East Saginaw courier., 1865-09-27

/ eign ports. Since that time the number OF per-
sons thuspaesng under their inspection has been
as follows;
! From ireland. ............. 3S7 e57
Germany ....-......-- -..-.....l los, ,76t
England. .......... 39OOl4
o." Scotland. ................... S0,24l
I" France ............!....... Co. 933
| - Switzerland ,.,................ 81, 365
| 4" Holland .....-.. ............. 2l,Tbi
| Wales. ..... .... .s.......... II, Ills
All other places. .....''......' 76,SO5
Grand total to September, 1865. ......3, ,262, ,655
This number Is great er than that of the entire
population Of the Colonies at the time Of the
Revolutionary War.
1SJ" A London paper gives the following ac-
| count Of new kind of cloth manufactured from
pine leaves. There are two establishments near
Breslau, in one Of which pine leaves are conver-
ted into WOOL while in the other, curative agents
arc prepared for invalids, the waters used In the
manufacture Of pine wool are employdas curative
agents. The process for converting pine needles
into WOOL was discovered by Panneywitz. In the
| hospitals penitentiaries and barracks Of Vienna
and Breslau, blankets made from that material
are now exclusively used. One of their chief ad-
vantages is. that no kind of vermin will lodge in
them. The material is also used rs stufing, close
ly resembles horse hair, and is only one-third its
cost.
The FIRsr SourH AMERICAN TELEGRAPH.-A
contract has recently been completed in New
ork for the erection within six months Of line
of electric telegraph to connect the city of Boga-
Ia with Mare, along the banks of the river Mag
dalena This is the first attempt TO introduce the
telegraph into South America, and may result in
connecting the states of the Republic Of New
Grenada with the United States.
| nu. t., nlota in bo mi
ted States Senate, in to providing for the paint
| ing Of a naval picture for the National Capitol,
| Senator Sumner, Chairman Of the committee on
| Literature and Art, declared that in tho National
| Capitol dedicated to the National Union, there
should be no picture representing any victory IN
| battle with our {, low citizcns
NOTHING New UNDER THE Sus.-we have al
ways regarded the WATERFALL us heathenish
| inv, nion, but we were not aware until recently
/ that it is n monst rosity of classic birth. Our
friend, Colonel Jewett Of the Geological Hall,
shows us n coin of Hero l. TyraDt OF Syracuse,
who reigned from 47S 10 466 before the Christian
era ON the diverse side Of which Is the head Of
the goddess Diana, with an excresccnce precisely
| like that worn by our ladies under the dubi-
Gus name of /" WATERFALL" Albany Journal.
The Virginia Colleges now in the bands ef
/ an. .oe family II 4 Lee Is President of WASH
| ingtOn College, and his sou, Geo. w Custus Lee,
has been appointed Professor Of Engineering in
the Lexington Institute. The board of Visitor
appointed by Gov. Pierpont are. with two oxccp-
tions, original rebels.
The Worlds special says; II may be safely
asserted that nothing positively definite has been
| determined relative to the trial Of jeff. Davis -
The new rumor that it Is to take place in Rich
mond, about tho middle Of October, Is merely
| gratuitous The President has only gone 20 far
as to disclose that when it does off 1t shall
be before n civil tribunal. There is very good
authority for declaring that three members
of the Cabinet are opposed to giving Davis any
| trial whatsoever. They prefer, IT is intimste:.,
that he should leave the country forever.
TnE FIRsr TRAIN. The FIRST train Of cars on
the jackson, Lansing and Saginaw Railroad was
run Tuesday, stort distance. The engine
Z" swallow" with n cars attached, ran down the
track rs far rs the northern bounds Of the city
| limits and returned. The track laying is pro-
gressng finely, and II will not be maay months
before the through train for lansing will Leave
this pace--.Jdekson Citizen, 2Oh
The Spiritualists Of Grand Ledge nrc keeping
up with times in the progressive age" At a
large meeting recently held in grove, tho fol-
| lowing is one Of the resolutions adopted
% Resoired; That the marriage relation is both
wrong, arbitrary and oppressive. Charlotte
Republican.
TRuE-The Louisville Journal says: II he,
| president Johnson) pursues the course he Is now
| takinR-of which there Is no doubt, so far as we
know he will not only command the support OF
| all moderate men in the North, but the respect,
love and gratitude Of the great mass Of the South
eln people including not few who have been Sc
cessioniSts."
We will add to the foregoing, the great mass
WHO have been secessionists. Atlanta, Ga, In
teHigencer.
PROFITABLE FARmlS0-A farmer in Cottage
Grove raised this year, on 500 acres Of land, l6.
| 000 bushels of wheat, which he has just contract
| ed to deliver ut 81 per bushel.
Another farmer In the same Locality raised
! QUO bushels Of oats ON IL acres, and sold the
oats for $3.50.
The crops have been rich beyond precedent this
season, and 1t seems from the above incident that
farming is about the most profitable business
there is-S. Paul Pioneer.
RAILWAY EARNINGS The following Is the
traffic for the week ending 22nd September, for
| the Great Western Railway Of Canada; Passen-
gers, 500, 81 75; freight and live stock, S33,
6l7 81; mails and sundries, $i,7l5 81 total,
s04 464 80. Corresponding week Of last year,
s63,fS2 46i. lncreasc, s32,03l 45t.
The Victoria bridge, across the ST. Lawrence.
is made up Of twelve entirely distinct sections
This is on account Of the expansion Sometimes
these sections are nine inches apart. A dial at
the entrance of the bridge carefully registers the
expansion Of one of these sections, by which that
Of the whole bridge is regulated.
| The ocean race between the yachts Fleet
wing and IIenrietta-the former owned by Geo
A. Osgood, and the latter by James q. Bennett,
Jr.--resulted in favor Of the former by one hour
and eighteen minutes. The course was from
Sandy Hook TO Capo May and back.
Hon. John Rosecrans, a brother Of Mai Gen
| w. S. kosecrans is the Democratic nominee for
Representative in Marion county, Ohio. He is a
clever gentleman, opposed TO consolidation, an
immediate Tnion man, and opposed to negro suf-
frage, now or at any other time
The Philadelphia North American says there
are six eight regular female physicians in that
city, whose daily practice is equal to that of the
average Of male physicians. One them keeps
three horses in constant use.
Gov Brownlow says that idlcnoss, starvation
and disease will kill of the majority of the pres
cnt generation Of negroes He predicts for the
black man the fate Of the red man.
The notices of property ibellcd for conflsca.
tion occupy thrty-two columns OF the Richmond
Republic. The list includes about two hundred
estates.
since the commencement Of the war has arrived
at Norfolk, Va,
"A spark from laborer spipe destroyed thrss
hundred barrels Of oil, two engine houses, two
derricks, and refinery at Petroleum Centre, th,
other day.
beware Of counterfeit long ifty-ccnt notc'
Of the new pattern. They are poorly executed.
The Alabama Convention decided against
repudiation the Of Confederate debt.
There are sixty copper mining companis
now In operation on Lake Superior
Tho prcsent population Of Lonion Is estima
ted 81 3,0l5, <9i