The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-02-23

not necessarily fOf publication, OUT as guar
anty of the writer's good faith.
,rG,e S.aansy Seat QucstioR.--
Thc T'rasiscsitss, and 30 on
and SO forth.
The TRANSCRIPT i 9 owing funny and
saiiri.al. Comparing newspapers 10
equine quadrupeds, we have always re-
carticd he Transcript as a steady, sobe,-
going nyg,-an equal-empercd, u~e'nl
be;,~t. more servicecble than snowy.
But rs ,he most respectable and trust
worthy family horsc, will sometimes
bring discredjt on bis, in The main, ire
proachable charncter, by pnckihg up bis
ears and shy ing madly away from some
inoRensive objec;, and INDUCING 10 o.her
leprehepsibIe foIIies, SO the Irau,cGiot is
induIgiug in u few coIt-ike pranks, quite
foreign 10 its usual steady 9ait.
The occasion Of It's harmless skittioh-
ness. is view Of The County Seat being
removed from Prescott, and lis fright
cuininated Feb. 12,h, 1859.
We propose 10 remark slightly on al
"rtclc il its issue Of ,bai dale. Speaking
Of The removal, it says:
"The River Falls Journal is The only
paper ia The County which advocates The
measure"
Strange amt it, Charley! What con
vincing proof Of lis uapoprIarity! There
ere in this county three papers; two OF
these are published at Prescott, and could
not be expected 10 advocate the removal
Of The County Seat from that place. Now,
s,Ibtract these tWo from the whole num-
Der three, and how strange that only one
of The remainder should "advocate The
measure"
; Speaking Of The excitement on This
! question, the Transcript says:
"We would Ike /, ask brother Lu;e
who began il? IF he thinks we are get
TING EXCEED over the matter down here,
hes misc; ken. But who has been getting
up meetings for The discussion of this
question? And who went down from
River Falls to attend those meetings? 1t
was all right, no harm done, but who
seemed TO be most anxious about the mat
to-? Were they Prescott people?"
+ "Who began it?' Not the JOURNAL,
sif. The first article III regard 10 il APP
pe,red in The Democrat, Jan. 11th.-
; The transcript Of jan. 18th. contained
''leader" on the same subject. That
leader,-a very injudicious article, by the
wav,-;n article which defantly tod the
friends of removal they "miSht just as
well hang up their fiddle, that leader
closed by asking us 10 give our opinion,
and we gave it in the JOURNAL of Jan.
26th.
| 1--WE would like to ask Charley aoho
! began it," Now, about those 'taaeetings."
We regret that we are unable to give
you aoy definite information. You
would seem TO infinite that we have
been class leader in these meetings.
aa honor 10 which we have not yet at
! tanned. We did go to Taimbelle about
four weeks ago. We supposed, and sill
cherish the same belief, that il was our
editorial privilege TO do so, besides having
private and personal right to travel
where we please. There was a meeting
in that village TO talk about The County
Seat, on the very same identical evening
ence, (ibough we did not know Of the
meeting until we arrived there, and we
attended the meeting, and were bold
enough to make some brief remarks,
which were received with very scant ap-
plause. There now you have our confess
sion. We've made a clean breast oft.
This is the only meetings" of which we
have any knowledge. We rejoice there
is ''no hasnl done"
Seeing that We stated in the JOURNAL
at the time, that we had visited Trimbelle,
the questions asked US about those meet
logs, and ''wbo went down from River
Falls" show keenness Of wit that is re-
maikable,-in fact its edge, like the edge
of razor in good order, cannot be seen.
Seriously, Charley, we fear you are more I
cutting than sarcastic; that is you can
use the scissors better than satire.
In our article we alluded to the proba-
bility that Diamond Bluff would become