Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-06-19
Correspondence.
FROM THE CREAM CITY.


The Antics Of the wheat Marke 1.-THE
ST. Paul Eleetion---Railrcad Menu
Lithogrsphing---The Editorial Con-
ventton--German Saengerfest---Ma"
sonic Convention, etc.
MILWAUKEE, June 10th.-The most notable
events of the week, to outsiders as wen as
citizens, have been, the excitement IN the
wheat market and the st. Paul Railroad cleo.
ton. Wheat may well be called Feature"
of tho west and we look to the market for
the realization of our dearest wishes. If
wheat is wheat. why, everything else is an
right. If wheat, as the real "scalper would
say, "goes back on US" 1t never fails to Gre
ate an excitement. The farmer who raises
the cereal and looks to it as the great source
of his supplies, watches the market with
scarcely more interest than does the man
about town.
Well wheat has been cutting up some
curious actics during the past week. The re-
ceipts were steady from 10000 to 50, 600 BUSH
els a day These were considered fair for the
season. and the market WAS steady. OF
sudden one day, without apparent cause, the
which is enough to make some men look
pleasant and some look gloomy, but fifteen
cents and up-twenty cents, and still up to
twenty-five in one day. What blow it was to
short sellers, who sell what they have not
got and never expect to have for the matter of
that. On change was an eXcitable place.
Some men smiled, but many looked very sad,
as they saw their money slipping out OF their
fingers so rapidly they scarce could count 1T.
This wheat business is trying to ones tenn
per and very often to his purse. The market
Still holds up, but the corner is broken
and the foundation is evidently not
the most substantial. Receipts are
fair Those who took advantage OF the
rise, or who have wheat to get to market this
month may well smile over the fluctuations
of the market.
The election of the new board of directors
for the ST. Paul road, has taken place. The
old board was reelected without opposition,
and have gone off to look after their road.
Railroad men have had a very good time the
last year, and naturally feel pretty well. /
do not know just what is in the wind, but 1t
looks to me as though the railroad policy for
the coming season would be good one for
the Northwest. / certainly hope so.
There is degree of pleasure experienced
in looking at these railroad men. / do not
mean the firemen, the brakemen and the en-
gineers but the railroad kinds Did you ever
see one OF them that did not look Jolly"
mean, of course. where his stock was paying
him. They are always good, stout men, with
| Jolly fat sides and round gOod-natured faces.
How they shake their sides wen they laugh,
and how often they do laugh. l have often
thought it required something of a fitting by
nature to make railroad man.
OF this class the city has been full for sew
eral days. get bewildered when / think of
the amount Of capital, III round dollars, they
represent 1t is among the millions though.
And only think, not solitary one OF them,
but many of them, who have hundreds Of
thousands in stock, were only few years ago
friendess boys, who worked for a pittance,
and who had to meet daily the kicks and cuffs
of the world. On this account have good
deal of sympathy for railroad kings.
Through typos eye have been looking
to-day al some photographic work. What a
progress this style of printing has made. 1t
has PLAYED its part in the match with printing
well, and it has come up with engraving as
1 chromOs have kept pace with painting. The
specimens l saw 80 pleased me that went
/ into SEIFERr & LAwToN's photographic works
/ and although denizen of Milwaukee for
| wears, 1 was surprised. Within two years
/ these two young but energetic men have built
up an establishment that do not believe is
excelled by any i'll the West. They run thirty
presses and keep eight and ten engravers hard
at work. Their styles are original and neat
| They get up views of churches and public
buildings; they do the state work; they make
! land maps, and charts; they do, III fact, every
thing that photographers can do,and they do it
cheaply. 1t seems as though they were doing
work for half the towns and counties in the
| west, and for business houses, public offices,
etc, without number. No public institution
should fail to send to them for specimens of
their work. Banking houses, railroad Offices,
societies, and business houses have only to
send to s. d l.. what they want, and the work
will be designed and autographed for them at
low rates, and at once.
In few days the Wisconsin Editorial Con-
vention holds its annual session in this city.
1t is believed that the press of Wisconsin,
Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois, will be well rep
resented. I know that preparations will be
made to give them kindly greeting, and no
editor who can steal away from his desk
should neglect to come. The convention
excursion will no doubt be most agreeable
affair.
Immediately following the Editorial Conven-
ton comes the German Saengerfest, for
which great preparations are being made.
The Grand Lodge of the Masonic order is
now in session, but its business has not yet
TRANSFERRED. FAxoN.