I he two great topics pf thought and convert-1
(ion in our city nl present are the flood and tha
cholera. I he farmer is slowly subsiding. The
levee continues still under water throughout its
1 ""'ire length, the water being still several feet
j evacuated. .Should lho water ro down Kr.idui-
I 'V " former ycniH, an opportunity will be af
ii. it-stiiiipiitiii ., utiivrvcr, coooiieniiy anticipa
ted ill the course of two or three week; nt least
so far a lho removal of ibis obstacle tn its pro
gress. It (lists not, ns you aro probably aware,
require long for St. Louis to revive Irotii'tbo stun
ning effect of the ino-t din.lrous blow. She has
a recuperative energy truly iniirvelloii, and a
Herculean success in mastering the- lions nnd drag
ons iu her path which fills (.ne with nmasenitnt.
The choh i.'i, I nni sorry to say, bus nearly if
not quill1 Hstiiint'il ibi? form of nn epidemic, lis
ravage bitheiln have been chiefly colilinetl lo the
newly arrived eriiigi.mts, and the poorer classes.
Within a day or two past however, it has begun
to rut tion n old nnd acclimated citizen; nnd the
remark it made that it type (hi year is more
slticily Asiatic than in '19. A yet, llie death
hnve never exceeded 22 a day; and Heaven
grant lliat even tint rate of moiiiility may speed
ily diminish.
Thentiicals, as you may well suppose, l.inguih
under these circumstance. Mrs. Far ran ha hud
some pretty good boiir nt Ludlow nnd Smilh'.
She is an nctres of considerable merit ami would
attract anywhern. Poor Bale is nltnmt desert
ed. rrndi's iit tn us was pretty generally
considered n failure; Wynisn s bail was nol
half rilled on either evening of the performance.
