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Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1869-12-30
Special .adrerfisen,e fafs.
Pay Up.

Pay Up.
T CANNOT wait for my pay until parties
L have paid their debts for agricultural
implemen 8, horses etc. The best interests of
the farmer demand payment of home debts
first. Accounts must be settled up before
the first of January. either by payment or
note. won't have book accounts running
from year to year.
| will take wheat from my customers up
on Indebtedness 10 me, at ten cents bushel
above the cash market price for the next six
ty days. 36.4w DAN'L J. DILL.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1869-12-30
Money EOSf.

WIN. McMURPHY, lost a pocket book
containing about $l56 in currency, and
a note of SIS on Wednesday evening OF
last week. Hearing the alarm Of fire
raised he left the house of Mr.. AIKEN's,
his boarding place, and ran along
st. as far rs the Brick church, and meet
ing there the returning crowd he also re-
turned home by the same route. 1t is
thought the exertion of running threw
the book out of his side coat pocket
where he had placed it about an hour
before. Any person finding the same
will be suitably rewarded by returning it
to the owner or leaving it at the JOURNAL
office. This is indeed severe loss these
hard times.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1869-12-30
MA RRIED

WISE-GOSS.-Att the residence of Rev W. H.
Ryder, Wabash Avenue. Chicago. ILL.,, Dec. IS,
1869, by Rev. w. III Ryder, Capt. p. v WISE, to
MARY c. Goss, both late of Prescott, Wis.
HAYFORD-CHAFFER- the 26th inst in
the city of Prescott, at the Methodist Episcopal
parsonage, by Rev. j. ID. Searles.. Mr.. WILLIAM
W. HAYFoRD and Mrs. PALMA CHAPTER, all OF
Hastings, Mimi.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1869-12-30

WISCONSIN, AFPoIETMESTs.--Among
tho appointments of Wisconsin men con
firmed by the Senate the past week are
Col OSCAR III. LA GRANGE. Superin
tendent Of the Branch Mint. San Fran
cisco; Hon. FAYETTE ALLEN, at Falls of
ST. Croix, end NoRMAS FLETCHER At
Mena,ha, receivers Of public money.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1869-12-30
City AND COUNTY.
8 A Happy New Year,
TO ALL THE KIND FRIENDS, READERS
AND PATRONS OF THE JOURNAL.
Wheat Market.

The Wheat market is fearfully demon
alizod. In Milwaukee, Wednesday it
stood a cents for No. !, IA for No. 2
and weak at that. This makes the mar
ket price in this city 50 and SIS cents per
bushel. Where are We all going to?
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1869-12-30
no whom it may coneern.

The man that took that calf from Geo.
A. Dill's yard. and also the dog, can
save a small bill Of costs by returning it
Immediately. GEO. A. DILL
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1869-12-30
&c Wise.

The season has arrived when numer-
Gus and hot fires are necessary to give
warmth to our houses, and it behooves
every one TO have care lest more ex-
tensive CONGREGATIONS take place, for it is
now that the opportunities for disastrous
fires are multiplied. All owners ofhouses
and furniture should see to it that their
property is insured in some reliable com,
pany-one of the best of which is the
Madison Mutual, w. ii. II. CLEMENTS
Of this city, agent. Be wise and insure,
"You can't calkalate .Ht'
Bat what afore the morn,
our housen will confagerate
And you'll be left for.orn."
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1869-12-30
THE FUNERAL.


