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Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1854-06-21
Good Books.

" Give attendance to redding."-St. Paul.
WiSdom's rays are trays Of pleasdntness, and all
her paths are paths Of pedce."-Solomon.
Rev. VIM. c. Comfort has just received choice
selection of Religious and Miscellaneous books
which he will sell at New York Prices, at his resi-
dence or on application in any part of his circuit
All the Publications of the Methodist Book Con-
Germ furnished to order, and also the works of 9TH
or publishers which kept on sale at their con-
Germ. He is also agent for the Methodist Quarter
ly Review, Christian Advocate and Journal North.
western Christian Advocate (of Chicago) Sundy
School Advocate, Missionary Advocate, Ladies'
Repository and National Magazine. [91
new supply of Bibles and Testaments just re-
ceived. Oct. 1853.
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1854-06-21
Oakland and Ottawa Railroad.

FTNHE STOCKHOLDERS of the Oakland and OTTAWA
i Railroad are hereby notified that payment Is
required upon the subscriptions to the Stock of
said Company, at the rate of five per cent per
month, on the first day of every month, to the
Treasurer. BY order of the Directors.
Payment by subscribers in Ottawa County may
be made to III. Pennoyer, Esq., Agent at Grand
Haven. G. G. TRowBRIDGE, Treasurer
Grand Haven, Dec. 6, 1853. T124tf
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1854-06-21
sTATE or MICHIGAN, County of Ottawa, SIS :.

STATE OF MICHIGAN, County of Ottawa, IS
At session of the Probate Court for said county
of Ottawa, holden at the office of the Judge
thereof at Grand Haven, on Monday, the eighth
day of May, in the year one thousand eight
hundred and ffty-four: Present, William Hath
away Jr Judge of Probate: In the matter of
the estate of Thomas w. Dill, deceased:
On reading and filing the petition, duly verified,
~ ofSusan Dill, representing the death of Thorn
as W. Dill and asking for letters of administration
on the estate of said deceased: Thereupon it is
dered, that Monday, the twenty-ninth day of May,
inst, at one o'clock in the afternoon, be assigned
for the hearing of said petition and that the heirs
at law of said deceased, and all other persons in
terested in said estate, required to appear at
session of said Probate Court then to be holden
at the Office of the Judge, thereof, at Grand Ha-
ven, and show cause, if any there be, why the
prayer of the petitioner should not be granted:
and it is further ordered, that said petitioner, SUI
san Dill give notice to the persons interested in
said estate, of the tendency of said petition and
the hearing thereof by causing copy of this or
der to be published in the Grand River Times,
newspaper printed and circulating in the county
of Ottawa three successive weeks previous to said
day of hearing lao wa
WILLIAM HATHAWAY, Jr, Judge of Probate.
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1854-06-21

The following lands, situated in this county, are
a portion of those which will be offered at TINS
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-08-03
Man as he Is.

Psychologists have not only discovered that
man is an engine, gliding along the track of
life, often at the fearful speed of sixty miles
an hour, but he is also a steamship-a chemi-
cal laboratory-a distillery-a force pump-a
grist mill-a furnace-an iron mine-a manu-
factory-a commercial city-an electric tele-
graph-in short, he is a crystal palace, where
he can go and examine the choicest works of
art-the most exquisite developments of sci
ence-the wonderful phenomena never yet
fully understood Of the union of mind and
matter, commngIing so harmonously that we
can only realize the fact, without clearly com
pretending the manner of union-so that.
when we leave the exhibition, we are either
awed into silence by the sublime mystery of
our own existence, or exclaim with reverend
wonder, 'the hand that made US is divine
And was this wonderful impersonation of
Divinity destined to perish like the other ami
mails in the scale beneath him! Can there be
such being as an atheistl We can't think
it-nay, we don't believe it, 'Why shrinks
the soul back on herself, says Plato, 'and
startles at destruction
The dog is still the same Is he was 900
years ago so is the horse, and all the other
animals But man stands on the confines of
worlds. He is deity himself by divine Gre
alton; and yet, strange to say, has hardly be-
gun to study himself-nay, he seems afraid to
approach the subject. The light of truth
seems to dazzle his eyes. What strange in
consistency in his divinity of character. And
it is this, we think, which has set afoat the
idea of atheism-at least, it has in no small
degree conspred towards it, for every age has
assumed that they have arrived at the apex of
all knoacledge, and hitherto thou shalt go, and
no farther has been the mandate
Still science has progressed, and will pro-
gress, despite all this. She has shown man
with his feet upon two worlds-the animal
and the spiritual-and bid him go forward and
fear nothing. Thus posted by divine man
date, who shall be afraid 10 investigate any,
Everything Science has brought up
what is called 'Spiritualism, too, and bids US
examine that. And it is truly amusing to see
how many run away at the thought, as if it
were some terrible Gorgon, ready to swallow
US all up. An under-current is at work, too,
favoring such silly fears but the light Of sci
ence will, in time, dispel all the one, and this
same spiritualism bids fair to very soon show
up the other in its true colors. In fine, at
this age Of the world, any man must be the
veriest coward who is afraid to investigate
ANYTHING.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-08-03
A Visit to Mount Vernon.

