East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1864-04-13
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS,

| MlSCEll4A EOtD llEMsc,
Hoenan, the prize fighter, is said
to be gradually dying.
Forncy styles Fremont's German
friends renegade combination
What is Fornoy?
cruiting for cavalry regiments shall
cease.
Russia gets s2O,OOo,00O of gold
year from the Ural Mountains.
Brigham Young's new theatre will
costs25O, 900 and hold 5000 people.
To ascertain the length Of the day
and night at any time of tho year,
double the time Of the suns rising,
which gives the length of the night,
and double tho time of its setting,
which gives the length of the day.
This is is q very simple method which
few people are aware of.
Bread is the staff Of life, and liquor
tho stilts-the former sustaining a
man, and the latter elcvating him for
fall.
Nineteen hundred negro children
attend school in Now Orleans.
| A child was born on tho express
train between Meridian and Hartford,
Conn, one night last week. He will
DO ''fast" boy.
A boy baby was recently born Mt
ST. John, n. b., with the power of
speech. He made few CIRCULAR re-
marks and died.
The Administration papers urge tho
practice of economy by the people
Would it not be better for the admin
istration to set tho example?
The rebels are in doubt as to the
policy of arming their negro pooperty
the discussions thereupon arc said
TO be animated.
LUMBER-There were manufactured
last season on the Upper Mississip, i
and its tributaries, the enormous
quantity of 900,000,00O feet of lum-
Der.
How do you define "Black as your
hat ~ Darkness that may be "felt.'
Erchange.
The DlFFEREScE.-In describing
/ a Il Inf
democracy, it was Willingly said of
! Cincinnati, the democracy are those
who kill hogs for living, the aris-
tocracy those whose fathers killed hogs
TIE REnEL CoNscRIprIoNs- AL
ALBANIA rebel, when asked il they ''con-
scripted close" there, said fcelingly:-
1 | should think they did They take
every man who hasn't been dead more
than two days"
SLAvEs.-Until tho year 1799 the
Golfers in Scotland were slaves for life
transferable with the coleries in which
they worked and it was not till that,
by act OF Parliament, that they were
made frecmen.
We have accomplished a great deal
in this war, thank God. We have
not accomplished onc-half of what we
should have done, thank the Admins
tration.-Proatice.
Tho Worcester Palladium suggests
that "there was way to relieve the
treasury of an excess of gold that
might be in it, that would have been
quite as much To the credit of tho
government as this; and that is 10y
payments to tho soldiers of mixture
of gold with the grecnbacks that they
arc obliged to take for their hard SER
vices.
The late massacre of negro soldiers
near NiclSsburg is now said not to havo
boon a rebel outrage, but quite other
wise. Tho negroes went to a hotel
where there were only white womon
with thctr children and servants, COM
nIittod the grossest possible outrages
OH tho women, and then burned tho
house. An Indiana regiment heard
Of tho affair and attacked and killed
the negroes No rebels woro con-
cenol i'll tho shocking aiiair. Ad-
miral Porter says in late report -
"Ihe negro troops near Vicksburg
having been committing many outra-
gcs."
The Philadelphia Prew expresses
its annoyance at the endorsement Of
the doctrines OF miscegenation by tho
zfi5m@ and othcr anti-slavory jour
nals. Mr.. Forney must keep step
with the music Of misegenation or else
give up his lucrative position ia tue
kitchen eabnct.--N y. UorM.