Unpleasant journey to Niagara--Mr. Seward--The Union and its dangers--Pass Buffalo--Arrival at Niagara--A ‘Touter’--Bad weather--The Road--Climate compared--Desolate appearance of houses--The St. Lawrence viewed from above--One hundred years ago--Canada the great object of the Americans--The Welland Canal--Effect of the Falls from a distance--Gradual approach--Less volume of water in winter--Different effect and dangers in winter--Icicles--Behind the Cataract--Photographs and Bazaar--Visit the “Lions” generally--Brock--American and Canadian sides contrasted--Goat Island--A whisper heard--Mills and Manufactories. It was past noon ere the train once more began its contest with the snow--now conquering, now stubbornly resisted, and brought to a standstill:--the pace exceedingly slow, the scenery that of undulating white tablecloths, the society dull. The journey to Niagara was as unpleasant as very bad travelling and absence of anything to see could make it. The train contained many soldiers or volunteers going back to their people, who discussed the conduct of the war with earnestness and acuteness; but though we were so far north, I could not hear any of them very anxious about the negro. Well-dressed men and women got in and out at all the stations, nor did I see persons in the whole line of the cars who seemed to have rubbed elbows with adversity. Schenectady! Utica! Syracuse! Auburn! Here be comminglings!--the Indian, the Phœno-Numidian, the Greek-Sicilian, the Anglo-Irish, all reviving here in fair towns, full of wealth, commerce, and life. The last-named is, I believe, the birthplace, and is certainly what auctioneers call the residential abode, of Mr. Seward. I remember his Excellency relating how, after the Battle of Bull Run--when he was threatened by certain people from Baltimore with hanging, as the reward of his misdeeds in plunging the country into civil war--he resolved to visit his fellow-citizens and neighbours, to ascertain whether there was any change of feeling amongst them. He was received with every demonstration of kindness and respect, and then, said he, “I felt my head was quite safe on my shoulders.” It is but just to say, Mr. Seward altogether disclaims the intention of seizing on Canada, which has been attributed to him in England; although he certainly is of opinion, that the province cannot continue long to be a dependency of the English Crown. How long does he think California will be content to receive orders from a government at Washington?