Show letter from brooklyn EDITOR JOURNAL since the college year closed at cornell I 1 have bave busied myself traveling about through southern new york it is by far the most picturesque section of country that I 1 have ever seen there is is nothing of that awe inspire ing 0 Z grandeur of scenery as I 1 have been accustomed to see it at home in the mountains that pierce the blue with points tipped with the everlasting snows and in canyons with their boarin roaring 0 cataracts of pure cold water and overhanging cliffs but for quiet and simple beauty such as hills carpeted with rich green gra grass ss and shaded by ever greens and the majestic maple and oak unexpected nooks with the same lavish drapery farm houses villa villages es and cities bitle dotting the whole it seems seeing to me to be faultless less except that the eve eye almost grows grows weary at the sameness of the scenery and longs 0 to be rested by a contrast of some kind yesterday morning I 1 took the train at goshen the county seat of orange and after a ride of about two hours arrived at cornwall on the hudson here the ex excursion ur steamer angler awaited tile the arrival of our train we NN e were soon aboard and steaming down the matchless hudson the serea seri ealion tion that a I 1 man feels as lie he settles down for it a fine live five hour ride on oil the surface of one of the most beautiful rivers in the world and breathes the fresh cool com air gur surpasses passes le de scip tion the river was slightly rippled by the breeze and stretched str etchell out before and behind us its like an endless band ol of pure silver on oil both sides ides tho the highlands 0 extend for miles along the river and then gradually di disappear appear suddenly the river broadens from about two miles into the uzee which 11 1 seven miles from shore to shore A more charming scene than that which burst upon our view at this point cannot can not be imagined on the right land hand was the thriving village of haverstraw Haner straw on the th eleft lea and a little below croton point which juts out uto into the river like abree clad pier the city of sing 0 sing 0 sends up its church spires and seems choly indifferent to the twelve hundred criminals working out their terms of imprisonment in this celebia celebrated t ed prison built on tile the very very brink of the water As a striking illustration of now what is supposed to be an effectual barrier is often made it a means of escape by men whose genius has taken a wrong direction the story is told that a man serving out a lour long term in sing sing contrived a means mean of escape by swimming c under water to ft a place of safety being supplied with air ail through a tube attached to a decoy duck the practical eye of one 0 of f the guards paw something suspicious about the bird however and the mans genius was left it anre A little anwer is located tarrytown back of which is the brid bridge go immortalized I 1 by ichabod cranes C rane 7 s thrilling adventure with tho the headless hor horseman s eman ibe li ome amz 0 f r ving tind and the bui made arn 6 roha cliwe faultless p pen it picture bv fj foun andl Z cHri IM m 1 writings are to be seen with but sli slight 0 lit alterations since hi his own eve eye drank in their inspiration among other scenes of historical interest is is the place now marked by a monument where major andre was captured the evil that men do lives after them the good is oft interred with their bones one can also see the bluff back of which the great but proud alexander hamilton fou fought 0 ht tile the fatal duel west point which fiu figured 0 red so prominently in the revolution as a strategic point and now the 0 great military ary academy occupies a commanding el position overlooking the river presenting 0 a decidedly military appearance the Palli extending I 1 for a number of miles tiong the west bank loo look k like fluted c columns finally hoboken ind and yonkers came into sight andt and then lien new york harbor and all that implies of vessels great Z and small hurrying 0 and about with tile the 0 greatest nicety of movement lest by an any deviation from strict rules another vessel be added to the many that find a watery grave every year wo passed r successively lecce the mouth of east river in in view of tile bridge 15 then lien governors island tile the status of liberty liberta and landed at south brooklyn in time to see boffilo bills bille wild west show after it was all over and I 1 had reachel reached my room for the III night lit I 1 found that I 1 was about exhausted exhaust eti from the nervous tension which up ill to that time had not been relaxed since since morning thou though h far away mr af I 1 E editor aitor I 1 rejoice that hat fair utah lias has been elevated to the rank to which she has been so 0 o ona long entitled I 1 notice that on a close estimate by conservative papers utah and niyom wyoming i ang are looked to to give tile the political complexion to the senate of the fifty fourth congress 0 may the citizens of utah not prove ungrateful crateful to the party which has ever been their friend and at last lias has given them tb that it of which the republican party has constantly deprived them yours fours truly F K NE liKKER |