East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1864-06-29
q be Courier.
An Editcr Travels.

The editor of the Huron Signal,
published at Goderich, @. W., having
recently visited this section "makes a
note ont" His observations, poeti-
cal, practical, wise and otherwise, we
give in gross, with occasional COM
ment. He travelled for reason and
thus states
An editor, Of all men, requires once
in while to drop scizzors, quill and
pencil and run away anywhere to
shake up his harness and save him
self from utter prostration. The
worst of it is, his journeyings from
home have to be very short and his
return timed to the moment. Of the
various directions in which one may
go from Goderich in search of fresh
air and change Of scene, there are
very few comparable with trip
across Lake Huron in the month OF
June. If the pure breezes sweeping
down from the Northern waters do
not cool the business-fevered brow,
nothing can, and if the beauty always
connected with the most pelucid OF
waters fails to captivate, then the soul
must have become incapable of de-
lightful emotions. AT the end Of ones
journey westward, too. there is the adj
ditional pleasure Of witnessing scene
Of activity and life, the like OF which
is seldom to be met with in this or
any other country.
WHENCE.
Impelled by desire to escape from
our duties for day or two, we joined
party lrst week bound for Saginaw,
which none of us had visited before,
and now, in the hope that our obser-
vations Of men and things in the Val
ley may not prove uninteresting, we
lay before our readers few jottings,
which we will try to render as impair
tial as possible.
HOW, ETC.
On Tuesday evening we went on
board the staunch lake boat, Huron,
in time to witness the arrival of a con-
siderable number of passengers, some
from the East on business, others
bound home, apparently, with their
wives and children-none of them,
Judging from appearances, in poses
sion of robust health. Besides these,
we noticed among the deck passen-
gers not few strong young fellows,
who wcro leaving the S12 per month,
long hours and other grievances in
ficted by their late Canadian farmer
employers, for the ten or eleven hours
per day and "a dollars per month to
be found by laborers in Saginaw
towns. They freely admitted that la
king the difference of the money into
consideration the wages were about
the same-the long hours demanded
of them in canada could not be got
over. Lake Huron, as we left the
dsab cliffs of home behind us and
shaped our course out on the calm,
clear, blue waters, formed a most
lively object for contemplation, under
the exhilerating influence of the bland
soft "sea breeze" which seemed en-
inently fitted to watt away care and
call into full vigor all ones sense of
vigor and independence. Ere the
long hours of June day had drawn
to close, we had lost sight Of land, a
twinkling light alone reminding us
that yonder lay our own loved shore.
After satisfying ourselves on deck, we
went below and had very pleasant
conversation with Capt. Cole and Mr..
Wilson, purser of the boat, who, by
the way, has seen much of the world,
has acquired respectable share OF
book knowledge, and is, withal, one
one Of the most intelligent men we
ever met in such a position. Our
conversation turned, as a matter OF
course, upon the wur, the ability OF
Gen. Lee, and the probabilities in ia
vor Of Gen. Grants success, each ex-
pressing his own views without re-
straint. At the conclusion, a Dane,
who had, it appeared, been listening
with one ear, suddenly asked why it
was that the majority of the Press of
Canada supported the South. We
thought the answer most appropri-
ate one Because the Canadians are IN
a position TO crvcise free criticismi--
On turning out" the next morning,
we found ourselves past Point au
Barque, the Charity Islands and in
the great Bay of Saginaw. A great
Bay it is, for we could not see land on
either side, and we found on passing
1.-The point that we had at least fifty
miles to sail before entering the River.
The water of this bay is not nearly
so pure as that of Lake Huron proper,
owing, perhaps, to the muddy charac-
ter of the streams running into it.
About 10 o'clock, A. NJ, we entered
Saginaw River by winding channel,
after passing several schooners lying
at anchor in the offing which had not
been able to complete their loading on
account Of the bar. The Michigan
shore, wherevever visable, is extremely
low and fiat, barely rising above the
surface of the water. The Saginaw
River is a winding, sluggish, dirty
stream, varying in width from hum
dred yards to half a mile, and in
places so shallow that laden vessels
find much difficulty in getting up or
or down. Along is margin there are
extensive marshes overgrown with
long coarse grass and wild rice.
Notwithstanding the difference in
money, Saginaw Valley offers advan-
tages to the laboring classes for sub
sistence and the accumulation Of
property. by reason of its immense
manufacturing operations and vast
tracts of unoccupied land, never pre-
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