East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1864-01-27


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How to pass your Chrishmasnght
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See allbluc, have cigT more brcmwyara,
London Punch.
The philantlirppists who have taken
charge of Southern plantations are
not all saints. A lotter to the N. Y.
Tribune says, ri am satisfied the that
Freedmen in tho section where these
abandoned plantations are worked are
in many cases grossly maltreated and
swindled, and that if the facts were
known long record Of imposition
would be made against parties who
should have treated them with hui
mainly and Fed and paid them fairly"
We must send out some 'Copperheads'
to protect the negroes from tho rapac-
ity of their friends"
There aronotemigrants ships enough
on the other side to bring tho hum
dreds over who arcwaiting to como to
this country. 1t is said that the
boarding houses of Liverpool are full
of people waiting for passage to the
United States.
A JOKE At THE MAsoNs. When tho
Masons, in their gay regalia, were at
tending tho funeral of a deceased
member the other day, an inquisitive
countryman, after cycling the Knights
Templar's for few moments, inno-
Gently inquired, with much concern
for the safety of Washington, "wheth-
or all them Brigadier Generals was
homo onfhlough%- SDdcase Courier.
Georgia is reorganizing her militia
in order to ropcl our attacks in the
spring The militia proper is to con-
sist of all ablc-bodied males between
seventeen and fifty years of age.
The message of the Governor of
Ohio estimates the total cost of tho
Morgan raid in that State at 1867 900
The imports of foreign woods into
the port of New York, during 1868,
was s2,0O0,000 greater in value than
that in 1852.
Gen. Grant is reported to have said:
81 aspire only to one political office
When this war is over, l mean to run
for Mayor of Galena (his place of res
ilenco). And if elected, intend to
have the sidewalk fixed up between
my house and the depot"
Three English boys of Hull, Eng
land, upon reading "Dick Turpin,"
agreed to become robbers and muir
derers. After committing a series Of
thefts and burglaries in company,
they were discovered, arrested and are
now.awaiting their trial and punish
ment. .9Ui1 LIS
AS wo have an excess Of 30, 615
females in Massachusetts, above males,
where can bachelors linda bettcrmar-
ket ?=-BoSt0n Post --
Tho coffin of the King Of Denmark
weighed 5000 pounds. 1t took thirty
men on hour and quarter to get it
down the grand staircase.
The Portland Press is indignant at
the proposition to oxchangeNeal Dow
for the thirteen pianos he is alleged
to have sent home from New Orleans.
General spinola declares that the
kidnapping of negroes is done exclu-
sively by members of the Loyal
League, who make large sums of
money by tho infamous practice.
Five hundred thousand dollars of
the Coast Defence scrip of Massachu-
sets has been sold to Geo. Peabody,
of London, at $40.
1t is computed that English insur-
ance companies have an aggregate of
81, $50, 100000. at risk
The reputation which q man wins
and keeps up by cunning detises is
SIRE not TO survive him, as an artifi-
cial nose made by the Taliscotian pro-
cess is said to drop off as soon as the
wearer dies. stE
Whenever the wandering demon Of
drunkenness finds ship adrift, he
steps on board, takes the helm, and
steers straight for the Maelstrom.
Many who think themselves the
pillars Of the cburcha only its sleep
ers. -
II man, pursued by an insane foo,
wouldn't be dead, let him be quick.
Frequent frowns always stereotype
themselves into ugly wrinkles.
Some singers might well have frogs
in their throats if the frogs would but
sing in their stead.