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Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1852-01-27
THE PAUPER.
: Rattle his bones over the stones,

Rattle his bones over the stones,
He's naught but pauper whom nobody knows"
When the rich man passeth away the world
puts on face of sorrow, and hies to the funer-
al. The great black hearse, with its sombre
trappings, goes to the grave with measured
pace, followed by long trains of friends of the
dead. He who does not attend upon that occa-
sion, is marked--he must be an enemy--he GER
tainly shows little respect for that most impair
tial king, Death. Weep they, for ga great man
he's falien." But the poor man dies too. The
poor man dies, but the rich man paSseth aDay--
he owned too many acres to be affected by the
same agent which destroyed poverty. The poor
one dies, the rough plank coffin receives his re-
mains, the grave opens in the cheapest ground,
closes again, and the world in the meantime is
wagging on as jolly as ever
A one-horse wagon, with driver, and three
men, made a funeral procession which marched
through our streets few davs since. A poor
man had been found dead in the road.
Yes, he was man--he had bones and flesh,
and once could talk and feel like other men
but he owned not lands, he was a son of penu-
ry, had wandered, perhaps in search of food, and
fell upon the earth from chill and fatigue, and
then gave up his spirit to the same God whom
all address as our Father in Heaven
Gossip tripped along and told who was found
dead in the road-legality ascertained how he
died--propriety put him in n box--community
hired wagon and dug grave--friendship was
looked for and could not be found-aristocrac
looked from the window as the procession pass
ed--the grave closed, and all was forgotten.
AS sweet will be his rest though mahogany
does not enclose him-as bright and serene will
the sun shine above him as his rich neighbor--
as fair and paV will the flowers GROW over his
tomb, though no tablet marks the spot-and
when the great trump shall sound, little differ
ence will the condition upon earth make in the
awful iudgment--for
'Thc sccpter'd king, the burthen'd slave,
The humble and the naughty, die;
The rich, the poor, the base, the brave,
In dust without distinction lie"
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1852-01-27

Coon NATURE.-Good nature is gem which
shines brightly wherever it is found 1t cheers
the darkness of misfortune, and warns the heart
that is callous and cold. In social life who has
not seen and felt its influences! If you want
to be happy, be good natured. Don't let little
matters ruffie you. Nobody gains anything by
being cross and grabbed. If friend has injur-
ed you; if the world goes hard; if you want
employment but can't get it; or can't get your
honest Dues or fire has consumed or waters
swallowed up the fruits of many years hard
toll; or your faults are magnifed; or enemies
have traduce6, or friends deceived, never mind /;
don't get mad with any body; don't abuse the
world, or any of its creatures; keep good ma
tured and our word for it, all will come right.
The soft south wind and the genial sun are not
more etfectual in clothing the earth with verdure
and sweet flower of spring, than is good nature
in adorning the hearts of man and woman with
blossoms of kindness, happiness and Affection
those flowers, the fragrance of which ascends to
Heaven.
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1852-01-27

THE LAST OF A TRAIToR's RACE" The ini-
quities of the fathers shall be visited upon the
children" &c.-The last remaining relative of
Benedict Arnold, the traitor, was carried to the
Norwich Poor House three or four days ago by
one of the Select men. She was cousin to the
traitor and remembers him very wel-and spoke
with seeming resentment and Indignation of his
having been driven out of the country" She
is ninety-two years DID, and when taken from
the miserable hovel where she and n sister of
hers who died three or four years ago, had lived,
solitary, and in abject poverty for many years,
the poor creature was sitting without spark of
fire to warm herself by, although the day was
one of the coolest Of the season. We have nev-
er been able to learn (remarks the editor of the
Norwich Courier) that there was any reason,
except in the leprosy which cIung to the traitor
whom it was their misfortune to be allied to,
why this woman and her sister neither Of whom
was ever married, should have gone through life
excluded from social life and intercourse by the
inexorabe ban of society. Yet such is the fact
and it furnishes striking commentary upon the
depth and strength of that feeling of loathing
and execration with which the name of Bene.
dict Arnold is linked, now and forever in the
popular mind.
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1852-01-27

