New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-08-30
Correspoudspee the Crescent.
Cincincinpati, f.

Here am in the meaneast place in the United
States, and as far as my experience goes the
meanest place in the world. Il have no pagtic
ular objection to mans being mean provided
he'is wise withall, but when he combines in
sanity with meanness, then, / think, he be-
comes empha tieally, and unutterably contempt
able. l, find the people here particularly par
tial to that species Of operation which is figur-
ately described as biting off your nose to spite
your face. Owing to the decline of meanness
in the Southern states, Cincinnati, I fancy, has
been established as an institute for the cultiya-
ton and propagation Of meanness, and the per-
lection they have arrived at in the science would
utterly astonish even Jew. 1t is an odd thing
that they should rear SO many hogs here, for
verify believe that if such thing as hog had
never been seen for hundred miles round, the
resemblance Of the people in moral character to
that beast would at once strike the most unan-
alogically disposed man. You are, or are not,
perhaps aware that if one out of drove Of
hogs happens to get stuck in fence firmly and
securely, his companions will fall to and eat
him up. In like manner do the Cincinnatians
difficulty, they will be civil enough to him so
leAg as he is in . position to retaiate, but once
helpless and they cry "pitch into him 7" g Give
it to him, he's got no friends is their motto on
such occasions. The Hotels here, and / have
been to most Of them, are abominable, dirty,
bad food, bad walters, stupid Irish, and saucy
niggers, Indifferent appointments and imper-
nj md ataV IL
one hotel where have met with decently civil
treatment, and that is the Gibson House.
This is not bad looking town, the only pity
is, as Matt Ward said of England, that there are
ouch &C awful mean" people living in it.
At the present moment every thing is in
state of stagnation, trade is at stand still, and
the children of Mammon sit in front of their
stores and look moody It is hard to collect
large amounts, such as seventy five cents and
dollar; wholesale concern here failed the other
day for twenty-five dollars, but it 10 believed
that there are assets sufficient to cover the
amount
Cincinnati comes up to its reputation for pig.
1t is palmed off upon you in every shape and
way, they even fry their beefsteaks in it, &c bad
luck to them" was rather amused by little
incident which occurred in perfumery store
the other day, tending to show the extent to
which the mind of the Cincinnatian is imbued
with pig. The perfumer was giving directions
to an artist for design which he wished to have
executed for his business cards. ssWeil, you
had better put some fancy flowers and so on up
here" said he; s'some combs and brushes here,
some scent bottles there, and then large bear
in the centre, with bears oil on it. >" And to
illustrate his idea, he sketched off something
supposed to represent bear, but so like hog
that it seemed as if instinct had suggested the
real animal of which he made bears oil ? there
was general laugh of course for the lockers on,
and the perfumer himself was forced to confess
that he had never seen or heard of bear with
a curly tail, TRIANGLE.
2. 81 believe all their butter here is made
of hogs lard.