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The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1859-04-20

Porters & Mathison, Msnufact'r-
ers of and Dealers in Clothing Goods No. l6,
Canal Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.
The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1859-04-20

VIM. M. Ferry Jr., Manufacturer
of Stationary and Marine high or low press
ure Engines, Mill Gearing, Iron and Brass
Castings, Ottawa Iron Works, Ferrysburg,
Ottawa Co, Mich. Post Office address, Grand
Haven, Mich.
The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1859-04-20

Ferry & Co., Manufacturers of Lum-
Der, Lath, Timber, Pickets. &C., and Dealers
In all kinds Of Merchandise, Provisions, Shin
gle Bolts and Shingles. feTysville, White
River Mich.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1859-07-30

TIMELY WARNlNG.-Horace Greeley, A. D.
Richardson and Henry Willard, in their report on
the Pixies Peak gold mines utter the following
warning to the immense emigration now on their
way:
every pound of provisions and supplies must
be hauled 10y teams from the Missouri river, some
700 miles distant, over roads which are mere
trails crossing countless unbridged water COURSES
always steep banked and often miry, and at times
so swollen by rains as to be utterly impossible by
wagons Part of this distance is desert, yield
ing grass, wood and water only at intervals of
several miles, and then very soantily. To attempt
to cross this desert on foot is madness-suicide--
murder To cross it with teams in midsummer,
when the water-courses are mainly dry, and the
grass eaten up, is possible only to those who know
just where to look for grass and water, and where
water must be carried along to preserve life. A
few months hence--probably by the middle of
Octobef-this whole Alpine region will be snow
ed under and frozen up so as to put a stop to the
working Of sluices if not to mining Gltoge ther.
There, then, for period Of at least six months,
will be neither employment, food, nor shelter
within FIVE hundred miles for the thousands
pressing E!her under the delusion that gold may
be picked up here like pebbles on the sea-shore,
and that when they arrive here, even though
without provisions or money, their fortunes are
made. Great disappointment, great suffering, are
inevitable few can escape the latter who arrive
at Denver City after September without ample
means to support them in very dear country, at
least through a long winter"
Weekly Trinity journal., 1859-07-30

SENSITIVE WOMEN USUALLY VmTUoUs.-What-
ever may have been my experience in regard to
the erratic movements in sensitives and somnam-
bulsts, must yet deny the assertion, so often
made, that women in this condition are more in
clined than others to amorous thoughts. have
not found it So On the contrary, have often
found peculiar chasteness The great majority
of the sensitive misses known to me, are modest
and pure And the cause may be readily under
stood it lies in the cultivation Of their finer
feelings which were necessarily developed from
their susceptible constitutions. and from their
custom of self control in the nnumerablc little
trials and vexstions consequent upon their sensa-
tiveness. Sensatives have "a more delicate mental
organization than nonsensatves, and this supc-
rior delicacy is impressed in all their feelings,
thoughts, desires, and character.--J. S. HtteH
Weekly Trinity journal., 1859-07-30

"SyTY THOUSAND DOLLARS CHANGED HANDS. "
Last week the above amount changed hands at
a Sacramento horse-race, whereat the editor OF
the Pacific Methodist delivers a sermon:
California is called throughout the world the
land of gold" Nowhere else has it been more
freely spent And yet what have we to show for
it? 1t is true, great progress has been made
within ten years but nothing has been accom-
plshed commensurate with our opportunity and
ability. We have bad the gold in our mountains,
and the energy to extract il from the bowels of
the earth has not been wanting. But what has
become of it Gamblers, harlots and rumsellers
have obtained large share it has been wasted
and worse than wasted, and when we should be
the richest and most prosperous people on earth,
we are poor and in debt. The State is unable to
carry forward such public works as are necessary
for her prosperity she has no educational inter-
ests adequate to meet the wants Of her people,
and even her charitable and relormatory instltu-
tiOns are inadequately supported California,
like fast young man, has squandered fortune
and opportunity, and instead of being just entered
upon a career of success commensurate with her
advantages, she stands before the world already
exhibiting the feebleness and the exhaustion,
which are the results in mature manhood of a
debauched and ill-spent youth.
Sixty thousand dollars lost in one day on q
single horse-race In such items as these, we
have the secret of State and individual bankrupt
cy, of mercantile failures, Of dishonest clerks, of
the frauds, forgeres, murders and suicides which
in many parts Of the country have made the daily
newspapers little else than record of crime in
its manifold shapes.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1859-07-30

