East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1863-12-02
ALL SORTS o. PARAGRAPHS.

ALL SORTS O. PARAGRAPHS.
We commend to our political par
SOILS the following sentiment uttered
by Father Bylcs, the first pastor of the
Park Street Church, Boston, we be-
lieye. 81 have thrown up four breast
works, behind which | have intreuch-
ed myself, neither of which can be en-
forced. In the first place | do not un-
dcrstand politics III the second place
Jou all dU, ivory nutlIur's SON or you,
IN the third place, YOU have politics
all the wecl-pray let one day in scv-
en- be devoted to religion in the
. fourth place, | am engaged in II work
of infinitely more importance. Give
me any subject TO preach upon of
more consequence than the truth
bring you, and l will .preachon it next
Sabbath"
Henry Ward Bcechcr is being edu-
Gated by foreign travel, and announces
i'll one of his letters the dissipation of
one of his Puritanical preiudices:
am bound to say, also, that |
have been agrceably- disappointed in
the appearance Of the monks and
priests in Roman Catholic countries.
As n general rule they have appeared
To be clcar-faccd, intelligent and sim
core men. Only once OF twice did we
meet the legendary type of a monk
round, fat and worldly. In Switzor-
land and in NortI,eru, Itnki ,jh4pc'uy
the priests has been highly favorable
to them.
An Ohio paper publishes the follow
ing item: "a deaf man named Taft,
was run down bya passenger train and
killed on Wednesday morning, half a
mile north of Gu .enwich station, near
Cleveland. He was injured in sim
liar manner about year ago"
1t is thought that people are degcn-
Grating because they don't livesas long
us i'll the days of Mcthuselah. But
nobody can afford to live long at the
current prices.
Tie New York Evening Post, one
Of Mr.. Lincoln's organs-in-chief says;
IF slavery is to be continued i'll
this country, we want the Irish and
Catholics to take the place of the ne
groes, and let the more intelligent and
virtuous blacks be liberated.
Daniel $. Dickinson in 1860, spoke
as follows on abolitionism
'.If Satan had been commissioned to
scourgo. mankind, he could not have
better fulfilled his mission than by
turning abolition disunionist, and
preaching the doctrines they preach.
They are desperate men from all par
ties-the lame, the frail, and the
blind gathered together, and what
arc they going to do? Going to help
freedom Freedom for whom? Their
every effort jeopardizes freedom and
if only their efforts prevailed We wonld
not have free government"
We have found somewhere an en-
tirely new reading of Shakespeare, and
herewith present a part of the 'crook
ed back tyrant's" first soliloquy, slight
~ Tcutonized, for the especial consid-
Grafton of the oratorical Strpbed
Snow ish de vendor nit mine dishkontent
Made funny by mine little son, Shake,
S 9t kn isb HTfmnRfn a AM and 2 B,S%
Calarinc, here take dc child, kwick!
] links goes and shangc one leg Of
Mine Sunday prceches."
Two little clildren were talking of
t,l1 moon the other evening Charley
said solemnly in his imperfect pronun-
citation, that it was "Dod." No it
amt" said Sarah, lin amt bigenough.'
"Well," replied the boy, determined
MT to be put down altogether, it is
the hole he looks through anyhow"
At friends Sunday school, n
bright looking little fellow as asked,
"What is conscience 2" lie answered
worry properly, can inward monitor ~
"And what's monitor ?" Oh, one
of the iron-clads."
A Washington letter says "Abra-
ham Lincoln is progressive man,
and if he is not exactly right in his
position to-day, he is pretty sure of
being entirely so tomorrow" Equiv
Deal compliment.
We learn from n return recently
made to the Virginia Legislature, that
the Confederate army has received
102,915 men from that State. This
is an average of 1928 men TO n Con-
grcssional District. Illinois has given
To the Union army 130,035 men, an
average of 1888 to Congressional
District.
E 4" Never be critical upon the
ladies'" was the maxim of an old Irish
peer remarkable forhis homage TO the
sex: "the only way in the world that
true gentleman will attempt to look
at the faults Of a pretty woman is to