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wa County, Michigan.
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Grand Haven, Mich.
Auerustus W. Tavlor Judge of
Probnto, Ottawa County. Post-Office address
Ottawa Contor. Court days, First and Third
Mondays of each Month, Ofhco at tho Court
House, Grand Haven.
George E. Hubbard, Dealer in
Stoves, Hardware, Guns, Iron, Nails, Spiko,
Gloss, Circular and Cross-cut Saws, Butcher's
Files! and Manufacturer of Tin, Copper, and
Sheet-Iron Wares. Job work done cn short
notice. Corner of Washington and First sts.,
Grand Haven, Mica.
Wm. M. Ferry Jr., Manufacturer
of Stationary and Marine, high or low press
ure Engines, Mill Gonring, Iron and Brass
Castings, Ottawa Iron Works, Ferrysburg,
Ottawa Co., Mich. Tost-Office address, Grand
Haven, Mich.
John H. Newcomb, Dealer in Dry
Goods, Groceries, Provisions, Crockcry.Hard
ware, Boots and Shoes, etc. State Street,
Mill Point, Mich.
William Wallace. Grocer ami Pro
vision Merchant. Ono door below the Post
Office, Washington Street , .
Cutler. Warts & Stedgman, Deal
ers In General Merchandise, Pork, Flour, Salt,
Grain, Lumber, Shingles and Lath. Water St.,
(irand Haven, Mien.
Griffin & Co., Dealers in Drugs, Med
ie!ncs,Grocerics,ProvisinnB,Forfumcry,Palnts,
. Oils, Gloss and Fancy Goods. At tho old
Store, corner of Washington and First Stroct,
Grand Haven, Mich.
J, T. Davis, Merchant Tailor, Dealer
In Gents Furnishing Goods, Broadcloths, Cas-
simcres, Vcstlngs, Ac. Miop, Washington St
2d door below the Drug More.
Lewis Porter, Manufacturer of and
Dealer in Clothing Goods, no, 10, canal et..
Grand Rapids, Mich.
TWr-w St Son. Manufacturers and
Wholcsnlo and Retail Dealers in Luinl.cr.Shin
gles, Lath, Picket, Timber Ae. Business Of
fices, Water Street, Grand Haven, Mich., and
2:t, Adams Street, tnicsgo, in.
J, F. Chubb, Manufacturer of and
Dealer in Plows, Cultivators, Threshing Ma
chines, Rcapors, Mowers, Hay Presses and all
kinds of Farming Tools and wacmncs. g
rlcultural Warehouse, Canal Street, Gran
Rapids, Mich.
: THE VOICE T1AT WINS ITS WAY. . .
If words could satisfy the heart,
The heart might find lets tare; '
But words, like eu miner birds, depart,
. And leave but empty air. . .
A littlo said, and truly said, 1 '
. Can deocr joy impart . ,
Than hosts of words which reach tho head
But never touch tho heart.
A voice that wins its sunny way
A lonely home to cheer,
Hath oft the fewest words to say,
But, 0, those few, how dear!
Correspondence of the Milwaukee Sentinel.
RAILWAYJOTTINGS.
The Lat of 'finA ilieeallcd CuuutiV jot
of the Detroit f MUwtule It. 11. Suit.
il'7i'm A". Jir Detroit City-Fort Wayne
Dencription of 7o Shot How Jlmle, tc
Detroit, Mich., Aug. 19, 1861.
