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Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1861-05-15
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AN INCIDENT.

An incident which occurred at the ,,ar
office during the very height of the alarm,
is fine illustration of the character of
the that Man of Iron, Simon Cameron,
Secretary of War. The day before our
Senator left, he happened to be alone
with the Secretary, when in rushe! Mr..
Wallach, editor of the .Star-a good Un-
ion men by the way-accompanied by a
Union citizen Of Virginia, both much ex-
cited aid deadly pale. They brought
alarming news! 1t had been definitely
ascertained by them that full fifteen
thousand rebels would approach the city
that night by the Alexandria road. and
before day light Washington might be
sacked and in ruins! Con. Cameron
received the information calmly; quietly
rang his bell, and despatched messen-
gar for Con. Thomas, the Adjutant Gen.
That officer soon made his appearance,
when he and tho Secretary had a short
private interview in an adjoining apart
ment.
Upon returning, says the Secretary 10
MI. Wallach and his friend: "Wsll,
gentlemen, Gen. Thomas informs me that
he thinks We are fully ready for any fif-
teen thousand of the Internal rascaIs that
man come along, even through Jeff.
Davis and Beauregard be at their head"
Then promptly turning to Mr.. Wilkin-
son, he continued his conversation thus:
"N ilkinson, when do you start homes"
"To morrow, sir"
"Well, l wish you would do me ia
vor when you get to Minnesota"
"Certainly, sir;"-the Senator expect.
ing to carry some war messago-"what
cSn | do for you!"
Y want you to send me, by express
to Harrisburg, too barrels Of your best
quality Of Minnesota potatoes for seed.
Our old favorite varieties have about
run out in my neighborhood, and have
no doubt a transplauting from Miuneso-
ia will make our crops all right again"
All three-the Washington editor, the
Virginia Unionist and the Minnesota SEN
ator-after leaving the Secretary's apart
ments, concluded there was no such
thing as conqusring government while
such men managed its afiairs.-Press.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1861-05-15
MAJOR ANDERSON.

The Charles on and other extreme
Southern papers have been pretending
great admiration of Major Anderson, and
assuming, in their us lal African style, to
be very chivarous, and capable Of appre-
ciating courage and honor in a foe. The
following from the Charleston Mercury
of the goth April, shows the real state
of feeling in the bogus Chi, airy:
"Major Robt. Anderson has made it a
point at every stopping place at the North,
complain of our "iuhuman treatment in
firing on Sumter after tn Barracks were
envoloped in flames, Did anybody pre-
cent him pulling d vn his dirty stripsss
And why is it that he has not told ''the
Northern people" that he had tcn-inch
Columbiad planted on the Parade Ground
mt Fort Sumter, at an elevation sufficient
to throw a ten-inch shell into the crowd
of unarmed citizens, and helpless women.
whom he knew full we'll would congre-
gate in White Point Garden at the firing
Of the first gun. This is not rumor;
the gun has been seen, the elevation and
direction have been noticed, and by his
own acknowledgment, and that of his
officers, the guns in exposed places could
not be worked without the certainty of
destruction; so our mothers wives and sis
tsrs have not been slaughtered, because
our guns kept him IN his classmates. This
is the brave man who was supplied with
fresh meat, vegetables, &C., &c., and was
thought by some to be friend.
The Charleston papers are also growl-
ing because they perceive that Major An
derson has mined the fort, with the pur-
pose of blowing it up. He hal prepared
mine under the landing, which would
have blown all assailants to the NOON
Upon the whole, as the Major was not
traitor, the traitors have concluded to
hate him. They are of such a mean Or
der Of traitors, they love treason and
hate honor.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1861-05-15
OLD KENTUCKY.

