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The public buildings in the Fourth Ward are
| the Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Company ;- Third Presbyterian Church, one of the Public School houses; and an Engine House.
The Fourth Ward has been for years in a state of suspended animation, and with little signs of improvement. Second, or Columbia street, was left, for a long period, at a grade which shut out the improvement its contingui- ty to the business region of Cincinnati, should have located within its limits. In addition to this, the great flood of 1832, laid it under wa- ter to such a depth, that steamboats actually passed down some of its streets, and its western borders were overflowed from eight to twelve feet. This calamity drove the dwelling-house building, especially the elegant and spacious portion of it to the hill. and left the river region in a languishing state, until within the past year, or within eighteen months, by which time the absolute want of room elsewhere, for busi- ness purposes, and the increasing trade of Cin- cinnati, gave an impulse to warehouse building in the eastern and southern parts of the Ward, which is filling them up with many and exten- sive improvements, in. blocks as well as single houses. Such store houses as the block of Geo. H. Bates & Co., at the corner of Walnut and Front streets; Stephen J. Wade's block, at the south west corner of Front and Walnut, and John H. Groesbeck's, at north west corner of the same ; two fine buildings at the corner of Walnut and Second; Wm. C. Stewart & Co's block on Second street, between Main and Walnut street, and a few other single buil- dings, are of a character for strength, spacious- ness and convenience, for which we have hith- erto had few or no parallels. These are all built with substantial door posts, and lintels, faced in every direction with cast iron, hand- somely ornamented, which give a beautiful fin- ish to the wide doorways they protect. A new and capacious foundry, of Messrs. Goodhue & Co, on Elm street, adds to the valuable erections in the Fourth Ward. Such, in fact is the charac- ter and extent of the last eighteen months im- provements, as to constitute a value of buildings here much greater than the previous erections for fifteen years, and, if we except the Pearl street buildings, for twenty. The necessary con- sequence of any given improvement is, that it begets neighboring ones, and I have no doubt that Front and Second streets, west of Walnut, now present opportunities for a profitable in- vestment of funds, beyond almost any other re- gion in the city. And I so judge because the heavy business of Cincinnati must extend be- yond its present limits, and it has no other di- rection to spread out in than the region I refer to. Connected with the improvements already made and preparing the way for more, Second
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street west has been filled up ten to twelve feet, admirably graded, and now forms a direct cen- nection with the White Water Canal basin, much of the produce landed at which, must, for a few year, be drayed up by this avenue, to the business regions of the Third and Fourth Wards.
A Panther Hunt In Pennsylvania.
Conrad Seck was one of the old settlers ef the north branch of Susquehannah, in one of its wildest sections,and in his time has killed more panthers and bears than usually falls to the lot even of pioneers. The following is an account of one of his panther hunts taken down frem his own lips:
The settlement on the mountain here is very scattered, and there are no inhabitants for a con- siderable distance back frem the road. I heard that a person had been hunting, and said that he had seen three panthers; upon which I called on him, and he told me, that at a certain place, on Spring Brook, about ten miles from this, he had came across three panthers, and had tried to fire at them, but could net get his gun to go off. I thought the fellew was a coward, that only part of his story was true, and that he had been afraid to fire at them; but as Iknew exact- ly the place which he described (for I had been frequently there on hunting excursions) I tho't I would go and see whether there had been any panthers there. So, I started off next mor- ning with my dog. You know what a terrible thicket ef laurel,and spruce, and hemlock there is about here; well, it is as bad all the way to the place where the fellow said he saw the pan- thers. At last, however, I get to it, and sure eneugh the panthers had been there. There was a little snew upen the greund, and I found where they had killed a deer, and eaten part of it; but I knew that after I had been at the place they would not go back to it again; for a pan- ther will never touch his game a secend time, if anything else has been at it. So, I marked which way they went, as it was two days since they had been there, and I did not know how long I might be in the woods in chase of them, I thought it would be best to go home, and get a supply of previsions for a good long hunt, and then take a fresh start. But it was almost night; I struck a fire, and laid down till morning. As soon as it was light, I started off, taking my back track, to go home, and get about half way, when, behold! I came right to the pan- thers' tracks! They had crossed the path I had made in the snew, the day before. I knew they liad crossed in the day time, for it had been warm and the snow had melted a little, and I could easily tell that they had crossed my path before night. So, I started on the track and fol- lowed till almost evening, when I saw a light place in the woods, and going into it, I found I was on a road about three miles from heme. I then concluded it would be the best way for me to go home that night, and get my knapsack of provisions as I had intended ; for I did net knew but what the devils might keep me running af- ter them a whole week ; and I was determined, if I ence started them, te give them no time to rest or kill game, as long as I could see to fol. low them, let them go where they would; and sometimes they lead one an infernal long chasc.
