East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1863-10-14
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS

The new Duke de Persigny was
sub-editor Of a French paper a few
years ago. Wrote himself up.
Dry Goods are excitedlin New York,
particularly scarlet merinos.
A pair Of boots cost Sl75 in Rich
mond.
The indebtedness of the United
States now amounts 10 twenty-one
hundred and twenty-five million of
dollars.
New discoveries arc constantly being
made in the exhumed city of Pompeii.
A house has been lately found where
the dining room is paved with mosiac.
The completely served tablets covered
with potrified remnants of Dishes and
around it are found three divans, or
table-beds, Of bronze adorned with
gold and silver, upon which reposed
several skeletons. A great many pre-
eious Jewels wero found near them
On the table stood, among ather or
naments, a very beautiful worked stat
ne of Bacchus in silver, with eyes of
enamel, collar of jewels, and pre-
cious armlets.
A hard case of the arrest of the
wrong man as a descrter occurred
lately in Chicago. Moses Colby had
deserted from the 10lst New York
and had been advertised, and a man
by that name was found at Chicago,
arrested, his protest that he had never
been i'll the army disrcgarded, and he
was sent TO the Army of the Potomac,
and had the good luck to find an aid
acquaintance i'll Col. Egan, of the 40th
Now York, who procured his release.
He had lost months time, his fami-
" had suffered much ON his account
and he was finally releaseda thousand
miles from homo without II cent of
moncy-all because some officer i'll
Illinois wanted the SO rev ard too
much to be at any trouble about the
identity of the man arrested.
"My party, sir, will not lie in idle
ness" said an Abolitionist. every
true sir" retortcd his opponent, 'your
party is neither chargeable with lying
in idlcness nor idleness ill lying"
About 10000 desertcrs have rcturn-
to the Army Of the Potomac.
The Russian squadroni in New York
harbor carries 10 gunspnd ismanned
by 2,400 men.
There are two French mon-of-war
in New York harbor The Russian
sailors pitch into the French sailors
Whenever they can find them to such
an extent that the French sailors are
afraid to go on shore.
Such is the pressure Of goods going
West that the New York Central
Railroad had, one day last week, five
hundred car loads beyond the capaci-
ty of the road to transport
An enraged mother in Illinois re-
Gently twisted her little oiisprings .
nose until she fractured the bone ;
broke another pledges arm, and killed
u third with a rolling pin.
Capitalists are looking for a cite for
n city at Port Royal.
Doing pretty well in war times for
the Northern States to send 1888, 600 |
to suffering Europeans.
The Iowa farmers are securing their
sorgum crop and anticipate u large
yield of molasses.
One of the substitute brokers in New
York has already made a snug little
$4,000.
The Potomac bushwhackers are
boldly and Internally mischievious.
Garabaldi is reported cured-lively
as a tom-tit on a pump-hOndlc.
Mr.. Therefore Tilton recommends
the running of negro for President
of the United States.
The ruiIian and murderer, Lane Of
Kansas, says he is ready to see any
Kansas man shot down who favors. the
Cnion as it was.
a young Alpine hunter who was
killed in the Alps nineteen years ago
was recently found frozen stiff but
ruddy and whole as i'll life, save his
eyes.
Only about 10000 negroes in the
service.
Between the 1st and 18th of Sep
TENDER six persons died in Nantucket
whose average age was eighty one
years.
Ali Pasha's Arabian horses have
been beaten by an English thorough
bred-on the desert Took Ali down
severely.
Gilmoro's arrangements are nearly
finished for bombardment ofChmles-
ton such as the world mover saw nor
heard of before.
An old man in Brewer, Me-, at
recent election, was stoned by the chiv-
alrous Republicans because he voted
the Democratic ticket
A commercial newspaper reporter
in New York has made, during the
last twelve months, S250,000 in stock
speculations.
The number of provost marshals,
assistant ditto, clerks, aids, helps, en-
rolling officers, engaged in carrying
out the CONSUMPTION act, is set down
as neutrality-suspicious., wesee, about
75, 600. The number of conscripts
secured is estimated at 10000. The
wags say it would be better TO draft
that army, already under pay, of 75,