Show NEW YORK pleasant Excursion Indian from our regular correspondent DOWN ST alie river st lawrence offers attractions to the tourist it is different from all other rivers in America andis worth a long journey think in the first place ivr five mile wide in many placeit kiich is its extreme width in the vi canty of the thousand think again of sailing forty miles down the river amidst an archipelago whose islands are studded here and there with summer cottages and eum mer camps and whose winding and endlessly varied channels open up vistas here and there of equi sito beauty think of literally BAILING DOWN HILL for nine miles at one chand of repeating the experience for shorter distances several times think of a river losing itself in a lake thirty miles long and twelve miles wide and finding its way out again only to repeat the operation twice over once on even a larger scale all this and more does that king of bivers st lawrence americans cannot accustom them selves to looking northward and call ing it down the river sailing down north or up south is utterly aps ops posed to all our ideas of geographical propriety but this is another novelty to be encountered on the st lawren ce where the further go tho further norta you find yourself Twenty eight miles below agdens burg are tho celebrated nine miles long through which tho water runs down hill at the rato of twenty miles an hour during much of this distance tho descent is so marked that you are perceptibly down hill at a tremendous speed the water is quite smooth except at four or five places but in there it rushes and eddies and whirls till the angry waves aro dashed in white swirling billows up straight into the air a distance of twelve or fifteen feel and unlike alie ocean waves which travel these thick and formidable masses of foamy water stand there immovable across the steamers path like vast snow convulsed by some mighty internal force As the boat nears choso places steam ig shut off and propelled only by the dorco of the current tho steamer plunges in among heaving snow heaps where aho sways and shivers ami rolls till you cling to the rail and shout with enthusiasm or hold your breath for fear just according to ahe kind of nerves which providence and your own habits leave provided you few people are with ear however the sensation sens aion caused by tet tr buffeting with the angry waves being usually one of exhilaration exil aside from lie impression created by alie grani deur ot alio waters indeed one of tho ladies af pf our party BO and a nervous or gani allon that the thought of the kapias for a week before had kept lier swallowing awful lumps in the throat which sometimes afflict nervous people in tho presence of real or fancied danger ns the most enthusiastic pi tho number ana fairly sp screamed reamed laith delight where the waves were dashing the highest at two points between ana Pal tha widens into lakes of no mean size though they do not generally appear on alio maps one of these lake st francis h long and twelve miles wide hp other bako bt ouis which is not so largo is just above the little town of Lachine and the famous lachine rapids the wildest and most difficult ot tho entire series our boat did not attempt the passage of these but we were dig embarked a lour atar froni the railroad train in montreal he lachine are so great an attraction to tourists that two excursion trains run daily from montreal to lachine excursionists ako a mailer steamer d the making the round trip in an hour an a half the fall of the river is much greater here than at any of the preceding and the channel s so at a ana app t lie samer passes between two huge walls of black rook but a few foot from her sides within these barrott bounds the water and surges with ftp palling speed by bump authorities at toaty MILES AN HOUK while the ofle river beyond is several feet higher than the channel through which we are being whirled making what is really a valley in the water the indian pilot taken on at lachine directs alie course of the vessel and four stout men at the helm obeying his directions keep her in his valley fit water through all its winding cobrae along which she pitches and rolls like a drunken man around each rapid is constructed a abort canal through which the steamers return up the river traveling up tho river is rendered extreme ly tedious by the numerous which owing to the abrupt descent of alio raier bed follow one another in quok for almost a mile near tho foot of long sault lies the indian village of st heis littly church edifice plainly visible from the Awers ly associated with the at tho story of which used to curdle ow youthful blood and make w draw tho bed clothes over our heads yeara ago indiana In diani through the franch priests had become o build a church and had sent to france for a bell on il way across alie sea it was captured by an cruiser and brought to saeni mass where it wa sold to alio derreld Der Celd people for their new church word was taken to fat fleisc that their bell was in an expedition was or gani sed and these dusky crusaders marched across the wild country in attacked the town killed bell and carried off into captivity over a hundred people including tho pastor and hia family the bell still hangs in tho steeple of st church a striking etri king testimony to the effect aaa that if the indian of to day after a cent contact with alio llio paleface pale face is nn utterly degraded being the redskin of a hundred and twenty years ago lind somo little sentiment a tolerable of what waa just and enough clearness aal energy to de vise and carry out n vigorous plan for securing aliat belonged to hiim our present overbearing secretary of the interior may thank providence that with his and his record of li eartless wrongs heaped and multiplied upon alie tribes the old spirit of ho st regi indiana and their opportunity leave both together passed awal |