Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-01-26
Cincinnati Correspondence,
CINCINNATI, January l6, 1850.

bracing; the streets in good order, and our City,
except the leaAcss trees, in good Trim. Since
that time, and especially within the last six
weeks, we have had every variety of inclement,
uncomfortable weather. We have been visited
with few very cold days: Christmas day, the
coldest, the Mercury stood at 20 above Zero in
the City, and just at Zero on the Hills, some
two miles from town. There have been four
snow storms, too, and as something unusual
here, t,co Of them heavy. But the snow melts
so soon here that VIC can never get more than
one good days sleighing at time. Thus hea-
Wy snow which fell two days since has all disap-
pcared to-day, but while it lasted every one so
disposed made the most of it. The merry sleigh
bells were heard in all parts of the City; every
thing that could be made to answer the pur-
pose was put in requistion, such as old dry
good boxes, crates, &C., on hoop-poles for rum
ners, with cow-bell on the horse the boys
were out with their slcds, making the most Of
the golden opportunity of Shedding down our
streets, which they well know cannot last long.
Our climate must be the most changcablc in tho
world. In the compass of one week we have
every graduation and change almost, from the
most bitter cold to warm damp air. which
makes every one cellanguid. Our streets late
ly have been in most wretched condition. Thro
all last week they were almost impossible and
to add to our miseries these very dark nights,
the gas has been shut off for nearly month.
This has been owing to difference between
the Gas Company and our City Council which
bids fair to be as long on hand, if not as disrop-
utablc, as the party squabbles of our Legislators
at Columbus. 1t arose from the Companys re-
fusing to lay pipes on Front-st. from Broadway
cast to the Railroad Depot, because there arc no
shops or dwellings to take the gas on the line.
The subject of the high price charged for gas
has also been brought into discussion and the
; City has resolved to take no more until the
Company comes to moro reasonable tcrms.-
There is a general complaint from private con-
sumcrs of the high price paid for gas, and there
arc propositions for tho creation of new works
by the City. Nothing but competition will
compel Company like this, which has an en-
: tire monopoly of the business, to make reason
able charges.
A document of somewhat curious character
in few days in our City papers. 1t seems that
soon after the settlement of the place, section
of land was set apart in the Township, the pro-
cccds Of which were to be appropriated to tho
support of the ministry of the Gospel Al
that time there were but one or two religious
Societies, with their Ministers, and our fatheii
never expected that within half century, and
t1,o al
be in the Township over one hundred. Fol
some reason, not made known to the public, the
matter has been neglected, until at the last
Spring election for the first time, three trustee:
for the Ministerial Section" were chosen by
the people. This Board have attended to theil
; duties, and lately declared a dividend of thu
funds in their hands, amounting to the cnor
> nous sum of $405. To distribute this impair
tally, notice was given to all religious societies
u to report tho number Of their communicable
: Thirty nine have sent in their claims, rcportin:
= in all l3,50O members, which entities them t
: three cents per head. Not one-half the Church
u es have chosen to make application for thci
n share of the fund, and those which have en-
brace part only in each denomination. Thus
y not one-half either of the Presbyterian or Bap
tist Societies are reported. Those which hav,
? availed themselves most generally of the privi
? lege are the German Catholic and the Mctho
: dist Churches. In the published Table tn
name of each Church and the number of it
o members arc given in full.
y 1t thus appears that five of the principal Ger
c man Catholic Churches have 6,637 members
: which is onc-half of .he whole number reported
These include those only who attend confession
Il and are therefore strictly in the communion o
the Church, and not the entire population at
tending upon their worship. Estimating tho
3 number of members in the three other of thcil
German Churches at l5OO and those in the Ca,
thodral (English) at 1000, We have 9l0O as tho
: whole number Of communicates in the Roman
Catholic Churches in our City. This 1 believe
to be bcloio the truth.
In the "Catholc Telegraph" of last week,
sec the Annual Official Statement of the Mar.
riages Baptisms and Deaths in that communion
for 1919. This gives the number of deaths al
nearly 1000, OF which l,O66 are in the English
congregations. This must include only theil
members. Tho mortality among the Catholic
population in our City in the last year must have
been nearly OF quite double that number. These
Tables are valuable as ahording data for estima.
ting the number of our foreign population, and
l shall examine them moro closely for the pur,
pose of drawing some instructive inferencei
from them, which will give you in full in my
next letter.
You may have seen a call for a religious An
, ti-Slavery Convention to meet in this City in
, April next. 1t was decided upon after mature
dclibcration, and is signed by fourteen persons
representing seven different religious denomina-
tons. Eleven of them arc Ministers of the Cos
| mol. II is nxractnd thcf tho Convor t;o,, iii