Cairo evening times. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1865-1866, 1865-09-01
Correspondence of the Cairo Evening Times,

ST. LOUIS, Aug. 80, 1865.
DEAR TIMEs:-Of all the cities of the great
North-West none are making such rapid strides
to greatness as is st. Louis. Private residences
rivsling European palaces are rearing their
lofty domes with great rapidity in different and
numerous parts of the city. Merchant princes
are forming combinations, which, though now
in incipiency, clearly foreshadow, that but few
years will elapse, ere they will exert an inu-
ence over the destinies of commerce and COM
mercial matters that will astonish the world.
The Cairo & ST. Louis Railroad - is excit-
ing more interest here than / expected to find
1t appears as though there was settled deter
mlnation among the business men Of St. Louis
TO have this work completed in as short time
as possible, so as to bring this metropolitan
city, particularly in the winter Season, in close
connection with her numerous patrons the
great Mississippi The Railroad corporations
centering here are especially friendly to the
projected enterprise, but appear to be some
what Indifferent whether the people on the line
build it or motif they do not, then the COM
panies indicated will build and control it.
Cairo and the people living upon the
route of the Chicago and ST. Louis Railroad,
and those residing contiguous thereto, will in
sist upon securing and retaining controll
ing voice in the management of the road,
rather than vesting it in the hands of soulless
corporation, whose interests are inimical to
those of Cairo.
also find, in conversation with some of the
business men here, a general feeling of reci-
procity among the citizens of st. Louis toward
our own little commercial metropolis located at
the mouth of the Ohio. While they admit
that we have diverted a great deal of trade
from them, nevertheless sensibly infer that
through the enterprise and capital exerted and
invested there, it creates more trade than it di-
verts and hence that a spirit of friendship,
comfy and reciprocity should be cultivated be-
tween the commercial men of both cities.
The ministers of the different religious pro-
fessions in this State are at present feartully
exercised, ard occupy much of their valuable
time in discussing the propriety or improperly
of taking the oath required by the new State
Constitution, and I find that but few of the
preachers feel disposed to accept the situation
thus presented them, many contending that the
prescribed oath is unconstitutional. now
volunteer an opinion, which you, friend Good
all. nor you, dear reader, are not obliged to
endorse, viz : that as a class, preachers OF
Missouri should not lnterpose objections
to any oath constructed within reason or
with decent language as / believe that IN
quite a number of instances they have made
themselves the active instruments of inaugu-
rating or giving cause for the test oaths now
prescribed, and the lawlessness growing there
from in this State. I have served in the Fed
eral army for upwards Of a year in Missouri
and know that to preachers and women, moro
than to any other class or classes, IS Pap Price
indebted for his lawless successes.
There is at present quite IL reign OF terror II
this State-su1icient at least, to excite Il com
motion in the social world. Several murders
have of late been committed, which have
shocked the senshilities of all classes. Th'
latest and most brutal is tllat of the Wrigh
family in Phelps county, and of which doub
not few readers of the TINES are ignorant Of
Somebc dy was doubtless to blame. Th'
Wrights may have been deserving of death
believe they were, but it should have beel
lnetcd out to them in legal and lawful man
ner st. Louis is interested in u firmly estab
lished and permanent peace, and Instance
such as recorded above are calculated to keel
alive the ill feelings engerdered by the war ant
which it becomes every good citizen to do villa
in them lies to abate.
Amllsements are hourishing here. Ben d.
Bar opened the "St. LOUIS Theatre" (nov
ssBen De Bars Opera House on Monday eve
ming, and every available scat or standing plac
was occupied.
Trusting that YOU will now permit me t.
subsidc, | remain, as ever, w. Z.