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THE GRAND HAVEN- NEW S VOLUMK 5 NUMBER 354. GRAND HAVEN, MICH., MARCH 2, 1864. terms i oo per annum. h ( I i 1 '..A i " V. : 1 THE (iRANI) IIAVF.N NEWS. Published every Wednesday, I3X J. Ac J. "W. BAHNS. TCRMit: ONB POLLAR IE It YRAR IX A.DVANCB. JiV $1 50 when left by the Carrier, Office, on Washington Street, (Firnt door nbure tht I'ott-OJJit,) (.rand Haven, Ottawa Co., Michigan. RATES CrF ADVERTISING. Tim. lnq 7t" Ssq 4( Jeol J col leol "5 00,10 00 6 50 12 00 2 w'ki, 75 1 50 3 w'ks.U 002 00 1 m'th.U 25;2 60 3 uo'i.S 2 00 4 00 3 iia'i,) 300 5 00 7 60:14 00 8 5015 00 10 50117 50 12 00 20 00 17 00 . '10 00 25 00140 00 6 un'i, 400 0 50 1 year.( 600;8 00 Twelve lines or low (Minion) make 1 square. Eusiness Cardii, not exceeding nix line, $3.00. Lf Rat advertising at legal rstes, fifty cent per folio for the first and twenty-five cents per folio for each subsequent insertion. -Advertisement unaccompanied with written or verbal directions will be published until or dered out, and charged for. When a postpone ment is added to an advertisement, the whole will be charged, the same a fur the Orst Insertion, Job Printing All kinds of Hook, Card, Post-Bill, Catalogue or Fancy Printing done on short notice, ami at rensonable rates. Ulanksof all kinds, printed to order, with neatness and despatch. J'T Patronnge Is respectfully solicited. Letters relating to business, to receive atten tion, must be addressed to the Publishers. J. k J. W. BAUNS, Publishers. " BUSINESS DIRECTORY. C. J. PfttfT, Shoriff of Ottawa Co., Grand Haveu, Mich. George G. Lovell, County Treasu rer, (i rand Haven, Mich. - Peter Van Den Berg, County Clerk and Register of Deeds, (Jrnud Haveu, Otta wa Co., Mich. Robert W. Duncan, Circuit Court Commissioner, Grand Haven, Mich. William II. Parks, Prosecuting At torney, Grand Haven, Mich. George Eastman, County Survey or, Kustmanvlllo, Mich. J. H. Sanford, Deputy County Sur veyor, Wright P. O., Ottawa Co., Mich, S. Munroe, Physician and Surgeon. Ollico ou Washington street, (irnnd Haven, Mich. Dwight Cutler, Dealer in General Merchamlijse, Pork. Flour, Salt, drain, Lumber. Shingles, Lath, 1c. Water street, (irand lluvun, Midi. H. P. Beardsley & Co., Watch-Makers and Jewelers, Wnshington street old stand. Clocks, Watches, and Jewelry of all kinds neatly and thoroughly repaired and warranted. Orders respectfully solicited. William Wallace, Grocer anl Pro vision Merchant, Washington Street, Grand Haven, Mich. Miner Hedges, Proprietor of tlio Ln- mont Premium Mills, denier In Merchandise, Groceries and Provisions, Pork, Grain and Mill Feed, Shingles, Ac, Ac. Lam out, Otta wa County, Michigan. -Augustus W. Taylor Judge of Probate, Ottawa County. Post-Office address Ottawa Center. Court days. First and Third Mondays of each Month. Oflieo at the Court House, Grand Haven. George E. Hubbard, Dealer in Stoves, Hardware, Guns, Iron, Nails, Spiko, Glass, Circular and Cross-cut Saws, Jlutehcr'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, Micb. Wm. M. Ferry Jr.. Manufacturer of Stationary and Marine, high or low press ure Engines, Mill Gearing, Iron and lirass Castings, Ottawa Iron Works,. Ferrysburg, Ottawa Co., Mich. Post-Office address, Grand Haven, Mich. John II. Newcomb, Dealer in Dry Goods, Groceries, Provisions, Crockory.Hard ware, lioots and Shoes, etc. Staie Street, Mill Tolnt, Mich. J. T. Davis, Merchant Tailor, Dealer in Gents Furnishing Goods, Broadcloths, Cas. slmorcs, Vestings, Ac. Shop, Washington St. 2d door below the Drug Sl.re. Ferry & Son, Manufacturers and W holosale and Retail Dealers in Lumbur.Shin glos, Lnth, Tickets, Timber Ac Business Of fices, Water Stroct, (J rand Haven, Mich., and 2:J6, Adams Street, Chicago, III. J. F. Chubb, Manufacturer of and Dealer in Plows, Cultivators, Threshing Ma chines, Reapers, Mowers, Hay Presses and all kinds of Farming Tools ami wacuincs. ricultural Yarehouso, Caual Streot, Grand Rapids, Mich. Phoenix Insurance ! Special at- tontion is called to this Company for Insu rance as being one of the safest and best con ducted in the United States. It is the " Old Phoenix, of Hartford, Connecticut.". Farm ers in this county are particularly directed to 'his Company as giving perfect recuritt to their dwellings and barns, at low