Heary Ward Beeeher, at prayer
meeting in Plymouth Church, related the
following incidents which had been OBJ
served during the late muster in Indiana.
Mr.. Beecher had just returned from q
journey out west:
"Four hundred Kentuckians crossed
over, almost in body and enlisted for
the Stars and Stripes. They could not
got chance to servo the good cause at
home, and were determined to find a
way to fight for tho Union. A wealthy
planter in Tennessee sent four of his sons
for the same purpose. Chose are the
gendine Union men Of the South)
"One poor follow from Kentucky came
over alone and enlisted at Madison. A
crowd of friends were shaking hands
with other volunteers whom they knew,
but he being stranger, remained unno-
tioed. He burst into tears and exclaimed,
"There's no one to bid God bless meg
Instantly hundred men rushed at him
and bore him up in their arms, while
the whole multitude shouted forth their
blessings upon the noble-heartsd patriot"
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1861-05-15
BOB TYLER, THE SPY.

Robert Tyler is confirmed fugitive
from Philadelphia, as well as from his
home at Bristol. The people there drove
him out. 1t is said that for months
past be has been acting rs a syp of Gov.
Wise, giving him information BY letters
as to all that was going on here, and
pledging Wise that he had a thousand
Philadelphians enrolled to march with
him to Virginia to fight for the rebellion.
The report is that this letter was inter-
copied, and speedy flight from Bristol
to Now York alone saved him from
stretching hemp. At New York, We
learn, he was hunted cut, and forced
again to fly, this time having gone clean
off. There has probably been no noisier
traitors in those parts than Tyler. He
was so gratuitously offensive in his con-
versation for year past, that everybody
knew him and had marked him. No
body regrets his absence, unless it be his
creditors. MI. Sentinel.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1861-05-15
Mlistellaneorls Mtatters.
A HARD TIME OF 1T.

ole Corporals," who belongs to the
second regiment, encamped at Madison,
enlighten the public as to thes experience
of the regiment. so far as the commlssary
department is concerned, as follows:
ain good sooth, we all knew we must
come to soldiers rations. We are ready
for it; we are reasonable, patriotic, anna
tour soldiers, all spelling for fight with
the rebels. But in the outset, VIC swear
that wo believe that the people Of Wis
consin, from the several regions from
whence we come, don't believe in SUBJ
jecting us to the style of rations and quar-
ters We have received part of the time
since our. advent. We are ready to "ceme
to Limmorick," when tits neccrssary-
eat foul meat, fouler bread, or any other
rations knows in the history Of the Mex
lean or Revolutionary wars; bat in this
land of plenty, where potatoes arc SELL
ing at the low price of two shillngs q
bushel, aud beef most "demnitisn" cheap,
We humbly appeal for murphies that are
not half rotten, t'other half as watery as
though they had soaked eleven years in
the Dead Sea.
Our beef is goedish-we MUNICH it
with relish; and if we stand in four in
chss' depth of mud while we gobble it.,
we don't consider anybody Except the
Clerk of the Weather responsible for
what can't be avoided or foreseon. Our
only complaint is, that we've slept wet,
consequently got awful colds, and had
rations which, though they may be all
this professionalism State can afford,
nave been in bad rain storm, soaked in
water too long to be pa!atable even for
hungry soldiers. And even now, We
will not complain if the patriotic citizens
Of Madison will not charge us with being
better rowdies than soldiers. "That's
what we don't like" as Ike Woodle said.
If there is man among US who would
not, under the circumstances, have been
with US had he been of Us, he will please
present himself to
FOUR CORPORALs.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1861-05-15
ALWAYS TRUE.

The Hon. Thos. A. r. Nelson, of Ton
nessee, made speech at Knoxville the
other day, in which, Parson Brownlow' s
paper says:
He declared his unalterable attach
mont to the Union-denicd the right of
secession-exposed the whole plot of the
Secessionists, on the part of the Cotton
States-repudiated the slavery agitation
of the North-and boldly asserted, that
while he regretted the war now raging,
he maintained that Lincoln's call for vol
unteers was lawful and const itutional, and
that under the circumstances, with bis
oath of Office resting upon him, he could
not have done .ss that call out the mi
litia.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1861-05-15

