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Parent Issue
Day
12
Month
December
Year
1862
Copyright
Public Domain
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contaiiiino 27C0 ket tlea - aru now in operation at Saginaw and viciuity, and 80 blocks for 4,000 cettlee in progresa. At Syrucuse, N. Y., heretofore the great salt mart of the North, 312 blocks ure in operation. B@u Report taya that Secretary ühase is desirous of loaving tho Cabinet and roturning to the Seuate. He i.s erediled with being disgusted with with President Lincoln, and with eayng that bo oceupies too much ol the Cabinet sessions in telling coarse and vulgar anecdule.o, and too little in a diguified attenlion to business. jJ5L" In another column the Postmastcr cautions persons against using dofaced stamps on letters. Nuraerous canoelled stanips are put in circulation as chango hy unscrupulous parties and find their way into honest handa. There is now no longer necd for the use of such currency and all parties should discountenance it. J&3T" Tho Secretary of the Trcasury estiuiatcs thut if the war shall continue until the niidsuramer of 1804 tho public debt will reaoh $1,750,000,000. He also estimates that the roeeipts from custom and under the internal revonue act will run the goverument on a peace basis, pay the interest on this debt, and leave an excess of $55,000,000 annually to be devoted to aa extiuguishment of the debt. JÊ3E" 'ino annual moeting of the Washtenaw County Argricultural and Horticultural Society, for the election of oíñeers, etc., is to be held at the Court House inrthis city, at 11 o'clock, A. M. on Tuesday next, the lGih inst. The farmers ought to mako it their business to attend Ibis meeting. Il thoy do not take an interest in it they can not expect thnt it will alvvays be managed to suit them. jf We have rtceived from Hon. B. F. Ghanoer two sampks of paper made from corn-husks. Thedo samples are of good color, are stronger we think than common rag paper, though not as soft, and aro said to take an excellent impression. They wero oi' Germán make. If our paper makers uun readily adopt their muchinery to the material we shall hope that its abundance will prevent paper going any higher. " And so mote it be. "

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Old News
Michigan Argus