Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1855-06-27

The New STATE OF SuPER1oR.-The Mn
nesotia,,, of st. Paul, has long and eloquent
article on the future of the North West,
and agitates the propriety Of Immediately
forming a new State of the vast extent of
territory on the south shore Of Lake Superior,
and north of Lake Michigan and Wisconsin,
now comprising portion Of this State. The
inhabitants of the Northern Peninsula of
this State have been agitating the propriety
of the formation of new State, to be COM
posed in part of the territory of that PENN
sula, and that granted by Wisconsin, though
no steps in the matter have been taken by our
Legislature.
This grant of Wisconsin, with that portion of
our State above mentioned, will include in
the new State all the south shore of Lake
Superior, from the western point thereof to
the ST. Mary's River, and the northern por-
ton of Lakes Huron and Michigan. The
4" Sault'' will be on its eastern border, and
the great mines of copper and iron will be
on its northern line; its western boundary
will be the st. Croix river. Should this ter
ritory be Incorporated into State, it will,
doubtless, soon become one of the most inter-
esting, wealthy and important portions of the
Union. The Minnesotian, after closing the
lengthy details of this proposition, scars off in
to the realms of fancy, and apostrophizes
thus eloquently:
"Then hail all hail to the coming new
State Of Superior! and hail to the State of
Dacotah, which, west of the Big Sioux and
on the Red River of the North, and with its
center in the glorious valley of the River
Jacques, shall bound Minnesota on the west |!
and hail to another sovereign community still
beyond in the fertile valleys of the Blackfeet
(the Sitsekeh), amidst the spurs of the Rocky
Mountains!
"And onward, westward still be thy march,
great Star of Empire Let State rank up
on State, until from the Atlantic to the Pa
cifc, there shall be one unbroken line of en-
|lightened empires, where the school house and
the church spire are the land marks of pro-
gress, where free industry meets respect and
reward and all the comforts of life abound,
where legislation is pure and unbought, and
ali men are secured in the proper enjoyment
of life, liberty, and the pursuit happiness
LARGE RECEIPTS OF GRAIN.-The Chicago
Press makes the following statement in re-
lation to the amount of grain arriving at that
city-nots so much prospect of famine as many
have anticipated
"Grain is arriving in this city to an extent
hardly anticipated from the beggarly account
of empty granaries footed up from the gener-
al reports and rlmors of the season. By ca
nal we have an average of 10000 bushels of
corn per day, and by the Galena Railroad
and branches nearly 10000 bushels-making
a total of 10000 bushels per day by these
two sources alone. Receipts of wheat and
oats by canal are also moderately fair; while
by railroad they are largely in excess of all
previous seasons"
Ey Last proposition for the destruction
| of Sevastopol. 1t beats the Yankees:
"It is proposed in England to destroy Sc
vastopol by means Of decorating silver COM
pound whose explosive power is forty times
gteater than that Of gunpowder. There is to
be a large steamer for the manufacture of
gas; and then balloon is to be sent up, with
a four hundred weight cask of decorating sill
yer hung to the car The motion of the bal
loon is to be partially regulated by coils of
wire rope in two small steamers; and when
the machine is directly over the devoted city,
the aroneaut is to cut off the cask, which is
to explode on alighting, and spread desolation
on all sides. THE artillery, bastions and
men, says the enthusiastic suggestor, will be
blown into the air for radius of one hundred
yards in diameter; the gunpowder or shells
in the vicinity will add to the devastation. +"