THE WAR CRY OF THE UNION
Nothing in the romance of ancient or
modern warfare can be compared with
the thrilling effects Of the splendid res
ponse of a patriotic people to the appeal
of our President. The electric signal
flashed the intelligence with marvellous
speed over the whole land, that the Gov
eminent was imperilled, and needed tho
strong arms and stout hearts Of its loyal
sons to defend it. And with prompti-
tuds wonderful, admirable, noble and
glorious the response comes up as from
one man, "Here am I. Take me and
NINE"
Three millions of men are unit in
sentiment and in devotion to the grand
purpose for which they are summond.-
Has history ever presented a more no.
Bile sight in political movements, than
lhe instantaneous abandonment of minor
differences aud the solidarity of princi-
pie and purpose, evinced by the loyal
citizens of this great Republic? From
the Aroostook to the Sacramento, from
the Delaware to the Columbia the free
and loyal States are aroused, and like
Sampson of old are ready to crush the
enemies of their country, at tho hazard
or even the cost of their own existence.
=Mnnesota 81. A,shony Falls, J
State Neus.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1861-05-15
A DESCRIPTION OF OUR
VOLUNTEE RS

We had thought that our Volunteers,
least those we had seen, were very cred
table fighting men, but the Mobile I'D.
vertiser corrects this impression. We
hope all the volunteers from Wisconsin
will read this description, which we copy !:
"They may raise plenty of men-men
who prefer enlisting to starvation, scurvy
follows from the back slums of cities
whom Falstaff would not have marched
through Coventry Without these re-
cruits are not soldiers, least of al the
soldiers to meet the hot blooded, through.
bred, impstuous men Of the South
Trencher soldiers, who enlisted to war on
their rations, not on men, they arc
such as marched through Baltimore,
squalid, wretched ragged and half naked,
as the newspapers of that city report
them. Follows who do not know the
breech of musket from its >muzzle and
had rather fitch handkerchief than fight
an enemy in manly combat. White
slaves, peddling wretches, small change
knaves and Migrants, the dregs and off
scourings Of the populacc--those are the
levied forces whom Lincoln suddenly
arrays as candidates for the honor Of be-
ing slaughtered by gentlemen"
When the gentlemen" of the South
meet the North boys they will like them
better.-Ml. Sentinel.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1861-05-15
somer.

CAIRNS PUT INTO THE HANDS OF THE
SLAvEs.-This is a common phrase. just
now, in Southern papers. The announce
ment is indiscrect, if nothing more. 1t
will furnish an excuse 10 those who are
advocating a line ofpoliey in regard to
free and onslsved negroes, not in harmo-
ny with the general sentiment Of the
North. If however, it shall appear they
are, in lccaities, to be armed against
white men, with the approval of their
masters, it would not be strange if other
slaves. in other localities, should be arm
cd by those not their masters. Tho re-
suit of such confic! would DO more ter
1ible than is agreeable to contemplate
Southern men should be careful not 20
provoke it,
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1861-05-15

The Loss OF LIFE IN FoRr MoUL-
rRIE.-A correspondent of tho Buffalo
Courier writes to that paper as follows !:
81 had tie pleasure of seeing letter
written by Ashley Brocket, one of the
soldiers at Fort Moultrie. He was in
that fortress while the bombardment of
Fort Stump ter was going on. His account
differs materially from that Of the cheva-
liers. There were forty mon in the Fort
killed, and one hundred wounded. He
say: "When we heard gun at Sum
ter, we knew what was coming; and sure
enough. in about minute, one of the
Majors compliments would come into
the fort and raise a considerable muss.-
Men would be sent up into the air by one
of his shells to SO, how things looked out
side, but when they came down they
could not see at all. It was hot work,
and tn, Major made every gun tell."-
Mr.. Brocket was among the wounded"
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mo. 2.