Tho land in and for which tho great
bard of Britain devoted tho purest and
noblest energies of his brilliant genius
could not, methinks, surpass in cultivated
grandeur and naturul scenery that which
lies on this lino of road between Holly and
Detroit. Not by tho stately Shannon,
tho wide and winding Rhino, the rushing
Rhone, the classic Arno or tho islanded
and wooded Mississippi, can you find land
in a highor 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 tho
tall oaks, far from tho troublous abodes
of man, meet your gazo and rivot your
attention at ovcry strido of tho 44 iron
horse." Tho 44 old settlers " should have
recorded their intelligent appreciation of
tho fino arts of naturo by appropriately
denominating it Lake instead of Oakland
County. Healthy villages and an aspir
ing if not notorious city dot the road
from Holly hero. Davisburg, Springfield,
Clarkston, Drayton Plnins, Pontiac, Bir
mingham and Royal Oak, greet you in
turn. Pontiac has crown into uncnviablo
notoriety for some imaginary evils that
arc said to " bo at homo " in it. : If
a wag or termagant wish you in that
placo which, accordiug to theological ge
ography, is paved with firo and brimslono,
they'll tell you "go to Pontiac." The
peoplo, withal, look human; and had you i
been fated to come through it in your (
hey-day of life and leisure, and had seen
as many beautiful specimens of 6ugar sex
flock round the train as I, you would bo
led to inwardly ejaculate that pious in
junction, 44 Deliver me from temptation 1"
That part of tho depot reserved for the
cars is not as large as those of other roads
of loss business, capital and pretensions.
Tho offices, however, aro larger, more airy
and commodious than thoso of tho Mich
igan Southern, Michigan Central or Grand
Trunk Roads.
The Superintendent of tho road, I havo
been endeavoring to describe to you
William K. Muir is yet young in years,
though ripo in manhood and experience.
Ho is about thirty-two years of ago, of
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 Covenantors who scorned tho tyr
anny of England as they haled and des
pised tho then debilitating mysticisms of
Romo ho inherits many of their good and
pious qualities. He did not, like others
that I wot of, blunder into the high and
honored position he now holds and so
creditably and satisfactorily fills. Born
amongst,not abovo nor below, the people,
his sympathies are honorably and charit
ably cntertwincd with them, and tho wid
ow or orphan, the ncody or destitute, who
have ever appcalod to him for relief, can
attest to tho Lonevolcnt munificenco of his
naturo. Ho is a strict business man, nov-
er departing from his lino of duty to dab
bio in the dull materialism of politics.
An experience of sixteen years, hero and
in his native laml, lends a senso of socu
rity to his business movements and trans
actions. Liko all thoughtful, intellectual
and meditative men, ho looks oldor than
his years, his countcnanco and features
indicating rays of sunny sadness ever dart
ing through his. mind. At a lime when
not only journalists are "jours" but
quack doctors, tract venders, bogus preach
ers, members of Congress, and feather-bed
44 army officers " aro dead-heading their
way through the country, you can imag
ine his surprise on learning that I, who
have written so much relative to his road
in the Milwaukee Sentinel, should pay
full faro the whole way. It is a strange
and unusual 6i'ght in this age of trickery
and 44 smartness," to meet one who bold
ly and defiantly fronts and pays his way
through the world.
Detroit is, like most largo cities, rival
ing yours in the virtues aud vices to
which mankind in common is heir to. It
has threo good daily newspapers to puri
fy its moral and political Atmosphore
tho Free Press, (dein.) edited by II. N.
Walker; tho Advertiser, (rep.) Joseph
Warren, editor; and the Evening Trib
un e, conducted by II. Barnes. I will
not institute a comparison between these
gentlemen, lost I may unintentionally
daub that which I would desiro to paint.
Fort Wayne, whero aro now stationed
about eight hundred recruits, is throe
miles from tho City Hall, - on tho right
bank of, aud overlooking, thc.Dctroit riv
er. Thero aro no arms nor munitions of
war in it now, save thoso in the hands of
tho recruits and a worn out six pounder
mounlod on an old fiold carriago, which
serves to fire salutes and occasionally
startle tho neighborhood. There is little
dissimilarity between it and a bastionod
fort or field redoubt, only that it possess
es ro-outoring angles, and is of polygonal
form. It is not open in tho rear, being
intendod to resist au attack on all bides.
In these military times, your readers will,
I trust, pardon mo for partly explaining
to them tho component parU and torms
by which designated in a work liko this.
