The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1862-04-16
For the Grand Haven News.


diarrhea, Mr. NOAH PERKINS, of Mill
Point, Michigan, aged 80 years and
months.
Mr.. PERKINS, enlisted in the LIST Reg.
Mich. Eng'rs and Mech's, in September
last, and left the State in company with
the rest of the Regiment, for Kentucky,
in December. He was at the battle Of
Mill Springs, and helped remove the
wounded and bury the dead. About this
time he was taken with a severe attack Of
the diarrhea, but being unwilling to be
left behind by his regiment, the Captain
gave up his horse for his benefit, but
growing worse he was obliged TO be left
at Somerst, in the Hospital, where he be-
came convalescent, and was removed TO
Lebanon, and afterwards to Louisville,
where he had relapse, from which he
never recovered.
Mr.. PERKINS entered the regiment as
a private, but his soldier-like bearing, cool
judgment amid excitement, and his brave
ry, marked him as one qualified and enti-
tied to command and lead forth to battle.
He was promoted to the rank of Sergeant,
and was looked up to with confidence and
respect by his superior officers at the time
of his death.
He left his wife and little ones, that he
dearly loved and treasured-he left his
home and friends and went forth TO main
tain his country's honor aud constitution
-he went, not for gain, or name, but at
the call of his country, as patriot and a
soldier, to vindicate and support the SUI
premacy of that government whose insti-
tutions he loved and venerated. He fell,
but not on the battlefield, amid the clang-
or of arms, and the laundering of artille-
ry, not amid scenes of strife and carnage,
where the wasting cannon sent its deadly
missiles of destruction, but where the
voice was hushed, and the tread was low,
where kind hands were ready and skillful
practice to alleviate and minister to bis
dying wants. His last words were of his
home and country. He seemed 10 care
not for his pain, sickness and death, but
for his family and those he loved with an
abiding affection. He died the death Of
patriot, deeply lamented by his men,
his comrades and superior officers.
He sleeps on the shores of the Ohio, in
the bosom of that soil and State whose
institutions and rights he went forth to
protect and guard from rude invasion,
even to the sacrifice of his life. He rests
there in peace, far from his native State,
and widely separated from those friends
that love and cherish his memory-he
rests in quiet far from his family, whose
hands and hearts would have ached to
administer TO his dying wants, and whose
tears would bedew the soil where he sleeps
in his little narrow house.
AS friend he was generous and SYM
pathyzing-as husband and father he
was kind and attentive-as man he was
possessed with n strong intellect and
sound judgment, and his untimely fate
will be deeply lamcntod by large circle
of friends and acquaintances-his memory
will long be cherished and his name will
ever be treasured by those who are left
behind to mourn his loss. ]. B.P.
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GARDENING is indeed an art, pleasing
in its nature and remunerative in its re-
suit, if properly conducted. Already We
notice smudges here and there sending
their blue wreaths heavenward, oonsum.
ing rubbish and extraneous matter gene
rally, in the gardens of our early horticul.
turists, preparatory to their being fitted tc
receive the seed that is to bring to their
tables many summer luxury. Though
the sand hills present anything but ia
vorable impression TO our visitors rs re-
spects our facilities for gardening, yet oul
village is proverbial for its fine gardens
This, we think, will be more fully demon
strated than ever before, in the large size
and excellent quality of the fruits and
vegetables that will be offered for premi
ums at the fair of our Horticultural AS
ISOLATION in September next.
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LAMONT UNION ScHooL.-The spring
term of this highly hourishing school com
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