Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1847-12-11
Letter from Prairie du Chen.

A valuable correspondent of the Herald
at the venerable epauletted French town of
Prairie du Chen, which lies several miles
north of any where else, gives us the par
ticulars of fight between two volunteers of
Capt. KNowLToN's company, WASHINGTON
GREEN, and man named WILLHARBER, in
which GREEN stabbed WILLHARBER in the
back. As the affair is quite serious and will
be enquired into by the proper authorities,
we refrain from publishing any thing about
it, to the prejudice of either party The
fight took place by appointment of parties,
in the ball-alley of Mr.. A. b. Coy. The
other g fights" which do not appear to have
resulted in any prosecutions, we let our cor
respondent describe in his own language.
PRAIRIE Du CHEN, Dec. l, lS47.
The other man who was so unfortunate as
to be stabbed, was also member of Captain
KNowLToN's company of Wis. VOLS; his
name was ANDREWS, he is said to be usually
a quiet man except when intoxicated, which
does not very frequently occur. On this oc-
casion, however, he had been drinking pretty
freely during the day, as had many others,
it being the day of the election; the circum-
stances of the fight were nothing more than
a drunken dispute and squabble, in WHICH a
cash was cut under Andrews left arm by
a man from the country, named HALL, with
a common clasp knife, the wound was about
six or seven inches long but not affecting any
vital part, being but little deeper than the
skin.
The young man, (GEoRGE RAY, also a
volunteer,) who received blow upon his
face, Just below the eye, with tumbler, was
very quiet, orderly, and temperate young
man; he was at private party on Thursday,
of last week, at the house of a widow lady;
whilst there, two drunken rowdies came in
to the house, ont of one of whose pockets,
peered a large bottle of whiskey, the lady
of the house requested Mr.. RAY to say to
them that il was her wish that no whlskey
should be brought into the house; when he
did so, one of them struck at RAY with his
fist, Ray seized a tumbler with which to de-
fend himself if he was again attacked, but
the other rowdie snatched the tumbler from
the hand of RAY, aud struck him blow UNI
der the eye, the fragments of the tumbler
cutting his cheek in many places, one of
which was quite serious, as 1t divided an
artery under the eye and bled very profuse
lly; and had it not beeS for the timely assist
ance of DIR. BEACH, he would have bled to
death in a short time; we called on him the
other day, and found him doing as well as
could be expected. Now, as to them So as
wouldn't fight" they were mostly politicians:
that is, they were the scheming ones, who
used all arguments to make converts to their
party, except the regular knock-down-argu-
ment, which was no doubt owing to the fact
that prudence is the better part of valor,"
or that words were more easy to be received,
and forgotten, than blows. The unruly
spirits of the volunteer company, stationed
at this place, began to think to take the reins
of discipline in their own hands-but their
Captain brought them all up standing, by an
order Sc that no member of the company
should be outside the gates of the Garrison
after tattoo, without special permit from
HIMSELF" which is very gratifying intelli-
gence to the citizens, az many are disturbed
by the nightly reveIs of the worshIppers at
the shrine of Baechus; whether they be cti-
zens or soldiers, the latter receive all the
anathemas of the disturbed. And under all
these circumstances, the only way for a
peaceable man TO go on smoothly, is to do
as Tittlebat Titmouse wished TO do, that is,
90 give to every body every thing"
PILLS.
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