WASHINGTON, Dec. 81 The funeral
of the late Edwin NJ Stanton to-day was
very largely attended. Tho services
were merely those prescribed by the
Protestant Episcopal Church, which
were performed by Rev. DR.. Starkie, of
the Church Epiphany, of which the de.
ceased was member. Among those
present were President Grant and off
GERS of his household; Vice President
Colfax and the Senators and Represen-
tatiyes now in the city the members of
the Cabinet Judges of the Supreme
Court and District Courts; officers on
duty in the War Department. and the
principal officers representing the army.
navy and marine service General Can.
by was with the family Of the deceased.
The mother Of Mr.. Stanton, who ar
rived to-day was in company with Gen.
T. I. Rickert. Only a few intimate
fsicnds Of the family were privileged to
SEQ the face of the deceased, previous to
closing the coffin in the chamber where
Mr.. Stanton died.
AT ii body of one sergeant, one
corporal and eight men, of Battery F,
9Th Artillery in full uniform, brought the
coffin from the chamber to the parlor,
and subsequently bore il to the hearse.
The floral display was the most imposing
ever witnessed in this city on similar
occasion, the coffin bling covered with
wreathcs, crosses and boquets, of the
choicest varieties of flowers. A mong
these tributes was beautiful cross, ten
dered by Secretary Fish; another, a
magnificent crown, with a cross, formed
on white Japonicas, bearing upon it a
card upon which was written the words:
"With Mrs. z. Chambers love-" Other
floral offerings were accompanied with
cards with like expressions of affection
and coincidence.
The hearse was drawn by four grey
horses. Although it was raining, thous
ands of persons gathered in the iinmed
ate vicinity of the residence of the de-
ceased to witness the proceedings atten-
dant on the funeral. Policemen in force
kept the pavement and carriage. way
clear of obstruction.
The remains were conveyed to Oak
Ridge Cemetry.
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Death Of Z. NJ. stanton.

Washington, Dec. "a -Hon. Edwin
81. Stanton died suddenly at three
o'c 'ock this morning
Washington, Dec. "a. = Ex-Secretary
of War A ssociate Justice f. Nj. Stanton
died this morning at o'clock, of con-
gestion of the heart. Mr.. Stanton had
been confined to his house for about q
week. The President and Vice Presi-
dent called upon him last Sunday, his
54th birthday, when the former rendered
TO him bis appointment rs Associate
Justice of tho Supreme Court, for which
Mr.. Stanton expressed his gratitude and
acceptance. Yesterday Stanton COM
planned of sickness, but bis family were
not alarmed as 10 the fatal result, rs he
had apparently been in worse condition
previously. Shortly after midnight his
symptoms became alarming. Surgeon
General Barnes was present on his &C.
customed visit, but found it impossible TO
afford relief. Rev. DR.. Starkie of the
Church of Epiphany. Protestant Episco
pal, was summoned, but shortly after
ward, the sufferer lost all consciousness
and was unable to converse with any
one. The pulsations of bis heart ceased
for few seconds, and then returned, his
breathing icing very faint. 1t was not
until half an hour before bis death that
bis family could realize he was dying.
About three o'clock A NJ. he expired,
quietly breathing away without strug-
gle. AT h;s bedside in his last moments
were his family, consisting of Mrs. Stan
ton; his eldest son, Edwin L. Stanton !;
Ella, his eldest daughter, about 2 years
of age; Lewis, his second son. years of
age; and Bessie, his youngest child,
aged s,
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Governor Stevenson has been elected
Senator from Kentucky, in the place of
McCreery. 81 s.
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The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-10-06

THE DENT FAMILY.-If any truth is to be placed in
what the Washington correspondent of the ST. Louis
Republican says, Gen. Grant has not done so much for
the Dent family some of the Jenkinses would have
US believe The last one says great deal has been
said about the generous in which the President
has provided for the Dent brothersnlaw since his
cession to Office. Nothing could be farther from the
truth 1t ought to be known, if it is not known, that
the Dent family has been for years among the most
spectacle people Of Missouri. The Dent pere is jolly
old fellow formerly prominent merchant of St. Louis
and outand- out Locofoco Fred T. Dent, the Gen.
eral, has won his way to his present military rank and
social position by his energies alone. His merits
as an officer placed him on the staff Of Gen. Grant,
who, notwithstanding the relations between them,
never has done thing for him. Louis Dent, nov
candidate for the Governorshp of Mississippi has al
ways run his own machine, and is not indebted to Gen.
Grant for anything-not good wishes for his po-
litical success. George W. Dent was appointed In
dian Agent BY Andrew johnson, and was rotated out
of office by Grants order replacing the civil Indian
agents by army officers. John G. Dent is an enter
prising merchant in New Mexico and don't want an
office.
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CALLED SESSION OF THE LEeIs1A1URr-Tbe New

