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Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1869-09-17
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Foolish CrucIty.

DEAR JouRNAL:-A fev DAYS AGO |
was an unwilling witness TO an exhibition
of brutality and cruelty TO a dumb brute
by brute that wasn't dumb, which
seems to me might have called a blush of
shame to The cheek of even Uamanche
Indian. A horse attached 10 heavy
load had, after several Intellectual attempts
10 move il, baked and refused 10 make
further exertion. Hoseupon the driver
allowed his anger 10 get the better of his
reason and commenced pummelling, kick
ing and bruising the poor animal in the
most disgusting manner. The horse
wrilhed under the cruel blows, making
frantic efforts 10 break loose, and finally
in IFS agonized eyertions, was thrown to
the ground where it lay, whom | last saw
it, refusing to get up.
Observing this exhibition Of brutality,
| wondered which possessed the most
brains with reasoning powers best devel
oped-the man or the horse. Give the
fellow half the provoca'ion the auim;l
bad, and doubt not he would exhibit
equal unreasonabeness, and, il possible
greater amount Of stubb2Eaess.
But aside from all humane aud fler
feelings usually possessed bv civilized
beings, would ii not be better 10 coax
to "pat," if you pleasa-a balky animal.
than 10 bruise and mallreat him. How
many Of the readers of The JoURNAL ever
knew baIky horse being cured BY
harsh Il cruel treatment like the above?
Not many, LII wager.
However, if ,mon decepcy and
mans gc-son W. incite him to bet
ter our statutes contain a proyis.
sion .ag for the punishment of
" cruelty 10 animals" which | would ad-
wise some people TO search out, read and
p9.lcr well. For did they know they
wee violating written law, and thereby
laying themselves liable to foe or punish
ment, feelings Of fear, at least might be
awakened, and a milder course thereafter
characterize th3ir lFeatmsnt of beasts of
burden. u.
PRssCoTT, Sept. 10, 500.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1869-09-17
shalkespeare's Marriage.

at the time of this event, Shakes
peare was eighteen years Of age, whilst
Ann Halfway, his bride, was mature
maiden of twenty, seven. But if it be
true, as Lord Bacon says, that man
.inds himself seven years older the day
after his marriage, this sudden maturity
would nearly eq ualize the matter and
keep the balance true. An, old writer
describes her as ga tall, handsome girl,
with ruby lips" and it was on these COAL
reefs that the boy poet is supposed to
have made shpwreck. The speech of
Hermia's lover, Lysander has often been
quoted TO prove the infelicity of his
welded life; because one of the reasons
given why "the course Of true love never
did run smooth" is that it is smisgraffed
in respect of years" In "Twelfth
Night" also, this same point, viz: dis
parity of years, is pressed again with an
earnestness that seems to spring from
bitter personal experience. To refer to
the beautiful scene where Viola, disguised
as page, enters into conversation with
the Duke, of whom she is enamored,
and receives from him this general adj
vice:
"Let still the woman take
An older than herself; so wears she to him;
SO sways she level in her husbands heart"
And to the man he says:
"Then let thy love be younger than myself,
Orthy affection may not hold the bent"
As convincing proof that Shakespeare's
affection did not ''hold the bent," we are
told how he settled in London and left
his wife in Stratford, visiting her only
once a year. One biographer nsinuates
that he never sent her a penny of his
earnings, "a clear case of anrenaitting
love,) but spent them in the delights and
designations of metropolitan life. In his
last will and testament he leaves no word
of love for his wife, and bequeaths to her
only his second best bed" The sounets
too which are the tIuest records and very
issues of bis life, indicate that there was
some GOODNESS and estrangment between
them, and speaks also of the "disgraces"
and ssbots" that clung to him as the re-
suits of his cold offenses of affections"
Various anecdotes are told Of him in
this connection. One story, related by
garrulous Aubrey, is to to the effect that
Shakespeare, on his journeys TO and from
London, used to put up at the Grown
Inn at Oxford. The inkeeper, John
Davenant, and his wife, were very fond
of him, and he stood godfather TO their
SOL William. The wicked world limited
u 100 co,,othipo p1ora than
.rien ship between the poet and the wit
tv, beautiful Mrs. Dayenant. One day,
as William vas running home in haste,
some one aske m why he ran so. He
reniad that be wished to see his god
s.a aho has just arrived. "You. are
g ID boy" retorted his interrogation,
+" but you ought not to take the name of
God in vain."-Prof. e. p. EVans an
Western Monthly for August.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1869-09-17
HfDHEN..