Se, home I went, filled my knapsack with pro- visions, and started out with that dog, that is ly- ing by the stove there-not the white one -- the spotted one. He is a good fellow for a panther, and likes hunting as well as I de! Well, as I said, as soon as it was daylight next morning, out I went, and got on the track again where I had left it the evening before, and followed it all day long, up one valley and down another. over hills and through laurel swamps, till just before sunset, when I came on a fine buck which the panthers had killed and partly eaten, and which was still warm. They had killed him where he lay. He had never got up. He had been lying behind a large hemlock tree, which was blown down; and it appeared by the marks in the snow ; as if they had smelt him, crawled up close to him, jumped over the tree, and seiz- ed him in his bed. They always take their game by surprise. They never make more than two or three jumps after it; if it then escapes, they turn off another way. They had eaten as much as they wished of the buck, and after getting their bellies full, they appeared to have been in a very good humor: for their marks shewed where they had played about, and had jumped up and down all the small trees around. They did not know who was after them. I had not expected to come en them so soen, and had pushed ahead without any caution, se that they had heard my approach, and I soon feund, by the appearance of things, that they must have started away just as I came up; for instead of keeping together as they had done all day be- fore, they had set off in different directions. I thought it was sunset, and that I had better en- camp where I was; for they weuld hardly come: back in the night 10 claim their buck ; but first, I thought I would look a little more around, to see which track it would be best to fellow in the morning ; and so just went a little way into the swamp, which was close by me, when, on- ly think ! one of the curses had been watching all the time, and I heard him start within ten reds of me! but the laurel was so thick that I could not see him, As soon as he started, away went the dog after him, full yelp. Well, I stood still, and there was a glorious threshing among the laurels; when all at once I heard the panther take up a tree. I heard his nails strike the bark the first dash he made. It was a beau- tiful still evening; and I said to myself: I have one of you anyway; and I ran as hard as I could through the thicket, tumbling over legs, and scrambling through the laurels, until I came to where Toby was, barking and jumping, and shaking his tail, and looking mightily tlekled, at having got one of them up the tree. Well, I soon saw the panther lying at his full length on a limb-it was on a very large hemlock. I did not know well what to do: for it was now so late that I could scarcely see the foresight of my ri- file, and I could not sce the notch of the hind- sight at all ; but as I knew my gun, I thought I had better venture a shot, rather than keep watch at the tree all night; and so I drew up,and took the best aim I could and fired away. Well the devilish rascals never stirred. I said to my- self, 1 am sure I can't have missed you. In a short time I saw a motion in his tail, which hung ever the limb on which he lay, and directly after I could hear his nails gritting on the bark, and I saw his body begin to slide reund the limb till at last he slung fairly under it, suspended by his claws, and in a minute after he let go his hold and down he came, souse! so nearly dead that.
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when I ran to keep Toby from taking hold of him (for they sre devilish thing to fight and can tear a dog to pieces in no time)I found him un- able to stretch out a claw. I knew that I could find the place again, and so I just let him lay where he fell, and I went back to the buck, and made a good fire and layed down there till mor- ning. But first I cut some good slices off the buck and roasted them for supper. He was a fine fat fellow and killed as nicely as a butcher could have killed him. I don't like to eat part of a deer which has been killed by the wolves -but a panther is a different thing.
