Prescott Transcript, The (Newspaper) - April 11, 1856, Prescott, Wisconsin VOL 2 PRESCOTT PIERCE COUNTY FRIDAY APRIL 11 1856 Is published weekly at PRESCOTT PIERCE WIS BY GIBBS in front St near tht Steamboat landing One copy three months fifty cents six nine months one o to be made during the or to clubs of twenty or of per annum in Colaan ono year Column one Column one Oao Square of ten lines ono card line ono Fire or less six six V one dollar for tho first insertion 30 cents for each subsequent BEAU 0 U N G Physicians Surgeons at the Prescott Drug Store j W M M j CARDS a II SNELL BROTHER DEALERS IN Dry and West India Goods Domestic PROVISIONS FLOUR NAILS GLASS GRAIN PAINTS OILS DYE STUFFS CROCKERY and HARD WARE Lrm Parlor Shoes Tin Ware Constantly on hand a good assortment of made Clothing which will be sold at very low prices ALSO all kinds of Tailors Trimmings and Furnishing In fact can bo found at this Store almost everything to eat and wear Feb 1 DID YOU KNOW IT hat there was a G S HO P In Prescott and that you could pet al most that you want at the in the shape of 1 Well it is ft Ho has all sorts of Shot at all sorts of prices together with Shot Powder Flasks Cut Wads all kinds of Proof and all Cutters Nipple wrenches Kifle Powder ic RIFLE 0 U N S order and ted not to be beaten in their shooting Alt sorts of Work dono on short He bap a good assortment of new for new solicited Octo 4 SMITH RIVER FALLS CARDS Jf KINNICKINNIC STORED N K 0 S POWELL KEEP constantly on hand more Dry Goods ries Hats Caps Boots Shoes ready made ing Hardware Drugs Medicines than any er store in North Western Wisconsin which are being sold at Chicago prices Kinnickinnic Feb 14th 1855 SAW MILL At Powell's Mill can be found at all times the best quality of seasoned oak ash maple butternut L basswood Mechanics wishing a superior article of lumber can be as well supplied here as at any other mill in the Northwest Kinnickinnic Feb 14 1855 PRAIRIE River Falls The subscriber has constantly on hand at his Mills Flour Mill Feed Custom work done to order in a satisfactory manner Cash paid for wheat C B COX MISCELLA NE O US UA R VS OKAY GRAY H L HUMPHREY tG AT LAW Solicitors in iu iK Itf PRESCOTT TIN SHOP i And Agents Hudson St Croix county Wis Will attend to all business entrusted to their j care in the of St Croix Polk Pierce and j Business connection with J S WHITE of Prescott Pierce county r LAND W 1 3 E 4 B ft 0 selected ami en- Abstract lor Will j interest on lands in most approved manner ow Land Warrants located Kit attended to Utilise U H t citizens STOVE STORE JOSEPH begs leave to an- j to tlie public that ho opened a tin j shop and stove slore on Broad street second door east of tlie Pierce house where he will keep on hand a full assortment of tin ware and cooking pipe I sia Iron pipe Guttering and nil other j promptly and well at K S n LOR RAIN CO WHOLESALE GROCERS Forwarding and Commission Merchants DEALERS IS WINE LIQUORS TOBACCO HOPS ic No SO Illinois for the C of u-c Ac in A M Fee uli in Era rate pnc JOSEPH FIRMER Oct 10 1855 St S F WHITE BROS f LOT II ING And Dealers in From the Gazette and Advertiser Tin morn and the snow on the hill tops Is laying like drapery white While over it falls in beauty The beams of the morning light And the trees of the forest like gianta All clad in their armor brown Stand as the sentinels of a camp Guarding some quiet town And the skies are lightest of And the clouds are gray and white And flit through the air as tho fairies Bunco iu the bright moonlight And the sun casts down so calmly Uis of the brightest of gold And smiles un the trees and hill tops Till they arc radiant to behold Eut the breeze it comes so softly Like the sigh in a lover's dream It like the f comfort Thut rides on the whispers And the grass will begin to grow And the trees will bud and the brooklet With tho purest of water will flow And from the South the songsters Will seek their homes in tbc grove And the earth will be filled with music The music of songs ol love And then will bud und The fairest of flowers And poets will praise the beauty Of this good old earth home of And then we shall havo sweet showers That fall like a blessing Diffusing their balmy coolness And refreshing tho verdure rouud tho beautiful April showers With the bright sunshine between Making the rain drop glisten Like the pearls Aladdin seen the Spring is a time of Tis the childhood of the year