Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1856-02-13

this road is progressing more rapidly than at
any previous time. Mr. Hall informs us that
the contractors estimates of work performed
for December, were larger than for any pre-
vious month, and that the estimates for this
month will be larger than those of Decem-
Der. The Dewitt Erpress speaks as follows
of the progress of the work in Clinton coun-
ty:- : AoFr ...Lt-..
"The work on the Detroit and Milwau-
kee Railway is, we are glad to learn, progress
ing rapidly. AS our readers know, it is
now completed as far as the village of Lin
den, five miles west of Fentonville. We are
told that between Linden and Maple river
there is but three miles of grading to be
done. From st. John in our county, to the
Maple is ten miles, making thirteen miles of
grading TO be done between St. Johns and
Linden. There is no heavy work, we be-
lieve, upon this thirteen miles, except the cut
at st. Johns, upon which workmen are now
engaged. The prospect is that the road will
be in running order to the city of the woods"
some time during the coming summer, so
that we may safely count on having the sur
plus of this years crops carried out by it.
"The completion OF the road to the cen
tire of our county will raise the value OF farm
ing lands from 60 to 100 per cent and per-
sonal property in proportion, besides which,
we shall then have as good market as any
place in the interior of the State. We can
not conclude this article without bearing wit
ness to the high estimation in which our
citizens hold the indefatigable Stewart,
through whose exertions the work has taken
its present favorable aspect. Northern Mich
igan will ever hold him in truly grateful re-
membrance."
SPEAK Ill OF NO ONE WITHOUT A JUST
CAUsE.-There are many people in the world
who are in the habit Of speaking lightly or
contemptuously of their neighbors, and some
who do not scruple to treat those who are abb
sent with the greatest disrespect, by showing
up their faults to those who are present, with
out ever alluding to any good qualities they
possess. There is nothing so detestable as
this habit of backbting in society," it often
produces the greatest bitterness of feelings
between those who ought to live in peace and
good fellowship toward each other, and it
never does any good. 1t generally arises from
a selfish feeling, but sometimes from thought
lessness; in either case il is injurious to socie-
ty, and ought to be condemned by every well
meaning and sensible person. Selfish per-
sons have generally such an over-appreciation
of themselves, and the situation they hold in
society, that they are apt to speak of others
with contempt, and are even happy when
they discover the least fault (however trivial
it may be) in some of their neighbors or ac-
quaintances. Instead of which it would be
well for them to examine their own conduct,
to see whether they were without fault, and
ask themselves whether they would like any
fault or foible they might be guilty Of to be
made the subject of conversation amongst
their neighbors. 1t would be better if they
were to consider the noble destiny which all
mankind partake of in common with them
selves, both as respects the great moral ends
of this life, and the more sublime prospects
of the future-if they would remember the
great fellowship of our common humanity
the social end, which as parts of a great COM
munity we are all working to attain, and
which awaits us at the close of our brief exist
ence. Let them reflect on these things, and
not offend their Creator by injuring their fel-
low creatures-rather let them Judge others
with tenderness, as they would wish to be
judged, putting aside the weeds that cover
the surface of the characters of their neigh
bors, to ascertain the depth and sweetness of
the clear water beneath it.
You've SAM AT HIS MEALs.--Among the
statuary at the Palace, there is a group in
marble, of plaster, by Jones of London, la
beled "Ptolemy Lagus nourished by an ca
GLE" The bird is represented as in the act
Of shielding an infant from the cold with its
wings, while bit of something which might
be date or some such edible, lis being
placed in the open mouth of the little fellow
by the beak of its feathered nurse.
Yesterday, during the rain number of
western drovers, who had finished their bust