Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1861-07-17

North Western road, built and operated
on the same scale with reference to speed,
safety and comfort, and running through
some of the most interesting portions OF
INDIANA and Ohio. Through from the
Garden to the Queen City in IL hours
whew. that just suits us. Preparations
for war are the main thing here, and OPP
posite ON the sold Kentucky shore" our
folks are as mnch at home as here, the
stars and stripes waving everywhere. All
over Kentucky. Home Guards of ''un-
conditional Union men" are formed
They are bound together by-solemn oaths
and are sore thorn in the side of the
''KDights of the Golden Circle"
Since coming here we have had the
pleasure of private half hour with Col.
now Brig. Gen. Anderson. We expected
to see a larger, younger, and more dash
ing looking mar, instead of the small,
gray-baired, scholarly gentlemen we
found him to be.
"Andy" Johnson was here a few days
since, fugitive from Tennessee. He
spoke from the balcony of the Burnett
House, and said among other things, that
al - III coooeeyo,, eobo v,a ,yoc Holl
born and Hell-bound." Mr.. johnson is
a powerfully-built, dark-complexioned
man, and looks and talks as though he
was host ill alone. Rumor says he in
tends to do some fighting, and if he I'M
dertakes it he will "raise q muss." 1t
will be like man who hates snakes
when he kills one he is very apt to kick
the critter after it is dead, because it is q
snake.
A night or two since. we heard the
cloud alarum BELLS" and by the time we
could half dress and get to the wineow,
on came the ponderous steam fire engine,
drawn by four large, matched horses,
dapple grey, fat as seals, and rushing on
as fast as whipping and yelling could
urge them. A perfect shower of sparks
was flying from the engine fire, so hot in
five minutes, that in five minutes more
the steam would be "full head" and by
is own light aud that of the street lamps
in the otherwise pitchy darkness, itlook-
ed like an internal machine running
away with itself. In ten minutes mere
we were at the fire, and found fifteen of
the engines, each doing the work of
three or four of the old -fashloned break
downs The sky, and all around was lit
aglow with the fire, but within twenty
minutes after the bells gave the alarm,
"darkness was visible"
Cincinnati combines the peculiar char
aeteristics of Philadelphia and Chicago.
1t has much Of the soidity in its business
movements of the former, with the chain
of the latter. Unlike any 9TH
or city VIC ever saw, its palace ONES
with their enchanting surroundings of
flower AID shrub and lawn, of faunt";n,
vase and arbor, are scattered in charming
groups of six or eight on each side of most
of the streets, instead of all being ran
ged along two or three aristocratic ave
nues. That gem of all flowers, the yer
bena, is in full bloom, and there are more
and finer oIeanders, than we ever saw
elsewhere. Roses, of all varieties of shrub
and climber, each seem as though they
might be "the rose that all are piaising."
The great Catalpa trees arc covered with
such clouds of white blossoms, that it
seems as if Flora kept her magazine of
white among their branches. Straw
berries have gone. and raspberries are
fast going at 5 cents per quart.
We sometimes wonder whether our
upper country friends know that less
labor expended in cultivatlng one fourth
of m acre of small fruits, than is required
to cultivate the same amount of potatoes,
will furnish them world of comfort and
heallhful luxury, besides saving what
they now pay for an inferior quality of
dried fruit. We wonder when people
generally will learn that having plenty of
bright beautiful flowers around their
homes actually pays,
Hoping to receive the JOURNAL more
in the future, am, as ever,
Truly Yours, TRAVELLER.