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The morning comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-1856, 1856-07-08
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The Coasr TaAps.--Tbe Baton Rouge Comet, Of
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THE Coasr TaAps--Tbe Baton Rouge Comet, Of
Wednesday last, says;
just now there exists monopoly In the coast
trade, which In sensGly felt by merchants, pIant-
ers and others. dill the packets In this trade are
under the control of one company and they are
making hay whilst the sun shines Freiefts and
passage 10 and from New Orleans have advanced
twenty five per cent.
ON BOARD BELLA DONNA,
July 9th, 1856.
To Mh Eattor Of The 1foyni1g Comet.
Sin Above, Is an article copied in the Pic
ayune, Of this evening, which ifDot contradicted,
would cause injury, to the Boats doing n regular
business In the trade. s5.
In the frst places an Of the Packets, in the trade
are not owned by the same company. The Del
N Dd,nd, is still owned by the same company
that have been running her since the commence
ment Of her trips, and, have not yet, changed
her prices either for freight or pssaage. Con
seausntly your remarks OF "makiug hay whilst
the sun Shines" does moi apply to her-as refer"
ence TO the merchants and planters, doing bust
ness with the BELLA Donna, can testify.
Yours truly,
J. II. MORRISON, Capt. Bella Donna.
The morning comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-1856, 1856-07-08

American Literature is degenesat-
ing into vast stream of milk and
water. A great literary apostacy is
demoralizing it. Authors write, not
because they have a true or beautiful
word to say, but because they see
with the sharp little eyes of business
men, and the popular throat is agap
for such morscl, and that they can
prepare the morsel. A whole book,
whose staple is the unblushing nara
tive, by discarded suitor, Of the de-
tails of his chase. What culmina-
ton of literary Immortality.
The morning comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-1856, 1856-07-08

H Capt. J Fl. MORRISON, of the
steamer Bella Donna, has our thanks
for city favors,
The morning comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-1856, 1856-07-08

w- The regular N. 0. and Bayou
Sara, Packet Laurel Hill, Capt. J.
HOOPER, has our thanks for city
favors.
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1856-04-30
"a HARP OF A THOUSAND STRINGS

: A HARP OF A THOUSAND STRING 5
Come generous friends little while.
And listen to my song,
And though the subjects very great
The story won't be long.
Pm going to tell about the times"
And several other things; '.H'
Wen sing the words and play the tune
son harp of a thousand stringsP
Religion, Politics and Law, l7
Are ranging under par,
AS seen by microscopic aid
In Pulpit, Forum, Bar. . Hl
"A focus brought on either one
The same result still brings
A human being playing away
"On harp of a thousand stringsp
The Preachers amt as they used to be,
- In the good old days gone by,
They used to preach to the souls of mer,
Till they made the women cry.
They read their sermons nowadays,
The choir strikes up and sings
The folks cant join when the tune is played
Son harp of thousand stringsp
The members don't as they used to do
Their zeal and loves grown cold
They're thinking of the corn they've raised,
And how to get more gold:
And though the Preacher reads quite well,
Their consciences never sting
They'd rather steal the crown of gold,
And " the harp of thousand stringsw
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1856-04-30

