All the western states and territories . Among the charitable institutions, the most conspic-uous are the Protestant and Catholic Orphan Asylums—the first under thedirection of Protestant ladies, and the latter of the Sisters of Charity. Thetotal value of the taxable property of St. Louis, for 1860, was about 100millions of dollars. MISSOURI. 411 The subjoined sketch of the history of St. Louis, is extracted from theLondon edition of the work of Abbe Domenech,* the original being inFrench: St. Louis, the Queen of the West, was French by birth; her cradle ?wa3 sus-pended in the forest watered b
All the western states and territories . Among the charitable institutions, the most conspic-uous are the Protestant and Catholic Orphan Asylums—the first under thedirection of Protestant ladies, and the latter of the Sisters of Charity. Thetotal value of the taxable property of St. Louis, for 1860, was about 100millions of dollars. MISSOURI. 411 The subjoined sketch of the history of St. Louis, is extracted from theLondon edition of the work of Abbe Domenech,* the original being inFrench: St. Louis, the Queen of the West, was French by birth; her cradle ?wa3 sus-pended in the forest watered by the Mississippi; her childhood was tried by manyprivations; and her adolescence was reached amid the terrors inspired by the In-dians cry. Her youth, thoujih more calm, was scarcely more happy. Abandonedby her guardian, the Lion of Castile, she was again claimed by her ancient mother;but only to be foisaken anew. She then passed under the protecting wing of theAmerican eagle, and became the metropolis of the Empire of the Soiith-eastent view of the Court House, Si. Louis. M. dAbadie, civil and military director-general, and governor of Louisiana, con-ceded, in 1762, to Messrs. Pierre Ligueste, Laclede, Antoine Maxan, and Company,the monopoly of the fur trade with the Indians of Mississippi and Missouri. , a man of remarkable intelligence, of an enterprising character, and theprincipal chief of the company, immediately prepared an expedition, Avith a viewof forming a large establishment in the north-west. On the 3d of August, 1763,he started from New Orleans, and on the 3d of November following, he reachedSt. Genevieve, situated sixty miles south of where St. Louis is actually built. At that epoch the French colony, established sixty years before in Illinois, wasin a surprising state of prosperity. It had considerably augmented its importancesince 1732, at which period France was beginning to realize her great conceptionof uniting Canada to Louisiana by an
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