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• tor the Cincinnati Daily Ga*e te mfcENsUS OK CINCINNATI. 1] ScTCialli Ward.^John C. Wriojtf:Sir—I annex the returns of the Seventh Ward in the aggregate 4,788, It doea not quit# reach myexpectation#, and renders it almost certain to me that the city will not extend beyond 45,500. This it the largest ward in the city, comprising, I believe, more than square inailea of territory. There are1473 Germans within its Ixwjuds.I found in this warJ a long lost acquaintance, not only of mine, but of the public, which, 1 suppose, with uiysell had King **tuctf numbered him with the dead, i allude to old Solomon, a negro, whose “long remembered cr*” through our streets of 4*on# cent” may still be recollected by individuals here. Hedisappeared from our streets about ten years sgo, and I neither saw nor hearJ any tiling since of him until i found him at tho Pest house in this ward. It is impossible to tell his age to certainty, but be is recollected by individuals of this city more than 20 years since as a very old man, probably a century old, almost at that lime. He makes himsslf out 134 years. He is totally blind, but hears distinctly,and his voice is as sharp and nearly as loud as it once sounded in our streets. Pure whits cannot be whiter than his hair and beard.An old man of the name of Derry, who lxre hisfull share of Revolutionary service, survives, also, a resident of this ward, i His narratives of the events of that period are clear and vigorous, andt at the ago of 81, the old mun would sven now make good his defence against the assault of almost any of the young gentlemen who wait behind the counters of #ur city on the ladies. . \' VSr '44You find %II sort of things, I suppose,” observed a citizen of this ward to me, “have you found a haunted house in this citjl” “No,” I replied.— •♦Well,” said hef ‘‘there is one in this block.i The house is as quiet through the day 4* any other m our bounds, but as soon as it is dark the evil spirits assemble, and the way the hou*e is haunted is a circumstance. A cons ent racket of all sort of noises is kept up till daylight.”Among the curious modes of earning a living, I found three or four families making butchers* skewers. They remarked that they made gootl wages atthe employment* - j * v v ' • •s I was shown some novel uses to which the manufacture of wire may be applied. A set of boxes for trees, of which tho corner (»osts were wood connect* «?d together with open wire work. Tho whole when painted and set up looked neat and airy, a..d at a price little higher than fancy wooden ones, were manifestly an improvement, admitting rain, and are of great**/ durability and strength. The manufacturer had also constructed a chicken coop, principally of wire, furnishing peculiar facilities ut being kept neat and clean. I- *. i; ---^11CordMale..Females.i umlcr 54234035 to102 1624210152172371520225275203051253500403743194050' 17318350GO881096070344070bO- 141980906500100123422373—under1051010241 ) 91624305103655795510016Over1U014715Total284573imYours, [ i |CHARLES CIST.kFnnn the National Inte’ligencer.INJURIOUS EFFECTS OK THE SYSTEM OK THE
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Cincinnati Daily Gazette
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Wed, Oct 21, 1840
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