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benefit of Powers, and no person is more wor- thy of possessing it-for Mr. Preston was among the first to appreciate the unrivalled genius of Powers. Nor was he content with a proper es- timate of his talents. He aided him in his ex- ertions, with great liberality. R. H. Wilde, Esq., now of New Orleans, was among the first to put a proper estimate on the genius of Powers, and herald his fame; and was an efficient actor in the late meeting of the citizens of New Orleans, to engage Powers to make a statue of Franklin. But Powers is not a mere sculptor. He meets the proper definition of a genius-one calcul - ted to excel in any art, but whose mind circum- stances direct into a particular channel. Powers' first essay was ås a Yankee clock maker's assist- ant. His employer thought him equal to any branch of art,and recommended him to Dorfeuille who placed in his hands the Poem of Dante,and requested him to make a representation of the Infernal regions. It was done. Had the genius of Powers been directed to Literature, as wrian ter he would have excelled. If the Kentuckian had censured Congress for fostering Italians, without genius, the censure would have been well merited. Clevenger died, with his death hastened, if not occasioned, by his embarrass- ments, and some of the citizens of Boston de serve great praise, for their liberality in paying his debts, and aiding his widow, since his death.
A motion was made in Congress at the last session, to employ Powers to execute busts of our Presidents, at $500 each. Time was, when such an engagement would have been a great. favor, and it would have added to his reputation, to be engaged by our Government, though their taste was not in high repute, from their employ- ment of foreign artists, of talents far inferior to several of our countrymen. But in a pecuniary point of view, the engagement would not now aid him.
If he had leisure to devote to busts, a higher price is paid him by European travellers. For in this department, tho world has never pro- duced his superior. As Clevenger nobly said of him : "The bust of Judge Burnet, by Powers, surpasses mine, for it is speaking," and it is in the expression that Powers stands without a ri- val. Itis to be hoped, that our government will now engage Powers on some work, that may add tohis reputation as well as profit. I would advise those who admire fine portraits, to call at Mr. Soule's room, on the south side of Fourth
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beyond the smoke of his own chimney, and moreover, charges only forty dollars, for better portraits than our citizens have paid one hundred for. But as the country is now supposed to be bankrupt from the success of the progressive Democratic party, this objection may be over- look cd. A CITIZEN.
Fulton Bagging Factory.
My readers will doubtless recollect that the WASHINGTON BREWERY owned by Mr. Schultz, with other buildings on the west was destroyed by fire on the morning of the 6th ult. The Ful- ton Bagging Factory adjacent on the eastern side was at one time threatened with a similar fate, but the wind contrary to its usual wont, being from the cast, that edifice escaped with the loss of its west wall, third story front, its roof and upper floor, with considerable machinery in the third and fourth stories. Having been three times exposed to fire from its first erection and repeatedly to floods, its foundations have been thoroughly tested, and if the establishment need- ed a device, it might now be entitled to assume the noble one of a ducal house in Scotland, a lighted taper blown by the wind, with the motto, FRUSTRA -- In vain.
To repair these damages involved the rebuild- ing of the west wall, the brick work in front from tho second story, with the reflooring of the third and fourth floors and the reroofing of the whole building. This was promptly effected un- der the superintendence of Mr. Seneca Palmer one of our longest and best known architects and contractors in whose hands the work pro- gressed with such rapidity that in twelve days from the calamity the looms and spinning ma- chines were again in motion.
I observe in the Times that Mr. Gliddon the lecturer on Egypt, stated in reference to the py- ramids, that one peculiarity in their construction was that they were all built from the top down- wards. Whether this be merely a play upon words, I shall not undertake to say, but it is a fact and literally so, that in rebuilding the FUL- TON BAGGING FACTORY, Mr. Palmer put on the roof in the first place, as a means of protection to the edifice and its remaining contents, building up one pillar or fresh support at a time and tak- ing down the defective wall pieces in sections as the new replacements went up. This delicate operation, which placed the parties at the mercy of high winds, not unusual in November, has been safely and successfully accomplished, and the building is to say the least, as substantial and strong as when originally built.
I know not why this establishment should be termed the Fulton rather than the Cincinnati Bag- ging Factory, asit is within our city limits.
Tax on Attornies and Physicians.
In 1826 the legislature of Ohio made Attor- neys and Counsellors at law, together with Phy- sicians and Surgeons subject to a tax, placing them in the same category in that identical act of assembly with horses, mules and jackasses. I copy the docket entry of our Court of Common Pleas in the premises .
