, 1859-01-17
Press and Iribune's Annual Review.

Press and ITibuness Annual Review.
We made note Of 1t last week, but i. was
crowded out, that the Press dnd Tribune has its
Annual Review Of the great branches Of bust
nees OF Chicago, for 1858, and such an one as is
decisive Of Two things
FGrst That there lB.no such newspaper for en-.
terprse and businets in sight, in oil the North.
west apd none Southwest, the St. Louis Repu5-
}ean excepted. 1t must have taken us much
work to get this old year's exhibit as to;bave
made dozen regular da,ies: But the paper
does the saue every rear Such power in
pride and joy 10 all except political foes; and
even they must concede It's great value as a
business sheet always alive to the interests Of
the country giving ittupport, to say nothing Of
its ability as newspaper IN Literary and po.
itical capacity. 1t deserves to thrive beyond
any contingency Of the hard tlmes, and may it
find that its Annual, for 1859, shall include
large prosperity for the P+ess and Tribune.
S.con1ly-This Annual exhibit Of three or
four pages Of hgurea, that cannot lie. shows
that Chicago eau make conclusive answer to
al! such Eastern structures as ho owns Chi
cago o?"-'"Chicago to let'-"Her bottom dropt
our, etc. These are all answered in the same
way that ebsser answered Haynes about Mas
sachusetts, viz: There sbe Is, with her Lex
ington, her Concord, aud her Bunker Hill"
SO the Press and Tribune points 10 her balance
sheet aud says, Of 1858, ''shere it is and though
less than some Years showing, thera are her
shipping, her trade, her building, her street
improvement. her manufacturing, her popula-
tion, etc"
1t might have gone on and said-"T There she
is with her hotels, enough TO feed, as she does,
half the travellers of the UnIon-there are her
Public Schools. ahead Of some Colleges, even ct
the East-there are her huff dozen noble en-.
dowments of Colleges, and Theological Semina-
ries, and nobly manned; there are her new
Churches, marble and vast, ornate and lofty.
and beTund the growth and Of the same strength
and beauties in the sanctuarlrs of any other city
East, West, North or -south, in the Bame year;
there is her newly touched, enlarged Court
House that would gr.ce the Capital OF many q
State; her Natural History Society, with q Ii.
brary OF 16, 900 volumes; her new Law Library,
free to all the Bar on paying pittance; and
last. but cot least, her great Railroad interests
one citizen having subscribed $l,60o. 900 to
the completion Of one OF her dozen roads of
equal extent"
. Foreign capital may be in these-as where ia
it not ? aud TO the question" Who owns Chi
cago!' sa3 may answer, !" We don't care who
Owls it here it is, vaster than st. Louis IN urea
the equal Of New Orleans in population, and
as busy Us New York on Change, and every way
more like that babe in it's style Of life-too fast
though 1t be titan any other city in the Union"
She can a1,rd to be sianlered and reposing
meanwhile in her matchle7s position, 'twi1t llcr
luke Of water and lakes OF l1nd-the one the high.
way Of ler ships aud tic other Of her studs Of IRON
hoFses-aul trusting in tile virtue and proves Of
hrr rs 900 and more Of people, and In the s'good
time coming" with the coming good crop, she
will, in The next twelve months, tell tic tuunters
East and SOUTH tlat *' her bottom" is as sure ami
deep Us that which holds her great waters. "Hcr
ownership" is like that Of hnr people, where every
man owns himself, and as to being "to lct," she
will open her gates to lti half the East, in its uu
rest aud dlsquiet. come in. or 80 through to the
regions beyoud, hut only to return to pay her
t1ibutc--duTUrd Beacon, l3M,