. The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland . famous is latterly much enhanced. The city which now stretches twelve miles along the ridges branching fromthe water-shed between the Missouri, the Meramec and the Mississippi rivers,flanked by rolling prairies richly studded with groves and vineyards; which hasthirty railroad lines pointed to its central depots, and a mile and a-half of stea
. The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland . famous is latterly much enhanced. The city which now stretches twelve miles along the ridges branching fromthe water-shed between the Missouri, the Meramec and the Mississippi rivers,flanked by rolling prairies richly studded with groves and vineyards; which hasthirty railroad lines pointed to its central depots, and a mile and a-half of steam-boats at its levee, i,000 miles from the sea; whose population has increased from8,000, in 1835, to 450,000, in 1874; which has a banking capital of $19,000,000;which receives hundreds of thousands of tons of iron ore monthly, hasbridged the Father of Waters, andtalks of controlling the cotton tradeof Arkansas and Texas—is a giantin comparison with the infant settle-ment w4ierein, in a rude cottage,Colonel Stoddard had his head-quar-ters when the United States assumedterritorial jurisdiction. In those daysthe houses were nearly all built ofhewn logs, set upon end, and coveredwith coarsely shingled roofs. Thetown then extended along the line of. In those days the houses were nearly all built of hewn logs. OLD ST. LOUIS — PROGRESS SINCE THE LATE WAR. 2ig what are now known as Main and Second streets; a little south of the squarecalled the P/ace dArmcs, Fort St. Charles was held by a small garrison, and inthe old stone tower which the Spaniards had built, debtors and criminals wereconfined together. French customs and French gayety prevailed; there were two diminutivetaverns, whose rafters nightly rang to the tales of hair-breadth escapes told bythe boatmen of the Mississippi. The Chouteaus, the Lisas, and the Labbadieswere the principal merchants; French and English schools flourished; peltry,lead and whiskey were used for currency, and negroes were to be purchased forthem;
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