New-York daily tribune., 1858-03-23

Mr.. I. Med. Coins-who seems to BE- Yankee
Of the Lightning Train" eenus-yIsited St.
Petersburg aud Moscow some time in ls5G with a
commission from our Government, appointing him
L. s. Consul at the mouth of the AmOOr-a river
which pursues q like course through nearly the
sane lattudcs with the 1t. Lawrence, aud holds
yer, similar relations 10 the Eastern Continent th1t
the ST. LawrCnce does to ours. Leaving Moscow
during the Winter of 1861, he journeyed in
sleigh drawn by post. horses $500 miles eastward
to Irkout.b, the capital Of Eastern Siberia on the
river Angara, just below where it issues from axe
Baihal in \. lat - Thebce Ms. COlnns made a
visit to Kiakhts, some $50 miles southwest, famous
as the sole Russian entrepot Of the great inland trade
(sbout 500, 100000 per annum) between Russia
and Chins- Maimatschen, just across the frontier,
being the Chinese depot of the trade. Ia the
Spring be crossed the StanOvOy Mountains
o,ed still eastward visited Chetah the capital
the tsns- Baike province of Russa, situated at or
Lcar the head of navigation on the lngodah, an
sAlucnt of the Amoor, and there waited for the
breaking up of the river, which took place on the
7th of May last. There embarking with Russian
officer and FIVE Cossachs, he foated, rowed and
sailed down the Ingodah TO the Schilkiah and
tn, nee to the Amoor, and so to the mouth OF that
great river, which he reached in fftytwo days, or
on tbe 2Sth ef June last. MIR. Collins says of the
REGION thus traversed as condensed from his report
Tor Tie Erening Post:
"The upper portion Of the Amoor is mountainous
though ther il plenty of land susceptible of cult'va
tioD The middle portion is occupied by vast r,an'
susceptible of cultivation aId The raising ol stotN
The portion next the Is the worst 10 every respect
n is mountainous heavily iimbered, bleak aud cod IN
Winter. end not favorable 10 agriculture.
"Tltrc is much valuable timber on the Amoor,
smoug which are oak, wanut, cork, cedar, pine ana
spruce. The country produces grains grds. grapes,
,,uleS pears strawberries, lnuan corn and Vegeta-
hics various kinds. Cattle horses, sheep, goats
and es are found in s,ca; numbers IN the different
coul
" ue ab5unds in the forests, and is sourca Of
very 1T; revenue in iurs and skins.
"'G ard silver. iron, copper, lead, tin, coal and
plun.hu.u are TO be found IN lis nlouhta!1s
Its MYERS, lakes and coasts abound IN cholcc hsh,
and in the Summer iununerabe aquatic fowl congre-
The scenery on the Amoor is often beautiful,
sometimes g,sud, aud mach oi il picturesque. The
river rolls moad and majestic, has hundreds oi lsands
chu,ts ana lakes, while snow capped mountains, rug,
-ed stlas aud shocking Volc anoes give II oeahty and
sraICtU. .
Without the Amoor Siberia has no practicable
outlet TO the sta; with H. she al once enters into the
cr al family OF commercial stateS and with her untold
and III known resources IN mines, iuTs, skins, pes,
leather tiaN hemp wool and other products, she be-
comes al once q very important member.
Mol coils NanchoO,la ard Northern ChiHa, auNu-
isry 70 this commerce with their teeU!Dg millions,
orcn field worthy of the picseLt age
We confess th,t-batlng the grand scenery and
the csme, which we accept without queston-we
receive this statement with mauy grains of allow
auce. How much could Mr.. c. ascertain with re-
gard 70 so vast region, and one so barren of lite
rature, history or statistics, by merely floating
once down its main artery And is il credible
that such country, lying within easy rea,h of the
crowded millions of China and Japan, would have
remained to this day almost unpeOpled, if it were
really in good part fertile and readily productive Of
all the grains and fruits of the Temperate Zone
However, Mr. c.. having reached the mouth OF
| the AmOer was so enraptured with the CONNER
cisl prospect thus opened to our countrymen that
be Immediately left for home, having, while at
Chetah last March, before lie had seen the Amoor,
made formal proposition 10 the Russian Govern
I ment, through Gen. Korsakoff, Governor of Trans
Boikal, for the construction of a Railroad from
Chetah TO lrkootsk lover three hundred miles }.
I through country where iron is scarcely more
| abundant than silver, where a s,eam.engine has
probably never yet been, aud across the Stauoy ~
Mountains, which, Mr. {. cocly obserses, present
mo very great obstacle TO the enterprise
Even labc.er are not to be procured for this wo.h