The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1860-11-14
Correspondence of the Grand Haven News.
OAKwooD PLACE, NEAR CHICAGO,
Oct. |, 1860.

OAKwooD PLACE, NEAR CHICAGO,
Oct. /, 1860.
ED. News The winds and storms,
incident to this season of the year, make
us almost afraid 10 trust even line TO
our friends on Lake Michigan, for scarce
ly had we ceased to sorrow and shudder
over the loss of the Lady Elgin, ere the
conviction is forced upon us that another
craft, with all its hapless, helpless crew,
found an unknown grave the same night
the Lady Elgin went down.
Among the bodies picked up last, was
one which proves TO be that of VIM.
JAMESON, who was known to be on the
schooner 81. Mary, which has not been
seen or heard from since the night the
Lady Elgin was lost. Our citizens have
been untiring in their efforts to save all
it was possible to save of the living and
the lead, or anything connected with
them.
Our American people are becoming ev
erv year moro excitable and more fond of
excitement, for we turn now away from
the dead to run after and shout for the
living. Our city is this week TO be visit
ed by SEWARD and DOUGLAS, both great
men in their way, but neither of them in
ability, character or achievement worth
all the fuss and noise which is being made
over them and about them. The only
real difference between these separate
and belligerent forces in the United States,
at the present time, is the different con-
structiou which is being put upon the
constitution. One party says it means
one thing, and another says it means a
very different thing; but the people, who
are in the main intelligent and honest,
will decide, and from that decision am
thankful there is no appeal.
We are busy in Chicago this fall with
our great crops, and business, and politics,
aud debts, but the pulses of life, in all
circles, are stronger, and men do more, and
dare more than last year.
Our lumber market has greatly i'm
proved-which will, of course make glad
the hearts of the people in Ottawa Coun-
ty. But lumber, and corn, and pork, and
money, is not all of life. There are
homes to be hewn out of the forests, and
hearts to be made glad or sad, souls to
, be lifted up to duty and to God, families
to be gathered, schools and churches tc
be buiIded, and with these things come
others which make us all strong to dc
t much and hope for much. Life's duties
are pleasant if they are stern-but mucf
: which some of us conceive to be duty il
|, neither pleasant or profitable, either L
ourselves or others. 1t is great thing
: to know how to live, TO know how t.
; take hold of daylight, and air, and dark
: ness, and food, and friends, and opportu
mites, and weave perfect pattern. W.
), need many teachers and much experience
+ but God is good and kindly looks upo'
every earnest endeavor, not only of tn
II individual, but Of communities. w
!, have been reading work Of great inter
est and profit TO ourselves, and we sem
d YOU our comments upon this and one o
), two others.
- The people are looking to the press 70
d direction in some of the most importan
n r. affairs of life, and / do not know VIII
I'd our best thoughts, coined in our bes
- moods, should not find expression throug
P this medium.
:" know some Of your people in an