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Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-10-15
rI. posl,inn Of Gen. Mcclellan.

rha d;ficulties attending the equivOeal
,o.itiou of the Democratic candidate Tor tne
Presidency have recently been set forth IN
w;ttv letters written by DANIEL 5. Dick
ISsoS.
In reply to an invitation to speak at Pitts
burg. the following answer was read at an
immense meeting, and received with great ap'
plause; zoe.
BINGHANTOS, Sept. "a, 1864.
.Iott w RiddeV. Esq, Chairman Of COn'n''ttee ;
Nv DE.R SIR-Our Circuit Court sits here
tbe oetb and will doubtless continue a
ok and being engaged in legal practice, l
mot leave. But for this, your very kind
citation for the 29th, and my desire to ven
,ilste the Chicago eapitulation before the
,'sonIe of Pittsburg would be quite likely to
.aeure nv attendance.
Relieving General Mcclellan entitled to
fair treatment, l am quite inclined to eensure
those who are proposing TO distort his comeIy
,,ropOrtions by placing one foot on the SIDING
5sIinnery-surrender structure of Chicago, and
~ other on a vigorous prosecution OF pa
,r;otie war on conservative principlesT 1t
rsouires too much tension of muscle, and is
entirely uniustified at the present price OF
Tssdy.made clothing. The Colossus of Rhodes,
though made of brass nearly equal to that of
Chicago, fell in attempting to stand astride
much narrower gulf than separates these
POINTS. and as the General is well read IN his
tory as well as classic fable, he will have no
apology for attempting an exploit CT such IN
usual daring. Hoping for the success OF the
Union cause, and believing that our good
land is 10 be rescued from the grasp OF the
5sspoiler, am sincerely yours,
d. S. DICKINSON.
Excusing himself from attending and ad-
dressing the great Union meeting lately held
in New York, on similar grounds, he said:
am getting a little jealous of Grant,
Sberman and Sheridan and others, for they
- speaking so loud, just now, and their ar
-uments are so convincing, that ordinary
sneakers stand poor chance, either to do
nod or gain distinction. They seem deter
mined 10 stump the rebellion and its sympa-
Liners at home and abroad, if not the states.
General Mcclellan is said TO be a most
,omeIy and expert equestrian, but if he en-
isavOrs at the same time TO ride the Buce
p5slus of War and the pale and CHASTITY stalk
:rr-horse of Peace, travelling in opposite d.
rectons, it will expand his skill as widely as
(. viii his understanding. Believing that it is
lie determination of the loyal people of the
Union TO put down the rebellion and restore
The government by force of arms, and that
such determination will be carried out sue
csssfully, am sincerely yours,
d. S. DICKINSON.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-10-15

Pay OF POsTMAsTERs.-An order issued by
the Post Office Department, on the 18th OF
September, says:
"By the provisions of an act approved
July l, 1864, the mode of paying postmasters
has been changed from commissions to liked
salaries
"The compensation of the postmaster at
New York is fixed at $4,000 year all other
Offices to be divided into five classes; the
first class to receive not more than 3, 900,
nor less than s., 900; the second class to re-
ceive less than $4,000, and not less than
s., 900; the third class to receive less than
81, 900, and not less than $1,000; the fourth
class to receive less than 81 900, and not less
than 800; the fifth class to receive less
than $780,"
The following are the offices of the first
three classes in Wisconsin, with the salaries
attached:
FIRST ClaSs-Janesville, $1,000; Madison,
IS. 500; Milwaukee, $4,000.
Second Czass-Fond du Lac, $2,S00; La
Crosse, $4,000; Oshkosh, $4,000; Racine,
| s., 800; Beloit, $4,000.
Third Cldss-Appleton, 81 800; Baraboo,
81 200; Beaver Dam, 81 400; Berlin, 81 400 ;
| Columbus. 81 900; Delavan, $1,000; Green
Bay. $1,000; Kenosha, $1,000; Manitowoc,
| 81, 100; Mineral Point, $1,000; Monroe,
81 800; Platteville, 81, 100; Portage City,
| 1880; Prairie du Chen, 81, 100; Ripon,
1900; Sheboygan, 81 400; Sparta, sl,z0O
| WATERFOWL, 81 900; Waukeshss y, 800; "au-
| pun, 81, 500; Whitewater, $1,000.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-10-15