HUyBoLnr.-As an humble chronicler of the
county honored by his name, it is not for us to
recapituate his fame, euloglzed by the great and
wise-lovcd and reverenced in the four quarters
of that sphere he had made his study. Let them
erect to heroes and statesmen monuments " endu-
ring as brass" Rather let him rest quietly in
the lap of the great mother whose mysteries were
his whose pulses he had felt whose deepest
heart -throhbngs he knew, and whose life he had
traced with Il subtle mind and loving hand
Above his grave the stars he had tracked into
the fathomess bounds of space, will keep watch
and ward. The south wind, whose hidden
chambers he knew. and whose coming and GO
ing" he had Marked will murmur molian sym
phonics above his mound and the flowers his
hand tendery gathered, and whose brief life his
wonderful mind had classed and identified, side
by side with the great primeval rocks-parts of
one harmonious whole-shall nestle and cling
about the lowly grave of the King of Science"
-.Northeyn Californian.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1859-07-30

WAsHoE VALLEY PR0DUCTs-A gentleman from
this place who recently returned from the new
excitement in Washoe Valley, informs us that IL
is wonderfully productive country in some
things. lie says mosquitoes grow as large as
humming birds, and though not quite as beautI-
ful, are much more musical and domestic in their
habits. Clouds of them continually hover around
the heads of the cadaverous gold seekers, and
hold carnival over their uneasy slumbcrs at
night. In clearing off place to spread his
blankets one evening, he had to say some ten Or
fifteen unsophistcated rattlesnakes, who fought
valiantly for their "squatter sovereignty" rights.
- Nepadn NdtiondL
Weekly Trinity journal., 1859-07-30

VINO TO MARRy.-Never marry girl who is
fond of being always in the street who is fond
of going to the theater who has n jeweled hand
and an empty head who will see her mother
work and toll while she lies in bed and reads
novels or feigns sickness ; who is ashamed to own
her mother because she dresses plain, never
learned grammar, or was accustomed to the eti-
quette OF the drawngroom who is always COM
planning that she cannot get enough money to
dress like Miss So-and-So, or so to parties like
Such-a-one who wears her shoes spshod, or has
q hole in her stockings and is too lazy to mend
ii. Should you get such one depend upon it
you will have dirty. untdy miserable home
and life of it, But the kind ailectonote, tidy
girl, who helps her mother, who is always ready
and anxious to accommodate her mother, father,
brothers and sisters-who is kind to the poor
who dresses neatly and according to her means
who is always cheerful and fond Of accommoda-
ting others if you can get such treasure your
home will be a paradise.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1859-07-30
There's Love i'm the Coidcs, Heart.

Say what you will of the GOODNESS of man,
OF his soul deeply trammel'd by art
STILL let me believe through it all, il can,
That there's love in the coolest heart
Could we read the secrets of every SOUL
Know the motives which prompted the deed,
Less often our tongues would herald the scroll
Over which our hearts silently bleed.
cannot think man so utterly lost,
But what he has moments of shame
Though reckless at times, still deep in his soul
There is burning holier flame.
Some mem'ry is playing with his hearts silent
strings,
Some blissful emotion is stirrd,
Some hope of the blessed, to which his soul clngs,
Though his lips may utter no word.
Every soul has its grief, every bosom its cares,
So twill be till this life shall depart
Then let me believe, while ite's burden it bears,
That there's love in the coolest heart
Weekly Trinity journal., 1859-07-30

NAPCLAoN's CANT TENT.--It was made five
years ago for the war in the Crimea and started
on its journey as far as Marseies, but the Empe-
ror changed his mind then. and the tent has lain
ever since in the fag-room of the Tuileries. But
what is curious the iron bed now in this tent, the
toilet furniture and table service in silver be-
longed to the first Emperor. and accompanied
him in nearly all his campaigns and as these
campaigns were so many victories, Louis Napo-
leon is going to throw himself upon the destiny
Of these victorious washbasins and saucepans.
lie hopes on the fields Of Marengo and Lodi, to
sleep upon and draw inspiration from the same
bed on which dreamed and schemed his great un-
Gle, aud on which he planned the great battles
that have made the name of 8onaparte so illus
trious. AS superstition there are more absurd
ones than this Of Louis Napoleon.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1859-07-30
Gbe Trmitp gournal,
WEAVERVILLE, CAL,
Saturday Morning, July 30, 1850.
Anti-Lecompton County Convention.