rates. ISAAC HUNTING, A'ent Grand Uaven, Mich. 1 w'k, ( 6011 00 l50 "2 01)" J 50 J 25 3 00 3 75 3 00 4 00 5 00 3 50 4 50 5 50 5 00 5 75 6 50 A 50 7 00 7 60 8 00 V 00 10 00 10 00112 00)15 00 TRAYINO. When evening's shadows softly fall, . And all beside Is f till, When sunsot's mellow beam delays, Upon the lonely hill, I stand npon the niifty shore, And gnie far out to sea, The waves have each a tale to tell, And then I pray fur thee. When morning glimmers in the East, With hope renewed I rise, The robin, wren and thrush's hymn, Are filling all the skies; And, sitting on the cold grey rocks, My gas is on the sen, Still watching each fur shining tail, I yenrn and pray for thee. Apd through the long, long golden day, The stately ships go by, Their starry pennants proudly float Against the quiet sky, Some fold their weary wings to rest, Some fade far out to sea, And still with fond and tearful gaeo, I watch and pray for thee. My waiting heart is blest at last Tast grief Is nought to mo Earth seems a heaven of bliss and lovo This gracious day to me; The happy klilp that brings thee back With tears I cannot see, l)ut now t feel, as well I may, My prayers were heard for thoe. THE INDIAN CHIEF'S REVENGE. At the commencement of the- war in Florida, there were among tho Indians many slaves, who had escaped from their masters in Florida an Georgia and taken refuge in tho everglades and thickets with the Indians. In rnost cases tbey were more blood thirsty and desperate in their attacks upon the whites than the aborigi nals themselves, and whenever a settle ment was to bo burned, or an outpost at tacked, they alwavs lod the van, and if successful, woe to tho man, woman or child that fell into their power. A powerful aud athletic negro, nick named Jim Bowlegs, from a more than ordinary curvature of his lower limbs, had run away from his master, Dr. S , of St. Augustine, and joinod tho Indians some three months betoro the war broko out. lie was by uaturo a cruel and bloody fellow, of great streugth and most brutal sensuality. Indeod tho chief cause of his flight was for attempting an unnatural outrage upon a defenseless white woman, who was fortunately rescued when noarly exhausted, by the approach of somo men who wcro drawn thither bv her screams for aid.' At Dado's massacre, a raassncro that will long bo famous in tho annals of the Florida peninsula, Jim fired tho first shot, which killed tho commanding officer, and during the rest of tho conflict, so gallant ly maintained by tho little band of ono hundred and twelvo regulars, against a thousand concealed Indians and negroes, the prowess of Jim was conspicuous, and his voice pealed tho loudest in tho war whoop on that bloody( and fatal day. When Passenger, tho last surviving officer, fell, Jim led tho Indians over the tempo rary breastwork, erected by tho soidWs, and his tomakawk clovo in twain many a heart yet throbbing with lifo, for vain and idlo was tho cry from tho whites for quar ter. By his desperate valor and his cunning on a hundred occasions, Jim gained great power over tho Indian bands, and from bis knowledge of the whites, and their most defenceless locations, ho was truly an ally of no common importance and f (retentions. Put Jim's sensuality and ust woro destined to work his destruction even from his Indian friends. A Micanopy chief, called Qroy Wolf, had ono fair daughter, about sixteen years old, rcmarkablo for her beauty. Jim's brutal passions getting the better of his fears, ho one day surprised the maiden while gathering borrios alono on the edgo of a swamp, and by main forco violated her person. Sho escaped to her tribo, with sobs and shrieks, related her molancholy fate, and ther, like tho Roman matron, Lucretia, ended her lifo by plunging into an adjoining lake, preferring death to sur viving the loss of hor virgin purity. Among tho Indians, nocrimo is consid ered so hideous and execrable as that of violating a woman of their trilo; no mat tor who tho criminal, .their death is cor lain. Jim knew this and fled; but the warriors of his tribe were on his trail, and they tracked him as tho wolf tracks tho deer, until br sheer necessity he was obligod to fly into the power of his eno mies, tho whiles, by taking refuge in a small advanced fort or stockade, occupied by n few