East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1863-09-02


son-in-law of Leopold Of Belgium,
while his wife is cousin to Queen Vic
toria, grand daughter of the ex-Q Queen
of France, niece of the Prince de Join
Vile the Dukes of Nemourt, Aumale
and Montpenser, and first cousin of
the Count de Paris and Duke de Char
tres. -. - .th.
BABY SLEEPS.
The Baby wept;
The mother took it from the Nurses arms
And hush't its fears, and soothed its vain alarms
i.'. And Baby slept.
Again it weops;
And God doth take 1t from the Mothers arms
From present griefs and fLture unknown harms.
And baby sleeps
London AthenGGm
In spite of what chat Quartermas-
ter" said, the n. Y. Commercial be-
lieves it is not safe to prophecy when
Charleston will fall. The rebels will
defend the town to the best of their
ability, and even after thefall of stump
ter it is not probable that they viii
tamely surrender But have faith in
Gilmore and the iron-clads.
An elderly gentleman and a hand
some young lady recently arrived at
Hamilton, &. w, took fine rooms, and
seemed to be loving and happy until
the lady suddenly decamped taking
with her $4,000 in cash, belonging to
her elderly companion, and in spite of
telegraph and police, made safely off
with the PLUMBER leaving him to di-
vulgc case Of scandal and immorali-
ty for gossips to feed upon.
The Administration has added over
sixty thousand officers to those who
used to be employed under the consti-
tutional action of the Government.
Ward Beecher has visited Geneva
and sat in John Calvin's chair and in
his pulpit. The Newburyport Herald
says great many orthodox people
wish that he would more fully en-
brace John Colyin's theology.
Mr. Stsnly, of North Carolina, is re-
ported to have said chat the people of
that State will resist the Presidents
emancipation proclamation to the last
that they will not make any overture
of peace or propositions to return to
their Allegiance to the Union; but if
the President viii proclaim to them
that all the officers and political lead
crs below certain grade and all the
people below them shall be held inno-
cent, and shall be restored to their orr
ginal rights under the Constitution,
they will hail it as a just and goner-
Gus act, and will gladly accept it, and
return to their allegiance to the Fed
eral Union"
SAYS Prentice: President Lincoln
has undoubtedly had great deal TO
do in directing the movements of our
armies, and we now have the rather
startling information that he is about
to take the field in person-for the
next Presidency.
Tod, Cowan, Harris, and q raft of
other Governors and Senators, are i'll
Washington, and comforting with
poor cold Abe" at the White House.
Ostensibly they talk military, but pol
itics is undoubtedly the topic. Expe-
rience has taught how the nation suf-
ers from such conferences.
Seventeen private soldiers of the
French army in Dor aparte's time,
raised themselves to the following dis
tinguished stations: Two became
kings, two, princes; nine dukes; two
field-marshals; and two, generals.
The Louisville Journal says that just
before the election it received Repub-
lican papers which said, that if the
position Of the party in favor Of Bran
lette was correctly represented by the
Journal, they didn't care which party
carried the State.
Summer life on board tho iron-clads
is more than tropical. In those un-
ventilated hulks the temperature for
days has marked ll2 Fahrenheit.
A Massachusetts, paper calls Wen
dell phillips "a limb of the Devil. I"
The Louisville Journal replies eve
should like to SEQ one end of a rope
around that limb, and the other around
the limb of a tree"
tij by way of amusement during the
hot months, Honduras and Nicaragua
are preparing TO scratch each others
eyes out.
q Hon. Reverdy Johnson's reply to
Mr.. Holt in the Fitz John Porter case
occupies eighty pamphlet pages, and is
said to be an ugly exposure of the par
tizanship that sought to destroy the
good name of brave soldier.
The following epetaph is to be found
in a graveyard at Baton Rouge, La.
,Here lies buried In this tomb,
A constant sufferer from salt rhcume,
Which finally in truth did pass
To spotted eryspelas.
A husband brevc, father true,
Here be lies and so must you"
Do not wait supinely for opportuni
ty to come to you, but go and seel
hcr in the highways and hedges.