The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1861-03-06

and abroad for doctoring. Quantities Of
w. Z. Rum are brought here for the
same purpose. Spaniards use very little
wine or any other beverage except water.
/ have hardly seen an intoxicated man in
Spain. At any roadside inn you can get
glass of wine for two coppers, and at
the hotel and on all the boats of the
Mediterranean it is on the table in equal
quantities with and as free as water
the same is also true in France.
Olive Oil is chief article of export,
and it is also one of the chief articles of
diet among the Spaniards. 1t is not
equal to French or Italian oil, because no
care is used in separating the varieties
(of which there are three, the green,
black and purple,) before pressing the oil.
Olives ripen during December January
and February. When it is convenient,
the Spaniard with his men, his wife, chill
dren, servants and donkeys will 60 to his
orchard and make clean work. O., pick
everything in the shape of an olive, carry
all to his rude press, and the oil thus ex-
pressed is put in hog skins, and two on
the back of each donkey carried to the
nearest market. Long lines of donkeys
and mules are daily passing our windows
thus laden. Wines are brought to mar
ket in the same way.
The Duke of Wellington received a
large property in the Vega of Granada
for services, from which is obtained, it is
said, $4,000 worth of oil per annum.
Olives, when picked, sell for about one
cent per Id. When ripe an olive is very
insipid. Spaniards use the oil for every
purpose, almost. 1t is their fat for pigs,
their syrup for cakes. You could hardly
give them greater luxury than stew
of olive oil, garlic and eggs, with a piece
of bread-and their bread is excellent.
From the mountains, thirty miles east,
are brought ship loads of lead, in bars,
which is carried TO France, where the sill
yer is extracted, and thence it is taken to
America. Shippers here say that lead is
the only article which will now bear expor-
tation TO the United States. ave sup
pose the demand is for bullets" said one
of the largest shippers here, to me, few
days since. could have wished myself
quietly out of his room when he said it.
l, a native of free, christian nation,
which had done moro to reform Europe,
to be told in Spain, which had just begun
to look out from under its hitherto i'm
penetrable darkness, that she could find
nothing TO send her liberator but materi-
ais for bullets / tell you we are de-
graded. | mean We as nation-that
its puerile head did not crush out the first
hissings of the monster.
l have not conversed with q person on
this continent, Il have met them from all
the principal nations,) neither have 1 seen
a paper, and we have them here from
all the cities, that have not expressed sur
prise that Mr.. BUCHANAN should sit by
to witness and support such a course Of
procedure in tie South. Even Spanish
papers quote extracts from the messages
of the Governors of New York, Pennsyl-
vania and Michigan, with qualification
The spirit of these States will bring the
weak minded President to decision and
to action, they say.
The President knew, or ought to have
known that the plan now being carried
out was originated years ago, (not less
than two,) by the leaders, is the present
movement. An eminent gentleman Of
New York, now here, told me few days
since that Mr.. PIoKENs, now Governor o.
South Carolina, two years since our Min.
lister to Russia, marked out to him al
ST. Petersburg almost the precice policy
now unfolded in acts.
/ am satisfied that there is but on
voice in Europe in reference to the matte
i. e., maintain the Union and the Con
stitution without compromise of princi
> pie or of right. Do it peaceably if yov
. can; if not, do it at the point of the bay
Q onet.
! Pardon me for wandering thus fror
S Spanish Olives and Lead to United State
I politics and morals.
Spain is q peninsula of mountains
Very few of its districts, | think but TIVE
S have plains. It's roads are miserabl