U. S. drngoons, and two or three hundred Georgia volunteers. Jim was too well known to receive any mercy from those among whom ho sought shelter; a drum-head court martial was convened, and closed with sentencing him to ls hung in two hours. After a consultation with his officers, Major II - told Jim that ho would pardon him on tho condi tion that ho would pilot two hundred picked men to tho shelter of tho tribo from which ho fled. To this ho consented. Tho night but ono ensuing, two hun dred volunteers issued from tho stockade, led by Jin, with a filo of men prepared on tho instant to shoot him dead, if ho lod them in an ambuscade. Tho second morning after, at daylight, they reached tho fastness of the Indians, on the borders of lake Micanopy. The attack was instantly commenced by tho soldiery, and a bloqdy slaughter ensuod, for tho tribo littlo suspected tho discovory of their retreat. Ono by ono their war riors foil, and their ammunition being speedily exhausted, they wcro forced lo use their bows and arrows, but two or three warriors out of tho many hundreds that saw tho morning light, in tlio courso of an hour, survived; ono of theso was Grey Wolf. Suddenly his eye glared with unwont ed lustre; from behind tho shelter of a palmetto trco ho beheld tho negro Jim; tho violator of his daughter was also tho betrayer of his tribe! with a terrific yell ho fitted his arrow in his bow and took deadly aim. Tho barbed reed passed with unerring precision into tho heart of negro. Jim leaped from tho earth in ag ony, and fell on bis back, dead. With ono bound Grey Wolf was beside him, his scalping knife passed around his skull, ho held aloft tho blooding scalp for an instant, then cave his war whoop, plung ed into a thicket, and was seen no more. His rovengo was accomplished. The Oil SuPiar. The question of tho ability of tho oil region to supply continually tho demand now mado for pe troleum is one wbicb is discussed by those interested in tho production and trado of tho article. Tho wells which have been sunk aro found frequently to diminish in production, aud tho vicinity of other wells is found also to diminish tho productive ness of old wells. From tho frequent striking of mud voius, it is assignod by somo that tho oil supply is becoming ex hausted, and that theso mud veins are tho bottom or bed of tho deposit. Some owners have found it advantageous, when a well gives out, to sink it deeper, whore they find it yielding an additional quanti ty, which loads to the supposition that there exists several superincumbent layers of the peculiar mineral from which petro leum is derived, and tho oil may bo pro cured at tho dopth of a thousand feet, as surely as it is at tho depth of five hun dred feet. This is a matter which has yet to bo tested by experiment, but tho fact is a highly important one as connect ed with tho permanent supply of an nrli clo which has becomo so considerablo an article of trado. Scientific American. Too Slow. Tempests even aro get ting too fast for this age. Tho great storm which swept over Europe, on tho 2d da of December last, found every ev ery body prepared for tho event. Tho director of tho meteorological observatory, at Paris, from his own observation, and that of others sent him, bcramo r.vrro of its approach. At a half an hour after noon, Dec. 1st, all tho Atlantic rt in Franco wcro warned of its coming. At eight o'clock, next morning,it reached the north of Franco from England and Ireland and tho Mediterranean coast was admon ished to lo ready four hours before its ap proach. Surely there is no limit to tho triumphs of science. - . Purification or Salt. A prepara tion of salt, known as Duffiold's Saginaw Salt, is being put into market. By a process recently discovered every particlo of iron, lime, magnesia and gypsum, which are moro or less present, is thoroughly eradicated, thus placing it on a level with rock salt. Tho rcfuso salt, coming iuto market under tho name of refuso No. 1 and No. 2, used in salting hides, can bo purified by their process so as to bo equal with tho belter quality, so that all the product of Iho well can bo thus saved and rendered markctablo. The invention will savo hundred of thousands of dol lars to tho available wealth of Michigan. Br a late amendment to the enroll ment act the $300 