Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1868-07-01

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! We rejoice in being able to afford you an
| opportunity to take a passing glance at the
miracles of enterprise and improvement
which the genius of intelligence and industry
hos wrought over all the surface of our State
within the short period of one generation
You are Witnessing at home the same marvel
Gus changes may nothing arrest your pro-
gress. We are gratified to have you join us
here. Milwaukee is one of the many great
cities that have, as by magic sprung up on
the shores of our inland seas within the last
thirty years. While as yet but an infant in
age it has given the best proof of being a
giant in strength. The energy of generous
| and healthy public spirit beats vigorously in
its youthful veins, and all through its bust
ness channels there flows an incessant and
tireless activity that knows no stop at oppo-
sing obstacles. It is fast filling up it's ample
| limits with massive structures, and extending
the already wide circle of its commercial rela
tion with rapidity that is truly astonishing
Though only beginning to reap the ripening
fruits Of the gigantic efforts which its citizens
have put forth to make it the Empress Of the
Lakes, We can already forecast what it is des-
tined TO become from what 1t now is. The
Milwaukee of the actual present, which we
now behold, is only in it's midway career.
In the history of communities, it is only the
the creation OF an hour-yet alive with the
irrepressible power and sleepless rivalry of
men struggling for wealth, position and as
cendency. These noble and shaded avenues,
spreading out i'll every direction, and over
looked by lofty edifices and gltfering domes
these depots from which stretch iron-ways
that connect with railroads moving westward
to the Paoific-these spacious harbors, filed
with winged vessels, constantly receiving and
discharging costly cargos-these palace-like
steamboa 8, daily entering and leaving these
sheltered porta-these streets, thronged with
busy and eager Gro wds-all occupy a place
but recently solitude and a wilderness,
| owned by savage tribes Of rowing Indians,
| near whose nameless and sluggish river it is
only short while
" Since travelled JUNEAU, factor Vines, and
stately Champenoon,
Heard on its banks the wild VOLTS howl, the
trumpet of the loon"-
but now on expanding mart and centre Of
| trade, populous ard opulent, and marching
onward with an elastic and steady tread
where,
With smoking axle, not with speed, with
steeds of fire and steam,
Wide walked Day leaves Yesterday benin
him like dream;
Still from the hurryng train of life fly backward
far and fast
The mile-stoues of the fathers, the landmarks
OF the past"
Near the close of period described by his
| torisns as the Middle Ages" just before
the great awakening of the human intellect af-
| ter elumbering IN ignorance thousand years,
| three events occurred which have exercised
en- ever-expanding influence in the world
an influence which has elevated the masses
of mankind, is still in constant operation, and
| is likely to increase and continue while the
/ present forms and forces Of civilization exist.
The origin Of but one Of these discoveries is
! certainly known. Over two Of them doubts
end obscurity have settled down so thickly
that no research can entirely dispel the dark
ness enveloping them.
| The use or the mariners compass gave
quickening impulse to the navigation of the
almost boundless seas that surrounded mari
| time countries, and Immediately converted
| the trackless waste of waters that cover the
largest portion of the globe into highway of
| intercourse between different and distant
| nations. What before seemed an impossible
barrier to ali further advancement, at once
became a field of exploration, and the stormy
deep was compelled to yield up it's secrets. By
means of this instrument, trade and traffic
have been carried as far as the winds could watt
q shin. or there were commodities of merchan-
die 10 exchange "Farthest Cathay" and
"the wealth or OImus and Of 1nd' were