The north Iowa times. [volume] (M'Gregor [i.e. McGregor], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-04-17
MlIWAU1E2.

A recent visit to this go-shead City has
satisfied ~ of .its. capacity a. one of the
great business marts of the West, and an
inspection of our columns will satisfy all
Northern Iowa that the Milwaukee Mer-
chants are no laggards in the nce of COM
petition with st. Louis. Dubuque, Galcna
and Chicago. We are able to insert this
week less than half the favors which
Milwaukee has forwarded to our Office as
intrcductions to the trade anticipated up
On the completion Of the NJ. 4 NJ. Rail
Road; they will all appear in due time,
accompanied by such individual notices
% oar columns will allow.
The upper tiers Of Iowa counties and
oil Minnesota comprise territory that is
now attracting more attention from the
Mercantile interest than any portion of
our country. We need not expatiatc on
its fertility, the rapidity Of its settlement
and the unequalled healthiness of its eli
mate. The projection Of SO many lines
Of Railway to this region from the Seats
OF Trade tells US Enthusiastically that the
Eagles Of Commerce have their eyes up
Oh us, and that no exertion will be spared
to penetrate every part Of this productive
section through the matchless agency of
STEAM. This child OF Watts and Fulton,
has become the Dictator of the World,
and there is no field that promises SO vast
An army Of subjects, 50 active a race of
devo:ees, 50 immense a tribute, as the
country OF which We are writing. The
completion Of Rail Roads to the Miss. and
the hurried appropriation of our wild
lands to productive usefulness, act as
counter stimuiants upon each other, and
the effect is seen in the increased con-
struction Of the iron highway and the
annual duplication Of the Up-River Cen,
eus.
The past winter in the North West is
without parallel for quantity Of SHOWS
or atmospheric severity. The weather,
in truth, has violated all the rules which
have heretofore governed it in providing
tor this latitude and longitude here.o o.
fore we have been exempt from heavy
SHOWS such as usually prevail farthe,
South. and the air in winter has been
comparatively less keen than our latitude
would warrant. This winter. so much
has been said of the sufferings aud frcez
ings, the SHOWS and Storm Terrors of Wis
Min. and Iowa, and so much have the
plains Of Kansas and the savannahs Of
Nebrasks been commended BY the news.
p,pers and committees Of exploration tina,
emigration hitherward was supposed by
many to be suspended for 1857. But
navigation has scarcely opened flake
Pepin still is ice-bound) and whole fleets
OF steamers are ploughing the Great River
loaded down with freight and stock, and
absolutely black with passengers who are
thus early making their way to region
that has intrinsic merit in the shape OF
health and fertility, and hence is not de
pendent upon political ssampeds, for its
growth or the space it occupies in the
range of public vision. Emigration,
however diverted for time from its
natural channel by the stimulus of North.
ern and Southern Mania, will end its way
to the North West, because homes may
be made readily and cheaply. not alone
upon the timber-skirted streams as is the
case in Kansas and Nebraska, but all oye,
the country. Density of settlemen,
furnishes public improvements. schools
social ard religious privileges. A grove
OF timber here. and a lovely location yon.
der. with F;fty-mite prairie intervening,
may charm the tourist and prompt Sc.
duc,ive description for an eastern journal,
but it takes the equitable division Of
prairie, timber and water facilities which
we can exhibit, to make state valuable
as field for commercial enterprise il
takes moreover. climate whose necessi-
ties are great enough to rouse men from
that torpidity. which. in all save the pas.
sions. southern sun invariably begets.
We have the valuable elements here. and
all tie songs that may be sung of South
crn ease and On eternal summer" can
not divert the heart Of the energetic man
from contemplating the destiny which
awaits people who are schooled by ne
cessity to seek fortune through health
giving Activity.
To the region Of which We are writing
Milwaukee bears the closest relations
Her lines Of Road, one of which now has
its Iron Messenger in the streets of Prai.
RE du Chen in full view of our Office,
will rive her the inside track If all tho