Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-05-26

settle now He waved me back, and
said there was something yet TO be done
first.
sWhere is this John Wilson Macken.
zie 2 said he.
Dead
When did he .dieg
He didn't die at all--hc was killed.
'HowY
'Tomahawked.'
Who tomahawked him?
sWhv, an Indian, of course. You
didn't suppose it was a Superintendent OF
Sunday School. did you?'
No. An Indian, was it!
The same
Name of the Indiang
His name! I don't know his
name
Must have bis name. Who saw.the
tomahawking dones
Il don't know
you were not present yourself,
then?'
(Which you can see by my hair. l
was absent
Then how do you know that Macken-
zie is dead?'
Because he certainly died at that
time. and have every reason to believe
that he has been dead ever since. |
know he has, been in fact.
We must have proofs. Have you got
the indiana
sOf course not.
well, you must get him. Have you
got the tomahawk?
Il never thought of such thing.
You must get the tomahawk. You
must produce the Indian and the toma.
hawk. If Mackenzie's death can be
proven by these, you can then go before
the Commissioner appointed TO audit
claims, with some show of getting your
| biIl.under such Roadway that your chill
dren may possibly live to receive the
money and enjoy it. But that mans
death must be proven. However, | may
as well tell you that the government will
never pay that transportation and those
travelling expenses of The lamented Mac
kenzie. 1t may possibly pay for the
/ barrel of beef that Sherman's soldiers
captured, if you can get u relief bill
through Congress making an approplia
ton for that purpose; but it will not pay
for tho twenty nine barrels the Indians
ate.'
Then there is only hundred dollars
due me, and that isn't certain After all
| Mackenzie's travels in Europe, Asia, and
America with that beef; after all his
trials and tribulations, and transEorta
ton; after the slaughter of those inno-
cents that tried to collect that bill f!
Young man, why didn't the First Comp
troller of the Corn Beef Division tell me
| this g
He didn't know anything about the
genuineness of your claim 1 ..sl.
why didn't the Second tell me?
WHY didn't the Third? Why didn't
all those divisions and departments tell
mer
None of them knew. We do things
by routine here. You have followed the
routine, and found out what you wanted
TO know. 1t is the best way. 1t is the
only way. 1t is very regular, and very
slow, but it is very certain
Yes, certain death. 1t has been, 20
the most of our tribe. l begin to feel
that too am called. Young man, you
love the bright creature yonder, with the
gentle blue eyes and the steel pens be-
hind her ears--I see it in your soft
chances that you wish TO marry her--but
you are poor. Here, hold out your
hand-here is the beef contract; 60,
take her and be happy! Heaven bless
you, my children
This is all that | know about the great
beef contract, that has created SO much
talk in the community. The clerk to
whom | bequeathed it died. know
nothing further about the contract or any
one connected with it. only know
/ that if a man lives long enough, be can
trace thing through the Circumlocution
Office of Washington, and find out, af-
ter much labor, and trouble, and delay,
that which he could have found out on
the first day if the business of the Cir
cumlocution Office were as ingeniously
systematized as It would be if it were a
great private mercantile institution
GALAXY.
I NEWSPAPER INFLUENcE.-The Rev.
Dewitt Talmadge, in recent Phiiadel-
phia lecture, said of the press: Il now
declare that | consider the newspaper TO
be the grand agency by which the gos.
pei is preached, ignorance is cast out,
oppression dethroned, crime extirpated,
the world raised, heaven rejoiced, and
God glorified. In the clanking of
printingpress, as sheets fly out, l hear
the voice of the Lord Almighty pro.
claiming to all the dead nations of the
earth, Lazarus, come forth !! and to the
retreating surges of darkness, Let there
be light! xseas$~
Abraham Lincoln used to say The