East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1865-08-09
Ihe Courier.
otes from the Upper MIsslssippl.
July 80, 1865.

July 30, 1863.
Here we are in locality TO us
tirely new, on the Wisconsin side of
Q Father of Waters thirty miles
low St Paul, end triAe less than
ousand away from home, in snug
tie hotel located in very gem Of
YER village, ''and Prescott is its
.I amer How we got here and what
10 noticed n route viii be in the main
DO subject of this epistle.
Left East Saginaw Monday, July
4, reached Detroit ea Mt Clemens
9th, left that Getty of Straits" We'd
esday, 9th, by d. 6 NJ. Railway,
nd, by the way, the arrangements of
hat Company for the exhibition of
passengers, a Ia geological Gardens, at
lac Detroit station being something
|ntirely new in Michigan, are deserv-
ng specill mehl'O
A wooden grating is run from the
rear of the ticket Office across the de-
pot, with gate on the platform at
which keeper is stationed, who per-
llits none to enter the enclosure where
tho train is made up save those who
have tickets. Thus all those usual
and interesting ceremonies incident to
the parting Of friends, countrymen
lovers" cousins and SIGH, have to
ted in the grand plaza outside
" ..ero city buses are tolerated, and
express wagons, hacks, carriages,
apple carts, pea nut stands, freight
trucks, news vendors, native dealers
in squaw notions, draymen, niggers,
police, etc. iostle each other in Babel
attic confusion through the CRATES, or
omitted all together. The arrange
ment is supurb, and the design should
be enlarged upon to the extent of fem
cling in tho entire line, and so fitting
an observatory that the whole, inclu-
ding the neat and elegant station
houses at Pontiac, Holly, Fentonville,
and elsewhere, with their sweet and
gorgeous surroundings, including the
animals, biped and quadruped, in
transit, may be taken in at view,
thus afording great moral exit
bition' unequalled in any civilized
country.
A ride through on the Morning Ex-
press, with Ed. LANGDoN as Conductor,
though luxury, is no novelty; that
undemonstratiye phiz of his hasgraced
the route for fifteen years, and though
he courts no noisy popularity, his
thousand quiet acts of kindness to pas
sengers of every class and condition,
make such a record rs would do hon
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to such an appellation improvement
is in the main observable throughout
the agricultural districts, and il
most of the cities and villages along
the line, crops near looked better
fruit, though not promising as abun
dant yield us was at one time antic
ipated, is certain TO be plentiful, and
the general condition OF things is pros
porous and encouraging. The run
was made con tmo" to fraction, and
the condition of the road we must
say was much better than we had
been led to expect from representa-
tons freely but unfairly made by III
terested arties. A great deal of la
Dor has been done upon the track, ex
tensive sections of it re-laid and from
Holly to Grand Haven the run is
made as smoothly and as rapidly as
the same distance is run over any
other western road on which we have
travelled. 1t being our first visit to
that interesting point we were chiefly
interested in
GRAND HAVEN.
One place there is at least, we are
happy to know, which deserves the
commiseration of the crest Of man
kind" including even Saginaw
Bayous we have, and interminable
marshes, and other luxuries Of weedy,
miasmatic character not comon to out
side barbarians, but that great bar
rem, brazen, blown-about sand hill set
III blue and green and mud-colored
surrounding of lake and frog pond
and river, that constitutes the make
up" of the jumping off place where
the ID. & NJ. Railway connects with
the stately and substantial steam
ships by which the tired and dust-be-
grimned passengers are so safely and
iuxuriously transferred to the western
shore Of Lake Michigan, is by odds
the most uninviting spectacle in the
way of city and suburbs it has ever
been our fortune to witness. There is
an appearance Of activity in business
there, however, that, as in other local
tiles we know of, in a great measure
makes up for the want of natural at
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