Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1851-12-30


c3g- The Detroit Advertiser has ventured
down upon us in regular Blingsgate style, he
swings slang whang expressions as well as any
well bred bully can that has been thoroughly
trained from infancy to the habit of polished
blackguardism. The Grand Rirer Times is ac-
cused of lying sand failing out string of lies
long enough to reach any reasonable depth Of
faulty" Again the Advertiser of the 10th inst,
(weekly), publishes structure upon one of our
articles published four or FIVE weeks SINCE in
which we intended to lay bare and expose the
incidence and negligence of the present heads
of the p. D. department, in not letting a mail
contract on mail route that has been establish
ed over three years, Ito wit, from Kalamazoo
or Allegan to Grand Haven.) No good reason
has as yet been given, why mail service may not
be required, or why it should not be performed
on this route at once. The want of intermedi-
ate Post offices is only pretence of the drones,
in place and power, to cover the sin of procras-
tination and delay. Strong and urgent calls
have been made upon the department from time
to time, for the letting of mail contract on tho
aforesaid route, bnt as yet we are unheeded and
uncared for; if the Advertiser has control of
the department., and of mail facilities in this
State, we would demand at their hands, our due
in this respect. The Advertiser says that the
Offices of Bee line and Rabbit river were estab-
lished on the route in May 1851, and that in
September 1851 service was ordered on this
route. Now Mr.. Advertiser why is this order
not enforced by the department? Enough res
ponsible bids at cheap rates have been made so
that there can be no excuse on that account
We have our doubts ofany definite action being
taken by the department to ensure to this en-
terprising colony of Hollanders, and the rest of
the people on this line mail of any sort; all
that is necessary is for the department to act
The inefficient fellows are probably hesitating
and in doubt, in which the administration would
gain the most strength by putting this route in
operation or three routes Of the same length
in niggerdona. OF the order made by the de-
partment for service Sept. 20, 1851, we know
nothing more than the statement of the Adler
tiSer which paper has peculiar basis of its own
for truth and responsibility. We charge the
Advertiser with publishing the two following
lies in shorter space than Baron Munchausen
ever thought of. Here they are:
"Grand Haven instead of having a weekly
mail from Grand Rapids, has now a tri-weeky
from here and from Milwaukee, weekly mail
from Holland to Alegan."
There is no truth in the statement that Grand
Haven, instead of having weekly mail from
Grand Rapids has now tr-weekly from here
(meaning DetroiD and from Milwaukee, instead
of having tri-weekly mail here at Grand Haven
as reported by you, the writer of this article is
paying at the rate of fifteen dollars per year pr-
vate subscription to get the second mail trip per-
formed in each week. We have no tri.weeklv
mail now from any quarter whatever, 1--WE only
can wish we had) it does no good to ask the
present administration for any favor Of the kind,
rather too much engaged in making calculations
as to the chances for situation in the next adj
ministration, to give heed to petitions so far re-
mote. Verify, verify, this country is ,:ttle to
large for the small amount of mind now control
ing its destines. Again, Mr. Advertiser, look
at this and weep, the distance from Grand Ha-
ven to Holland is t,oenty-one miles it takes two
weeks for letter to pass from one point to the
other
Just so at any point along the river, between
this and Grand Rapids. In the summer time
to send a letter by the best mail facilities we
have, to any route intermediate and short of
Grand Rapids, takes from seven days to two
weeks, from points not ten miles distant. All
this the people of this vicinity have to endure,
on account of the incapacity and miserable imbe-
cility that permeates the entire Post Office De-
partment. This section of the country is set
Ting rapidly, with an enterprising population
of the kind that want increased mail facilities,
and facilities of any and every kind that will adj
vance them to highest state of prosperity, in
double quick time. 1t is fast becoming prov
erb here, {" that the mail is of no account to bu-
siness men," they can find faster way of jog
ging along than the quickest time that has ev-
er been conceived by the swiftest post office
lackey of the present administration Now, Mr..
Advertiser, if you have vanity enough to believe
that any efforts of yours can bolster up the
present sinking Administration, you are just
| Al G a. !