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SPECIAL NOTICES.
SDeci3i Notice,

In view Of the extremely low figures OF
Produce. and tn tigEtncss of the times gen
e~a'ly. the subscribers have concluded 10 put
their Immense stock of Merchandise into the
market al cost prices for cash This is no
dodge. and to convince you Of our earnestness
il this matter, we subjon list of prices, VIZ :
CLOTHING, Erc-Best prints ii cts per I'd ;
bast de lains % cts hest stril es l2}2 cts ];
heavy demns Is CTS heavy sheetings II cts.
Buck Miitcns IS cts. per pair; best kip boots
80 50 per pair buffalo ovelshoes Lou Ia
dies shoes of all KINGS rom 80 cts to $50 !;
cb;Idren's boots ard shoes at very low figures.
\ large lot of clothing that we are bound to
sell. Good ovcrcoats at $3.50, and all other
clothing i'll proportion.
GrochKrEs-Good sugar 10 cts. per 10; cot
fee % candles 1919 salelatus ~ tobacco
30. Good Becher's syrup 60 cts. per gallon ;
match,s ) cts. per box. Axes 81, and all 9TH
cr hardware in proportion. Rope, of all sizes,
~ ( cts. perlb,
Citizens OF Pierce and surrou nding counties
please call and examine for yourselVcsl
Hig'.ost price in cash paid for Wheat.
BEAEDsLEY & LYFonr.
Prescott, Dec. 16, 1861. Slit
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Hritttn for It's Journal
THE SsGAS:s.<S.
By ELMER LEsCEL.

Spring came on every hill SIDE. a'd smiling
s"mmo'.d foItL
Her winter ianishe,' leg o.is for new gala time
on EARTH
Then tender buds peeped sllyly from many
leafy nest,
Like Innocence reposing on the Gentle moth
er's breast.
Then verdure clad the valleys. rich foliage
robed the trees
Flowers garlanling the prairies, shed fra,
GRANGE on the breeze
Each | afet' S tiny goblet with the Gear cool
dew was filed.
Which Natures o;selcss forces i'll the even
ing air distilled.
Soon Summer roamed in freedom with her
far and gladstone throng,
The wild birds reared their timld broods and
all was life and song.
It's true the clouds would gather a;ld their
shadows tall around,
But cen the darkest storm frown by a radi
ant bow was crowned.
Refreshing rain descended like blessing from
the sky,
And all the brght-eyed blossoms looked
thankfully on high,
And the cheerful sun prevailing Ter the land
scape yapory VEIL
His golden beams strcamed joyously on every
hill and dale.
But Time can never liuger, and the lie ht-win-
ged. fitting hours,
Come silently as twilight and go like April
showers,
And stad aud sober AUTUMN stole all the
bloom away,
And draped the fields in mourning, which
grew darker day by day.
For alas there came enc nightfan beauty
blightug frost,
And the fairest flowers first faded with all
their sweetness lost.
And mournfully the forest waved each sac
and stricken Dough,
For their whispering leafy verdure hung crisp
and dying now.
Now Winter comes with snow wreaths, and
earth grows cold and drear,
The winds sing solemn dirges for the old and
dying wear,
But sleigh bells shall ring gayly and tell a
tale of mirth.
Wen hail with JOY and laughter the blithe-
some New Years bi!th.
Grim smiles the hoary Ice King at the ruin
he has wrought,
And DER the wave his letters weaves as swift
as flies thought,
So swift shall speed the days away until re-
turning Spring.
Shall come again wit b gladness, and all her
beauty bring.
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FEED GRINDING
Probate Notice.

Pierce County Court-fn Probate. In the
matter of the estate OF Simon Waller, DC
ceased.
HN reading and filing the petition of Sam
uel 5. Fifield, of the city of Prescott. in
said county, representing among other things
that OF the 9th day Of March. 1859. the said
deceased together with NJ. A Dreibelbis. con-
acted to convey TO him, the said petitioner,
the promises known and described as follows,
to-wit:--
Lot 3i, block twenty-foHr, being in Copp Dr.
Maxson's second addition to the village of
Prescott, now city, county of Pierce and
State of Wisconsin, and claiming that he, the
said petitioner, is entitled TO Il conveyance of
said premises and praying that N. A. Dreb
elbis, administrators of said estate, he author
ized and directed by decree of this court to
make and execute a conveyance of said prem
Isl to him, the said petitioner.
1t is ordered that said petition lie heard be-
for the Judge of this court on Monday. the
third dav of February next, at ten o'clock
NJ at his Office in the city of Prescott. And
it is further ordered that notice thereof be
published six weeks successfully before such
hearing in tie Prescott Journal, a weekly
newspaper published at Prescott in said county
WILLIAM HowES. Comfy Judge.
Dated at Prescott, Dec. 30. 1861. 35 I'd
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state Of wisconsin -- Circuit
CNurt-- Pierce County.