A correspondent of the New York Times
gives the following description of the present
appearance of the home of Washington.
We are some sixteen miles below Wash
ington, believe. The band is playing sol
emn music, and now the steamboat bell tolls.
OFF to the right you see the low white house
on the bank, and little below it, dark spot.
Speak lower. The Father of our Country
lies sleeping at that dark spot, and the low
white house was his home. Old men drop
their chins upon their canes, and tears fill
their eyes as they look The young look
grave, and speak in whispers The steamer
rounds to at the wharf and makes fast Our
captain says we can stay two hours-we need
be in no hurry. The band precedes, playing
a dirge, and by twos the company wind up the
bank. In wild spot, we'll shadowed with
trees, by fence that protects simple una
dorned brick vault, the procession halts. 1t
is the tomb of Washington There has been
no concert about it, but spontaneously almost
every head is uncovered. A few moments
passed in silence, and the crowd disperses
about the grounds. 1t seemed as if this
might have been the funeral procession-that
just now the good man might be lying in his
shroud-the calm, grave forehead even now
scarcely cold, and we the mourners, now 90
ing to our homes to study out the depth and
severity of our loss.
The front of the vault is open. Behind
iron bars, which reach to the wall, are placed
two white marble sarcophagi. In one lies all
that was mortal of Washington, in the other
the remains of Martha Washington. The
eagle is cut upon the top of his-that is all.
On the end is an inscription, saying that, by
permission, the bones of our father were taken
from the old tomb and placed in that marble
receptacle in 1887. There are monuments
near, but they are of other members of the
family.
We wind still further up the hill, some
stopping to gather flowers springing from the
sacred soil, some TO break sprig of evergreen
from the trees that murmur their sorrow to
every wind, some to treasure pebble as
memento of the spot--and here is the old
vault in which Washington was buried. We
may enter it, and be inclosed within the same
narrow walls that held his precious remains.
We may clip off a piece of the sandstone arch
that prevented the earth from laying too heavy
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-08-03
Hon. Albion K. Paris.

Mr.. Parris's democracy is old enough and
democrat, or who has any disposition to act
with the democratic party. As democrat he
is above reproach and entirely unexceptiona-
bic, and we know Of no good reason why he
should not as gubernatorial candidate be re-
garded as satisfactory by all who have any re-
gard for democratic principles. He has never
belonged to any division or clique Of the party
nor taken part in any Of the contests among
those who have asplred TO its honors. No such
objections can be made TO him. His unani-
nous nomination by one Of the largest delegate
conventions ever holden in the State is conclu-
sive on this point. He is the common property
of the party, and true representative of demo-
cratic principes-of old fashioned Jeffersonian
and Jacksonian Democracy, uradulterated and
genune-Modern patent Improvements (such
as Maine law and anti Maine law) have found
no favor with him as party principles or polt-
ical elements. Although conscientious, con-
sistent and decided friend of the temperance
cause for thirty or forty years, yet he is not in
favor of a political moral party. The best,
most reliable and efficient friends Of temper
ance to be found anywhere in the State are
among his supporters. Among his friends are
those who like and those who do not like the
Maine law Political confidence is reposed in
him by men who disagree in their religious
views and as to the best method Of promoting
the temperance cause. He is not only prac-
tically and theoretically temperance man, but
pure moralist and most exemplary Christian.
Yet he is not '' ramrod " nor :. rummy," Z"
and neither religious bigot nor an rreigious
man. The virtues Of the sound democrat, the
exemplary moralist and the Chrisiiaa gentle
man are so united in him as TO form charac-
ter most admirable for its symmetry and per-
fection.
Such is the democratic candidate for COVER
nor. A long tried and consistent democrat, a
long tried and consistent friend of temperance,
well known Christian gentleman, and pos
sessing all the Jeffersonan qualifications for
office. How immeasurably he tuwers above
all other candidates. Bangor Democrat.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-08-03
A Home in the Evening.

