Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-07-17
From the Wabasha Herald.
A Miscellaneous Letter about
Various and several II Kings.
RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED TO "642."
IxprAxAPoLrs. Iwp. July I, 1865

Af DEAh Doh--IhOW does Oul lcoo91 Aoii
feel generally with The thermometer indica-
ting 9ss in the shade, Are you playful and
happy as usual, or does the exuberance of
life which generally distills from your speech
and pen, now exude at every pore, and leave
you as uninteresting as common mortals? An
early ans wer requested
Bnt seriously, the weather is very warm.
/ enjoy a continual bath in the peispration
of my own body, the only annoyance being
that linen must be changed each twenty min
utes in order to present eomely appearance.
Now twenty minutes is hardly long enough
for a chambermaid to do the work of a room,
and the maid WHO has charge of Room IO4,
Bates House. III this goodly prairie city, is no
exception TO the rule. have interrupted her
while pursuing her ordinary avocations, and
when reprimanded, have boldly told her that
dry shirt l would have in spite of all the
chambermaids in the house If she had not
been charitable girl, and my face had not
been displ; yed advertisement of honest in
tentions, l fear | should have been reported
to the Office and persuaded to leave the house
before the train left which am going on.
But to be serious. Frank how do thin fell
lows get along this weather. Yon and /
have generous frames through which TO dis
tribute the heat, and a broad surface from
which TO pass it off--but those thin. hatchet-
faced. narrow.chested, Slim bodied, light-leg-
ed fellows. why, they must feel like coal
in blscksmith's FORGE like bit of burned
steak. or a muffin overdone
AS | sit here, vainly endeavoring to
coax cooling breeze through open doors and
windows, think of the crowd of Democratic
delegates and clacquers, roasting, sweating
and swearing. in New York Excitement
makes them drink, and drink heats their
blood, and heat fosters excitement. Well,
they are getting an Instament of punishment
for their sins. How ludicrous it seems for
real clergyman to get up and pray ia that
crowd-invoke the Divine blessing on the de-
lberations of Gen. Forrest and John Morrissv,
Considering the meagre success which their
nominees will have, the whole show with
yised edition of the old Play, "Nuch Ado
about Nothing"
We missed you at our Editorial Con-
vention and Excursion, nay Boy. 1t was not
well for you 10 thus absent yourself, for your
genial presence would have added much to the
glow OF good feeling, and We looked 10 hear
youspeak in fitting words of him who wor.
ked beside you, but whose labors are ended
now, and the proof-sheet of his life gone to the
Masters eye. Better pens than mine have
written the story of that weeks enjoyment
have wOrthily acknowledged the honors and
iavors.we received-psid deserved tribute to
the thrift, the power. the resources of the three
great cities we visited. and described in glow
ing words the wave of welcome which every-
where flowed to meet us. But | must say
that the Inequalities of st Louis were fire.
quent. hearty, earnest. 1t was as if she had
married the editors OF the Northwest, and was
celebrating the nuptials. The visit to Henry
Shaw's Gardens was a luxury unexpected
and impossible to describe can only say
that if the Worlds Evangelical Alliance
should ever appoint me committee to revise
the New Testament, I should eliminate the de-
scriptions of heaven with golden streets. and
substitute as near as possible word painting
of Shaw's Galden. am sure people would
try to get there then. Blessed is wealth, when
devoted TO such beneficient purposes. Mr..
hap ht,il 10 4, q
monuments, glowing with beauty. pulsng
with life. and INTO this very Eden the poor as
well as the rich find open entrance and cor
dial welcome
| cannot close this mention of our excursion
without speaking of J. C McMullen, Assis.
tent Superintendent of the Chicago. a lton &
st. Louis Railroad and A. B. Pullman, of
the Pullman Palace Car Co. Their hospital
ity was princely, munificent. Pinkerton was
10 more anxious to convey President Lin
coin safely from Harrisburg 10 Washington.
than they were to convey us in safety. Godsl
how the special train Numbered down through
the Prairie State, while watchful care guarded
every rail over which we passed. Each of
these gentlemen should get charter and do
business as corporation. They are broad
guaged enough to do it.and every Northwest.
ern editor will lobby in favor of such law.
How did you spend "The Fourth" my
boy? Did you "orate" somewhere or did you
sharpen your pencil and shoot rhetorical rock
cts into the editorial columns of the Herald?
was in Chicago. and made up my mind
that that city is more patriotic than pious
Never on Sunday have seen it so COM
plctely deserted as on the afternoon of the
Fourth. The business houses were closed,
the streets were empty and still, the people
trying to keep cool in doors. or away in Gods
green temples the shadowy groves
But in the evening the streets were throng-
ed with people in holiday attire, and the
Night glowed, and shone and sparkled with
all manner of fireworks. from the great lurid
fires glowing fearfully against the sky. to the
solitary rocket. which speeding like bullet
into the darkness above, falls back wasted,
like human soul which having plumed IFS
wing to mount TO Heaven and search out the
mysteries of the Infinite, returns weary, baf-
fled and worn from its frutless toll could
not persuade myself TO go inside the heated
walls of the theatre, and so / wandered idly
about the city, viewing its splendor and its
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