East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1863-09-30
Correspondence.

us home before the conclusion of our
correspondence, and we shall close up
with a letter, or perhaps two of them,
dating from decidedly the fastest place
N. Y. alone exceptod-and to us the
most attractive locality on the whole
route.
Among the many peculiarities of
the Canadian people there is one GER
tainly worthy Of emulation, that is the
P.idv munifcsted by them in their pub
lie works and places ofintercst. Every
facility is offered to trayclors to visit
and inspect their public rounds, parks,
and points OF architectural or histor-
ic interest, and at the principal hotels
in the prominent cities, a portion of
thor business cards is devoted to the
enumeration Of sights and sites, while
guides and drivers are al
ways at hand to do the pioneering for
q liberal consideration. Another fea-
ture is the ease with which travelling
agents for hotels or other business
adopt themselves to the sentiments of
the guests they are after. On the
steamer LORD EJ6, were two of these
specimens, one, a "braw Scotchman
with polished manners and the volu-
bility of female lecturer, agent Of the
DoncgmG--a French name derived
from Donnybrook-and n Canadiani-
zed American, a combination of pom
derosity, pomposity, impudence, ASST
rance and good feeling, agent for ST.
Laurence LaH, the two leading hotels
As most Of the passengers were Yam
KEGS, each We'd with the othcr in rem
rosa"4ing his pnrticular house as the
headquarters" for all Union guests,
and denoum:ing the rival house as an
out and out secesh" institution
The American Consul stopped at the
ST. Lapralcc, A. Lincoln was expec-
ted at the DoHcgaRa in few days
" Under the rose" Donegaaa impaired
the information that the Prince of
Wales stopped at the 81. Laurence, and
it was a regular lordly English-Secosh
concern; and Gin confidence" ST. Laic-
renee stated that all the Southern Re
fugoes, English Military Officers, and
Canadian Seeesh Symrothisers pat
ronized the DonegaRa. The programme
was well arranged, but We Yankees
were keen enough to "see it" and
after eliclitng all the amusement pos
sible out Of tho arrangement, they
let the runners run and voted unani-
mously that Canadian syinpathy for
anything save the "almighty dollar"
was humbug.
The peculiarities of Montreal are
its splendid location, with a magnif-
cent river in front and a grand old
mountain in the rear, narrow streets,
those leading from the river up, and
which arc compactly lined with build
ings, four, five and even six stories in
height, being only wide enough for
two carriages to pass, with but three
foot walk on either side, and the main
avenues, Notre Dame, Great st.
James and others, being barely the
breadth Of three carriages between
the sidewalks, which are also very
narrow; fine wharves which it is said
are unsurpassed by any on the Amer.
lean Continent they are built Of
solid limestone, and meeting with the
locks and cut stone wharves of the
Lachine Canal, they present for seve-
raj miles display of continuous ma
sonry which has few parallels. A
broad terrace faced with grey lime
stone, the parapets of which are sur
mounted with substantial iron rail-
ing, divedes the city from the river
throughout its whole oxtent;-a SUPER
fluffy of military, an unusually fine
stock of horses, mostly small but COM
pact and handsome, polite inhabitants
and a catalogue of "placcs of inter-
est" such as but few cities ON the con-
tinent can boast.
We found in Montreal, without diff
ficulty, our friend FITZGERALD, former
ly of this place, through whose polite
ness we were enabled to edo" the
city in very satisfactory manner, con-
sideripg the brief period Of our So
journ.
We travelled the entire length of
the wharves, noticing with interest the
foreign shipping, the large and ele-
CANT Quebec Steamers, and myriads
Of smaller steam and sail craft which
ply to intermediate points on the river;
visited the Aracs-- ~-'-.s was c'lar-