John C. Phelps Hannibal d. Ormsbee and
Christopher Jordan, co-partners as Phelps,
Ormshee and Jordan, Pl'ffs. against James B.
Cooper and Jenett Cooper, his wife, Thomas
J Cooper and Thomas j Clark. Defts.
To James B Cooper,J enett Cooper his wife,
Thomas j Cooper, and Thomas j Clark. the
above named defendants
You are hereby summoned and required to
answer the complaint in this action which is
filed in the Office of the clerk of this court at
the town of Perry in said Pierce County. and
TO serve a copy of your answer to said com
plant on the subscribers at their office at
Prescott in said county within twenty day
after the service hereof upon you exclusive of
the day of such service. and if You fail TO an
swer the said complaint within the term afore-
the relief demanded in the complaint
WHITE d JAY, Pits. Attys.
Dated November %, 1861. 35-6w
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drous voice of the deep mouthed can
non, are but the needfuI prelude to that
swceter song which shall

Ring out old shapes of foul disease.
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring i'll the thousand years of peace"
To-day, for a season, we lay down tho
pen which has written for these columns,
but its parting paragraph shall be, Kind
readers, blessing to YOU all. We who
have little to give, give this with all our
heart. Fair ladies, kind gentleman, and
you, happy children, Merry Christmas,
and n Happy New Year to YOU all.
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5lsa

cloud, as its blue depths are bathed in
food of sunshine, and yet the Lightning
be heating its red bolts, and the stormy
squadrons marshaing for the onset.
The human countcranco may be as calm
as that ocean, while hitter waters are
yelling up in the heart ae brigll: with
sunshine as that sky, unclou'le,!, aud yet
the fierce tempest be sweeping across the
souI, o. the echoes C Sorrows wall i'm
ger;ng amid The ru;"s Of hopes which
hnye heen destroyed.
BEEF STEAK.
Prescott, Dec. o3!, 1861.
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SLAVERY AND THE WAR.

The Negro is black man owing
doubtless partly to the climate in which
he is a native, and partly to the parents
he is born Of In this country he is gen
orally a slave, owing probably to the fact
that lie has a master and is generally
ignorant and degraded, as he cannot help
Jeiur. when held in meDial condition,
.hora o. the pride of manhood, and de-
med all the enobling influences of social
.sture and education. We have no
se-.,cular love for the Negro. We be-
= We tie Saxon brain has more thought
5ud force-the Saxon blood moro fire
ani daring than the African. But We
also believe that Slavery works cruel in
jas,ice to tie Negro, that it Is outrn-
geousiy wrong, a moral pestiIence, po-
a;ical evil, stain on our National honor
in incubus on our National pros
Perity.
Thinking thus, we have acted with the
Republican party, as being the most
thorough in its convictions and earnest
jn;;s opposition to The demands and en-
cr0scLments of Slavery.
But since the breaking ont Of this
war a strong party, composed Of men
{ al former parties, are c!amoring that
lie war be waged for the total annihila-
on of Slavery, and CAIN that it will be
rutless in results unless it works the
Emancipation of every slave.
While we yield to mono in desire to see
Slavery abolished, we totally dissent from
making this war war of emancipation.
We are fighting for the supremacy of
the Constitution and Laws, and let us re
hgious observe them ourselves. If we
had no right to abolish slavery in peace.
We have none in war. Let us prosecute
the war with energy, let US free every
slave whose freedom can help the sue
cess Of our arms, and use him as militia
~ Judgment may determine, but let US
not proclaim that emancipation is the
ayowed object of the war.
Since the attack on Sumpter, we have
Lad no doubt abc ut the future of slavery.
Il Is doomed. But let US be patient
God and the great processes Of Nature
move surely but slow. = giant wrong,
which for generations has been interwo-
ven with the social and political life of q
great people, cannot be uprooted in a
day.
Every intelligent mind knows that it is
Slavery that has raised this hellish revolt.
Slavery has reared every fertilization,
trained every gun, applied every match,
aud shed the blood of the Nations bra
vest and best. 1t is Slavery that ranges
It's cohorts under the banner of treason
and pours its murderours vollevs upon
the defenders of the Good Old Flag
For this it is doomed. Silently rs fall
the shades of evening, but resistless as
the wrath of God, rises the voice of the
people that in the future. Freedom must
rule our country, and slavery assume its
subordinate place. Crippled, it will die.
Let US hate it with the hate of hell, but
ID our bstred be just. Let US give it the
pound Of flesh nominated in tho bond,
'ut see to ii that it shed no drop of
CHRISTIAN blood. Let US abide by the
lsitution. wage this war till the star
rag floats over every State, and let
1a'ery take care of itself-if it can.
1s DIR. Beardsley and Lutte Taylor
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cemetery lots, exceeded the current ex-
penses Of the city, to the present date.
about 5000. so that the present year the
city is more than paying its expenses.
On motion adjourned.
w. Z. HATCH, City Clerk.
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Gg- At a meeting held at River Falls
last Monday evening, w. A. Tozer and
T. 7. Glass were appointed committee
to ascertain whether the county Tx is le-
gaIly levied.
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,cAI, AND MISCELLANEOUS.
NOTICE.

