the obliging rex mése of thie rara avis among bosts, place 1 bew Leke House among the aforesaid haut ton of oels, On the 16th Inst. the Democratic State Convention as- rembled at Burlington, Those who expectet a row be- fween the two wings of the purty in this State, dis- tingnitbed by tbe govbrquete of “cow boys’ aud “stomp tails,’ were wholly disanpoiated. The “cow boys’? ere the especial friepos of tbe administration, and the “stomp tals”? sre euppored to have Doug tier Let that be as it may Convention were perfectly h. , 8nd a aieporition wes evitently manifested to await tne action of the Charleston Conveniion, hoping tbat by that time personal Offerences wou'd be forgotten and the party becomg unit Jobn G, Size, Feq , our candidate for Governor, though botun act ve y, tao, Das heen a faithtnt partisan and ory serving cemncrat As hae oever refased 40 ad- vance wnereats of bia party or to employ his great ability tp ac'voratipg its oriccipies His poputarity throughs ont the Stare wii Command a heavy vow. The Vernioot Central Ralroad, under the efficient ma- Pagement cf Mr. Merrill, ite new superintendent, ia ovi- ambers pd open this besnufal lake are im. devr'y t xt patropized road ta the State, Passing, ag in does, throngh the heart of Vermont, it commanug exe tevgive views of its Orcs? scenery TY accommodation 1s muce for travellers to the celes brated Mount Mansfield, from whove summit can be seen, every county ip the State, the Adirondac aud White Mounta'ne, all of Lake Champlain and a part of Montreal, Travellers to this resort leave the cars at Waterbury, & pleagant town on the Vermont Central Railroad, and pro- ceed thence to Stowe by a ten mile rtaze route, where the: accomrentations for aecending the mountain, good hotelg and inteiligent guider, may be found. Police Inv lMigence. Extensive Havt ny BvRGLaRs—The office of Moegurg,. Horton & Lewis, corner of West and Clarkson streets, was Dorglariousiy entered on Friday night, and robbed of holes, drat, checks avd papers, valued at $17,000, The property was deposited in a safe, through which the thieves aveceeded in forcing an entrance by moans of @ cold chivel and sledge hammer, which bad preyiouly been sien fom the worksiop of a ship car. enter pear by Teo young men, named Georgs eClisky and Daniel Kelly, were arrested by policemen. Hotchingon #o° Bouueti, of the Ninth precinct, on suspi- clon Of beiog implicated inthe burglary, but at present Liere is no evGenoe Bpauetibem. fhe prisoners were brousbt delore Justion Kel y, at the Jeersou Market Po~ Hew Court, who commiitcd them for examination. Noaq of the £10 @n property hes been recovered, A TaILon IN TROUDLE. Sim on Simmons, a tailor, residing, at No, 53 Bridge street, was arrested oa complaint of 8, Sumter & Peck, of No. 117 Liberty street, ong cbaree of false pretences. Tbe complainants atlego that. rome vix or @ght weeks ago the prisenor obtained from. hem waterial for six cassimere coats, valued at $20, to- moke up, but felled to retorn the clothing or the goods. Upon arresting the prigone: was found that he wag dog quits en extensive burioces, and kept several hand: ot wor upon cloth alleged to have been procured in a manner simiiac to that practise! vupoa the complainants. A largo quantity of goo\s was retzed by the police, and taken to the pelice court for fdenvitication, Justice Steers committed the pricover for trial cn charge of petit larceny. Th inexpect! lt a number of other complaints will be eagaiASt ku KoSKaed by mercuasts whom he te said to have swindled undor vartous aliases, Aivast or A Stmssanoat Prror.—Barton W. Sandford, @ ® pilet io the empioy of tho Peck lip Ferry Company, was: arrested by the harbor police on cherge of having walt- clovsig asternpted to ran dowa noice boat No. 4. The complain i# allege that Sandford kopt the ferry host so clove to the piers that it was with tho greatest exertion the policemen were enabled to avott 4 serious collision. AS 1 wes one of thete oars wee brokex by coming to contact with the patdie wheel. Justixe Ushorn held the accused tu boll in the sum of $500 to vuewor, Ox Lop Teema —Mro. Mailing aod Meg, Kelly, residents of Tbirtieth street, new Seventh avenuo, had a falling ok on Saturday nipht, and a general row was the consd- qnence. First one was victorious thon the other, until Auaily “he hattle war brought to a clowe by a coup de jrece OD ADO part of Mrb. Kolly, who threw a kettl potting bOsO fae Over her alversury’s bead and shoalders, aunt y 1? Boat a quick retreat for the ooarest sta‘ioa