Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1837-01-18

one OF u citizens. The hogs when
driven INTO u city, are put in pens
attached 10 the slaughter houses, which
are situated on a small stream that
empties into the Ohio, for the purpose
Of carrying off the blood, oiIal, Sc
The only remuneration the butcher OBJ.
tains for killing aud dressing the hogs,
is the bristles, rough fat, and soap
greese. This is generally worth net.
from twenty TO twenty-five cents, each
hog. AT N of these houses, they
will slaughter, in one day, six hundred
and fifty, and have them completely
dressed, and strung up, ready TO be
removed in the morning, (atter becom.
ing perfectly COOL to the packing hou,
ses. The business of butchering is a
separate business altogether, from the
packing, and carried on by other per.
sons and other interests. They knock
down, bleed, scald, emove the bristles.
complete the inside dressing, Sc, Of
fifty hogs, within the hour. | have
seen this done there is no mistake
Thirty to forty men are constantly em.
ployed in each slaughter house. There
are four in all. Mr.. Coleman. the
proprietor and superintendent, inform.
ed me, that he had slaughtered and
completely dressed, at the four houses,
during onc day, from sun rise to SUI
down, ten hours, t,co thousand screen
hundred hogs. When dressed, aud
cool, they are removed to the packing
houses, and then disappear about as
rapidly us when they got into the
hands of the butchers, alive. AT any
n of the largest packing houses, they
a pack and have ready for shipment,
tro hundred and Gffy barrels Of Pork in
one day. They have but thirty men
employed, and in addition to 900 bar.
rels of Pork, they will render out and
have kegged ready for shipment, 200
kegs OF lard, during the same day.
This much will give you some idea
of the Cincinnati pork business, where
it is carried on TO a greater extent than
at any other place in the known world.
TIME FOR MArRIMoNy.-The most
proper age for entering tho holy bands
of matrimony has been much Discus
sed, but never settled. | am entitled
to my opinion !; and although | cannot
here give the grounds on which il rests,
the reader may take it for granted that
| could adduce, were this the proper
place, a great number Of wcighty rea.
sons, both moral and physical, for the
dogma which | am going TO PROFOUND.
The maxim, then, which | would in
culcate, is this-that matrimony should
not be contracted before the first year
of the Fourth Septeniad, on the part
Of the female, nor before the last year
of the same in the ease Of the mnle.-
In other words, the female should be
at least twenty one years Of age, and
the male twenty.eight. That there
should be seven years difference be.
tween the ages Of the sexes, at what
ever period of lifo the solemn contract
was entered upon, need not be urged
as it is universally admitted. There
is u difference of seven years, not in
the actual duration Of life, in the two
sexes, but in the stamina ofthe cons.i.
tuition, the symmetry Of the form, and
the lineaments ofthe face. The wear
and teal ofbringing up a family might
alone account for this inequality but
there are other causes inherent in the
constitution, and independent Of matri.
mony or %celibacy.
In respect to carly marriages, as far
as it concerns the softer sex, | have TO
observe that for every year at which
the hymenial knot is tied below the
age ~oftwenty one, there will be, on an
average, three years Of premature de-
cay, of the c%orporeal fabric, and a
considerable abbreyiation Of the usual
range Of human existence. 1t is in
vain to point out instances that seem
to nullify this calculation. There will
be individual exceptions to all general
rules. The above will be found a fair
estimate.
On the moral consequences Of too
early marriages, it is not my intention
to dilate though could adduce many
strong arguments against, and very
few in favor of the practice. II has
been said that " matrimony may have
miseries, but celibacy has no pleas
ures." AS far as too early marriage
is concerned, the adage ought o run
thus-"marriage must have miseries,
though celibacy may have no pleas
uies."
The choice of a vile OF a husband
is rather ioreign to my subject, and
has occupied much ADLER pens than
mine, to little advantage. My own
opinionJs that were the whole Of the
adult population registered as they be-
come Of age, and each person, male
and female, drew a name out of the
urn, and thus rendered matrimony a