And the birds the sunshine Tho saddest heaits will cheer the Spring is a time of gladness And we'll hail it too with song From the time of its faintest Till Summer its days prolong Galena March 17 A TRAVELER'S pondent of the Pa ald Free Press who came up on the War Eagle last November writes as follows of some of the river lias grown from six houses to more than sixty during this summer ing an unusual scarcity and ness of building material A quent examination of the country lying back will justify you iu believing their representations Hastings is 30 miles below St Paul and is the last stopping point of the packets as it certainly gives promise of being one of the most important Prescott has not a population of 2000 is the estimate for the whole town BOOTS SHOES Rubber and Oil Goods TRUNKS VALISES i of business Ic leave la p nl into j it tbe old warranted to ull 1st t nut o intend toier on 183 South Water st Chicago WOUld the corner of dark up inform the tint he keeps constantly on Q AT LAW SOLICITOR COMMISSIONER FOR i I hand a good of boots and shoes and makes to urt in h s Prices reasonable and work i the Ust manner and at the W I X A P A T E N T M ES A mi WILLIAM N m AL BLOCK 7 KKPS in liis Cats u of W iM A t F n A I DENTISTRY The undersigned would most fully the of ami that ho is prepared to perform all rations on tooth as pluming cleansing ex- inserting on 01 sons wishing any upon teeth will find it to heir advantage to me a call Ail jobs warranted Hotel 1 A HORN PRESCOTT MESSRS take the following from the letter of a friend and a large landholder in our county who doubtless can see a little into futurity and thus sets his stakes for the place that is sure to win He have a high opinion of the position of cott It naturally occupies one oc high commercial importance and must tually bs an important Railroad center as they will be compelled to cross the St Croix at its junction with the The above was penned at Poughkeepsie N N and may he con- as the opinion of a man fully with railroad ters It has many times been said that if ever a railroad was made connecting the lakes with Si Paul it would be up the east bank of the Mississippi river and cross the St Croix at Prescott And the Superior and Hudson Railroad if ever built will connect with the former at Prescott These are no idle speculations but the sober J Wi VI I T i sions of experienced men who have ex- La Crcsse on the side and Reed's Landing iu Minnesota near the tlle country foot of Lake Pepin are points which sen the best and most feasible route for attention and the first named i the great Railway that is eventually to especially gives promise of growth j to the Pacific Ocean Lake is an expansion of the j Yours which here represents a ful sheet of water from two to five miles in width and twenty in length Upon its shores there are several small Will to ges Passing these it is difficult to be- GRAND BUFFALO A pany has organised to stait St Cloud Minnesota on or about the of June next west the great that we are ever to reach ranges on the t i Will locate lands pay J C D O W AND AT LAW j ilie shores represent an almost unbroken wilderness with a smail cabin of close by and James rivess to spend a few weeks in that most grand and exciting of nil sports hunting Thy buffalo still smaller of an active busy north than this But an Storage in contested cases at tlie Red Wing Land office o Gov W A Min Ter Hon II SIBLET W W Ter kes Will WIS attend PROMPTLY to all business entrusted to his care INDEMNITY It VILLAGE Addition to L O T S the nj THEY ono of an aero to iin sere in nro equated in a sightly of the town and will be ut Apply to H T A C Morton H A H Yonnsr J K j THOS K F John Lorrain B H Campbell iy Co S Bias If O S Powell Ward i INS CO Hertford Connecticut t T A E G V j J B A CASH CAPITAL The chances seem j ranges are about 150 miles west of St and constitute the finest tract of country in the The route lies through a beautiful section of try consisting of prairies interspersed with and groves of timber and watered by streams of the clearest and purest water Nothing in the line of hunting can exceed the exciting deur of the buffilo chase and as these noble animals are being fast driven from County Will also attend j hour of Solitary Steaming ilOOVC bi ings us to Red Wing This is a fine town commenced about two years ago on a plateau surrounded by steep hills a high picturesque rock place Red Wing