New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-06-18

c;,c;pp.ti in consequence caused the smigrants
"a settle there. Symmes is not dova on tho mAps
now; Columbis is q mere v.iisge, and Cincinnati
ia the Queen City Of me West These facts
clean from the entertaining book of the late Judge
Burnet, Published BY tho Historical Society Oh
Ohio.
If we take this book as our guide-written BY
man who saw Cincinnati as early as l796-we
,ball see q marvellous growth. In 1892, the hrst
meeting. house, log hut-was built by the Pres
byterians. AT the intersection Of Main and
"Fiftb-sts now the center of business and taste
:" full Improvement, there was pond Of water full
Of alderbusbes from which the frogs serenaded
/" the neichborhoOd during the Summer and Fall,
and which rendered it necessary to construct
"causeway of logs to pass it. The slope OF the
hill leading from the first bottom on the rver
to the second bottom on which the principal
part of the city lie built, was quilted by freshets
and looked to all Impractical eyes to be worth
less. know an early settler who once told me
that a part of that unpromising slope between
Main and Walnut and Third and Fourth-sts, was
once offered to him for some twelve hundred dol
lars. but be refused TO take it That tract is now
worth quarter or half million of dollars In
1895 Cincinnati was small village OF "a log,huts
10 framehouses, and 500 people. On the gth OF
November, 1898, the first newspaper In Cincih-
pati-tbe first north Of the Ohio-was pubhshed-
the beginning of newspaper. circulation in that
one State of half a million, and annual issue,
thirty and half millions of copies. In lol2 the
city contained 400 dwelling houses AID 81 stores.
At that time it's merchandise was brought IN Keel
boats from New-Orleans, and these boats were
pushed up with poles, or dragged with ropes oy
boatmen-a quick down-trip being TWENTY-FIVE
DAYS, ard fast trip up only si1ty-hye days In
1895 Cincinnati had 200 people; in 800 only 'o0;
n 1910, $500; in 1920, $500; in 1880, near 49,
600; in 1910, 10000; in ls47, 10000 and over.
and in 1850 49, 35 If we reckon Cincinnati
and its suburbs, there are no less than from lou
600 to 175;s00 people and yet, shame 70 them
not single park larger than sufficient Tor good
sized market-house in the whole city.
A few years have wrought surprising changes in
the city and its business. l remember the hrst
little locomotive which ran on the hatbar rail-
road, (the Little Miami X. r. which excited the
surprise of all but now at all times of day and
night YOU hear the scream of locomotives on the
roads which run to Dayton, Circleville, Column
bus, Hamilton, Indianapolis, st. Loais-sho' ing
what has been done. Already the city spreads
far up and down the Ohio and along Mill Creek,
and has climbed the beautiful hill-sdes toward
Walnut Hill, Mount Auburn and Brighton. All
these are part of the Queen City, which stands
as the marvel and pride of the West-the fair type
of that giant civilization which has swept on from
Marietta TO Independence within sixty.eight years
giving birth to States, calling into existence in
Vulnerable villages, towns and cities, and pro-
ducing o wealth which can be announced IN
census, and yet is too great to be appreciate