Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-04-21
cTSeINNlrr CORRESPONDENCE.

papers-Hall's Safe and l,Ock manu-.
1actory- y-Merchnnts' Exchange ana
Young Mems Mercantile Library.
N. Harris q Co.-Anna. Dickinson's
Struggle for Life.
CINCINNATI, April 8, 1859. Cincinnati 10 q
solid city, OF slow but substantial growth: q
majority OF the smaller buildings are Of brick,
but most Of the larger, later and better class
are either Of Ohio free stone, brought down
in flat-boats from hundred miles up the riv-
or, or Dayton stone, from Dayton, called Ohio
granite Situated on the borders Of slave.
dom, with rebellion ON one side OF her and
loyalty on the other, with attacks OF the reb-
Cl army often threatening her, and not few
OF her own citizens sympathizing with the
Southern Confederaey,, her commercial inter, LTs :
ests suffered greatly during the war. The
commercial emporium of great state, enjoy
ing large river trade and furnishing sup
plies largely to Kentucky and the South, her
main reliance, however, is in manufactures
and pork. Her chief branches OF trade arc
dry goods, groceries, hardware, boots and
shoes, and clothing The leading manufac-
lures are OF iron, Including steam engines,
safes, circular saws, iron pipe, portable flour
and corn mills, all sorts of machinery, and
agricultural implements Of all kinds. Furni-
ture is also made in great quantities, and
there are two type foundries doing large
business.
THE PUBLIC BUILDINGS
are large and well built, of free stone, or Day.
ton stone. The Cincinnati Hospital covers q
whole square, on Central avenue and Twelfth
street, and is one Of tho largest and finest in
the country The Court House is large and
makes an imposing appearance. Pixies Ope
ra House, Mechanics Institute and many
others--private as we'll as publiC--are fine
specimens OF architecture.
THE CINCINNATI OBSERVATORY
on Observatory Hill is very conspicuous
object. The late Gen, o. s. Mitchell, as
distinguished tor liis patriotism as for his
scientific attainments, selected the instru-
ments for it in France. And though 1t is
not as useful to the pubic as it might BIO un'
der better organization, still important OBJ
servatons are being made, and the cause
Of science is indebted to it for frequent as
Economical discoveries.
SUSPENSION BRIDGE.
A marked feature OF Cincinnati, and pre-
senting splendid appearance to those pass
ing up or down the Ohio River, is the sus-
pension bridge, connecting the city
with Coyington. Its whole length is
2,225 feet; it has two piers, each
6l2t feet from either shore, the centre span
is 1905 feet long and 100 feet above low water
mark. The water is now rs feet above the
ordinary stage, and rising, and steamers are
now obliged to lower their ke.stacks in
passing under the bridge. The whole cost
OF the bridge was 81 100000. lis very sub
stantially built, and looks as though it might
last for generations.
THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS
OF Cincinnati are of a high order, and equal
to those OF any city OF its class, except per-
haps, Boston. The Board of Education en-
pl0y first-class man for superintendent,
and are careful in the selection Of teachers,
and there is public spirit and laudable
which place Cincinnati in the front rank Of
cities in the education of the young.
HER NEWSPAPERS,
always a good type of city's business and
character, are ably conducted and in pros
porous condition. The Gazette, widely
known for it's decided character, representing
genorsllythe advanced wing of the republi-
can party and for its Washington cores
pondence; tho Commercial, conservative,
cautious, affecting to represent tho CONNER
cial classes, and with a large and sensitive
pocket nerve; the Enquirer, aggressive and
audacious, as becomes the organ OF minori-
ty party and friend OF the mourners Of "the
lost cause;" the Times, with respectable
daily list and weekly circulation Of 10000;
the Chronicle, which has spent Sl00, 900 in
getting good foothold; and her religious
papers, miscellaneous and monthly periodi-
calls, among which the Ladies' Repository
takes the highest rank--all give living proof
of the intelligence, activity and thrift Of the
great body Of the people.
A very prominent branch OF industry here
ia the manufacture of safes, requiring large
al op1 uEillnH Vnrrn,pf1 Tho
great desIderatum is to produce a safe that
neither fire nor rust will destroy, and which
thieves will not break through to steal. So
many millions Of treasure and property are
now entrusted to the protection Of safes,
that ii is of the highest importance that they
should be Just what their name imparts safe
1t is manifest that a safe 30 constructed and
tested as to command the confidence Of the
public in its fire proof damp proof and bur-
glar proof qualities, must, wherever its mer-
its are known, supersede all inferior safes.
This has been done by
HALLS SAFE AND LOCK COMPANY.
The largest mandatory Of safes in the
United States, employing 200 men, and
making 5000 safes year. Their salesroom
is in Pixies Opera House, 60 West Fourth
street. They have branch houses in Chica-
go, st. LOuis and Cleveland, and local agents
IN the chief cities, West and South. Their
safes have been subjucte1 to the severOst
tests for 20 years, and, with $4,000 Of them
in actual use, not one has ever been destroy
ed by fire, or broken into by burglars. They
are now making one for the Safe Deposit
Company of Pittsburg, 20 feet by 18, and lS
feet high, which will weigh 500, 900 lbs, ill
Is cars, and cost $50, ,00O!l They have chal-
lenged all the safe manufacturers in the
United States to public test OF the merits
Of their respective safeB, and none have ac-
cepted the challenge. Their safes are con-
fessedly unrivalled, as absolutely fire and
burglar proof, and all those having yalua-
bles liable to be burned or stolen, can safely
entrust them to Halls Fire and Burglar
Proof Safes.
THE MERCHANTS EXCHANGE
and Young Mems Mercantile Library Asso-
citation have spacious and well appointed
rooms in College Building, o large granite
edihce on Walnut, between Fourth and Fifth
streets. There is bit of history connected
with this building illustrative OF the growth
of Cincinnati Twenty-Five years ago, Cincin-
natl College, which stood on its site, was
burned. On the east side of the square was
the old First Presbyterian Church, and be-
tween them was the cemetery. OF course IL
was not then, as now, in the heart OF the
city. Now, not a trace Of these buildings is
left. The shanties have disappeared, the
dead have been removed, the whole square
built up, new church supplies the place oi
the old, and in College Building the mer-
chant princes-the men who devise vast
plans Of trade, commerce and manufactures
meet, day by day, to exchange thoughts
and values, and millions change hands with
the mark Of pencil or the scratch OF a pen.
Here, too, in the reading rooms, are newspa-
pers, magazines and periodicals from all
quarters Of the globe, paintings and statua-
ry, and a library said TO rank, in extent, the
third or fourth OF it's kind in tho United
States.
In this College, Building, also, and occupy
ing considerable portion Of the lower floor
formerly known as the Common Council,
and the Board OF Education Rooms, where
the City Fathers met and legislated, and the
sages Of learning determined how far, and in
what direction "the young idea" Of the city
youth should "shoo"-is the widely known
Healing Emporium Of
J. N. HIRR1s a CO.,
whose Perry Davis Pain Killer is as unlver
sally known as tho diseases 10 which human
flesh Is heir. 1t is manufactured in ProN.
dence, II. l., sent here in barrels and put up
in bottles by veryingenius machinery, as are
their other medicines.
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