The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1857-09-09
For the JoURSAL.
VI liic uOIhNAL.
Railroad Excitement.

MESsRS. EDITORS.-It appears by TUG
papers," that railroad matters are the all
ensrossing topics of the day, and each
and every individual, from Major Wind
down to Deacon Sly, IS INDUCING in some
airy speculation. But we should remem-
Der that consistency is a jewel" and it
bchooges ''public men, "literary stars
and ''leading minds to keep an eye sim
Ole to that fact, lest they are last in
world of Inconsistencies, and their eyes
grow blear aud dim in gazing at their
own shadows.
In looking over the Transcript of last
week, | find over four columns of that
paper devoted to ''railroad matters" The
articles have evidently been prepared with
some care, talent and forethought, and
claim some attention from the public
The leadirg article was written with some
degree of candor, and some points in it
deserve candid consideration.
But the articles from Pembroke Wise
are totally exempt from any such feature
or characteristic. | have serious doubts
whether the authorities of the City of
Prescott had any rightto 'let the critter
loose" while laboring under such halluci-
nations. But he has now 'gone up"-he
has made balloon ascension, and scared
SO high that the attraction of gravitation
has no longer power to hold his physical
organization to the earth, and he is balan-
cling between centrifugal and centripetal
forces, where he must forever swing, and
forcver.indulge the forlorn hope ola higher
heaven. He is now moving with the
earth around the sun at tho rate of $1,000
miles an hour, while his motion around
the axis of the earth, considering his re-
latiye distance from its center of gravity,
must be at TIC rate of about two knots
per minute. He feels dixie man would
in an air-exhausted vessel, himself exhaus-
ted by an air pump, being expanded only
bv bombastic railroad article.
But as evidence of what is recorded
above, permit me to call the attention of
the reader to a few selections from the
articles to which l refer.
"Read these lines, kind friend, and pom
der"
''Prescott, from her peculiar situation,
i. e. at the junction oftwo great rivers, and
two of the greatest Railroad lines in the
North Western portion of America, gives
her natural and acquired advantages
over all other cities west of New York
city. Who can measure them? Who
can even by imagination form just esti
mate of her promising future! Situated
at nearly central point on the continent
of North America, with Europe, the At
lantic seaboard and tho great lakes on the
cast the inexhaustable wealth of the mines
pines and furs on the north; Asia, with
her mysteries, her silks and teas; the isle
studded Pacific, with her golden shores
on the west and the sunny Gulf of Next
co, with the broad Mississippi and his innu-
merable tributaries, decked with cities, and
sugar and cotton plantations on the south;
all her environs, if may so use the word,
then hesitate, contemplate her boundaries,
her tributaries, and you cannot resist the
exclamation, how weak WAS Rome to her
WHO can tell her future Prescott shall
he thc North Star of this sublunary world
The point from which shall emigrate rules
of law, the seat OF Philosophy, knowledge
the Fine Arts and the cradle of Universal
Mental Liberty, superior in ell to any
thing the children of men have ever seen.
In her day shall the golden age ret,'rll
again to earth, the children of men shall
live in peace and love; all mankind shall
regard each other as brothers, the black
cloud of strife, hatred and contention shall
be removed, and virtue and happiness
once more and forever rule the world
Gle looked on this side. then on that
And tried to introduce a social chat
when in came hone to be shaved, and
thus the first chapter ends with the follow
ing conclusions:
''The eastern, the northern, the western
and the southern roads are all destined as
the great fee lers to Prescott. Prescott
then will be the same to the cities of the
earth as the sun is to the solar SYSTEM
In conclusion, have only to say to you,
look on map of the world and see where
Prescott is located, and then come and
look for yourselves, and be satisfied that
what have said is not wild imagination,
bat sound, sober conclusions, based upon
stern, stubborn facts, and the natural
course of things.
Yours, truly.
p. V. WISE.
"Amazed | stood but could not speak"
but finally obtained a ''map of the world"