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East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1866-09-13

TIE FAIR.-The committee are now
engaged in preparing the grounds
at Camp Saginaw, just south of Bris-
toll Street, on the river side of Wash
ington Street-for the County Fair,
which is TO be held in this city, We'd
nesday, Thursday and Friday, Oct.
Sd, 4th and 9Th. Assurances are given
that the display of Horses will be ex-
cellent, of Cattle there will also be a
fine show for the first attempt. OF
Sheep, Swine and Poultry there will
be a good representation, while in the
way of Fruit aud Vegetables there is
certain to be demonstration that will
surprise everybody.
OF Manufactured Articles, Fine
Arts, and the thousand-and-one items
that make up the chief attraction and
elegance of the exhibition, there seems
to be disposition manifested on all
hands to bring out whatever is likely
to enhance the character or add to the
interest of the occasion. This is the
right spirit, and if persevered in, as
we believe it will be, the Fair will
most assuredly prove complete sue
oaas
East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1866-09-13
SO FUNNY,

It is not little interesting to note
as one Of the changes in radical re-
publican tactics quite recently devel-
oped, their irrepressible penchant for
ridicule, burlesque, and the broadcast
grade of fun. Nasty is now the head
oracle of the party, his sayings the
chief landmarks in the contest, and
the great lights, the lesser lights, and
the inferior luminaries down to the
little penny dips that glimmer only to
enhance the brilliancy of the chief flu
migators, go to him for their stock of
inspiration, be it puny or ample
From the terribly in earnest" man
ner of former campaigns, they have
changed to rolicking, devil-may-
care style, so exhilerating that
"Those laugh now who never laughed before,
And those who always laughed now laugh tho
MORE"
And they laugh easy. The simple ex-
preston, "my policy" is enough to
set whole corner-gathering con a
roar" and the bare mention of GA.
Johnson " ELECTS grand gufaw from
every rad. in range.
we were amused much tho other
day at the antics Of a great, gaunt,
limby, livid, long-haired, leer-eyed po-
tentate of the faith, who was endeav-
oring to ridicule some of the peculiar
tiles Of the President. If ever q man
thoroughly unhinged himself, it was
he. He boiled and dubbed and "slopt
over" with wit, tore humor to tatters, to
very rags, "sawed the air" with ges-
ticulations as uncouth as the capers Of
hog at play, and eliminated in a pa
roxysm of flatulent and spasmodic glee
over q remark of President johnson,
in Detroit, that he believed "this
Government was an emanation from
on high, which was designed from
I" the beginning, when it was organi-
zed and established, to be perpet-
"ual." 1t was so funny.
East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1866-09-13
ADMINISTRATORS SALE.

CTATE OF MICHIGAN, COUNTY OF SAG
~ inaw--ss. In the matter Of The Estate Of
Harris Newton, deceased. Notice Is hereby Civ
en-, that by virtue Of license to US granted by
the Probate Court Of Oakland county, we will
sell at public auction, to tho highest bidder, at
Birch Run Station, at twelve o'clock, noon, on
Monday the 29th day Of 0ctoper next, the fol-
lowing real estate, towit The east halfof north
east quarter Of section twenty seven, [27l town
ten l0l north, range Elk (6 east
ID. GTLLETT,
Tlw6. ELIZA A. NEWTON,
Sept IL, 1866 Administrator,
East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1866-09-13

CLAY & TESTERS VEGETABLE HAIR REsToR
ER.-Ths valuable vegetable compound, pre-
pared by Clay Lester, must be applied to be
appreciated. Being purely vegetable in its in
gradients it is perfectly harmless, and restores
gray hair TO its original condition, Graduating
every particle of dandrur and prevents the hair
from falling out imparts rich glossy lustre that
other so-called restoratives fail to do. More
than one hundred well-known citizens of this city
can testify to its efficacy As ladies hair dress
ing, it cannot be surpassed, it being principally
n REsToRER and NOT DYE.
Messrs. Clay & Lester, in this connection
would remind the public that they still continue
in their tonsorial rooms, under FIRING Hail. where
they are prepared to shampoo, dress ladies, gen
tlemen's, and children hair in the best style in
vogue, and make and repair wigs to suit Gus
toners.
EAST SAGINAW, August l, 1866.
East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1866-09-13
goeai @attsrs.
Remoyal of enc County Scat.

