Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1852-12-02

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world. TSlk Of Weaihers6eld, and
you smell onions at once. In your
minds eve you see the thick clusters
Of the savory vegetable, and the eye,
aforesaid, fairly waters at the sight.
No other town pretends to compete
with Weaihers6eld. An laden
sloop coming down the East river is
known-like a fat>boat floating
down the Mississippi laden with dogs
and hoop-poles-to be from Wealth
ers6eId--by her deck load. The
town supplies the whole coast OF the
States, North and South, the West
Indies, Rio de Janeiro, and San Fran
cisco, besides the Chinese, Hot,entots,
Hindoos, and the rest o. mankind
Such onion-beds are nowhere to be
Hound. They have no right to be
found, except in Weathersfeld.-
There the right is prescriptive; it
dates from the time whereof the
memory OF man runneth not TO the
contrary. ~o--r
The town of Lynn, Massachusetts,
is famous the world over for shoe
making, as its haven is for its COM
merce in wooden pegs, pegging-
avis, bristles and wax-ends. There
is no town like Lynn for its whole
sale supply OF cheap boots and shoes.
They are made there, like Peter Pin
dar's razors, on purpose to sell; and
they do sell, and with a rapidity
which none but the iIl-naiured would
] pretend 10 account for on the princi-
pie that they wear fast as well as sell
fast.
There is a town in Connecticut,
the original name of which we are
ignorant OF, but which, for conven-
ience, we shall call Comb, Haven, as
no:ed Tor its ivory combs as Lynn for
shues, or Weathersfeld for onions.--
And very useful article is the ivory
comb. There its manufacture is in
perfection. The mills turn them out
by the dozen gross the hour. The
town is represented in British India
by Commissioners of Trade in the
raw material; and no elephant killed
in war or tiger.fght, or by the dis
eases Of the climate, or dying from
old age, is deemed worthy Of Chris
tian burial until his teeth be drawn
by n Comb. Haven Yankee. The
tusks are shipped home by the cargo,
and stacked up all over. the town,
like cord-wood-for which, indeed,
thew we're once mistaken by friend
Of ours who was called TO the place
TO discuss the tariff. 'i
The town of New Bedford, by ira
diliOn and presumptive right, is the
whaling port Of the United States.--
Other places, in days past, attempted
to rival it, but il was no go. Hud-
son, New London, Sag Harbor, &C.,
still have their occasional adventures
in the South Seas, but whalers and
the oil market are synonymous with
New Bedford, as are sperm candles,
and all the Judds, Howlands, Macys,
and Crockers that ever manufactured
or vended them. 81 ~ i.- 20
And speaking of oil and its affini>
ties, brings us to the immediate sub
iect OF this article-Pork Packing in
Cincinnati-which the papers OF tina!
city avow is not to be carried on sue
cessfully in any other place, and par
ticularly New York. We are not.
it seems, to be permitted TO make a
III mburg OF ourselves, however we
may rival that ancient city in great
fires and free trade. We were never.
designed either, like our Ohio sister,
to aspire TO the classic tastes OF
Grease. In short, the Queen City OF
the West, by pre-emption and pre-
scription, claims TO be ehtitled 10
monopoly of slaughtering, dressing,
and packing the whole swinish null
titude Of the Mississippi Valley--ex-
cept the biped portion thereof This
claim, once seriously denied by New
York, the direct losses and calamities
are to be visited upon the rival butch
-ers. Lei Us recapiinlate on the basis
Of an article in the last Gazette:
In cold weather the hogs would
perish in transit byrailway. Moth
ing, our contemporary assures US,
can be done 10 prevent this. The
hogs, not falling victims TO The cold.
would lose in weight. Their Sin,
nards" would fall off 10 nothing
We are gravely told "ihat the hogs
taken 20 New York by railway pro-
duce little or no .g-t fair" !" Think
OF it. No g-t fatl Well may the
Gazette exclaim, ''here is another
very heavy loss" Then the expense
Of. doing business in New York sis
very nearly double" Butchers
bows gel high wages here. In fact,
the whole thing is preposierous.-l
The idea that the "of fills com,
mand great deal more in New
York than in Cincinnati is supreme
" SO. There is a market at Cincin-
natl "for everything that is marketa.
Die Belonging TO the hog.n That is
true. We now remember the pro-