Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1853-11-30

bound volume of the Congressional Globe con-
tanning the debates and proceedings OF the Sec
ond session of the thirty-seeond Cpnsress,'and
also the Appendix to the Globe containing the
speeches, important State papers, laws, &c, for
the same session. We have also within short
time past received other valuable public docu-
ments from the same source
DETROIT MARKET.-On the Oath flour was
quoted at 1854; wheat was sold from wag-
ons at $3.50; corn steady at 60c.; oats quiet
at 35c.; dressed hogs from $500 to 1925.
For the Grand River Times.
MEssRs. EDITORS II noticed in your last
Issue an article headed Fall Travel" which ar.
rested my attention and called up the whole list
of "experiments" and assurances" we, the
people, have starved upon for years past. Now
so far as the public are concerned facts will not
harm, and the public should be heard in their
wants and if the public will be united, all their
wrongs, if wrong is in any way perpetrated,
upon or against them, will at once cease or re-
dress be mected out
Let me ask what has ever been our steam
boat advantages! There is but one answer to
this question. Whenever there was spare
boat under the control of the propretors of the
fines on this lake, that was not for the time
needed at any other point, we have been favor
ed with repeated visits, with the " assurances"
of continuance Of the favor and accommoda-
ton. What has been the fact? Just as you,
Messrs. Editors, and others occupying similar
stations, out of pure regard to the public con-
venience and prosperity of the Grand River
Valley, had spread far and wide these "assu-
rances," passengers begin to collect, and day
after day, in anxiety to proceed upon their jour-
ney, they wait the return of the boat until CON-
PEELED to take passage upon sail vessel or re-
turn by the way of Grand Rapids and Kalama-
zoo in order to prosecute their journey. "Where
| is the boat! What is the matter of the boat %
is heard everywhere. When too, perhaps in
comes the boat, on day unlocked for, or in its
stead news that she had great offer to take
cargo to the Sault st. Marie, or she has gone to
Detroit to take the place of some other boat,
and we are to have boat" as soon as boat"
can come up Do we get it! Perhaps we do,
or some do say, how can we expect any one TO
run steamboat from this place to Chicago
whenever they can do better? 1t is not neces-
sary for me to stop and discuss this question.
" A rolling stone gathers no moss,a is trite
saying and no more trite than true. Just so
long as our steamboat communication contin-
ues as in years past there will be TO amount Of
travel None but green ones will be caught
here waiting for our boat in these days, when
every traveller will run the risk of breaking his
neck it he can gain his point Of destination two
moments sooner.
My opinion, Messrs. Editors, is after this fash
ion: The time has come and passed when the
inhabitants of the Grand River Valley should
arise and in their united strength say that we
must have stronger assurances" that boat
shall be in regular communication with Chicago,
and such boat they will patronize, and mono
other, so long as only one can be sustained.
There has been, and are now, men who stand
ready to place first class boat upon this route,
and live or die with us, if we will only say uni
tedly they shall receive our patronage, and not
IdiIoW tucui W oS uINCu lIoui tiIc IOutc Wy tHC
strong man armed. | think it high time we
were awake to our interest as individuals, our
interests as community, and not be tempered
with to the injury of ourselves and the whole
Valley we boast Of so much. A winter is now
before us, and hope and trust that before it
passes away that some measures will be adopt
ed and that too, by unity Of action on the part
of all interested, to obtain at least more reliable
"assurances" of regular steamboat commuhi-
cation across this lake.
e45@ OF the late Senator ATHERToN tho
Granite Farmer says:
Paralysis was hereditary disease in his fami-
ly. He anticipated that he would be attacked
by it, though not so soon. "A post mortem ex-
animation showed, that the whole of the right
hemisphere of his brain was in a softened state.
The weight of his brain was found to be 3 lbs.
81 ounces; that Of Webster weighed lbs. 81
ounces. The brain of men in general weighs,
it is said, about lbs ounce. a
Thus, another great light is suddenly extin-
guished in death. Another jewel is pucked
from the crown Of New Hampshire Cut off
in the prime of manhood, and in the full possess
ion of mental powers of the rarest excellence
and fneness, occupying one of the most eminent