Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1856-09-10


His was the last speech of the day, though
we expected our next member of Congress
Mr.. LIrTLEJoHN, to speak to us in the eve
ming, he was obliged, however, to go to Paw
Paw l will guaranty that fusionism dies
wherever he and the Indianian go. They
each have fashion Of killing the article, pc
culiar to themselves After its death in No
vember, / would suggest as an appropriate
epitaph for it, in this long district: Died,
of sickness caught at Kalamazoo Sept. 8,
1850. M0nr.
OTTAWA CENTER.-A hasty visit, recently
made to this place. which has Of late become
a point of considerable interest to citizens in
various parts of our county, who are turning
their thoughts to change of the political
and judicial center of the same, convnces lis
that the spirit of rapid improvement, so con-
spicuously developed at other points in the
Grand River Valley, has by no means made
an exception of this.
Six new dwellings are now in the course
of construction, all of colnmodious dmen-
sions and of a style of architecture that shows
at once an idea of comfort and convenience
combined with beauty of form and finish. In
addition to these, large building designed
for the grocery business is nearly completed,
and several shops for different mechanical OPP
erations are being erected or in contempla-
ton. The proprietor of the village, BENZ.
SMITH, ESQ.,, informs us he has sold thirty
lots within few months, to persons who in
tend to build thereon and become actual set
tiers. No lots are sold to nonresident spec
ulators. The road in contemplation from
this place to Holland, by way of iceland, has
been surveyed to the distance of six miles and
pronounced very feasible route for an excel
lent thoroughfare between these two impor-
tant points. Distance to iceland, ten miles,
to Holland twenty miles. A road has also
been surveyed, north, to the township of Ra-
VIENNA, intersecting there the main road from
Grand Rapids to Muskegon, "a portion of
which is now open for the convenience of the
travelling public. Distance to Muskegon by
this route, twenty miles. The distance from
Grand Haven to Ottawa Center is thirteen
miles by carriage road or river.>
A more healthy location than this does not
exist in the River Valley, situated as it is, on
lofty plateau, many feet above the bed Of
the river, the decivity aftording the source of
numerous perennial springs, the crystal clear
ness and unrivaled purity of whose waters
combined with a perpetually wholesome at
mosphere, render the spot a very desirable
one for private residence, and most eligi-
bic one, as ight be supposed, for the trans
action of the public business of the county,
if a location for that purpose other than the
present one is to be selected, although the
beautifully located and thriving village of
Eastmanville, four miles above, may present
some rival claims to municipal distinction,
which will doubtless receive merited atteation
from our county legislators.
The enterprising inhabitants of Ottawa
Center and vicinity, in their great zeal in the
cause of education, are about to establish and
maintain school which shall not be excelled
in point Of advantages afforded to the ac-
quirement of good, sound practical educa-
ton, by any in the county.
The soil in the vicinity, as conceded by per-
sons familiar with its nature, possesses all the
elements of great fertility, and is not surpass-
ed in its adaptation to the growth and matu-
rity Of indigenous vegetables, grains and
fruits, and is owned and cultivated by an hon
est, intelligent and hardy yeomanry who are
destined, ere many years have passed, to
make their town, and all connected with it,
in point of good and convenient thorough
fares, and other public and local improve
ments, what nature has evidently designed it,
the rural abode Of comfort, peace and con-
tentment, combined with plenty and unrival-
ed prosperity in all that renders life worth
the living.
PASSAGE OF THE ARMY APPROPRIATION
BLL.-Since our last issue the Army Appro-
nriation B;ll has nassed tn two Housoo of