The following named gentlemen were elected State Senators, to wit: Adams County-Joseph Darlington. Belmont County-William Vance. Clermont County-William Buchanan. Hamilton County-Francis Dunlavy, Jeremiah Morrow, John Paul, Daniel Symmes. Jefferson County-Zenas Kimberly, Bazaliel Wells. Ross County-Nathaniel Massie, Abraham Claypool. Trumbull County-Samuel Huntington. Washington County-Joseph Buell.

The following named gentlemen were elected Representatives, to wit: Adams County-Thomas Kirker, Ephraim Kibby, Joseph Lucas, William Ruffel. Belmont CountyJoseph Sharp, Elijah Woods. Clermont County-R. Walter Waring, Amos Ellis. Fairfield County -David Reece, William Trimble. Hamilton County-Thomas Brown, John Bigger, James Dunn, William James, Robert McClure, William Maxwell, Thos. McFarland. Jefferson County-Rudolph Bair, Z. A. Beatty, Thomas Elliott, Isaac Meeks. Ross County-Michael Baldwin, Robert Culbertson, Thomas Worthington, William Patton. Trumbull County-Ephraim Quinby, Aaron Wheeler. Washington County-William Jackson, Robert Safford, Wyllis Silliman.

Governor Tiffin was inaugurated March 3, 1803, and it was on that day when the State government went into full operation, the constitution having provided in express terms that "the Governor, Secretary and Judges, and all other officers under the Territorial government should continue in the exercise of the duties of their respective departments until the said of ficers are superseded under the authority of this constitution." The day on which the Territorial Governor's functions ceased, and on which the State Governor was sworn into office would seem to be the beginning of the State of Ohio-on that day (March 3) Ohio was born.

Soon after the inauguration of Governor Edward Tiffin, the General Assembly proceeded to elect two United States Senators, a Secretary of State, an Auditor of State, a Treasurer of State, and three Judges of the Supreme Court, as follows:

United States Senators.-Thomas Worthington, John Smith.
Secretary of State.-Wm. Creighton, Jr.

Auditor of State. Thomas Gibson.

Treasurer of State.-William McFarland.

Judges of Supreme Court.-Samuel Huntington, Return Jonathan Meigs, William Spriggs.

The Legislature also passed an act providing for holding an election of a member of Congress, the whole State forming but one district. Said election took place, pursuant to said act, June 21, 1803, and Jeremiah Morrow was elected, and by re-elections continued to be Ohio's only Representative until 1813.

ISAAC SMUCKER.

THE STORY OF STARVED ROCK ON THE ILLINOIS.

On the left bank of the Illinois River, about midway between the cities of Ottawa and La Salle, and directly opposite the village of Utica, stands a huge sandstone rock known as "Starved Rock." Its summit comprises nearly two acres of a grassy plat, quite level, and much used at the present day for a picnic ground. The side next to the river is about one hundred and fifty feet in height and is almost perpendicular, slightly overhanging the river in places. The other two sides are practically inacces

sible, whilst the rear, in early times, could be ascended only by a broken, crooked path admitting only persons in single file. Here nature had formed an almost impenetrable fortress that needed only a citadel to give it the appearance of feudal ages. On the top of this rocky promontory, French adventurers, under the lead of

more than two hundred years ago,

the daring La Salle, erected a rude stockade, and hundreds of miles in advance of civilization occupied the first permanent abode of white men in the valley of the Mississippi.

The zealous missionary, Marquette, and his faithful friend Joliet, with their Canadian voyaguers, were the first white men, as far as is known, to see the lofty promontory of which I speak. They had voyaged down. the Mississippi in the summer of 1673, and when on their return by a shorter route than the Wisconsin River they discovered the Rock as they paddled their canoes up the clear waters of the Illinois. It must have been late in August when they reached the great town of the Illinois Indians, then containing a large population. The fearless voyagers went on to Green Bay, where they arrived at the end of September, and while Joliet went on to Quebec to proclaim their wonderful discovery, Marquette remained to rest and regain his fast declining health. The devoted missionary spent the winter and the following summer at the mission of Green Bay, recruiting his exhausted energies and preparing to carry out a strongly cherished desire. His soul yearned for the benighted heathen he had left on the banks of the river in the great town of the Illinois Indians. By the time the tints of autumn appeared his malady had abated, and he was permitted by his superior to attempt the execution of his plans-the founding of a mission to be called the "Iminaculate Conception," a name he had already given to the River Mississippi. The twenty-fifth of October he set out, accompanied by two Frenchmen, Pierre and Jacques, one of whom had been with him on his voyage of discovery. A band of Potawatomies, and another of Illinois joined him. The party, occupying ten canoes, coasted along the eastern shores of Green Bay, crossed a portage through the forest to Lake Michigan, and paddled on its troubled bosom to the outlet of the (Chicago) River, up which they rowed two leagues to the mouth of the Calumet River, where, owing to the alarming symptoms of the missionary's disease they were obliged to rest, and where they were detained in a rude hut during the cold and weary winter that followed.

