The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1850-07-09
LETTER FRoM THE JUNIOR.
CLEvEs. Ohio. July /. l85l

CEAh AoENlOh Ills COullII Ol dCCOuAb
Of the richness gifts soil, the beauty and sub y
Unity of its natural features, the extent and a
industry of its population, the thrift of It's
farms and villages, the number and worth Of
its public works, has no equal in the West
Nature has evidently here strewn her useful
gifts and ravishing beauties with a most
bounteous hand. In no country which have
yet seen are the valleys so rich and lovely,
the hills SO verdant and inviting the cliffs
and cavities so fearful and stupendous, the
streams so clear and gentle as here. In short
| believe there is no section of country where
a more pleasing exhibition of the loveIiness
of nature can be seen. Man, having been
cast in this Eden, has profted by the NUM-
icence scattered around him. and with an
active hand is rapidly developing the true
wealth of country, while he is gathering to
himself riches-the reward of his proper in
dustry. But - stick pin here.
This morning l stepped on board one of
the beautiful packets running the Cincinnati
and White water Canal, and passing the
great Tunnel through the North Bend hill,
l visited, among other things Of note, the
tomb and residence of the lamented Harr
son.
As one among the many great works of
art, rendering this part of Ohio profitably no
torous, may enumerate the Tunnel Of the
Cincinnati and White. water Canal, at North
Bend. Its length is 1860 feet or one third of
a mile its width, about twenty-five feet
The greatest height of the hill through which
it passes is about three hundred and fifty feet
above the level of the Ohio. Ofthe cost o.
: this work | can form no correct conclusion
= but am of opinion that nearly as great an
amount was expended in digging it as was
required to construct all the balance of the
canal. The arch is a semi-circle in shape.
and made Of limestone, brick and mortar
{ It's rather a frail affair, and in many places
already dangerously broken. The passage
is a dark, dismal and damp one, and filled
o with bats and other rarmiatS of hideous ap-
/ pearances and strange songs. In passing
o through it to-day, realized almost every
Is feeling but that of delight or pleasure
o There was nothing at all pleasing in the
u thought that was navigating the bowels o
"a the Earth, possibly to be crushed by slid.
10 of the immense hill above me and many
d passengers feeling the full terroFs of thu
3 thought, mechanically, found their way iron
the deck to the cabin, evidently belIevin!
their safety thus affected. The boat mad
" the passage through the Tunnel in the bre
space Of eight minutes from the time OF enter
. ing it.
Having terminated my subterranean trav
:. els, was soon thereafter seated on the tom
of the 9th President Of the United States
u the tomb of Gen. VIM. H. Harrison! 1t is
- rough affair-a vault, nine by twelve feet
- built ofbrick and whte-washed. The wall
are built up some two or three feet above tn
:, surface of the ground. A brick arch is tn
covering, over which droops mournfuIIy tn
long tall fresh grass. And in this rude char
> mel house are the bones Of the late Gen. Har
rison! Shame upon the country! TIL
:, mound upon which this tomb is situated
~, one of the most lovely and picturesque
ever saw. Near its base on the South sid
murmur the passing waters OF the Ohio
- gradually rising from Its feet on the Yves
una 4NcitH dlC VIC Imposing HIlIS CduC'
/" Congress Green;" a few hundred yard
IL Eastward is the deceased'g last place of resi-
le dence, and now the residence of his grieYe
~ widow.
~ A visiter at the grave of Harrison can lie
~ his eye follow the course of the beautiful
- Ohio for miles either East or West, and a
one glance he can behold that variety G
IL scenery for which this country alone is dis
oil tinguished But cannot thus dwell.
- On Congress Greer" is the tomb of tina
1T sterling old pioneer John C4eves Symmes.-
Resting on bricks around his grave is "a roug
storm beaten slab of free-stone, on which
chiselled the following short and simple ep
taph: Here rest the remains ofJohn Ceve
- Symmcs, who, at the foot Of there hills, mad
the first settlement between the Miami river;
Born on Long Island, State of New YorI
July 21st, A. d. I742; died at Cincinnati
= February goth, A. d. 1914" Such is tn
he tomb Of the immortal Symmes.
OF At the foot of the hills, and about on
- quarter Of mile distant from the tomb, ar
A. the remains-the Wondering walls of a ston
n cellar-oi the FIRST building of note erected o
n, that immense tract ofcountry lying betwee
:. the two Miamies, and known rs "Symmcs
,d purchase. u | am not advised of the exac
en- period of this buildings foundation but pre-
sumo it was a considerable len 9TH Of tim
he prior TO the landing of the detachment sen