Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-08-14
ST. LOUIS AND THE FATHER OF WATERS

CORRESPONDENTS BOSTON DAILY ADVERTISER.
ST.. LoUIs, Missouri.
We took passage at eight o'clock board the steamboat
Luea but did not get away from the evee until nearly nine
These evees the banks Of the river graded convent
ent SLOPE sometimes paved and sometimes left in their natural
state, and either dusty muddy according to the
ther Wharves there in this part of the country,
rather there very few At Atom at other places
that have the Mississippi and the Illinois rivers,
the boats passing down always round and to the
levee with bow up stream This done for the sake of con-
venence, and because there would be much trouble in stop
ping Roadway they attempted come with the force
the current in the direction which they running
Our passage down the very pleasant for there
slight breeze blowing from the south. The scenery
beautiful short distance from Alton to the
low land called the American Bottom which times when
the river is highest, is generally overowed 1t is rich
soil; richer than any other in the world. This bottom
land extends both sides Of the river for nearly hundred
miles, and has proved he inexhaustibe-it wears
out Other lands will yield large produce, but it is necessary
to change the seed from year TO yearfom to wheat
and from wheat to oats, &c but the American,
people appropriately call it. the Mississippi bottom
has been proved that the kind of crops pro-
duced every year and at place further south
that has been raised every year succession for
hundred and fifty years.
A lew miles from Alton q believe only three) is the mouth
Of the Missouri yelIowcoloed water, which emptes into
the Mississippi but does not mix with for miles and miles
in its The difference in the two streams is marked
strongly that while is the clearer Of the lat
ter, the waters OF the other running only few feet distance
from the boat look like sandbar extended along the side
After proceed some miles the become united but,
after all is like the anal amation Of milk and moasses
with streak of light and streak Of dark The Mississippi
however again becomes the clear
the regions above The boitomands well wooded and
the foliage OF the Is the most dense have seep
believe that oaks and ems and maple and locust and
spersed Occasionally you will Lombardy poplar but
il where somebody has planted tit is ID the
SOIL There are no chestnuts and no pines.
At eleven O'Clock arrived at St Louis We have hard
Of . forest of masts, but here without seeing mast we
at the midst of forest of chmneys smske
pipes There may be sailing vessels this river but the
is carried by of steamboats,. Like the
people of every other place. the people here say
nothing now is not the season, there nd business dong
and there few boats here But enough Prise
my unsophlsticaed Iankeeism The number now, duh
the season may be- may very properly be named legion
The evee is high, with very steep SLOPE and is paved
with blocks of limestone 1t is covered with all OF pro-
duce, and IS lined its upper side with immense WAREHOUSES
on It's lower with steamboats, The boats lie in regular or
close together with their bows to the shore, CON-
pacy as they be placed and discharge take in freight
and passengers from the bow believe there not boat
lying broadside to the evee when arrived and were
obliged to alongside Of the another steamer and
the passengers crossed her decks the whole length in order
get on shore.
When landed the apparently dong his utmost
10 burn all the life and energy that remained after week
summer weather, in man and beast. The limestone Of
which the pavements composed and the limestone soil Of
the unpaved Streets is lght-colored almost Vhe and the
reflection of the upon It is dazzling to the eyes. We
have hotter weather in Boston, occasionally than they have
had at ST. Louis this summer, but is only for few days.
and even occasionally relieved by intervals Of east wind
But here the heat gradually and regular, afford
ing no stopping places so To speak.
The first thing that struck my attention after the steamboats,
kp chs If tho par am
my first impressions, ecoect and therefore may say
thing by and by, or hereafter that will correspond with
what say As Rochester, small ph ce bust
ling to than Boston, and Buffalo appear larger and
of business place than Rochester, ST. Louis, with only
about fifty thousand inhabitants would SEEM irst glance
TO do more business than New York Liverpool On the
eyee all sorts of goods and all of packages The
warehouses Of great height situated not only the evee,
but IN the street above in the streets which down
TO the river, and they all appear be filed with goods of all
descriptions The drays and the draymen,
black and white, keep constant yelling and shouting, that
would stun a quiet man.
Hot as was, friend induced me IN the middle Of the day
to jump into his buggy and ride round the city, in order
obtain Of outside view of its magnitude and its charac
ter We did go of from the paved streets into the sub
urb but rode round through the principal and Of the
minor thoroughares The retail trade is extended the
whole city. Large blocks Of many-soried brick dwelling
houses in all the Churches and other public build
ings numerous hotels all hut uncountab and bar
are quite So The sidewalks paved with brick and
the city are wide and run right angles many of them be-
ing shaded with trees, which planted each side
Dinner time brought to the Planters House. where
have concluded for day before take up my line Of
march for new and somewhat on the Upper
Mississippi. j. II. b.
WAsnISG. -The English General d. more distinguish
ed for gaanry the field than for the he avshed upon
personal cleanliness. Complaining upon certain occasion
the late Chief Justice BusnE Of the suernps he endured
from rheumatism that learned and humorous Judge undertook
prescribe remedy You must desire your servant" he
said the General "to place every morning by your bedside
tub three parts filed with water. You will then
get into the tub and having previously provided yourself
with pound Of yellow soap you must rub your whole body
with it, immcrsing yourself occasionally in the water and at
he end Of quarter Of hour the process concludes by wp
ng yourself dry with towels and scrubbng your person with
flesh brush" "Why," said the General after a few mi
,ues reflection upon what he had just heard this seems
ne TO be neither less than washing yourself Z
. Well" replied the Judge, ii is open to tina, objection
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