Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-06-15
NOTES BY THE WAY.


SrEANING ON THE ROAD-PENNED BY STEAM.
mo IA June 6, 1857.
The booming of cannon and the swarming Of
the hive awOke all on the three huge steamer:
at an early hour yesterday morning to active
preparations for the festival about to come of
in st. Louis. At seven we sat down to an am
pie breakfast, provided on each boat, and at its
cOnclu ion the moorings were cast of, and, with
band playing and guns firing We were carried
upon steamboat excursion for view of the
city from all points of its water front. Thus
twice up and down the river, the Baltimore
Illinois and Di Vernon swept past this remark.
able capital, to be, evidently, in time only sec.
ond to New York in business Importance
From the decks all the excursionists (most Of
whom were never before so far Vest were
eagerly stretching their necks to catch glimpses
of the streets, at right-angles to the river, as
they rapidly opened before US. The windows
in sight from the steamboats,, as well as the
streets and many Of the house-tops, were
crowded with human beings as eagerly scan
ming our company. Among them were the
military and the fire department of the city
whose dashing uniforms and fine music added
brilliancy to the scene.
At 10 a m, We were landed under the direc-
tlon Of the committee, and passing the military
In review, were soon seated in omnibuses drawn
by SIX and four horses and carriages; forty
eight OF the former and eighty of the latter
having been provided, as well as other wagons
of various descriptions sufficient to carry the
balance Of the city's guests The procession
municipal authorities, committees, guests, and
nd fra 4baD
ceeded through several of the principal street:
OF St Louis to the fair grounds, the mos. mag,
nlheentin all respect in this country. These
grounds Situated three miles out from the
eourt-house,) we're donated to the city by Mr.
OFallen, ST. Louis millionaire and are if
teen acres in extent; worth, when given. some
$4,000 As much more has been expended on
them. Their natural advantages for such pur-
pose are great On the whole, they are indeed
worthy of the remarkable business enterprise
and pecuniary liberality of this, by long odds
greatest city Of this wonderful western country.
In all their appointments, good taste and de-
termination to excel were apparent
But to return to the proceedings of the ex.
eursionists. Our line of march was through a
sea Of upturned and dOwnturned faces Even
upon gala day occasion. In truth, very
nearly the whole Of the city's 10000 souls
either accompanied us or we're stationed at
points on our line Of march. 10 view the specta-
Gle The native population of St. Louis as it
was thus exhibited to Us, will vie with any
otser in the Union in all the elements going 10
make up the best specimens of Americans Of
the North
It's foreign born population, as that of Gin
cInnau,-Germansa almost entirely so far as one
could Judge from the display in the streets
appear to have been greatly Influenced by the
difference in the general characteristics Of the
Americans by whom they are surrounded
being quicker in their motions, more energetic
and intelligent and less phlegmatic than those
OF Ohio's commercial metropolis They are
however, characterized evidently by the same
baneful influences of a nationality within on,
nationality, which so marks the German popu.
IatlOn OF the West. We went for mile through
one street, where at least fifty thousand person.
were stationed, mot one in ten of whom were
apparently, to the manor born,) whose dress
manners DC, told the tale that they had mereI,
changed their dwelling place-not their habit,
Ol thought, principles, customs, or any otbe,
element Of their existence, which must b.
changed ere they can become bone of our bon,
ana nesn OF our flesh. Many of them keep bust
ness places, the signs of which give assurances
that they have been in st. Louis long enou0l
10 remember when 1t was comparatively a small
town. Yet they wear the clothes Of German,
to this hour. and their children born here knor,
little of the English tongue, and continue to re-
thair off ba IL.
entirely from the class of $50 called) reform
ers," who, on landing in this country, set ur
the trade Of modifying the system of the United
States, social, religious, moral and industrial
With US Of the East, and more especial,
everywhere least of the Alleghanies) out of
few large cities, we see little of all this; ant
from the comparative sparseness of this particu
lar description of population, cannot easily real
lie the extent of its isolation in the cities Of th
section OF the Union from the native population
hor the civil disadvantages that exist in prospec
i've from the existence Of this German nationali
y"ithin our own as here manifested; and from
ls apparent almost entire control by the few
restless, crazed, and self-suficient minds around
winch 1t concentrates-whichi it too FREQUENTLY
makes Its gods, rejecting all the controlinn in.
VI a revealed religion, and modelling its
views OF night and wrong almost wholly upon
tie false and 50 oft exploded philosophy an.
nounced from the never idle tongues and pens
ofits teachers, such as describe above.
While 1 shall ever oppose political nstive;,m
with the Incorporating hostility which. the
Stars readers know well, entertain toward,
1t as being fraught with far greater dangers to
the State than even the things have been de-
scrlbing above, / shall certainly rejoice when
public opinion comes To- act with efficiency nnor