Marshal SAKE, high authority for such
things, was in the habit of saying that to
kill man in battle, the mans weight in
lead must be expended. A French
medical and surgical GazsHe, published
at Lyons. says this fact was verified Mt
Solferino. even with the recent great i'm
prsvements in fire arms. The Austri-
ans fred 100000 rounds. The loss
of the French and Italians was 1000
killed. and 10000 wounded. Each man
hit cost 700 rounds, and every man killed
cost 1900 rounds. The mean weight OF
balls is ono ounce thus we find that it
required, on an average, 272 lbs. of lead
to kill man. If any Of our frieuds
should get into military fight, they
should feel great comfort in the fact
that 700 shots may be fired at them be-
fore they are hit, and 1920 before they
" shuttle off the mortal coil"
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1861-05-15

FEMALE VoLRNTRRRs.-The clerk of
an Ohio River steamer informs the Gin
cineati Gazette that as the boat touched
at Leavenwerth, Ind, company of Vol
entser Women, armed with rifles, march
ed down from the commons where they
had been drilling. and fired salute
They seemed to handle the arms with
ease, and presented very creditable ap-
pearance.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1861-05-15

The SourH Henry Ward Beeeher
in recent address said that wLile he
went heart and soul into this way. he
never felt less bitterness toward the South
than now-never more sorry for thcm.
The last thing he wished to see was SER
vile instruction. fIe prayed to God to
avert it and trusted that slavery might be
blotted out peacefully. And he especial
" deprecated all mobs at the NORTH
He had seen the tectl, of mob set to-
ward him. and it always looked to him
like brindled wolf. Whom it looked
the other way, it was not b, hand
sctner,
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1861-05-15
ssletteb Yottru.
The American Flag.
BIT J. X. DRAKE.

Flag OF the brave ! thy folds shall fly.
The sign of hope and triumph high,
When speaks the signal trumpet tone,
And the long line comes cleaning on.
Ere yet the life blood, warm and wet,
Has dimm'd the glistening bayonet,
Each soldiers eye shall brightly turn
To where thy meteor glcries burn;
And as his springing steps advance.
Catch war and vengeance from the glancel
And when the cannon mouthings loud.
Heave in wild wreaths the battle shroud,
And CORY ssbers rise and fall
Like shoots of flame on midnight's pail;
There shall thy meteor glances glow,
And covering foes shall sink beneath
Each gallant arm that strikes below
That lovely messenger of death,
Flag of the seas on ocean wave
Thy stars shall glitter DER the brave,
When Death, careering on the gale.
Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail.
And frighted waves rush wildly back.
Before the broadside's reeling rack;
Each dying wanderer of the sea
Shall look at once to Heaven and thee,
And smile to see thy splendors fly,
In triumph DER his closing eye.
Flag of the free hearts hope and home,
By angel hands to valor given!
Thy stars have lit the welkin dome.
And all thy hues were born in Heaven.
Forever float that standard sheet!
Where breathes the foe but falls before us
With Freedoms soil beneath our feet,
And Freedoms banner streaming Ger us
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1861-05-15

A PASSENGER from New Orleans, per
the steamer Memphis, which arrived at
Cairo last week, states that 1T is well
understood in New Orleans, that the
'bloodless victory at Fort Sumter was
all CANNON, and tina. Beauregard lost
over one thousand men !" He says also,
that hundreds of people, who were un-
willing to take part with the traitors, are
fleeing to the North, to save themselves
from the vengeance of the mobs which
now rule in the South with a high hand.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1861-05-15

THuRLow WEEDS advice to the AID.
ministration, is "Let us hear of no
parlevs or truces Jet the Government
compromise its dignity by no negotia-
tions-until the rebels have first laid
down their arms. Let the Adminlstra-
ton understand that the country looks to
it to settle the controversy with the South
and settle it so effectively that seces-
on" shall bee como m obsolete teYm in
the vocabulary Of States"
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1861-05-15

BUFFALO, MAY 1.-The Schooner
Freeman from Detroit, with a cargo of
corn, su nix near the Light House last
night during the storm, and five of the
crew were lost. The Captain and one
sailor were 50 we'd.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1861-05-15

THE sensation headings of the Daily
papers sometimes get little mixed. One
ofths Milwaukee papers has the follow
ing: "Further details of the fight at
Fort Sumter-Several hundred killed
They will go through Baltimore" If
they do, they will doubtless be .'killed
very dead Mantiowoc- Ir hume.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1861-05-15

