West-Jersey pioneer., 1869-12-10


stands there grand and fitting memorial
of the mighty dead. AS the visitor gazes
upon it, the murmuring, glistening waves,
of the lake rolling up on the silvery beach,
seem to say, sprepare for His coming" for
the ''day and the hour ye know not, when
the Son of man cometh," for though you
may be wealthy, gifted, and talented, and
like Douglass, Lincoln, Webster, Clay, RAN
dolph, and Others make Senatorial Halls
ring with your eloquence, yet in the midst
of all 'sthe silver cord may be loosed, and |
the golden bowl at the fountain be broken"
The principal dailies of Chicago are the |
Tribune, Times, and Republican, all fine, -four
ishing journals, A considerable business
is done from Chicago to the great towns and
cities on the shores of the lakes, and many
ships, steamers, tugs, schooners, and other
sailing craft are continually plying their wa
ters The last great wonder of Chicago is
the Tunnel under the Chicago river, a huge
undertaking, but was successfully accom-
plished, and now stands second only to the
great Tunnel under the Thames, at London.
At last the sights of the city were all seen,
and vending our way to the Chicago &
Milwaukee Depot, we were soon seated In
one of those easy riding, magnificent palace
cars, for which the name Of Pullen is so IA
nous. a-
At nine o'clock we started for Milwaukee,
and had one of the most delightful rides,
that could possibly be had ''on the rail, " in
this OF any other country. The road is well
built and passes through a fine level coun-
try, directly along the beautiful western
shore of Lake Michigan. The fourishing
towns and villages of southern Wisconsin,
such as Racine, and others, were passed by.
and at about one o'clock we arrived in the
German city-Milwaukee. This is the lar
gest city in the State, and is chiefly noted
for its grain trade. The population is
mostly German, and numbers some $4,000
souls Milwaukee is a fine well built city, and
is situated directly on the Lake shore. The
inhabitants are thrifty and industrious, but
have strong national characteristic, which
they have brought from the "father land,
namely, a love of the '.goot lager bier In
some respects Milwaukee is a second Chi
cago as here as at the latter place, specula-
tors are numerous. Milwaukee is also a
great depot for emigrants from different
nations, who depart from here to find homes
in the great northwest. One may hear the
languages of dozen different nations at
any hour of the day. Germans, Swedes,
Norwegians, Irish, French, Switzers, Ital-
ians, Dutch, and even Russians, clothed in
the quaint costumes, of their respective ma
| tionalities, are everywhere seen.
At nine in the evening we took our depar-
ture, and during the night passed through
Madison, the State Capital, Osceola, and
other smaller towns, and at daylight stopped
at Prairie du Chen, small settlement Oh
the Mississippi River, formerly the site of
an old frontier fortress. Here we had
breakfast, and at eight o'clock crossed the
Mississippi in small side-wheel steamer,
used as ferry boat, to North MacGregor,
Iowa, a small village on the shore. At this
point we procured tickets for St. Paul, Min |
nesota, and in few minutes we were fast
ottl tdo IlObiS. ASiSiiS PAeiAiS-' VI
northern Iowa. About eleven o clock we
crossed the Iowa State Line, and passed in
to the beautiful Minnesota valley. We
had very beautiful sight of the broad,
green prairies, which are so common to these
States, and more especially, to the State of
Minnesota. In the midst of one of these
ssseas of grass we noticed tall monument
of stone, moss-covered and gray, standing
alone in solitude, without one fragment of
anything near it, save only a flock of 'spraiIie
chickens" who were feeding near its base,
"a last remnant of some Indian tribe, who
perhaps in years by-gone had erected it in
memory of some chieftain warriors great
exploit in battle, in the midst of their vii
lage of wigwams, but pursued by the unre-
lenting advance of the white mans civiliza-
ton, they have departed, and left this soli-
tary yestige only, behind. Quite number
of fine, growing, thrifty settlements were
halted at, some very fine towns being also
along the route, and at six o'clock we ar
rived at the Depot of the Milwaukee & St.
Paul Railroad, in the city of St. Paul, or as
it's inhabitants term it, the Seat Of Destiny"
(To BE CONTINUED.