TOUCHING INc1DENT-An affecting occur
renee took place some time ago in a seaboarc
town in England. Six little children go
into boat on the beach, and a mischievou'
boy showed it off. The boat drifted away t.
sea before tho children were missed. Terri
BILE was the agony of the mothers when they
knew it. A number of men went off in al
directions, every boat was on the look out
until far in the night. Daylight returned
and still there was no tidings from the help
less children; the day wore away, and still
nothing was heard from them. They were
either lost on the wide ocean or buried in its
unfathomable depths -
A Plymouth fisherman, fishing early next
morning, discovered something floating in the
distance; he bore down to it, and discovered
it to be boat, and in the bottom six child
rem, all huddled together like nest of birds,
fast asleep-God having given them that
blessed solace after day Of terror and des-
pair. He took them aboard and gladdened
their despairing little hearts with the promise
of taking them home. Between three and
four in the afternoon, the fisherman was seen
turned towards him; the best spy glasses in
the town were rubbed again and again, and
at last they could fairly see that it was the
identical boat. The news flew through the
town-the mothers came frantic to the beach
for there were no children discerned in the
boat; none to be seen in the sloop.
Intense was the agony of suspense, and all
alike shared it with the parents. At last
the boat came in, and the word went around
they are all safe;' and many stout-hearted
men bursted into tears, women shrieked with
Joy, and became almost frantic with their
unsupportable happiness. 1t was indeed a
memorable day; and "a prayer eloquent for
its rough simplicity, was offered up to AL
mighty God, who, in his infinite mercy, had
spared these innocent children from the perils
and terrors of the sea during that fearful
night. Five of these children were under
five years of age, and the sixth was but nine
years old.
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1856-04-30

N- A correspondent of the N. Y. Com
merclal Advertiser writing from Paris, gives
the following facts relative to the compare
tive purity Of Russian and Michigan copper
France uses yearly from fourteen to TWEEN
ty thousand tons of copper, principally in the
manufacture of bronzes, and only produce;
four thousand tons. Even this of an inferior
quality, being full of pyrites and other for.
eign substances Most of the copper used in
France comes from England directly and
from Russia indirectly. From this depend
ence upon England and Russia, Napoleon is
anxious to disenfranchse himself. Recently
the Baron Rothschild bought considerable
quantity of Minnesota copper, and had il
tried at the foundry of Strasbourg, in COM
parison with the best specimens of Russian
copper.
The American copper was found far supe-
rior both in tenacity and in delicacy of cast
Encouragement is Immediately to be given
by the French Government for transfer .oi
this trade from England and Russia to the
United States, speculation in which Roth
schild (acting for the new company got up
TO oppose the Credit Mo6;lier) will be large
ly engaged" i3ilI m3i. gfh n'' pr aaa
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1856-04-30
NUMBER 24O.

A .I u
| The PACIFIC RAILRoAD.--There are three
several propositions before the Senate of the
United States, for the establishment Of an
overland mail route to the Pacific. Horace
Greeley in one of his letters gives the follow
ing synopsis of them: 7lal
1. Mr. Weller's-proposing that the p.
M. General shall advertise for weekly mail
to be conveyed in four-horse post coaches
from the Mississippi river to San Francisco
in nineteen days the first year, and seventeen
for three years hereafter-said mail not TO
exceed three hundred pounds in weight with
out extra compensation, and not to cost moro
than $25O,OOO per annum. The contrac-
tors to choose their own road, (which is to be
protected by military posts at the points
most exposed to savage attack), and to be
allowed $25O,0OO from the Treasury, to be
expended in making bridges, sinking wells,
&c, so as to render the trip at all times prac-
ticable. a.flt .0r
2. Mr.. Brown's-proposing to incorporate
company to build railroad and telegraph
to California south of latitude 81 deg, and,
as an incitement to build it, giving to the
corporators thirty (mile square) sections Of
land for each mile in length of the road; also,
$4,000 per mile as loan, Ito be secured by
first mortgage), wherewith to purchase the
iron; also, 5000 per mile per annum for car
rying the mails thereon until the work shall
be completed and for ten years thereafter;
also, the right of way for width of four
hundred feet. o eL
8. Mr.. Weller's Railroad and Telegraph
bill-proposing to give company twelve
miles in width of the Public Lands and $685.
900 per mile in United States Six per Cent
Bonds, (the latter as first mortgage loan);
also not more than $500 per mile per an
mum for carrying the mails. hl
Such are substantially the leading provi-
sons of the several bills now before the SEN
ate looking to the opening of a direct or
overland mai-rout to the Pacific. Mr.. Den
yer, from the Select Committee raised on
his motion, has reported Railroad bill, not
vitality unlike that last presented to the
House, but it is not yet printed. ~
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1856-04-30

