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Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-05-21
Another dispatch dated headquarters, 9TH

Another dispatch dated headquarters, 9Th
Army Corps, in the field. May 18th, says:
Nv dispatch, Yesterday afternoon, left the
army in the midst of terrible battle, as ter
rible. for the time it lasted, as any IN the re-
cent series of fights. Heretofore the contests
have been invariably musketry, but In TINS
battle the roll of artillery fire was incessant
and almost as deafening as at Gettysburg
The battle continued till night and dark
ness closed the sanguinary struggle. Our ar
NV added another to the list of battles and
victories.
In the morning change was made in the
disposition of our lines. Mean time our men
had greatly strengthened their earth works,
thrown 10 additional abattis, and every thing
evinced determination to make the day one
of decisive results. Very active skirmishing
continued all the fore part of the day, merged
at length into general engagement, which as
the hours wore on, waxed hotter and hotter,
and fiercer and sharper were the rattle of mus
kerry and louder the roar of artillery.
The most determined and persistent effort
which has been made since the commence
ment of the war, was made at the fight in
this locality, to turn our right. Charge after
charge was made by the enemy on our right.
Four columns of our men repulsed each charge.
At length the 9Th corps drove the enemy,
compelling him to fall back into his third line
of defences. The effect of this repulse was
apparent. The rebel dead at points lay pied
up in heaps.
In one of those gallant charges fell brave
Gen. Rice at the head of has column, as he
has been in every fight.
Busy in the midst of terrible conflict was
Gen. Warren He rode up and down his
lines, directing the movements, regardless OF
the storming shells and bullets. Another
horse was shot under him, the third in four
days.
We made general onset at o'clock. 1t
was the most magnificent and terrible one of
the war. Our batteries, through the cutting
down of some trees, were placed in very
advantageous position, as likewise were the
batteries of other corps. simultaneously
these cannon hurled their murderous missiles
into the ranks of the enemy, accompanied by
a general volley of musketry, and from this
hour till dark the combat deepened. Night
left us victors on every side.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-05-21
INSTRUMENTATION and British.

During the fiscal year ending June 80,
1868, the total revenue of the United States
Government from taxes was Sill, 1896, 766, As,
and the actual expenditure was STA, 709,-
995 So, so that, in the midst of great war,
nearly six-sevenths of the national expendi-
ture was raised by borrowing. This state of
things contrasts very unfavOrably with the
English financial system; and the fact can
not too often brought to the attention of Con-
gress. Even at the present day, when Great
Britain is at peace with all the world, her
revenue from taxes is more than three times
greater than ours Mr.. Gladstone, the Chan
cellor of the Exchequer, on the 18th instant,
informed the Commons that the British reve-
nue. for the past year was, go, 20S, 900 equal
to $3.50 900, 900 in gold, or to more than
$500, 000, 900 in our paper money. This is
for the support of the English peace estab-
lishment. 1t merely pays current expenses,
including the interest on the national debt,
and leaves but million or two to be added
to the sinking fund. In the early part of this
century, during the war with Napoleon, the
war taxes amounted to about half the ordin-
airy revenue; and in the event of another
great war the Parliment would add to the
taxes now imposed at least one-third more, if
necessary, so that the revenue of Great
Britain, from taxes, would amount to about
nine hundred millions of our paper money.
We are aware that England is very rich
country; but it is, at the same time, very
small. The whole British Islands, including
Ireland, contain an area of only one hundred
and twenty thousand square miles, or less
than New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio.
And of this small territory, only England is
really any Importance as it regards taxes
Ireland and Scotland are poor countries, and
the taxes derivable from them amount to less
than tenth of the English revenue. The
colonies and foreign possessions constitute a
burthen rather than a source of revenue so
that the great bulk of the British revenue
comes out of England, country not equal
in extent in territorial extent to New York
and Massachusetts, and containing less than
twenty millions of inhabitants. The United
States contains, within the present military
lines, not less than twenty-five millions of In
habitants, and an area of fertile land, not
counting the wild territories, some twenty
five or thirty times as great as England. We
belive that our loyal population produce as
much and consume as much as the population
of England, and that they can pay as much
revenue into the treasury. All that is nec-
essary is wise and thorough system of in
ternal revenue laws.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-05-21
MazzIni,s Toast TO Poland.

