East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1865-05-03
goeal Watters.
EXPEDITIONS.

EXPEDITIONS.
On the 18th day of last March, fifty
days ago, the Board of Supervisors of
this county passed series of resolu-
tons, designed to give effect to the
tote Of the electors of the county just
given in assent to the law authorizing
the issue of bonds for the purpose of
improving the navigation of Saginaw
River. Messrs. William s. briggs,
Joseph I. Burnham and Barney II.
York, "all honorable men," though
perhaps trife too fastidious in mat
ters of taste, had been appointed Com
missioners under the act the day pre-
vious. Inasmuch as we noticed this
at the time the appointment was
made, as an excellent selection" one
which we believed would give ''entire
satisfaction to the people of the coun-
ty," We consider it peculiarly proper
for us to explain the reasons of the
want of progress in the dredging bus
mess and the circumstances which
have induced the unexpected display
of masterly inactivity" on the part
of the Commissioners. To "plain
people," whose tastes have not been
cultivated sufficiently to enable them
to form an intelligent judgement in
regard to the vast difference in point
of artistic elegance between the rude
and unpublished impressions from types,
known as letter press printing, and
the universally chaste, correct and
elaborate style of printing, from en-
craving on stone, called Autograph
ing, in view of the memorable peculi-
arities of time and tide, which wait
for no man." not even the Autograph
ers, and the immediate necessities of
a commerce whose aggregates figure
up by millions, the explanation may
seem trivial, but as there seems to be
no possibility of abreviating time in
the management of this business, we
trust there will BIO no "indecent haste''
on the part of the people in bestowing
censure where it is undeserved.
With this ample explanation of the
reasons for making the same, we close
this article with tho brief statement,
that the necessary number of blank
bonds, printed on as good paper as
can be had in this country, and done
in as good style Of lettor press print
ing as can be done anywhere, could
have been furnished here, as we as
sured one of the Commissioners, with
in ten days after their appointment
and in making this statement we by
no meals wish to infer that the facil-
tiles for doing first class letter press
printing in Saginaw Valley are mo-
nopolized by the Courier establishment,
we only repeat what our assurances
were, and have reason TO believe, as we
know might have been the case, the
same were made by other members of
(, the letter press fraternity-but the
Commissioners, for reasons we doubt
not highly satisfactory to themselves,
preferred the photographic style and
now await, as vessels and steamers
when not favored with tearing "north-
srs" or refreshing showers, await the
movements of the radient artist of
photographic pfoclivities, who for the
time holds the interests Of this section
In the hollow of his hand, his lap, or
it may be upon his table, in the form
2of . soapy stone, whereon his graver
craunches as craunch the keels of the
aforesaid craft on the treacherous
sand-bars of our noble river.