"I MUsT Goa common word yet how
full of meaning! "The school bell is ring.
ing," says the innocent little prattler at play
81 must 60" "The hour of labor has
come," says the man of toll, "and l must
60" A dying parishioner has sent for me,
says the clergyman, "and l must 60" An
other weary, cheerless, thankless day calls
me to the sanctum," says the editor, "and |
must CO." 81 have weighty case on hand
to-day, demanding all my time and atten-
tion," says the lawyer, "and must go"-
as if the universal motto of the age is echoed
and re-echoed on every side, by old and
young, high and low, rich and poor, happy
and miserable.
All must 60, all arc going, and yet the
restless, heaving, surging tide of humanity is
never gone. We might perhaps introduce
this expressive phrase into scenes Of greater
length, and of more than ordinary interest
but having other thoughts and other duties
to look after, we too, must 60" and be con-
tent to sketch one or two.
"''Tis getting late" says the lover to the
loved one, "and must 90; must bid fare
WSii, iOl oilllC, W CHOoO DllSnlul
hours, once more to mingle in the cares and
perplexities of busy world" Then clasping
her fondly to his bosom, and passionately
pressing those sweet lips to his own, he is
gone till those happy days may return, or
perchance till he may lead the gentler charm
er of his life willing captive to the hyme-
NAL altar
One short year rolls round, and how chang
ed the scene! Again, as then, it is night
A wan, pale being, of emaciated and fragile
form is lying on her dying couch. The long,
weary days, and weary nights have passed
away. Her hours of anguish are no more.
The insidious destroyer has done its work
Friends near and dear are around her-a
tender husband bends over her-but these
cannot arrest the hand of disease, or post
pone the parting hour "Hark, the angels
are whispering, come GOMEZ and / must
go; countless shining ones in white are wait
ing for me. [ must 90! Farewell till we
meet in heavenw The snowy hand falls
lifeless, nerveless by her side; smile of in
efable sweetness and beauty rests on those
pallid marble features, and she is gone-gone
forever
Gentle reader, like her. when the last of
earth shall come, may you hear the welcom-
ing OF whispering angels; like her respond,
81 must gop
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Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1856-04-30

Orr, THE STREET PREACHER, CREATING
WAR.-We have received the following from
Capt. Wells of bark Kate Lincoln, dated
Demerara, Feb. %:
The noted street preacher J. J. Orr, better
known in New York and other parts as the
"Angel Gabriel" has created great excite
ment in Demerara between the Portuguese
and blacks, so that the authorities have dis
patched to number of islands for vessels of
war to protect the place. / bear dispatches
to st. Vincent from the Governor of British
Guiana for vessels of war. No war vessels
in port, and but few troops, mostly colored.
They have taken about 600 or 700 rioters as
prisoners. The negroes have pulled down,
plundered and set fire to good many
Roman Catholic Churches and Portuguese
ships. The "Angel Gabriel is taken pris-
oner tt iH
The health of the port is very good
Times are rather dull, as all mercantile busi-
ness is suspended on account Of the not.
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1856-04-30

STEPHEN MUNROE, Physician and Sur
geon Office one door west of J. It. Davis
Tailor Shop, Washington street.
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1856-04-30

STONE q CHUBB, Manufacturers of Plows,
Cultivators, and Grain Cradles, and dealers in
all kinds of Agricultural Implements, and Ma
chimes. Agricultural Warehouse, Canal street,
Grand Rapids, Mich.
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1856-04-30

FERRY g. WALLACE, Dealers in Fancy
Goods Clothing, Boots and Shoes, Hardware
and Groceries. Water ST., Grand Haven, Mich.
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1856-04-30

FONER g. PARRY, Wholesale and Retail
Dealers in Hard and Hollow-Ware Iron, and
Manufacturers of Tin and Sheet-Iron Ware, foot
of Monroe street, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1856-04-30

FERRY A. SONS, Forwarding and Commits
sion Merchants. Central Dock, Grand Haven
Mich. ca4iaii
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1856-04-30