The Anti-Lecompton Democratic County Con-
vention met at the Court House, in Weaverville,
on Saturday, July 23d.
Henry J. Howe was called to the Chair, and s..
G. Steele chosen Secretary. John Wright was
appointed Vice President, and E. R. Collins AS
sstsnt Secretary.
The following persons were nominated unani-
mously:
For Senator. .... HENRY j. HOWE.
' Assembly,. S. h. SHORT
Sheriff. f........... .........I G. MEssEC.
County Clerk ..,.,......J JoHN a. WATSON.
Assessor. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES IF. D. kETCHUM.
Treasurer. ......................M MAX LANG.
District Attorney. .................Jo JOIN EPIEY.
Coroner. .................. d. a. TOWN.
Public Administrator. ........ HENRY MARTIN.
Supervisor, I'd District. GEORGE WILLIAMS.
Superintendent Public Instruction. "A. j. LOOMS.
Nodelegates having arrived from Humboldt to
attend the Senatorial Convention, Henry }. Howe,
Esq, was unanimously nominated as candidate
for the 2lst Senatorial District.
Delegates were appointed to attend the District
Convention TO nominate Judge for the Ninth
judicial District.
The following resolutions were then adopted,
unanimously, 10y the Convention:
ReS0lDed, That we fdlly endorse, and hereby
adopt, the platform and resolutions put forth by
the AntiLecompton Democratic State Conven-
tion
Resoiped That we disapprove and repudate
the doctrine recently announced by the Admins
traton, in the celebrated Cass letter to LeClerc,
refusing protectio to adopted American citizens
when out Of the limits of our territory But we
maintain that every citizen of the United States
is entitled to the protection of the American flag
at all times-whether at home or abroad.
ResolUed, That we are in favor of more eco
nomical administration of the Government Ma
tional State and County, and urge the necessity
upon our next Senator and Representative in the
Legislature, to use all due efforts to reduce and
equaize the salaries and fees of Office in the State
and County.
Resolved, That the TRINITY JOURNAL, Sacra-
mento Union, and San Francisco .NetoS, be re-
quesed to publish the proceedings of this Con-
venton. II. j. HOWE, Chairman.
S. G. STEELE, Secretary.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1859-07-30

NEWSPAPER SELEcTIoNS.-We publish the fol-
lowing just remarks from the Canada Weekly
Sentinel, for the benefit Of newspaper readers who
believe that q paper when subscribed for is print
ed exclusively for them:
"Most people think the selection Of suitable
matter for newspaper the easiest part of the
business. How great an error To look over
the hundreds OF exchange papers every week,
from which to select enough for one, especially
when the question is, not what shall but what
shall not be selected, is no easy task If every
person who reads newspaper could have edited
it, we would hear less complaint. Not unfre-
urently is it the case, that an editor looks over
all his exchange papers for something interesting,
and can absolutely find nothing. Every paper is
dryer than contribution box, and yet something
must be had-his paper must come out with some
thing in it, and he does the best he can.
"To an editor that has the least care about
what he telects, the writing that he has TO do is
the easiest part of his labor. Every subscriber
thinks tn, paper printed for his own benefit and
if there is nothing in it that suits him. it must be
stopped-it is good for nothing. Just so many
subscribers as an editor may have, so many
tastes has he to consult One wants something
smart, another something sound. One likes an
ecdotes fun and frolic, and another wonders that
q man Of sense will put such in his paper. Some
thing argumentative, or the editor is dumb fool
And so between them ALL you see, the poor fell
lows get roughly handled. And yet to ninety
nine out of a hundred these thoughts do not
occur They never reflect that what does not
please this may please the next man, hut they
insist that if the paper does not suit them it is
good for nothing"
Weekly Trinity journal., 1859-07-30

