The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1842-10-29
ST. Louis, Missouri.
Correspondence of the Herald.

Sf' LOUIS, missouri, Oct' lou, ioA@-
Description Of 81 Lo@s-Ci1rency;- Irads-Re-
ception Of IVebs,e's Speech - General Hamiton's
Observation-Disclosures
DEAR BENNErT:-
Having for long time been reader of your In
imitable Herald and seeing in it letters from all
parts OF the world and from all the principal cities
OF the Union confess alnsurprsed that the SPLEEN
did city of St. Louis, the "beautiful eye" OF the
glorious West should have escaped your notice, and
that you have not a correspondent here, when such
place as Nauvoo is deemed worthy OF your au-
gust attention. You seem not to know there is
such place as st. Louis in existence.
Well, then, my dear sir, write this to unde-
celve you, and to inform you that st. Louis is the
most splendid inland city in the United States has
more commerce, more steamers, more business
and more wealth than any town on the Mississippi,
save New Orleans; is growing into Importance
faster than any other city, and destined TO be the
first city of the West. 1t contains twenty sight
thousand inhabitants, has many fine dwellings,; It's
public buildings splendid, OF which the finest
are the new Court House, the new Cathoilc church,
and the Planters House, the hrst hotel In the
United States has the best table, the best rooms,
the best reading room, the best company, among
whom may be ioudd Senators Linn and Benton,
ex-presdent Van Buren,, MAJOR General Winfield
Scout (what a long name, aud what a tall man)!
that any other hotel can boast OF. We have had
tlne tun here lately; the races exceeding even the
famous Long Island sport; and to-day the treemd-
sons mad turn out. Yesterday the Governor
viewed The troops, the day before yesterday calling
out the ladies, OF whom st, LOUIS mas not few the
most beautiful In the world, among whom Mrs.
M, Miss G., Miss c., MISS b., Miss W., and a
host OF others, and among them Is Miss F., spen-
did fortune OF two hundred thousand dollars. Be-
sides there are more lawyers, more uocIors, more
odiers, plackegs, cut hrodts pickpockets, brokers'
sharpers, swlndlers, and desperddoes not ~ mention
the cyprldns who congre gate mere, lhan any oher
place OF It's size be found. Inc streets well
paved and McAddmiZed, and are regular. From
levee the ground rises with gentle ACTIVITY,
high as Fourth street, an then Is level The race
couIse four miles out of tow n, the road to 81.
Charles.
worst currency IN the States; we have nothing but
city scrip from to fifty per cent discount; the
city largely III debt, and no way 10 get OUT little
gold and silver. Inc Bank OF st. Louis, specie
paving Is little better than bank al all have
never OF It's bills; they Issue nothing less
than tens, and few OF them. The " better currency
promised by Benton, Jackson, &C., IN SILK purses,
the yellow boys gitering through me interstices,
are rarely seen, and truly may we say with the
prlmmer, " the eagles flight Is out OF sight. The
de here Is fast turning In favor OF national bank,
or national exchequer of some kind ihe democrats
now openly admit Its absolute necessity.
Mr.. WeDsters speech has caused a great COM
notion among the utras OF all parties here las every
where else.
disaster The steamer Eliza, bound for New Or
leans, was snagged and Immediately sunk In TWEEN
ty-five feet water; from twenty to forty lives lost be-
fore assistance could reach Them. Captains wife
and child lost. No insurance on the hull amount
OF insurance on her cargo not known.
have Just read Gen. HaImltons letter TO MI Cal
noun, In which he recommends State taxation as
means to pay the interest on the STATE debts That
will do IN but take LIMOS tor instance and
taxation is out vi the question. The knowing ones
that State openly boast that they neither can nor
will pay the debt vi the State. | mad conversa-
non with d Senator elect ~ the Senate OF IN at
| State and he the Intimate friend OF Governor
Ford elect, and openly declared taxation out OF The
question: That State Is seventeen millions OF dol
lars In the population OF the Stale less than
five hundred thousand souls, and the number OF tax
| payers less than one hundred thousand. With these
| appalling facts staring men In the face, how can
they expect them 10 pay the interest," when her public
works unfinished except forty miles OF raroaid
from Springfield TO Meredosa, which Is let to a
| panv for ten thousand dollars per annum which will
never be paid. II 10 supposed the company will
surrender at the end of the first quarer the timber
is all Iotted, as Mr. Van buren, saw, for he was
obliged to walk five miles through hot sand under
| a July sun in consequence of the badness of the
road. Then the State has some iron has the Hi
nois canal, splendid work with five locks, inferior
to none the Erie canal, half finished has rich
land; has forty millions bushels of Indian this
year, with an immense quantity of wheat cattle,
hogs horses oats, &C. but at the present low prices
of her staples, including the lead mines, what
tndl Stdlc realise Ddnk Is crippled lts
bills not received for State dues how can they pay!
/ again ask | do not mean to impair her credit,
but the truth should be known to prevent her from
acting fraudulently again and imposing upon East.
ern and foreign capitalists, they have already
done. Never has State been misgoverned
never has such lot OF weak, dishonest. wick ed
men crcpt into Office that State is cursed with
They acted more like "children Of larger GROWTH
than like men holding in their hands the destiny OF
fine young and growing State, and posterlty will
curse them as the present inhabitants do.
In this view of the case, what be done Shall
the General Government assume the debt All ad-
nit the credit and good faith OF the Staesas of the
Nation, must be sustained but in the Of Illinois
how shall it be done This is the question put by
Gen. Hamilton and to solve which he nvokes the
| aid of John c. Calhoun, and we invoke the aid of
| all the master minds of the Union to initiate the
| noble example of Daniel Webster, to lay aside
party rancor and up to the work. In no other
way can we get out of the present difficulty and
regain our former proud position among the family
of nations / beseech you hereafter to bestow
thought upon St Louis.
U, =. District Court.