Late in March, 1675, after a nine days' devotion to the Virgin, Marquette and his companions prepared to continue their journey. Amid the rains of opening spring they made their weary way down the swollen Des Plains and the Illinois until they reached their destination. A great concourse of Indians greeted the Father as an "angel from Heaven." Resting but a short time, he began his labors. The large town covered

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the plain opposite the lofty rock and now teemed with savage life. quette had painted canvas pictures representing heaven and hell, and angels and demons. These and a cross he exhibited daily to naked crowds, who listened in silent wonder to his harangues. As soon as the missionary thought them sufficiently prepared, he summoned all to a grand council held on the great meadow skirting the river bank. Five hundred chiefs and old men sat in a ring, behind stood more than fifteen hundred youths and warriors, and behind all these the women and children of the town. The Indians gave diligent attention to the father's words, thereby cheering his heart. The assemblage begged him to stay and be their teacher, but his malady was again increasing, and a few days after Easter he and his comrades left, escorted by a crowd of Indians as far as Lake Michigan. The seeds sown by the father seem to have taken but slight root, for by the time La Salle and his followers came, they knew little or nothing of the divine mysteries that had been explained to thern.

Little more than four years passed away before the Rock was seen again by white men. This time it was by the practised eye of a warrior, who immediately noted its natural impregnability, and who decided to erect on its summit a fort that would control the country for his king. This was part of the plans of the bold La Salle, who, late in the year 1679, passed down the Illinois on his first attempt to discover the outlet of the "Great River," which the natives of the west told him "flowed to the sea," and whose outlet the missionary had not discovered. It was late in December when La Salle and his party, as they paddled down the swollen Illinois, descried the ranges of wooded hills that lined the river, passed the plateau where is now the busy city of Ottawa, and a little further down, on the right, the bluffs called now Buffalo Rock, long a favorite. dwelling place of the Indians. A little below, the river glided among small islets, while on the right the plain broadened out to a valley, bordered by densely wooded hills. Going slowly down the river, the huge Rock appeared on their left hand; the lodges of the Indian town on the right. Hennepin, who was one of the number, and who afterward wrote a highly colored account of discoveries in the west, giving the chief glory to himself, says he counted four hundred and sixty lodges. He was probably correct in his estimate, as others observed about the same number. The lodges were shaped somewhat like the arched top of emigrant wagons. They were built of a framework of poles and covered with

woven rush mats, and each showed signs of being the home of several families. Now the great town was as silent as its spectral graveyard near it, the Indians being absent on one of their annual hunts. La Salle was sorely pressed for food, and opening some of their caches, found abundance of corn. He shrank from exciting the anger of the Indians. Necessity overcame his prudence and he took twenty minots of corn, hoping to appease the anger of the savage owners by presents should occasion offer. Thus provided he proceeded on his way, carefully noting the appearance of the huge sandstone fortress across the river, overlooking all the country.

Troubles overtook him at the lake of Peoria, and after beginning a vessel and a fort there, he was obliged to return to Canada for men and supplies. On his way up the river he stopped a day or two to rest his men and gain the good will of a few savages he met. He gave more heed to the lofty sandstone elevation, and for the first time seems to have formed a definite conclusion regarding it. Before he had observed its impenetrability, now he determined to fortify it, and when on Lake Michigan he met two Frenchmen, by whom he sent word to his faithful lieutenant, Tonty, to whom he had given command at Fort Crevècœur on the Peoria Lake, to abandon Fort Crevècœur and fortify the Rock, should his circumstances require it. Tonty, a brave man, had been left with two or three true men and twelve or thirteen knaves. These were smiths, ship-carpenters, house-wrights, soldiers, his servant and two friars, Membré and Ribourde. Most of the men were ripe for mutiny; had no interest in the great mystery of the river's outlet and no love for the chief of the enterprise. The two men whom La Salle had sent from his fort on the St. Joseph, with the letter to Tonty to fortify the cliff, brought unfortunate news of La Salle's losses by the Griffin and other vessels. Excited still further by the ill news and the discontent among the men, Tonty took several of his men and proceeded to the cliff and prepared to erect the fort on its summit. Soon after he left, the mutineers destroyed the fort at the lake, stole the powder, lead and furs, and deserted. The brave young Boisrondet and the servant l'Esperance hastened to Tonty, who at once dispatched four of those with him, by two routes, to carry the news to La Salle. This left Tonty but three men and the two friars, in addition to the two mentioned-seven in all. With this feeble band he was left among a host of restless savages, many of whom began to regard him as a secret enemy.