Well, the next morning I started bright and early and I soon came on the tracks of the other two panthers. It appeared as if they had been tracing about separately, and had kept around the swamp nearly all night; but at last they got together and started off. As soon as I got on the track I followed it briskly, till about noon, when I started them afresh, and letting out Toby they and he, and I, all ran as fast as we could; but they got about a quarter of a mile ahead of me, when dash ! one of them took upa tree ;- which I soon knew by the manner of the dog's barking. Oh! said I, I've got another one !-- When I came up to the dog, there, sure enough, was a panther up a tree, shaking his tail and looking just like a cat when she is about to jump on a mouse; but, says I, my fine fellow, I'll soon put a stop to your jumping. So I ups with my rifle, and down he came, ss dcad as if he had never been alive. Well! I skinned him and fastened his skin to my knapsack, and away I started after the other one
The last fellow did not like to travel without his companions. I suppose he wondered what had become of them. He kept dodging about, first one way, then another, as if he expected them to come up with him; but he had another kind of companion hunting for him. Well, as I said, after I skinned the second one, I started after the third, and in about two hours I roused him from behind a log, and Toby and he had a fine run for about ten minutes. I stood still ; for I thought maybe the panther would take a cir- cuit to hunt for the other ones, and-so he did; but the dog was so close to him, he thought it best to tree ; in order, I suppose, to see who, and how many were after him. As soon as I knew, by the barking, he had treed, away I ran, and soon got on the track. I took notice of it on a leaning tree, which I ran past, to the dog, who was about ten rods farther, looking up at a large hemlock, and making a great racket. I looked up : but I could see no panther. I went off a little where I could see every limb; but the dev- il a panther was there. Why, said I, this can be no ghost, to vattish in this way ; he must be on some of these trees; but let us go where I last saw the track. So I went back to the leaning tree, where I had last seen the track. It was a pretty Isrge hemlock, which had fallen against another; and looking up, there I saw the fellow sure enough , crouching right in the crotch, whero the leaning tree lay across the other, close down, so hidden by the limbs and green leaves of the hemlock, that I could see only a small part of his body. In running to the dog, I had gone right under him. Although I could seo but little of him from the place where I stood, yet as 1 was sure that what I saw was his shoulders, I did not wait to see any more of him, but I took a fair sight and drew my trigger. Well: he did not budge! I looked at him for some time, but he did not stir. I was sure I had shot him thro'
-- I thought it a pity to waste any more lead on him. His tail hung over the crotch 'of the large tree, and there was a smaller tree which grew up close to the croteli, and I thought I could climb up the little tree, so as to catch his tail and see whether he was dead or no; but just as I was a- bout half up, I saw his tail begin to move, and before I could get to the ground, his head, and foreparts slid over the crotch, and down he came as dead as a door-nail. So I skinned him, and went back to the one I killed first, and skinned him, and got home that night. And I sent word to the fellow who saw them by the Spring Brook, that if he would come to me I would shew him the skins of his three panthers." P.
A Hint.
At some places I visit, the dogs, who are among the most insignificant of their species, fly at me on my approach, making such a bark- ing, that I can neither hear those I call upon, nor they me. While thus annoyed, I feel dis- posed to kick, when the owner, mistaking the feeling of vexation for that of fear, interposes.
" Oh, don't be afraid-he won't hite you, sir " -- It is unpleasant to be worried with the barking of such apologies for dogs, but it is distressing to be supposed apprehensive of their bite.
What an illustration is this of some human be- ings with whom we come, at times, in contact!
MARRIED,
At Greendale, on the 26th inst, by the Rev. T.O. Prest- cott, J. FORD DESILVER to LAVINIA M. GEIGER, daughter of the Rev. M. M. Carli, of Philadelphia.
On Thursday evening. Nov. 28th, by Elder Wm. P. Stratton, Mr. JOHN DUNSETH to Miss MARY HAT, all of his city.
On Thursday morning, 28th Nov., by Rev. Mr. Prest- ley, Mr. THOMAS H. MINOR, to Miss REBECCA, daughter of James R. Baldridge, Esq., all of this city.
On Thursday evening. Nov, 28th, by the Rev: Mr. Cleaveland, EDWARD R. TILLOTSON TO AUGUSTA, dangh- ter of Stephen Schooley, Esq.
On Thursday, the 28th, by Elder James Challen, JAMES L. BRINDLE to Miss MARION BROWN.
On Thursday morning. Nov. 28th. by the Rev. N. L .. Rice, Mr. JOHN S. STANSBURY to Miss CAROLINE E. BURCHI.
On Thursday, the 28th inst, by the Rev. E. T. Colline, Dr. JOHN C. MAGGINI, of Fayetteville, Brown county, Ohio, to MARY ANN, daughter of Capt. P. McCloskey of this city.
On Sunday afternoon; Dec. Ist, hy Elder Wm. P. Strat- ton, Mr. JOHN SWEAT to Miss MATILDA MOORE, all of this city
DIED,
On Monday, Nov. 25th, MARIANA MARGARET, eldest child of Alexander and Jane Anne Johnston-aged 3 years and 3 months.
On Saturday, Nov. 30th, 1844, Mrs. JULIA ANN ROLL, aged 25 years, wife of Edward C. Roll.
On Saturday morning, HARRIET, youngest daughter of Samuel N. and Ellen Ruffin, aged 3 years and 9 months.
On Sabbath morning. of Chronic disease of the heart, ANNE, wife of John W. Hartwell.
On Monday evening, the Sd inst .. in the 77th year of his age, MOSES DAWSON, Esq., many years a resident of this city, and editor of the Cincinnati Advertiser. MI. D. was a native of Ireland and an associate of Dr. Dreit- nan and others. in their gallant but unsuccessful efforte to give Ireland her place among the nations of the earth.