% bushes Iise not TO my cheek;
q tell-iale eyesi be clear and gay;
lips no warmer language speak
To him than simple yea and nay;
o heart II thy most deep recess,
Be safely, surely hid away
This seCre,, that he may not guess.
They call me beautiful: alas
BY him uncared for. what care /!
Once | Enelt down and kissed the grass
His foot had pressed in passing by.
a little common buttercup
That he had crushed and left 10 die,
SIN Tor his sake :Ieasule up.
o tender Father! is it sin
Tolove thy nobleSt creatures thus.
Although no answering love we wins
Art Thou not ever leading us!
And hast Thou sent this love 10 me,
To calm my heart tumultuous,
And guide me, through my 2iiei, 10 thee!
Oh let me love him to tine end
Most purely; and pelchance some day
He'll lake my hand and call me friend,
When lime FOR love : passed away;
When eyes that shine when he is near
Are dim; when golden locks are gray;
And Deaf b. The angel, draweth near.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1869-09-17

I
10, he threw his arms around him in az.
ony, as if clutching at something.
How horribly useless this pantomime
seemed to mel He wanted fresh air
to clutch at air. What a mockeryl
Starbuck," he presently gasped.-
God have mercy on us! What shall
we do?"
What could we do? I could only
stare at him, stupid with despair.
The air in the bell became more and
more sitting. The boatswain flew to
my side and squeezed me in his mad ag-
ony.
endeayored TO speak, but only a
hoarse rattle in my throat, obeyed my
will. My brain begun to whirl. ]
gasped hard for breath. A terrible OPP
preston was upon my lungs. The
boatswain had now released me.
staggered against the side of our prison
my senses gradually seemed deserving
| me.
Gradually, to my confused sight, a
dark red mist cloud seemed TO float up
all round the bell. My head now felt as
though it would burst. Terribly OPP
pressed, l fell upon my knees, and would
have fallen into the sea but for the boat
swain, who now held me.
Then ali began to grow dark. With
superhuman effort | half raised myself
and looked around me, feeling like one
cropping in the dark. Bewildered, full of
the most agonizing pain, became aware
that something was swaying up and
down before my sight, up and down, in
that red mist cloud mingling with the
water.
| made another effort--a great effort
to comprehend what it was, this swaying
thing, aud l at last did so, understood
that it was hook attached to the end of
a rope lowered to US from the deck Of the
Virago. so far abovel
Il" StarbuckT' gasped the boatswain.
"Tll dash open the lens-this was 81 lass
in the top of the bell, then you stand by
TO hook it on the inside.
just manage to Lear the words, and
they strengthened me with wild hope,
although | was still so bewildered that l
could scarcely now see the swaying hook.
With one blow Of his huge fist dealt with
the remains of his great strength, he
shivered the lens.
There was q roaring sound; it was the
upward rushing of the water into the
bell, as the air escaped.
There was no time to lose, | thrust
my arm through the aperture and drew
in the hook, quick attaching it to the
top of the inside of the instrument.
The next moment the water came
bubbhn9 over the heads or me Goat
swain and myself, and that was the last
l remembered of what transpired in the
boil.
When I recovered my senses found
myself in the Storage with the ships
doctor bending over me.
GA narrow escape" were his first
words.
"Where is Rqndolph?" exclaimed
"Here," answered a feeble voice, and
rising, behed the boatswain in bunk
under me. e
had" said the doctor. 1.-the thumb OF
bis right hand was bit off by shark,
which made a spring for it, just as we
pulled you two into tho cutter, after the
diving bell was hauled to the surface.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1869-09-17
How 30 Keep Rats from DestrOyin &
Harness.

Almost every person who uses q har-
ness has been more or less annoyed by
having them injured by rats. We give
few hints as to how this may be avoid
ed, though everybody knows, or effects
10 know, what is best. The recipes
here given are collected from different
sources:
Take about a teaspoonful of Cayenne
pepper, mix it thoroughly with a quart
of oil, and rub the harness with the mix
ture. This, it is claimed, will not only
keep rats and mice from gnawing the
harness, but will also prevent horses
and colts from chewing the lines or
haltefs.
Take two quarts of green leeks, pour
over them one gallon of oil, and let it
stand few days before using; the longer
it stands the better.
A little benzine rubbed over the har-
ness after it has been oiled is said to be a
sure preventive, but it is not recommend
ed by many, on account of the idea that
it Injuries the leather.
One ounce of aloes to one gallon of oil
will prevent rats from destroying the bar
ness.
1t is also claimed that by mixing q
small quantity, say a tablespoonful, Of
pine tar to one quart of oil, harness will
be most effectually protected from any in
jury; but if too much is put on the leath-
will not absorb it. 1t will collect dirt.
besides making the harness unpleasant to
handle.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1869-09-17
Thomas Carlyle Svears that we ar
going to He'll.

