The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-12-31
corresponding of the Register.
CINCINNATI, Dec. 10. 1851.
FRIEND Barnett:
Yours Truly,

correspondence OF the Register.
CINcrNSATI, Dec. 10. 1851.
Friend BARRETT:
1t may not be unacceptable to your
leaders TO hear n little from The Queen City
of the West. We ARE drawing near the
festivities of Christmas and New Years mol
days, and everything, with the exception Of
lhe river trade, is aslir. During the time
from Christmas TO the first oil January,
amuscmen ts Of every kind arc the order
Of the day The schools are closed,
and the bulk of Cincinnati is to be found
swatming in the streets and besieeing the
stores of every description. In This portion
of tue West, Christmas aud its concomitanis
form the most Interesting and absorbing sea-
son Of the whole wear. TO give, in detail,
anything like a description of The balls. CO.
tillion parties, masqucrades, &c, Of the Ger
mans, French, and Irish, would be impossi>
BILE, in the short space you can afford Tor this
purpose. Suffice it to say. that for one
week nj least, this city will be given up to
revelry.
The grand topic Of conversation now be
| fore the public mind is The visit to our city
| Of Louis Kossuth. The city council, some
time since, SEM a messenger extraordinary,
bearing an invitation to him to pariake Of
our Inequalities. Mr.. Griffin, the bearer.
presented the resolution with some very neat
remarks, to which Kossuth replied in tie
most warm and natterine terms, and closed
by promising to proceed Immediately to this
city on the close Of his visit to Washington.
We expect him here in about two we, ks.
The press calls for a warm and liberal wcl-
come, and he will doubtless receive it. There
are 10000 Germans here. and many were
personally acquaintct with him in Germany.
4 committee Of one from each ward, has
been appointed TO receive him. it, regard
10 the opinions Of the press concerning hin
& he purposes ofhis mission to this c%ounir, !,
Ii tie need be said, as all must view him ere
long in the sdine liaht. AS an exile Fl ON
foreign desp, i'm all wi welcome him, but
n a medd!er with our national politics, few, |
think, will be favorable to him. The Gers
man element in our population will greet
him most enthusiastically We expect strong
demonstration when he does come. There
is no city on this side Of the Atlantic, where
he can make such a s'rong and abiding inn
preston as hero. The German Loan for the
Hungarian cause is progressing rapidly.
For the first time since 1899. the Olio
river, opposite this place is closed by ice.
For the last three or four DAYS the weather
has been exceedingly cold for this region,
The thermometer, early in tie morning, va
vino flon 6 c to l5o below zero. The
river is now completely blocked by ice, and
all navigation stopped. The ice is not very
thick, but is formed by the attachment of
huge blocks. a perfect rush Of pedestrians
10 and from Newport and Covineton, on the
Kentucky side, has been going on during tie
whole dav. The rapid current Of the liver
produces occas onal breaks ia the ice, and
there is much 1anger Of drowning. wo
men lost heir lives, just Lelow, in attempting
10 cross, They were seen from the shore,
but no help could reach them. The up
river trade in coal aud wood, usually very
large at this season of the year, is entirely
suspended, and The result Is. coal has risen
from 10 TO lG cents per bushrl, and wood
from SO TO Sl2 per cord. This rapid rise
in the fuel marke', in this very cold weather
causes a great deal OF suffering among the
poor of our city. and results in a great deal
Of stealing.
One most unpleasant item of city infor.
nation relates to its morality. Cincinnati
is without exception the wirkedest city o.
any considerable size in the United States
10 al OuisllcT, our Iolrc TfIolS uit i'Il'
fying. New Orleans, with $4,000 popu
lation. has "a police force OF 400. Cincin-
naiti, with population "i ll6 coo, has a po
lice force of 81. Slabbine cases are so fire.
quent us to excite no remark. Prudent
people hardly dare TO 90 into the stress a;iei
, . O'Clock in the evening SO great has thl
evil become, that some of our oldest an,
most respectable citizens are seriously con
sidering The propriely Of callirga meeting
r for the organization of a Vigilance com
mittee," to arrest, try and summarily punisl
, the villains who swarm among ~. We SAID
consider the propriety Of calling a mce'in!
we should have said, the propriety of tn
move has been already decided upon, AM
+, The question now is, will men come up l.
the work, whose character and standing vii
, give responsibility and efficiency 10 the steI
This is the great season Tor the packing c
pork. This ci,y is the greatest place 10
: pork packing in the world. Herds of swine
every hour in the day, may he heard putin
I aud squealing alorg the streets On their wa
, TO the immense slaughtcring establishment
, in the outskirts OF the city. The CincIr
natl hams, and barrel pork, are sent to a
: quarters of the globe. Many ions are an
. nualiy shipped to the West Indies and Soul
/ America. In the killing houses they die
e pose of about two hogs in each three min
uies; that is, the mulufarious operations II
lervcning between The last squeal and ia
washing for ultimate suspension general
y occupy about one and a half minutes. X.