Insido tho fort are tho barracks, a sol
id structure of brick and iron, capablo of
affording quarters for two thousand sol
diers. Tho roof and chimneys only aro
visible from the outsido, tho parapet and
outer mound of tho fort intervening. Tho
magazine is about fifty foot from the bar
racks, is composed of rough-hewn stone,
with a wall soven feet thick, (it is said,)
tho outer door being iron. Anticipating,
some day cr other, an attack from the
river or Canada shore, (which is loss than
a mile from it on tho Southern or oppo
site side,) the Superintendent had tho
magazino out into, and raised to the level
of tho banquette. Plates of sheet iron
could securely mantle it against explosives
in caso of war.
The component parts of all works, or
entrenchments, are the parapet, which is
the mass of earth thrown up to cover tho
troops; and tho ditch, from which the
earth is taken to form tho parapet.
That part of tho parapet toward the cn
omy is called tho exterior 6lope; it re
ceives generally, as in this work, the samo
slope tho earth takes when thrown up;
the lop of the parapet is called tho tupe-
rior slope; tho part which tho occupants
lean against when firing is tho interior
slope. Tho banquette is the part on which
the men stand to firo over tho parapet;
the top of tho banquette is called tho
tread, and the inclined piano to tho rear
is named tho slope of tho banqvette. ,Tho
crest is a term given to thoso points whero
a salient anglo is formed, and tho foot is
the term applied to where a ro-entering
anclo is formed. Tho bcrm is tho snnco
between tho parapet and ditch, intended
to prevent the earth from giving way ; tho
scarp is tho slope of the ditch next the
parapet; tho opposite sido is called tho
counterscarp. Outsido tlio fort, and
fronting tho river, is what seems to bo a
curtain, from behind which tho enemy
could bo much annoyed. It was, perhaps,
intended for the firing of hot-shot, as tho
furnaco is imraodiatoly in rear of it. Tho
furnace, however, could bo easily got
rid of, as it is very much exposed to the
firo of tho enemy. Tho main and outer
works aro connected by two Inrgo ontrnn
cos, or 44 sally-ports," which aro guarded
by two heavy doors. The angular parts
towards tho enemy aro called salients;
thoso towards tho occupants tho re enter
ings. By this flanked arrangement tho
enemy's flank is reached by the firo of the
retired parts when ho is entering on tho
salients. Onus in salients are said to bo
44 in barbette," that is, they are intendod
to fire over tho lop of the parapet. Those
guns rest on an iron pivot, and aro, when
mounted, made to revolvo on a 44 train "
or band of thin rail laid ou cut stone, run
ning semi-circulnrly all round, enabling
the gunners to deliver and oblique as well
as direct fire. Immediately below this,
separated by a small mound or ramp, aro
embrasures for guns calculated to swocp
the trench on either sido. A gun is said
to be "in embrasure " when it fires thro'
an opening cut through the parapet.
This fort, when in good repair and well
mounted, could be held by ono thousand
good and true men against ten limes the
number of liko. material. '
This furnaco can hold at onco and heat
about fifty balls. A person who has seen
"puddled" or Railroad iron hcalod in a
rolling mill, can easily comprehend tho
manner of heating. To commence with,
it requires ono hour and fifteen minutes
to heat a ball; after tho furnaco is onco
heated, a twenty-four pound shot is bro't
to a rod heat iti . (weDty-fivo minutes
argcr balls requiring their proportionate
fnw moments more. . Catridges for hot
shot aro generally double bagged, one
within tho other, to prevent accident from
loose powder. When loading, the muz
tlo of the gun is elevated sufficient to al
low the bnll to roll in off tho fire 6hovcl ;
a dry wad follows tho catridges when an
other wad of wot hay, or clay, is insert
ed between it and tho dripping ball. No
danger is apprehended' by experienced
gunners by explosion; the ball could bo
left to cool with safety, tho powder alono
being injured by tho smoke from tho wet
wad. The penetration of hot and cold
shot into wood is equal undor the samo
circumstances. A red hot shot retains
sufficient heat to set fire to a vessel after
haviug struck the water sovoral times.
