sions will confer a favor by reporting the same to the author, at St. Louis, by mail, that future editions may be as nearly accurate as possible. To the press of the State, for universal courtesy and co-operation, and to those who have given encouraging notices in advance; to the several railroad companies, for traveling facilities for visiting points along their lines, and to the many citizens who have done their State good service by contributing information for this work, the author would return his grateful acknowledgments. And here the writer feels called upon to express his gratitude to a generous public for the very liberal patronage bestowed upon his six previous publications on Western States and Territories. Imperfect as have been his labors, his motives have been appreciated, and the census statistics for the past decade indicate that published information has no unfavorable results upon the increase of the population or wealth of the West. This work is submitted to the public as it is, with the promise of a better, if it is demanded. If the author has succeeded in representing "Missouri as it is in 1867"-if his task shall tend to throw a light over the immigrant's path, to direct intelligent labor and capital where there is unlimited and remunerative demands-if this work shall serve to eradicate or lessen whatever of misconception or of prejudice may have existed in the minds of strangers-if, as the fruit of his labors, the author shall be able to place Missouri before the world in her true light, and to assign to her that lofty rank among the States which she must attain and forever hold-he will feel that he has not fallen short of the elevated goal of his ambition, and, in the consciousness of duty fulfilled, will reap a golden reward. N. H. P. CONTENTS. Table-Showing number and kind of School-houses, number of Children in Schools, and the Radical and Conservative Vote in each County, in |