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4 Monument to Robert Tniton.-No part of the world has received the same benefits from the ap- plication of steam power to purposes of inland navi

 gation as the great valley of the Mississippi From the Alleghanies to the Lales-irom the Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico and the Rocky Mountains, this vast region of alluvon is indenied with the nobes rivers. What place so eligbei all this rich and magnificent valley one of the heights upon the Ohio. contigu- ous to the beautiful and flourishng city of Cncin- natti, for a monument to perpetuate the name of ROBERT FULTON. He was indeed, our greatest bene- factor-and his memory ought to be embalmed in the hearts of his countrymen. ask. without the ad- vantages derived from ihe power of steam applied to machinery, what would Cincinnati, now the fifth commercial and manufacturing town in the union, have been7 And what would Ohio. now the fourth State in the union, containing million of inhabi- tants. and adorned with the arts, what would she now have beenl Comparatively what she but yes terday was-a wilderness. By the aid of FULTON, we have accomplished in few years, what in other countries and under other circumstances has requir- cd the growth of centuries. It remained for this great man. unaded by the crucble of the Alchymist, to discover the philosophers sone and wheresoev- CT we turn eyes we see its magical power trans muting the physical wealth of our fine country into gold and silver Let the farmer, the mechanic, and the merchant think of this,-Ohio American.