Smaller charges of powder aro usod with
hot than cold shot, for its intent could
not bo accomplished did it penetrato deep
er than from eicjht to twelve itichos. Onco
more, and for tho last time, adieu.
Tuos. C. Fitzoiddon.
Seeino the Sunns. In Boston, ono
lay last week, while a military man was
nnssin?? nn tho steps leading lo the Stato
llouso, ho observed a very tat lemalo of
middle ago, accompanied by two chil
dren, evidently from tho rural districts,
climbing up to tho Stato Capitol. The
woman, who was very puny and short ot
wind, approached a short, thick, but ex
ceedingly sunny-faced gentleman, who
seemed to bo hurrying up tho steps, and
inquired 44 if be could toll her whero she
could see tho Governor?" Tho sunny-
faced littlo man replied in an exceedingly
courtoous manner, 44 1 am the Governor,
madam, what is your business I "Noth
ing, particular, sir, only I havo brought
my children to the city to see tho sights,
and have been to the aquarial gardens, on
tho common to seo the soldiers, lo tho
menagerie, and havo alstfsccn tho hippo
potamus, and thought wo would liko now
to take a look at the Governor." 44 Well,
madam, iudulge your curiosity as quickly
as possible, as I am in haste, ' pleasantly
replied His Excellency. "Comohcro you
children, and seo tho Governor," shouted
tho woman to her youngsters, and after a
good long stare, tho female and her chil-
dred made a low courtesy, with a " thank
you, sir," nnd left, evidently satisfied that
they had seen all tho sights in lioston.
Be Gentle. Bo ever gcnllo wilh the
children God has given you; watch over
them constantly ; reprove them earnostly,
but not in anger. In tho forcible lan
guago of tho Scripture, 44 Bo uot bitter
against them. 44 1 cs, they aro good
boys," I onco heard a kind father say;
44 1 talk to them very much, but do not
like to beat my children tho world will
beat them." It was a beautiful thought
though not elegantly expressed, ics,
there is not ono child in the circle round
tlio inula, healthful and hannv as thov
look now, on whoso head, if long spared,
tho storm will not beat. Adversity may
wither them, sickness may frown on them,
but amid all let memory carry them back
to a home whero tho law of kindness
reigned, where the mother's reproving eye
was moistened with a tear, and tho lath
cr frowned 44 more in sorrow than in an
gcr."
SST Tarson Green, nn American
preacher in tho habit of sometimes draw
mg upon a box of sermons bequeathed
him by ins lather, who was also a minis
ter, upon ono occasion cot hold of a ser
mon preached to tho Stato prison con
victs. It opened well, nnd the congrega
tion were oocoming dooply interested,
when all at once tho parson surprised
them with the information, that, 44 had it
not been for the clemency of the Gover
nor, every one of them would have boon
hun long ago."
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
- Tho best war bullctiu. A bullet
in tho henrt of tho enemy.
- Prentice says the real motto of the
Uecedera is, 44 Let IT. S. alone."
Tho man who moved an amendment
injured his spine by tho operation.
- Let a romantic voung lover give to
a mosquito the nnmo of his sweetheart.
- It is not so honorable to descend
from a high ancestry as to ascend from a
low ono. .
The right thing in tho wrong placo
is a lovo letter written on a mourning
sheet.
A splendid car, but a very poor
voice, as the organ-grinder Raid of the
donkey. ,
Tho editor of the talks about
his frame of mind. Ho may havo tho
framo of ono, but that's all.
- A patent medicine vender advertis
es pills ami ointment that will cure the
worst hi or any pair of boots.
- It. is said, that Virginia will not
send us any moro oystors. Never mind;
wo will give her plenty of shells.