We shall be absent for several weeks,
AMI the business of this office will be in
,laras Of Mr.. w. r. GATES.
As there are many accounts due the Of
fee. we would simply say to those ow-
:rg, that if they will walk up and settle,
thew will merit Nh. GATES appreciation
ard our own.
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RE- OLIVER GIBBS, Jr., Of this city.
has received an appointment as Adju-
taht of Battalion, with rank of first
Lieutenant, in the ID Reg. Wis. Caval
~, Col. Washburne. He leaves for Mill
Waukec tomorrow.
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mo So.
Camp correspondence.
DEEBY, Va, Dec. 6, l6Gi.

DEEBY, Va, Dec. 8, 1851.
DEAR Lutte Saturday, the. stcrdy
old 9th Regiment received orders to 20
ready to move on Sunday, the eth inst;
as the regiment was assigned Cor picket
duty. Cartridge boxes and cap Loxes
| were examined, and 30 rounds of Uncle
Sans blue mass pills were duly deposit
ed in each cartridge box in Company Z.
Each mans hayersack contained loaf cf
fresh bread, a ro! Of buttor, paper Of
sugar, n quantity Of meat, tin plate, knife.
fork, and spoon. The knapsacks con-
tanned each wooden blanket, q rubber
| blanket, an oyercoat, and some few Of
the boys had two wooden blankets.
Your correspondent was one of the few.
Some Of the boys put on their blue rants
over the gray ones received from the
state. Our canteens were filed with
water. At little before o'clock, Sun
day morning, the regiment took up It's
limo Of march, in heavy marching order,
and just before we arrived at the valley
of Falls Church, Companies A, +, u,
and left the reg imeut, and mare u c,i
to the left. The remaining six compa
MES kept on to the village Of Falls
Church, leaving the Church on the lett
until they bad marched some two miles
beyond the village. At this point wo
halted, and Cept. Dill and Lie"t. Con
verse, with so priyates and non commits
| stoned officers, were marched to the front
and relieved the pickets on their different
posts. Our little party Of nino privatcs
and a corporal were marched about thee
eghths of mile from the main body,
and three Of the party were posted ct
different stations rs follows: No. 3, on
the main road leading from Falls Church
to Fairfax Court House, on point
known rs Binn's Hill; No. 2, off to tho
right of No. 3; and No. l, at an unoc,
cupied house-tho remaining six priyatcs
and the corporal forming . reserve.
These pickcts were relieved every two
hours by three more, drawn from the
reserve.
Everything went on quietly until mid
/ piohF -b0,, +ba ,,;olynt %, al
house fired on two fncn who were con-
ing up q lane directly toward A:m; tLey
ran on a line parallel to our liue Of pick
ets, and were joined by three moro when
they approached picket No. 2, who also
fired. The little reserve Of six men,
having orders to fire a single gun in case
two guns were fred from tho Hill, gave
the alarm, and the regiment was quietly,
though quickly, under arms, ready to
give the rebels Il warm reception.
The cause Of the alarm having been
asccrtajned, and no more Of the enemy
having shown themselves, tie men aeain
threw themselves on the Ground for
sleen
CAMP on ARLINGTON, Dec. 10, 'Gl.
Tho regiment was relieved Yesterday
ut noon by the Wis. 9TH, and after a
weary march, packing their knapsacks
on their backs, arrived at the old camp
JlSt before dark. AS the different com
panles marched into camp they chceFoi
vociierously.
No accicent or casualty occurred du-
| rinor the IS hours we Wero on duty, Tho
oi,.'l . 49,, a, 60,
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A schoolmaster requesting a little boy
who hae been whispering, to step into the
next room, is Willingly spoken Of as start
in oaa whaling excursion.
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Take Notice /!

a LII persons are hereby cautioned against
"A buying note ion $40. bearing date Oct
2lst, 1861, given by me TO George Braley. as
the same will not be paid.
GEORGE DRESSER.
River Falls Nov. 10. 1861. n22vtf
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Kennels. Flowers. Ruches,

Ribbons ETC. Having had lcng experience
in the business she hopes TO be able to give
satisfaction. and respectfully solcis such
share of patronage as she may merit. Winter
Bonnets made over and retrimmed.
In order to close out my winter stock. | will
sell very low. n34vl
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2b- 81. Price.