HOPKINS g. BROTHERS, Storage, Forward
ing and Commission Merchants; general dealers
in all kinds of Dry Goods, Groceries, Grain and
Provisions; manufacturers and dealers whole
sale and retail in all kinds of lumber Mill
Point Mich.
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1856-04-30
Noah III. Ferry.
rhos. w. Ferry,

Thos. w. Ferry, Noah III. Ferry.
FERRY 8 CO., Manufacturers of Lumber and
Dealers in all kinds of Merchandise, Provisions,
Shingle-Bolts, and Shingles. White Lake. Oce-
Re- ana Co., Mich.
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1856-04-30

JOHN It. DA VIS, Merchant Tailor. Shop on
Washington street, second door west of II. Grif-
fms store.
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1856-04-30

y
The SPRING TRADE IN New YoRK.-
Notwithstanding the backwardness Of the
season, trade has been unusually good. The
Independent of the Sd inst, says: .....
The dry goods houses are all now very
busy. Our city is crowded with merchants
from the interior, and the prospect for the
month of April is hattenng. The trade for
March has been at least one third larger than
last year, and it is presumed that the same
proportion will hold good to the end of the
season. Many descriptions of both staple
and fancy goods have receded in price, but
the changes thus far have not been import
ant. The auctions are more fully supplied
this week than last, but the sales for the most
part, considering the heavy importations, are
satisfactory. e., the losses have not been
very severe.
A rushing business has been done by the
retailers the past week. The spring fashions
in Ladies Hats are now exhibited in all the
millinery shops, and such demonstration of
folly was probably never before seen outside
of heathendom. st. PauIs injunction in re-
gard to covering the head has been entirely
forgotten. Wednesday was the opening Of
spring mantilas. The styles generally are
very beautiful and the variety unprecedented.
This branch Of trade has grown steadily and
rapidly for five years past, and is now at
tracing a good deal of attention. The ag-
gregate business in this line is much greater
the present season than ever before.
The PRINCIPLES WE FIGHT FoR.-JEF-
FERsoN lays down the following principles:
The People-the only source of legitimate
power.
The absolute and lasting severance of
church and state.
The freedom, sovereignty, and independ-
ence Of the respective states.
The Union-a confederacy, neither con-
solidation, nor Capitalization.
The Constitution of the Union-a special
grant of powers, limited and definite.
The civil paramount to the military power.
The Representative to obey instructions
of his constituents.
Elections free, and suffrage universal.
No hereditary office, nor order, nor title
No taxation beyond the public wants.
No national debt if possible.
No costly splendor OF administration.
No prescription of opinion, nor of public
discussion. a'a
No unnecessary interference with individ-
ual conduct, property or speech.
No favored classes, and no monopolies. a
No public money expended, except to
warrant or specific appropriation. raaog
No mysteries in government inaccessible
to the public eye. l 1e h
Public compensation for public services,
moderate salaries, and strict accountability.
Words are little things, but they strike
hard. We WELD them SO easily that we are
apt to forget their hidden power. Fifty spo-
ken, they fall like the sunshine, the dew, and
fertilizing rain-but when unftly, like the
frost, the hail, and the desolating tempest.
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1856-04-30
GRAND HAVEN, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 80, 1856

Office boy alone have touched it, and this on
ly to put it aside. 1
Ifin its noble career it has received single
tear, you trouble yourself very little to reme-
dy the accident; you allow the wound to
grow larger and larger, till its gaping lips
threaten to let the lining escape. Then only
do you make it submit, for good or evil, to
the cauterization of the needle.
Every pain, every humiliation, every kind
of suffering is the lot of the working coat
And why, if you please, do you treat it
thus? SO differently from the way you con-
duct towards its more fortunate brother 3
Does it render you less numerous or less i'm
portant services? have you anything to ap-
proach it with? If it is less beautiful, who
has defaced it! if it is no longer new, who
has worn it out? Confess simply that it
does not flatter your pride.
When you wear the best coat, you seek to
intoxicate yourself with too often imaginary
pleasure. When you put on the working
coat you fall back into the reality to which
we must come back, in spite of everything
This is what troubles you when you seize the
poor coat, which certainly is not too blame.
We will not be so ungrateful; let us re-
member from time to time that if the holi-
day coat is the most elegant, it owes it to
the working one, that one is only of the more
nice cut, and of the richer stuff, in proportion
as the other one works the harder. Finally,
it is the latter that gains the livelihood of
the former.
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1856-04-30