From Mr.. Rpley's letter in the New York Tri
bune
The condition of America was discant-
ed on by Mr.. Carlyle in terms less re-
markable for flattery than force. As
sure as the Lord reigns" says he, you
are rushing down to hell with desperate
velocity. The scum of the world has got
possession of your country, and nothing
can save you from the DEVILS clutches.
Not, perhaps, " cried he, raising his voice
to its shrillest notes, " a he'll burning
materiaI fire and birthstone, but the wide
welting fiery chaos of corruption in high
places, and the misrule of the people. 4
fine republic that! England follows in
the train, and is even on the brink OF
the internal precipice-and hell below ;"
Of course l could make no answer to
these " prophetic sounds fnl! of woe, "
but waited in serene silence for the temp
est to pass over.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1869-09-17

All great questions have been settled
by men in earnest--by men who have
bound principle about their hearts which
they come to regard as part and parcel
of their being. TemporiziDg policy never
yet conferred lasting benefit upon the
whole world.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1869-09-17
LON'GKN'G.
BY JAMEs RUSSELL LOWELL

of all he mvr'ad moods OF mind
That through he sou come ibl ong ne,
Which one was e'er 30 dear, so kinu,
So beau. igul-as longlnSI
The thing we long FOL- hat we are,
For one transCendent moment;
Before he present, poor ana Date,
Can make its sneeTinS cOmment'
Sin. thropeh our paliIy stir and strife,
Grows down ouI wished lde9l; -.
And longing moulds in clay what mo
Caryes in the marble Real;
To let the new lie in we knows
Desire must Ope he poh1i
Perhaps the longing 10 &c So
Helps make the sou! imhoI'aI
LONGING in Gods flesh hcavenvard viii,
With our moor eai Inward stl1N'Dg;
We ouench il tnat we may De SIN
Content with merry l'yinS;
Bu! would we Learn hal heart iuil scope
Which we are hourly WiODging-
ON. lives mus, climb nom hope 10 hope,
And alize our longing.
All, LET as hope that o orr praise
Good Gc,i not only leckons
The moments when we tread bis ways,
But when The >ptit bsckons;
That some slight GOOD is also wrought
Beyond sell-satisiaC ION,
When we are simply good in thought.
Howe'er we tail in action.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1869-09-17

A child on being shown the picture of
+" Daniel in the Lions Den,'' was affected
to tears. Don't grieve, Pet" said the
mother; " he was not devoured." +" I'm
not crying for that" was the reply; but
do you see that little lion in the corner,
mamma? Well, I'm afraid he won't get
away, for Daniel is so small he won't go
around"
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1869-09-17

Ill fair,miuIed persons will agree
With a certain preacher Of the gentler sex
in her recent denunciation of " sentient
but irrational natures, constituted accord.
ing to sentient or qualitative principles,
coordinated with mathematical ones, all
alike incomprehensible to the irrational
nature themselves.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1869-09-17
CARROLL 81 wIGGINs,
WALTER w. WEBB & CO.,

IITHOLESALE and Retail Dealer in Foreign
w and Domestic Wines, Liquors and Cigars.
Third-st.. second door above JacksOn-st 81. Paul,
MINI. Also. lagent for Julius Balke's Excelsior
Billiard Tables, with Phelan's Patent Combination
Cushions. It'll
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1869-09-17

A quaint writer says: " I have seen
women so delicate that they were afraid
to ride for fear of the horse running
AWAY: afraid to walk for fear the dew
might fall; afraid to sail for fear the boat
might upset; but | never saw one afraid
to be married, which is more riskful than
all the rest put together"
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1869-09-17
WHITE & BUTTON,

a TTORNEYS and Counselors at Law, BrOad-st
n All business intrusted to Us will be promptly
attended to.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1869-09-17

Hero is bit of French philosophy.
It is set down to the credit of Alexander
Dumos, fls:-" Walk two hours every
day. Sleep seven hours every night.
Get up as soon as you wake. Speak only
when necessary, and say only half what
you think. Don't write anything but
what you can sign. Think neither too
much nor too little of money; it is good
servant but bad master. Beware of
women before you are twenty. Avoid
them after you are forty"
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1869-09-17
ST. NICHOLAS Hotel,
(On the Levee)
Prescott, Wisconsin.

