New-York daily tribune., 1855-08-25

little remarkable, notwithstanding the thick set
tlement along the whole coast, there 10 scarcelJ
sny way business for steamboats, the little trade
that the kabians carry on with the city is drAe in
small SAILING vessels. Our first stop was at q long
wharf at kiyere Ouell, where there is but one
house in sight; but if We may judge by the appear
ance of the crowd Of men and women on the pier
head, there must be large settlement near by.
This is 90 miles below Quebec, on the east side of
the river From here we run directly across the
river. which lie 12 miles wide 10 the wharf OF Muir
ray Bay.
This wharf appears TO be located upon point
barren of every thing but rocks and stuDted ever
greens ; but in passing away from the wharf we
opeped on the bsy-One Of the finest landscapes |
have ever seen, with the water, and church. and
white farm houses and fields in front, and green
wooded hills and blue mountains in the back
ground Then we ran diagOnally across the river
again. TO wharf half mile long at the river Du
Ioup, 1870 miles from Quebec. These costly
wharyes are all built in the very best manner at
Government expense This one, yet unfinished, has
cost near Sl20,CC0 1t is larger amount than
our Government ever expended for place that
has not trade enough to pay the interest Of hall the
money. There ia nice little village Of small
white houses, three miles from the wharf, occu-
pied by as cheerful, healthy, and happy race of
people as cen be found on the continent. This
river has been quite numbering station, and the
land along its banks affords good crops Of barley,
oats potatoes, grass, and some wheat and little
Indian corn. The farmers are now just beginning
cutting their grass, and in about tive weeks Will
begin to cut wheat and barley. The oats will not
be rpe until October. OF course the people are
all French. and among themselves speak I0thing
but the patois OF Canada, though come OF them can
speak English, and some of them from intermar-
riages with Scotch and English have none OF the
French look, except in dress The women all
wear immense fats Of homemade straw braid,
which serves for bonnet and parasOl Thisls place
Of considerable resort from Quebec, By fishing
and ruraliZing parties who enjoy the society OF
these people. The ST. Lawrence here is twenty
one miles wide and with ihe exception OF this set
tement, all around us appear the peaks OF rocky
bills. barren of everything but small pines and
spruce At the wharf there ia large tOw-bOat
that comes down from Quebec in the employ of
the Government wbarfbuilders, and is now wait
ing for chance to take up some becalmed ship
but said one of the men, this is poor day for us;
the ships have all gone up with moving sails.
These we had met, but in much smaller numbers
than / expected upon this magnificent river; ; and
what is still more singular, not as many coasters
as NAV be seen in one hour on the Hudson River.
THE TRIP Up THE sAGUENAY.
No pen ever has, and certainly mine never will
do Justice to the description OF trip up the sague-
nav River the mouth of which is l4O miles below
lyueUec, ana the Hehu III Idkt CtJOih; lou hiiiVs
nOrth-easteIly among the mountains toward Hud-
sons Bay We left the wharf at River du Loup
in the latter part Of the night, and ran about 80
miles diagonally across to the west shore OF the
st Lawrence, and just as the sun began to gid
the mountain tops upon the west side, entered the
mouth of the Saguenay which is about mile vide,
between lofty mountains that rise from the water
without foot of interval land; and this is the
character of nearly every foot of the way for 30
uha xrd mil IL
vides into the Saguenay proper and
HA, HAi BAY,
Which is some 9 miles long and or miles
wide, with a scattering village at the head, and
a saw-mill that runs more than forty saws.
There is neat church, Catholic of course, ss that
is the religion Of nearly all the people. There is
also small building for the Presbyterans The
houses are mostly new, having been built since
the mill was established though the settlement is
very old one. The houses and inhabitants look
neat and comfortable and there are a good many
small fields Of grain ON the hillside. scme OF the
earliest Of W hich begin to take on yellow tlnge.
There is one ship on the stocks and large lumber
schooner at the wharf, both of which look pretty
far inland for il is now low water of tide that
rises regularly eighteen feet. Opposite the VII
lace the shere is fat and bare at low water halt
mile from the wharf, and our steamer anchored
half mile further out, and the landing OF pas
sepeers is effected in this way: They are taken in
the small boats as far as they can go, about twenty
at a load, and are there met by host of little
carts and caleches, drawn by that kind OF horses
that are soon curried, which are driven 10 along
side of the boats, and the passengers taken two at
a time away to the village; and thus in few min
utes a hundred ladies and gentlemen are transfer
red in this primitive way to dry land, for an hours
raube around this curious village, hidden So deep
in the northern wilderness that during the Winter
il is almost as much cut off from association with
the world as the Arctic explorers, who were viv
idly called to mind last night by splendid Aurora
Borealis.
The timber that grows here is small and poor.
II is rare to find one of the logs that has flOated
down tie rapid stream that drives the mill, over
two feet ia diameter, aud many Of them will not
square over ten inches Some OF the ends of the logs
are broomed by their passage down the stream in
food-time which is the only way of getting them
to the mil, one at time, down mountain torrent.
/ have stated how passengers are landed, but
cattle have a still more primitive transit to the
shore. We took on board at Murray Bay yester-
day a COW and two heifers, and / thought then
commend me to Canadian for handling cattle.
They were almost dragged by a rope around the
horns down the long wharf and up 10 the edge of
the gang plank which lay from the wharf at
quarter-pitch down to the deck. OF course the
poor brutes could not walk down, but they could
slide and so they were lifted bodily to the gang
way, and down they went. To land them to-day
was equally easy; they were pitched neck and
heels into the water and towed ashore. A horse to
come on board was mounted upon the deck-load of
a lunber-schooner from the wharf at high water,
and stationed out in the stream TO await the coming
of the steamer.
DEEP WATER AND HIGH ROCKS.
These are some of the difficulties in Il hsrbor
where the tide ebbs and hOws eighteen feet. This
village is 60 miles from the mouth of the river; the