, 1859-10-08

now on hand and the payment Of their debts
arc moro to their ultimate advantage than my
new ind dangerous ventures, which begin il,
credit and end in loss.
THE REPORTED COMMERCIAL
DULLNESS In ST. LOUIS.
We publish from tho Brunswick Charlton
County, MOI Central City Of September
2ssh, the extracts which follow with
no disposition to feed grudgo against cur
sister city, St Louis We rejoice in her pros
pc1ity. She is, and always must be, great
city, but it were well for her to 10 convinced
that shc is Too self confident in the possession
Of ler immense river trade TIL the opening
Of the Hannibal mud st. Joseph Railway she
has held firmly the rich trade Of the Missouri
River; but she is now obliged to divide it with
Chicago and the seaboard cities On this SUBJ
icct the Central City says:
The city Of St. Louis, or rather her trades
men, have just found ont, TINT although their
city is large almost to immensity andits growth
almost unequalled il rspidity, it is NOT quite
lurge enough to spare million Of its customers
and not feel their loss. There is said. ut this
time, to be great dizziness in St. Louis; they
think the country merchants hare not come
down. But they have, % far down as they
are going to St. Louis. Thousands upon thou
sands Of familiar faces. which are known by
good names-namcs good for thousands upon
thousands-have been seen in st. Louis 1or
their last time. They have been anxiously
looked for at ST. Louis, but they have been TO
Quincy, Chicago, Boston and New York.
So there are dull times ut St. Louis Dull
lines occasioncd by dull hearts, dull souls, and
dull minds They hare never yet-we question
if they have found it out yct-been able to con-
ceiye that one million Of people are carried AWAY
from them by the Hannibal mud 81. Josepa
Railroad, who Aats been customers OF ST. Louis,
directly or indirectly, but now no more: They
had supposed that st. Louis was oil Missouri.
They now find they are not sure Of half Of it,
and times a1c dull; the stocks are rotting on
their shelves. bills falling due East and in Eu-
rope, and no customers to buy.
We heard plain, sensible, honest End true
men predict this as the result Of the mad, and
exclusive Railrusd and financial policy Of St.
Louis, years ago. But what is plain home
spun man or two, to an army OF city dandy
merchants aud Bankers! They may hear him
with complassance, with coudeecension and for
bearance- be is known to be solsent-but
Whit does be know about it, out in his back
county. Saint Louis is like the dreaming Phi
losoper, whose thoughts we're in the clouds,
while he tumbled into the ditch. This ditch has
been Of her own digging: While she has
has become her rival, within the very purlieus
of the old city Of St. Charles. She has spent
of Lcr own and the States money, eleven mil
lion to secure the Pacific Railroad, which has
barely penetrated within one hundred miles Of
Kansas. Boston and New York will reach Au-
raria and the Parks before her pct enterprise
can get to the State Line, She grasrs at South
mn, Inun mud +hn Nnnnsf,ef and ~ Inspf,h
Railroad lends her trade captise to Boston.
without a glance at her domcs md minarets-
not so much as leaving the amount of d tavern
bill ut St. Louis Within tho area Of the Ter
ritory she has neglected to secure with the
means she has expended on the parts Of her
omn Suite which bud no other outlet, there now
resides oger million of people in Nebraska,
Northern Kansas and Upper Missouri They
arc but beginning to appreciate it when almost
too late. They do not yet feel that the wealth
Of this million Of people, who hare all to be
supplied with every necessary and luxury from
sotne great commercial depot, is three times
that OF St Lonis. TheF do not realize that the
1axes on about $4,000 900; and in Missouri
aud lows on at least S50,000.0oo :!
Tell tue st. Loufsan that Charlton county is
nn important place. That C,000, 900 TBS Of to-
bacco il her annual product. He has heard,
perhaps, Of Charlton, having had q customer or
Two 4lteTe. out ne gives Us 70 au4eEstahu tuAl
Charlton is too 1pconsidcrable place for him.
His dreams arc Of the Pacific and the East 1n-
dies We hope be may reach them.
The people of North Missouri have an honor.
able pride in their own State But they hare
been suubbed constantly By the actions Of St.
Louis and our State Legislature. Every project
for internal improvement among them has bssn cen
driven to fiud kinder and more reasonable asso-
ciations outside Of their own city. They have
found them. ST. Louis las been neither Of the
South nor the North. The sentiments Of her
people, eren those who were not politicians.
hare not been enough decisive. to strengthen
Of slarcrv as domestic institution. Nor yet 10
please those wlo are opposed to it. She hns,
therefore, little sympathy for the loss Of her
| trade. But this IS only the beginning Of the
dull season with her. Till she awakcs up to q
Sense Of her true policy, she will fiud ber busi:
courage ut his finger euds. She has u powerful!
] riralry, and they are not idle
Brunswick is situated on tho north side of
| tho Missouri, at Or. near tho mouth Of tic
Grand River. In ordinary seasons, five mis-.
take not this river is navigablo north to Chilli
cothe on The Hannibal and St. Joseph Rail.
way, aud VIC presume the travel and perchanco
the traffic Of Brunswick find it morc conrcn.
lent to SO north to tho railway than down the
Missouri to St. Louis. Charlton is one Of the
richest and most densely populated counties
in Missouri, and tic loss Of even portion o!
its trade will bo noiuconsideEable matter to St
Louis. There eau bo no doubt whatever that
a large part Of tlls trade and most Of tho travel
Of Northern Missouri will be diverted from St.
Louis BY tho Haunibal aud St Joseph Railway.
If proper exertions arc made by our merchants
und iobbers, tue largest part Of the commerce
Of tlat magnificent section Of tue Mississippi
Valley can he secured for Chicaro.
When the Alton and St. Louis, the Quincy,
the Burlington the Rock Island, the Galena,
and the Illinois Central Railways reached tue
| Mississippi, the largest pn1t Of the trade oi
that river left St Louis forever. She felt il
sorels, for in three or four years the popula-
ton Of Clicaro NJ shown bv the yotes in the
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LOUIS but sue s'a4 aelo the missouri 1ismiy
in lier grasp, and the settlement Of hansas md
Nebraska, and subsequently, the emigration to
piku's Peak. hare given her large trade and
kent I'M 1,or sn;r;ts. With t1,o return or n,os.
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ano tae Ooouqoe ana racine foaos WILL AL oe
completed TO tho missouri A'ver. Nor Wu'