1849

March 17, 1849. Hudson River Panorama. The Literary World.
What is Talked About.
The new Hudson River Panorama of Messrs. Townsend and Orr was opened on Monday.  It is quite worthy of the public expectation, presenting, in a complete series, the prominent views from the ocean at the Narrows to West Point, including both sides of the river and many interiors, so to speak, on the shore.  Thus we have a complete presentation of the vineyards, at Croton Point, of Dr. Underhill, and make the entire circuit of the grounds at West Point, surveying all the buildings, witnessing the military exercises, &c.  The scenes in the bay and harbor are striking, as the Cunard steamer, the little emigrant steamer Dash, overloaded with passengers.  On the Hudson, the river craft, the hay boats, timber sloops, the quarter-of-a-mile steamers, &c., are introduced in a striking manner; while the shore scenery, the Palisades, Rockland Lake, Stony Point, &c. are given with very happy effect.  It is altogether quite a superior work, and will, doubtless, crown the patient labor and liberal expenditure of capital, on the part of the proprietors, with a handsome return.  It is stated to have been two years in preparation, and to have cost $25,000.  Mr. Hillyard, of the late Park theatre, is the leading artist, assisted by Benough, Evers, Kyle, and others.  The exhibition is well worthy of taking its place as a leading metropolitan attraction of the coming season.

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March 27, 1849. Commercial Advertiser (New York, New York).
An Enterprising Skipper. -- Capt. John Johnson, (a colored man,) f the sloop Miriam of Albany, left this city with a cargo of lumber, which he delivered in Newark, N. J., on Christmas; then took a cargo of coat from New York to Piermont, on New Year's day; returned and wintered in New York.  He left New York on the 20th inst., and arrived at our docks on the 21st, sailing the distance in seventeen hours, through floating ice from Poughkeepsie to Albany. -- Albany Journal.