A census-laker found a woman who
gavo her own ago as twenty-eight years,
and that of her eldest son at twentv-
three.
A manufacturer of parasols says,
that the height of impudetico is taking
shelter in an umbrella store during a thun
der storm. .
A man on being upbraided for his
cowardice, said ho had as bold a heart as
any ono, but his cowardly legs would run
awav with it.
Thero is a man in Grecnbush, says
tho Troy News, who believes in rotation
of crops. Ono year ho raises nothing; the
next year weeds.
A notorious abolitionist announces
that ho will lecturo on tho callows. Tho
Louisville Journal hopes ho may get tho
hang of the subject.
Boasting is sometimes out of place.
We were once amused at hearing a gen
tleman remark that ho was a bachelor, as
was his father before him.
- 44 1 am afraid of liirhlnlnrr ' mnr.
0, .
mured a pretty woman during a thunder
storm.
44 Well VOU mav bo." said a d!snnrinnr
, . - 1 o
lover, 44 when your heart is steel." .
- Dr. Franklin, endeavorinrr to kill n
turkey by an electric slnxk, received the
wholo battery himself, when ho good hu
morcdlv observed that 44 instead of killing
a turkey ho had nearly put an end to a
goose."
A young lady writes to know how
sho is to avoid chapped hands during Ibis
cold weather. Wo hardly know. If she
attracts tho chaps by her eyes, she must
expoct somo difficulty in getting them off
her hands.
Tho following is an exact copy of a
notice which is a, pi escnt posted in a Jer
sey stago: 44 Lost a calf red. Ho had
a whilo spot on ono of his behind legs.
He was a she calf. I will givo three dol
lars to every body what will bring him
homo."
A minister held forth to his female
auditors, m the following manner: "Be
not proud that our blessed Lord paid you
the distinguished honor of appearing first
lo a fomalo after tho resurrection it was
only dono that tho glad tidings . might
spread the sooner." 1
School Mnrtn 44 Thomas, what
does b-o-n-c h spell ?"
Tommy 44 Don't know, ma'am."
School Marm 44 What, you littlo
numbskull, what aro you sitting on?"
Tommy (looking sheepish) 44 1
don't like to tell."
A gonuino Jonathan lately took a
rido with his girl, and stopjcd at a res
taurant and had a glass of soda. It was
prepared, and swallowed at one draught,
then turning lo her, he said :
4,Sal, that was darned good ; why don't
you buy some for yourself?"
A neat compliment was paid tho
other day to a lady. She had just swal
lowed a glass of wine, as a gentleman in
tho company asked for a taste. 44 It's
all gone, said she, laughingly, " unless
you will take somo from my lips.". 44 1
should bo most happy," lie replied, "but
I never lake sugar with mine."
The Boston Post Is responsible for
tho following: 44 A farmer, living on tho
lino of tho Troy and Boston Railroad,
stopped A passcngor train, on Thursday
last, by waving his hat. 4 What is tho
matter V screamed the cnginocr. 4 Mat
ter said the farmer, 4 nothiu' as I know
of.' 4 Then wliat did you swing your hat
for?' 4 1 was fanning myself, said tho
farmer. Tho engineer is supposed to
havo 4 cussed ' a little, but our reporter
couldn t hear the words, and don t know
for certain."
The long Missing Steam Ship Fa
cific A Message from the Sea.
Our readers may have observed recent
ly, among our maratimo extracts, tho copy
of the contents of a slip of paper found
in a bottlo some weeks ago, on the west
ern coast of Ulst, in tho Hebridges nnd
forwarded to us by our agent at btorno
way. Tho paper in quostion, apparently
the leaf of a' pocket-book, used in ihe
hurry of tho moment, was . covered on
both sides wilh pencil marks from which
the following was with ililhculty ueci
phcrod : 1
"On Board tho Pacific, Vvoo to N.