CALLED SESSION OF THE LEGIsLATURE.-The New Or
leans Times, of the 25th says that it is now pretty
fully understood that the call for an extra session OF
the Legislature will be made for the first of December
though proclamation will, Of course be made until
the thirty days preceding that time The Times gives
as reasons for this extra session. the necessity OF
prompt action in regard to the levees and the mpor
lance of providing for the payment Of the bonds
which amount to $4,000, 900, the need Cor the
revision of the Code of Practice and statutes, and
making provisions for the laws of the New Orleans city
government. 1t is thought the session will not last
more than month In addition to the foregoing the
Times adduces the following:
1t may be stated that the city and State for long
time has been suffering from dearth of political ex.
element and the coming session will give those who
might die, if actually kept too long SILENT an excellent
opportunity to ventiate their eloquence The fact,
too is that large number Of public servants are
PEELED now to visit the free lunch tables instead of leg
sative halls and just at the present moment the pay
OF legislator would prove valuable acquisition to
the pockets OF Strengthened lawmakers.
However it may be about with these latter all classes
appear to have made up their minds that the Legsa-
ture will called and this popular opinion win doubt.
less have an effect in bringing the event. Cover
nor Warmoth is at the present moment convinced of
the necessity of such meeting though he Of course
will be guided to some extent by events which may
subsequently arise.
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Miscellaneous Items.
Tie ImperialIst newspaper IS dead.
The postmaster at Abingdon, Virginia cam

| The postmaster at Abingdon, Virginia cannot read
DEMOCRATS In TExAs.-Some of the Texas Demo
Gratis propose to run John Hancock their candidate
| for Governor, and James Armstrong for Lieutenant
Governor.
Personal vanity led fellow in New Orleans to ea
CASTLE soap for the purpose of removing freckles
DR.. LIvIsGsToNE-Engand is again much exercised
about DR.. Livingstone. Many doubts expressed
whether he is in the land of the living If alive be
| should have been home long ago.
WAR VS.. PEAcE.-General James f. Pagan, who
commanded division in Prices army during the war
has become insurance agent at Little Rock and is
doing good business
DEAD.-Mr. Joseph Willis an old resident of Vicks
burg and of its wealthiest citizens died in Louis
Vile the other day.
SpRAGuE ABoUT.-An Alabama exchange says thai
Senator Sprague is large stakeholder in the New Or
leans, Mobile and Chattanooga Railroad Company.
Prince Napoleon is said to have sold his estate or
the banks Of the lake Of Geneva to Queen Isabella
who appears to be investing in real estate in every
country of Europe-excepting Spain.
Miles Grant lives in New York, and is aged 1O6 He
expects to live to ripe old age as he eats only bread
dried apples and popcorn eschewing meat butter
coffee, rum, tobacco coal oil and pies
Three men of national distinction lay dead at the
same time last week, and the New York Herald says
'What different ages seem brought together in the
several histories of Fessenden, Rawlins and John Bell
The Of an President of the United States was
recently admitted to charity ward in one of the
Washington hospitals.
The New Orleans papers state that freight charges
Morgan's Louisiana and Texas railroad have been
reduced from fifteen to twenty-five per cent.
Mrs. Stanton, if are to believe the Louisville Elk
press, is woman of fine understanding. She wears
number eleven boots.
1t is whispered that the Pope is training two hun
bred negroes to convert their American brethren.
A Boston paper advises Wendell Phillips to be less
temperate in his living and more temperate in his lam
guage.
The October Atlantic has nothing to say about the
StoweByron controversy; but Mrs. Stoves defence is
promised for the November number
Gen. Jos. e. Johnston has been asked to accept the
Presidency of the Nashville University which is to
be re-established.
Three little boys recently got lost in the woods
Alpena Michigan and found their way home by telling
the dog to go home and quietly following him.
On the Presidents return to Washington, he first
visited bis stable, and the Department of State
Who can longer doubt that arrangements are being
made to appoint Dexter to the Cabinet.
Josh Billings says he will never patronise lottery
so long he hire anybody else to rob him at
sonable wages.
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-10-06

