The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1860-05-09
For the GRIND Haven News . z = y
From an Occasional.
No6TesSA.Ls, May 8, 1860.

4
ing principally of Discrimination to write
and the lack of anything TO write about
have prevented me fsom heretofore re-
deeming my promise TO contribute TO the
columns Of your spicy little sheet con-
corning the cogiiations I may have had
upon "men and things" BY the word
"things," / wish to be understood as re-
ferring TO whatever subject ! may fancy |
and pot as ,coqfnipg, myself TO the orbit
nary meaning Of the word, namely: polii
ticians end members Of Congress. Of
course, in this quiet suburban region,you
do not expect that any correspondent,
however gifted, should be able 10 furnish
you with any Items" items"o being
of rare and extraordinary occurrence here
about.
Last Saturday was tho first really warm
day of this year, at least in this vicinity.
Being an honorary member of the ancient
and honorable order of A. S. S., (Anti-
Sweating Society of course l felt the
change in the weather more acutely than
others, the peculiar privileges of the A.
S. S. not permitting one to indulge in the
labor of keeping cool by mechanical
means. These balmy days wherein 9 the
delicate footed May" weaves very softly
and silently her carpet of green and flow
ers, leave withal, something sad about
them--fui as mournful as "the melan-
choly days" Of later autumn. There is
a strange resemblance between the unseen
and mystic mental influences of birth and
death, which has half rippled the sense
OF many an imagination, though with such
an underlined and intangible feeling that
but few can trace the perception to its
rightful source1 No doubt our physical
lassitude, produced by the genial and UNI
wonted warmth, is favorable to sombre
meditations: certainly the universal SEN
timent of mankind has not given the sea-
son Of spring to the softer recreations of
music, rambles in the budding woods,
flower gathering, quiet sails, and lovely
walks, unwarranted of reason and of ma
ture. The beautiful words Of Byron
at saw, around me, the wide fields revive
With fruits and fertile promise, and the spring
| Come forth, her works of gladness to contrive,
With all her reckless birds upon the wing;
And turned from all she brought to those she
! a1 could not bring i'ar1 iaalA
were applied by the general sympathy of
mankind not alone To- the-reAcctions nat
ural to the fatal field to which they refer;
but they struck responsive chord in ev-
cry breast, and became the universal ex-
preston of an inspiration peculiar to the
season and the. cline, SO strangely similar
are the blind intuitions of all men, from
the highest to the lowest; he being po-
ct only who clearly expresses what all
others have instinctively felt, but failed to
perfectly perceive. ~ ''''
The International Fight" and the Ma
tional OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES the chief top
les of conyersation-have hardly, rippled
the quiet surface Of our peaceful life; or
if at all, as imperceptibly as the angel
breath which once stirred the waters of
Silvan into faint vibration, only that no
angels appear TO beIrecognized in either
the political or pugilistic ring, except
those special spirits properly supposed to
inhabit and abide in swamps and stag
n"i's i'PN Si'S .sJ9iWT .acurc,T
But, for so uninteresting correspon-
dence, this is already too long; and I
bring il to a close with the promise that,
if anything T" turns up" it shall receive an
Immediate @dig' from the point Of your
correspondents pen.
Yours, > "a - = - al. J.B.