CINCINNATI, February 20, 1827.
In pursuance of the statute in such case made and provided, the Court list the attornies and counsellers at law,and physicians and surgeons practising their several professions, within the county, and resident therein, who have practised their profession within the State for the period of two years, and affix to each the sum of five dollars, as a tax to be paid agreeably to the statute,-supplementary to the several acts reg- ulating the admission and practice of physicians and surgeons within this State, and file the same, and direct a duplicate of the same to be filed, with the Treasurer of the county.
Attornies and Counsellors of Law.
1 David K. Este.
2 Bellamy Storer.
3 Joseph S. Benham.
4 Nathaniel Wright.
5 David Wade.
6 William Greene.
7 William Corry.
8 Charles Hammond.
9 Samuel R. Miller
10 Nich. Longworth.
11 Thomas Hammond.
12 Samuel Lewis.
13 Dan Stone.
14 Charles Fox.
15 Elijah Hayward.
16 Jesse Kimball.
17 John S. Lytle.
18 J. W. Piatt.
19 N. G. Pendleton.
20 E. S. Haines.
21 J. G Worthington. 22 W. H. Harrison, Jr. 23 Samuel Findlay. 24 Moses Brooks. 25 J. Madeira. 26 Dan'l Van Matre.
27 Isaiah Wing.
28 Nathan Guilford. 29 Benj. F. Powers. 30 James W. Gaslay. 31 D. J. Caswell. 32 Hugh M'Dougal.
Physicians and Surgeons.
1 Samuel Ramsay.
2 E. H. Pierson. 15 Jno. Morehead.
3 Jesse Smith. 16 John Sellman.
4 V. C. Marshall.
17 James W. Mason.
5 Guy W. Wright.
6 John Woolley.
19 F. C. Oberdorf.
7 Lorenzo Lawrence.
8 J. W. Hagerman.
9 Jedediah Cobb.
10 Josiah Whitman.
If Beverly Smith. 24 J. E. Smith.
12 Isaac Hough.
25 Dan'l. Drake.
13 C. W. Barbour.
26 Wm. Barnes.
The physicians and surgeons of the county of Hamilton are seperated from this catalogue.
What changes have seventeen years brought in this list. Of the attorneys, Este, Longworth, Lewis and Pendleton have retired from profes- sional business, Stone, Hayward, and Powers, have removed from Cincinnati; Brooks, Wing and Guilford have changed their profession, and with the exception of the ten in italic, who still survive, the residue are no longer living.
With the physicians, death has been busier still. Dr. Cobb has removed from the city, and
14 John Cranmer.
18 Abel Slayback.
20 J. M. Ludlum. 21 E. Y. Kemper. 22 C. Munroe.
23 Edward H. Stall.
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Drs. Moorhead, Drake, Oberdorf and Ludlum it ] the General's name, assuring me of his great is believed are all who survive out of twenty-six who were in active practice seventeen years since. What is to account for the greater mor- tality among the medical than in the legal class ?
CORRESPONDENCE.
Washington and Hamilton.
MR. CIST-SIR :
The Revolutionary Incident contained in your paper of the 20th Nov., agrees very nearly with what I have heard detailed as the story of the difference between General Washington and his aid. The tradition, however, is incorrect in some some particulars, especially in exaggerating the neglect of Hamilton,-and the General's want of temper :- and in setting forth that the General made no effort to restore Hamilton to his family.
The true version of the story is given in a let- ter of Col. Hamilton's written to his father-in- law, Gen. Schuyler, within two days after the occurrence, which I send you for insertion in your paper. J. H. J.
URBANA, 25th Nov.
HEAD-QUARTEERS, NEW WINDSOR, February 18, 1781.5 My Dear Sir: Since I had the pleasure of writing you last, an unexpected change hss taken place in my situation. I am no longer a member of the General's family. This informa- tion will surprise you, and the manner of the change will surprise you more. Two days ago, the General and I passed each other on the stairs :- he told me he wanted to speak to me. I answered that I would wait upon him imme- diately. I went below and delivered Mr. Tilgh- man a letter to be sent to the commissary, con- taining an order of a pressing and interesting nature.