THE YERaER CASE, AGAIN.-A day or two since We
published paragraph stating that it was rumored in
jackson, MISS that soldiers had been detected
in trying to effect the escape of Col Yerger but at the
same time we doubted the truth of the rumor II
there be any truth in the following which we clip from
the Cincinnati Commercial there is some foundation
for the rumor: A
Jackson, Mss, Sept. 21.-An organised conspiracy
to release Col Yerger from military custody has been
discovered and checked mainly through the zeal and
promptitude Of the commandant of the post, Col J. S.
Fletcher, Jr.
Strange to say, agents in the attempt are from the
ranks OF the United States army Asergeant two cor
poras and seven privates are under arrest on the
charge Of consprng with outside parties to effect the
prisoners escape. The wives Of two Of the soldiers
have been used as gobetweens,n and it is asserted
on what at present seems reliable authority that Mrs
Yerger has been cognisant of the fact There is nc
doubt that outside parties have been acting in
with the guards, and to these would have been en-
trusted the work of pirtng the prisoner away in the
event Of his escape from the confines of the camp
The soldier, once in the Confederate army who some
weeks ago. discovered in Yergers possession key by
which he could unfasten his manacles but who did moi
report the circumstance to his superior officers unit
he had been on guard in Yergers room second time
is one of the conspirators.
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THE POWELL EXPLORING ExPEDIrIoN.-We copy as

THE POWELL EXPLORING ExpEDIrIoN.-We copy as
follows from Chicago dispatch Of the 2lst
Col. j. W. Powell, the Colorado explorer, returned
to this city Yesterday having successfully travelled the
entire grand canyon from Green river to the poin
where the Colorado debouehes into the open plain in
the territory of Arizona.
From the point where Col Powell's last letter was
written the expedition descended the river about foul
hundred miles between the walls almost vertically
ranging from five hundred to fifteen hundred feet il
height, the exterior rim of the canyon being from
twenty-five hundred to four thousand feet above The
bed of the river. More than two hundred waterfalls
and cascades emptying themselves over the walls O
the canyon into the main river, were seen in this dis
lance, presenting almost every variety of natura
scenery.
The geological formation of the country cons
principally of limestone and sandstone Granite wal
found only at three places, and in limited amounts
No discoveries of precious metals were made, and nj
indications of gold or silver found in the bed
the river.
One section of the canyon was found to consist O
very fine, beautifully polished marble, which is a
present entirely inaccessible. The courtr7 traversed
barren beyond description and is pronounced by Col
one Powell not susceptible of cultivation, even by r
rigation.
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-10-06

THE MoDE OF FIXING TOBACCO STAMps-We COP,
as follows from the Washington Republican of thu
goth ut.
Since the revised regulations concerning tobacco
snuff and cigars issued, there have been severa
efforts made by tobacco dealers in New York and Bos
ton to induce Commissioner Deano to prescribe diff
ferent method OF aixing stamps on tobacco boxes.
telegram was received Saturday from j. C. Bailey
collector of the thirty district of New York
asking if change would be permitted. Acting Com
missioner Douglass replied as follows:
In further answer to your telegram of September
49, have to state that this Office as at present adj
vised, will not suspend or alter the mode of affixng
registered serial stamps to wooden packages of
tobacco as prescribed in regulations series S, No. 8,
SO far as relates the place where the stamps are to
be placed upon all boxes and caddes of plug or other
descriptions OF chewing tobacco The stamp must be
affixed over one corner or angle of the box or caddy
at equal distances from either end attaching about
equally to either side; and when two serial stamps
are used upon the same box, the second stamp must
be attached in like above described only on
the angle diagonal to the first.
The growing was intended to give protection to the
stamp after it is affixed. 1t is matter of recommen.
daton, intended to be SO, rather than positive
requirement This office would not considers cause
of seizure detention in any case if the stamps
attached without the growing the packages being in
legal form in all other respects.
Dealers having boxes of tobacco in exportbonded
warehouses, which they wish to withdraw on payment
of this tax can omit the growing but in SO doing
they take the additional risk of having such stamps
mutated torn defaced or even rubbed off by trans
portaton or handling. The Government will in all
require the presence of the stamp upon the pack
age until its contents removed, and, if the stamps
originally attached removed or become detached
by handling, other stamps will have to be attached be-
fore the tobacco can be safe from seizure and forfeited
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-10-06