On Sunday, April II, General Garibaldi,
accompanied by his secretary, Signor Guer-
zoni, took lunch at the house of the distin-
guished Russian exile, NJ. Alexandra, Herzen,
at Teddington' near London. A select party
of English and foreign friends were assem-
bled to met him, amongst whom were Signor
Safii, Prince Dolgoroukou, SignOr Mordini, a
member of the Italian Parliament, &c.
Joseph Mazzini was also present.
A luncheon had been prepared, at the con
clusion of which Mazzini rose and proposed
the health of General Garibaldi in the fol-
lowing words -
NY toast will include all that is dear to US
all, those things for which we have fought
and striven. / drink to the liberty of the
peoples to the association of the peoples
to the man who is the living incarnation of
these great ideas, Joseph Garibaldi; 70 that
poor, sacred, heroic Poland, whose sons have
been silently fighting and dying for liberty
for more than year; to that young Russia,
whose device is land and iberty-new Rus
STA, that will at no distant day hold out a sis
ter's hand to Poland, acknowledge her equal
ity and independence, and cancel the remem-
brance of the Russia Of the Gear to those
Russians who, with our friend Herzen at their
head, have most wrought and labored to-
wards the creation of this new Russia; to
that religion of duty which will give US
strength to strive and to devote ourselves,
even unto death, for the realization of these
ideas
The toast having been drank with enthusi-
asm, Garibaldi rose and said:
l am about make declaration which |
ought to have made long ago. There is a
man among US here who has rendered the
greatest services to our country and to the
cause of liberty. When l was young man
having naught but aspirations towards the
good, sought for one able to act as the guide
and counsellor of my young years / sought
such a man even as he who is athirst seeketh
the spring. / found this man. He alone
fed the sacred flame. He has ever remained
my friend-ever as full of love for his coun-
try and of devotion to the cause of liberty.
This man is Joseph Mazzini. To my friend
and teacher
The General afterwards rose a second time
and said:
"Mazzini has uttered some words with re-
gard to unhappy Poland to which I adhere
with all my heart. Now let us drink to that
young Russia that suffers, struggles and shall
triumph like ourselves, and is destined to
play noble and important part in Europe.
After this, raising his glass for the last time
Garibaldi drank
To that free England, whose generous hos
pitality and noble fruitful sympathy have won
from all oppressed people so large debt of
gratitude and affection.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-05-21
From the n. Y. Independent.
WHAT THE BIRDS SAID
Br JOHN o. wHrTTIER.

The birds, against the April wind,
Flew northvard, singing as they new
They sang: 80 The land We leave behind
Has swords for corn-blades, blood Tor dew
" wild-birds, flying from the South,
What saw and heard ye, gazing ooNn
owe saw the mortar's upturned mouth,
The sieksned camp, the blazing town.
9 Beneath the bivouae's starry lamps,
we saw your mareh-worn children die;
In shrouds of moss, in cypress swamps,
We saw your dead uncofhned lie.
aWe heard the starving prisoners signs;
And saw, from line and trench, your sons
Follow our fight with homesick eyes,
Beyond the batterys smoking guns"
"And heard and saw ye only wrong
And pain,D cried, go wiDg-worn hocks r
GIVE heard,'' they sang, ssthe Freedman's song,
The crash of slavery's broken locks
&c We saw from new, uprising states
The Treason making mischief spurned,
As crOvding Freedoms ample gates,
The long-estrangsd and lost returned.
ao'er dusky faces, scanned and old,
And hands horn-hard with unpaid toll,
With hope in every rustling fold,
We saw our star-dropt tag uncoil.
And, struggling up through sounds accursed,
grateful murmur clomb the air,
AWhisper scarcely heard at first,
1t filled the listening Heavens with prayer.
" And sweet and far as from star,
Replied a voice which shall not cease,
Till. drowning all the noise but War,
IL sings the blessed songs Of peace
So to me in a doubtful day
OF chill and slowly greening spring,
Low STOPPING from the cloudy gray,
The wild birds sang or seemed to sing.
They vanished in the misty air,
The song went with them in their fight;
But 10 they left the sunset fair,
And in the evening there was light.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-05-21

