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an excellent house, affording more comfort than the more expensive hotels of fashionable celebrity -- St Louis is a city of rapidly increasing importance, it is entirely a commercial city commanding the great produce trade of Illinois, Iowa, {unclear] & Missouri -- It receives produce from these states & ships it to N. Orleans - It also supplies MIssouri & the neighboring states with goods of all sorts - It is on the road to the improving regions of the "far-west"-- All these advantages combine to make it a place of great trade - The effect of its peculiar condition is evidenced in the appearance of the city and its inhabitants who all wear the anxious and careworn looks of "men of business" not unmixed, I regret to say, with that restless & irreligious spirit which seems induced by the easy acqui