commutation only re lieves the icrson to commuting for ono year GREAT GUNS. Government is determined, it seems, to fully test tho practical value of guns of immense caliber. A twenty-inch gun was recently cast in Pittsburg as an ex periment, and we hero record tho results, although we shoulJ, with a far higher degree of satisfaction, give place to somo account of a threo-hundrod -poundor which could throw a shot fivo miles, ahd do it without bursting at the sixth or seventh round. Better dovolo tho knowledge of ordnanco and tho forco of cxploditur gun powder we possess to tho construction of a comparatively small but cflicioul wcap on, than to waslo it on theso hugo bom bards which can not, except by incro chance, bo mado available against iron clad ships. It has been genenlly known for some months that preparations wcro making at tho Fort Pitt Works for the casting of a monster columbiad gun of twenty inches caliber. These preparations were comple ted on tlio 4ln insl., and the gun cast, an unparalleled feat in tho manufacture of iron. Tho furnaces in which the iron of this gun was melted conlainod tho enor mous amount of forty tons each, nnd nearly this quantity was melted on tho ocension. Tho construction of tho pat terns alono, of iho flask and gun, occupied many weeks. Tho coro barrel used in tho manufacture of all guns of Hodman's patent, is a long-fluted cylinder of iron, semicircular at ono end and closed at the other by . a cap, through which a pipo en ters and passes nearly to tho bottom of tho cylinder. I hrotigh this pipe a stream of water is conducted to tho bottom of tho barrel during tho process, of casting, and rising around it lo within a few inches, of the top, is carried of! by a waste pipe. This barrel is rather smaller in diameter than tho rough bore of the gun, and is prepared for tho casting by wrapping it with a layer of bard cord, which is then coated with a peculiar refractory composi tion. This, casting of tho barrel " vents " iho metal that is, affords an exit to tho gases generated during tho casting, which ass alotig tho flu tings of tho barrel and turn fiercely at tho top; tho barrel, when coated, is also subjoclcd to tho drying ov en, before being lifted into tho mold. The centering of tho core in the mold is a task of extreme delicacy, but with con stant practice, the employes in tho Works havo becomo so export as to insure almost perfect accuracy. Tho barrel is support ed at tho upper end by a massive tripod, lifting its head some two feet abova tho upper edgo of tho flask, and enabling tho workmen to observe the riso of metal in the mold. During tho operation of cast ing a constant ' stream f water pours through tho barrel, keeping down its tem perature, and cooling liiogun from tho in terior. THE CASTINO. Tho labor of many weeks of prepara tion closed on tho 3d inst. TIkj flask was lifted iuto tho pit, closed and luted, and tho core barrel fixed in its place. Tho threo furnaces wcro charged, one with thirty-nino tons, and each of tho others with twcnly-thrco and a half tons of met al, chiefly Bloomfiold, and worth $ 05 per ton, at tho furnace. Ono of the smaller furnaces in the old foundry was also charged with twelve tons of metal as a reserve in caso of accident. From each of tho four furnaces lines of open troughs of cast-iron, known as "runners," led to tho " pool " or reservoir besido tho pit, from which two shorter lines connected with tho mold. In moldirg, two long cylindrical bars are laid besido the patlern, forming, when the flask is closed, a circu lar oponing on each side of the mold, leading to the bottom, and connected with tho mold by openings all tho way to tho top, breaking the fall of tho flood of met al before reaching the gun bottom. With each of theso openings or M gates " is con nected ono of tho runners from tho pool. Tho furnaces wcro fired at an early hour on Thursday morning, 4 th inst., and eve rvthing working most admirably tho charges were reduced beforo twelve o clock. At twenty minutes past twelvo tho fur naces were tapped, and threo fiery streams of metal poured into tho pool aud thence into tho mold. Tho reduction of tho metal had been so successfully performed that no diflcrenco was percoptiblo iu tho character of tho iron flowing from tho several furnaces. Tho