FUNERAL NOTICE.
The Funeral of Moses Dawson, Esq., will take place this day, Wednesday, December 4th, at 2 o'clock, P. M. from the residence of his son, Mr Thomas Dawson, on Thirdstreet. between Walnut and Vine.
The friends of the family are requested to attend with out further notice.
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Churches, and Religious Societies in Cin- cinnati.
Roman Catholic. St. Peter's Cathedral, Syca- more between 5th and 6th,; officiating clergy, Very Rev. E. T. Collins, Rev. E. Purcell and J. B. Wood. Holy Trinity church, 5th, between Smith and Park streets; Rev. Francis L. Huber and William Unterthiner. St. Mary's church, corner of Clay and 13th streets; Rev. Joseph Ferneding, Clement Hammer and Andrew Tusch. Cincinnati is an episcopate of this church. Rt. Rev. J. B. Purcell, Bishop of the Diocese.
Protestant Episcopal. Christ church, 4th be- tween Sycamore and Broadway; Rev. J. T. Brooke, Rector. St. Paul's church, 4th between Main and Walnut; Rectorship vacant. Grace church, 7th, between Plum and Western Row; Rev . Richard S. Killin Rector. Trinity church, officiating minister, Rev. Ethan Allen.
Presbyterian-Old School. First; Main be- tween 4th and 5th ; J. L. Wilson, D. D., Rev. S. R. Wilson. Fourth; High street, near'Corpora- tion line, vacant. Fifth; corner 7th and Elm, Rev. D. K. McDonald. Central; corner 4th and Plum ; Rev. N. L. Rice, pastors.
Presbyterian-New School. Second; Fourth, between Vine and Race ; John P. Cleaveland, D. D. Third; Second street, between Walnut and Vine; Rev. Thornton A. Mills. Sixth; Sixth, between Main and Walnut, anti-slavery; Rev. Jonathan Blanchard. Tabernacle ; Betts between John and Cutter streets; Rev. John C. White,. pastors. George Street; At Engine House, Geo. street ; Lyman Beecher, D. D., temporary sup. ply.
Reformed Presbyterian. George between Race and Elm streets; Rev. William Wilson, pastor,
Associate Reformed Presbyterian; Sixth be- 4 tween Race and Elm; Rev. James Prestley. pas- tor.
Baptist. Ninth St. church; Elder S. W Lynd, pastor. First Baptist ; corner 9th and Elm ; Elder T. R. Cressey, pastor . College street church ; College street, between 6th and 7th; Elder W. H. Brisbane, pastor. Pearson Street church; Pearson, between 5thand 6th; Elder Lewis French, pastor.
African Union -- Baptist ; Baker, between Wal- nut and Vine; Elder Charles Satchell, paster.
Zion-Baptist; Third, between Race and Elm; Elder Wm. Shelton, pastor.
These are regular Baptists. The second in or- der, is on an abolition basis. The two last are congregations of colored people.
Baptist Christian Disciples. Sycamore be- tween 5th and 6th strects; Elder David S. Burnet, preacher. Sixth, between Smith and Mound, Elders B. S. Lawson, M. D., Wm. P. Stratton and George Tait, preachers, Engine
House, Vine, between Front and Second streets; Elder James Challen, Preacher, Jefferson Hall church, Vine between Court and Canal; Elder Jasper J, Moss, preacher.
Episcopal Methodist, Wesley Chapel, Fifth street, between Sycamore and Broadway; Rev. John F. Wright. Morris Chapel, Western Rew, between Fourth and Fifth; Rev. Geo. W. Walk- er.
Ninth Street Chapel, Ninth street, be- tween Race and Elm streets, Rev. Wm. P. Strickland. . Asbury chapel, Webster, between Main and Sycamore; Rev. Asbury Lowry .- German Mission chapel, Race, between Thir- teenth and Fourteenth streets, Rev. Wm. Ah- rens. City Mission, Rev. George W. Maley .- African New Street-colored-New east of Broad- way ; Rev. J. Reynolds, preacher in charge.
Methodist Protestant Churches, south side of Sixth, between Vine and Race streets, and Elm near Northern Row; Rev. James E. Wilson, and Oliver H. Stevens, ministers.
New Wesleyan; Ninth, between Main and Walnut; Rev. Hiram S. Gilmore, J. W. Walk- er, and Silas H. Chase, preachers. African. corner of Harrison and Pike, Rev. Smith Cle- ments. Bethel African Methodist, Sixth, east of Broadway; Rev, M. M. Clarke, preacher.
