The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1867-08-03

We believe you old g and bar our doors and windows
make terrible noise cooking unlocking our old pistols
to let the raca in the next know that we are deter
mined to sell lives at the most advanced fgures-o to
bed and all cities that dare to set themselves up within
thousand miles of Chicago. o9sfH
MORNING. ~
And feeling like washing the dust of the railroad from our
half baked and cnderd persons address ourselves to our
morning BATH On turning the crank we are saled with
flow of mud something of the consistency the Chicago
river but lacking those Undesirable aroas peculiar to
"sweet-smelling INDECENT alimenary canal" We
ring the BELL and pull up the waiter "Look here waiter
there is mistake Your have broken loose and
flowed into your ppes ooh the heahiest water
in the world. A rise in the Missouri makes it little
riley When the river is rising it is always little yellow
but the sweetest water in the country noticed in coming
across last night, that the river seemed to be going
down fast enough to satisfy almost any person. "Fa sir
that's the with it. the it rises the faster goes
down." 1t is than likely that the original name of the
Missouri Mudsouri. The name should be restored
again. 81 t54sH .t - stl
People coming from Chicago, however, should throw
the St Louis water in anybodys face bearing in mind the
mud gut that testers through Chicago truce to evy and
let us come to business, and 4u
"since variety is the life of SPICE 80
Let us be brief" t
Monthly for June, find statistics, which will show
your readers at glance the steady and rapid growth of this
city for the last thirty years The article is written by Parton
and does not overrae the greatness Of ST. Louis but in the
opinion of many, undertakes it: h~'i1,
ST. Louis is just hundred and four years old. In the
of 1863 Pierre Laclede Ligues vigorous and
enerprsng Fenchman led from New Orleans large party
of French appers and traders for the purpose of founding
the junction of the Mississippi and Missouri depot for the
furs of the regions watered by those rivers In Deem
be after five months of toll he the mouth Of the muddy
Missouri but preferred for the site of his settlement the fine
bend of the Mississippi twenty miles below, which he had
observed his up Landing there he marked hespot
by blazing some of the trees and in the following Febr
ay SENT from his winter quarters below party of thirty
young fellows build sheds and cabins for the settlement
The 18th of February 1884 the day which this little band
landed the birthday of ST. Louis In the of the
year. the main body of adventures arrived the Indians
conclated cabins of upright poles built little
planted trade begun and the settlement fairly
established. fgs IA .t1#s --ssfa ~ fs55,, III.
European politics. strange say had powerful influence
upon this little settlement of fur traders The peace of 1853
gave all the country of the Mississippi the English
who had settled upon the Illinois, they made haste to remove
St. Louis avoid the nfamy of living under their
"natura enemy" No sooner had they arrived than
still terrible reached them: Louis XIV had ceded all
his possessions west of the Mississippi Spain For the
next thirty years the village outpost of Spanish Louis
iana whose broad extent could land who
Catholic The Frenchmen submitted the easy sway
of the Spanish commandment and the settlement slowly in
creased in numbers and wealth. Is 4s5#.z III :, NJ
Slow is the growth of cities which have civilized popu
laon behind them The following table shows the popula