has a i population of about one thousand A United Office is located Wing L Office j Qn one side overlooks the it is also the seat of the face of the earth probably there Univer 1 buildings for the Preparatory ment are nearly completed The University endowed by Bishop j will never be another so favorable an inc of the Methodist Church The opportunity to indulge in the grandest sport ever seen on the continent About thirty young men are already engaged O T T HO TEL C P BARNARD STREET WIS New House und nnc Furniture BAGGAGE taken to and from the boats free of leave for in price mado JOHN HUOT KEEPS on hand at It's mill a good stock of all kinds uf green lumber which will to all who work H Mechanics and will consult their interest by buying their at Co WEST WAGON MAKERS And Wagons and Sleighs of all descriptions on hand or made to order BOUGHTON HOUSE PRESCOTT WISCONSIN THE hiving fitted his houso up in first stylo fur tho of tho public feels confident that lie can give as good to those stopping with him ns any J II JE Zr L V E R W THE Subscriber has ust received from Boston a NEW Stock of Watches Jewelry Silver Ware Sc which he offers at less than eastern prices Also a lot of Fancy Goods Toys Sfc Sfc JOB WORK i in all its branches done oa short notice and j I warranted WiM F CROSS i Insures merchandise stores inps warehouses buildings public and vate mills manufactories c und takes in- land of property by rivers canals 1 and land carriage parts of the Union j Rates of premium as as seen j the insured permits j Policies issued on favorable terms by J W at Prescott FRANKLIN FIRE MARINE Insurance Fond Du Lac Wisconsin try back of Red Wing for a few miles j for tins expedition among js somewhat broken but abounds in some of the most experienced hunters treams and prairies which will tempt in the northwest There are also en- the lovers of fish and fowl LETTER FROM MESSRS first article ever undertook to write for it may not contain as much good grammar as some others could write nor as good spelling I am a man who never hud the advantages of I have made a living by the sweat of rny brow as commanded by the great I Am I was born of poor parents and had a poor chance for cation I never went to school more than six months in life but was taught the rudimental branches of in- dustry by my mother in early life in an old State where the land was all en- tered hy that class Oi people who call themselves I land speculators or land pirates They entered all the land in that section of country in 1835 and 1886 They camo with a rush as of a mighty wind from the south So they got within me ther an antipathy for it caused me to move to the north to find a homo in this being able to buy their land at an price in the year 1844 I left the more southerly country and started for the unexplored regions of the north or is called Northern Wisconsin I have traveled country a great deal to find a place to settle down so as to make a living for my family I also spent some time in the Territory of Minnesota finding it destitute of two essentials of that is timber and as to make it convenient to farmers reeing that some one has undertaken to give a of this part of the country but failed to do it justice I am I shall I settled on in the year there were then but inhabitants in part of On the 15th of June I en- tered the second piece of land that was entered on the The same year there were twenty-three acres plowed This proves to he the best part of Pierce county from the that the land yields an abundance of small and griss There is a vast body of timber that is settling up The timber has to fall be- fore the hardy pioneer as the leaves be- fore the autumn wind to give place to corn and potatoes This part of Pierce county abounds with everything that can make a man comfortable in life Now I give the particulars of belle There is a village laid out which is destined to make a smart business place Several families are living there at this time and a number more intend to settle there this summer lage is situated on twelve milci east of A first rate stage road through the village The St Croix river the boundary j Chief of the Chippewa nation tne union between Eastern Minnesota and and twelve of his most as I sin empties into the Mississippi valiant aUo Hon Joseph Ro- i twenty-five miles above Red Wing j lette lion Chas Grant Hon C gaged to accompany the party the re- Vora to Rush River Pembina