SauIt de ST. oIarie.
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We publish the following account OF the above
place Commonly called Sdu 81. Marie for brevity in
prints because is the first have met with in
the public prints and secondly because presents to the
reader in q condensed ioun-which constitutes half the
beauty and merit of newspaper erticlemuch interest
ing and available information. Many OF most promi
nent merchants who have business transactions there
know nothing whatever OF the history or character OF
the place beyond that furnished by the captains Of
vessels sailing thence and which must necessarily be of
very desultory and uncertain character. We quote
from the Cleveland (O) Herald.


The falls Of ST. Mary the 500. as here called, are
about eight hours of steam sailing from Macknaw, and
steamer runs regularly between the places.


It's tVc aGndred and four years since RdyH6duI:
first the falls of St Mary In birchbark canoe, ne
led the first expedition West-he passed over the beau
tfuy clear waters and between the thicky clustering
a-chipelagoes OF Lake Huron, and ending the river,
reached the rapids the loot Of Lake Superior Octo
be< 1. 1911 He found here 20O0 Indians.


In l665 Father Claude AlLoue- reached the 500. lie
admired the beautiful river with It's woody isles and
yng bays-and informs US mat the savases worshiped
Lake Superior Divinity he sailed along the great
lake passed the pictured rocks built chapel and we
told the indians, who never before had seen white
man. came gaze upon him. and his picture OF hell
and the last judgment and he taught them 10 chaunt
the DdtI and the are.


In 1911. a Congress OF The nations assembled here-it
most singular and extraordinary Congress OF native
Americans and brilliantly clad officers from the
armies of France On this spot hundred serenity
four years dgo conressted the ENJOYS of the wild
republicans from the head springs Of the St Lawrence,
the Mississippi, and the Red River and formally
knowedged themselves under the protection OF the
French king. The imposing ceremonyis thus beautiful
" described A Cross of cedar was raised. and amid
the groves of maple and pine. OF hemlock that are
strangely ntermnged the beautiful banks of the st
Mary where the bounding river lashes It's waters into
snowy whiteness they hurry pas, the dark evergreen
the tufted islands in the channel the jealous mis-
sionaes and sieeclad soldey bowed before the cross
and chanted 10 its glory.


The banners Of Heavens King advance
The mystery of the cross chimes forth.


As cary l6cs the " 500 " was place OF great and
fnvorite By the traders and roycsers their
way to Mackinaw from lake Superior.


At this present time this ancient Congress ground OF
the Aborgines has foit, fur trading establishment
small cluster of dwellings and mixed population Of
French English and half5reeds-n all, not exceeding
half the number Of native Americans found here 200
years ago.


AZ Macknsw the headquarters, and the 500 a
favorte stopping place for the fur traders century ago
in lsi5. is the isle OF BesuIy' the rendezvous
and Marys the resting place OF multiudes OF eager
enterpTsirg, and scientific edTcniurers.