One of the grossest neglects of youth, pro-
ducing incalculable mischief and ruin, is the
spending of his evenings. Darkness is tempt
alton TO misconduct; suffering the young to
be out when the light Of day does not restrain
them from misconduct, is training them 10 it.
We have already an abundant harvest of thus
succeeding. Riots, mobs, crimes, giving
fearful forebodings, are the result Of youth be-
coming fit agents of outrage, by running un-
cared for in the evening. What we see in
these respects is deplorable enough, but what
is this compared with what we do not see
muItitudes making themselves miserable and
noxious to the world, and what is that to
come to Parents should look at the truth.
that pleasures and recreations are often dearly
purchased-the price of their own impaired
comfort, and the blighted prospects Of their
offspring. 1t must be obvious that IN this
matter there can be no prescribed rule. There
can be no interior of all the evening recrea-
tion and employments, yet there Is an evil not
only destructive to youth, but planting thorns
in many paths, and covering many lives with
desolation. The information demanded must
proceed from Judgment and conscience-must
be enlightened Heads Of families must learn
that the place on earth best adapted to bless
ing, is home and BY example and wholesome
restraint, they must teach this truth to all un-
der them.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-08-03
Paper.

1t will not do any longer to stigmatize any,
thing by saying it is worthless as an old rag,
for old rags and scraps of paper are among
the most valuable of modern things. Paper
is almost worth its weight in gold In the
progress of our literature, every sheet of pa
per as soon as made, IS wanted to receive
somebody's thoughts upon its fair surface
The paper-makers cannot find material enough
to make into paper, and the prices for all sorts
of rags and waste stuff that can be turned into
paper, have advanced wonderfully. We paw
much higher price than ever before for pa
per on which this IS printed, and if we COM
plain Of the quality, the dealer is quite easy,
for he knows we can do no better anywhere
else, if as well.
Two cents pound for the poorest shreds of
paper are paid by dealers in old rags, &c.
In these circumstances, we say to housekeep-
ers, be careful, and save everything that can
be turned into paper. Don't kindle your fires
with paper, not even with shreds and shaw
ing Of it. It is worth its weight in copper, il
not in fine gold and you can't afford to lose
il. Only think what would become Of us il
the supply of paper should fail.-N. Y. Or
OHn
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-08-03

on his breast. 1t is utterly ruin. Trees
grow over the spot, but there is no evidence
of care for its preservation. 1t makes us sad
to think that such precious relics lie open to
all intruders, and that Time is permitted to do
his ruthless work on the premises without
hindrance. The present owner of the prop
erty has another place on which he lives ex-
cept for few months, and now there are but
an overseer and some twenty-five or thirty
hands to work this farm and keep the grounds
in good order. Fhe estate includes some I4OO
acres, but only 500 Of them are under cultiva-
ton. To 60 over it now, one wonders how
Washington could have performed here his
elaborate experiments, and succeed as he did
with agriculture. But we remember that It
has been skinned and worn down with rails
ing tobacco, and received nothing for all it has
yielded these many years.
L will not describe Mount Vernon, nor the
fine old house; with its drawing room, with
its ceilings adorned in better taste than our
builders now adorn mansions, and its hand
some imported marble mantles, nor the pic
lures, nor the old chairs and tables, nor the
relics scattered throughout the house, many
of them left just as the great man left them.
The key of the Bastile had been temporarily
removed from its nail in the hall, and we did
not go into the room where he died-it was
better that we should not. But we rambled
over the grounds, and through the graveled
walks, and followed the carriage way that
surrounded the still close shaven lawn, on one
side of which is the vegetable garden, and on
the other the fower-garden, still inclosed in
the brick walls that he had built. The flow
er garden is in its glory. An old colored
boy stands just inside the gate, selling canes,
and mother gathers bouquet for those who
care to invest in such frail memorials. For
those who are particularly polite and liberal
she puts in sqrig of high geranium,' which
she says is the most valuable flower there,
for its seed came from the garden of Napo-
leon.'
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-08-03
Cheese as a Digester.

