East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1859-12-01
our DIsINrEREsTED NEIGHBOUR.

OUR DIsINTEREsrEDN EIGHBUR.
Reader, did you ever 90 to Bay City Z?
No? What pity. You had better have
had your life curtailed of half its longi-
tudc, than to have missed such treat.
Let us enumerate SOME of its beauties,
in order to tantalizc you in your stay-at-
homeitivcness Ii is at the "head of
large aud increasing commerce." on the
Saginaw River, and is located in the
midst of an extensive and well watered
swamp. It's inhabitants boast the privi-
lcge of having passed from house to house
and over their farms in canoes. Its
commerce is considerable; exports, lum-
Der, shingles, slaves, furs, &c, imports
provisions and supplies, large proper
ton of which are shipped from the
almost unheard of place--East Saginaw,
on the splendid aftor-cabin steamer For.
THIS branch of business is increasing.
&c size of the town compares with its
Importance. 1t has several hotels, more
groceries, still more dwelling houses and
stores, some saw mills, two dozen
canoes and JIM FRAzER-who, by the by,
is going to move away as soon as the
water falls sufficiently. There is news
paper ostensibly published there, but we
judge it has but little sympathy with the
town or its people, from the fact that in
a recent issue it publishes a labored arti-
Gle to prove that before many years the
good people of that town will be unable
to navigate their streets and farms, and
that the Saginaw river will so elfcctually
"dry up" as to cut off their supplies by
the aforesaid steamer For. it also givcs
due notice to East Saginaw and Xilwau.
kcc, that they had better make tracks
, while it is flood tide, or their canoes will
: be high and dry on sand bank, over
which at one time the waters of the
: Flint, Shiwassec, Tittibawasse, Chippewa,
Pine, Tobacco, and their tributary
streams flowed in majesty. All this pro,
phetic strain is highly generouS-nothing
else. Who can doubt it, after reading
G the following:
n awe will premise the remainder Of
1 what we have to say at this time by the
E remark that if there is anything w,
abhor it is the exhibition of petty ieal
= ousy between neighboring towns. This
c journal will never lend its aid or inAuenc,
|. to encourage it.
, Who says he is jealous? Not any one
: we hope!
o But it is barely possible that the fellow
" is slightly mistaken in the design of tn
d Creator, in regard to the destruction O
o this portion of the universe. At a
y events if he believes the Bible he ma
II rest upon his conviction, that the waite
L in Bay City will certainly decrease, o
N the promise not again to dcluge, that POI
IS ton Of the world will be forfeit. On tn
Of other hand he ought to have suilicieu
faith in the coming of that day when tn
"lirmament shall melt with fcrvant heat
to believe that on such an occasion ther
will be something more combustible tina
water somewhere. However, if he think
- the Saginaw river will burn, let him 81
it on fire. No one will arrest him fc
arson this year, if he should succeed
His theory which he so fiippantly az
vances, is that after the abatement of til
g" present high stage of water, boats vi
be unable to get above Bay City. Wei
it will be after said abatement if ever, {
NJ be sure. 1t so happens that we came
NJ to the State of Michigan in 1884, an
have been familiar with the rise and ia
NJ Of the waters of the great lakes eve
NJ since. AT that period the waters wei
lower than at any time since. The
en- are higher now than ever before True
M they have been nearly as high once b,
fore and rcceeded somewhat, but nevc
have gone back to the stage of 1884
~ Again it is evident that the waters frol
natural causes, are yearly making ei
~ croachments upon our shores, and thu
bit many islands contiguous to the main Ian,
Dit and once dry, are now completely sui
NJ merged, and tall as the Bay City fcllo
is, it would alternate his extremitit
considerably to keep his head above wa
co cr, and his feet on the bottom. We hay
no desire to have him commit suicide /
making the attempt. 1t is patent alon
=. ~ the shores of our lakes, that lands ono
n under high cultivation, gardens an
q. orchards have all been undermined an
De- carried away, and that ten feet of watc
80 now covers the spot where they houris