The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-08-29
Correspondence Of the Richmond Dispatch.
An Interesting Letter from Missouri.


ST. Louis, August %, 1866.
Fifty-eight hours in car and on rail brings
YOU from Your sanctum, where your cX-
deputy sits cDthrOned at his new walnut
desk, to east St. Louis, in full view OF the
great Father of Waters, rolling noisclesSly
yet swiftly southwark to the Gulf. Debark-
ing from the cars on the Illinois side, you
embark on one of a connecting line of
omnibuses, which, crossing the river on q
fcrry-boat, will dump you, bag and bag
gage, at any place you may designate
within the city limits Of St. Louis proper.
Ny visit here is at an unauspicious time
10 see much of the hustle and business
which characterize this great city. The
cholera has stampcded very many OF the
citizens, and the exaggerated statements OF
excited refugees puts stop TO ingrcss OF
merchants from the surrounding and far
distant towns for fall supplies. The cpl
demic has been very severe here, especially
on the week preceding the present, when
five hundred and thirty-two interments
were reported, but which think, accord
ing to all prcccdents, may be put down at
double that number. A few only of the
better class, those who are prudent and
disease is thought to be abatiDg, and the
cases now occurring not so malignant as at
first. The newspapers and front yards are
literally supplied with advertisements and
pamphlets of various quacks offering their
invaluable nostrums, cholera specifies, etc.
The apothccarics are rcaping harvest,
prominent establishment having put up
in one day as many as five hundred pre-
scriptionS.
The treatment by physicians, rs far as
can ascertain, is as herctoiore-with Gallo
mel, cayene, opium, and camphor, in COM
binations. About fifty per cent. are cured.
The people who remain in the city are as
cheerful as could be expected, though you
rarely see any hilarity unless per force OF
whisky. The moral Of cholera to my mind
is, that God is in it pleading with men to
turn from their sins and acknowledge Him.
They will not do it, however, though hand
join with hand linking together in destruc-
tive energy His three mighty engines,
war, pcStilence, and famine, with the fires
OF Tophct burning in the distance so
fully is the heart of man set in him to do
evil.
ST. Louis, as you know, was the final
point Of great deal of noise and confusion
during our late struggle, and abounded
with riots and huzzahs for the glorious
nag OF the best government. Good Union
men, docking TO the standard in no incon-
siderable numbers, fought might and main
against the Contederacy, SO called, and
nightly prevailed against Camp Jack
son IN the beginning, even to the gobbling
up en mGSSe of its entire garrison, horse,
foot, and dragon, thus showing Uncle
Sans opposition to squatter sovereignty
Tor rebels,-and which they did not fail to
repeat on every favorable opportunity to
the end OF the chapter. The Union and Sc
eesh ines are very sharply drawn here
Almost, indeed, TO the limit Of Jew and
Samaritan separation and exclusiveness.
ihese anta2onizing elements, / rejoice 10
know, exist In your city to q very limited
extent amongst those to the manor horn
mere the Eastern character has been fused
win the native, but yet crys,alzcd in
distinct and separate masses, mos, readily
distinguishable under proper Tets.
There are large number here VIZ,
risked all, as your own citizens did, at ,ip.
game Of swords, SO vigorously and success.
fully played for time by the Confederacy
but who, pockctiDg the loss with becom-
ing grace, have returned to take their
places as Of yore In the peaceful walks of
life. One OF the most prominent Of these
Is Matt. X. Cullen, son OF the late DR..
Pet. Cullen, and brother Of DIR. J. D'Orsay
Cullen, now ofyour city. lie was the first