HEAVY ROBBERY OF BAKK.-On
last Sunday night week tho "Indlan
Reserve Bank" at Kokomo, Indiana, was
entered, the iron safe opened-probably
with the aid OF powder, and eleven thou
sand and four hundred dollars taken
tberefrom, eight thousand of which were
the public funds of the county. Six
hundred dollars were also takon out of
the house of the cashier. It was the pri-
vate bank of Mr.. Bowen. Twelve thou
sand dollars in these war-panic times
would be considered, in the politest grab
game circles, no small pile.-Ailaoaekes
Seminal.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1861-05-15

THE Government has purchased TWEEN
y-fve addi tionel vessels, and will. with
in twenty days, bloc kade every Southern
port along the entire coast.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1861-05-15

In the Concord Company which is
with tho Fifth Massachusetts Regiment,
are four Buttricks, sons Of one man, and
he the descendant of Col. Blu trick, who
gave the wosd Of command at Concord
Bridge, on the 10Th of April, 1855,
"Fire fellow soldiers! for Gods sake,
fire!"
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1861-05-15

The remains of the bodies Of the
Mass achusetts soldie RS killed at Baltimore
arrived in Bost on, May /, and were re-
ceived with military honors.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1861-05-15

Sps cial dispatches say that Major-Geu-
sral Wool has been relieved from duty
at New York. This indicates that he
has been detailed for active service.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1861-05-15

ALL VoLLExTEERED.-- All the prin-
-ters in Cambridge City, Indiana, have
vol entered, and no paper will be pub
lished there, likely, for sofno time to
coma
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1861-05-15

JUDGE DOUGLAS has been presented
with splendid thousand dollar span of
Black Hawk horses, by his personal
friends in Chicago. A handsome pres
Ant
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1861-05-15

How THE SEVENTH REGIMENT Bors
LIvE.--A member of the gallant 7th
New York Regiment, writing from Wash
ington, says: awe are now comforts
bly, quartered ct the Capitol, occupying
the Hall of TIE House of Representatives.
l am writing seated in the Speakers
chair, and the boys are all around Occur
plying the members desks. Some Of
them commenced to whistle tho Seventh
regiment quickstep, but we soon put q
stop to that SIS it annoyed those Who
were composing epistles to their loves
| tell you-there is more talent now seat
ed around this hall than for some years
back. especially in the Speakers chair
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1861-05-15
MI S CELLAN E 0 u S.
OLIVER GIBBS, JR.,

DIV Err GIBBS, JR..
PRESCOTT, WISCONSIN, will buy and sell lands
on Commission, pay taxes. and attend to
interests of non-residents generally, buy
ana sell Land Warrants. negotiate Loans,
etc, etc.
Also Commissioner of Deeds for all the
Northern States.
Prescott, May 6, 1861. milf
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1861-05-15
TRAITO RS PUT TODEATH

A letter from a member of the Seventh
Regiment to bis father, dated Washing
ton, April 2sth, states that the Regi-
ment on that morning received an addi-
ton Of one hundred and seventy i've
men, from New York, all in good
health and spirits. The writer says, "six
secessionists were shot this morning at
the Navy Yard. One is to be shot to-
morrow morning. He was in tho en-
ploy of the Ordnance Department, and
had been set to work filing bombs; in
stead of charging them with powder, he
put sand in them. Several men have
been arrested for tearing up the track of
the railroad and they will be summar
lily doalt with.
A private letter from An napolis, April
2sth, says: "And now to give you an
example of the punishment traitors re-
ceivs, we can see from where I am writ
ing, about two lies from shore. on the
yard arm of the United States brig CAL
edonia, t,oo men hanging-one for snug
Cling provis ions and powder to the rebcls
at Charleston; the other for plotting the
Seventh Regiment on the Chesapeake
bay--with the intention that the Balti-
moreans might get possession of Annap-
oils before the Seventh could land
Thcy susp ected his intentions, put him in
irons and conveyed him on board the
brig, and now he is hanging for his
crime"