The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-01-15
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your sister city Baltimore, so famed for beauty, would
The young gentlemen are given good deal 10 the
frequentng Of eating .houses-indeed, popular
This probably owing to tho If desirable
sorts The Mercantile Library, lately created but in
audsble endeavors of the authorities break down bill
lizard saloons ten pin alleys, and drinking shops, will
ert an influence in creating desire for moral and intel
leotua qualification which will result in the formation
Of literary societies similar to those among you
The city authorities are native American and the
this city and county, belong to the same party
The Fire Department although pretty efficient, and to.
tai strangers to the ro0us and conduct which
dsgraces the companies of of the cities,
yet seems to lack proper organization. The burning
desire to be ast at fire. cannot be very great for IN. in
heavy engines and although bellows Justify through
his trumpst-"down on her .""now she goes",an al
though those in the harness may pull little harder and
get little redder in the face not ota do they improve
their speed Occasionally one Of the team VIII grow
little FESTIVE and impatient and makes desperate enor
as if he would pull the ponderous machine over the
others but tug two satisfies him. and ne cam' down
with quiet wink to himself and secret desire to see
his neishbor exhaust his wind in similar attempt
St. Louis. may with propriety be called beilringlng
city fer there is eternal monotonous ding dong,
from some quarter from morning til night. and am
almost induced to say from night till morning That
with the ringing for church, Mathis and meetings, and
tollng for funerals the Gathering Of workshop steam
boat and dinner BELLS almost ready to wish that
have written Those evening bells" here, my word
forit
dull and will continue until the opening Of the spring
trade Let me give you St. Louis in nut she'll There
about sixteen Wholesale dry goods houses the CON-
millions, little more or less forty or fifty wholesale gro
cory, commission and produce merchants using about
goods stores grocery at almost every corner an ono
two between and fine sprinkling OF drug, liquor
nev and VARIETY et storss ten or twelve steam
Touring mills; dozen brass and iron foundries do
zen newspapers one theatre ;one shot tower two hos
pals three orphan asylums, great lace for orphans
four markets one library, the mercantile one musical
society, the Polyhymnia; Odd Fellows Hall forty
to fifty churches dozen hotes an incalculable num-
>ber Of English French Dutch Irish and native eating
and drinking houses; one fur house-Choteau Co. /;
three immense tobacco warehouses ono large sugar
refinery one manufactory Of quaint shaped diving
bells and, by the bye, speaking of diving bells
Loaned travelling cap to somebody about this esta
overheard, way bther. There a cap return
cd me on our arrival ut St. Louis but such a cap /
But to resume Two medical colleges, two or three
boat yards several steam mills two ferries across
lead pipe manufactures and one chemical establishment
Arrange these in streets, ntersperse them with dwell
ss n me S ana some mot plant fine
iver along one side, and ill it with craft Of different
KINDS let the atmosphere be asldense as possible and
hundred bells ringing in your at the same time
and you have small but pretty good idea Of st Louis
Christmas Day passed of with good deal Of noise,
every was to blaze away at an Imaginary some
thing with revolver am sorry to say that there was
great want Of steadness evnced by the major part Of
those whom saw FORMULATING the streets. Oh egg
Robert Campbell, Esq. has been appointed president
of the Missouri Bank, and Dr. Penn subtrsasursr SO
presume both gentlemen satisfied Each of the gen.
tlemen had received commission for the latter Office
There are public squares in st Louis, the reasons
for which are the high price of ground and the
health of the authorities at least apprehend such are
h3The restaurants are well supplied with every variety
OF game, and Baltimore oysters in ice." The game
plan for keeping Thorn resh and all that kind OF thing
isay nothing Yours, AsMODEUS.