The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1861-09-04
DETROIT, Mich, Aug. 10, 1861.

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DETROIT, Mich, Aug. 10, 1861.
The land in and for which the great
bard of Britain devoted the purest and
noblest energies of his brilliant genius
could not, methinks, surpass in cultivated
grandeur and naturul scenery that which
lies on this line OF road between Holly and
Detroit. Not by the stately Shannon,
the wide and winding Rhine, the rushing
Rhone, the classic Arno or the islanded
and wooded Mississippi, can you find land
in higher or more complete state Of cul-
tivation than in this county of Oakland.
Alternating hills, verdant plains, and
seemingly enchanted lakes, cozily nestled
away 'mongst the dreary shadows of the
tall oaks, far from the troublous abodes
of man, meet your gaze and rivet your
attention at overy stride of the "iron
horse" Tho cold settlers " should have
recorded their intelligent appreciation of
the fine arts Of nature by appropriately
denominating it Lake instead Of Oakland
County. Healthy villages and an aspir-
ing il not notorious city dot the road
from Holly here. Davisburg, Springfield,
Charleston, Drayton Plains, Pontiac, Bir-
mingham and Royal Oak, greet you in
turn. Pontiac has grown into unenviable
notoriety for some imaginary evils that
arc said 10 abe at home" in it. II
wag or termagant wish you in that
place which, according to theological ge
ography, is paved with fire and birthstone
they'll tell you "go to Pontiac" The
people, withal, look human; and had you
been fated to come through it in your
hey-day Of life and leisure, and had seer
as many beautiful specimens Of sugar sex
flock round the train as /, you would be
led to inwardly calculate that pious in
junction, =" Deliver me from temptation =
That part of the depot reserved for the
cars is not as large as those of other road:
of less business, capital and pretensions
The offices, however, are larger, more airy
and commodous than those of the Mich
igan Southern, Michigan Central or Crane
Trunk Roads.
The Superintendent of the road, / have
been endeavoring to describe TO you
WILLIAM X. MUrR-is yet young in years
though ripe in manhood and experience
He is about thirty-two years of age, o
medium height, strong and athletic in ap
pearance, high, broad, prominent forehead
and massive brain. Born in Scotland
the descendant, no doubt, Of those liberty
loving Covenanters who scorned the tyr
amy of England as they hated and des
pissed the then debilitating mysticisms o
Rome, he inherits many Of their good anC
pious qualities. He did not, like other
that / wot Of, blunder into the high AM
honorod position he now holds and S
creditably ard satisfactorily fills. Bor
amongst, not above nor below, the people
his sympathies are honorably and CHART
ably entertwined with them, and the wild
ow or orphan, the needy or destitute, VIII
have ever appealed to him for relief, ca
attest TO the benevolent munifcence Of hi
nature. He is a strict business man, ne,
er departing from his line of duty to dat
bic in the dull materialism of polite.
An experience Of sixteen years, here an
in his native land, lends sense Of sect
rity TO his business movements and trans
actions. Like all thoughtful, intellectu'
and meditative men, he looks older tha
his years, his countenance and feature
indicating rays of sunny sadness ever dar
ing through his mind. AT time whe
not only journalists are "jours" b.
quack doctors, tract venders, bogus proacl
ers, members of Congress, and feather-be
"army officers" are dead-heading the