Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1856-04-30

to do during the few weeks that your trade
Is obstructed. If you have but the will to-
keep doing, you need very seldom stand idle
day in new and improving country.--
Rents will be lower there than here, food and
fuel generally cheaper, and you can wear
coarser and older clothing without asking or
caring what will be said about it. g9D{
But do not fancy the West a new Eden,
nor suppose that migrating thither will in
sure you against trouble and MISFORTUNE
On the contrary, you must 60 resolved to
work harder and endure more privations than
you ever did before. Your house will prob
ably be log cabin, and rather poor speci-
men of that order of architecture, if you at
tempt to settle on land of your own; you
will probably have the ague the first or sec
ond season, and should 60 prepared to treat
it intelhgently and effectively; you will find
yourself in want of many things that you
never needed before. And if, amid all these
trials, you happen to be blessed with such a
wife as Job had, or with any one who is not
helpful, hopeful and reasonable, you will
have urgent need of all Jobs ample stock of
patience.
If you 90 West GET LAND-a quarter
section, if you set down your stake in the
open country; an acre in the outskirts, if
you make your home in rising village
Do not try to monopolize all that joins you,
for you will want neighbors to help you build
school house and maintain a school, make
roads, construct bridges, DC. Many man
has kept himself poor for life and retarded
the improvement of his neighborhood, by
indulging in inordnate greed for land. But
if you mean tC farm, get quarter-section,
or an eight; choose it deliberately; plant
yourself on it, and resolve to stay there till
you are carried off in box The vagrant,
migratory, nomadic habits of our Western
People, who are too generally on the point
of selling out and moving further West, is in
its consequences most deplorable. Millions
live and die in mean cabins, without fruit,
or shade, or many of the cheapest comforts
of life, who would have long since enjoyed
them all if they had firmly resolved that
their first location should be their last and
let the newer pioneers pass and settle beyond
them. Take time to make your choice of a
home, and when you have made it abide
by it.
And it does not make half the odds you
may suppose whether you locate in one State
or another. Iowa and Kansas are just now
the favorites; but grumblers and annoyances
will be found in these as well as elsewhere.
There are very good lands never yet occu-
pied in Illinois, in Wisconsin, in Indiana; or
even in Ohio and Western Pennsylvania
If you have means, you can buy rude i'm
provement cheaper than you can make it;
and there are lands as cheap, all things con-
sidered, in New Jersey or Pennsylvania as in
Nebraska; only the man who has no money
may squat on quarter-section at the Far
West and hope to earn therefrom the means
of buying it; while that process will not an
swer in communities where the land is al
ready appropriated. He who can command
three or four thousand dollars can find land
worth buying in any State; but if he has to
learn the art of farming as well as acquire
the money, he can better exist while SO doing
at the West.
Mechanics Laborers men who wish to
rise by downright Industry, yet have no as
surance of doing it in the East-there are
room and hope for you all in the ample and
generous West. Do not wait to be starved
out, but earn, if you have nothing, enough
to take you to one of the Western cities and
leave you a few dollars to live on---then take
the first work that offers till you can do bet.
ter, and, so soon as possible, fix yourself Oh
land and in home of your own.
"THE Rev. A. ST. CLAIR" The shrewdest
| political movement that the "Republican'
leaders have yet made, is that of getting rid
of that universal bore and eternal usy-body
"Rev. A. st. Clair" before the active labor
of the campaign begins. From the time Of
making nominations till the close of the polls
for years past, he has showed his ugly mug
into the political canvass, in favor of the
party which would give the largest promise
and the most INSCRIPTIONS work. The latter
however, is, with him, the greatest induce
ment, and he, accordingly, faithfully served
the Liberty party" and Abolition in gen
eral, until 1852, when he enlisted for the
campaign in the service of the Wings, and
stumped part of the State. Medusa's head
never turned the spectators to stone with
more certainty than his repealed voters from
| tho causa which bo bad oenousod o,d b;s