One correspondent was already on the way to Cairo.

I was instructed to watch the military movements in Missouri, and hastened to St.Louis as fast as steam could bear me.
Detained twelve hours at Niagara, by reason of missing a railway train, I found that the opening war gave promise of affecting that locality.

The hotel-keepers were gloomy at the prospect of losing their Southern patronage, and half feared they would be obliged to close their establishments.

There were but few visitors, and even these were not of the class which scatters its money profusely.

The village around the Falls displayed positive signs of dullness, and the inhabitants had personal as well as patriotic interest in wishing there was no war.