ree banks)Nathaniel McLean, commenced printing cent. di«.' the Western Star, at Lebanon, for the didaot'.ei := or Hon. John McLean,its fir«t editor and pro- paying fimen is ; . i» . , . . , , .prietor. I nder this name it has been is-sued ever since, without intermission, so enty 5 do,; l^)at -yi jg one yaar jooior of the Libks, lo Jo-, I erty j-{a{j an(j len years the senior of the j we arlt;* £ rn India- Cincinnati Ga/.ette. Mr-Denny, in 1807 on the 1uth bank, connected himself with the Supporter at ness ofWe trtock bank Chillicothe, as a partner of the late Cieo. the gue«This paper was blended, with wbich wirt county | Nashee.leville, 25 ' another then existing, and established ato Go do; iport-j do; Ohioi May esclittle before, so that the title, we believe Rn(j meft was chained to the Supporter and Scioto Lj1#n Gazette. Na^hee or Denny were Statercc. printers, for a Ions time, while the seatpt nu of government remained at Chillicothe. -ky, which They disolvcd in 1815, and Mr. Dennyiati, wbich retired fiorn the business until 1^20,when he established at Xenia,At his nthe lothStsicki.is of Ohio,tfCKLend CanalClintonWilminjin part-nk ofOldo,! nership with the late John Kendall, theOhio Interior Gazette, the fererunner ofthe Ohio Peoples’ Press, by Jas. B. Gar i-Ohio ntir ner* one G* W* StiPP’ another byHenry E, Spencer, of Cincinnati, theBackwoodsman, by W. D J. M. Gailagher, another by B. C. Langdon, and, j.iren gro dty hti»k.,|fina||yt the present able Xenia Torch-ight. In 1821, he removed to Wilming- I ir in small j ton and started the Galaxy, which hecontinued until I his death in 1S23. Theled banks;ir; all ao]-be sp^nt tian chuiinton hanks«*t tU-d alately deaccompaon last 8ntion.Rev. Dkwriter of this commenced selling type, in Xenia, in 1820, and has continued at theommittee, same |ahor, without a year’.Cessation, so co,jri4e ol 1 uesday, | tpatj though only forty three years old, he !*,e houslt;ldiinr theis one of the oldest practical printers innal, on the ! Ohio. We mention these facts to show,ruble coi time, colr the pur*the follow-that the old Liberty Hail produced men, j to d« partwho were the eaily founders of the OhioState, At-SnpremeOn Wedint-Gover- j papers.Our own connection, as a journeymanwith the Gazette, began in 1829, when jC. 11 La vve were in our eighteenth year, having Misg Lo; previously served nine years at the business. Charles Hatnmond was then edi*rd of Pub-The tof Mem-' tor. and the office was owned by Lodge, Messrs.Supreme L’Honmedieu T. Hammond. We hadR. I., vvcfixes the(•0 for theworked previously for our father at Xenia and Wilmington; for the celebrated J. Niars.(dale Jus-Lastufid Repre-Reynolds, the South Sea Explorer, on the: then on The Wes- i Blair, a htern Star, Lebanon, in 1824, for Cam- preciselyry twen- ron Sellers; and afterwards, in sue-j county ca returning cessive years, on Wilmington Argus, by _Lrbantten foundJ. B. Semann^; on Stipp's paper in Xeniaon the Cincinnati Emporium, by S. J.Brown; cn the People’s Press, at Xenia enta of the j bv the celebrated and unrivalled editorL1R(N Mlwilly Daguer-t»le beautyis instant- j J. JR. Gardiner; on the American Demo, ingtothe So far has crat, Lebanon, in 1828; editpfl by Judge denceoftt ts of the Kesiing, and also in the office of theOhio State Journal, then conducted by * orn‘ ] I Balliache, Olmsted Cameron.Gazette office we formed our first acquaintance with the following men, viz:and R. F. L’Homniedieu, L. D.tfirstsec- Campbell, John M. Gallagher, R. and near that W. F. Comly, and Richard Disney —the tion. Thejlastof horn was killed in Texas in theupon the massacre of Col. Fannin’s men. Thea the LexO. ijthirty-fmIn the !and twetHoiiseholt rnerous toj o'clock. d« c22OTHted i estate of 11*1 j,i„np others are now living, with the exception 1 -\^0Tir. ; of the noble IL F. L’ Hommedieu and ! IN as Kjntire sectbp taiantad and amiable John M fial- SLacv Hai