As digester, as some not inappropriately
call it, cheese-that which is decayed and
mouldy being preferred by connoisseurs-is
often eaten after dinner. The action which
experience seems to have proved it to possess
in aiding the digestion of what has previously
been eaten is both curious and interesting,
and has had some light thrown upon it by re-
cent chymcal research. When the curd of
milk is exposed to the air in moist state for
few days at moderate temperature, it be-
gins gradually to decay, to emit a disagreca-
BILE odor, and to ferment When in this state,
it possesses the property, in certain circum-
stances, of inducing a species of chymical
change and fermentation in other moist sub
stance with which it is mixed or is brought
into contact. 1t acts after the same manner
as sour leaven does when mixed with sweet
dough.
Now, old and partially decayed cheese acts
in similar way when introduced into the
stomach. 1t causes chymical changes gradu-
ally to commence among the particles of the
food which has previously been eaten and thus
facilitates the dissolution which necessarily
precedes digestion. 1t is only some kind Of
cheese, however, which will effect this pur-
pose. Those are generally considered the
best in which some kind Of cheese mould has
established ITSELF Hence the mere eating Of
morsel OF cheese after dinner does not nee
essarily promote digestion If too new or of
improper quality, it will only add to the guam
tity of food with which the stomach is already
overloaded, and will have to await its turn for
digestion by the ordinary process.-C CHEMISTRY
of common Life.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-08-03

south for time they may succeed by their
appeals, their denunciations, and their false
representations, in deceiving some Of the very
elect Of the democracy. But truth is power
ful and will prevail. The right of the people
to make their own laws, to establish their own
institutions, is toe clear to be long doubted !;
too sacred to be surrendered to the fuctuating
policy of congress, or TO the dctation of aristo-
Gratis, bigots and priests in the pulpit or out of
it, We welcome The opponents of the Nebras-
ka bill 10 their proposed field of conflict With
Seward or with Sumner for their standard
bearer, and with the three thousand clergy
men, and Lucy Stone, and all their hosts. for
hackers, we will meet them at the baIlot-boS,
and give them New Orleans defeat.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-08-03

Maryland was the first of the American
States in which religious federation was estab-
lished by law. Lord Baltimore proclaimed
that religious federation should be the funda-
mental principle of the Colonial social union ;
and the Assembly, in l649, mostly Roman
Catholics, declared and ordained that no person
protesting TO believe in Jesus Christ should be
molested on account of his faith, or denied the
free exercise of his mode of worship AT this
time the Puriians were prosecuting their Pro-
testant brethren in New England. and the
EpIscopallans, Of Virginia, prosecuting the
Puritans; while Catholic Maryland was a
sanctuary for the refugees Of all denominations
OF Christians where Protes,ants sought refuge
from Protesiants. And afterwards those Pro-
testant refugees sought the abrogation of the
Catholic worship and religious federation in
Maryland, and effected it by legal enactment in
1854
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-08-03
Choir Singing.