UNNECESSARY CHANs.-An Egyptian, who
acknowledged Fire for his god, one day do
ing his devotions kissed his god, after the
manner of worshipers, and burnt his lips. 1t
was not in the power of that false and imagi-
nary deity to cure the real hurt done to his
devoutest worshiper. Just such fool is he
that kisses danger, though with design of
virtue, and hugs an opportunity of sin, for an
advantage of piety. He burns himself in the
neighborhood of the flames, and twenty to
one but he may perish in its embraces; and
he that looks out danger, that he may over
come it, does as did the Persian who wor-
SHIPPED the sun, looked upon him when he
prayed him TO cure his weak eyes. The sun
may as well cure bad eye, or great bur-
den knit a broken arm, as danger can dc
him advantage that seeks such combat,
which NAV ruin him and after which he may
have this reward, that it may be said OF him,
he had the good fortune not to perish in his
folly 1t is easier to prevent mischief than
to cure it, and beside the wound, it is far
more full of difficulty to cure broken leg,
which a little care and observation would
have preserved whole. To recover from a
sin is none of the easiest labors that concern
the sons of men; and therefore it concerns
them rather not to enter into such narrow
strait, from which they can never draw back
their head, without leaving their hair and
skin and ears behind.-Jreny Taylor.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-10-15

Clasp closer arms, press closer lipa,
In last and vain caressiDg
For never more that pallid cheek
Will crimson meath your pressing.
For these vain words and vainer tears
She waited yester even,
She waits you now-but in the tar
Resplendent halls of Heaven.
With patient eyes fixed on the doar
She waited, hoping ever,
Till Deaths dark wall rose cold between
Her gaze and you forever.
She heard your footsteps in the breeze,
And in the wild bees humming:
The last breath that she shaped to words
Said softly, {" Is be coming ?"
Now silenced lies the gentlest heart
That ever sod did cover;
Safe-never to be wrung again
BY you, o tickle lover
Your wrongs to her knew never end
Till earth's last bonds were r.Yen;
Your memory rose cold between
Her parting soul and heaven.
Now vain your false and tsrdy grief,
Vain your remor full weeping;
For she, whom only you de ceived,
Lies hushed in dreamless sleeping.
Go not beside that peaceful form,
Should lying words be spoken
Go, pray TO God, Be merciful
AS she whose heart I've broken"
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-10-15

THE intelligent voter finds something sug-
gestive in the fact that the electoral ticket
for Mr.. Lincoln is headed by Edward Everett
in Massachusetts,, Daniel S. Dickinson in New
York, Thomas Cunningham in Pennsylvania,
and David Tod in 0hiO-all eminent names,
and all of them men who opposed Mr.. Lincoln
in 1860. These are distinguished representa-
tives, simply, OF great host of citizens
whom patriotism has compelled to take the
side of Mr.. Lincoln, against an opposition
which carried its party passion to the extent
of disloyalty and treason.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-10-15

COwARDLY.-The New York Daily Nelrs in.
dulges in the following fling at those Demo
Gratis who, in the changed condition of affairs
are 50 ready to change their base from the
the platform adopted at Chicago:
"A political organization that dare not face
is own music, that is afraid of its own posi-
ton, and that deals in subterfuge and evasion
toward those upon whom it counts for sup
port is unworthy and incapable Of victory
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-10-15
The army Yots-ImpOrtant Official Regulations

The following general order has just been
.ssued from the Adjutant Generals Office at
Washington:
In order to secure a fair distribution of tick
Is among soldiers in the field, who by the
avs of their respective States are entitled to
Tote IT the approaching elections the follow
ing rules and regulations are prescribed:
lst. One agent for each army corps may
5e designated by the State Executive or by
tie State Committee of each political party,
VITO, on presenting his credentials from the
State Executive or the chairman of said COM
nittee, shall receive from this Department a
pass to the headquarters of the corps for
vhich he is designated, with tickets of prOx-
les, when required by State laws, which may
be placed by him in the hands of such per-
on or persons as he may select, for distribu-
ION among officers and soldiers.
a. Civilian inspectors of each political
party not to exceed one for each brigade, may
II ike manner be designated, VINO shall re-
esVe passes on application to the AdJutant
General, to be present on the day OF election,
% see that elections are fairly conducted.
81. No political speeches, harangues or
eanvassiug among the troops will be permit
ted
ith. Commanding officers are enjOined to
lake such measures as may be essential TO Sc
Gre freedom and fairness in the elections,
AID that they be conducted with due regard
. order and military discipline.
5ih ANY officer or private who may wan
only destroy tickets or prevent their proper
lstribution among the legal voters, inter
iere with the freedom of the election, oil
make any false or fraudulent returns, will be
deemed guilty of an offense against good or
der and military discipline, and be punished
By summary dismissal or court martial.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-10-15

