East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1863-09-23
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Ilttue anu lIsiNtl Ou tho hhiciiSoh ooh-
tinent. From here itinerant humanity
and the "rest of mankind radiate
throughout the hemisphere and else
whore, and at this point every inward
bound route by land or water finally
eliminates. The unsophisticated here
can only wonder at the magnitude of
the accumulation Of business and pop
ulation, and the most intelligent, OBJ
servant and well posted Of those who
claim to be wise concerning matters of
growth and political economy, are not
unapt to get muddled in their specu-
lations concerning tho great metropo-
lis. Eighteen years ago, when mere
boy, and on our first visit, we claimed
after a weeks ramble about town to
know something Of the situation aud
boundaries of New York now il has
neither situation nor boundaries,-it
is restless, limitless, incomprehensible;
nothing seems TO impede its growth or
permanently effect its prosperity it is
sumner. How we got here from
Ogdensburg is the matter for consid-
GRAFTON in this communication.
AtOgdensburg we changed steamers,
taking a smaller caft, the Lord Eigen,
for Montreal. Six miles below Og-
densburg the Rapids of tho st. Law
renee commence, the first being the
Gallop Rapids, and they continue at
intervals the whole distance, increas-
ing in interest at every new Jump"
as the Frenchmen term it, TO the La-
chine, a few miles above Montreal,
now considered the most dangerous
Rapids on the river.
jumping the Rapids" as the cx-
pressive parlance of the Canadian
habitms describes it, is the ccstacy of
steamboat navigation; "afloat or
ashore" there is nothing like it. Down
the swift and smooth decline which
leads to the seething whirlpool in the
distance at breathless speed, over the
ridge Of waters bordering the break,
then down, down, among the jostling,
roaring, tumbling pillows, the creatures
of neither storm nor tempest, and out
again like a shot, into an eddy where
all is quiet, turning sharp corners,
following intricate channels, most of
the time between rocky banks and
among stony, sterile islands, sometimes
in mid channel, and again but a step
from rock or shore SO is tho run of
the st. Lawrence made. -Four stall
wart, keen-eyed Frenchmen man the
wheel on the E2gn at all the import
ant rapids, and the gallant little steam
er, trembling at times, but always
prompt and steady, dashes about from
point 70 point an,il- the seeihing VA
tiers very like "a thing of life"
Being behind time, we were COM
PEELED TO lay by the first night at Co
teau du Lac, 10 miles above Montreal,
and made tho balance of the run,
through Coteau, Cedar, Cascade and
Lachime Rapids, and passing under
Victoria Bridge, the next morning
reaching Montreal at o'clock.
We copy as a conclusion to this
short and hastily written letter an ex-
tract from one of the guide books, re-
serving the detail Of our own impress
sions and experience for another time.
The City of Montreal is one of the
largest and most populous cities in
British North America. 1t was found
cd by NJ. de Maissonneuve, in 1912,
on the site of an Indian village, named
Hochelaga, and dedicated to the Nir-
gin Mary as its patroness and protcc-
tor, and for a long period bore the
name of TILE Marie 1t is laid out in
the form of a parallelogram, and con-
tains some two hundred streets, with
a population Of over 100000.
The traveller, in approaching the
city from the river, is struck with the
peculiar beauty of the large cut stone
buildings which front the majestic
river st. Lawrence on whose banks
they are reared, resembling i'll their
solid masonry and elegance the build
ings of European cities.
The Island of Montreal is, in fact,
most popularity regarded as the garden
of Canada. The city being at the
head Of ship navigation, her local adj
vantages are unsurpassed.
G.. L. +.
INDIAN TRouBLEs.-A dispatch from
Brip Gen. Sibley. under date of 9TH