The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1851-12-11

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CINCINNATI, November 25 1851.
In this desultory correspondence you must
look for neither plan nor regularity. make
no attempt at the former and for the latter
have not time or opportunity. | write just
whenever ! can, bat never do SO without ex-
pecting TO communicate some facts that will
interest one class or another of your readers
In the fifteen months that have been absent
from Cincinnati, changes have occurred in the
appearance of various parts OF the city, that
are highly significant as to the future but in
the five years that you have been away, i'm
woyements have been made all over the place
and all around it, that make wonderful reyela
tons of the intelligence and activity and cease
less energy Of the people who are building up
this splendid and gigantic Queen" of the
great Northwest
Why, sir if you were to come back here on
a visit now, there are a hundred places at least
where you might be set down blindfold, which
| you would not be able to recognise on the re-
mOyal of the bandage. One of these, and the
last that has put ON its present phase is " the
dAf Hathaway property in the southwestern
corner of the city. Instead of the green meadow
that you left here with the brick yard beyond
you will find magnificent Railroad Station
covering more than an acre of ground and
almost any number of private dwellings and
stores, either finished or commenced And
within mile long by a half mile broad imme-
diatcly north of this, a whole section of the
city @as e.'Aa built Wy. uyNsh of i IVA very sub
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ftse towo; which, when you lei, peye, was chiefly
in Dutch gardens" brick yards, and frog
ponds, a still further improvement will be given
at once, by the Great Miami Rdilirau now
completed and in most successful and profitable
operation TO Dayton.
Leaving the depot of this work, and walking
up Sixth street the first thing that would at
tract your attention would be long series of
large and splendid private mansions, some of
them with handsome stone fronts and nearly
all of them well finished where you left high
clay and sand banks, and open commons. Con-
tinuing up this street about a mile, many new
objects would attract your eye before you
reached your last place of residence in this city
But when you had once attained this spot
where you used to look from the window of
your study upon an old and WORKOUT temple of
Galen, you would behold ono of the largest and
handsomest cdihces, occupied by Medical
College, anywhere in the United States And
few rods east of this, on the old vacant corner
lot, which it was your wont to pass several
times every day, massive, high, commanding
| building would strike your eye which has not
its superior nor its equal so far as | have seen,
as Mechanics Institute, in this country
Turn off now at right angles, and for whole
square and half you may nod at old acquaint-
ances but before you reach Fourth street, you
will find your eye attracted by sundry strangers,
whose high and beautiful fronts soon introduce
you to the large and splendid stone buildings
of Smith & Nixon, J. =. Roylan, Charles
Stetson, Charles Springer, and others on Fourth,
between Race and Walnut streets. Continue
down Vine street n square further and you
stand in front of that magnificent hotel build
ing the Burnet House, which rises up ant
spreads out without and rival in the United
I States and can therefore speak for itself
! In and about this building, you will desire t.
q spend an hour ut least. You are then about L
retire, and throw your hat up" for the Queer
I City when the dinner gong is sounded, an,
, with the moving crowd and still more moving
request of "minc host" Mr. Coleman, you fin,
yourself carried per force to the gentlemen
ordinary" where, your appetite having beer
rendered keen and your stomach capacious b,
the mornings ramble you make one of then
dinners that people eat in Cincinnati, and reao
about elsewhere
Another hour, at least, is consumed thus
when you feel like pursuing your walk. So you
60 on, down Vine street, till you come to
Pearl and in the very places where you left
the remains of old brick yards and frog ponds,
with few small foundres and machine
shops scattered about here and there you be-
| hold opf,ra I,,,l
stantial, beautiful stores, four, five, and six
stories high, the best of them having fronts of
fine building stone that il now coming into
very general use here You reach Walnut
street, and up and down this ~ far ~ your
eye can distinguish new from OLD, you see simi.
Lar evidences OF commercial thrift and social
progress.
But neither nor You have time to continue
and complete this SURVEYOR it will carry us
into nearly every part Of the city among new
and elegant dwelling houses, churches, schools
manufactorics hotels, and places of amusement
and refreshment so that night would close
around us long before ! should be willing to
acknowledge that the whole observation which
the condition Of things warrants and invites has
been fairly commenced.
And all this, ] can assure you, sir is only
just outward manifestation of inward realities
You know, from the published census what
has been the growth Of Cincinnati, in popuia-
fiOn, since you left here, five years ago Well.
SIR the increase in all other things keeps pace
at least--in trade and commerce, in large and
small manufactures, in educational and reli-
gious institutions in benefcent enterprises and
NJ forth, and 10 forth. Why, sir, what other
city in the United States big or little, old or
young, can show, IN the work Of the Inst ten
years--Or, sir, rs the work fthe last quar-
ter of a century---combned results equal TO
those that have been obtained here in science
and literature humanity and industrial pur-
suite since the taking Of the last previous ma
tional census! am willing 10 point 10 the
massive stone structure in which il our Cham
Der If Commerce, and our Young Mems Mer.
camille Library Association, to the Observatory
that crowns Mount Adams ~ our Medical
Colleges and new Common School buildings, to
the Widops Home, IA provision for the sup.
port of aged INDECENT females whose capacious
walls rise on Mount Auburn, to the Protestant
German Orphan Asylum near it, to that beau
tiful and most substantial edifce, couple of
miles from town. in which are the Houses of
Reformation and Correction for Jupeniie Offend
srs, TO the Aims House and Farm for The Poor
a few miles further out OF the city, and to
many other bvildngs and institutions, which
have not now time TO enumcrate, and let them
giUe The anspey.
All this is set down in haste, Mr. Editor Of
OF the National Era, but with clear, cool,
and perfect understanding Of the meaning OF
the words which have used. must now
pursue my way further on "Thc Line North
west" but will be here again in tho course Of
two or three weeks, and will then perhaps ask
the privilege Of saying few additional things
about this wonderful city OF the backwoods.
Yours &c, CuRRrSrE CALAMo.
New YORK-Ihe new Democratic Stata