Although the Devil is said to be the most
powerful and formidable of created beings,
it is safer to fight him than any other living
thing.
The time that is gone we deem more
pleasant than the time that is with US. Even
to what diverts US in the present We give the
name Of pastims.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-10-15

The "Sons Of Liberty in Court.

The Trial of II. II. Dodd.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-10-15

SEsxEs," and nothing more, was the mot
% on one of the transparencies at Demo-
aatie meeting in Cincinnati, and that was in
ANY enough. The cheat who decoyed innO-
cent merchantmen with the English fag-the
'obber who pIundered the property and fired
tie ships of those he deceived-the craven
EhO never dared face an armed foe save
olce, when his Infamous craft was sunk out
q sight-the traitor who made piraticsl war
On the flag which nourished him, without
even the fimsy excuse of "the secession of
al State" is made an object of honor at a
Democratic gathering. The fitting finale
should have been cheers for JEFF. DAVIS
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-10-15
Mcclellan Privately to the British.

The secret conferences between our cop
perhead leaders and British gentlemen of the
blockade running and Republic-squelching
persuasion, which were held at our principal
watering places last summer, seem to have
been as full of holes as a skinner. Through
one of these private interviews at Saratoga,
the real politics of MCCLELLAN, as shaped in
New York and accepted in Richmond, have
leaked out. PROFESSIONALLY MCCLELLAN is in
favor of an Armistice-to take the North off
the Rebellion and let it get on its feet again !;
and in favor of convention of the States, in
which the North would be outvoted, the war
| smothered, and the South again made domi-
| nant. But to this English report of MCCLEL-
LANs politics, which we take from the Sara
| toga Springs correspondence of the London
| Post, dated August 2sth:
"The Mcclellan party is undoubtedly very
strong, and it is the only party which has, and
| has had for some time, a thorough organiza-
ton, and his friends think that there are few
men who can carry so much personal infu-
ence. There is a strong feeling in his favor
through the country. He is regarded as an
| injured man, and the people are anxious that
| Justice should be done him. He must poll a
| larger army vote than any other man, and
were he candidate, Government could not
| so successfully control the ballot box by the
bayOnet, as it has done in different parts of
the country at formerelections.
GAS for his principles, it is difficult to say
what they are. Avowedly, Mcclellan Is a
UnioniSt Openly, he processes to be willing
to give the South every necessary guarantee,
provided the Southern States consent to re-
turn into the Union privately he assures those
| friends who discourage the prosecution of the
war, that he desires peace, and that he oiH adj
vocate an a1nsiStice dnda ConUention of the States
| should he receive the nomination at Chicago.
| He urges, as a reason for not openly avoWing
these sentiments, that the people are not yet
| ready to indorse them, and considers it i'm
| polite TO take any step too decidedly in ad-
vance of the popular feeling. He feels as
| sured, however, that the triumph of the
| Democratic party must end in peace, for he
| says that if even it wished to carry on the
war there would be no army of any magnitude
left at the disposal of the Government by the
4th day of March next. What these opinions
| and professions are worth it is hard to say.
There are not few who distrust Mcclellan,
and who fail to place confidence in the as
surances of man who was one of the first in
the commencement of this revolution to SET
the example of the violation of personal lib
erty, as he did by the arrest of the members
of the Maryland Legislature; who has made
| all the reputation he has as a war man by the
prosecution of the war; and who is still draw
ing pay from the Republican Government as
an officer of the army now engaged in carry
ing on a war which he pretends to regard as
| ruinOua IN the eountrVo
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-10-15


