Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1862-04-02
THE COUNTY SEAT!
PROGRESS OF THE WAR
4 BIT OF HIST TOR Y!
RIVER FALLS, March 80, 1862.

I terribly III Tins town, ana has Drought our
good people into convention twice during the
past week.
In town caucus on the 26th, it sprouted out
in a motion to cry off the town business TO the
lowest bidder. The glory attach ed TO town
office s still at a premium i'll River Falls, yet
the motion did not prevail. This fact was
duly noted by the Secretary on the back of a
county order, where the minutes of the meet
ing were said to be kept.
Last Saturday evening two distinguished
limbs of the law and Treasurer AMEs and J.
L. DALE addressed the citizens on the subject
of County Seat. This vexed question has
brought upon our people chronic excitement.
The County Seaters and anti County Seaters
are raging terribly. The muddy Co. Seat is
is mathematical and lauded as never before
was an outrageous locality.
We are wearied with the din of arms, the
calling of warriors to battle, and the hoarse
cries of partisans ring fearfullv in ears In
the midst of intense excitement, we send you
few imperfect notes of the progress of the
strife. The historian in post electoral security
4
/; record.
! The Woods forces are fianked on the right
by the Mudsill Brigade. These are armed
with Corr d MAxsoN's lease of the Jail lot, a
fearful weapon, which does great execution in
the ranks of their opponents.
The main body of Co. Seaters is entrenchcd
along Superintendent AKERs' ditch in the Co.
Seat. and is a formidable body of men. The
limited space allowed must excuse seeming
neglect of many virtuous, valorous and intrep-
id heroes.
The light centre is held by the Torgerson-
Jansen Regiment. They are descendants of
the Viking DID," and are marshalled by the
brave Capt. IsAcCsoS HYERDAL ERAsMUssEN
They are armed with DR.. BEARDsLEY 5 pledge
to the voters OF Pierce County. Capt. ERAs-
MUssES had taken quarters in the log house
formerly occupied by the County officials
He has strongly fortified this position by bal
ancing stick of County building timber over
the ridge of the house, and covering each pro-
| iecting end with tile stone quarricd for the
| Court House. He has used three hundred and
fifty perch thus.
The Real Estate Regiment is on the left
centre. This formidable body is armed with
| The Resolutions of the Town Board of the
| Town of Perry, and Plans for the New
! School House, and Bonds for the Faithful
| Performance of Promises. They are COM
manded by Treasurer AMEs. who rides upon
| a short tailed war horse and is armed with a
Full Exposition of County Finances.
| The remaining regiments are held in reserve
IN the ditch. They are fine body of men,
! well armed with three million slaves from the
| factory of S. r. GUM & Co. They are to be
| employed, when the war closes, in admins
| tering discipline to the refractory scholars in
the New Perry School House. I'VE note
this fact, as the Journal takes a lively interest
in common schools
The left flank is composed of tried County
Seat veterans. They are equipped with large
levers to pry loads of enigrants from the mud
and with promises to expend no more money
for eighteen months and a statement of the
total loss of building material in case the Co
Seat is removed. Brigadier General JoHV
Asiaus, and is every inch the soldier. He is
armed with manifesto, setting forth the
, fraud and treachery of the anti-Co Seaters.
Truly. it is refreshing to see him rally his
forces for desperate attack. He shakes four
hundred yards of the manifesto to the breeze
and thickly enclosed by the veterans, he spurs
41sinus to the charge.
The anti County Seaters are, we fear, too
| much dispersed to make a successful attack.
We have seen many regiments of which your
city may be Justly proud. The Economical
Division, led by Major Gen. A. H. YoUNG,
marched into this village few days ago, and
bivouacked in the rear of the Drug Store,
which place was formerly the playground of
the pupils ofthe Independent High School.
Alas how war, that desolating tyrant,
devastates the home of Innocence, and lays
waste even scholastic haunts |
Gen. YoUNG and his forces are armed with
Exhibits of Taxation, and each soldier carries
a pocket volume of Sympathetic Philosophy
They have for side arms, their sacred pledges
to again remove the Co. Se9t to any place the
people wish it. On their Banner is copy of
JOHN l.. DALE's Lumber Contract with the
County.
Col. S. COLLINS also passed through our
village, and his regiment is very fine one.
It Us armed with ten thousand large stumps
drawn from three yards of the road leading
from Irlmbelle to the Co. Seat. He is noun
ted upon an OK, somewhat aged, which has all
around bene-work armor-a sort of natural
cteoG'sr de trtse. Inscribed upon his Banner
is beefsteak.
Brig. Gen. j. S. WHITE is intrencbed nm
on Maiden Rock This General intends to
arrest young ladies and gentlemen flom ro-
mantle leap into the Lake, by serving an in
juno ton upon them. His corps is armed with
four million cubic feet of mud, found in ;
short distance upon the road leading frou
Trimbelle TO the County Seat.
Gen. J. c. BrTToS is, as learn. encamp-
ed on n. B. BATES farm Ee exhibits good