one sawmill driven by enough at it to hundred sand feet of lumber Emigrants can easily obtain lumber for Within five miles of the village there Near the mouth on the Wisconsin side i dick of I stands a handsome town ofj Those proposing to join the company I two thousand inhabitants with Point j will each want a good rifle and hunting i e n i i 11 tr I are swoint one thousand acres of broke Douglas it on the opposite shore knife a horse and blanket and to I Further up St Croix hike an party of five parsons a horse loaded with land is one shop a sion of the we should find commissary supplies and a man post office and one place of trade and son on the Wisconsin shore and to take of them The party j preaching by either the Presbyterians First door Snath of the Post Office Capital Cash paid in 9itf r July 1855 PRESCOTT MEAT MARKET supply of first rate Beef Pork Venison and Elk now and on hand at all times Cash paid for hides deer skins Feb 1st 1850 J B S P De Pay will on their excursion visit the great Salt Region of Minnesota There has been engaged as guide for the tion the Pierre Bottineau Building run up to on me way was guide to Gov Stevens Pacific Insures such or contents on i War Eagle however does not diverge I Railroad Expedition supply of first rate aDie terms for 3 or 5 years Insures stores j from her course j Those desiring tor 1L r warehouses buildings or contents and Three miles above Prescott on the j tion arc referred to A Especial attention given to insurance of Farm Property Dwellings and Out- water in Minnesota The Litter is a place of considerable importance and is the seat of a Government Land Office for gt TT I havo on hand a good assortment of all kinds of Furniture and will to order on short no- sonal property generally Losses equitably adjusted and promptly PAID M CASH a fortunate enough to pass it by under a special charter granted by I The unusual amount ot the Legislature of with an freight loaded at this point considering capital of One hundred the evident newness of the place is an Mississippi Hastings will attract you I say St Paul Hon II M Rice if you are in search of business and if gate to Congress Washington or the or Methodists nearly every Sabbath There has been a good school taught this winter The people arc industrious and enterprising They have emigrated from all parts So come along will be plenty raised to support you till you can raise for yourself The people here are all like brothers when they sand dollars of which is paid in and securely The indication The stores and too are of substantial con- II F McCLOSKEY and No 32 and new Depot Galena III of II F tU on in tlie ilis tables arc always I quantity at tho Cheap Store supplied willi the best of tho season and teams iro attended to in prompt and excellent manner on Front St near H Snop in second story of first warehouse sooth of in bonds and mortgages Th Boughton bei upon a loU the Conversation and Friendship Cards in anj it to public favor as worthy long delay to Step fishore and converse ith tlie assurance following Committee of Arrangements a pumpkin pie they share it J P Wilson and Orrin Curtis St An- thony Geo F Brett S B Lowry J C Moulton St Cloud Minnesota Paul and St Anthony papers CHAS B LOWELL SURVEYOR AND CIVIL ENGINEER Hastings Dakota Co Min Ter Is provided with accurate Instruments laying out and and ing Levelling Will j gome Of citizens confidence and support As that this point affords the easiest company no mutual business will be done natural access to the Mississippi trom nor premium notes taken The following is Punch's sion of Yankee Doodle as sung by You will be j Johnny Yankee Doodle do not frown with promptness and accuracy the Vermillion and Cannon river tries and that farmers come hither from places full fifty miles in the interior to obtain their supplies and you believe them when tell you that their town Though you're brisk and bony The jewels in Victoria's Ain't paste or maccaroni London is a pretty town And so is You shall a sugar plum And I'll have or mystify the others These grow here in dance t Can there be any land liad in those Yes at fair prices and there are some houses to the accommodation of emigrants For information inquire at the belle Post Office You see mo again next week if A TUBE mind give this fasts in some shape understandable to we havo a machine to mend broken English j fThat roust be an in point of fact we may say some