SHAKESPEARE ALWAYS Misunderstanding
says rightly there is not one really vicious
passage in all Shakespeare. There are coarse
things, for the customs and language OF the
time were coarse Rnt there is nothing rot
ten at the root, nothing insidious in the sug-
gestion. Vice never walks abroad in the
mental twilight wearing the garb of virtue.
You hear the voices of Wrong and Right,
Truth and Error in his works, but there is no
confusion of tongues for the confounding of
the sense. He has no sOftness for sentiment
tai sinners; such as Goethe shows for his
" Faust" and lets down no drawbridge at the
last moment to help them over the dark gulf.
His lines are drawn as sharply as is the scrip
tural degree that the tree shall lie as it falls.
He has infinite pity for the suffering and
struggling and wounded by the way. The
most powerful and pathetic pleadings on be-
half of Christian charity that are to be found
anywhere out of the New Testament have
been spoken by Shakespeare. He takes to
his large, warm heart much that the world
usually casts out to perish in the cold. There
is nothing too poor or too mean to be ems
braced within the circle of his sympathies.-
He sees the germ of good in that which looks
all evil to the careless passers by, for his eyes
are large with love and have its precious
seeing" If there be only the least little re-
deeming touch in the most abandoned char
acter he is sure to point it out. After all, 1t
is the best hearts that are the truest mirrors
even of this world, for it is Gods world, bad
as we have managed to make it.-Lor'don
Quarterly Regtew.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-10-15

1t is as important in guarding the secrets Of
your bosom as in protecting your treasure, to
keep your chest locked.
Whilst ordering the arrangmentsin front Of
your house, don't forget that man is often
judged by his gait.
A quiet and witty man combines the quail.
ties of two kinds of champagne-still and
sparkling.
A young man married girl rather than be
shot by her brother-fancying that a mis-:
was better than a hit.
On most occasions the importance OF calm
ness is in exact proportion to its difficulty.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-10-15

THE CHICAGO PLATFORM AND CANDIDATE IN
NUTsHELL.-At the great Union meeting at
Faneuil Hall, Boston, on Wednesday last,
Senator SUMNER summed up Copperhead
principles as follows:
A vote for Copperhead principles will be,
first and foremost, a vote for slavery at time
when this crime has plunged the country into
the sorrows and waste of war.
1t will be vote for the rebellion at mo-
ment when the rebellion is about to fall.
1t will be a vote for disunion at moment
when the Union is about to. be restored.
But disunion, when once started, cannot
be stopped, so that vote for Mcclellan will
be vote to break this Union in pieces, and
to set each State spinning in space.
1t will be a vote for chronic war among
fellow citizens, which will be ever beginning
and never ending, until the fate of Mexico be
ours.
1t will be vote for the reputation of the
national debt, involving the destruction OF
property and the overthrow of business.
It will be vote for anarchy and chaos at
home.
1t will be a. vote for national degradation
abroad.
1t will be vote against civilization itself
1t will be vote for the kingdom of Satan
on earth.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-10-15

THE WHISKY TAX, THE WoRsT LINCOLN Our
RAGE.-Talk NV military interfearunce with
the freedum Nv eleckshuns? What is that
in comparison with the tax on whisky? With
out sOotable supply Nv whisky there is no
such thing as freedum NV eleckshuns. This tax
on whisky was an insidious plan to re-eleck
Old Abe, and grately feer its operashun will
be most disastrus tn our party. There is al
ready a most deplorable destatooshun Nv this
demikratic fluid in menny seckshuns Nv the
country. Wun Nv my nabors who used TO
drink NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. galluns week
has bin compelled to cut himself down tn
as many quarts, and saw him only yesterday
talkin tn niger as black as the ase of spaids
as if he took him for newman being. The
consequences on those who used tn drink
considerable are still more dipplorable, and
shoodn't be surprised if half on EN- shoOd
BEGUN blak rippublikins before November.
An how are the demikrstic candydaits tu
bring owt tine whole strength of wat'll be left
Nv the party, wen wisky is ten sents glass
"A State Rites Democrat.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-10-15

IMPROPER INTERFERENCE OF THE MILITARY
We understand that complaints of undue
military interference are no longer confined
to the Copperheads. The Union Committees
for the Presidential campaign, find their la
bOrs rendered superfuous by the achieve
ments of our military authorities. 1t is very
clear that if Secretary Stanton continues the
vigorous movements of the last few weeks
the elections may be regarded as a foregone
conclusion. The Document Committee at
Washington especially find that Sherman's
and Sheridan's short reports of their victories
throw into the background completely all the
documents they have been able to circulate
They make Union voters great deal faster
than all the speeches ever made in Congress.
It is pretty clear that Grant is actually chair
man of the only Union National Committee
of much importance in the pending canvas
Belmont will find him troublesome customer
TO deal with.
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Arrangements for Cooperating