Our readers will remember that at
the last session Of the Board Of Super
visors, a resolution was introduced for
the removal of the County Seat to
East Saginaw, and was at the request
of Mr.. Allardt who presented it, laid
on the table until October, when it
will be acted upon, and if it secures
the necessary number of votes will be
referred to the electors of the County.
The chief argument advanced for its
removal, is the superior enterprise and
accommodation of East Saginaw. The
amount Of building being done here,
at present, would seem to be q sutii-
Gent reply to all such arguments,
while the construction of the Taylor
House," will afford ample accommo-
dation, in addition to which we may
advance in support of the present
site, its superiority in the essential
qualifications Of beauty, health and
water. But should we be so foolish
as to fail to secure the construction of
railroad to this city, we shall have
no argument to advance, and tho en-
terprise of our sister city will be es-
tablished, and we may as we'll allow
them to carry off the spoils, while we
quietly calculate the ratio Of decrease
in the value of our property. Those
nf our citizens who think there is no.
thing at stake, will do well to consid-
or these things, for by little consid-
Grafton they will be convinced that
upon our present action depends the
future Of our city, that its destiny is
in our hands, and that a to'U be what
zoe male IL nothing more nothing less !
Herald, Sagina,0 city. a.
We have given very little attention
to this County Seat matter, because
we believe the question will be settled
and in very quiet way, by the inev-
liable direction of settlement and pop
ulation, which from either Of these
apparently antagonistic cities, is tend
ing steadily towards the other That
a moderate sized river, bridged at fire.
quent intervals, shall long be suffered
to form municipal boundary line be-
tween two moderate sized cities lying
opposite each other, on its banks,
whose people are homogeneous, whose
interests in every material point are
identical, whose rivalries, far more
imaginary than real, are only such as
naturally exist within the boundaries
of any place Of ordinary commercial
Importance, and whose business chlr-
acteristics are the same, we do not
believe.
If to-day there was but one City of
Saginaw, and that we concede should
be the name, it would be the second
city in Michigan in population and
business, and be better supplied with
first-olass hotels, street railways, pub
lie halls and the facilities for COM
merce, manufactures and general bus
4. mess, than any Of its size in the West,
while its assurance for future growth
would stand hattar than that of any
Wolverine city, the City of the Straits
not excepted. Let us so arrange it
that those who thrive on petty con-
tentions will not be cut short Of their
proper aliment, but make this fam
lily matter, and unite as against all
outsiders, and the power, position, in
fluence and prosperity of each, though
merged, will be greater by many fold
than in the present unnatural dis
junction.
East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1866-09-13
ERRORS OF YOUTH.

A GENTLEMAN who suffered for years
"A from Nervous Debility, Premature Decay
and all tho effects Of youthful indiscretion, will
for the sake of suffering humanity, send fires to
all who need it, the receipt and directions for
making the sample remedy by which he was
cured Sufferers wishing to profit by the adver-
Users experience, can do so by addressing, in
perfect confidence, JOHN b, OGDEN,
No. Is Chambers St, New York (363-n-3.)
East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1866-09-13
ONE OF THE GREATEST

Causes of ill health is costiveness or Indigestion
1t has for its offspring, dyspepsia, with all its at
tendant misreies such as sick headache, sour
stomach no appetite no energy. in fact, complete
prostration. Goes Dyspepsia Cure is a sovereign
remedy; why do you not who arc suffering, make
the experiment of the trial of a single bottle; it
costs but triae to taste it, and will surely bring
you relief
East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1866-09-13
100 DOLLARS REWARD.
CIRCASSIAN CREAM WASH,
For the Complexion; also, a Specific
for all Skin Diseases.