FERRY g. SONS, Dealers in Dry Goods, Gro
cercs, Provisions, Hardware, Clothing, Boots
and Shoes, Crockery and Medicines-also man
ufacturers and dealers in all kinds of Lumber
Water Street. Grand Haven.
WIN. NJ FERRY, JR, W., NJ Evppx
THOS. W. FERRY
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A. IT. VREDENB URG Boot and Shoemaker.
Shop over VIM. N. Ferry's store, Water street
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CHARLES w. HATHA VA Y, Blacksmith. All
kinds of work in my line done with neatness and
dispatch at my shop. Mill Point, Michigan.
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.sGROSVENOR REED, Prosecuting Attorney
for Ottawa County Residence at Charleston
Landing, Allendae, Ottawa County, Mich.
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IT. MERRILL. Boot and Shoemaker Boots
and Shoes neatly repaired, and all orders prompt
ly attended to. Shop one door below the Wash
ington House, Grand Haven, Mich.
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HENRY PENNOYER, Treasurer of Ottawa
County. Office over III. Grifiins Store, opposite
the Washington House.
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WILLIAM ". ANGEL, Register Of Deeds, and
Notary Public for Ottawa County. Office over
IT. Griffin's store Washington street; ;opposite the
Washington House, Grand Haven.
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY--1S52.

IT. g. SMITH, Blacksmith All kinds of work
in my line done to order, and no trust for pay
Shop south of c. b. Albees Tannery, Grand Ha-
ven, Michigan.
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JOHN r. DAVIS, Merchant Tailor Shop on
Washington Street, first door west of IL. Grif-
fins Store.
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M B. HOPKINS Attorney and Counsellor at
Law, Solicitor in Chancery and Circuit Court
Commissioner for Ottawa County. Office third
door west of the Washington House.
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HOYT g. POST, Clerk of Ottawa County. Of
flee over III. Griffns store, opposite the Wash
ington House.
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Asa A. SCOTT Sheriff Of Ottawa County
Once ever II. Grifins store, opposite the Wash
ington House.
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A GREEK FUNERAL.-I remember when they
buried that bright-eyed Greek maiden, snatched
suddenly from the earth, when her young heart
was light as her face was fair, they arrayed her,
so rigid and motionless, in the gay dress that
she had never worn but for some great fete or
gala, as though this more than any, were day
of rejoicing for her and thus attired, with her
long hair spread out over her still bosom all
decked with flowers, they laid her uncoflined in
her grave. At her feet they placed small flask
of wine and basket of corn in accordance with
an ancient Greek superstition, which suppose
that for three days and nights the dsembodied
spirit fingers mournfully round its tenement of
clay, the garment Of its mortality, wherein as n
pilgrim ard stranger on the earth, it lived and
loved, it sinned and suffered
AS soon as tIle first symptoms Of decay an
nounce that the curse Of corruption is ut work,
they believe that the purCr essence departs to
purer realms. Before the grave was closed,
while for the last time the warm radiance for the
sunset cast glow like the mockery OF life over
the marble face Of the poor young GIRL her
friends, as the last precaution, took measures to
ascertain that she was actually dead, and no. in
a swoon. The means they always take in such
instances to ascertain q fact, which elsewhere
would be insured by a doctors certificate, is
touching in the extreme the person whom,
while alive, it was known the deceased loved
best, the mother, or it may be the young betroth-
ed, who had hoped to place on her head the gay
and bridal crown, instead of the green laurel gar
land Of death, advances and calls her by name,
repeating after it the word ella Gomez several
times, in tone of the most passionate entreaty ;
if she is mute to this appeal if she is deaf to the
voice dearest to her on earth, then they no long
er doubt that she is dead indeed; they cover up
the grave, lift their eyes to the heaven where
they believe her to bc--for the Greeks do not
hold to the doctrine of purgatory--and, have
made the sign of the cross, they depart in silence
to their homes. But year after, or the ami
versary of the death, they return to the grave
and kneeling down, lay their lips to the sod, and
whisper to the silent tenant that they love her
still, that she is yet remembered and regretted
The organ of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, O. [Ohio]) 1852-1853, 1852-02-13
Fathers and Mothers,