Democrats Conspiring with Rebels.
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DISEASES OF 0vER-W oREED MEN.-Tlme was
when the very phrase, diseases OF over-worked
men, would have been considered foolish and
out of the question. Now it conveys truth
of national importance, which the nation
must consider. From being comparatively
idle world we have of late become an insane
world on the subject of labor. So long as
the muscles merely were employed, so long
little harm was done; we remained men; now
we aspire to be gods, and we pay the forfeit
of our ambition. From Over-work we now
get class of diseases the most prolonged,
the most fatal. The suns of our best men go
down at noon, and so accustomed are we to
the phenomenon that we cease to regard 1t as
either strange UT out of place. 1t is through
the mind, now, that the body is destroyed by
over-work; at all events, it is so mainly
The men of intense thought-men of letters,
men of business who think and speculate,
men of the state who are ambitious to rule,
these men are sacrifices. With them the
brain has not merely to act on its own mus
Giles, bidding them perform their necessary
duties, but the one brain must needs guide
hundred other brains, and all the muscles
thereto appended. An electric battery works
a single wire from the city to Brighton, and
does its work well, and goes on for some
months before it is dead or worn out Can
1t 90 the WOfk OF nuuuFcu WueS-
Oh, yes, it can, but it must have more
acid, must wear faster, and will ulti-
mately die sooner. We may protect the
plates, make the battery to an extent selfre-
generative, as the body is, but in the main
the waste is in excess of the supply, and the
wear is certain as the day. Men OF letters,
men of business wLo do their business through
other hands, and do great business, and men
immersed in politics, suffer much the same
kind of effects from over-wOrk. They induce
in themselves, usually, when they suffer from
this cause, one or other of the following NAL
aides: Cardiac melancholy, or broken
heart, dyspepsia, accompanied with great
loss of phosphorus from the body; diabetes,
consumption, paralysis, local and general |;
apoplexy, insanity, premature old age. They
also suffer more than other men from the Ell
fects of ordinary disorders They bear pain
indifferently, can tolerate no lowering meas
ures, are left long Frustrated by simple de-
pressing maladies, and acquire in some in
stances morbid sensibility which is reflect
ed in every direction; so that briskness OF
action becomes irritability; and quiet seelu-
sion moroseness. They dislike themselves
and feel that they must be disliked, and if
they attempt to be joyous they lapse into
shame at having dissembled, and fall again
into gloom.-Dr Richardson, in Social Re0'eao
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INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 30th.

Cross examination of Felix S. Stidyer, wit
ness for the Government, by J. w. Gordon,
counsel for the defeuce. Was engaged as a
government detective. Had served in the
army in the 18th Kentucky for sixteen months.
Had met DR.. Bowles in the lodges, where the
ritual and colloquies of the order were gone
through with. Witness then gave his name
J. ]. Grundy. All the members of the
American Knights were not admitted into
the Order of the Sons of Liberty. The lat
ter Order was in all its essentials exactly like
the Order of the American Knights, but they
admitted into the Order of the Sons of Lib
erty only such as were considered true to the
principles of the Order ond were deemed re-
liable and worthy of admission. The title of
the Order was changed from o. A. K. to O.
S. L., and some additions we're made to the
ritual of the Order, among which was the
motto Resistance to Tyrants is obedience
| to God" which was introduced as part OF
the colloquy or secret sign of recognition
between members; the two persons pro.
nouncing the alternate words This motto
was said by members, to have been intro
duced by Vallandigham. The New York
committee had revised the ritual. DIR. Bowles
gave the witness programme of the opera
lions of the Order. Illinois was TO furnish
| fifty thousand, who were TO concentrate at
st. Louis, and to cooperate with Missouri,
which was to furnish thirty thousand; and
these combined forces were to cooperate
with Price, who was to invade Missouri with
/ On 0nn rnan or what force JEFF Davis could
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The Northern Department.

Tie following order was issued by General
HOOKER, in assuming command of this De-
gartment:
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By orlrr Board Trustees. ...,.,
Gold Hill. May ., lsGI. my2s III
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By order OF the Board Of trustees; III tees
Gold Hill, n. T., July ., 1861. Jyllm