The Portland daily press., 1870-08-15
JOSEPH BRAME, MINISTER OF PUBLIC
STRUCTION.
From our regular Correspondent
The Walled City.
QUEBEC, August

QUEBEC, August 10, 1870.
We shall never forget the impressions of
our first visit here twelve years ago this
month. So quaint, so olden and so rich in
historical interest as well as delightful in pic
turesque beauty. Quebec presents TO the
traveller points of attractiveness that may
well command prolonged attention. At the
risk Of repeating to Portland readers what
we have before written from this old walled
city the only one in this part of the world
we will jot few facts that will be service.ble
to the many who are now wisely improving
the facilities furnished by the Grand Trunk
raioad to excursionists. This. unique, old
town was founded in 1908 by Champlain and
in 1922 had but fifty souls population. In
June 1850 the English under General Wolfe
landed and on the 18th September following
defeated the French on the Plains of Abra-
ham. The rock is pointed out on " Uhich Gen.
Wolfe expired, and we have seen near Lon
don at Greenwich Hospital the blood. stained
garments in which that day he fell.
The Castle of st. Louis, begun in 1924, was
burned in 1884, and by order of Lord Dur
ham the site was cleared, leveled, planked
and enclosed by an iron railing, making a
beautiful terrace for promenade. Cape Dia-
mond, ON which the citadel is built, is so call
ed from the brilliant crystals imbedded in its
granite foundations. The view from the top
of the fortress 345 feet high is pronounced by
Latrobe, an English traveller, the finest in
America; the second, he says, is that from the
Portland Observatory on Munjoy Hill. The
spot where Gen. Montgomery fell, is on the
riverside slope leading to the citadel, and his
grave is within the Ursuline convent OF Que
bee.
Around the Plains of Abraham are four
martello towers 40 feet high, half mile in
advance Of the other Notifications. One can
easily "do" the city in two days, so far as con-
Germs the leading points of interest, but
week is bseter. Let us just merely catalogue
the OBJECTS seen to day.
= We arrived 1880 P. NJ. yesterday at Point
Levi, the train being an hour late. The ferry
lands you just under the citadel and an on-
nibus takes you without charge to the st.
Louis, the principal hotel, accommodating 500
guests, located near the Durham Terrace,
overlooking the St. Lawrence. Here you are
cared for in the best style for So 90 a day, in
the immediate vicinity of the Place des Armes,
Court House, French Cathedral, Esplanade,
and other objects of interest.
After breakfast you need only to step to the
window of the reading room and call John
hit the mythic John of Murray's story-but
JOIN Campbell, an intelligent driver, who,
Win harse and caeche will take you any
where ano everywhere. We started at
nine O'Clock TIM morning, drove out of the
city through Prescot Gate, over st. Charles
river, through BeauiC-t to Montmorenci
to the falls; passing the ruth. of the big fire Of
last spring, the Lunatic asylum, over beauti-
full macalimized roads, and in view os a .core
of entertaining objects and back through St.
Louis suburbs, to Bon Pasteur, where we
visited the nuns and the pictures, to the
Heights of Abraham, City Jail, Time Ball,
Drill shed, and saw the young volunteers, the
Skating Rink, Racquette court, citadel, and
Esplanade. All this 10 mile ride may be had
for $50 and thirty cents toll After nap
and royal dinner, we visited the French
Cathedral and Seminary Chapel, stroled
through the book stores and then took a
trim TO the Isle of Orleans. This round trip
of eight miles by steamer costs twenty five
cents and brings you to an island of great
beauty and from which the view of Montmo-
renc, Indian Point, the City and suburbs is
very fine. Before tea quiet promenade was
enjoyed on Durham Terrace and the evening
has been spent on the esplanade, where under
the light Of full moon, a thousand or more
have gathered to hear the Goth Regiment
band, forty-one performers, play several capt
tai pieces from Bellini, Offenbach, etc. Ii
one brings greenbacks he gets SO cents on tn
dollar for Them The fractional currency or
"sbiuplasters,D as they are here called, bring
often but half price. 0Asoo'
-"Man proposes, but God disposes'" said
,,;o,,s omit to her oyer-confident niece. "Let