TIE LOWER CLAss-We do not know who
wrote the following, but it is evidently u Htal',
and one of Natures true nobility:
"Who are they? The toiling millions, the
laboring men and women, the farmer, the me
chanc, the artist, the inventor, the producer ?
Far from it. These are Natures nobilty-God's
lavorites-the salt Of the earth. No matter
whether they are high or low in station, rich or
poor in pelf, conspicuous or humble in position,
they are the supper circle" in the order of ma
turc whatever the fictitious distinction Of society
fashionably decree. II is not low, it is tho high
est duty, privilege, pleasure, for the great man
and the whole-souled woman to earn what they
possess, to work their way through life, TO DO
architects Of their own fortune"
Weekly Trinity journal., 1859-07-30

"ODDs AND Ends" IN MARrosA.-llot rs tophet
and sulry too. 1t has been cloudy most of the
time since the 4th, and also dull. The people OF
the place have mostly turned to keeping boarding
houses, hoping to recooperdte and relieve their
financial dstresses Those that havn't, are run
ming for Office, practising law, or are superntend
lug other peoples affairs. A singing school is
established, and the roaring of psalms and hymns
may be heard throughout the length and breadth
of the place on Friday nights. Donkeys perform
melodiously on all other evenings. Fruit-cu-
cumbers and cabbage heads appear in our mar
kcts, whereat Dutchmcn rejoice. Dog cholera
has prevailed extensively, per virtue of strych-
nine and there are but few ours left to lift up
their voices and howl. Independent candidates
look " dissolutc" " and sorter cock-eyed A por-
tion of the community have got over the 4th of
July, and quite Il portion havn't.--Gdzette.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1859-07-30

SOME GooD-The Placerviile Observer thinks
the Pixies Peak farce will result in some good
after all. Everything which starts white men
and women to California, is of real benefit to this
side of the continent. The Isrritoriat Enterprise
of the 10th says:
"California bound emigrants continue TO string
along, number Of whom are camped in our val
ley. They report that they are only weak
vanguard to the immense army which is follow
ing In their wake.n
Weekly Trinity journal., 1859-07-30

MOONEY AND HIS SLEEPING APARTMENTs.-A
short time ago Mr. Mooney said, in the Folsom
Express:
alt would be great moral and constitutional
good if married persons would sleep in adjoining
apartments"
A Sonora correspondent of the Sacramento
Union, who contemplates matrimony, and is
somewhat puzzled in regard to arranging his
house, asks:
"Now I. in my ignorance, had supposed that
the presence of beauty and goodness and perlec-
tion embodied was morally eXhlerating and con-
stitutonally good. Indeed, l had heard that
sleeping with plants in the chamber was some
times injurious. and knew that the ladies' were
blooming, had sweet, rosy lips, and their fingers
we're lilies, and their breath as the balm of o
thousand flowers but it never occurred to me
that the likeness extended so far as to poison the
air for the sleepers. But if Mooney is right let
us know, or if Mooney is moonshine let Us know T;
and how. Must we sleep in rooms that are ad-
joining? That will be inconvenient for US. Our
house is but small, with only one lodging apart
ment below If canvas partition would do We
might stretch one across, leaving the door on one
side and the window on the other or would it
answer for one to sleep in en- apartment above
They would be adjoining-the bottom of one and
the top of the other-and which is it advisable to
send up stairs ?"
Weekly Trinity journal., 1859-07-30

THAT TERRIBLE DEsERT.--Superintend Gran
dali, of the northern overland route, tells the
Territorial Enterprise that the =" DESERT about
which so much fuss is made, is only thirty-four
miles wide, and fine well of excellent water
about midway. The drive across is made In four
and one-half hours.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1859-07-30