TT Is NOT A PASTE, TO CLOG the pores of
Il the Skin, thereby engendering disease, but
possesses the marvellous power of attracting TO-,
and throwing from the surface, the humors OF the
Skin, opening the pores and restoring it to heal
thy action, thereby rendering the complexion, as
nature designed it, CLEAR, SMOOTH, BRILLIANT.
One Hundred Dollars Reward will be paid for
the first case of failure, when strictly persevered
in and used according to directions. Removes
Freckles, Morphew, those yellow blotehes fire.
quenty seen on the forehead and face, Blotches,
Tan, Pimpes, dc; cures Old Sores. Salt Rheum,
Ringworm, letters, Scald Head BARRIERS Itch,
and all Diseases of the Skin of whatever nature.
j. j. RANDALL,
Sole Proprietor, Fishers Block, Detroit, Mich.
Sold by Frizelle Brothers, A. A. Dunk and
Wadsworth, East Saginaw; Smith Mott, Sag
inaw City; Street d Thomas, Bay City, Drug
gists. 36S-m2
East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1866-09-13
Commemorative quite unthink

Commemorative quite unthink-
ingly referred to Mr.. CRANAeE last
week as the proprietor of the Sherman
House, at Mt Clemens. Mr.. II. Con-
NER, the landlord, is sole proprietor OF
the house and business. Mr.. Gran
age designed and superintcnded the
building of the hotel, as an &C
acknowledgement of his good taste and
energy in this matter, was the presen-
tation spoken of made.
East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1866-09-13
E-We noticed a few days since

We noticed a lew days since
a large amount of seasoned lumber Of superior
quality, at the Yard of Gallagher Mead Deer
ing, in this city. 1t is thoroughly seasoned, hav
ing been stuck up for two years. 1t consists of
Dressed Flooring, Siding, Ceiling, and finishing
lumber. Persons who are building will do well
to call and see this very desirable stock of lumber
East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1866-09-13
BUSINESS EDUCATION within the reach

BUSINESS EDUCATION within the reach of
all The Union Business College AZ oberln, o.,
offers advantages surpassed by none. Tuition
and board can be had at about one-half the usu-
al rate and the large corps of teachers employed
secures much personal attention to each student
The TELEGRAPH Department, under tho manage
ment of first class telegraph men, is fitted up
without regard to expence. DO not fail to send
for circular before going elsewhere
East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1866-09-13
OTRAYED OR STOLEN ON THE

~ night of the 30th Of August, a heifer one
year old last Spring; color red about the head
and forward parts on her hind parts 1t is inter-
sporsed with small white and brown spots
Whoever will return said hefer or give infor-
nation where she may be found will be literally
rewarded. 370-n EUNICE BEACH.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-10-25
The Negro Revolt in Tennessee.


We copy the following from the Memphis
Avalanche, relative to the reported insur.
rection of negroes in the vicinity Of Mem
phis:
For some time past, the planters living
on and about the Burgett plantation, have
been watchful of the conduct and maneu-
vres of the negroes about them, who, our
informant states, number somewhere in the
vicinity of 500. As many as three or four
times have they (the planters) been warned
by their friends here to watch their every
act, as it was known that they had purchas-
cd arms and ammunition in this city, and
had unwittingly hinted at their murderous
designs.
On Friday evening, while the negroes
were weighing cotton, the suspicious of the
overseer were aroused by hearing them in
terpolate the text "Dixie," with the words
"Ohs will be wine to morrow" and "to.
morrow" "We'll have fun" &c. He said
nothing, but when the time arrived, dis
missed the negroes from their labor, and
repaired as quickly as possible to his own
quarters, where he found the owners of the
plantation, the brothers Burgett. He re-
lated to them what had occurred, and sug-
gested the propriety of Immediately taking
such measures of defence as in their judg-
ment was necessary to preserve the lives of
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-10-25
For the Yorkville Enquirer.
DEBT AND PAYMENT.

