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* This edifice, which stood in good preservation until taken down in the spring of 1847, was erected by subscription in 1792, to accommodate the little flock of a presbyterian clergyman (Rev. James Kemper), who, by invitation, emigrated thither from beyond the Kentucky river. When taken down, the timbers were found to be in a sound condition. It formed a strong contrast to the elegant church edifices which now ornament Cincinnati.

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but is in a confined situation. It is seventy-nine feet long, and sixtynine feet deep, exclusive of the portico. Several of the churches are fine specimens of architecture, and a number of the hotels are spacious and elegant. There are four markethouses, a bazar, a theatre, a college, an Athenæum, a medical college, a mechanics' institute, two museums, a lunatic asylum, a high-school, and a number of large and commodious houses for public schools. Within the last year eight hundred buildings have been erected, among which are many large warehouses and stores, and several beautiful churches.

Cincinnati college was founded in 1819, and had, in 1840, eight instructors, and eighty-four students. It has academical, medical, and law departments. The Medical college of Ohio has trustees appointed by the legislature every three years, and it has eight professors, and one hundred and thirty students. The College of Professional Teachers was formed in 1832, and has for its object the improvement of schools in the western country, and holds an annual meeting in October. The Mechanics' Institute is formed for the improvement of mechanics in scientific knowledge, by means of popular lectures and mutual instruction. It has a valuable philosophical apparatus, a respectable library, and a reading-room, much frequented by young men. The Cincinnati lyceum furnishes an instructive and fashionable place of resort to the citizens, by its popular lectures and debates through the winter season. It has a good library, and a reading-room. The Athenæum is a respectable literary institution, under the direction of the catholics, in which the mathematics, philosophy, and the classics, as well as the modern languages, are taught by competent professors. It had, in 1840, over seventy students, and a large and splendid edifice. The Lane seminary, at Walnut Hills, two miles from the city, had three professors, sixty-one students, and a library of ten thousand three hundred volumes. It has a literary as well as a theological department. Woodward high-school, named after its founder, gives education, in part gratuitously, to a large number of students. It has several instructors, and a large and commodious building. There were a large number of respectable private schools, and twenty public schools for males and females, in which were two thousand pupils. In 1847 there were seventy-six churches in Cincinnati, occupied by twenty-six different sects or denominations.

Cincinnati is an extensive manufacturing place. Its destitution of water-power has been extensively compensated by the employment of steam-mills. In 1840 there were forty-two foreign commercial and thirty-six commission-houses, with a capital of $5,200,000; one thousand and thirty-five retail stores, with a capital of $12,877,000; nineteen lumber-yards, capital $130,000; two hundred and forty-five persons

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were engaged in internal transportation, who, with seven hundred and ninety butchers, packers, &c., employed a capital of $4,071,930; fourteen furnaces, capital $478,000; value of machinery manufactured, $545,000; hardware, cutlery, &c., $289,000; precious metals, $48,000; various other metals, $713,000; four woollen-factories, capital $39,000; one cotton-factory, capital $6,000; tobacco manufactures, capital $61,000; thirteen tanneries, capital $156,000; manufactures of leather, as saddleries, &c., capital $552,000; two distilleries and six breweries, with a capital of $152,000; paints, drugs, &c., capital $26,000; four rope-walks, capital $34,000; carriages and wagons, capital $68,000; ten flouring-mills, eight sawmills, two oil-mills, total capital, $367,000; vessels built, value, $403,000; furniture amounted to $459,000; two hundred and sixty-four brick and stone, and seventy-four wooden houses built, cost $1,196,000; thirty-two printing-offices, thirteen binderies, capital, $266,000. There were seven daily papers, which were also issued weekly or tri-weekly; eight weekly papers, a large number of magazines, issued semi-monthly or monthly, and a number of religious magazines, published monthly. Total capital in manufactures, $7,469,912. Two colleges, eighty students; two academies, one hundred and twenty students; fifty-one schools, five thousand four hundred and forty-five scholars. There were five incorporated and two unincorporated banks, with an aggregate capital of nearly $6,000,000.

From many directions, good roads converge to this place, and bring the rich products of the surrounding country to this market. The Little Miami, and Mad River and Lake Erie railroads, just built, extend from Cincinnati to Sandusky City, a distance of two hundred and twenty miles. The Miami canal extends from Cincinnati one hundred and seventy-eight miles to Defiance, where it joins the Wabash and Erie canal. The internal trade of Cincinnati is thus very extensive. The amount of its exports, according to Cist's Advertiser, of recent date, was, for the year 1847, in value, $55,735,252, being nearly $3,000,000 more than the foreign exports of the city of New York. This is an astonishing fact, and speaks emphatically respecting the rapid growth in commerce, population, and wealth of the "Queen city" of the west.

The municipal government of the city consists of a president, a recorder, and councillors-three for each of the several wards into which the city is divided.

Cincinnati was founded in 1789, by emigrants from New England and New Jersey, on the site of Fort Washington. It has grown with great rapidity, and now ranks as the sixth place in population in the United States; and, it being the great emporium of the west, it must continue to increase with the growth of the rapidly-rising country with is connected.