St. Louis, Ever Since The War

qroke out, has boon a place of snnie itn portahce, ituated or. the KtisHissippi lüver and commanding a fine position it has been nsed by the government as a gieat dèpol for hard-luuk, anriv e!o:hiriaj and used-up cavalry hornea Pooi men been me rich, pmall men becotne great n a rjirarkably short space (if tinne, and the Editor dtinkmg the .ffice dust Irom his clothus, dropping thu soissors and pen on the sauctum table, bidding a good-bye to the Editorial Ghair, and loaving said artielo in charge rif 'je typos', whiiied away over ihe Central R'4d to GbTcago, pasaed through tluit noble State, Illinois, made detestable g round by the resjdepce ot' 'Oíd Abe,' and ero this, we suppnse, is insido the fortitications erectel by Fieinont, lounging iu Lbe eaV chairs of ihe Lindell Ilotbl, ("ucking lemonade thro glass tubes, and having a good time ?enerally, while we are running over columns ol stale litera tl] re, in the hope of finding fOinething nterostipr, but in v.iin. Papers ome to us laden with reported movements of tlie arniy, and ocoasionally a 'vigorous item' tiembles over the wires that Abe has squelohed a democratie newspaper, anl incaroera ted the pi-nprietor tl.urcof n a fiílon's cell, and forthwith the radicáis fall upon their knees and exclaim, ''grent is Abe," while deuiDcrats stand back and tremble for the liWties of tho people. The meagre editorial items may be accounted for when we say that the head of tliis department is oñ on a scouting expedition. Uur readers will ind the new advertisements in today's ssue deeidedly inturosting. We re spectfully request a careful reading of he same. EiF Nuxt week we shall mako room 'or the able letter of Mantón Mahhlr, Eciitor of N. Y. World, to President jincoln, We intended to púbtistl it his week, bnt owino to the crowded tato of our ciilnmns t was impossible.