. 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 . ums ofcities, and he begins by placing an extravagant price upon the article which hewishes to sell, and then decreasing its value until he brings it down to the rangeof his customers. On Saturday evenings the street life is as animated as that of an Europeancity. In the populous quarters the Irish and Germans throng the sidewalks,marketing a
. 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 . ums ofcities, and he begins by placing an extravagant price upon the article which hewishes to sell, and then decreasing its value until he brings it down to the rangeof his customers. On Saturday evenings the street life is as animated as that of an Europeancity. In the populous quarters the Irish and Germans throng the sidewalks,marketing and amusing themselves until midnight; and in the fashionable sec-tions the ladies, seated in the porches and on the front door-steps of their man-sions, receive the visits of their friends. A drive through dozens of streets in the upper portion of the city discloseshundreds of groups of ladies and gentlemen thus seated in the open air, whitherthey have transferred the etiquette of the parlor. A far more delightful andagreeable social freedom prevails in the city than in any Eastern community. Thestranger is heartily welcome, and the fact that most of the ladies have beeneducated both in the East and the West, acquiring the culture of the former 15. Thomas H. Benton (for thirty ycirs United StatesSenator from i\lissouri). 224 THE GERMAN ELEMENT. and the frankness and cordiality of the latter, adds a charm both to their con-versation and their beauty. At the more aristocratic and elegant of the German beer gardens, such as Uhrigs and Schneiders, the representatives of many prominent Americanfamilies may be seen on the concert evenings, drinking the amber fluid, andlistening to the music of Strauss, of Gungl, or Meyerbeer. Groups of elegantlydressed ladies and gentlemen resort to the gardens in the same manner as do thedenizens of Dresden and Berlin, and no longer regard the custom as a dangerousGerman innovation. The German element in St. Louis is powerful, and has for the last t
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