East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1861-10-29
Ing and
Original Letter from benjamin
AZ Franklin.


heir-looms Of his great progenitor,
among which tho choicest is large por
ton Of his genius. 80
''Thc extraordinary adaptation Of this
letter of l776 to 1861, shows how, be.
meath all physical and social changes,
the great identities remain. Franklin
was man for all time--and the spirit
Of patriotism and the suggestions of
prudence which he breathed eighty five
years ago, are just as fresh, as true and
as timely now as then"
HEADoUARTERs CAMBRIDGE,
'N q Oct. 10, l775.
Dear SIR:
ave hear you have had an alarm al
Philada ] hopo no ill Consequences
have attcSav1 Il. / wonder had no
Line from you, / make no doubt of
our Peoples defending their City and
Country brayely, ON the most trying oc.
casions.
81 hear nothing yet Of Mr.. Goddard
but suppose he is on the Road l sup.
pose we shall leave this Place next
Week. / shall not return in company
with the other Delegates, as / must call
for my sister, and we shall hardly be
able to travel so fast; but expect to be
at Phiada within few days of them.
There has been plentiful year here,
as well as with us; and there are as
many cheerful countenances among
those who are driven from house and
homo at Boston, or lost their all at
Charlestown, as among other people
Not a murmur has vet been heard, that
il they had been less jealous in the
cause of Liberty, they might still have
enjoyed their possessions. For my own
part, tho | am for the most prudent
parsimony of the public Treasury, I an,
not terrified 6yHe expense Of this ,oar, should
ii continue erer so tong. a little more
frugality or a ittlo more industry in
individuals, will with ease defray it
Suppose it Gl00, 900 amonth, or 6 200.
600 year If 100000 families will each
spend a shilling week less or earn a
shilling a week more; or if they will
spend sixpence week less and earn
sixpenee Week more, they may pay
the whole sum without otherwise feeling
it. Forbearing to drink tea saves three.
tourths of tho money; and 100000
women doing each threepence worth of
spinning or knitting in a week will paw
the rest. / wish, nevertheless, most
earnestly for peace, this war being truly
an unnatural and mischievous one; but
we have nothing to expect from submis
sion but slavery aud contempt.
i am ever --s---.'r A--gg
-" Your affectionate Father, b. T.
THIRST WORSE THAN HuNGER.-The
disturbance to the general system which
is known by the name of raging thirst,
is far more terrible than that of starva.
ton, and for this reason: During the
abstinence from food, the organism can
SUN I'VE upon Its own substance; out
during the abstinence from liquids, the
organism has no such source of supply
within itself. Men have been known 20
endure absolute privation from drink
(unless in most atmospheric is, per-
haps, the limit Of endurance. Thirst is
the most atrocious torture ever invented
by oriental tyrnnts. 1t is that which
most efectually tames animals. Mr..
Estley, when he had refractory horse,
always used thirst as the most effective
power of coercion, giving a little water
as the reward for every act of obedi
ence. The histories of shipwrecks paint
fearful pictures of the suffering from
thirst; and one of the most appalling
cases known is the celebrated iinprison
ment of one hundred and forty.six men
in the Black Hole OF Calcutta.-Black-
Goods Magazine. 1r ar
HE DEMAND FOR GRAIN.-The best
authorities in England and France put
down the deficit in their respective crops
to be such, that the former must import
$4,000, 900, and the latter S4,00O,OOO
bushels OF. grain, to nave supply equal
to ordinary consumption This is at the
rate Of nearly 100000 bushels weekly
up to the year ending August 81 s62.
The United States and Canada are
looked TO TO make up the greatest part
of THE deficit Their crops would on.
able them to do much towards this,
were not the movements of these soon
to be checked by the CLOSING of navioa