Nebraska advertiser., 1869-10-28

.JONa DduA0GlGF III II ANNhnS ~
ID. Blackburn and Ourself undertook
to represent the State of Nebraska in
the Capital Convention last week in
st. Louis, by virtue OF credentials re-
ceived from Governor Butler of this
State.
The States represented were Iowa,
Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania, KEN
lucky, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas,
Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, Nebras-
Ka, California and Oregon; besides
which delegates from Wyoming, Col
oradO, Montana, New Mexico, Utah,
Washington and Alaska were admit
ed.
The convention was called to order
OH Wednesday morning in the Mer-
camille Library Hall, n of the lar
gest in st. Louis, by electing ex-Gov.
Lowe, of Iowa, as temporary Chair
man. The delegations were then well
coined in speeches by the Mayor and
the President of the Board of Trade
of st. Louis. The convention was
fully organized by the election of
Judge Catron Of the Supreme Bench
of Illinois as permanent chairman.
The work of the convention consisted
in maturing and adopting the resolu-
tons to be found in this paper, as the
full sense of the Great West thus rep
resented. The convention adjourned
on Friday.
Wednesday afternoon thedelegatiOn
was taken in carriages to every nota-
bic place in the west part of the city.
The premises Of the American Wine
Company, with its five underground
stories, each filled with wine bottles,
filed and. untitled Shaw's Botanical
Gardens, covering 200 acres Of valua-
bic lands, and the city reservoirs of
water, were the most attractive
points.
On Thursday a banquet was held at
the Southern Hotel, where a magnif-
cent supper was served Up, at which
speeches were made by many OF the
distinguished men present. On Fri
day afternoon a steamboat excursion
was taken from BisseTs Point to the
Jefferson Barracks, a distance of about
thirty miles. Commencing at the
Point we passed the rolling mills, the
water works, the wooden mills, the
ferry landing, North Market street,
depot of the North Missouri r. r.,
the Mound City Hotel, the Malleable
Iron works, the chair and edge tool
factory, the. shot Stower, the lead
works, the saw mills with pine logs
by the acre, the immense sugar refin-
cry, the stove foundry, the bridge
piers, the Southern Hotel, the brew
ry, the type foundry, the barrel fac
tory, the chair factory, the gas works,
the soap and chandler works, the iron
iron works, the smelling f%urnas, the
immense wood and lumber yards, the
u. s. Arsenal, and last Jefferson Bar
racks.
The city of st. Louis presents a riv-
er front of ten miles, nine of which is
lighted with gas. It has two grand
B~oulevards or Avenues circling
around the city-one called the Grand
Avenue, which circles from a point
near the Arsenel around the most
densely populated portion to Bissel's
Point above. The other, the Kings
Highway, is a magnificent Boule-
ward running around the city just two
miles west of Grand Avenue. These
streets are each 120 feet wide, and the
last is twenty-five miles in length.
The city is densely built up from
two to three miles from the river, and
more or less so from two to three miles
further. Just imagine a circle COM
mencing at the mouth of the Little
Nemaha, running up by Bennet's
mills, George Crows. James Cole
mans, London, w. G.. Glasgow's,
and from thence down Honey Creek
to the Missouri river, densely built up
with from one to five story buildings,
thronged with people and every man
ner of vehicle, steamboat and rail
road cars, all on the go, and you will
then have an ideaOf what st. Louis is.
Among her palatial hotels are to be
found the Southern and the Mound
City. The last is probably the most
conveniently located of any in the
city, at the corner of North Market
and Fourth streets, near the North
Market street depot. It's proprietor,
G. A. Boyd. is a eorteous and afIable
gentlemen, and his house is well fur
mished, and his table supplied from
the best of the st. Louis markets.
From this point street T run to
every part of the. city.
Near the Arsenal and Jefferson
Barracks the U. S. Government owns
several thousand acres of land, upon
which the people of st. Louis would
like to see the National Capital lOcat-
ed.
Take it all in all, the capital delega-
ton were enthusiastically received
and magnifcently treated by the good
of st. Louis, prominent among
whom were Mr.. ShryOck, President
of the Board of Trade, and Congress-
man Hogan.
OmciaI Vote on Float Senator.
Through the kindness of James NJ.