Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1852-12-22


WEDNESDAY EVENING, DEC % 1852
~ The length of President FnLmoREs
message precludes the possibility of its appear
ance in the Times, unless at the expense of the
exclusion Of all other matter. We have not
thought it of sufficient interest to the majority
of our readers to use our whole space for its
publication.
The news department of our paper is stale.
Our last Eastern mail arrived here on the eve
of our last publication. We have been CON-
PEELED to make paper from exchanges of no
later date than the llth. How long we shall
be under the stern necessity of continuing thus,
we are not informed. We have a mail route
upon the North and South side of the river,
but unfortunately, their arrival here for the last
two weeks has been both on the same day.
Bear with us readers, with the same patience we
exercise towards our servants of the mail bag.
~" At o'clock, A. NJ, on the 18th inst,
the storm was so severe on the lake that the
waves beat against the northwest corner of the
residence at The Grand River Light, washing out
the sand aud causing the destruction of the
north half of the building. The forming of
ice banks during the day, saved the Tower
from being undermined. Two young men
sleeping in the north room provdentialy esca-
ped. Their clothes were buried beneath the
ruins containing all the money one Of them had
earned in sailing late this season. We learn
that the vest in which the money was left, has
been found, but the money has not been recov-
cred. The person who took it away from the
house, where it was left when found, will please
return it again if he wishes to avoid exposure.
s9y@ The schooner Teazer went ashore near
Black River, about 10 miles north of Kalama-
zoo, last Thursday night She was bound from
Racine to Chicago, with q cargo of wood and
becoming unmanageable from the ice on her
hull and rigging she drifted to the east shore
and struck on the beach. Her crew 1.-TWO men
and boy), got ashore, and before they could
climb the bank, the sea broke over their heads
repeatedly. The boy was brought here on the
18th, from Port Sheldon, having both feet and
hands frozen 1t is thought amputaton will
be necessary.
ST. MARY CANAL.-A well-informed cores
pondent of the Baltimore Sun has the following
judicious remarks respecting this great work of
internal Improvement and its vital importance
to the nation at large. Free Press.
zone of the greatest works Of internal i'm
provement ever sanctioned by Congress, is the
ship canal around the falls of st. Mary, for which
100000 acres Of land were granted at the late
session. 1t would have been better to grant the
money, and to execute the work at once under
the direction Of United States engineers. But
scruples as to the power Of Congress over pub
lie funds after they reach the Treasury, prevent
ed that direct mode of effecting the object. But
the work is to be prosecuted under the direction
of the State of Michigan, and its completion will
open thousand miles of navigation to the
northwestern commerce. A few years hence,
there will be direct communication by railroad
from Lake Superior to the falls of ST. Anthony.
But one of the most surprising of all the great
| projects now entertained is communication by
canal or slack-water navigation, rivers, and a
few portages, from Hudson's Bay to Lake Su.
peror. The route is now travelled in fifteen
days by the employees of the Company, and for
great part OF the distance III canoes.
eff Congress had not, by the act of last ses-
sion, provided for the ST. Mary Canal, The Brit
| ish Colonial Government would have made the
work on the other side, and at about ten times
the cost of ours, in consequence of the greater
practcability of the route on the American side.
The British Colonial authorities are wide awake
to the importance of internal improvements, and
when the commercial policy of this Government
shall become sufficiently libcralized, it is proba-
| bic that all these great works, on both sides of
the line, will be used for commercial purposes
If both States present restrictive policy, where
is the use Of railroads and canals q
CHEAP PosTAGE.-This subject is one that in
terests the entire community to an extent which
is attained by hardly another question of public
policy in this country. The rich and the poor
are alike DESTROYS that their letters should be
transported at the lowest possible cost.
The Philadelphia Ledger says the revenue un-
der the reduced rates of postage has fallen of