The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1844-06-05
Ut. Louis.
Correspondence of the Herald
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PLANTERS HOTEL,
LEL. Sr. LOUIS, May %, lSA
Aaother Eood-Noahs dirk canted-Progrsss OF
the Wen--TTade and extended Credits -Crash
Anticipated-I hsatricais aud Politics, with songs
On my arrival here yesterday, found the pumps
and buckets in the lower part ct the city, all the
CO." The valley of the Mississippi Is literally IN
undated, and the levee and lower quarters OF ST.
Louis are now submerged in the Hood. The rice IN
the river is unparalleled in the recollection OF that
noted and venerable sentleman-the Oldest inhaoi-
tant The Missouri bottoms, on the light bank OF
the river, and those Of the American, on the left,
are flooded for hundreds OF miles The damage
sustained by this calamity must be immense. In
many instances the prospects OF the farmer are
blasted the labor Of years is swept oil IN single
nish,. Dwellings have been abandoned to the
rushing food, while their once happy inmates have
barely escaped, as II were, with their hves In their
hands, Fences, fiocks, herds and swine are all
tAoat. Several persons IN st. LOUIS nave mace
quite pretty business for two or three days past,
catching hogs in the Mississippi. The water is nov
fortunately subsiding and has already subsidized
nearly twelve inches; consequently, me unit ID not
80 plentiful as II has been bur, immediately az we
emerged from the Ohio, which, by reason OF the
great height in the Mississippi, is set back, and
rendered almost curentless, as tar as the Cumoer-
land we encountered dense masses OF forests trees,
fences cord wood, and all sorts OF hoatlne DEBRIS,
rushing and whirling down this mad, lmpetuous
stream, IN the widest manner Imaginable. Day
before Yesterday two houses were seen on their
way down the river, on one OF which, perched de-
pairinSly on the roof, was :. gone coon" Yes
,erday we saw large buffalo floating down, it was
dead of course and may have come thousands OF
miles down the. Missouri. The Jerry across from
ST. Louis to Illinois City was, during the height OF
the excitement, entirely suspended one poat com
lnenced running again yesterday, but the bottoms
the Illinois side are 80 entirely covered WIN wa
ter that there is little or no passing Several per
sons have been drowned IN attempting 10 cross ne
bottoms on the Illinois side and IN some OF the
streets OF Illinois City, the water has been up tothe
window of the second story OF the houses This
unusual in the Mississippi is attributed TO the ST.
multaneSus rise in the Missouri, Inc Illinois, me
Rock and the Upper Mississippi, circums,anc.
which rarely occurs. The roads through lItnos
and Indiana are everywhere obstructed ny me
food so that there has not been an arrival Of the
eastern mail here ence Monday week the latest
New York pspers are Of the 7.h instant With Ia.
exception OF the damage and interruption occssloheo
by the nundation, affairs seem to oe IN very pros
porous condition at the west, END, particui,riy IA
L Louis, Louisville, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh
all of these cities are improving very rapidly
Cincinnati has already a population OF over Sc
vrpty thousand the influx Of strangers there IL
greater than can be comfortably accommodates
with houses, though they are building more thu
year than tor many years past. This city is diso
very much improved, ana since last year ana 'ht
building mania pervades every quarter oil Inc town
Brick and mortar and lumber clog up the streets
20 where you will, ana you ire sure TO encounter
somc new erection IN the progress Of complexion
Every thing in this reg ion ID prog ressve-the March
is on~ ard with the r'reugh, vigor and freshness OF
,ou.h. Nohng 10 ks deceyet, and wilheled aho
subdued by time but everything smiles ahc
orighens with cary hap. and tair prospects, sci
ION 30 ,ou see m old man here not that the eli
mate IA inealJblous, nncongenial WIN advanced
ace bui ~" great uass ere young, adventurous and
,uil Of activity. IL is the opinion here that the
New Workers have egaia been TOO lavish OF iheir
confidence; and have gwen extensive cfeoiis 10
muny western me!. '9hc were entirely unworthy 81
| II Many who have pas5ed through the bankrup'
,nachine "by the skn OF Their teeth, have been 70
New York this season aud brought BACK large
,tocks Of goods.
they extend their credits ~ the west, or they will
aga: n have taste of the times experienced IN ~
Toe crops where the lnundation has not reached
are looking remark aby well, and The season Is tub
one month earlier this than last year this time
Money abundant tor good security AT 10 per cent,
the legal ra,e the Bank OF Missouri has three times
AZ much OF specie 10 her vaults as her circulation
vet they are rs careful abonf the kind Of seculty
they take for their loans as they were three Year.
ago nothing but what ~ repuied A no. /, goes
down with them at all. All the food wood paper
| IS done by the brokers, or II remains undone.
| Hackett is here playing capially TO rather thin
boxes and an indifferent pit. He took benefi
| night before last, and had, as am told, n good
house Last night there was thin attendance he
| ls however, up again for tonight; how much
longer he will remain here will be known anon,
| anon, sir." -
! There seems 10 be but little excitement here po-
litcally, and very little is said OF "annexat
except by those who follow up the POLITICAL sqnab-
bles of the day for livelihood. They ere here,
as every where else, all mouth and belly; and say
| and do any thing that circumstances seem TO r.
quire, and are ready TO bag the spoils IN all di
| recuons The friends OF Clay seem to be some
| what alarmed lest Van Buren, should be dropped,
and Cass OF some more popular candidate takeI
| up--a very probable thing-whlch would raise INT
deuce with their songs, which are all tuned I,
pIsy off upon the lamb Of Underwood. There
would have to be an entirely new version OF songs
cot M. which would delay Joe Ifoxie's singing
| school most amazingly. The singers are AFRAID
that they have fired their lead into the wrong
! stump. ,
| A meeting is called by the friends of annexation
tor tonight; it viii, however, notamount to much
| shall write YOU more particularly hereafter, but
have not the time TO do more al present. -,
Very truly, and respectfully yours, Q.
NEcHoMANcY AND VESTRILoQUlsM. Mr.. Sutton''
| first performance took place on Monday last al the
| Olympic Theatre, and stamped him III our sstIn,a
lion, as the leading. necromancer OF the day 'h'
| house was crowded to excess. Ills TICKS Of le
gerdcmain are really wonderful, being done WIN
precision that dehes detection, and leads captive
the Imagination of the spectator; indeed some OF
them are so marvellous as to appear ilnpo"sssiole
without the aid which professors OF the " black
artp in the middle ages supposed TO obtain from
being, not Of flesh blood. That Mr. Sutton has res,
had recourse the assistance OF these In
diyiduas we do not undertake. positively to aitrm but
not, then will he be kind enough to tell US by wha,
agency he continues to play the supernatural so well
| Probably he may reply with Hamlet
There are things in heaven and earth, Horaio,
| Than are dreamed Of in your philosophy"
And 20 there are, his exhibition proves We recon
mend all readers old and young who love be pun
zed ecver, 10 witness the ieats OF this extraordinary
man.
Mr.. EDITOR :-One important fact does not ap-
pear in Bishop Hughes correspondence WIN Maso'