which is 400 feet in length), the Bazaar, dows on each side, and a portico proCincinnati college, the Catholic Athe-jected in front, with ten Corinthian colnoum, the Medical college, the Mechan- umns. The steeple, which is disproporics' institute, two theatres, two museums, the hospital and lunatic asylum, the Woodward high school, and nearly thirty churches. The town is chiefly built of brick. tionately high, is conspicuous from a distance. (see engraving, p. 499.) The Commercial Hospital and Lunatic Asylum of Ohio is situated in the northwestern part of Cincinnati, in a retired Manufactures.-Within a few years, and airy situation. The building is of the amount and variety of manufactures brick, with three stories and a basement, have greatly increased. The principal and can contain 250 inmates. The poorbusiness is done in heavy iron castings, house occupies a separate part of the for steam-engines and machinery. A edifice; and there are two medical degreat deal of cabinet-work is also pro-partments. Boatmen who have paid duced, and numerous steamboats and hospital money, those who have not, and canal-boats are built every year. The the town poor, are provided for gratuiCincinnati Manufacturing Company have tously in this institution, by different. a collection of large buildings on Deer funds. Other sick persons are admitted Creek. at two dollars a week. Great quantities of pork are prepared and shipped at Cincinnati. În 1848, not less than 500,000 hogs were killed in the city. The price was then only about two and a half cents a pound. One of the consequences of this business is the manufacture of great quantities of lard and oil. Numerous steamboats have annually been built at Cincinnati. In 1843 the number was 43, whose tonnage was 8,571, and cost $618,000; in 1844, 89. Canal-boats proceed from Cincinnati through the canal, over Lake Erie, to Buffalo. Tolls on the Ohio canals in 1850, about $800,000. Orphan Asylums.-There are three:1. St. Peter's orphan asylum, managed by the sisters of charity. 2. St. Aloysius's orphan asylum, another Roman catholic institution, for boys. 3. The Cincinnati orphan asylum, erected by contributions of the citizens. It is 64 feet by 54, four stories high, and cost $18,000. It stands in Elm street. The children are taught at a good school, and have a good library, and extensive playgrounds. Morals and religion are carefully inculcated, and the future interest of the pupils provided for. The Roman Catholic Church.-The building is of simple form, and in a neat style of architecture. The walls are straight and smooth, with seven win The House of Employment for Female Poor, and the Savings Bank, are also valuable institutions. Benevolent Societies.-The Cincinnati Total Abstinence Temperance society; the Colonization society; the Ohio AntiSlavery society; the Scots' Benevolent society; St. George's society; the Cincinnati Typographical assocation; and the Hibernian Benevolent society. The Cincinnati Astronomical Society, organized in 1842, have an observatory, with a large telescope, on Mount Adams, under the care of Professor Mitchells. The Western Academy of Natural Sciences was incorporated in 1838, and has a valuable cabinet. The Apprentices' Library was founded in 1821, by private contributions, and is open to all minors in the city, brought up to laborious employments. The Young Men's Mercantile Library Association has its library and readingrooms in the Cincinnati college, which are open daily. It was organized in 1835, and chartered the following year. EDUCATION.-1. Common Schools. The common school system of Cincinnati was founded in 1830-'31, and the number of children taught is very large. The number of districts is ten, which are now supplied with brick schoolhouses, with cupolas, and furnished with common apparatus, with seats for from three to five hundred pupils, each, at a |