The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1860-06-27
CHICAGO CORRESPONDENCE.
"OAKwooD PLACE." NEAR CHICAGO,
June Is. 1860. -

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eye fell upon this audacious" statement: /:
4" Some of our lumber manufacturers, in
stead of attempting to dispose of their
lumber at the old, worn out market of
Chicago, are turning their attention east
ward to tho Albany, Troy and Buffalo
markets, particularly for the sale Of the
best varieties of pine, cherry and black
walnut lumber. A cargo en- route for
Albany, by way of the lake to Buffalo,
left the wharf of E. l.. Fuller last week,
and other cargoes arc waiting shipment
thitherward. This lumber is manufactur-
ed mostly by The Lansing Company, at
Blendon, in this county, and is as fine a
lot as we have seen for long time at our
shipping docks"
"The old worn. tout market of Chica
CO." eh9 Who has worn it out9 That
Lansing Company" have an undoubted
right to ship their nice lumber to the
point where it will bring them the most
money, and so have the rest Of you over
in Grand Haven, but don't talk about our
market being q" old" and worn-out" just
yet. There is land TO be fenced, and
houses to be built still on the west side
of Lake Michigan; and tho day is not
far distant when we shall have the money
to pay for the "thing' to do it with.
Our crops look promising on the prairics.
There is more land under cultivation than
ever before. Men have learned, or are
learning, to work moro and speculate less,
to create and produce something, and
spend less money for beer and whisky,
and moro for schools, and churches, and
books, and Newspapers, and the results
will soon be manifest.
Our people gave a monster concert for
the relief of the sufferers by the great tor
nado, in tho western part Of this State
and Iowa, last week, in the "Wigwam."
1t was splendid success" in every par
ticular, in money and artistic music.
A large delegation left the city, on
Thursday night last, for Baltimore, ac-
companied by the Great Western Band.
What will they do? The fact is the
great lights of the Republic have gone
out, and amid the scramble for Office The
bartering away of principle, the almost
universal corruption which abounds, VIC
turn back to read once and again of the
carly toll, and self denial, and patriotism
of the founders of this government. II
seems as if the teachings of Calhoun
Adams, Jefferson and Webster, ought
to bear better fruit than division, and
strife, and threats of dissolution. If oul
statesmen would act more under the in
fuence of the teachings of these great
men, and less under tho influence of 6aO
sohisky, we should have better legislation
and steer clear of the breakers which loom
up just ahead.
We have been led to this train ol
thought by looking over the Fourteenth
Volume Of Benton AJriCgenents Of TIE
Debates Of Congress, published by D.
Appleton & Co., New York.
We wish our people would take hold
Of this great national work and read and
circulate it. Griggs & Co. are the goner
al western agents, and the volumes com
prise, each, somo $50 pages, which arc
furnished for SO per volume.
The most solid merit of these volume:
is, that they give 10 the Statesman, The
Lawyer, the Politician, and tho Scholar
n clear and lntellgent Wow OF the polltl
cal progress Of our country. They con
tain the cream of Debates which hav,
been accruing for nearly seventy years
and which fill more than 100 volumes
not purchasable for less than $500. Th'
work is therefore national enterprise
deserving the encouragement and claim
ing the respect of every intelligent Amer
lean. II is endorsed by all the distin
guished men of the country, of whatevc
party, and is universally regarded rs tn
greatest political textbook of the age.
The man 10 perform the labor required
to condonse and classify these Debates
was Thomas HART BENTON. His knowl
edge of the political history of the couD
try was more comprehensive and thor
ough tnan that of any other man living
His memory was wonderfully stored; an,