WEAYERvILLE AND PETALUMA TRAm--We see
by the Petaluma Journal that Mr.. T. Swift left
that place last Friday, to commence work on the
proposed new trail Money has been literally
subscribed by the citizens of Sonoma and Mr.
McDufIie, Indian Agent, has agreed to furnish
Indian labor to complete that portion of the
work between Redwood and Round Valley.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1859-07-30
A MILLION OF DOLLARS A YEAR.-The Washing
ON correspondent of the Baltimore Sun says:

ton correspondent OF the Baltimore sun says:
Commodore Vanderbilt stated in this city
that be made million OF dollars year, clear Of
cost when his Nicaragua line was in operation.
A detailed statement OF his profits in l8j3 and
"a, now published, shows that the amount was
not exaggerated. The profits will now be much
greater, because trade with California has much
increased since 1854. Commodore Vanderbilt
began life as a White Hall boatman, in New York
harbor, and was as proud and happy when he
made his five hundred dollars year as now with
an income Of million per annum."
Weekly Trinity journal., 1859-07-30

SAN JUAN.-The most notable features OF San
Juan are its pretty gals" and crying babies,
Especially when they are taken to preaching,)
its stores, hotels, billiard tables, churches,
! masonic lodge, school, | schoomaster, 3
doctors, / lawyer, &c gamblers 81 loafers, 2 sur
veyors, 4 blacksmiths, GO bachelors, III demo-
Gratis, 3 black Republicans, darkey, and 60 Indi-
ans.-.San Jose Tribune.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1859-07-30

WHAT WELLER THTNKs.-Gov Weller, who is
now neglectng his duties to canvass the State
with Charley Scott, spoke at Mobeumne Hill
recently, and took entirely different views with
the latter on the subject Of Naturalization Laws
and the protection of American citizens when
sojournng in foreign countries. While Scott
supported the Administration view Of the ques-
tion, and defended the doctrine Of General Cass,
that our adopted citizens cannot be protected
abroad, and that despotic aud other governments
have a right to compel them to do military SER
vice, Governor Weller asserted that he had some
crude and undigested notions" which are deci-
dedlY The other MaY.-lIornina CaM.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1859-07-30

WE have heard that the lizards which are nu-
merous in all parts Of California, and which come
TO the roadside as il to claim acquaintanceship
with men, are easily tanned. Miners have told us
about their nmble little pet lizards, living in and
around cabins, how they adrolty catch flies and
unsuspiciously eat crumbs of bread from the hand
This intimacy with lizards in one instance relat-
ed to US, goes SO far as the fact that two miners
in Placer county had lizard which went to bed
with them every night for more than year
Sierra Citizen.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1859-07-30

"HEAD OF NAvIaATIoN."-T steamer Anna
left San Francisco on Wednesday, July 10th, with
a load of freight for Shasta merchants. She will
come as far up as the mouth of Middle Creek.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1859-07-30

A HAPPY PAssAGE.-The sun shone brilliantly
into the room where Humboldt died. His last
words, addressed to his niece, we're: Chow grand
these rays; they seem to beckon earth to heaven"
Weekly Trinity journal., 1859-07-30

GREAT JoY-Broderick delivered his old speech
at Nevada on Saturday last with "slight vari-
ation," and the shout goes up from the Broderick
papers " thank God for the variation. ."-Marys-
piIte Erpress.
Weekly Trinity journal., 1859-07-30

OUTRAGED FREEpoM-Sectional discord and
partisan rancor have usurped the nations sanctu'
ary, aud the seats of Franklin and Jefferson have
become merchandise for huckstering demagogues.
For the sake of manuluc turing q little bogus
popularity from the thrcadbare hobby of 'econ-
omy," these "degenerate sons of illustrious
sires," permit their countryment to rot in foreign
dungeons to be slaughtered with impunty upon
land and water to be tomahawked upon their
own territory, and to be ruthlessly dragged into
the hostile armies Of contending despots in Eu-
rope God of heaven is there no remedy for
these intolerable evils? win the fire of the rev.
olution never again tinglc in the veins of the ma
ton? Are we so totally helpless that we cannot
protect ourselves from being perpetually out
ragged and insulted by our neighbors? Even tho
base mongrels of Panama have murdered our
men, women and children, almost with impunity
Our countrymen have been outraged trampied
upon aud imprisoned by the basc-born hordes OF
Mexico and South America, and their wrongs are
still unavenged. FiGccyUWe Observer.