Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1861-05-08
WAR ITEMS. ENCfDEIET rs
DC.


May PowDER. All the Powder
Manufactures of the United States are
North of Delaware. The first result Of
hostiiiies has been the iuterception of
considerable quantities, hitherto pur-
chased and on the way South, and no
further supply will be possible.
A PATRIOTIC MERcHANT.-A mer-
chant of New York, who is interested 10
house in Baltimore, was told that the
batteries Of Fort McHenry were bombar
ding that city. "Good,' he exclaimed,
g am S., 900 poorer, if that is the case;
but hope the news is true. They can
Lave every dollar I've got
| AN overwhelmed with surprise that
a peaceful march of American q izens
over the highway to the defence Ct our
common capital should be deemed ag
ercSsive to Baltlnorcans. Through New
York the march was triutnphal.- Gov.
Andreacs to Mayor Br aon.
THE Virgin ans hearing that Gen.
Scott would resign in army of the UNI
ted States, sent Judge Robinson, an old
friend and classnate, to offer him chief
rank in the confederate army. Imagine
the storm! Scott threatened to arrest
Robinson for treason.
MAJOR AsDrasox's Major
Anderson SAYS OF his r:en: Until a
man is half starved half smothercd-
Ealf pois0ne,l-and on the Verge OF eter
nifty in this state, he never can know what
men | had, or understand the measure o.
yaIor that made surrender the last
thought with them"
SIZE OF TIE AMERICAN FLAo.-The
standard of the flag for tie amy is fixed
at six feet SIX inches in length by fodr
feet four inches in with; the number Of
stripes is thirtecn-seven rcd, and SIX
white.
The blue field of stars is the width and
square Of the first seven str!pes--tour red
and three white. and these stripes extend
from the extremity of the field to the
end Of the flag. The eighth stripe Is
white and for, pleasant relief to the
blue ground of the field. The number
Of the stars is thirty-four: one being
added on tue admission q each State.
De TocqUEvILLE, in his Democracy
GS'fhnrh
things which a democratic people viii
find very difficult: to begin war and to
end it,"
TERRIBLE REPRlsAL.-TheI people Of
Ottawa, H., thus retort upon Gov. Letch-
or:
Whereas. The Governor of. Virginia
has issued his proclamation that no more
flour be shipped to the Northern cities
therefore, be it
Reso red, By the citizens of Ottowa,
in mass meeting assembled, that 1l'il,ois
will not furnish Virginia with any more
tobacco.
WHEN one of the city regiments was
marching down to the steamer, q young
man, who had risen from sick bed to
90 with his company, tainted in the
street A sturdy fellow stepped from the
crowd on the sidewalk. saying, give
me his musket and cartridge box" They
were given to him, and without another
word he marched on in the place of the
sick man.-N. Y. Tribune.
Men OF AMERIcA--brothers friends
all, remember this. While man OK
lists, while azure gives us her golden,
glorious laws Of life and beauty, while
Spring succeeds to Winter, human liber-
ty is always progr ssing and always will
progress. The last man will always be
the frevst Secession and war will only
hasten it. Freedom is never lost and
never goes backwards.
In every song of the lark it is born
again; wherever goodness and beauty
and truth we'll forth, there Freedom rises
to light. 1t comes with the bursting bud
and the rose to life--it is the soul Of hap
piness, and man is never happy withoea
it. Never tell us that Freedom has g0ss
backwards il America. Her sun ma
be overcast, but it is rising--ever rising
and when the clouds pass away it vi
burst forth fairer than ever. And WEI
we may live or die, but never let us lose
faith in the progress OF Freedom, ar
more than wo would our faith in the eseF
nal beauty of Nature, and in the mysters.
of God Vanity Fair.
IN one of the Massachusetts, regiments
that have lately passed through this city.
was Young citizen of Maine. He had
come from that State to Massacl usetts te
visit his mother, whom he had not seen
for five years, and had been with her
only an hour, whom he was asked if be
did not wish to volunteer. He said his
grandfather went to Bunker HILL on short
not;oa apJ la would no now GU ha In.sa