! Sign the petitions for the Maine Law, First
because your children are exposed to temp
talon, and may become drunkards.
Second-Because, if already in the road to
death there is no hope of salvation for them
while liquors run down our streets like nver.
Third-Beausse the moral sense and kindly
feelings of your children are daily blunted by
familiarity with scenes of dissipation and vice.
The poisonous exhaations from the | 800 grog'
shops in Cincinnati are absolute death 70 the
kinder influences of the Sabbath school and
the house Of prayer.
Fourth-A fathers counsels and mothers
PRAYERS, and wholesome parental restraints are,
if not wholly lost or powerless, seriously coun-
teracted by the profanity, obscenity, and law
Iessness coined in the Hotel and Coffee house.
As the healthest is affected by inhaling the
polluted air of chanel house, SO the holiest
is robbed of his heavenly mindedness by the
foul contagion of the grog-shop.
Fihh-The man of God in the pulpit on the
Sabbath does not preach with the same freedom
against sin, because some of his principal
parishioners are owners OF sinks of pollution.
The ears Of his audience are not go quick to
hear, and they hearts are not so susceptible Of
impression account of their daily familiarity
with this bane OF society.
As the Iocusts and frogs of Egypt found their
way into the private apartments, and every
where, even into the kneading troughs, so this
curse of curses insinuates itself into every ave
nue. of life, and even into the holy OF holies.
The closet of private devotion is invaded as
well as the public sanctuary. The religious
press. as well as the secular is infected. The
religious journal must not denounce the splen.
did saloon-the vast rum palace-because some
of its principal patrons are stock.owners in
such establishments.
We say then to Parents, your children cannot
have the full benefit of religious training
anywhere until the Maine Law is adopted and
enforced. We may be considered infidel in
sentiment, when we say that the church OF
Christ, as well as the social circle, and the
State, needs the purifying, healthful, saving
inAunces of the Maine Law, or some other
law, which shall declare liquor nuisance, and
abate it. To whatever charge we may render
ourselves obnoxious, we affirm it as our honest
conviction.
The organ of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, O. [Ohio]) 1852-1853, 1852-02-13

iauor.sellers Of the land, Individual aouies-
tic, social happiness, are all laid wasla prop.
erty, health, life, reputation, eharaclcf. are n-
secure. The asylums for the Insane, lae
orphan, the poor, the criminal, are crowded /;
and yet the guardians and protectors Of So
ciety are overlooking all this, and dis,ribusing
their sympathes, and passing their resolptons,
and making their speeches, about foreign griey.
ances. We do not Complain of the iatter.we
wish there was ten fold more sympathy for the
oppressed Of other lands; but we must be per-
mitted to doubt its genuiueness when 50 little
is said or felt for the oppressed, and down-trod.
den, and uncared.for, around our own fire.
sides. The poor inebrate is the abiect slave
of the liquor-seller; and if he would escape
from his chains, like the "Milfofd bard,n he
must plead for admission to the Jail as an asy-
lum, place Of refuge The Jail Of Baltimore
was to that splendid writer what the United
States is to the glorious Kossuth--a place Of
security from his prosecutors. Thousands Of
noble men are now more oppressed BY the
liquor Haynaus of Ohio and New YORK, and
are pursued with as deadly aim, as ever the
Bems and Kossuths of Hungary were. Hun
dreds of thousands Of women and children in
these States, are doomed to more dre IN
oas than are the mothers and child
patriots of Hungary. The liquor-sellers Nod
the keys of these gloomy dungeons. We must
seize them, and throw open the prison houses
Destroy the liquor 9 Ohio and the work is
done. Thousands WIN emerge into the light
and blessedness OF day, who have long been
surrounded with the gloom of despair.
Governors! Legislators! Judges! Magis
tratcs when will you engage in the work of
yonr country's deliverancel
The organ of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, O. [Ohio]) 1852-1853, 1852-02-13

BIt has been proposed in the city councils
of Philadelphia to ask the Legislature Of Penn
sylvana to pass law requiring the fire insurance
companies chartered by the State and also for
eign agencies, to pay over all income over six
per cent, to a sinking fund, for the benefit of
the fire department,
~ Madame Thillon has creatad great SEN
sation in Boston, and on Monday the premiums
on tickets reached 1910. Tickets to the circle
81 aud $40.
p Capt. Levy, charged with holding imprO
per correspondence with Mexico, commanded
the o. S. stOrsship America, in the Mexican
war.
p During the past year Al OOS migrants
landed in Canada, and Of this number upwards
Of 20, 900 we're Irish.
~ David M'Conaughy, D. D., the venera-
bic President of the Washington College, at
Washington, Pa, died on Thursday Of last week
in the 74th year Of his age.
NAMING CHLDREN. Boston Post sup
poses there are already 25, 900 yOung KOssuths,
10000 Jenny Linds, and 5000 CathArine Hayes
in America.
The organ of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, O. [Ohio]) 1852-1853, 1852-02-13
Can't Legislate Evil out Of the
World"

