Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1862-06-25
Written for the JOURNAL.
FIOTSAM AND JETS AM
NOTES" OF SMALL DENOMINATIONS.

| "NoTEs" OF SMALL DENOMINATIONS.
In these hot summer days, when the mere
sight of the river running down past the city is
suggestive of fatigue, and induces profuse cuta-
neous emulation, Il like big words,) the writ
| ing of long letters is snare and delusion, for
as distinguished Hebrew author once observ-
ed 'much study is Il WEAKNESS of the flesh and
of makins many letters there is no end"
| Surely then if writing. so also is reading
WEAKNESS; short therefore shall be my commu-
nication.
A decree has gone out throughoutth length
and breadth of this fair land, summoning the
| young men to the war-path sapient editors
prick up their ears and mutter their war-cry
of "foreign intervention" and having found a
mares nest thereat they rejoice exc eedingly.
| And even as the feathered bipeds the farm
yard having accomplished an oviparous partur-
ition, proclaim the same TO their companions;
even so these editors cackle no little over the
added egg of their own conceit.
| And the cold man of the woods" sits in the
| White Ho use and keeps his own counsel re-
porters and politicians pry and question in vain;
he minds his own business and expects others
to DO the same, and the good work in the South
| goes bravely on.
Under the supposition that A. Lincoln OF
| Washington. ID. c., ia kes your paper, would
like to give him a few suggestions on recruit
ing; he can communicate them to George Me-
nj T
leave the reward to them; any little thing will
do, where the pay is good and the work light.
My plan is this: let bill be passed compel
ling all those who drink mean whskey, all
whose only ostensible means of getting living
is loafing. all those who, without just cause,
dead head on Steamb oats and Railroads. and
last, all those who don't pay the printers, to
serve in the Amy gunbOats &C., till they see
the error of their ways. so shall the rebellion
be quoted and the land have rest many years.
wonder if the following passage from Thi-
erry's Conquete de rAngleterre, does not APP
ply az well to the Southern Chivalrv as to the
old Norman Noblesse, to whom he alludes:--
ain those moments of life, when reflection
or avarice speak lower than reason /: in times
of domestic trouble. of sickness and when in
fear of death, the saobies repented the possession
Of their sldrcs, as thing scarcely agreeable to
God who created all men in his image
Surely, if the F. Fs ever think at all about
suck matters, their present reverses must in
duce some such train ofrefectons as the above.
The experience OF the last few months must
have convinced Them that the pathway OF
transgressors is hard" Now, if ever they can be
brought to do so-must they "repent the poss-
ession of their slaves"
1t seems diff cult to realize. that whilst here
in the Northwest men are going about their us
ual avocations, quietly and uncOncernedly and
whilst business is progressing as III ordinary
times, vet within a few hu ndred miles of us a
fierce unnatural war is raging, on the issue OF
which the very existence of the nation depends.
Another week will bring Us to the anniver-
sary of the commencement of that existence.
OF the whole eighty six years the Republic of
the United States of America has been estab-
lished, probably no one year has been BURDEN
cd with more important events than the last.
In that space of time the Government has
shewn its ability to crush rebellion, more
formidable in extent and aiming at the vitality
of the nation more than any other movement
of the kind on record
For surely with the success of the Secession
movement the United States had ceased TO ex-
ist
The curse of Slavery has been removed from
the seat of Government, and forever banished
from the Territories while the ratification of
the "Slave trade Treaty" is an earnest that tie
good work thus begun is not to be allowed to
rest there, but is to spread over the length and
breadth OF our land. So mote it be.
| Hard times, depression of business and
the consequent scarcity of money, have render
ed the celebration of the Fourth Of July by
public manifestation. inexpedient.
BIT whilst laying out plans for the enjoy
ment ola good time" in a quiet way let us
not be unmindful of the Grave boys who arc
hgting TO maintain inviolate that glorious
Union whose birth we are celebrating, and
whilst administering to our own pleasures, let
us think of their necessities. 80
*Flotsam and Jetsam, two old law terms,
applied. the former TO anything picked up
floating at sea, the latter to anything thrown
on shore by the waves. ira E.
- Some idea of the amount of supplies nee
essary for the maintenance of our army may
be gained by inspecting the big stock of goods
which N. s. DUNBAR has brought along for the
supply of Prescott and vicinity. His store
| contains neatly all the necessaries and q good