A correspondent Of the New York Musical
ReUielO, writing from somewhere ia New
England, talks TO the poiut in the matter Of
choir singing He says, in describing the
scene in the village church where he attended
worship: The singing was good, but il was
all done by the choir. The people sat in 81
lence, while twelve singers, melodeon and
violincello, performed that only part Of Divine
Worship, in which ALL. saint and sinner, young
and old, eau be induced TO take part. If |
were the Musical ReUieio gentlemen, / should
oppose the choir system, root and branch.
should urge the churches to employ compe-
tent person-and employ him permanently
whose duty should be, first, to lead the singing
on Sunday; second, and chiefly, to make the
whole congregation a choir, dividing the peo-
pie into suitable classes, and devoting three
evenings a week to their instruction. He
should undertake the musical education Of the
church in fact and drill all the people into
harmony Think of this, Messrs. Editors.
Consider the many advantages that would
arise from general diffusion of knowledge
of music, and imagine the truly great effect of
whole congregation rising and singing with
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-08-03

one voice, and one heart, and one tune. a
choir Why, the performance of the best
choir that ever played pranks in a gallery is
tame and mean compared with that of large
assembly, even though they sing with toler-
able degree Of correctness. Have you ever
heard Of any musical performance equal in
sublime effect to the Doxology. when sung al
the Tabernacle by four thousand voices, at the
close Of an anniversaryl have not. Yet
have heard the best singers, the largest or
chestras, the most thrilling operas, and the
grandest oratarios, that either continent has
knowh Down with the choir system, / say.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-08-03
Soda Water.

In an article recently published in the
American Medical Monthly, Dr. Doremus
makes some interesting statements relative to
the existence of poisonous substance in soda
water. He says that the test of several gal
Ions obtained from digerent sources, showed
the presence of one and half grains of car
Donate Of copper, to every quart Of the fluid.
This deleterious product was the result of
the corrosion of the copper condenser, where
the water containing the carbonic and sulphur
ic acids found in soda had been standing in it
several days. When the tin with which the
condensers are usually lined is i'll good condi-
ton, of course there can be no corrosion but
after use for some time, the tin wears away,
and the copper is exposed. Carbonate of
lead, also, derived probably from the lead
pipes used in conveying the waters to the jet,
was found in most of the waters examined.
DR.. Doremus says that the use of soda water
sometimes, though rarely, produces sickness,
vomiting and attacks like cholera, and he
recommends condensers of iron, stone, block
tin or gutta percha, as substitutes for those
commonly in use, whose imperfect timing or
corrosion from long use renders them danger
Gus to health and life.-Boston Journal.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-08-03
$500, ,450 1865

With smaller population, these Southern
States have the larger number of churches,
and relatively much the less number Of crimi-
nails.
1t might be we'll for some of our far-reach-
ing philanthropists to labor for the cure Of the
evils existing at home. The North may not
have African slavery, but it hugs to its bosom
wrongs quite as bad. The garden Of Eden
has not yet been discovered this side of Ma
son and Dixon's line-neither does the prom
ised millennium seem to have commenced
among us.-Argus.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-08-03

RosEs. Have you any Of the hardy climb
ing roses, the Bourssault, or queen OF the
prairie-for instance! Y0u may make q
beautiful thing Of il in this way. Insert at
the proper season buds into the man canes, OF
various other sorts Of roses-such as the double
and single, the large cabbage and the small
Caledonian, the white and the red, the yellow
and the blush, the purple and the yariegated.
These buds will all put forth into new shoots,
and in the course Of a year or two, you will
have your trelHs, or the side Of your house
covered by spreading rose vine that when in
blossom will be incomparably rich and beauti-
ul having all sizes and colors growing and
commingling together
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-08-03

PASSING THE CoMPLIMENTs.-GoOd NOR.
ming, Mr. SmiIh-On the sick list to-day y
Yes, sir. got the ague.'' Do you ever shakel'
Yes, shake amazingly When do you shake
again ~. Can't say when; shake every day.
Why do you ask = v. o, Rpihing particular,
only thought il you shook bad, Id like %
stand by aud see if | couldn'I shake the fifteen
dollars out Of your pocket which you have
owed me 50 long
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-08-03
North and South.

1t is the fashion nowadays with certain
fanatical brawlers, to represent the South as
a sort Of Sodom. In justice to that section,
we present from the last census the following
statistics of the population, and also the pro-
visions for moral and religious culture, of ten
prominent northern and ten prominent south
ern States
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-08-03

"A woman was giving evidence in 4 certain
case, when she was asked by The lawyer WaRs
The young woman vIrtunns previnus 10 this
affair y Was she what .Virtuons. Wpn
she chastel' Chaste she was chased RbPpl n
quarter Of mile