Sketch Book of Saint Louis: Containing a Series of Sketches of the Early Settlement, Public Buildings, Hotels, Railroads ...G. Knapp & Company, printers, 1858 - 430 páginas |
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Página 27 - That all that part of the territory of the United States included within the following limits, to wit : Beginning at a point in the middle channel of the Snake...
Página 132 - But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.
Página 27 - Moines; thence, down, and along the middle of the main channel of the said river Des Moines, to the mouth of the same, where it empties into the Mississippi river; thence, due east, to the middle of the main channel of the Mississippi river; thence, down, and following the course of the Mississippi river, in the middle of the main channel thereof, to the place of beginning.
Página 24 - No vehicles could be seen except doctors' cabs and coaches, passing to and from the cemeteries, and hearses, often solitary, taking their way toward those gloomy destinations. The hum of trade was hushed. The levee was a desert. The streets, wont to shine with fashion and beauty, were silent. The tombs — the home of the dead — were the only places where there was life, * Hcvrp&r'>s Maga&ine, November, 1858.
Página 13 - The town was almost destitute of works of defense, but the inhabitants, amounting to a little more than a hundred men,* immediately proceeded to inclose it with a species of wall, formed of the trunks of small trees planted in the ground, the interstices being filled up with earth. The wall was some five or six feet high. It started from the Half Moon, a kind of fort in that form, situated on the river...
Página 24 - To realize the full horror and virulence of the pestilence, you must go into the crowded localities of the laboring classes, into those miserable shanties which are the disgrace of the city, where the poor immigrant class cluster together in filth, sleeping a halfdozen in one room, without ventilation, and having access to filthy, wet yards, which have never been filled up, and when it rains are converted into green puddles — fit abodes for frogs and sources of poisonous malaria. Here you will...
Página 16 - Beginning at Antoine Roy's mill, on the bank of the Mississippi, thence running sixty arpens west, thence south on said line of sixty arpens in the rear, until the same comes to the Barriere Denoyer, thence due south until it comes to the Sugar Loaf, thence due east to the Mississippi; from thence, by the Mississippi, to the place first mentioned...
Página 13 - Louis stood, as likewise that on which several other towns had been located, and the surrounding country, were claimed by the Illinois Indians, but they had acquiesced in the intrusion of the whites, and had never molested them. But when the rumor of an attack upon the town began to spread abroad, the people became alarmed for their safety.
Página 184 - June 10th, 1852, a grant oE land was made to the State of Missouri to aid in the construction of a Railroad from St. Louis to the western boundary of the State. By an act of the General Assembly oE Missouri, approved December 25th, 1852, the land so granted to the State was transferred to the Pacific Railroad Company for the construction oE a branch terminating at the State line south of the Osage river.
Página 16 - The calls for boundary in the charter are, "beginning at Antoine Roy's mill on the bank of the Mississippi; thence running sixty arpens west; thence south on said line of sixty arpens in the rear, until the same comes to the Barrreu Douoyer; thence due south until it comes to the Sugar-loaf; thence due east to the Mississippi; from thence by the Mississippi, to the place first mentioned.