dispatch Of the goth says most remarkable sermon
was preached in that city the day before by the rector
Of the St. Adams Episcopal Church, wherein the
learned gentleman affirmed that the Episeopalian and
Roman Catholic beliefs positively alike, although the
members do not commune together owing to the in.
rgues at the court Of Rome at the time of the Refor
nation. He boldly asserted that these churches are
but one, and that the members all Roman Catho
lies, and he hoped to see the day when both should
be united under the latter and unite in
nion The sermon created much sensation among the
hearers, many Of whom were Protestants from other
denominations whose belief he attacked utterly deny
ing their faith religion based ON Christ.
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Mr. Pendleton and Ohio.

The Memphis Avalanche, one Of the leading Demo
cratic papers of the Union says, though Mr. Pendle
ton, the Democratic candidate for Governor OF Ohio
is personally the most popular gentleman 10 thatsate
the chances that he will be defeated Our cotem
porary gives reason for this deduction that the
Ohio Democracy is not progressive; that while the
wheel of time has made forward revolutions the Ohio
Democracy has stood still 1t has refused to recognise
that four years Of terrible not without their i'm
press the desnes of the natona We fear that there
is much truth in contemporaries remarks and
that unless the Democracy of Ohio esehew the idea Of
planting Itself issues which no longer possess tang
bic issues Mr. Pendleton will surely be defeated
The Avalanche truly remarks that, planted upon a
progressive platform, Pendleton would sweep Ohio
like whirlwind The Ohio Democracy must learn
to recognise fact which of the South recognise
that the Northern masses favored the war. This is
the whole question in a nutshell. While any portion
of the Northern Democracy refuses to recognise this
the Northern people will refuse to give it victory. AS
well might despondingly fold our hands and shrink
from victory because it refuses to return former
slaves and the precious lives sacrificed in the struggle
John Quincy Adams in the East and that sagacions
opposition to Radcasm cannot stand STILL They see
that the Democracy must progress fossilise IN his
speech accepting the Gubernatoria nomination il Mas
sachusetts, Mr. Adams sounded the key note of Pro-
gress. He broke the ice.' He announced new
departure and to this will the opponents come, that
the monster may be crushed. The times changed
and the North is learning political sagacty from the
South. The South has gone forward. Our people
have profted from suffering. They have come, strong
and selreliant, out Of the fire. and resolved to
longer grasp at shadows when the substance is within
reach. They do not fritter away their energies
Utopia and refuse that which is atainable because
IS not all they desire. Behold the result! Every.
where Radicaism, which for years has parayzed the
SOUTH crumbles In the North thsis not SO, because,
mike the South, the Northern Democracy refuses to
abandon dead for vital issues"
The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1869-10-06

WADDY THoMPsos.-The New Orleans Pcayune o.
the 25th, says that the examination of Mr.. Waddy
Thompson, on the charge preferred against him by
Special Agent Kinsella Of conspiring to deraud the
revenue etc., would off the LIST of October, in
Memphis before the United States Commissioner there
Mr. Thompson managed twice to elude the watchfu
vigilance Of the marshas in mphis-through the in
erposition Of Judicial officers and it is believed thai
he will now demand examination. The Picayune
says it is somewhat remarkable that the commissioner
at Memphis should not have sent Mr. Thompson to New
0rleans-where the alleged frauds were committed
for examination, instead Of trying the case himself