Monongalia mirror. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1855, 1854-09-30
OUR CINCINNATI CORRESPONDENCE
CINCINNATI, Sept. 90, 1854.


| CINCINNATI, Sept %, 1854.
Dear Sir:
As the October Election ap-
proaches, politics and politicians occupy
more than usual share of public atten.
ton. Tho old line Democracy have
made their nominations, about which
some have grumbled, because at the
primary election one Ward in this city
polled more votes for the Democratic
candidates by some 70 votes, than there
are voters in the whole Ward: To an
impartial looker-on there is evident dis
affection in the ranks of the Democracy,
aud forebndings of defeat. A "stiff
upper lip" and wholesale denunciations
ofthe Know Nothings, seem to char
acterize the daily issues ofthe Enquirer,
the Democratic organ: but the very Sc
verify of its course towards the Know
Nothings shows how bitter is its parti.
san hatred, and its fear of defeat. The
Wings, presume, will make no nomi.
nations; at least have neither heard or
seen any move in that direction. 1t is
alleged that the Know No,hings have
selected their men and are in good spir-
its; and, indeed, if one can Judge by
the tone of the Times which is said to
be their organ, of the hopes of that or
ganization. it will make for the Democ-
racy a Waterloo defeat" in October.
One thing is very certain, that its intlu-
ence it spreading and its members in
creasing, as am told, with the rapidity
of some contagion, and it promises to
make clean sweep ofthings here, and
that will be doing a great deal, as two
members of Congress, Probate Judge,
Sheriff, Commissioner, Surveyor, Coun-
: ty Auditor, Judge of Common Pleas,
Clerk Of the same, Prosecuting Attor-
ney and Coroner are to be chosen.
t There has been any quantity of croak-
ing over the failure Of crops throughout
the West, and for some time the market
here, as elsewhere, was sensibly affect
cd. Though the prices of some kinds
OF produce still Keep up, the article oil
: Flour alone has receded in some three
: weeks, about two dollars, There is no
!. doubt that there is large falling off in
t the quantity of Corn produced. yet even
/. this is not as large as was some time a
go represented, and the great calamity
7 Of famine, freely predicted here, in the
very granary ofthe world, seems to have
. dwindled into shadow. The late re-
8 ciprocity treaty with Great Britain, TO-
gether with advices Of a decline in
= bread.stufs on the other side of the
great water, has quieted all apprehen'
sion on the score of scarcity of provis'
: ions; and Providence, so good to US as
), nation, in the bestowal of an abund
!. ance ofthe necessaries of life, deigns tc
d continue His favor. The panic in the
i. produce market was, no doubt. gotten
!. up by spectators and hucksters, who
are interested in short crops: and the
i greater the apprehension of the consul
mer, the greater the profit to these pan
ic. makers.
The difficulties withthe1ndiana Banks
seem to be disappearing, as also thels
small bills, as the time for the operation
c of the $40 Note Law draws near. we
J begin again to see the Ones and Fires o.
i; the Ohio Banks, though they are by ta'
II too scarce to supply the places of thei'
= illustrious Indiana predecessors, and the
). public-and an American public is some
and amt afraid to speak right out in
meetin'-begin to grumble at the deprl
i walton Of the convenience OF small bills
). The provisions of the law are stringe.n
n MANY predict that it will be a dead let
$ ter. Some ofour merchants here-an'
= we have some OF Inc most eh'erprlz'nI
e .nat ca" 1s ,uuna ams sn ""e ,u;,b hants; !,
J The ne;ahboring States of Indiana an,
il Kentucky, by which their customers cal
= pay their debts into the banks OF thos'
states, ana thas save 'hose customer
It LII, 'I ha.a - ;ns, sn.h f,nds os ara nm,
III aS'sS '"'S :" sSt 1900 $1,000 - "