The faint echoes of the town in fashion
mates and sensation stories make a weird,
intoxicating music, in listening to which, in
weary bewilderment, she has no ear for a
brisk bird song. No wild flowers from the
wood are domesticated at her door. l catch
no sight of sun-bonnets, or of garden towels.
Out of door life is summed; and hence, come
sallowness, unhealthiness, narrowness-not
even the well-developed physique OF the town
girl. who has the pavements for her marches
and countermarches, hear, indeed, in sum
mer weather, the tinkle of a piano; but 1t
rights away the wrens; and of the two, l
must say that prefer the wrens.
All this units for thorough sympathy with
the every day life of the father; and when
common sympathies do not unite family, It's
career breaks at the death of the patron. II
there be nothing in the country life which
can call cut and sustain the pride OF all mem
bers of the country family, it can never offer
a tempting career to the young. =.
From these causes it is, that Dorothy Will
very likely be a weazen-faced old maid, hope
| full of ANYTHING but the tender longing oil
Oyerbury's 'sFaire Milke-Maide." Too in
structed to admire the sharp roughness OF her
wiry papa too liberalized, it may be, by her
reading, to bear mildly his peevish closeness;
not kindling into love of the beauties OF
nature, because none will sympathize with
that love; dreaming over books that carry
her to land of mirage, and make her still
more unfit for the everyday duties of life
not recognizing the heroism of successful
struggle with mediocrity and homely duties
yearning for what is not to be hers, she is the
ready victim of illnesses against which she
has neither the vigor nor the wish to struggle
$50, Dorothy is gone Squire" says the
country parson. "'Let US pray God for hi:
| blessing"
The darkened parlors are opened now the
farmers daughter is a bride, and death is the
| groom.
The gilt-back books are busted; the cob
webs swept away; the black dress suit re
brushed; the twinkle of the eye is tempo
rarily banished; the neighbors are gathered
the warning spoken; the procession moves
and the grave closes it all.
The Artemisias bloom on, and the purple
turfs of Hydrangea-poor DorOthy's flowers
II is little picture from the life OF certain
money-making farmers. who pinch--to save
There is jingling resonance of money at the
end, but it is not tempting it has come upon
a barren life, without glow or reach-a life
whose parlors have been always closed.-H
| MaryeFS Farm at EdgeaOood.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-05-21

NEW STYLE OF TURRETs FOR GUNBoATs.-A
Mr. JAMES B. EADs has invented new form
of turrets for gunboats. The popularity of
this invention is that the sheets of iron are
firmly fastened together by screws that are
screwed on from the outside, instead of by a
nut on the inside. The new turret, and the
immense eleven-inch Dahlgren guns which
are worked in it, are all moved by steam. By
the machinery the turret can be lifted or
lowered, the guns raised, showed out, drawn
in, and gagged, all by steam. The guns of
the ship are handled with greater ease than
could eighteen men handle one guns upon the
old plan. The platform on which the guns
are placed is lowered entirely below the wa
er to load; and this process, or to turn the
turret or elevate or depress the guns to any
range, is but the work of moment. BY this
invention, it is possible to so elevate or de-
press the turret that the guns can fire up to
the top of bluff, or horizontally, as desired.
This is a vital defect Of the Ericsson turret.
They can fire at point-blank range, but the
guns cannot be lifted or depressed sufficiently
to make them effective for Smelling or work
ing against battery placed upon rivers
bluff.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-05-21

