Daily National Intelligencer

AMERICAN SCENERY.--NEW-YORK.

Extract of a letter from a gentleman in New York, to his friend in Baltimore.

"Since my arrival I have been up the North River to take a view of Newburg, and remained there two days; my health and strength was good and great; the weather was very fine, but, when I had finished my sketching business, the weather, as it did at Washington, changed to windy and cold; so far I was again lucky. I went up to the top of a hill opposite to Newburg, which they say, and I think, is twelve or fourteen hundred feet above the level of the water, and I must declare, notwithstanding all the partiality that I have for my native scenery, I never beheld a more glorious and extensive prospect; up and down the Hudson as far as the eye could carry, with Newburg, Poughkeepsie, New Windsor, New Cornwall and Fishkill; country seats, scattered cottages, cultivated and uncultivated fields; two waters were in view, which in this extensive empire, by comparison, bear the name of ponds, but in England would wear the more respectable title of Lakes; distant mountains, dimly seen through an azure mist, mingling with the clouds so distant and obscure, that, although assisted by the glass, the eye could not possibly fix a point that might be called the termination of the scene —and if, as the notes on Virginia inform us, the romantic scenery of Harper's Ferry is worth a voyage across the Atlantic to come and see, then is the above described scenery worth the trouble and danger of a voyage three times around the world. The highlands of the North River, West Point, Snake & Butter Hill boldly grace the foreground scenery, and lead the eye along a broken chain of mountains, to an interminable distance: in short, I do not think that the world contains, but few, if any, scenes that surpass, take it all in all, the prospect so badly described above; for, although the mountains of England, Scotland, Wales and Switzerland may be in their respective groups more lofty, craggy or rudely broken, and in course better adapted for a picturesque representation on the canvas; yet the noble Hudson with her steam boats, small craft and ships, villages, farmhouses, orchards, cultivated ground, extending over (to the eye) a boundless scene, and furrows of the plough above a thousand feet above the plains below, and add to this, not a palace of a pampered prince to beggar by comparison the cottage, or levy an arbitrary tax upon the hard earned pittance of its humble tenant, nor priest to carry off the tenth part of his scanty produce- but here the prospect is made a thousand times more delightful, by the reflection, that domestic safety, political and religious liberty, gladdens all the plain, and gives an additional sweetness to all the joys of domestic life.

Mr. P- and myself are going (to-morrow week) to the great Falls of Niagara, and then I will send you another description of what we may see there and elsewhere."-American.