SKETCHES OF THE WEST.—NO. I. 
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the most extensive. It is really well filled, and 
contains a numerous and excellent assortment. 
There are many gardens also, both public and pri¬ 
vate. Of the latter, that of Mr. Longworth is su¬ 
perior. Here are transplanted all the wild flowers 
of the country, for the purpose of experimenting 
with them, and we have no doubt some beautiful 
things will yet be brought out from this source. 
The Ohio. —How swiftly glides the boat down 
the broad winding stream; how beautifully the 
hills break and group again, from reach to reach 
in the blue distance, crowned with lofty forests, 
the branches of the trees dotted with thick green 
tufts of the misleto, while below from their base 
to the water’s edge, spread the wide fertile mead¬ 
ows, in green grass or tall com, with large herds 
of fat cattle feeding upon their rich herbage. Fair 
villas, substantial brick or stone farm-houses, and 
the humble log-cottage, are sprinkled alternately 
along, and from distance to distance, we are brought 
up to land by intervening towns and villages. It 
may be called, indeed, from its sources to its mouth 
La Belle Riviere, for there are few streams in truth 
more beautiful. 
We recollect being often asked in England if we 
did not find the Thames much superior to the 
Ohio. The Thames indeed! It has a few fine 
meadows and gentle hills, and is as wide as the 
Ohio perhaps, 60 miles or so from its mouth to 
London, and then it rapidly dwindles to a mere 
rivulet, while this keeps rolling on for nearly a 
thousand miles in one continued flow of uninter¬ 
rupted magnificence, wildness, and beauty. 
North Bend. —One of the most interesting pla¬ 
ces that we pass in descending the Ohio, is 
North Bend, 14 miles below Cincinnati, the resi¬ 
dence of the late lamented General Harrison, and 
a green mound-like hill near to the house, enclosed 
in white palings, is now his final resting-place. 
(Fig. 15.) 
Tomb of General Harrison. 
The tomb is of plain, solid marble, and accords 
with the character to whose memory it is erected, 
and the virtues and deeds that it is made to com¬ 
memorate. When we last saw the Farmer of 
North Bend, he had been taken like another Cin- 
cinnatus, from his rural occupations and quiet, 
humble home, and stood amidst an admiring 
crowd of thousands, the acknowledged chief of 
millions of free people. To look upon that plain, 
simply attired old man, thus placed, thus surround¬ 
ed, and thus honored, was a sight really sublime, 
and his sudden removal will long be mourned by a 
grateful nation. 
We wish we could see the miserable out-build¬ 
ings m front and immediately around this charming 
residence of General Harrison removed. It has 
now become a point of national interest, and is al¬ 
ways shown to strangers; there should be nothing 
therefore to mar the view, and we would respect¬ 
fully suggest to the son of the late President, that 
the fine lawn in front of the house be disincumber- 
ed of all else, save the noble trees and flowering 
shrubbery that now adorn it. 
Louisville. —This is a fine city, built upon a 
high level bank of the river, and is about half the 
size of Cincinnati, and laid outin the same man¬ 
ner, the streets crossing each other at right angles. 
It has some good buildings, of which the Court- * 
House and new Methodist church are among the 
most elegant. The rapids pf the Ohio here extend 
3 1-2 miles, with a fall of 24 feet, over a solid bed 
of limestone. These are passed except in high 
water, through a steamboat canal of about two miles 
in length, cut through the solid rock, reminding 
us, though without the length and depth, of the 
deep cut of the Erie canal at Lockport. 
Louisville has a considerable trade, and is pretty 
largely engaged /n hemp manufactures, the whole 
process of whin' 1 is by machinery, driven by steam 
power. It i/'said that the manufacturing of cotton 
bagging d<^ not cost over three cents per yard. 
This mav 666111 ver y cheap, but a single power-loom 
will we^ e 250 yards per day with one hand to 
tend h and all the other operations are equally 
facij/ated. With hemp at $3 per cwt., the man- 
usurer can successfully compete with the im¬ 
ported fabric, and even without a protective duty, 
ivill soon drive the foreign article out of the mar¬ 
ket. 
Culture of Poor Sandy Soils in Kentucky.— 
Journeying from Louisville to Frankfort, our atten¬ 
tion was attracted upon the road to a burly-headed 
negro, with a long beard somewnat “ 
age, encased in stout cow-hide boots, hie ory co 
