Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1851-10-15
CALVIN BRITAIN.

For Lieutenant Governor, .a..+
CALVIN BRITAIN.
~ We have word to say to the democ-
racy of this County. The election is approach.
ing-is close at hand--your candidates are in
the field-they have been long tried and are
we'll known; they come up to the Jeffersonian
standard; they are capable, faithful and honest
We are sure you are willing to give them your
support. Let every democrat so ar
range his business that he can spend some
small portion of his time until election is over,
and the last ballot in for the good cause. Do
not let an apathetc feeling be the means of
losing the election. Two years of wing mis-
rule would nearly, if not quite ruin the State.
The wing party are active, and on the alert
their organ grinders, the Tribune and Aduer-
hser, are grinding out the usual quantity of
bombast and falsehood. They have reconnoi-
tered the battle ield--have surveyed every point
of it-they find their enemies under General
Mac" and Major Brit" occupying the van
tage ground, in a position so we'll fortified that
no one weak point can be discerned by them,
as the point for attack. Consequently, the at
tempt to stab the reputation of the candidates
whose names are at the head of our paper, by
fabrcating falsehood and caumny, and calling
upon the wing press through the State to be
active in reiterating the slang of their two lead.
ers in Detroit. We say to the democracy then
in the language of the noisy auctioneer--" roll
up, tumble up, come up any way to get up" to
the polls on the day of election.
az The Detroit Tribune gives an account
of the closing of the late term of the County
Court for the County Of Wayne, Judge WITH
EREL presiding Twelve person were senten-
ced for term of years, to the State Prison I;
this makes twenty-four that have been sent
from that county within two weeks. Wayne
County will do her part in filing up the prison
thus far in the year 1851, from all the Courts
in that county, the number sent to the State
Penitentiary cannot be much less than forty,
on an average of six years, from that county
alone For 1851, this looks like vigilant ad-
ministration of justice; let other counties imi-
tate the example of Wayne, and Michigan would
make very poor harbor for rogues, villains,
lars. All would flee to some more congenial
cline; and every good citizen should constitute
himself police officer, and do his part in the
administration of justice and the suppression of
crime within our State.
~ A crisis is upon us-a panic is now in
| full blast. For the last two weeks rotten bank
ing institutions have been failing at the East,
until the number has sweled to upwards of
twenty. The result will probably be the wind
ing up of the concerns Of all banking institu-
lions that are not provided with the specie TO
redeem their issues; still there is no great
cause for alarm by the bill holders Of the New
York State banks, for the reason, that for each
dollar of their issues they have one dollar in
State stock sureties filed with the Comptroller
of the State, pledged TO the redemption Of their
issues. Scarcity of money at the East makes
hard times at the West. Our heaviest business
men, feel the pressure severely. We hear of
failures all around us, at distance. All in our
immediate vicinity, have thus far stood the
shock, and we think that if due degree of
leniency is shown on the part of creditors for a
short time, the storm will then have blown over
and the sunshine of prosperity will tighten up
and contract into natural proportions, the long
faces that have been heightened for brief Pc
Rod by the frowns of adversely
Of Lumber, there is scarcely any sales in
this market. Produce of all kinds is down to
the lowest ebb. Each and every one, rich or
poor, in time like the present, should practice
the most rigid economy-the business man of
to day, may be actually worth his twenty thou
sand dollars, and q month hence, not worth one
penny.
r3S" We learn that the schooner Helena was
driven on shore, near the mouth Of Kalamazoo
River, on the night of the I'd inst, and COM
pletely destroyed by being broken to pieces
Passengers and crew al saved with more or
less suffering. When will our Wing Admins
tration give us harbors! We pause for reply
s3T HULBERT's Mills at White River, with
two hundred and fifty thousand feet of lumber
was completely destroyed by the breaking Of
the ml-dam-loss about three thousand dol