MIR. EDITOR: Iuasmuch as very many
persons are interested, and much has been
said Oh the ways and means of discharging
the Indebtedness Of the people of our coun'
try, l will also give my opinion. Hitherto,
little or nothing has been effected towards
this epd by public meetings or Legislative
action, except that few mouths of time is
afforded, wherein debtors may do much with
their creditors, towards an adjustment of
their debts.
1t seems to me that the ways and means
of settling our debts, is properly within the
province Of the contracting parties. and not
by legislative or other action; and when all
other means fail to afford relief to debtors,
then appeal may be made to legislative ac-
ton, to place the debtor beyond the power
of an Unsuitable creditor.
Various platforms have been suggested
on which to settle rule for the canceling
of debts 1t seems to me tiat no rule can
be set up for this matter, without having
many exceptions, by which any thing like a
near approach can be made to moral justice
L say nothing Of legal justice) alike to
debtor and creditor, for the following rea-
Sons:
l. The attendant circumstances uuder
which credit has been given and prom
Uses to pay have been made are various,
and are irreduoible to an unit.
g The basis on which very much Of the
credit in our country was rredicated, and
GU the legal possession Of which the prom.
ises TO pay we're made, has been irretreVa-
bly, swept away. l. By the action of an ir-
resiStable and irresponsible military power.
2. BY conventional power of our own
State. So that the Governments which
vested in our people the legal right Of prop
erty in slaves, have destroyed that right
against our wills. Whether now the pecu
mary losses so produced by the operations
of the late war shall fall on the creditor
alone, or debtor alone, or on both alike,
may become mooted question. A credi-
tor will demand full payment from his cred
tor, and plead the civil law in his proteo.
ton as the rule of right action in the case.
4 debtor may resist his demands and plead
his non obligation for the payment of the
whole, and claim his exemption from some
part of his debt upon the ground that he
has been robbed BY government Of all, or
part of his available means, which had been
the basis of all his promises to pay, and
that robbery Was done in common cause,
for which he had no redress and that he
is, therefore, made unable to pay the whole
debt.
This inability of the debtor, it will be
oontended by the creditor, is not his release
from his legal obligation to make good his
promise to pay, aud having no other um-
pire to decide between the contracting par
ties, we will not be able to set up rule for
all the cases of Indebtedness among US, ex-
cept the civil law.
Mr. Editor, it seems to me that certain
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all the white people about the place. In the
meantime, they had learned that on the
following day, the negroes intended to at
tack them in the field. Tkey then deter
mined on devising plans, which, they
thought, would entirely circumvent those
of the negroes, and obviate the necessity Of
shedding blood. With this end in view,
they started next morning for the field, two
of the party riding off toward the road
two riding in rear of the plantation. The
brothers Isaac and Henry took the road,
each being armed with shot gun and re-
VolVer They had not advanced far before
they were met by body Of about fifty ne
groes, who ordered them off their mules ac-
compauying the order with rapid and iudis.
crimiuate firing. .- " ;- a..s5.-..
Fortunately, none of the shots had any
effect. Mr. Isaac Burgett quickly alighted
from bis animal, and, raising his gun to his
shoulder, fired, killing the leader Of the
crowd, and wouuding two others His broth
er, Mr.. Henry Burgett, bad, by this tine,
got in the rear of the scoundrels, and, to-
gether with the other two gentlemen, who,
it will be remembered, had started in an.
other direction, poured 9 volley into their
ranks which had the effect of scattering
them in all directions. It was here that
the other negro was killed, and two more
wounded. By this time, some ten or twelve
men gathered around the place, and quick
ly succeeded in arrestiug and placing under
guard the entire gang. Forty new rifles,
thirty-fiVe reVolvers, a keg of powder and
two large bags Of shot we're captured. 10
about an hour after the capture, two more
squads Of negroes were discovered about
half mile off, but Immediately dispersed
in confusion, upon hearing of the disastrous
defeat of their Infamous brother. .plotters
aud assassins. -.... ....
An examination, afterward, of about
twenty of the negroes, showed plainly that
it was concocted by heads far more capable
of doing mischief than those of the iguor-
ant, deluded negroes; but the planners
lacked the courage of executing their dam
nable schemes This part Of the work they
left to a negro named Bill Dickinson, who
assumed the leadership, and who, as is sta
ted above, was killed. This outbreak, which
was to result 10 the murder of all the whites
in the neighborbood, to be followed by an
indiscriminate plundering, was planned and
originated here in Memphis. There can be
no question about it. The ammunition and
arms for them were purchased by white men
in Memphis. This is the testimony Of the
negroes. They say, too, that they were
forced into the insurreotion by the negro
leaders, who told them that if they would
but once take possession of the plantations,
their friends in Memphis and at the North
would stand by them.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-10-25

