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craft which then floated on its surface. His ear would have heard at dawn 

 the martial notes of the reveille, and at night the hooting of the owl and 

 the savage bay of the prowling wolf. Now we stand upon the same spot, 

 in the center of a populous city, surrounded by all the refinements of wealth 

 and cultivation. A city numbering, with its suburbs, three hundred thou- 

 sand souls. 



We have stated that Mr. Buchanan was on the steamboat" Maysville, " in 

 1822. In 1817, a few small steamboats were used in transporting merchan- 

 dise from New Orleans to the upper country ; but the use of steam was just 

 commencing. The number of keel-boats employed in the upper Ohio is pre- 

 sumed to have been about one hundred and fifty, averaging thirty tons 

 each, and requiring one month to make a voyage from Louisville to Pitts- 

 burg. About twenty barges, averaging one hundred tons each, comprised 

 the whole of the commercial facilities for transporting merchandise from 

 New Orleans to the upper country. Each of these performed one trip down 

 and up again to Louisville and Cincinnati within the year. 



The first boats used in the navigation of the western rivers were the flat 

 boat, the keel, and the barge. Tlie first of which was used only in descend- 

 ing with the current, while the two latter ascended the streams, propelled 

 laboriously by poles. Navigating long rivers, whose shores were still in- 

 fested by hostile savages, the boatmen were armed and depended for safety 

 upon their caution and their manhood. 



We have stated that Robert Buchanan was continuously elected President 

 of Sprjng Grove Cemetery for more than thirty years. An institution 

 which has hundreds of lot-holders entitled to vote annually for the Board 

 of Directors, and yet from the time of its first organization no change 

 occurred in the presidency. In those grounds the Directors have laid the 

 mortal part of our departed friend, and covered it with the sod that nour- 

 ished those flowers which adorn the grounds, many of which were selected 

 by his own care and taste. 



GEO. GRAHAM, 



R. B. MOORE, \ Committee. 



JNO. A. WARDER, 



