Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1857-09-09

For the Eastmanvilse Times.
JAN EbVILLE, w 10,
September 3, 1857.

and for what good reason this stream acquired
this sonorous appelation. Not for its length,
surely: nor for its volume of water: nor
beauty of scenery through which it passes.
May be it is the largest tributary to the st.
Lawrence, but in that case the said st Law
renee has nothing in that line to boast Of
That portion Of the river between Eastmanville
and Grand Haven, over which l so lately had
the felicity of passing, is remarkable for moth
ing that l could discover. Now the Con-
necticut with its beautifully sloping and cul-
tivated banks dotted with neat dwellings, is
interesting-the Hudson, its villas and crags,
cots and cities, is something more than inte-
resting-the Mississippi, its trailing greatness,
muddy grandeur and picturesque bluffs, is
grand-but. Grand River; alack for what
praiseworthy thing shall panegyrize it,
Surely none but a Clu6bed imagination
could see "rich pasture and meadow land
where nought greets the eye but the lowest
grade of swamps and Doggy flats. But the
Clarion man has his own peculiar "rural
fancies; probably this is one. "Muskegon
Morality" is another, and somebody else will
smell a rat before it's over, too or am
mistaken.
For contrast, though, the Michigan is
neat, spunky little steamer, and Rose is
model captain, all over, (don't you tell him
of this however, lest he think l am putting
to get an eleemosynary passage sometime,)
but with captain after the pattern of ROSE,
one can afford to pay big prices for his pas
sage, and endure $3.50 scenery to boot. To
be sure the captain does not seem ipvulnera-
BILE against the insidious attacks of pretty
bright eye, half hidden by feminine curls;
and the seductive modulations of a woman's
voice evidently find a responsive echo in the
gallant captains heart; but show me the
man, will you, who has not his own rural
fancies. Fellow passengers to Chicago were
several friends from Eastmanville, Misses E.,
Mr.. H., Bob Euchre, and others: also made
the acquaintance of one going to Kansas, in
whose company the time passed very agree
ably.
Arrived at Grand Haven, one has to stare,
first at the fertile, verdant sand hills, then at
the magnitude of the heaps of crinoline in
which the young ladies vainly try to hide
themselves. Indeed, amplitude of skirt
wide brown flats, gipseys, or what dye call
'em ?-and a commendable amount of good
looks, seem at first sight to be the dstin-
gushing characteristics of the young ladies
of Grand Haven. AS to how it may be on
more familiar acquaintance, you, sir Times,
will have to revert to your own previous OBJ
servation and experience. Further thereup-
on, deponent saith not at present, except to
intimate that if the young ladies who came
down to the wharf that night to see their
friends off to Rockford, are fair sample of
the whole lady world OF Grand Haven, it is
prima facie evidence of lunacy that the Clar-
ion man goes off up the river in search of
any "rural retreats" upon which to wax elo-
quent. A reformation is needed, sir Club;
apologize at once.
In due time we arrived in Chicago. And
here | suppose you expect me to launch out
into long tiresome narration of what I saw
and did-of the city and my experience
therein-but / shall not do it; only to men
ton as fact of much public interest that I
executed your commissions some, and then
happening across basket of big ripe pears,
did forthwith proceed to astonsh and delight
the owner thereof by incontinently falling to
and demolishing an uncomfortable amount of
said fruit. AT dinner time happened over
to the briggs" and never, even at the As
tor or ST. Nicholas did / see such an un-
bounded profusion and luxury. The trans-
ton from blackberries at Denton's to south
side at the Briggs was marvellous; yet l
prefer the former, but perhaps that is be-
cause in Chicago grand pianos and men
walters in uniform, take the place of guitars
and girls in Eeastmanville. But all this
should be en- parenthesis Finding friend,
l left Chicago with him at $50 for this