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& the moon alone above seemed steady in its gaze as it looked with beaming? smile on the maze in which its beauty had beguiled our flippant fancy. As we passed down the river we beheld the quiet resting place of the truly good President Harrison. North Bend at the mouth of the Miami River is the seat of his family & his remains rest on a knoll which [is] visible many miles up & down the river an object of solemn ? suggestion. -- Louisville - May 15, 1857 -- In company with Mr Hall of Washington & the Hon. Mr. Cave Johnston of Tennessee, put up at the unclear house where I met Col. Taylor of Butte? the late President's brother. -- The comparison between Louisville and Cincinnati is by no means flattering to the slave city -- one notices the absence of that activity & neatness which distinguishes the former. That look of thrift & healthy progress is replaced by a sluggishness of public enterprise & a subjection to the senses, inseperable, I