The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1861-07-31
Our Travelling Correspondence.

and from village TO city, surrounded a'
times by the widest and most romantic
scenery with which nature in all her va
Rcd loneliness is wont TO astonish and be-
wilder the gaze of her admirers. seem,
in my own mind, at least, 70 comprehend
why dwellers amid the grand, the beauti-
full, and the ever changing scenery of the
rough, rugged hills, sky-towering noun
tains, deep wales, and aowery meads of
New England, are provcrbial for their
reverence of things "sacred and divine"
Is il not because they look directly up
from the most wonderful works Of the
creation to The Great Creator, and while
they behold are led to "wonder and
adore" pos
The village of Ferryville is one Of those
snug manufacturing marts for which New
England is so famous, quietly nestled
amid thousand Of those most beautiful
forest and ornamental shade trees, inter
spersed with choice selections of shrubs
and flowers, that contribute so largely to
the beauty and comfort of New England
villas and give them an air Of ancient
Eden.
l.,.s.. LOCK MAKING.
This place is the great centre of the
lock manufacturing business. Two OK
tensive buildings for that purpose arc 10
Gated Immediately in the village, and as
you travel eastward, at short intervals,
many others are secn-all idle now, for
the reason that the war and hard times,
induced by the secession raid in the
South, that has hitherto constituted one
of the principal marts for their wares,
have spoiled the market, and put an ef-
fectual quietus for the present on this as
rs well as in most other branches of man
ufacturing in New England. The Ferry
villo Lock Manufacturing Company alone
has now on hand $4,000 worth of locks
ready for market, and no sale, and other
companies, probably, n proportionable
amount. -Four miles cast of this is loca-
ted the romantic village of Bristol, ia
nous for its
CLOCK WORKS,
Where all matters have hitherto been
transacted by o'clock work." whose for
tunes have boon made by o'clock work, v
and the tick, tick Of clock work from
Maine to the farthest point of the Gulf
and from the broad Atlantic shore to the
beach of the placid Pacific, and even MS
far as civilization has extended in foreign
China, bear testimony TO the industry
and enterprise of the extensive Clock
Manufacturing Companies Of this portion
Of tho Nutmeg State, and have contribu-
ted largely TO its wealth and Importance.
Speaking of nutinogs, have not yet
in my wanderings come across the precise
spot devoted to the manufacturing of
MODERN NUTMEGs,
For which this State, in fancy at least,
may be supposed to be famous by your
western readers, but presume it to be in
some quiet nook or glen where mortal
eye is not permitted to penetrate, or foot
TO cutter unobserved, unknown and undis-
closed 10 all uniuiliated into its mystic
ries.
The only manufacturing establishments
in this portion of New England, at pres
ent doing business and in a fourishing
state, arc those devoted 10 the furnishing Of
MILITARY GOODS,
Several companies hereabouts having
received orders from the Government for
q supply Of the particular wares manu-
featured by each Observation-Disclosures,
drawers, shirts, cloth, rifles, pistols, bavo-
nets, &C., &c.
Last week | visited the famous rifle
and pistol mandatory of
COLONEL SAMUEL COLT,
AT Hartford. The works are on n gi.
gantic scale, beautifully located on the
bank of that prince of New England
rivers, the Connecticut, amid charming
surroundings. No one but a true Yam
kee, with bank of money 10 back him
could have conceived the gigantic idea o
aresting from the ambitious old river
portion Of its bed, at high water at least
and by system Of dykes and embank
ments, securing from overhowage hun
dreds Of acres, at an immense outlay O
labor and money, and building thereon, il
addition 10 his lonO extended and naomi