Returning to the General, I was stopped on the way by the Marquis de La Fayette, and we conversed together about a minute on a matter of business. He can testify how impatient I was to get back, and that I left him in a manner which, but for our intimacy, would have been more than abrupt. Instead of finding the Gen- eral, as is usual, in the room, I met him at the head of the stairs, where accosting me in an angry tone :- " Colonel Hamilton, (said he,) you have kept me waiting at the head of the stairs, these ten minutes :- I must tell you, sir, you treat me with disrespect." I replied without petulancy, but with decision, "I am not con- scious of it, sir, but since you have though it necessary to tell me so, we part." "Very well, sir, (said he,) if it be your choice," or some- thing to that effect, and we seperated. I sin- cerely believe my absence, which gave so much umbrage, did not last two minutes.
In less than an hour, Tilghman came to me in
confidence in my abilities, integrity, &c., and of his desire, in a candid conversation, to heal a difference which could not have happen- ed but in a moment of passion. I request- ed Mr. Tilghman to tell him,-Ist, That I had taken my resolution in a manner not to be revoked. 2d, That as a conversation could serve no other purpose than to produce explanations mutually disagreeable, though I would certainly not refuse an interview, if he desired it, yet I would be happy if he would permit me to de- cline it. 3d, That though determined to leave the family, the same principles which had kept me so long in it, would continue to direct my conduct when out of it. 4th, That, however, I did not wish to distress him, or the public bu- siness, by quitting him before he could derive other assistance by the return of some of the gentlemen who were absent. 5th ; And that in the meantime, I depended upon him to let our behavior to each other be the same as if nothing had happened. He consented to decline the con- versation, and thanked me for my offer of con- tinuing my aid in the manner I had mentioned.
I have given you so particular a detail of our difference from the desire I have to justify my- self in your opinion. Perhaps you may think I was precipitate in rejecting the overture made to an accommodation. I assure you, my dear sir, it was not the effect of resentment; it was the deliberate result of maxims I had long for- med for the government of my own conduct.
I always disliked the office of aid-de-camp, as having in it a kind of personal dependence. I refused to serve in this capacity with the Ma- jor General, at an early period of the war .- Infected, however. with the general enthusiasm of the times, an idea of the General's char- acter overcame my scruples, and induced me to accept his invitation to enter into his family. * * It has been often with great difficulty that I have prevailed upon myself not to renounce it; but while, from pure motives of public utility, I was doing violence to my feelings, I was al- ways determined if there should ever happen a breach between us, never to consent to an ac- commodation. I was persuaded that when once that nice barrier, which marked the boundaries of what we owed to each other, should be thrown down, it might be propped again, but could never be restored.
The General is a very honest man. His com- petitors have slender abilities and less integrity His popularity has often been essential to the safety of America, and is still of importance to it. These considerations have influenced my past conduct respecting liim, and will influence my future. I think it is necessary he should be supported.
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His estimation in your mind, whatever may on principles, which a circumstance like this cannot materially affect; but if I thought it could diminish your friendship for him, I should almost forego the motives that urge me to justify myself to you. I wish what I have said, to make no other impression than to satisfy you I have not been in the wrong. It is also said in confidence, as a public knowledge of the breach would, in many ways, have an ill effect. It will probably be the policy of both sides to con- ceal it, and cover the seperation with some plau- sible pretext. I am importuned by such of my friends as are privy to the affair to listen to a re- conciliation; but my resolution is unalterable.
Very sincerely and affectionately,
I am, dear sir,
Your most obedient servant,
A. HAMILTON.
Our Country One Hundred Years ago,
I resume my extracts from Franklin's Penn- sylvania Gazette of 1744-5:
"Just imported from Bristol in the ship Catha- rine. A parcel of likely men servants, to be sold by Edward and James Shippen."
"For sale; a billiard table. Enquire on Sam- uel Hastings, on Front street; In Quaker Phila- delphia !! "
" Whereas I, the subscriber, living on Straw- berry Alley, intend (God willing) to begin the German evening school, at the beginning of Oc- tober, next ensuing,all persons inclining to learn the above language are hereby invited ,and they ahall be duly attended and instructed after the shortest and easiest method. J. Shippey. N. B. Book-binding of all sorts is done in the best manner and at a most reasonable rate, at the above place."
Literature of the age. "Lately published at Boston, and to be sold by B. Franklin, in Phila- delphia, price one shilling, the American Maga- zine, containing,
Motion inseparable from matter, with the moral improvement.
Man's life a continued round of hurry and amusement.
A remarkable instance of true friendship.
The blessings of plenty.
The art of not thinking ; a satire.
An essay on the wisdom of Providence, &c.', Very different aubjects from those that fill Go- dey, or Graham, or the Democratic Review of the present day .
