The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-10-04

Business StandS-Relativc Importance OF the
| two Branches Of Business 10 the Community
NIcAdani OycrsIaughed by Nicholson God
versus Stone--Hea,y Taxation Of Property
| Owners-City Court. Reconsideration View
| OF the City-Strcet Railroads-An NJ. ID. $50
called Charged with Malpractice His De.
fence - Places OF Resort - Fairs Cholera -
Race Course-Weather, etc.
ST. Louis, September q, 1866.
There are 400 dram shops in st. Louis,
including hotel bars splendidly fitted up,
and lager-beer saloons indefinitely multi
piled. Everybody who sells liquor must
be clasSed under the head Of dram-shop
keeper" and take license as such-cvcn
down to that numerous and respectable
class of individuals known as apothecarics.
Shade of Galen. what damper Oh pro-
fessional dignity. / am convinced that to
be thus registered would be the death of
some gentlemen of that persuasion in Rich
moud.
There are. two very large tobacco ware
houses here-one of them six stories high,
owned by German, and fanked OF the
left by the inevitable and inseparable adj
| iunct, lager-beer saloon. The other be-
longs to the State, and both arc stored full
of the weed.
A very large hemp warehouse is Just
completed, and has been selected by the
ladies for holding their Southern relief fair
for the benefit of Southern indgents.
Many are the magnificent donations made
by the gcnerous-hcarted Of this and other
cities to this mourniul charity, and many
| hope will be the hearts gladdened by the
timely assistance it is designed to afford to
the needy throughout the land.
The sale of physic and lager beer being
the two most lucrative employments in the
known world, as a matter of course rem
ders the competition for eligible stands be-
tween these two classes Of merchants
quite lively hcreabouts. No sooner is
store on thoroughfare vacated than out
rushcS Mynhecr TO the agent or landlord
with "Vat you scharge um rent for dat
sthore, for one lager-beer saloon?" "The
rent is 81, 500 per year, SIR" says the agent.
Eighteen hundro dollar Whew! Veil,
l takes en-"
The poor pill-driver, who has had his eye
on the stand for months past, and has al
ready planned the .fttUy-up, is left to
study the uncertainty of all prcconceived
notions, together with the additional fact
that landlords are no respecters of per-
sons, but that Of every tongue and of every
calling he that will pay the price can take
the key, with only one reSeryatiOn-dont
damage the house. The damage to be
sustained by tie public is matter out
side of his calculations, but which he
generally and confidently leaves to be pro-
vided for by the first law of human ma
neutrality-suspicious.. | am not sure
but what | agree with his policy. II the
people will recognize and perpetuate,
by their patronage, the imbibing Of
lager, and whisky, and all that, even
until all America be converted into one
great beer vat, with thousand-g gallon still
on every mountain side, and men shall
quaff lager from every town pump, and
scoop aqua vitae from every running
stream, and drink and drink until they
lose their senses and commence to feel up
for the ground. Why, let them do it.
I do verify believe that then, after ,chile,
saline purgative might be exchanged for
mug of lager beer, and dose of Dover's
powders for pint of whisky. Then might
a druggist succeed in wrestling from van
quished rival good place to practice his
art, and by his recognized Importance to
the community establish his claim to their
confidence.
The streets here are paved with three
several materials, viz: iron, stone, and
wood. On the principal business streets
notice the Nicholson pavement, which
IL of oblong blocks Of wood laid in
coal tar and gravel, and making q
foor-likc surface, very conducive to plea
SAINT rides in wheeled vehicles. The pro-
perty owners are separately taxed, in pro-
portion to tho number of front feet, to the
tune of thirty-eight dollars per square for
this improvement upon McAdam. Many
of the streets and avenues, however, are
macadamized with limestone, which being
soft and easily pulNerized under the COM
bined forces of cart wheels and horse shoes,
renders dust and mud noD and then alike
pestiferous to all the Bridgets of the city.
Iron pavements, though very slightly, have
been found unsuitable, owing to their slip
perry nature when much worn. :
l. One of the res notdbilia Of st. Louis is her
magnificent courthouse, located In the very
heart of the city, and lifting its capitoline
dome high above the surrounding buildings,
and standing like Cheops, in Egypt, impo-
singly grand the presence Of all beholders.
The ascent to the dome is by easy stages
from the rOtunda over spiral staircases Of
iron, and containing, all told, 225 steps.
A bird's-eye view Of the city in all its
length and breadth-circumscrib only
by the strength Of your optic herewith
the grand old Father Of Waters rolling
beneath-will be your ample compensa-
ton for any expenditure Of wind or mus
Gle on your way thither. The material is
principally white limestone. 1t occu-
pics whole square, and has Corinthian
portico frontagss on the four principal
streets, to-wit Market, Chestnut, Fourth,
i and Fifth. In was being built Tin modern
i phraseology) for the space Of thirty years,
and only completed little before the war.
1t ID, both In design and finish, much like
the capitol at Washington. Without n.y.
pcrbole, the Sc. Louis courthouse may be
booked as credit TO the city and SUBJ
lime monument to the architect, whoever
he msy have been.
The street railroads are great institu.
tion here, as they are In ill populous
cities, affDrding q they do the means Of
rapid iccomotion to distant points, either
for business Or pleasure. For FIVE cents,
good fractional currency, you can take q
ksfth.stFeet car q the Arsenal, d the COM
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