Dealer in all kinds of Furniture. Chairs, Bed
steads, Tables. etc. of different styles kept
constantly on hand. Furniture of any des-
cription furnished to order. All work war
ranted. Terms reasonable. Shop on BrDad
Street, Prescott, Wis 3IvI
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Council Proceedings.
Council HALL, Dec. 80, 1861.

COUNCIL HALL, Dec. 80, 1861.
Mavor in the chair. Present, Aid.
Griffin, Schaser, Cheney, RAIDER, Bar
nard and Haviland. Minutes of last
meeting read and approved.
Tho following bills were presented and
allowed :
J. C. Button for costs in n suit
for replevying hogs, 8 l 81
L. A. Taylor for pub. sidewalk
ordinance. 2 90
Geo. Schascr for serving as In
spector of election, 2 so
O. Gibbs, Jr do do 2 90
G.. z. Barnard for one years SER
vices as fire warden, 5 90
S. Dudley for lumber furnished
city, 20 so
J. NJ Whipdie for attendance on
paupcr, II SO
Total amount, $40 ii
Bill of D j. Shrader for removing the
ferry boat North Star, laid ON the table,
$25.
AID Barnard offered n resolution de-
caring the office of constable, in the 81
ward of Prescott. vacant, and that Geo.
Houghton be hereby appointed to fill said
vacancy.
Z. Haviland moved to amend by sub
stituting the name of |. |. Foster. The
amendment was lost, when the original
resolution passed.
s. Dudley presented to the Council
the certificate of the City Surveyor, to
the effect that said Dudley had removed
earth from the hill in Ash Street, nearly
to the amount of his contract.
On motion of ALI. Barnard. the Treas
urer, upon the order of the Mayor aud
Clerk, was instructed to pay to 5. Dudley
SIl9.59 in tax certificates in his hands,
on Bailey & Davis's addition, and that
Aid. Schaser be appointeda committee to
ascertain and report to the Council when
in his opinion, said Dudley completed his
contract on said Ash Street.
During the consideration of miscella-
neous business the matter of the finances
of the city came up, when on examination
of the city order book, ETC., it was found
that since the levy Of $1,000 lat summer,
to pay off the Indebtedness of the city,
the income of the city. from license and
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NEW ADyERTEsa1NEsN sS.
NJ i Ii u e r VI!
MRS. EINBV Z.

yE7Is to call the attention Of the Ladies
w OF Hastings ard vicinity to the fact
that she has opened Millinery next door to
prinoles Hardware Store, Second ST., where
she will keep constantly on hand choice
-nloot;oD ,f
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Gg- We understand that lie Alge.
bra scholars in the Graded School in this
city, use county order as tho syrabei Of
m ''unknowa quantity
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Ee DIR. Beardsley and Lutte Taylor
save for Madison tomorrow.
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TAKE NOTICE /!

4 LWAYS ready to fill the wants Of my
- customers at short notice and on the
most reasonable terms. Leave orders at NY
shop for Wagons, Buggies, Cutters. Sulkeys,
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Bob Sleighs or Sleds,

And in fact anything in my line Of business.
and they VIII receive prompt attention. Also,
Saving and Planning done to order Feleys
saved or bent and dressed. Slaves or light
poles bent TO order. Spokes, of al sizes, fur
nishcd.
FEED GRINDING
Done at all hours Wheat screenings, oats,
barley, corn. or corn in the ear ground in good
order A Blacksmith Shop in connection; al
so, paint shop. Doors always open for a
trade. Call and see at my old stand.
THOS. E. TUBBS.
River Falls. Wis. Dec 1861. nl9-34
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BEEF STEAK.

