East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1864-01-13

restoration Of the grog ration, and
recommending shipments in tho NOR
chant service until sono lnle is adopt
cd which will ensure the moro prompt
distribution of prizo money. Among
other assertions made was that the re-
cent large awards Of prize money pub
lished in all the papers some time
since, have never yet been distributed;
also, that to receive their money, sail
ors are Obliged to submit to great ex-
tortion from prize brokers.
Western Now York is sort of Gar
pen of Eden, SO far as apples are con-
cerned. II is tho Orchard of America,
the Cider Land of the New World
Monroe County alone has shipped off
100000 barrels, and Orleans County
100000.
The New York Times, leading adj
ministration organ said few months
since "that slavery like Popery, is in
conn atable with the age and must
60" Orestas A. Bronson has been
looking over the files of the Times,
and found this remark in one of its
editorials. 1t was an unguardcd OK
clamation of fanaticism, but it is
fngcr-board that points where, after
slavery, the next agitation of the rad
ical party is to be made.
"All honor to the growing man."
said Wendell Philips of President
Lincoln, in his speech at tho New
York Cooper institute the other night
"All honor TO the growing man. And
why docs he grow? Because we wa
ter him."
Precisely. President Lincoln grows
in revolutionary abolitionism because
tho revolutionary abolitionists water
him. They have found him peculiar
ly susceptible, aud have never for a
moment permitted the ground to be-
come dry around him. Phillips him.
self is one of the principal water-car-
riers. His speech the other night
was intenGSd as Presidential fertili-
zor, and wd shall see that he will
navo anorner private interview With
the occupant of the White House
shortly. Thus it is that the country
has fallen under the influence Of the
most revolutionary and wild abolition
sm.- Chicago Tines.
Tho doctors are recommending
whiskey, both as cure and preventa-
tive of diptheria. The remedy is
popular, and the immense strides that
medical science is making in the ~.
of preserving lifo, are very generally
admired
THE LANSING SALT WELL.-This
well, at last, has all the indications of
being q perfect success. The boring
has been discontinued and the tubing
sent for. The depth is 1,400 feet,
and the depth of the salt rock which
has been penetrated is l06 feet. The
strength of the brine as determined
by tho salometer, is fully eighty per
ccnt.-Lnsing Republican
SCIENTIFIC Account OF HEENAN's In
JURIEs-Tho London Lancet states
that after the recent fight, Heenan ex-
perienced considerable stiffness, which
was ascertainod to exist chiefly in the
tendinous attachments Of the trapeziu-
muscel to occitipol bone, hgamontum
nus chm, dorsal vertabra, and spine Of
the scopula."
A young man named James Santo-
rage, clerk in store in Cincinnati,
was recently fined twenty-nino dol
lars and fifty four cents for kissing
married lady against her will.
According to the Talmud, one party
Of the Rabbins allowed divorces when
woman had only boon so unfortu-
nate as to allow her husbands soup
to be burnt.
Shakespeare produced all his plays
with about $4,000 words. Milton's
works are built up with about 5000.
EN" A French translator of Coop
er's "Spy,' in which it will be remem-
bered the residence of the Wharton
family is called "The Locusts," found
this term rendered in his dictionary.
'I4es Lenterellcs, "-"The Grasshop-
pers. But in one place one of the
dragons is represented as tying his
horse to one Of the locusts on the
lawn. The translator taking it for
granted that American grasshoppers
must be of gigantic dimensions, grave
ly informs his readers that the dra-
COON fastened the bride of his charg-
or to huge grasshoppcr standing be-
ore the door for that purpose.
Wellington said, in the peninsula,
that the British merchants would
starve tho whole British army for
gold. That brood Of knaves is not
extinct.
The total expenditure upon the cap
ital extension up to tho present time is
s6,399,9O9.
A sand fort Of great strength is be-
loved to have boon erected within the
} ruins of Sumptor.
A. N. Palmer, Private Secretary to
, Collector Barnev of N Y was arrested