Friends'Meeting Houses. Fifth between Wes- tern Row and John.
New Jerusalem Temple, Longworth, between Race and Elm streets ; Rev. T. O. Prescott, min- ister.
First Congregational -- Unitarian-south-west corner of Race and Fourth streets. Rev. James H. Perkins, minister.
Universalist church. Walnut, between Third and Fourth streets, Rev. Abel C. Thomas, Min- ister. First Restorationist church; Race, be- tween Fifth and Sixth streets; Rev. Daniel Par- ker, minister.
German Lutheran churches, Zion, Bremen, between Fifteenth and Northern Row. Rev. J E. W. Braasch. St. John, Sixth between Wal- nut and Vine streets; Rev. Augustus Kroell .- Northern, Walnut, between Eighth and Ninth streets; Rev. A. W. Suhr, English Lutheran, Fourth, between Main and Sycamore streets; Rev. Abraham Reck. German Reformed church- es, north west corner Walnut and Thirteenth sts., Rev. J. Becher ; Elm street, opposite Orphan Asylum; Rev. F. M. Raschig; Vine, between Fourth and Fifth streets, Rev. Philip Hauser. ministers.
These are all German Protestant churches, Mr. Reck's congregation, with services in the English language.
Second Advent Tabernacle, corner John and Seventhi streets, Elders J. Jacobs, and Ilenry A. Crittenden, ministers.
United Brethren in Christ; corner of Fulton
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and Catharino streets; Rev. Franeis J. Whit- comb, minister. Welsh Calvinistic Methodist church, north side of Harrison street: Rev. Ed- ward Jones, pastor.
Welsh Congregational, corner of Lawrence and Symmes: Rev. John Jones, pastor.
The services of these churches are in Welsh
Jewish Synagogues. Kal a Kodesh Beni Isroel. Broadway , between Harrison and Sixth, Jo- seph Jonas, parnas; corner Walnut and Sixth; A. Fechheimer, parnas.
Bethel Chapel, Front, between Main and Syc- amore.
Mormon church, Andrew L. Lamoureaux priest.
Christian church, Fourth, between Stone and Wood; vacant.
There are then, it seems, sixty-one churches, with their appropriate edifices, or places of wor- ship, in Cincinnati. I have no means of compa- ring our religious privileges with any other city in the United States than N. York, which had at the latest computation, 190 churches, and Wash- ington city, 25. The number of churches is however, no fair eriterion of the state of morals and religion to any given community , for New York has but one church for 2.000 of her popu- ยท lation, while Washington ha one for every 1000 of hers; yet there can be no doubt that Washington is much lower in the scale of mor- als and religious observances than New York .- Indeed, I conceive it, during the session of Con- giess, one of the most immoral communities in our whole country.
The First step to Office.
In new settlements a start is usually given to public men, by electing them to some office in the militia, or to that of a justice of the peace. The following document serves to show how the people of Ohio, before they possessed any polit- ical existence, obtained their loeal magistrates. It will be seen by this memorial that Gov. Mor- row has been in office more than forty five years. He has been a member of the Territorial Legis- lature, of the Assembly and Senate under the State organization, a representative to Congress, and member from Ohio of the Senate of the Uni- ted States, and Governor of the State. He has repeatedly been chosen elector of President heading the ticket for that purpose.
To the Governor of the N. W. Territory of the U. States.
The Petition of a number of inhabitants of the third entire range of the Miami purchase, near the Little Miami, humbly sheweth that there has not yet been any person commission- ed aa a Justiec of the Peace in this neighborhood. Your petitioners consider themselves as laboring under some inconveniencies on that account, and
being met on this 30th day of August (for ap- pointing and recommending military officers) -- judged it proper to recommend a suitable per- son to the Governor for Justice of the Peace,- They were encouraged therein by the Governor in many instances, indulging the people with the privilege of appointing by sufferage for of fice. They therefore unanimously elected Jer- emiah Morrow to recommend to the Governor, as a person suitable, and well qualified for the office of Justice of the Peace; and we, your pe- titioners pray that the Governor would grant him a commission as soon as convenient, if in your wisdom it may be proper-and your peti- tioners as in duty bound will ever pray.
August 31st, 1799.
CERTIFIED BY THE JUDGES OF ELECTION,
Alexander Kirkpatrick,
Jas. McClellan.
SUBSCRIBER'S NAMES.
Jas. Martin, Jno. Lewart,
Sam'l. Erwin, Jno. Linky,
Uzal Bates,
Thos. Espy,
Jno. Meeker, Isaac Shields,
Jno. Patterson,
David Espy,
Jas. Keen, Wm. Keefe,
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