Prescott, Dec. o3l, 1861.
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TIE 'i'G Of Js,rEE17 'cr tho murlsr Of
MAI:Iuws, ia At icag reachei It's Close,
resulting ycstDday in tho c,n,ic ion Of IN,
p'ioorcr who nas before besn triej fvr the mug.
der e Nj WALTON. ON much tho sams tc,ti-
moty, and escaped conviction. Since his ac-
qUittsl he has been Incl crest enough, however,
TO 0tio'5 &C. a detective put upoo bis trac 1,
as well as 90 5ih''5 h.t he shot Nr. WALroH.
AS the same man most uoquesiioulbiy kill ID
NATHAN, az we'll this ,3rfosson Sc del his
fa'o with tho jury.
The case j. oKc q TIA. most curious on record
and the rial has 'Jvra,ed silEllar chapter in
domestic history, ami at she same tire given an
insight, barely lees interesting into the modqs
ope,ordi q our detective systcm q polics. 1t
has been due to tho Efforts Of member Of tho
detective fcrcc that JfrfERps ha' been CON.
mitled under this se,orr indictment, and tho
arb no employed TO gain his confidence and
get his secret are more oreditable 20 his POI
severance than 70 lis .hiractc1 a. man.
ira WI, is Y, ung man Of ga'her pleasing
address, and ha, nothing about him to indicate
that reckless villain which two such dlihora,,
and cold. hlooiet nuflcr7 q, tLc-o of WhLToS
a = MNTl IlKw5 would prove him - 10
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THE NEW YORK SUN.
WEDNESDAY MORNING. DEC. IS, 1861.


This morning q copy o. TIE SuS, a. IL 6ads
its way to its readers, will enter may homes
where marry hearts are gathered in the enjoy
mont OF the fcs.al sea'on TO which this Christ
mas day is introducing US. To GO and all OF
them We wish, most heartily aud truly, A
Merry Christmas" With oceans Of good choor
and rivers Of enjoyment and to those Other
hearts, 10 whom fhe weary days arc bfingi ng
nothing but pain whose freeides doth has
dssolated; whose homes pover'y has visited, oil
will whom hope has in any way given place to
disappointmont--we yet bear the Same Cheerful
eresting-" A Merry Christmas :" II not ID
view Of the present, at least le' us ohsr them
this wish, in the hope Of tina, fla IRE to ~hich
the prOmiies Of Him, whose day we celebrate
so surely point us.
Eighteen hundred and siN'y.one yoa-s have
passed since tho day when those shepherds,
keeping their Accks by night upon the hIllsidos
Of Galilee, first heard the announcement tf the
birth OF a Saviour who WIS to bring Peace on
earth and gcod will TO mem Though the
promise seems 50 long o tatrS in its iulflment,
and tho years 90 heavier with their burden o.
crime and sorrow, let us MT grow wca'y With
our waiting, believing that the hcttor day adj
vances surely, whether wo note it or not for
though
"The mills Of e. grind slowly,
They gtind exceeding small,
And though patiently Tie waitoth,
Exactly gfiuds lie all.
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j. houotab'e exception 10 the TrMEs and
9TH, ~ Ssh journals the London News and
London STAR, have received Gen. Scorr's lot
ter On the Trent affair, in the spiri, which
prompted il, snd recognize with him the oppor-
tunity Il offors 70 "ostablish the rights Of nsu.
trsls-on just, humane, and philosoplic
basis As General SoorT seserte, through all
CO. history VIC have rsais'ed the extravagsnt
claims Of Rnglsnd as 10 tho rights Of bellger
ents on the bigh seas trtil failing 10 secure
from her the oorce'sions We justly asked, wa
have claimed 20 share with her Ia the nights
sho has &c log uaintainoi With her powerful
navy.
How Goes he meet our demsnd LIST fhs
hustle e hs' wsriEe preparation. the gathering
Of hor armies. ltd to mastering o. hn fee r.
M swcr We nsy have violated the letter OF
the maritime Law, which hor pc @trirl example
has e.tNbi ,hed, in tho nomcWhu irregular
seizure Of SIIDELL and HAsuS, but the cfTenoo
lie not ope demanding the ha-sh roquital Of vsr.
Let Irglai meet Us IL generous spirit aud
settle tho point Of ho5or between us, IA two
honorable and high-'piri'ed Christian nations
shotl Ia 5Ltto such a r1i,'es. Then, IL tho de-.
sife', wo can Outsider tho question Of Law IT,
volytd n the seizure Of the IT, M and, II
rcces aIy, establish 1t on souic lew and equit-
all9 al, fct all future timo, re ncmbefing that
the pas, is zoo fol- Of violent preooio1', over
hcA.tg claims and tLc assertion Of rights,
which ~ laws ought ~ recogrizs ami 20 civil
iz.d nolio- lie ,to