Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, W.T. [i.e. Wis.]) 1843-1844, 1843-07-22

tells were crowded, and the spacious
Planters House, after converting the
gentelmen's drawing rooms into lodg-
ing. rooms, was obliged to dismiss a
portion of its company.
This great influx of strangers to St.
Louis indicates revival of the spirit of
emigration to the West, which has
slightly tagged in the last four years.
1t may also be the forerunner of
specializing fever, similar TO tina, from
which we bad just recovered. At all
events, it is an unerring indication
that the march Of empire is still west
ward, and that the great valley of the
Mississippi is still attracting tho
young, the enterprising and the adj
venturous from other portions of the
Union, and indeed from nearly all
parts of the world.
We have long been of opinion that
St. Louis is destined to become the
most important inland city in the
world. At present, in point of cities
in our valley, Cincinnati leadsSt Louis,
and is increaceing in population,
wealth and importance with unexam
pied rapidly. But the trade which
Cincinnati can ever command is
narrow and circumscri5ed indeed,
compared with the bound,ess field
which is opening for St. Louis. In
the course Of events Cincinnati will be
to ST. Louis what the Ohio River at
that point is to the mingled waters of
the Missouri and Upper Mississippi.
The Ohio river at Cincinnati has not
coursed as may hundred miles as the
two larger streams have thousands,
when they unite their volumes above
St. Louis, after having absorbed in
their course streams of equal magnitude
with the Ohio and Mississippi rivers,
the trade of the place might have inter
fered TO some extent with the growth
of ST Louis, but the latter is now too
far advanced, and its advantages too
well appreciated, 10 fear any rival. A
great town may, indeed spring up at
the mouth of the Ohio, for there viii
be abundance Of commerce to warrant
| it, but it will be tributary rather
than rival to st. Louis.
Ii may be anticipating a great deal
to suppose rail road communication
between st. Louis and Boston. Such
a project has been agitated and the
great success which has attended the
enterprise already undertaken and
completed by Boston capitalists to
connect their city with the west, will
probably induce the speedy accomplish
men, Of this work. At all events
whenever such communication shall
be established between an Atlantic city
and town west ofwheeling, St. Louis
is The point TO which it will be direc-
ted. We already read in the Cincinnati
Gazette Of the establishment of "pri-
vaie express line" for the transmission
of money and small sized packages,
sbetwen Baltimore and st. Louis"
with agencies at such town as Cincin-
natl and Louisville, and to connect
at Baltimore with Harndcn's Line to
Boston. O. Bulletin.
A CoNTRADIcToRY CouPLE.-w do
believe" he says, taking his spoon out
Of his glass, and tossing it on the table,
"that of all the obstinate, positive,
wrong headed creatures that ever were
born, you are The most so, Charlotte"
"Certainly, certainly, have your own
way, pray. You see how much con-
tradict you, rejoined The lady.
"Of course you didn't contradict me
at dinner time; oh no, not your" says
the gentleman.
"Yes, did," says the lady.
"Oh. you did" cried the gentleman,
"yog admit that"
fyou call that contradiction, | do"
the lady answers; sand | say again,
Edward, that when ! know you are
wrong, | will contradict you. l am
not your slave"
"Not my slaven repeated the gen.
tleman, bitterly; sand you still mean
10 say that in Black burns new house
there are more than fourteen doors, in
GLIDING the wine cellar?"
81 mean TO say" retorts the lady,
beating time with her hairbrush on the
palm Of her hand, "that in that house
there are just fourteen doors ana no
more"
"WeIl then said the gentleman, ris-
ing in despair, and pacing The room