East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1863-12-09
ALL SORTS OF PARaeRAPHs.

Miss Anna Dickinson charged AMI
received 5000 for two lectures at the
great Chicago Fair for the Sanitary
Commission. She is about the only
woman in the country capable of the
act Chicksring & Sons give one of
the finest apianOs 30 the fair to be sold.
for the soldiers, and almost all the ar
ticles on sale were gifts for the noble
purpose, except Miss Diekonson's dia-
tribes against the party TO which half
of our soldiers belong.
BY DArSohs LIE Of GSn. Butler, it
appers that Gen. Mcclellan is entitled
to the credit for laying down a plan of
operations in the Southwest. Gen.
McClellan's genius and foresight are
admirably exhibited in the orders UNI
der which Butlerwentt TO New Orleans.
A Chicago bridge-tender left his
post to peddle Republican tickets on
election dry. His substitute swung
open the bridge to let steamer pass
while drove of cattle and several
persons were upon the bridge. Bridge,
cattle and men were dropped into the
river, and the city will have to pay the
damages, estimated at $50, 900. Rath-
or expensive vote-pedling.1 40
A young man in California whose
friends had ceased to correspond with
him, woke up their interest by send
ing letters TO business men in his ma
tive place, inquiring the price of a toll
erably good sized farm. Several af
fectionate letters came from the friends
by return of post, and two or three a
day ever since, including one from an
old (and oold) sweetheart.
There have been, up to the present
time, forty thousand negroes armed
and mustered into the service of the
government.
There are no. less than forty-eight
vessels of war at the Brooklyn Navy
Yard, building, fitting out and pre-
pairing for sea.
Loyal East Tennessee has furnished
ten thousand recruits . tools fsssr
A noted New York gambler has
cleared at his branch establishment at
Washington, since July, 1868, nearly
half million of dollars. Ih8Ho
The original of the Emancipation
Proclamation is said to have been pur-
chased for the sum Of $4,000 by
Chicago doctor as an advertising dodge.
That VIGOROUSLY pious sheet, the
n. Y. Independant, compares Presi-
dent Lincoln to cur with collar
Speaking of him it says: "Does he not
wear Kentucky like q collar to this
day? A dog with collarf fights Slow"
This respectful language is from the
pen of Rev Mr.. Tilton, editor, who
i voo drafted, but who, though able
bodied, concluded not to fight at all.
Curran said of the Liberty of the
Press" That great seminal of the
State, that grand dctector of public
imposture; guard it, because when it
sinks, there sinks with it, in one COM
mon grave, the liberty of the subject;
and the security of the crown"
Secretary Chase has issued some
$4,000, 900 of the reserve fund of $780,
900, 900 in legal tender notes, md has
$4,000, 900 more ready for issue if
necessary.
The silver product Of Nevada Terri
tory will this year, it is estimated,
amount to $4,000, 900.
Last year 100000 hogs were
slaughtered and packed in Chicago,
worth S1O,000,O06. The number for
the present year will reach the value
of $40, 900, 900
One hundred million more feet of
lumber than usual are in the Western
markets, and yet the prices are higher
than ever. efan- ff-,r.T
COOLING OFF.--The n. Y. Post
thinks negro enlistments is made too
prominent subject, as white men
must furnish the bulk of our soldiers.
The Post is colling off. r74 Tr3|
The man who imagined himself
wise because he detected some typo
graphical errors in a newspaper has
been trying to get a perpendicular
view of the rainbow.
Ifmen will but amuse the world, it
will freely forgive them for cheating it.
When men are long Indifferent to-
ward us, we grow indifferent to their
indifference.
JUllus-Sam, you're q drunkard-
you're alters drunk, and your habits
is loose, nigga; your habits is loose.
SAM--Julius, look here.
JULIUs-Well, what is it? / at
tends, / attends.
sSaM-4Why, does you know the sci
ence of reason
JULIus-Why, yes, nigga, yes.'
SAM-Well, AK me dis den. How
de debble am my habits loose, when L
is tight all de time ?
EE A Western philosopher writes
to tailor who had failed to get ready
his wedding suit: Gt was no serious
disappointment only / should have
been married if L had received the
goods" That man will never be Sc
riously disappointed. F
= An exchange contains notice that
-teTruth" is crowded out of this issue.
This is almost as bad as the up-coun-
try editor who said For the evils of
intoxicating drinks, see our inside"
T. Circumstances recently made it adj
visable for the paramount Of a single
lady at Winsted to accede to her de-
mand for $3.50. This he supposed