Modern Soomons talk very wisely about the
impossibility Of ridding the world Of vice by
legislation, and ergo, no law should be passed
against iqour selling Rely, say they, wholly
on moral suasion," and ultimately you may
hope for a regenerated earth. We acknowledge
that all the experiments made by human gov
yernments to save society from the depredanons
Of outlaws, have failed TO accomplish iully the
end-but we deny the reasonableness OF the
conclusion The legislation OF four thousand
years to save society from being deirauded by
counterfeit money, by furnishing the counter
feiter, has not removed the evil. Every Penl-
Tertiary in the land gives evidence that law,
however wisely conceived, and faithfully exc
cuted, does not eradicate crime. Will we,
therefore, conclude that law is of no value,
and resort only TO persuasion Gods moral
government is a government Of law. Every
one of these laws have been ten Thousand times
violated by those who ought to yield implicit
obedience. But does the Almighty, therefore,
repeal his laws 4! No, If every creature in
the wide universe continues an unpardoned
and obstinate rebel, the statute will remain,
" The soul that sinneth, it shall die"
The organ of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, O. [Ohio]) 1852-1853, 1852-02-13
MADISON, Feb. 6, 1852.

Dear Friend: was much gratifed to re-
ceive your letter of Jan. 3lst, and also the
specimen number of " The Organ of Tenn
perance Reform"
You are right in supposing l am Tenn
perance man." A few weeks ago we organ.
lied society, called the Union Tempe.
rance Society of Madison" Wemeet every
week in different churches, and we have
excellent speaking, The clergy attend the
meetings. EVERY Protestant clergyman in
this city is Temperance man." What
other city can say so2 We have organized
a Temperance Glee club, of which am
amember. Wesing Temperance songs and
glees at the meetings, which help to keep
up the interest. The right spirit is up, and
may God cause the feeling to spread until
intemperance is banished from the land, and
is only heard of among the " the things that
lGere.''
At our next meeting, propose taking the
paper you sent and procure subscribers, and
hope to get large number A friend took
it to a Division of the Sons Of Temperance
on Tuesday evening, with view of getting
subscribers. IhaSe not heard what success
he met with.
l will thank you to request the publisher
of The Organ Of Temperance Reform to
send me the paper regularly, commencing
with the first number and when procure
more subscribers, will send the money for
all subscribed.
should like some copies of the " Maine
Liquor Law" think that its distribution
would do good
We have eightyjfoe licensed grog shops in
this city of 10000 inhabitants and it is
high time some action was had to stop them
in their nefariOus practices.
am right glad that Pearl street has all
come out and taken the new paper trust
many will be induced to reform.
Let me hear from you again.
Yours, respectfully, RI.
The organ of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, O. [Ohio]) 1852-1853, 1852-02-13
JOSH. BOWERS.
FRANKLIN, 0, Jan'v q, 1859

