East Saginaw courier., 1863-08-19


in letter written on the war Just be-
fore he left for Europe, spoke of Han
nibal as a negro. In these times of
trouble for the wool market, this is
rather a crisp statement. Now we
hope that Mr.. Whiting will inform us,
just as soon as he gets home, what is
his candid opinion about the exact
shade Of Othollo.
Gen. Shopley, Military Governor Of
louisiana, attributes to the scrupulous
cleaDliness of New Orleans by the mil
itary authorities the fact that yellow
fever has not ragged as usual in the hot
season He says that no city is now
more healthy than New Orleans.
MALE VIRGINs.-An auecdote is re-
lated of Il young preacher at Il city
church, who had for his text a verse
from the parable of the ten virgins,
and i'll the course Of his sermon, eX-
planned: "That in clden times it was
customary whom the bridegroom and
the bride were coming, for ten virgins
To go out to meet them, and escort
them home-liye of those virgins be-
ing males and five females"
A GREAT MIsrAKE-Yoltaire's want
of faith in Christianity has at loast this
pallative-that Judging of the system
by professors, it was not unnatural
that he should underrate it. But what
can be said of his want of faith in wo-
men? Hear him:
'Ideas" said he, care like boards
men only get them when they grow
up, and women never have any"
The Newburyport Herald, in allu-
ding TO the large per cent of eXemp-
tons granted 10y the enrolling officers,
SAYS: "On of two things is true there
is either much perjury, or we are the
most sickly people that ever had an
existence. If it be true that the young
men from 20 to 45 arc so diseased and
debiitated as is reported, what is to
be the physical condition of the next
generation, of which these are to be
the fathers? This is more fearful
IiiOus5ia st-.--- Ill.,, ;4coIf
A countryman, witnessing for the
first time the play Of Othello, became
unduly excited, and at the point where
the cry was raised, The handkerchief.
the handkerchief" exclaimed wildly:
"Never mind the handkerchief blow
your nose with your fingers, and go
on with the play +"
Sydney Smith says in one of his
works: "There was a period when the
slightest concession would have salts
fled Americans but all the world was
in heroics. One set of gentlemen met
at the Lamb, and another at the Lion;
blood and Treasure men Jredthh2q wdr, ee1'-
qcilee Gnd contempt, and in eight years
afterwards, an awllward-loolling gen
tlcmen in plain clothes walked up to
the drawing-room Of st. James in the
midst Of the gcntlemon Of the Lion
and Lamb, and was introduced as the
Ambassador from the United States
Of America
A few evenings ago, the porter Of a
Broadway bank closed the vault, and
shut in tho cashier. The imprisoned
man at once set up an outcry, and
clerk fancying that he heard a stihcd
voice like the intouation of ventrilo-
quist from the wall opposite the vault,
listened The voice, still fainter, Let
me out, was heard in several parts of
the room, and finally traced to the vault
The doors were opened, and the hor-
ror-stricken cashier, nearly helpless,
pale and weak from fear, eXertion and
want Of air, tottered forth. The five
minutes Incarceration, and the terrible
thought that he was left to die linz
gering death, so changed him that the
clerk could scarcely recognize him.
He now shudders at the sight Of the
vault, and has not recovered from the
effects Of his fright He says the five
minutes seemed days to him, while
the rush of thought was inconceivable
and indescribable.
Gen. Rosecrans is severely blamed
by the rebel newspapers for outnank
ing and driving Bragg from his forti-
fed positions. The Chattanooga cor
respondent of the Mobile Register
says:
81 believe that Gen. Bragg would
have fought the enemy at any time,
had they advanced upon him, but Ros-
ocrans persistently continued to flank
and outhank, and no alternative was
left but fight him under great disad-
vantagcs or retreat to position which
he could not flank"
That was bad for Bragg to be sure
But why didn't he flank and outhank
Rosecrans and force him to fight at a
great disadvantage? The position
Bragg has found that Rosecrans can't
flank, has not been marked on the
map.
1t is a beautiful saying of somebody
that "gratitude is the music of the
heart when its cords are swept by the
gentle breeze of kindness. Many
hearts, however, might as well be
strung with bed cord for any music of
gratitude than ever comes from them.
The New York Sun, in view of the
Union feeling and movements in Lou
isiana, Tcnnesse and Nolth Carolina
says: