The New Capital

A correspondent of the Monroe Advocate thus describes the new capital ol Michigan : "II is 25 or 30 rods west of the centre of sec. 10, town 4 north, range 2 west. - The selcction is a good one, but in my judgment not the best that could have beer: made. Mr. Scymour, who owns sec. 9, north of sec. 16, is layingout n villnge on his oivn land, and Mr. Townsend who owns sec. 21, south ofseciionlG, is also laying out a village on his. The general cliaracler of the lands in this vicinity is uneven, or rolling. The soil is ferlilr, mostly heavy timber, with birch, mnple, oak, &c; nnd capable of sustaining a dense populatinn. The Grand River, a beautiful siream, larger than the Raisin, ':mnkes its devious course" through the country, turning to all poinls of the compassto find a lowly bed. It seldom overflows its banks even in high water. It is very favorable for slack water navigation fi-om Grand Rnpids to Jackson, and t has be concluded, by estimates, Ibat the sale of water power tliuscreated would defray the expense of building dams nnd locks. Lansing forms the centre of a large tract of valuable farming country, called the "Grand River ceuntry," unsurpassed by any in ihe state for fertility. liealth, and all the eiements of we.ilth and power, anl is deitined, l think, at no distant day, to rival Ihe okler portions of the State in population nnd hrfluence. The canitol being Incated on the school section will :n;ike some delay aboul commencing improvements. Tlie lots aro lo be luid out, appraised, and ofl'ere I lor sale at auction. before any one can make tr pinchase, which will requiresome fouror five weeks at least. Some iniprovemeiits will in ihe mean lime, be made on the lands of Seyinour and Townsend. Va:er power abutidant, and will soon be improved. Lime has not vet been found in any considerable qiianlitv nearer thnn about 40 milos ; most of the stones to be (bund are grat.ite, boulders, etc, Th nearest post oflice to be found, at present, ia at Delta, Eaton coun'v, about 5 or G milos from the capitol ; but it is expected thnt soon an office will bn established here, and G. VV. Peck, Esq., Speaker of the House of Representativos last winter, be nppointed Post Master. It is nlso expected that Mr. öarmon, of Detroit, will tsiart a paper here about the first of Julv, and Mr. Peck is spoken of as rditur."