FRANKLIN, y. Jan'y Il, 1852.
Bro CLARK - There is "a good time COM
ing" Last night. and night before, DR., El-
lott, in his usual, forcible, witty, caustic,
every-body-interesting, and everybody hitting
style, lectured to crowded houses in this place.
Franklin has not witnessed so large and atten-
tive audiences on the subject of Temperance
for years. But the glorious sequel to this inter
est, is that on last evening, one hundred women
signed the suboined petition, and nearly as
many men; every one praying the same end.
More, all the women, and most of the men in
our township will sign it. God grant that all
the State may go and do likewise. Then shall
we have a land from whose faith and practice,
wealth and wisdom, health and holiness shall
abundantly abound throughout our noble State
Buckeyes shall cease to be buckeyed. None
shall be bitten by that which biteth like an
adder, and stingeth like a serpent; " none shall
be unwise, because whose is deceived thereby
is not wise" And none shall receive that no
which is pronounced against him tthe grog-
seller, and whose countenanceth HIM that
pusheih the bottle to his neighbor's mouth.
Here is the petition
"TO the Honorable Legislature Of the State
Of Ohio:
''Feeling the necessity of law that will ut
terly suppess and destroy the selling, as bev'
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erage, poison that diseases and destroys man
physically, intellectually and morally, that rObs
him OF his property, his characrer, and his hap
piness urges him to the perpetration OF every
species OF sin and crime, and makes unhappy
and miserable, oil with whom he is associated.
We, the iBoulen Of Franklin township, Warren
county, Ohio, do earnestly pray your honorable
body to protect us from the immeasurable and
endless curses to which we, and those dear 10
as are exposed, from the trufiic in itnoFicdfiag
liquors as a beverage, by passing q law similar
tO that adopted by the State q Maine"
What a righteous prayer Can there be
body oflegislat0rs on earth, that will not listen
to il, coming, as il does,
aFsom de tender mothers
Who dahdlsd them resi-,
Aud from the wives who nurse
Their babies ut their breast
And from the holy maidens
Whose love they hope TO share,
To save them from the tyrant
OF Misery and despair"
Though they might refuse their constituency
q prayer on which depended their every inter-
est, yet they must give woman that protection
which can alone make her home happy, or her
life endurable. She mas willingly submitted to
disfranchisement, and placed her all in the
hands of the ruder sex; and now when she
comes forth with her earnest cry and prayer for
against the most deudening and
damning Of oil evils, can they, dare they turn
a deaf ear No. Man cannot be so british
as to refuse kindness to her who is all kindness
--relief to her who never left the distressed un.
relieved, and justice to her who is never unjust
Her prayer will be heard by men if not, surely
by God who snswereth the prayer of the
righteous, and who will bring confusion on the
wretches who can refuse to protect her whom
He has placed under their protection, Yours,
w
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Observation-Disclosures

There is no quality we admire more than
frankne,s, even though it betrays mean aud
IIiberal .pirit. We have received from al
most every quarter the most cordial and warm
hearted support Of temperance men and DI"'-
ion. to our enterprise. "Materlal add has
been extended to the Organ thus FAR fully
equal to our expectations. There are, how
ever, some exceptions to this cordiallty. o.
ca.ionaily, a, in every good enterprise, we hnd
those who love to throw dirty water be-
cause that is their element
One specimen. Our publisher has received
a communication from Morrstown Division,
from which we make the following extract:
Bro. Clark-We received the Organ, the
drst and second numbers OF it, and the Division
instructed the r. S to LAY to 5. F, Cary,
through vyu, to send US the organ, on the old
.ub.cription, in lieu OF the Fountain, and stop
when our money is out" Signed 81 Thomas
B4xton, R. s." This contemplate slant at
the Editor Ui the Fountain IS worthy Of this
public exposure, and hence we make it, The
Morristown Division knows well that S. F.
Cary IS under no obligation to Them or any
body else, to supply the old subscribers OF the
Fountain" with the Organ, or any other
paper He wa simply the Editor Of that
Journal, and through year. Of struggling, la
bored gEataltou-Iy to sustain it. And it IS
proper gay, to winners and grum0Iers
that ev1 Nsve failure Of the Temperance
n
have bee only ones that have been de-
trquded out Of their just dues. Arrangements
in every case have been made, at whatever
,a,rii:e, to supply the subscription list, and it
is mean, beyond expression, to denounce those
who have generously. made sacrifices to save
others from petty losses.
Why need M9rrlstown Division trouble u
with such a communication, if it did not in
tend it as an insult. They were getting thei
paper regularly aud would get it to the yer,
last number, and tina; too as a gratuity. Le
it be remembered that this same Division wa
subscriber for only one copy Of the Fountain
We wish them and all others to understand
that we appeal to no mans generosity or be
nevoence az motives to sustain the Orgar
We are not mendicants, nor have we engage
in this enterprise to earn a livelihood. w
act from a sense Of duty, and we appeal t
the selfinterests of men, as individuals, an
as members OF society, to give our paper
wide circulation.
If Morristown Division will accept it, "
will furnish them a copy Of the Organ for
year at our own cost. They need light, and
would be a charity to give It.