East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1861-04-04
our Nasl,lryton Corrs. ponaenee.
WAsurNoroY, March, 10th, 1851.


taking care Of the President and dividing
around tho various Offices in our gift
Ably leaves it almost entirely to me, he
don't like the great responsibility, and he
takes every precaution against offending
me and Billy Seward, and Billy knows
better than to interfere much with me-
EIo had nothing to say about my pet
Michigan appointments, so l thought 1t
no more than fair to let him send Carl
Shurz where he pleased. Carl 'aint ex-
actly suited with his berth, but | told
him last night that he must take what he
could get and keep STILL Confound him,
I'll recall him and send Jake Schoen or
Fred Koehler in his place if he keeps on
grumbling. lie is a little afraid of me
since / told him we didn't let the Ger
mans, in our state, drink but five gallons
of lager at once Heis awful afraid ofget-
ting his allowance shortened. Germans
are all well enough to vote, but there is
no use letting them drink all the lager
or have any Of tue good Offices. Ably is
Just as thick as ever, he takes hold Of my
hand and assures me, and | assure him
every day. lie is just as full of fun as
he can be. The other morning he came
to my room before / was up and knocked
at the door, Il don't sleep with him now
since Mrs. Lincoln has got settlcd) and
asked me in his quaint and iocular way,
/" how long 1t would take him to sleep
half an hour?" In about ten minutes dis
covered the joke and laughed, and Abe
went off in a spasm. l had to take him
upon my knee and trot him down quiet;
both Of us in our night dresses, and hon
est old Ably black in the face. l wish we
could have had our daguerreotypo taken,
/ think it would have made fortune for
my children, should any Of them ever sue
coed in copying the picture. One of my
boys you know is in tho ambrotype line.
BY the way; what is the reason his chemi.
Gals won't work well? We'll, every body
can't 90 right off and take pictures,
wonder if he could get good expression
of the Enterprise man, with that German
Chemical Erasive soap.-While thinf
Of it, let me venture to perdict that JOS
lin will be your City Attorney; Franz
Curtis, Marshall Billy Seward, Secretary
of State; Gage, p. Master, and briggs
Land Officer, and he will let Robinson
help him do all the work except drawing
the salary. l mean to have East Sagi
nav made a Port Of Entry, Ably says he
will buy the Flora Temple and make {
ravonnn onttnr &c h~~ -''~"aNd
splendid party last evening, at the Feeje,
Minster's-Mrs. Do uglas was there
observed at this party, as | observed upol
a former occasion, that she was the Oh
served of all observers. She is not yer,
cordial toward me some how, don
think she likes the way trim my mus
tach. Hold Greedy was over the othe
day: ] treated him very coolly; He felt i
sorely and went home the next train
Brigham Young is here lin cog. F."
knew him at once and have about pump
ed him dry | got good deal of infor
nation that will help me good dea
should l ever want to lecture on Nor
monism. Brig is after Salt Bounty
There will be no harm in conciliating hin
with one, you know we can repeal it be
fore he gets home. Isuppose bought,
is disappointed in not getting the p o
! We'll can't help it, | am trying to hav,
the L. NJ. General make Post Office il
each Ward, and then Tom shall have one
in the mean time if he don't like to patro
Mise Gage, his letters can go by express
(Just please tell him so, it will save IN!
writing to him)--It is all nonsens
reckoning longitude and them things Eas
from Greenwich" There don't one maj
in ten know exactly whore Greenwich is
and then Solar time, Mean time, ant
clock time is all in your eye. Tel
Doughty to examine his noon mark, anC
have Alex. make an observation Gf /
amt so smart) and we can have me
ridian Of our own, and not figure from
Greenwich at all. I'll get him appoint
ed Peninsular Astronomer. Ho vii
have to buy principal meridian, bas'
line, two or three cheap initial points anC
those are all the instruments he wants
Ably, the dear old soul, was just in anC
looked over my shoulder" God bes
you DOM said he, you think of ever.
thing, don't you?" told him tried t
my duty. That's just what I am trying
to do, said he, but / can't quite see M