MOVEMENTS OF PoPULATION.-There have
been some novel and curious movements of
population in this country during the last
three years, or since the war began. There
has been a large emigration of Southern I'm
ion people into the States of the North.
There has been a large-partially free, par
TALLY forced-rebel emigration to the Con-
federacy from those parts of the Southern
States brought within our lines. There has
been a very large civic emigration from the
Northern States to the recaptured cities OF
the South, as New Orleans, Vicksburg, Mem
phis, Nashville, and so forth. There has been
very considerable emigration of detected
rebels from the Western Border Slave States
to the gold-bearing Territories of the Rocky
Mountains There has been large emigra-
ton from the United States to Canada, con-
sisting of deserters from our army, timid peo-
pie, nervous people and bilious people, ac-
companied by not few wretched rebels and
there has been a counter current, larger than
usual, of Canadians to this country. These
currents of internal migration are, in their
character, unlike anything that has ever taken
place here before.
If Lieut.-Gen. GRANT destroys the army OF
LEE. and brushes the rebellion in a reasona-
BILE time, there will within the next few years
be far larger movements of population in this
country than any yet seen. In particular,
there will be an immense emigration from the
northern States southwark
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-05-21
A Radical Convention.

A call has been issued for a Convention at
Cleveland on the 3lst inst, for consultation
and concert of action in respect to the APP
preaching presidential election. The object
is to forestall the action of the Baltimore
Convention. Having failed to secure the
postponement of that Convention, the sign
ers of this call declare they will not be bound
by it and announce their adherence to the one
term policy. In other words, their object is
to defeat the reelection of Mr.. LINCOLN.
Though the call is signed by men from most
of the Northern States, the names are mostly
of persons unknown to fame. The only name
from Wisconsin is that of PETER ENGELMANN.
We never had the pleasure of PETERS ac-
ouaintance, and are not able to inform our
readers what part of the State is honored by
his residence.
The New York World, which seems to be
in the secret of the movement, and enthusi-
astically encourages it, calls it " the Fremont
Convention" 1t says it will undoubtedly
nominate Gen. FREMONT, and declares that
"neither he nor his supporters are of so fee
bic temper that they viii back down when
once they have taken the field" 1t also af-
firms that "they can neither be bought up
or caioled" Thus the leading organ of the
Copperheads, rubs the ears and shouts
"stiboy" to the Fremonters. 1t doubtless
hopes that some division of the Union men
the country may afford a chance for its favor
lite candidate, Little Mack. But we appre-
bend that the masses of the people will dis
appoint these copperhead hopes, and that
when they vote, it viii be found that they
have not thrown away, by dividing, their suf
frages.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-05-21
JOSH BILLINGS ON oRDASre. Josh Bill

JOSH BILLINGS ON ORDAINING." Bill
lings says:
We kommense life-we are sumbody's ba-
by-we have faxen hare-we go TO districk
skule-we slide down hill-we pla hockey
we have great differkulty with our nozes-We
larn how tn smoke, and find ourselfs men
grown all tn onst Thus far natur has piped,
and we have dansed, and their haint bin no
fiddler tn pa, but now Gums in the speshial
ordainment times. hav bin thru with awl
this miself, and stood on the threshold, yung
man, looking around reddy to be ordained.
felt as tho / wud give S75 at least if sum-
budy wud cum along and ordain me, and let
me pitch in. waited for six weeks, if | re-
koleckt right, and never got the fust smell
oy emmy ordaining. Then l konkluded to or
dain miself hit or miss. The fust thing tried
on waz 80 akers ov land in the western kim
try / ordered the venison and wild turkey
and possums tew leave, for waz going tn
farm it. ordained log house and much
rale Tense immegiately, and put in krop ov
wheat, and prokured swine and a yoke of
Stages. worked years, had the ager and
lite krops principally, and managed tn sink
the farm and Stages; l haint seen neither oy
them from that da, and don't think l want tn.
didn't seem to be speshiaily ordained for
farming in the western kentry, s
Since that time 1 hav tried every kind of
bizness that could hear ov, and haint bin
speshially ordained yet in mi knollege. The
fault all lays in the different kinds of bizness
haint the leaste doubt. The bizness that
was designed for me probably haint bin or
dained yet, but intend to keep boring, and
when do strike lie thare will be good time
generally in mi immegiate naberhood. hav
got any quantity ov friends (tha don't seem
to cum bi ordinashun) 1 got mine, and man
age to keep them by not asking them for en-
thing but advice yu kant ask ennything ov
man that he loves tn give more, and that
kosts him less, than advice. $50 sal
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-05-21

