He is about to establish a university here, for which he has already $100,000, and the academic part is already in a state of activity.
"Rev.Mr.Staples tells me that Dr.Eliot puts his hands into the pockets of his parishioners, who are rich, up to the elbows.
"Altogether, St.Louis is a growing place, and the West has a large hand and a strong grasp.
"Doctor Seyffarth is a man of more than sixty years, gray-haired, healthy-looking, and pleasant in manners.

He has spent long years of labor in deciphering the inscriptions found upon ancient pillars, Egyptian and Arabic, dating five thousand years before Christ.

I asked him if he found the observations continuous, and he said that he did not, but that they seem to be astrological pictures of the configuration of the planets, and to have been made at the birth of princes.
"He has just been reading the slabs sent from Nineveh by Mr.Marsh; their date is only about five hundred years B.C.
"Mr.Seyffarth's published works amount to seventy, and he was surprised to find a whole set of them in the Astor Library in New York.
"March 19.

We came on board of the steamer 'Magnolia,' this morning, in great spirits.

We were a little late, and Miss S.rushed on board as if she had only New Orleans in view.