New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-08-25


tsr-s7est knobs Of prsess, " n''s' . %'sauO.u''
ran In their blood, and broke nressDiy aa'oi"
seen spots. These were also ns.,'nn' 0o1
scotchmsn with large kits and small les ana 20"
Indian chiehains, abors inaIly GUM, WHY'S up ~
blankets and abnormal dignity with dark CON,
strsight noses white teeth and eye to the O.
of traffic.
Not long after the lsves, the Prince, attended BY
considerable party visited the Falls Of Montmo enci,
and the Natural Steps," an extraordinary chasm,
with terraced Sides situated few miles above the
mouth Of the river. TIE short road from Quebec
passes through charming village in which neat little
French cottages cluster around the parish churches
seeming at to seek and give protection Theelds
are filed with evidences of most careful cultivation for
the habitant although unambitious and ignorant of
progress are always prudent, and waichful of the
little fortune they enjoy. There is much taste shown
in the arrangement of their lands; and the houses Of
even the poorest often hung with heavy vines and
decked with flowers. The old women, in their great
round hats, carrying about bundles of straw with
apparently vague notion of being useful in spite OF
their inrmites the rougbbearded men, driving their
bulQy market wagons the small children rolling about
the holds clothed mostly in nfautie modesty and
continually getting themselves in good condition for
washing and once in while bright young face peep
ing timdly from behind rude lattice give fair idea
of the general population 1t is all as unlike anything
else In America as could be imagined. There no
other villages quaint in manner and speech, so cour-
eous and wholly unconscious Of enterprise as these
Canadian French. Their thstehed buildings, their
methods of living, their systems Of husbandry, their
feelings, all Of q century ago.
The fall at the mouth Of the Montuorenc is surpass-
ingly beautiful Its depth is prodigous-far greater
than that of Nagarabut the stream is 80 slendsr by
comparison, that the idea Of power or majesty is lost
TIE river seems almost to glide the precpice, and
descends with hardly break in its regular and SYM
metreal The delicate spray is forever wreahed
in the most exquisite FORMS The varying colors are
the tenderes; that nature gives. With Its impetuous
velocity the fab conveys only the sentiment Of really
feminine .oftness. The basin into which it punges
dariened by the steep activities which surround it. is
indistincty seen through the miss which radiste in
FIVE distinct columns from the foot of the fan and float
weirdy over the black and agitsted pool. The uys-
terry of its disappearance is the most wonderful feature
Of the fall for after it dashes into this black and
fathomed reservoir its destiny is tbencefoth unknown
Sepsrated from the st. Lawrence only by narrow
strip of land il yet fails to meet the river it to
SEEK and with all the vast body of wator Of which it
is the outpouTiDg, it disappears In the mpeneTabe
vault which receives It, and no more be traced.
Fu her bel W. in the plain, upon the very face
Of the waters which creep in from the St. Lawrence,
the first great battle between Wolfe and Montcam, in
which the former repulsed, was fought. 1t is a
of exceeding pcturesqueness and the traditions
which hover around it, with their half defined records
of the struggethe intrepid onslaught of the assail-
ants, unavsDg in a spot strongly fortified by ma
ture the apprsch of the Storm and the forced retreat
give it romantic and exciting interest apart from
that which its own attractiveness secures.
The Natural Steps," near at hand, claim attention
by peculiar regularity Of their formation and the
beauty OF the scenery by which they surrounded
TIE MonimoIenc River runs for nearly mile through
q deep cleft in bed of limerick, from which, upon
one eide thin layers have been broken in such
as form long succession of steps, complete and
uninterrupted that they sufficiently justify the
which has been given to them. Upon the other, the
cliff rise perpendiculary and display strange and fan
tastic outlines that to have been the work of
sbifu ar,ioer rather than accidental effect of
nature. They stand Ike the shattered and decaying
wall Of ancient castle, wthturrets and TO wers right
ly placed and with frequent apertures, not unlike
brsling embIasures but which here emit only jets of
foam. The river was yesterday swollen to nearly
d ube lis usual Dimensions aud the effect of the waters
passage through the chasu, sometime tossing payfay
sometimes roaring angrily, was greatly heightened
After all the fagues of this active day, the Prince
attended the evening ball at the Music Hail. 10 Quebec,
and danced for Elk hoursrom ten o'clock until four in
the morping-without cessation. The ball was bril-
liant, but less than that given at Halifax. There
were the same elegance of naval aud military costume,
less beauty, ard devoted attentiveness to dis.
tnctiol of rank Excepting that the Prince CHANGED
to clip once upon the floor, causing fury of excite
ent among certain eager journalists who detected in
the accident the skeleton-work of a magnificent
structure of romance and thai the Of the sup
per wal impaired BY the indiscrstions of the WATERS
who had taken early advantage of their opportunities
to become uncertain of mind and manner, there
nothing calling for particular record. The ball was
pushed until daylight loug after the Prince and his
party had left, and the sunrise gun from the citadel
was the only needed signal for separation.
FROM THE PIXIES PEAK GOLD REGION.