PRISONER DAVIS. s.-When the smoke
and dust of this conflict shall clear away,
aud the record of the great assize of history
be made up, and the sentence pronounced
on this most stupcudous struggle for sepa-
rate nationality, there will stand forth no
figure so sublime as that of this gallant SOL
dier, brilliant orator, sagacious statesman
aud christian gentleman, bereft Of every
earthly possession, shut out from all con-
verse with the human family, guarded by
mutes, tailored by tyrant, accused by an
assassin, trembling with paralysis, blind,
manacled, tortured with an ingenious cru
city which denied him sleep, with brutal
mob of millions clamoriug for his blood,
yet calm, defiant and undaunted, asking no
favor of the best, and no guard against the
worst, save public trial in the courts of
bis foes.
Life has been allotted to him we'll nigh
to the verge of his three.score years. Hon.
ors have poured in on him for more than
half his life, filling full the measure of A
merican fame. Yet were his life to rival
the ages of the patriarchs, and bis honors
to double the glories of the illustrious son
of David, the bright particular year of his
history would be that in which, chained
captive, the last victim of lost cause, be
raised his voice in perpetual claim for no
favor of twenty millions Of enemies, but
justice.
A feeble tongue, it may 'e, that makes
the appeal, but the cry pierces the triple
iron of his dungeon, pierces tho massive
walls of his bastie, browns the multitu-
dinous roar of the neighboriDg sea, rises
above victorious nations pens and fall
len pation's wall, and will 60 "sounding down
the ages" to assure the world that the vir-
tue men call Roman, and the courage they
call Spartan, died neither Oh the Tiber nor
the Eurotas. lnaeg.
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grain growing and stock raising. 1t pro-
duces foe corn, wheat and oats, and no
part of the United States, perhaps, produ.
ces finer apples than some counties in north
Arkansas Owing to the sbortuess of the
winter, stock require much less feed than
in the colder regions of the extreme north.
Before the war, droves of cattle were driven
from this section to Illinois, and thence to
the New York market.
Horses and mules though, were generally
driven to south Arkansas and Louisiana,
and sold to tie cotton planters Sheep do
we'll, and there is an abundance of water
power sufficient to drive any quantity of
machinery. In this part of the State are
numerous lead mines, and fine beds of coal
and iron are said to exist 10 many places.
Considering its bealtbfulness, its capacity
for producing grain, and its mineral treas
ures, it is easy to see that energy and et-
terprise, with a deuser population and
few railroads, are all that is needed to make
this valuable section of the State
So far, have only spoken of the ssri-
cultural resources of the State But many
intelligent men believe that the mineral
wealth which lies hid 10 its bosom is equal,
perhaps to any State east Of the Mississippi,
and that great fortunes are awaiting those
who understand the mining business, and
bring the requisite capital and to the
task. There are said to he valuable mines
of lead, iron and coal in various parts of the
State, besides manganese, pluubago or
black lead, and other minerals Some OF
these mines have been worked, and, after
few years, abandoned for want of energy,
want of means or some other cause.
The true difficulty, l appreheud, was that
as lcug as slavery existed, everybody's am
bition was "to make more cotton to buy
more negroes to make more cotton" and
the mineral treasures and every other source
of wealth in the State was neg lected.-
Within ten or fifteen miles of Little Rock,
the capitol of the State, there are valuable
lead mines, and also bed of coal Within
less distance there is bed of the finest
haolin, or porcelain clay On the Ouachita
are fue quarries of slate, and everybody has
heard of the Arkansas whetstones, which are
already worked to some extent, and the pro
ducts exported to the eastern cities Why is
it these various mines have not been more
generally worked2 see no reason but the
want of enterprise, and the fact mentioned,
that cotton was the absorbing pursuit, aud
swallowed up every other ambition. Since
the abolition of slavery it is to be hoped
that new era will dawn upon the State
for Development; and the increase of mate
rial prosperity seems to be the necessary law
of free institutions All that is needed, it
would seem, to make our mineral resources
a source of wealth and profit, is the right
sort of men, to take hold and "carry things
through" But, to do this, capital is sad
ly needed, for the war has left most of the
people in an impoverished condition, and is
to the north and east We must look for the
capital to carry on new enterprises" B.