STEAMBOAT REGISTER.
| Number of different boats arrived, | 121 |
| Aggregate of tonnage, | 15,470 |
| Number of arrivals, | 803 |
| Wharfage collected, | $4,573.60 |
| Wood and Lumber, liable to Wharfage. | |
| Plant, joist, and scantling, | 1,414,330 feet. |
| Shingles, | 148,000 |
| Cedar posts, | 7,706 |
| Cords of fire-wood, | 8,066 |
The proportionate increase of business will be seen by reference to the following registry for 1831:
| Different steamboats arrived, | 60 |
| Average amount of tonnage, | 7,769 |
| Number of entries, | 532 |
The morality, intelligence and enterprise of this city is equal to any other in the West, in proportion to its size. The American population is most numerous, but there are many French, Irish and Germans. About one third of the inhabitants are Roman Catholics. The Presbyterians, Methodists, and Episcopalians have large congregations and houses of worship: the Baptists and Unitarians are rather small, and without public edifices. The Roman Catholic cathedral is a costly pile of buildings of freestone, and has a splendid chime of bells, sent over from Europe. St. Louis is a pleasant and healthy situation, and surrounded with a fertile country.
We have not space to give particulars respecting many interesting and flourishing towns in Missouri.
Cape Girardeau is a commercial depot for the southern part of the State. St. Genevieve stands a little back from the river, and is known only as an old French village.
Selma is a landing and depot for the lead mine country, 38 miles below St. Louis.
Clarksville, Hannibal, Saverton, and La Grange are commercial sites on the Mississippi, above the mouth of Missouri. Palmyra is a beautiful town, of about 1,000 inhabitants, and the seat of justice for Marion county. Along the Missouri are Portland, Rocheport, Boonville, Lexington, Independence, and many other places of various degrees of importance. Franklin formerly stood on the north bank of Missouri, but most of it has been removed, three miles interior, to the bluffs. Potosi is a central town, in the mineral district. Fulton, Columbia, and Fayette are the seats of justice for Callaway, Boone, and Howard counties, and are pleasant and flourishing towns.
About the same provision for education has been made in this as in other Western States, and a disposition to encourage schools, academies and colleges is fast increasing.