TIVIIIS HOUSE has Just been opened for the ac-
cOmmOdatiOn Of the public. Everything Is
new and commOdiOus-the furniture being Just
brought from the east,
This hotel is pleasantly located, commands fine
view up and down the river and is especially adapt
ed for those whose homes are in the hot and dusty
rifv and who desire a summer residence in the
country
RESPECTFULLY invite the farmers of Pierce and
surrounding counties to give me call when In
Nav "a fsy9' GEO sHAsER, Prop.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1869-09-17

nEALER in Millinery and Fancy Dress Goods
IL All kinds of Millinery and Dress Making done
to order Store on the corner of Orange and Broad
Streets.
Agent for the Leavit Sewing Machine, the best
family machine in use. 81
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-06-19
Keen the Negro Out.

We have undoubted authority for the
statement that Mr.. CHANDLER, in the Val
ley, declared to the people that there was no
truth in the statement that Governor WELLS,
should he be elected, would resign his seat
and accept the Office Of United States scna-
tor. He would remain the Governor of the
State in order to keep a negro from being
Goucrn0r'
You see, that is good story for the Valley,
where the whites are largely predominant !;
but you know that it would not do at all in
southside Virginia nor in the peninsula! If
'twcre not for the meddlesome press we are
sure this little game of playing different
tunes on the different sides of the Blue
Ridge would be extensively carried out !;
hut the press and telegraph arc marplots to
these honest gamcStcrS!
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-06-19
Immigration.

We have already published the amount of
immigration to this country during May,
largely exceeding that Of last year. The tide
continues. A cable message from Liverpool,
dated the 10Th, states that over G,0O0 left
that port during the week for New York.
Of some 10000 passengers not single
man came from Africa-a fact worthy the
notice of our colored friends. Their selfish
deceivers are feeding them up with pleasing
fancies of permanent power, and urging
them on in the crusade against the white
people to impose disabilities and burthens
upon them. But the rapid increase of the
whites should he warning to then.
They should be just-givc the white man
his rights, and make him their friend. BY
following the decciyer they are but piling
up wrath against themselves.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-06-19
IN, . Division into Classes.

c,r,,et -baccery and scalawagerv. ied ny
urr,s are asserting tfias the whites are
resnonsible for the political o'is,on "
society In the State upon inc .. .o. ~,
Vat tn 90 back to q few months aieef ti'c
.,.or when the fanatics, scapcgraccS, al'o
.,,,,,aerors took -the negroes into nightiys
a,,n,ovns. and taught them to hate the
,,.h;tcs lct us come down to the more recent
,,e,,od when the negro Convention
r,,.o,,rtcd and directed by the plundering
white adventures and the more contemptl-
HE native white knavcs-Set on foot the
scheme of ostracising the white people OF
Vircinia--that scheme which is now per"
.istcntly pressed by the followers of WELLS,
whose tickets, State and local, arc ali nomi-
mated upon the platform of adherence to
the policy of Stacking and disabling the
whites, and which tickets are placed promi-
nently in the Radical organs, and sup
ported by them. notwithstanding that they,
like WELLS, declare they are against the
tcst-oath. [Thcy, too, being pressed, have
passed the money-tHed ,coiiet to the follow
ers. but win divide its contents after the
fight, e.. if they triumph.] .....
OF course it is very ccnsurable in these
whites not to 20 over to the motley ALI.
ance. which is thus making war upon them
and striving to put them down under the
heel Of barbarous tyranny. Of course they
divide the races by not doing so, and are te
blame. They are bad fellows. And they
are further TO blame for trcasurinS up
recollection Of the remark OF the pure ana
lust man WELLS, that they and their fathers
arc not to be trusted on oath; that their
sworn statements and pledges are mere pa
per pellets, and worth nothing. They are
wrong for all this. They should neither
have scnsibility, resentment, courage, love
of country. nor even decency. They should
herd with and wallow with the pcstiferous
and unclean army of assailants whose work,
day in and day out, is to deprive them OF
ali rights, and to degrade them to the low
level of those who thus conspirc for their
destruction !
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-06-19
Colonel FOrneV.

