The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-01-10
Letfer from 81. LOnis.
PLANTERS House, ST. Louis, }
January 6, 1870.

January 6, 1870.
Editors Journal:
Having done up the Monday cai-
sine or this old reliable hotel, my
usual stopping place, and having had
a hard mornings run, I have con-
eluded to rest q half hour before en-
tering upon afternoon duties. A
word about the Planters House"
before / parrate my laboTs and vari-
GUS chances. One is sure to find the
best here. Anything otherwise is
the exception. After more han a
yea Of vigorous travel, l have found
nothing superior. Mr.. Fogg, the
acting proprietor, By his quiet, COM
prehensive oversight, makes every
thing move on Ike clock work. No
one Is neglected If what you need
is not at hand, give but a half indi-
cation Of your want, and It IS
supplied. You are made at rome,
also. milne hest" gives you not
only the liberty If the house, which
is one thing, bit makes you feel
really as If you wee his guest, which
is another thing. [ could namo q
hotel where you could not but feel
that o were the game Of tho house,
and that you were s1re that its owner
and everybody he employed were on
the watch to ptuc6 yoB. Here the
game is on the table, yours to en-
10y Judging by YAat / sec here,
the meat market Of ST Louis must be
second to none in the Union.
But now for my wsnderlngs. Last
Friday / left Evansville on the good
steamer Fayette, with Duke Michel
SON doing the honors Of clcrkdom, as
only q duke, or nObls man, could.
Saturday evening we we've at MetrOp0-
lis, where l spent a day or two, and
therefore q word OF It aud our city.
The place, after weighing ali that was
told me, is leveling up In every re-
spect. They claim g population oil
thirty-6ve hundred souls, honest
count" They enroll eleven hundred
school, children, but their common
school, need improving. 4 very good
private school is kept by a young lady
graduate Of Mount Holyoke, who is
doing q good work. They have two
ship yards, saw mill and woolea fac.
tory, doing a good business. The
trade with the country round. In
Guiding Kentucky, is increasing every
year. Like all towns. they arc ex-
pecting great things. They hope one
Of the great North and South trunk
roads will pass through there. Wher
I said I" the Ohio bridge, which Is tC
be built at Paducah, only ten miles
above, will determine that, they were
ready to demonstrate that tho bridge
could be much better built at Ne.
tropolis, as they had bluff hanks CT
both sides Of the river, but no suci
banks were at Paducah. Are these
rival cities? But they are q clever
people. / like them. The Presbyte,
rians and Methodists each have {
church here, and each q good minis.
ter. i Worshiped with the fret in sht
morning, and the other In the evea.
ing. They make a good Jersey
match differing a little in name
but harmonizingi in trotting properties
But as to its relations to Evans
vile. / am inclined to think tha
their merchants look mainly to US 70.
supplies. An old friend told me Of
new store just opened there, and, sale
he, 81 went In to see from where the.
laid in their goods, and / found tina
all their packages seemed marked a
coming from Evansville" The trad
of the place is worth looking after.
Tuesday morning / made q flynn
trip to Cairo. and took my first lOoi
at this city Of the Pharoahs. In 1t
water-for you can't call them side
walks, as many Of them are over va
cant lots-in their walks, they pu
you IN mind of Chicago, only more so
These walks, In many places. are ele
waited from four to sixteen feet aboVI
the natural, and as yet untitled, love
Of the city. Mothers arc Dreadful,
scared, e trss, and dream nightly 0
children with broken necks and limbs
Only the other day, q youngster. walk
ing with his mother, went into tn.
depth below, some sixteen feet. Tn,
mothers horror and almost swoon
and the little fellows Where's m,
new hat2" were Synonymous. Bu
they sag Cairoan mothers get owe
these fears, and but few accident
really occur: and then, / suppose
ike the cells that the old lady ha.
been skinning for twenty years. the.
got used to It.
1 met here cue oAa trlands All
quondam citizens, Parsons and Davis
They look well, and arc doing q goU,
business. The -four business her
has been immense. Tho number o
als shipped. ana mostly manufac
1irO Mills, / cannot preten.
announced the cthe.