Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1869-11-23

to Missouri and KdIesas--Bu Buying Farms
IN KansaS-NeaC Engyanders IN st. Louis
Our School System - Prot. Perry Of
Nassachusetts-HeaHh Of 50. Louis.
ST.. LOUIS, Nov Is, 1869.
Sidney Smith tells of breed of pigs that
knew enough in fattening to desert all the
leaner portions of the body and concentrate
at the joints, which were worth shilling
apound. The tendency of society, popula-
ton and politics in Missouri is to go for
the joints and gather the shillings. st.
Louis on the east, and St. Joseph and
Kansas City ON the west, are fat. Here
are concentrated politics, society, and the
census. st. Louis, not the state of Alissou-
ri, sends two senators to Congress, entertains
all the visiting committees and monopoliz-
es all the offices. Jefferson City is nothing
except in session time-then it is only the
sparring ground for the Mound City on the
one side and Kansas City on the other.
North or south or central Missouri inter-
ests are incidental The last legislature
NObCh " OdllOCl OllN SNNt IlCliOli lllG WI III
Missouri Railroad 1t was merely tossing
S4,000,000 into the pockets Of some St,
Louis gentlemen, in consideration of which
the country members only got their rights.
Three cities contain one-third the popula-
ton Of the whole state The rest is scat
tered very thin, not - to square mile. !
There are few railway functions that have |
spasms of growth but the real fairness is /
all concentrated at the joints, the joints
are St. Louis, Kansas City and St Joseph |
they swing the state.
The great mass of Eastern men now pass
on through Missouri, bound for Kansas
| The growth of some towns and all the cit
les Of that new state the past season, is
wonderful Leayenworth now claims 40
600 inhabitants, and supports five healthy
daily newspapers, several banks, and has
! become the wholesale market for Kansas,
Colorado Nebraska, and part of Western
Missouri. Lawrence, Atchison, Topeka,
Ottawa and Olathe are growing rapidly
The trades and professions at those points
are full. The fine farming lands through
out the whole country are being bought
up rapidly New railroads are being push
cd forward and others projected. Kansas
is receiving a working population that will
cause her to loom up grandly as prodUc-
tive, bountiful state, rich. intelligent, po-
Iitically right, educated, sound in morals
and financially strong. There are farms
yet to be bought cheap. There is room
for working farmers and all who go there
willing to .put their hands to the plough"
cannot help making money. There are
accessible markets for ten times the present
products of Kansas farms. But that class
Of rowing young men who are coming West
to fall into easy occupations and easy ways
we would advise to 'tarry in Jericho until
their boards be grown
The present mayor of the city is Con-
necticut man; the comptroller was born
and educated in Massachusetts. The SUI
perintendent of the Pacific Railroad Is a
native of Vermont; the superintendent of
the North Missouri Railroad is from West
ern Massachusetts,, so Is the president OF
the st. Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad.
The principal editor of the st. Louis Times
ldemocraticl is from Maine, and the lead
ing editor of the St Louis Democrat trad
ical) is from Connecticut Rev Dr. Post
pastor Of the First Congregational church,
,, and the great preacher of the city, is a
graduate of NiddIebUry college Vermont
while Rev. John Monteith, who fills the
Olympic Theater every Sunday evening
with an audience Of 1000 is fresh from
Connecticut All the trades and profes-
= sions in st. Louis have among their lead
ing men those who had their birth and ed
+ ucation in the New England States
e Thepublic schools at st. Louis rank high
The best teachers are employed and gooC
: wages paid The school board Is compo-
e ed of leading citizens, kept wonderfully
+ free from sectarian or political bias, anC
r fully alive on the subject of education.
!, majority of the teachers are graduates o.
4 Eastern colleges and seminaries, but many
t of them are fitted for their vocation at tn,
y ST. Louis Normal School, an institute es
: tablished twelve years ago, and intende,
c exclusively for young ladies desiring t.
S teach in the city schools. The course o
II study includes all the branches usual,
q taught, together with lectures and discus
n sions on the theory and art Of teaching
| -,
e There are forty-four public schools il
c the city, and the total number of scholar
: in attendance is nearly 900 In addition
h to this, the high school numbers 400 schol
n ars, and the Normal 115. There are fv
: colored schools, numbering in all so
1t scholars. Five new public school build
d ings are in process of erection.
e For the prosecution of the higher studio
n and professions, there are four universities
h four medical colleges, three theological
: schools, a polytechnic institute, togethe
d with large number of excellent privat
d schools, denominational and otherwise
:. The Catholics, who are a strong power i
= St. Louis, have under their tuition near
e 5000 pupils and 200 young men fitting 70
/ the priesthood.
ie Free trade and protection have arraye
/ our principal newspapers in discussion
<, and the subject is one of such vital an
lie growing importance, that all business me
D are actively committed to the one or tn
d. other policy. The Missouri Democra
T. radical is in favor of Free Trade; the S
m Louis Republican (democratic,) Time
to Dispatch and Journal of Commerce al
1t champions of Protection. Among the eal
he nest advocates of Free Trade are Lieu
L. Gov. Stanard, Judge Rombauer, J. H. Bri
n tan, Logan c. Cameron, John J. Roe an
he Carlos S. Greeley, among the most prom
r nent and wealthy citizens. So great W.
lie the desire to hear Professor Perry, ofWi
t. liams College, on this question, that ov,
VI one hundred leading names were signed
TO the note Of invitation which was sent
wv him, and Mercantile Library Hall was fl
rs, led to its utmost on the night of the Pr
o. fessor's address.
re St. Louis does not show very high mo
Id tally list, but the great increase of pu
ne monary diseases and consumption is ge
he ting to be "a subject of alarm. The ave
Oh age number of deaths per week at this Sc
OF son of the year is about 80. OF these, on
ir- third are children under five, or one-ha
OF of children under ten. The remaining
Sc may be termed grown people, and the eau
are of death in table of that number befo
the us was in 30 cases bronchitis. congestion
eat the lungs or consumption. 1t comm
OF | remark that every third nerson Won mo