Michigan

Michigan possesses in a remarkable degree the elomeDts of prosperity. The State is surrounded on all sides bj navigablo waters, and intersected by portions of threo great unes of railway; and though it is not traversed by large rivers, it8 streaias are all sed in driving milis for lumber, flour, piaster, besides numerous faetones. It abounds iu pino foresta, in ts horthern counties, and valuablo forests of oak abound in the southern portion of the State. It is underlain with beda of excellent limestone, everywhere afibrding material íor building, and ampie quantitiea for export In almost every town of considerable size in the State, stone buildings indicate that quarries are near at hand. There are, also, large beds of bituminous coal, equaliner in extent theentire eoal field of Great Britain, which is estimated at 12,000 square miles. Still, exoept at .1 acksou, but little attentiün has been paid to coal miuing. Inexhaustible quantities of sulphato oí lime or piaster of Paris are also found in the middle and western counties. The production of this article has already eugaged an enormous amount o capital, and furnishes employrnent fo railways, boats, quarrj'men, and rhillers Its use enriches the soil of Michigan and enables the farmers to reap magnifi cent harvesta. The beds of it are now worked largely near Grand Rapids, anc judging frorn the immense quarrios there and elsewhere in tho State, as well as the great demand from abroad it is easy to predict a properous future for those engased in this industry. There aro exliaustless beds of salt at threé places in the State, but priucipally at Saginaw. So rich are the waters o; the Saginaw salt welis, that salt can be manufactured and seat to New York at a less price than the same article can be furniebed from Onondaga. We have not the estimates before us now, but a Michigan newspaper recontly put down the product for the year 1865 at 3,000,000 bushels. This, be it remembered, is in the very beginning of tho business. All the world knows of the wonderful mines of iron, copper aud silver, not only along the shores of Lake Superior, but extending through many hundred square miles adjacent. Not a millionth part of tbis vast wealth has vet been developed, though the estímate producís of the mines from the beginning exceed $40,000.000. Surely, if it had been a probletu to furn'sh a State with treasurers ncher t-han gold or diamoads, it could hardly havo boen better solved than now in Michigan. The people of that State are justly proud of the natural advantages which have so bounteously fallen to their share. Michigan is like a ship iroD-ribbed and copper-bottomed, or like a splendid building with marble foundations, and iilled with eeerything good. With a people remarkable for intelligenco and enterprise, her future history, like that of the past, must abouud in all the charactericsof substantial progresa.