"Notice is hereby given that plumbing, gla- zing and painting is to be performed in the cheapest and best manner by Eden Haydock, late from old England, at Paul Chanders' on Second street."
"New York lottery tickets sold by B. Frank-
be its amount, I am persuaded has been formed |lin ; price 30 shillings each."
"To be sold at auction. At the widow Jones' coffee house, on Water street, on Monday, the 26th inst., two thirty-thirds of the privateer ship, MARLBOROUGH, now on her cruise, and of four negroes on board, belonging to her own- ers, with the benefit of her cruise from this term. One thirty-third to be set up at a time.
"Twenty pistoles reward. Dropt yesterday afternoon, between Philadelphia and Frankford, a small oznabrig bag, containing two hundred and ninety-five pistoles and one moidore."
The pistole, at that period, was as regularly the coin of value, in advertisements, as the dol- lar appears now.
"To be sold by Nathaniel Allen, cooper in Philadelphia, choice beef and pork, in barrels.
White slavery. "Sundry young men and lads, servants -lately imported from England-to be disposed of by Wm. Attwood, on reasonable terms."
"Just published and to be sold By the printer hereof, a journal of the proceedings of the detec- tion of the conspiracy formed by some white people, in connection with negro and other slaves for burning the city of New York, in America, and murdering the inhabitants: which conspi- racy was partly put in execution by burning his Majesty's house in Fort George, within the said city, on Wednesday, the 18th of March, 1741, and setting fire to several dwellings, and other houses therein, within a few days succeeding .- And by another attempt made, in prosecution of the same infernal scheme, by putting fire between two other dwelling houses in the same city, on the 15th day of February, 1741, which was ac- cidentally discovered and extinguished. Con- taining a narrative of the trials, condemnation, execution, and behaviour of the several crimi- nals, at the gallows and stake, with their several speeches and confessions.
By the Recorder of the city of New York. The stake! Were any of them burned?
"To be sold by John Ord, at his shop, at the corner of Gray's Alley, on Front street in the house where John Armit lived, a neat assort- ment of Irish linens. Stint ware by the crate, &c." Quere? Crockery ware.
"To be sold; a likely mulatto boy who has had the measles and small pox. Enquire at the Post Office."
"Very good English window sash, 8 by 10, to be sold cheap, by James Claypoole, on Walnut street, Philadelphia." It seems by this adver- tisement, that in Philadelphia, aixty- four years after its being built, and within twenty-five years of the breaking out of the revolutionary war, even window-aashes were imported from England. How much more dependent were the
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colonies for articles which required machinery [ original position in advance of New York. The for their manufacture.
"Stationery of all sorts to be sold at the Post Office."
I notice that from the 1st January to the 22d March, Franklin dates the year 1745-6-after which 1746. Twelve advertisements fill up that department in the Gazette. Three new ones on an average per week; and this for the only pa- per south of Boston, on the whole continent,and North, were assuming aconsequence from the in a city 64 years old and now numbering 300,- 000 inhabitants !!
Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York.
The late Presidential vote in these three States after having served political purposes becomes deeply interesting as statistical data. That vote serves to shew that Pennsylvania is maintain- ing the movement by which. at the last census, she had been threatening New York with re- gaining her original political ascendancy in the National scale.
The following table points out the relative progress from census to census of two of these States.
N. York. Increase. Penn.
Increase.
1790
340,000 434,000
1800
586,000 72 pr. ct. 602,000
38 pr. ct.
1810 959,000 62 810,000 34
1820 1,372,000 43 ‘ 1,049,000 29
1830 1,918,000 40 .. 1,340,000 28 66
1840 2,428,000 26 = 1,274,000 28
Let me place the subject in another light. The growth of Pennsylvania from 1820 to 1830, was 290,000; whereas from 1830 to 1840 it was 376,000, showing the difference in the increase of two decades of 77,000. Whereas New York fell off, during the same period, from 546,000, to 540,000.
It may appear strange that New York, after gaining on Pennsylvania, for forty years, in the great race for power and political consequence, should now, without any apparent reason for the change, be found falling behind her. I suppose the following explanatory statement may suf- fice.
