New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-11-21
FROM CINCINNATI.

|cerreapondeues of the orsasent.
CINCINNATI, Nov H. 1854.
EDS CRESCENT Owing to press of other matter 4 as
you printers say have not been able to write you until
to-day arrived here last night iourneyng from your
city by way Of st. Louis Louisville via Chicago thence
here passing through Lexington. At the latter place
visited Ashland The charm Of the place Is broken the
old house has been pulled down by the proprietor Mr.
James Clay make for another the counterpart Of
the former The alleged for this act of vandalism
is that the old tumbng down better have lei
it fall and the ruins remain than thus to have desecrated
spot dear ALL AS stood, solitary Wing gazing
upon the scattered fragments of the old edce and
marked the hewn tmbers for the new could not but
think Of the Wing party it ts leader gone and
its members scattered by the spirit Of vandalism that To-
pouring like avalanche the country and sweeping
away all the old landmarks of fathers Will the old
house be rebuilt. Will the old party be reconstructed
will not stop to attempt description of the
country about Lexington with its spacious old mansions.
its beautiful parks and lawns. You remember the say
ing of the old preacher when in attempting to describe
heaven he said climax Ny friends heaven is
perfect Kentucky Of place 70 f
On my arrival last night learned that Cassius Clay
was deliver lecture before Slavery Society
hurried off to witness what beforean Abo-
lition meeting. found myself in large hall bril-
liantly Illuminated entering, worked my way up
view of the audience On taking my seat found myself
next to old darkey, and gazing the assembly
found it decidedly pepper and salt congregation.
The being warm the incense that rather
Spicy started seat the door, and there kept
the windward of the congregation The speaker
after entered and greeted with the usual applause
the cotton umbrellas of the old darkes coming down with
emphasis He started out with the broad proposition
that the institution Of slavery ostered sristocraoy
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or Turkeythat shareholders opposed to the educa
ton of the MASSES adopting for their MOTTO Education
and Slavery are incompatible that the South has
tyrannized and continues to yrannzs the people
the North both in Congress and out ofthat the liberty
of the pres speech and petition denied to those
holding different sentiments to the South etc., etc. wind
ing up with exhortaon to the association to persyere
in its efforts, and our country would yet be
Tho land Of the free and the homo of the braye''
The speechfor it politicalspee not lecture
received with great applause The cullud pussons
TO whom the whole speech about clear mud
let OF their cotton umbrellas with ooseness Az Iwent
home arrived at the very sage conclusion that
very progressive people and Porkopolis is place
Hog killing has commenced-hogs selling at IS so to
81 and not averaging in weight over 1870 lbs good
many spectators in market buying for cash The stock
of meat will be quite large but not averaging in quality
that Of last year Hs
Of the failure of several banking houses here you
doubtless heard The panic is subsiding-the cash did
SO some time ago as manya poor FELLOW testify
| Za Yours, WALTER.