The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1862-06-25
4 RecOnOixa nee.

Last week we made reconnaissance in
force to the cnterprisng villages Of Mil
waukcc, Racine, and Chicago.
The trip across Wisconsin, in the com.
Portable cars of the Milwaukee & Prairie du
Chi>n Railway, und:r the circumspect care
of conductor Geo. Church, was marked
by no interesting collision, or leap into the
last ditch, and We arrived in Milwaukee on
time, sharp.
In the h(teen months which had inter-
vened since we last looked upon the Cream
City, we noticed many changes and i'm
provements had bccn made. West Water
street especially assumes more than ever
before the type Of business, thrift, and
activity. Mammoth blocks have been built,
the streets have been raised to the cstab-
lishcd grade, and the commission, forward
ing and Wholesale merchants, all wear an
air of thrift and prosperity. Her receipts
of wheat for the season Of 1862 thus far,
reach the enormous figures Of 5,3sS, l65,
or 400, goo more than have been received at
Chicago fact which contributes largely
to her present position Of prosperity. Mil
waukcc's business men do not buster or
blow much it is not their style; but they
are all beavers at work, and not less thrifty
than Industrious. Under these circumstan-
ces good future is in store for the city.
On Thursday morning we took cars on
the Milwaukee 4 Chicago Railroad, and in
less than an hour were set down in Racine,
where we halted to get a look at old and
welcome faces among the editorial fraternity
Of Wisconsin. There were some sixty
editors present, in attendance upon the
annual meeting of the Wisconsin Editorial
Association, and very intellectual and
well behaved lot of fellows they were. An
excellent address was delivered, appropriate
culogies pronounced on deceased members
of the association, and mu"h important
business for the good Of the order trans
acted.
Racine is noted for her beautiful cottages,
attractive front yards and fair women,-
whose presence on the promcnades was
doubtless evoked by the numbers of good
looking editors around taking notes O.
Approaching Chicago from Racine, a
long line of dense inky smoke from the
mammoth iron rolling mills, is the first in
dication that one is drawing near to the
great Prairie City, noted for its horscrail.
ways, impertinent cab and hackmen, and
intolerably filthy Chicago river. The Of.
Tense of this latter institution is rank, and
literally "smc,lS to Heaven"
Business is active in Chicago, and the
shrieks Of tugs and whistles of locomotives,
are as uninterrupted as was the roar Of our
batteries at Shiloh. For nice, quiet, re-
tired salubrious place of residence, 60 to
Chicago-if you are mad man.
Say what we may OF Chicago, her growth
and prosperity is irrepressible. In one
brief decade, the boyish clerk in store OF
moderate pretenSions has become a mer.
chant prince, and the experimental spccu-
! lator in few wagon loads of grain, has
, been elevator-ed to the station CT a mill
ionaire, and thinks no more of purchasing
half dozen ship loads Of grain on change
than he formerly did of buying as many
| bushels.
While in the city we visited camp Doug.
las, or rather looked with powerful glasses
into it from an observatory, erected in from
of the main entrance The dress and ap
pearance Of the prisoners was much like
that of the steamboat hands on the Missis
sippi river, and they seemed, in the main
tolcrably we'll contcnted with their lot.
70 cut long story short, Saturday
evening found us back in McGregor, a littl,
dusty and tired perhaps, but contentct
more than ever with the fortune which has
cast our lot in this lively narrow city.
we are under obligations to Western
Agent John Lawlcr, and Conductor.
Church and Reddington of the Milwaukee
& Prairie du Chen Railway, Master o
Transportation John L. Moody, and Con
ductor Brown Of the Milwaukee & Chicag
Il. Il. (the latter formerly Of the NJ. s. NJ
r. H., and Clerk Wheeleck of the Newell
House, Milwaukee, for favors and courte
sizes extended TO US while on our rcccn
trip, which will not soon be forgotten.