Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1845-12-02
SAULT DE ST. M.RIE.-We nnbl;Sh III,

SAULT DE ST. MARIE.-We publish the
following account Of the above place. fcom.
monty called Sault ST. Marie. for breyitv.l
imprimis, because it is the first we have ey-
er met with in The public prints, and sec
ondly, because it presents TO the reader in
condensed form which constitutes half
the beauty and merit Of newspaper aui-
cle-much interesting and available infor-
nation. Many of our most prominent mer.
chants, who have business transactions there
know nothing whatever Of the history or
character of the place, beyond that furn' sh-
ed them by the captains Of vessels shilling
thence, and which must necessarily be of
very desultory and uncertain Character
We quote from the Cleveland CO., Herald:
IN. Y. Tribune.
1.-The falls of ST. Mary, or the .Soo,' as
here called. are about eight hours of s:eam
sailing from Mackinaw, and steamer runs
regularly between the places.
1t is now tao hundred aud four gears
since Raymbault first saw the falls of ST.
Mary. in u birch bark canoe, he led the
first expedition WEsT-he passed .over the
beautiful clear waters, and between the
thlckly clustering archipelagoes OF Lake HUI
rom and ascending the river, reached the
rapids, at the foot o: Lake superior, Octo-
Der a, l64l. He found hcro 1900 Ind-
ans
IN 1865 Father Claude Allouez reached
the $500 He admired the beautiful river,
with It's woody isles and inviting bavs-and
informs us that the 'savages worshipped
Lake Superior as Divinity. He sailed a.
long the great lake, passed the pictured
rocks builta chapel, and we are told, the
Indians, who never before had seen white
man, came TO gaze upon him, and on his
picture of he'll and his last Judgment and
he taught them 10 chaunt the pater and the
are.
In leila Congress of the nations assem-
bled here-it was most singular and ex-
traordnary Congress of native Americans
and brilliantly clad officers from the veteran
armies of France. On this spot one hun
dred and seventy-four years ago, were con-
gregated the ENJOYS of the wild republicans
from The head springs of the ST. Lawrence,
the Mississippi, and the Red River, and
formally acknowledged themselves under
the protection of the French king The
imposing ceremony is thus beautifully de-
scribed: "a cross Of cedar was raised, and
amid the groves ofmaple and pine, of hem.
lock that are strangely intermingled Oh the
beautiful banks of The st. Mary, where the
bounding river lashes its waters into snowy
whiteness, as they hurry past the daik ever
green of the turtted islam Is in the channel,"
the Jealous missionaries and steel-clad SOL
diery, bowed before the cross, AMI chanted
TO lis glory,
The banners of Heavens King advance;
The mystery of the cross shines forth.
As early as 1858, the 500 was place
of great and fayorite resort by the traders
and voyageurs on their way TO Macinaw
from lake Superior.
AT this present time this ancient Congress
ground of the Aborigines, has a fort, a fur
trading establishment, small cluster of
dwellngs,and mixed population ofFrench
English and halfbreeds-in all, not exceed
in ONE half the number of native Americans
found here 200 years ago.
AS Macknaw was the head quarters, and
the $500" a favorite stopping place, for the
fur traders, century ago so now in lS45,s
the elsie of beauty" the rendezvous and ST.
Mary's the resting place Of mulitudcs of
eager, enterprising, and scientific adyen-
turers.