The agricultural interest is that which is first developed in every settlement,and it is only when that is fully brought out, that the manufacturing and mining interesta become properly attended to; new markets are then opened for the prod- ucts of the soil in the feeding of these later interests, and increased production ia stimulated by higher rates for produce. The greater extent of tillable land gave New York early an advan- tage which has resulted in the prodigious strides she has been making from 1790 to 1830, about which period, the mining and manufacturing re- sources of Pennsylvania began to manifeat them- selves, and create a re-action in growth and pro- grens, which promises to restore that State to its
same state of things occurred in England in the course of the last twenty years, and aided effi- ciently in the overthrow of the rotten borough system. In the readjustment of the representa- tion in Parliament, it was discovered, that the agricultural interest in the South had lost its former relative importance, and the manufactu- ring and still more the mining interests in the
increase of population there, which no one was prepared to expect.
I deem this view of the tendency of things of vast importance in its application to our own State. The mineral wealth of Ohio. in iron, coal, and salt especially, is of vast, and as yet comparatively unknown and undeveloped ex- tent. I shall take up this subject shortly in a seperate article.
The late returns confirm all my calculations, for censuses future as regards these three States, which I made in 1840. Ishall close this article by republishing my views, at that date.
Ohio. Pennsylvania.
N. York.
1840 1,519,000.
1,724,033. 2,428,921.
1844 1,734,458.
1,985,033. 2,611,342.
1850 2,250,000. 2,150,000.
2,950,000.
66 1860 3,100,000. 2,600,000. 3,450,000.
66 1870 3,900,000.
3,100,000. 3,900,000.
The statements for 1844 are founded on the late Presidential vote. The estimates for 1850, are those proportions carried out to that date, and the later calculations have resulted from following out the probable progress of each State at those respective dates.
An American Church at the Giant's Causeway.
Many of my readers will remember the Rev. Jonathan Simpson, who visited Cincinnati not many months ago, in the prosecution of his ef- fort to gather, throughout the United States, among emigrants from the north of Ireland, es- pecially, the means of erecting a Presbyterian house of worship, at Port Rush, in the immedi- ate vicinity of the Giant's Causeway. That building has been finished and was opened for religious exercises on the 29th September last.
There are some facts connected with this case which render it remarkable. The church has been built by the contributions of Irishmen dwelling in New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Albany, Pittsburgh , Cincinnati, Louisville, Nashville, Charleston, S. C., and Easton, Penn- sylvania, sixty pounds only being raised in the neighborhood of Port Rush.
It is intended to record those benefactions on a marble tablet, opposite the outer door on the inner gable, as a monument of gratitude for what Trans-atlantic Christians have done for
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their weak congregation; "beloved for their fa- thers' sakes."
The pulpit or desk, it is stated, has been con- structed in the American fashion, and though much of a novelty, is well liked by all who see it.
The entire contributions in the United States were 5465 dollars. Of this New York gave 1038, Albany 250, Philadelphia 900, Easton 40, Baltimore 980, Pittsburgh 615, Cincinnati 350, Louisville 292, Nashville 189, Charleston 245.
Third Ward -- Cincinnati.
In the enumeration of buildings in this ward, I find there are 1162 dwelling houses, workshops,public stables, store houses, mills and offices. Of these 720 are of brick, 2 are of stone, and 434 are frames. Besides these there are six public buildings. The Botanico Medical Col- lege, and Bethel Chapel, the city water works, an engine house, and two public school houses.
Of these buildings there were at the close of 1842:
Stone 2
Bricks 585
Frames 345
Tolal 932
Built in 1843 0
69
46
44
..
113
Built in 1844.0
71
46
117
Total
2
725
436
1162
There seems to be little increase in build- ing this year over the last so far as numbers are concerned. But some of the buildings in this ward erected in 1844 are immense piles of ma- sonry in extent. Such are the new buildings of Messrs. Harkness, Griffey &c., which not only cover a great space of ground, but are 5, 6, and 7 stories high. And the quality and size of the dwellings are improving year after year, in this as well as in other parts of Cincinnati. Four- fifths of this ward is built up to its utmost capa- city.
The third ward is the great hive of Cincinnati industry, especially in the manufacturing line. Planeing machines, iron foundries, breweries, saw mills, rolling mills, finishing shops, bell and brass foundries, boiler yards, boat building, ma- chine shops, &c. constitute an extensive share of its business.
Fourth Ward -- Cincinnati.
This is one of the oldest sections of the city, and embraces a large share of the heavy busi- ness of the city, within its limits. My enumer- ation of its buildings is as follows: Public buil- dings, 4; dwelling houses, offices, work-shops, and store-houses, 1,207. Of these 4 are built of stone, 652 of brick and 551 are frames. Of these buildings there were at the close of the year 1842,
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