egard for law.

The war regenerated Cincinnati. We do not say _began_ to regenerate it,
because the word "regeneration" means but the beginning of a new life.
There were few of the leading families which did not furnish to the
Rebellion one adherent, and all men, of whatever class, were compelled
to choose between their country and its foes. The great mass of the
people knew not a moment of hesitation, and a tide of patriotic feeling
set in which silenced, expelled, or converted the adherents of the
Rebellion. The old business relations with the South, so profitable and
so corrupting, were broken up, and Cincinnati found better occupation in
supplying the government with gunboats and military stores. The prestige
of the old "aristocracy" was lost; its power was broken; it no longer
controlled elections, nor monopolized offices, nor lowered the tone of
public feeling. Cincinnati was born again,--_began_ a new life. There is
now prevalent among the rulers of the city that noblest trait of
freemen, that supreme virtue of the citizen,--PUBLIC SPIRIT; the blessed
fruits of which are already apparent, and which is about to render the
city a true metropolis to the valley of the Ohio, the fostering mother
of all that aids and adorns civilization.

Cincinnati, like New York, is a cluster of towns and cities, bearing
various names, and situated in different States. Persons ambitious of
municipal offices would do well to remove to this place; since, within
the limits of what is really Cincinnati, there are seven mayors, seven
boards of aldermen, seven distinct and completely organized cities. A
citizen of New York might well stand aghast at the announcement of such
a fact as this, and only recover his consciousness to try mentally an
impossible sum in the double rule of three: If one mayor and
corporation, in a city of a million and a half of inhabitants, steal ten
millions of dollars per annum, how much will seven mayors and seven
corporations "appropriate" in a city of three hundred thousand
inhabitants? The reader is excused from "doing" this hard sum, and we
hasten to assure him that Cincinnati is governed by and for her own
citizens, who take the same care of the public money as of their own
private store. We looked into the Council Chamber of Cincinnati one
morning, and we can testify that the entire furniture of that apartment,
though it is substantial and sufficient, cost about as much as some
single articles in the counc