York. Ship going down. (Great) con
fusion on board. Iceborgs around us on.
every sido. I kuow I can not escape. . I
wruo mo causo oi our joss umi hivum
may not be in suspense. Tho finder of
this will pleaso get it published.
" WM. UKAUAM. ,
If wo nre right in our conjocture, tho
ship here named is tho Pacific, ono of tho
Collins' steamers, which vessel loft Liver
pool on January 23, 1850, three days bo
fore tho Persia, and has not sinco been
heard of; and this slip of paper, threo
inches by two, is probably tho only rec
ord of the fate of that missing ship. Tho
writer was evidently some person accus
tomed lo the perils of the sea, for it is
difficult to understand how any person
whoso nerves nau not, uccn naruoncu uy
tho presence of frequent and appalling
dangers, could havo written with such
manifest coolness in tho immediate pres
ence of death. Tho self-possession at
onco negatives tho idea that tho person
who could exhibit it in a momontof such
supremo peril could possibly havo mistak
en the name of the vessel whoso loss ho
has recorded. Then, again, wo find from
tho records of tho lost Pacific that a per
son named Graham sailed in her from
Liverpool on her ill fated voyage, and in
air probability was on board at'iho time
sho was lost with all hands. This is tho
strongest point in tho entire chain of evi
dence, for it connects the writer of tho
memorandum directly with tho lost ship,
and the ship with tho writer. Lnslly, sinco
tho memorandum has been given to tho
world now somo weeks wo havo had
no intimation that any ship named Pa
cific, sailing from Liverpool recently, has
been lost or even missing.
London Shipping &. Mercnutilo Gaz.
Wo givo space to tho abovo to gratify
tho longings in tho hart of almost every
resident in our county to hear something,
however , meager in detail, of the falo of
tho Pacific. Jabez Barber, Esq., wilh
his wife and ono child wcro lost wilh that
ill-fated stoamer. Mr. Barber removed
from Canada to' this country, nnd in tho
employ of Col. Amos Norton, built tho
machinery of tho Nortonvillo mill, and
afterwards took charge of the mill in this
village, owned now by Messrs. Ferry &
Son, then built un at Mill Point tho largo
mill and lumbering establishment known
as Baruer & Mason'&, and for years
was ono of the most activo and success
ful business men in our county. After
amassing a largo property and. wealth ho
visited England, his nativo land, and was
on his return, on board the Pacific when
she was lost with all on board.
The Squire's Indigestion. Old
Squire's II was a very successful
and snbstantinl farmer in an interior town
of Massachusetts, and a moro amazing
cater never lived in any town anywhere.
And especially much did ho cat when
fresh pork was to bo his nourishment.
Well, at a certain timo one of his hogs
had been killed. Tho next morning there
was fresh pork for breakfast, and the old
man ate most wondrously. In the courso
of the forenoon ho ato his lunchcou, con
sisting of bread and butter, mince-pie and
chcoso. At noon his dinner consisted of
fresh pork, pickles, mince-pio, and the
usual accompaniments. His afternoon
luncheon was like that of tho forenoon.
When ho came home lo supper his favor
ite dish had not been prepared as part of
that meal. The old man fretted and
scolded till fresh pork was added to tho
substantial. Ho ato voraciously as usual.
In the evening ho toasted somo cheese,
buttered and ato it. Just before going to
bed, ho roasted a couple of apples and
cat them. In tho night he was taken
wilh a severe colic. Tho doctor was with
him all night, and nearly wrought a mir
acle in the old man's life. Tho next day
Bolles W , ono of his neighWs, went
in to condole with the 44 Old Squire."
44 Bolles," said tho old worthy, 44 1 liko
to havo died last night. I'll novcr cat
another roast apuJo as long as I live. I
never did love them very well, nnd last
night I ate only two, and they nearly
killed me."' . ; ,' , i '
Bolles never told this story without
laughing.
IT Good temper is liko a sunny day,
it sheds brightness over everything; it is
tho sweetener of toil nnd the soother of
disquietude