No. 35 Locust Street, Saint Louis, Mo.,

From this extensive Establishment the following Newspapers are is sued:

All of these papers contain the greatest variety of reading matter, and th. atest news, in commerce, politics, morals, religion, arts and sciences, etc.

The Proprietor has also fitted up a very

Large Book and Job Office,

WHERE EVERY TARESTY OF DRENCING will be executed with elegance and dispatch, and on moderate terms. ALL KINDS OF

JOB WORK,

FOR

NOR Public Lands-Real Estate-Military Land Warrants-Payment of Taxes-Investigation of Titles-Amicable Collection of Debts, and all other bu siness within the legitimate sphere of an Agents duties, by

CHARLES CORKERY,

Notary Public and Commissioner of Deeds and Depositions for all the North-western States, Missouri, included.

October, 1850.

J. HENWOOD,

Hat Manufacturer, 72 Chesnut Street, St. Louis, Mo.

Missouri State

D

Hoit.

Mutual Insurance

Company.

IRECTORS:-John O'Fallon, C. M. Valleau, Reuben Knox, Daniel D. Page, Oliver Bennett, John Sigerson, John S. McCune, Joseph A. Eddy, True W. This company is established upon the mutual principles of insurance, and is emphatically a home institution. The fire risks of this company are extended into all parts of this State. Its earnings are never employed or invested in stocks or real estate, but kept for the prompt liquidation of losses, and under the immediate control of the Directors. Every person insuring with this company becomes interested in its success, and its profits instea of being divided among a few stockholders, belong to those who insure in this company.

The Directors aware of the importance of a well secured fund, reliable in case of loss, and a mpleun der all ordinary calamity, assure the public that they have already apledged fund ample and reliable for any contingency, with a monthly increase of premiums t over ten thousand dollars. For the length of time this company has been in operation (six months) its business has been extended into all parts of the State and the city, and has received from the public a liberal patronage, which has placed it upon a permanent basis.

By an act incorporating this company, the parties insuring property therein, are entitled to the entire profits of the institution, the premium notes are also pledged by the charter for the payment of losses.

The portfolio of the company is at all times open to the inspection of its members and those wishing to make insurance with it. Policies are issued from thirty days to six years, thereby effecting a permanent insurance, with a return premium of from fifteen to fifty per cent, according to the term of insurance.

Agents for this company, may be found in all the principal towns in the State to whom applications may be made.

Office of the company over E. W. Clark & Bro., corner Main and Olive streets, Exchange building, where insurance will be effected at the tariff rates of premium. C. M. VALLEAU, President, H. D. BACON, Treasurer.

Home Mutual

Mutual Fire

S. F. LEDYARD, Secretary.

and Marine

Insurance Company of St. Louis,

NOTWITHSTA on hand amount to $350,000. The stock notes of the [OTWITHSTANDING the heavy loss sustained by this company in May last company are secured by lien upon real estate and approved endorsers. Office, No. 120 North Third street.

Directors: 1. L. Garrison, A. P. Ladew, P. Salisbury, Jno. Whitehill, Jos. A. Eddy, Henry Kayser, D. D. Page, Theron Barnum, John Kern. ISAAC L. GARRISON President,

DD. PAGE, Treasurer,

PHILANDER SALISBURY, Secretary.

The first social enterprise undertaken after the deluge, of which we have any account, was that of building a city; and although it was prevented by the interposition of the Creator, we should not therefore conclude that He had decreed that man should always remain a denizen of the forest, nor that cities are not necessary to the advancement of civilization.

The building of Babel is supposed to have been commenced about 120 years after the flood, when the whole human race consisted of but a few families. The earth was uninhabited and unsubdued, and had these families been allowed to dwell together in one city the settlement and improvement of distant parts of the globe would have been greatly retarded; and hence we perceive the wisdom of confounding the language, and of dispersing the race throughout the whole earth.

The motive assigned for building the city and tower of Babel is worthy of observation; for, although it is not the same which prompts men of the present age to lay the foundations of cities, yet, it constitutes one of the principal elements of their growth. As the early descendants of Noah journeyed from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said, Go to, let us built us a city, and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. Hence, we perceive, that it was the social principle, more potent than the charms of natural scenery, the excitements of the chase, the quiet enjoyments of a pastoral life, or the substantial and comfortable subsistence derived from agricultural pursuits, that suggested the design of building the city and tower of Babel.

In the earlier stages of civilization cities were built chiefly as places of defence; and, were in some cases supported by contributions levied from the inhabitants of the surrounding country. As

civilization advanced they became the nurseries of the arts, the promoters of science, and depots of commerce. In the present stage of civilization commerce and the arts are the principal elements that constitute the growth of cities; and these two elements must combine, to make a city of the first magnitude. Productive industry is not less necessary to the growth and permanent support of cities, than to the prosperity of rural districts; for although commerce may be regarded as an essential element in the growth of cities, yet it could never accumulate at any one point to an extent that would give employment and support to a very great number of inhabitants.

Cities are the principal consumers of the surplus products of agriculture, and their growth may be regarded as a fair indication of the prosperity of the country whence they receive their support. It is not consistent with the nature of agricultural pursuits and the laws of commerce, that any country very remote from large commercial and producing cities can continue to increase in wealth through a long series of years; and consequently it is the policy of every country to encourage the growth of its own towns and cities. This policy has not been sufficiently appreciated by the people of the Southern and Western States of the Union until recently; but even at the present time there is a class of political economists who seem to regard commercial and producing cities as great social evils, and labor, though indirectly, to prevent them from springing up in the country. Their philanthropy however is confined to their own country; for their policy is calculated to encourage the growth of foreign cities, regardless of the evils that may accrue to the people of other lands. But in an age of progress, like the present, when the intelligence of the civilized world is employed in making discoveries calculated to enlarge the products of labor in every department of industry, and, secure to the operative a higher degree of comfort and mental improvement, all theories and doctrines opposed to the attainment of these great ends are compelled to yield to the onward current of improvement.

In such a period men look chiefly to results, and study the easiest and cheapest mode of obtaining their objects: they become expert in the calculation of profit and loss; and learning to detect the fallacies of the theorist make a practical application of the means and advantages which their condition affords.

Acting under these influences, the people of this country begin to discover many sources of wealth which have been long overlooked, and it is but natural that the discovery should suggest the means of attainment. Prompted by their instincts, the producers and consumers are rapidly approximating each other; and one of the effects of this movement is the unparallelled growth of American cities.

We are not in possession of complete returns of the census of the cities of the United States; but enough is known to enable us