The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1845-01-02
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ANIGHT AT THE MOUTH or THE OHIO.
A TALE OF WESTERN voYAo,No.

BY J. w, Ingraham, author Of "Laftte," ft.
a few years since was on my way TO 81. Louis, and
took passage al Cincinnati, on board the Steamer Chief
Justice Marshall, which was boGbdto New Orleans,
hut from which was TO disembak at the mouth OF tn
Ohio. there toNgat for some New Orleans boat going
+, upto kemetoimy destination. Our travelling party
conssedo three ladies' mother and two lovely daugh
.ers,-deep in their teens and young gentleman and
bis bride from Louisiana with her brother just from
College. The boat was large and comfortable spa
cions slate room offered us all The retirement oi pr
vate apartment in dwelling ..
TWAS brigh, morning in October when we goi un-
der way from the landing and bending our course
down the river, left the queen city receding in the
dstance,The prospecl from III, decks as we swep,
round the noble curve which forms the peninsula
df laiSgreat metropolis was unequalled for beauty and
variety, 70 the eye OF The voyager, who gazes on
the city and its opposite suburban Shore the rer seems
to flow hfoogha valley peopltd for centuries, rather
than region but fifty years ago desoate wilderness
Crowded population, laste wealth, and high degree
Of agriculture on the banks, all indicate the home of
long settled people, instead the ehigraat of yesterday
Astonished at what he 5ehods, the travellers mind is
overpowered at the coniemb bation of the future destiny
Of land This feeling is nor only awakened by the
sight OF Cincinnati and its fleets of steamers, bat it is
kept alive as he proceeds down the winding and ro-
mantle river On either bank noble farms descend with
their waving fields 10 touch the lip ofthe laughing
wave, and at short ihstvaIsthrving villages meet his
never wearying sight. Unlike the nonotony Of The
Mississippi the Ohio presents objects Of interest,
Tie voyager OF taste is upon deck as he is borne
through the picturesque regions and exclamations OF
suprseare exhausted only 10 lie repeated and renewed
sgain and again. ...,
The next morning morning sfSer qaiiing Cincinnati
We reached Louisville IFS hUes we approached pre-
senhg scarcely less business iie air than that OF her
rival city,. Situated jnsl above above the "Falls" il
wasihen the head ofa large boat navigation. But, a
deep canal has since heD been constructed around the
falls nearywo miles in lsusRh, bs which steamers Ia
den in New Orleans can pass through without as here
ofore being detained and transferring their freight by
dsays 10 smaller boats ABOVE The falls and pursue lhei
way to Cinennatior Pillsburg. The river being now
unusually high the rocks Of The rapids were uearyco
vered, and with skul piiotage they might yepured
Alter an hours delay at The landing we shot out into
the middle oil be stream aud sci The boats head TO de-
sCend the rapids As we approached them with the We
locity Of an arrow, there was not a word spoken OF
board save by the Pilot, who stood forward, giving bre
orders 10 the hemsman BackArocss appeared on ev
cry side-+Ihe rapids oarrd and foamed before US, seem
irgty in our very path tut onward We went with IRE
,jsabe power the vast steamer rolling 10 and flo lik
drunken But we pssspd them safely, The captain haV
ipgrsked his boal and cargo and put in Jeopardy 81
own life and those Of all on board. But human life
Of so little value in the West, where there s 50 wuc
" II floating about udne knowing whence or whi'hel
Amsng ouppassengers wetel%o, alher and d5u2h