FIRST SETTLEMENT OF OHIO.
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CINcrNNATr-Fiftv years ago this day l7ih
of April, 1898, (says the Nashville umon'l as
we learn from one of the party, about sIxty-iour
persons landed at the junction of the ONO and
Muskingum rivers, under the command OF Gen.
RuFus PUTNAM, and commenced the settlement
of the State of Ohio, in the presence or nearly
three hundred Indians, who had assembled on
the opposite side of the Muskingum. The land
ing took place at 10 o'clock OF bright and
beautiful spring morning.


What change have these fifty years produced
in Ohio; its dark forests have been swept away
before the axe of the settler; farms, towns and
cities now occupy the site Of the wigwam; the
steamboat has taken the place Of the canoe; and
a population of million and upwards exists on
the same territory that supplied but scanty sub
sistence to a few hundreds of rowing savages'
Such rapid and entire change is without a pre-
cedent in the history of the world.