Litchfield enquirer., 1843-03-23

| am sir, very respectfully, your obedient
servant. WILLIAM SLADE.
THE RIGHT OF SEARCH.
To the Editors Of the DAILY tBoston) Atlas:
GLNTLEMEN-The gencral impression is
that the Right of Search" as construed
before the war of 1872, and the fright of
Visitation," now talked of, are very different
things. Under the fright of Search" our
ships were robbed Of their scamen. The
right 50 exercised became obnoxious to OBJ
lection on that account alone. "The head
and front Of its offence had that extent-no
more" The Right Of Visitation" which
is claimed by the British Government, and
which is conceded to US, has for its aim a
noble end-and is one of the most disinter-
ested, honorable and philanthropic require
ments ever made by that proud, usurping
nation.
am induced to lrcspass upon you for
moment, Mcssrs. Editors, from having read
GALL except the sprinkling Of Latin and
French,) Mr.. Cushing's speech Of the 2Sth
ult. That gentleman takes the ground that
the Flag should protect the vessel and
says if the commander of British cruizer
can go behind the flag, he can go behind
the papers also-to the nationality of the
people. What of this! Have we not the
same privilege! What has the honest ira
der to dread from this searching operation!
If he is insulted or injured, do we not know
that the offending party will be obliged to
respond promptly to call for satisfaction.
1t is evident, then. that we deny this right of
visitation, not because it may become a
practical evil, but because it is not oigmifed
in its theory. The right in question does
not permit British man-o f.war to check
the course of a truly American vessel, even
though her infamous character is denoted
by the presence of a thousand slaves. All
she could do would be to take from the re-
gister Of the SLAYER her name, and the
names of her owners, for the use Of our Go
vernment. Are we afraid of this! Let
such as are, unite with Mr.. Gushing, and his
great Captain, in the support of principle
which will render the man-stcaler and the
pirate perfectly safe, so long as they show
at their peak, that great cover to a "multi-
tude of SINS the AMERICAN FLAG.
A Cincinnati Slaughter House-Al:hough
we are not one of the number, "who can
look upon blood and carnage with compo-
sure" we accepted the invitation of Mr..
Clearwater, week or two since. to ride out
and view his establishment at Brighton
And as an account of the wholesale manner
in which hogs are killed and dressed at his
place, will probably apply, in its general
details, to all the others in this quarter, we
have thought the description may prove ia
teresting to our distant readers.
The hogs are concentrated at this point
from the northern part of Kentucky, and
from Ohio and Indiana. The Strengthening
season generally opens about the beginning
of December, with the hogs from Kentucky.
They are driven through the city (the more
corpulent being assisted on their pilgrim
age up from the river by drays and wagons)
out to Deer Creek and Brighton, where ex-
tensive pens and houses are erected for
their accommodation. The slaughter houses
are generally long buildings, having stout
bench running nearly the whole length, be-
ginning at the door.
At a small pen, where the door opens,
three men are employed from daylight till
dark in knocking down and dragging in the
hogs just inside the door, where one man is
employed in nothing else through the day,
but cutting their threats. Two scalders then
pass them into the scalding tub, which holds
4 or hogs at time. Four scrapers then
haul them out on to the aforesaid bench,
scrape off their hair and bristles, and pass
them along to six shavers, who finish
cleaning them, and give them another re-
move to the off bearers, who hang them up,
and resign their charge to the wash downs.
The entire hog has thus reached the end of
rapid journey from the pen. Its entrails
are then delivered by the cutters to the gut
cleaners, who make selection of their
charge, and pass certain parts to the pluck
boy and TO the fat washers, who are dill
gently employed in preparing the raw ma
terial for the use Of the soap boiler, candle
maker, and other manufacturers of unctu-
Gus articles.
The hog, in the meantime, has been
washed down thoroughly, and hung up in
the dry house, where the dry houseman
turns his Ohe hog's) tongue on one side.
and places cob in his mouth TO extend his
jaws and let the water drain off we'll. The
hog then hangs quietly till called for by the
WAGNER, who brings them into the city to
be cut, packed, sailed, and shipped to the
ends of the earth.
In this manner, Mr.. C.'s establishment,
for instance, has given daily employment to
40 hands, who have killed nearly 10000
hogs. Their greatest achievement was kill
ling 627 hogs in one day Of little over eight
hours-at another time they killed in three
days 23S5-and at another in four days 1900.
Thus the thing has been repeatedly done of
killing and completely dressing more than
one hog in minute through the day.
The greatest order, economy, system and
neatness prevail at these Establishments
Every thing is turned to account; the bris-
ties are all sold at three cents per hog, the
hair at 81 per load, and the entrails at three
cents per hog.