DIR. L. A. ROGERS, Surgeon Dentist, Office
in DR.. Shepards New Block, Monroe ST.. Grand
Rapids, Mich, where he may be found during
business hours.
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1856-04-30

.OTTA WA HOUSE formerly William Tell Ho-
tel) Levi Shacketon Proprietor, Water street,
Grand Haven, Mich
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1856-04-30


A HARD SHELL BAPTIST SERMoN.-W
find the following short but decided "Haro
Shell Baptist Sermon" going the rounds o.
the papers without sign of credit, although
the scene, as they have it in theatrical parl
ance, is laid in the interior of Kentucky. II
is averred that the thing is genuine-the
Sermon or harangue was really delivered.-
Be this as it may, it almost equals, in close
ness of argument and sickness to text, the
"spontaneous efforts" of the clerical hero
who played so Justify upon "Harp of a
Thousand Strings" But read the sermon
and Judge for yourselves:
My Brethenng: The scripture tells us,
ave are hurled with Christ by BAPTISM
Buried my friends, not sprinkled by bap-
tism."
Suppose that one of you had lost your
little da'ter and you had laid her ont and
prepared her for her little grave and your
neighbors had come in and said: "Friend,
we will take thy child and bury it," and af-
terward, when you went out to see the grave
of your little one, you find they had laid her
down and sprinkled little earth over her
w bdO NoulO you nave buuilh vi tllSlu
Suppose again, that in the fall Of the year
you had dug your turnips, your potatoes,
your parsnips, and your other roots for win
ter's use, and had dug trench to bury 'em
in; and YOU had said to your servant, Sally,
take the house gang and go and bury those
potatoes, those turnips, those parsnies, and
other roots; and afterwards when you walked
forth to see that all were secure for the win
ter's use, you had found that they had just
"sprinkled" little dirt on them! What,
my friends, would you have done? Irdther
suppose my dear brethren, you would have
tried the vrtews of the cow skin! But they
are not bit worse than those poor, ignorant
and benighted Episcopalians, and Methodists,
and Presbyterians who sprinkle little wa
ter on one another and call it "buried by
baptism"
l am afraid, my friends, very much afraid,
indeed, that they will catch something hotter
than the COW skin in the day of reck'ningw p
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1856-04-30

&C. DAVIS $ CO., Dealers in Dry Goods, Groce-
ries, Provisions, Hardware, Crockery, Boots and
Shoes, &c. Muskegon, Mich.
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1856-04-30

WASHINGTON HOUSE. BY Henry Penney
er The proprietor has the past spring newly
fitted and partly re-furnished this House, and
feels confident visitors will find the House to
compare fayorably with the best in the State.
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1856-04-30

A. B: BIDWELL $ SON, Confectionery and
Bakery, Grand Rapids, Mich. G. B. Albee agent
for Grand Haven and vicinity.
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1856-04-30

General Agent, Dealer in Salt, Flour. Dry and
Green Fruits, Provisions, Family Groceries
Drugs, Medicines, Perfumery, &C., &C., at his old
stand opposite the Washington House, Grand
Haven, Michigan.
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1856-04-30

CROSVENOR REED, Attorney and Counsel
lor at Law. All business intrusted to me will be
promptly and satisfactorily attended to- Resi-
dence, Charleston Landing, Ottawa Co. Mich.
Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1856-04-30

Words are little things, but they strike
hard. We WELD them SO easily that we are
apt to forget their hidden power. Fifty spo-
ken, they fall like the sunshine, the dew, and
fertilizing rain-but when unftly, like the
frost, the hail, and the desolatiug tempest.