We said yesterday that the leading Rcpub-
lican press of the North, "with one ac-
cord" had denounced the proscriptivenes>
of WELLS. We beg pardon of Colonel For
NEY. His two dailies are understood to
sympathizc with WELLS. Indeed, after his
recent ride through the State on streak OF
lightning, hcrettrncd home and gave WELLS
the benefit of the prophetic kind OF help in
elections, by declaring that he would GER
tainly be elected. The Colonel had no salts
factory means of obtaining information, and
his prophecy was nothing more than an OK
preston of his own hopes.
After the reconstruction measures had
passed, Colonel FoRNEY soothed down
smartly, like patient under the influence
of an opiate. He softcned sufficiently to-
ward the Committee Of Nine to treat them
very civilly though he did not support their
views, and he conceived an intirmity for
Virginia lands which we have ourselves,
aud which we believe any man is better for
having. We all felt that we were getting
somewhat nearer to Colonel FoRNEY. He
was well known to be inclined to conVlvial-
itv, which is virtue when not carried to
excess, and added to this was the love of
land, which was. an added virtue that went
far towards making very good fellow.
We thought, now we have Colonel For
NIY by mutual tie. II he loves land, he
wants such rulers and such laws as will
make it valuable and he can by no means
be inclined to the government under WELLS,
,t,lit &c hn
which elects it. To that it must be subor-
dinated, and incompetency and reckless en-
trayagance must consequently flow, like
u food, into all public places. We gave
Colonel FoRNEY credit for enough sagacity
to see this, and thought his landed interests
would, added to his patriotism, be strong
enough to enlist his sympath HES in behalf of
that government which would combine the
experience, forecast, and integrity of the
State.
We are disappointed, and fear that Colo
mel FoRNEY is not unlike the butcher in the
" Mysteries Of Paris" That person tempo
rarily abandoned his calling, and appeared,
socially, very gentle and humane fellow.
His dispositions were kind, and fcrocity ap-
peared to be the last thing that could excite
him TO action. But when ''my master"
one day passed by a shcep-pen he instantly
became transformed into raging monster,
ana, drawing his knife, leaped the fence and
began cutting Threats. We fear this bust
ness has been too long followed by Colonel
foKSEY, and that seeing WELLS, like dog,
chasing the sheep he is by force of habit
driven to join in the pursuit.! %
For this consideration we probably should
not be surprised at Colonel FoRNEy's con-
duct, and furthermore should look with
something like pity on it. After this /" cruel
war Is over" we may meet him under bet
Ter auspices when he is not moved to yio-
renee by scene Of slaughter. Then we
shasi nope that his genial nature and infirm-
ny Tor land may not again be interrupted bv
temptations To participate in those scenes
d,a. are SO hostile to kind dispositions, 50
0'''ufolng to the public quiet and order.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-06-19
nRHTI1ARY.

DIED, on the Goth instant, ut ID High street,
DAVID MCCUNNOCHIE, son of MIR. MCCon-
nochie mariner, Dumfrics, and late OF refers
burg Va, aged thirty-tlrcc years.
Such is the brief notice In newspaper of his
native town in Scotland, which conveys to his
many friends and acquaintances In this city the
sad Intelligence of the death Of one who was en-
cleared to them by many noble and generous quail
ties. r. e#s| .3"#.r..- ~ ~ ,
At the outbreak of the late war our lamentcd
friend was Il resident of this city. Although an
alien and not required to bear arms, he warmly
cspouscd the southern cause and volunteered as
member of the ssRichmond Grays.h Through the
long and trying, years Of the war-always at the
post OF duty-hc proved gallant solder, ever
faithful to tho cause he never doubted to be right
At the close Of the war he retired TO Petersburg,
where the hardships and exposure he had under
gone soon began TO waste away his strength. In
hopes to recruit his shattered health, he undertook
voyage TO his native land to re-visiths aged pa
rents and the friends of his youth but alas just
as we were expecting his return we hear that he Is
no more. IFS remains lie inferred III foreign
land. among kindred and scenes hallowcd to his
memory by the early associations OF youth: but
let us remember that the strength Of his matured
wears was expended In our service, and while we
yearly strew flowers on the graves OF our noble
dead let lis not forget to drop tear to the memory
of our cherished friend. .....s. .... II. u, %