filling of tho mold proceeded with the sarrro success, and at a quarter to ono twenty-five minutes after the furnaces woro tapped, tho mold was filled and they wore 6toppod off 1 70,000 lbs. of metal having in the meantime passed through the jkioI nearly 7,000 lbs. per minute The operation passed off more successful ly than any casting wc havo heretofore witnessed, no difficulty arising at any ttage notwithstanding tho enormous weight of iron used. The monster gun will bo reduced in thd lathe from a rough weight of 170,000' lbs. to a finished weight, calculated, of 1 1 5,000. Tho whole length from breech to muzzle will bo 21u-33 inches; length of bore 210 inches. Tho maximum di ameter will bo 04 inches, minimum 34 inches. The solid round '20-inch shot will weigh 1,000 lbs., and the shell about 7 00 lbs.- Tho charge of jowdcr will vary ac cording to circumstances from 65 to 80 lbs. Somo two weeks must elapse beforo tho gun will be lifted from the pit, and many weeks before it will leave tho latho in a partially finished condition, to Imj chipped, filed and fitted ready for mount ing. Wo presumo that tho testing will be performed in that vicinity and the gun then brought East to somo of our sea coast forts probably to our own city. The latho in which llus gun is to bo turnod is one of the most massive, we lolieve, ever constructed tho wholo weight being 208,000 lbs. Scientific American, FtVy 21th. Facts for Farmers. If you iuvest money in tools, and then leave them exposed to tho weather, it is tho eamo as loaning money to a spend thrift without security a dead loss in both cases. If you invest money in books, and never rt-ad them, it is tho same as put ting your money into a bank, bu never drawing either principal or interest. If yon inrsvyour' "money in choice fruit, and do not guard and give them a chance to grow and prove their value, it is the samo as putting a good hand into the field with poor lo tools work with. If you invest your inohey in a good farm, and do not cultivate it well, it is tho 6amo as marrying a good wifo aud so abusing and enslaving her as to crush her energies and to break her heart. If you invest your money in A fine house, and do not so cultivate your mind and taste as to adorn it is as if you woro to wear broadcloth and a silk hat to mill. If you invest your money in fine clothes, and do not wear them with dig nity and case, it is as if a plowman were to sit at a jeweler's table to make and ad just hair-springs. If you invest your money in strong drink, it is the samo as turning hungry hogs into a growing cornfield ruin will follow in both cases. If you invest your money in every new wonder that flaming circulars proclaim, it is tho same as buying tickets at a lottery office, where thero aro ten blanks to one prize. If you invest your money in the "last novel," it is tho same as employing a tai lor's dandy to dig potatoes. Valley Farmer. The Union Telegraph line has just been completed from New York to Chicago. From the latter point tho Company are to radiate linos all over tho Great West. Tho price lu'lherto demanded by tho Western Uniom Telegraph Company, for telegraphing from Chicago to New York, has leen $1 38 for each ten words. An operator can easily in ten hours send 4,000 words, or earn $5 50 each day. Thus tel egraphing has been placed out of tho reach of tho great masses. The Union lino will obviato this monopoly and mako communication from ono point to another easy. A woman recently died at Green Bay, Wisconsin, aged 125 years. Sho was nearly 10 years old at tho date of iho declaration of independence. Her history, if written out, would be replete with au interest known in the history of but few persons. The East Saginaw Courier enumer ates nearly twenty steam saw mills in courso of erection in tho Saginaw Valley, with manufacturing capacities varying from 3,000,000 to 6,000,000 foot, to be in operation on the opening of the river in tho spring. Wiikit iho cold wind blows take care of your uoso, that it don't get frozo, and wrap up your toes in warm woolen hose. The above, wo suppose, was written in proso, by somo one who knows tho effect of cold snows. Thk Miner's Gazette states that gold has been discovered in the vicinity of Houghton, Upper Peninsula. Vihti e and happiness are inseparable 7 4