g-''What is the reason that men never
kiss each other, while the ladies waste worlds
of kisses on feminine faces" said the Captain
to Gussie, the other day. Gussie cogitated
minute and then answered: Because the
men have something better to kiss, and the
women haven't" The Captain saw 1T i'm
mediatelys 3
A Pennsylvania Editor thus exposes some
one:
Somebody brought one bottle of sour
water into our Office, with the request to no
tice it as lemon beer, If Esau was foolish
enough to sell his birthright for mess of
pottage, it does not prove that wen tell
four shilling lie for five eents.a
- A Mormon priest named Nicholas, made
a nerve and bone all healing salye, and thot
he would experiment little with it. He
first cut off his dogs tail and applied some of
the salve to the stump. A new tail grew out
immediately. He then applied some to the
piece of tail which he cut of, and new dog
grew out. He did not know which dog was
which, at least Nicholas said so.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-05-21

10" The Copperhead papers are anything
but jubilant over the good news from Vir-
ginia, and are largely devoting their energies
to arguments that it is impossible to subju-
gate the South, and that the capture of Rich
mond viii not, after all, be much of disaster
to the rebel cause.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-05-21

VERMONT AGRICULTURAL CoLLEGE.-The
Rutland Herald says all the scrip of the Yer
mont Agricultural College has been sold as
directed by the last Legislature, and the funds
invested in bonds of the State, the present
value of which is one hundred and thirty
thousand dollars. The amount of the fund is
Unexpectedly large.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-05-21

~ A family without prayer is like a
house without roof, exposed to all the inju-
ries of weather, and every storm that blows.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-05-21

ANOTHER ARCTIC EXPLORING EXPEDITION
The already famous explorer of the Arctic
region, Mr.. @. +. Hall, announces his inten-
ton of starting upon another expedition
about the middle of June next. He will sail
first for King Williams Sound on a whaler,
the Monticello, Captain Chapel, Of New Lon
don, and viii be accompanied by the Esqui-
maux who are Mr.. Halls companions here.
The party will make their first winter quar-
tiers at Repulse Bay, the extreme northwest
of Hudson's Bay. Early in the year 1865
they will make land journey by dogs and
sledges to Boothia and King Williams Sound
The firm of Williams & Haven, of New Lon
don, are the owners of the Monticello, the
ship placed at the disposal of Mr.. Hall and
his Esquimaux to perform the first part of
their journey in.
The mountain Democrat., 1864-11-26

WE'LL Prr 1t is \ great mistake, says
the New York journal of Commerce, to
suppose blood hound is a courageous
dog. The ncn who have plunged us in.
to this war, who have hallooed on the
people, are men that have wisely stayed
at home. And part Of the plan to Gov
er up their own want Of courage is TO keep
up the cry of war. The rebels in the
South who planned the dissolution of the
Union, who advocated it in Congress, and
in newspapers, and on the stump, are the
men who have taken the field, while the
Northern editors aud congressman and
Senators, who opposed compromise, who
let US drift into this war, nay who drag
ged us into it, are at home making con
tracts to supply army stores, and shouting
"traitor" at every man who ventures to
remind them Of the evil they have
brought upon the country, or suggest a
remedy for it.
The mountain Democrat., 1864-11-26

WRINKLES, LINES, CRow's-FEET, ETC. -
To remove these when presenting them
selves prematurely. or when the results
of severe illness, as well as to ward them
off at the time of life when tlIey may be
expected to show themselves, several cs-
sential points must be observed. The
face should be well bathed in cold water
every morning, winter as we'll as summer,
by means of sponge. Curd honey. or
common yellow soap should be used in
washing C face previous to bathing
The ofteucr cold water is applied to the
face the better. If any roughness Of the
skin ensues, little cold cream applied at
night will soon remove it. Then again,
as much exercise as can be conveniently
taken in the open air, every day, is to be
practiced. The diet must be generous
bnt wholesome. Plenty OF substantial
food shonid be taken, with port-wine, or
stout porter. Vinegar pickles and other
acids must be avoided. In addition TO
all the above rules, it would be as we'll if
regular hours were observed, and heated
places Of amusement seldom visited.