St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-10

h ur was near at hand in which the
most Sanguine expectations and long
cherished desires of the civilized world
were about to be completely realized,
and great National Highway" for
travel and commerce, as we'll as for
thought and intelligence, opened and
established. from the rising to the set
ting sun. More especially was it con-
summation which Minnesota, since the
hour when her first constitution had been
given her, the Sd OF March, 1S49, had
long devoutly wished.
The ratification of the Sioux treaties
in 1852 and the formation of other
treaties in 1856, which eXtinguished the
Sioux ard Chippewa titles to all the
land within her limits from the Missouri
on the west to the old boundary of 40
deg. to the north, had also been events
of considerable magnitude in their day,
and afforded great joy to youthful Min
nesota. But the great enterprise was
now completed, and never in all her
history, save at the incorporation of
the Republic of MeXico'' into the
American Union, some ten years pre-
vious, or the annexation of Canada
and Cuba" which happened some five
years before, st. Paul had never seen
such day of rejoicing.
Spanning the mighty Mississippi, Just
above WabaSha street, was splendid
suspension bridge, with pier upon the
sandy island in the stream and mag
niticent arch Oh either side. From Men
dota now town stretching its summit
up around Pilot Knob down along the
bluffs on the south side of the river was
the great railway, extending across the
river by double track some twenty
feet apart, and thence throughout our
own st. Paul, away off to the southeast
toward the Atlantic seaboard.
Supported ON each hand by an i'm
mense escort composed OF our entire
population, came the first train of ears
from San Francisco" the departure of
which had been announced here 10y tel
egraph short time previous.
A glowing description is then given
in the vision of this wonderful train, re-
ferrlng to each car i'll detail, which
winds up as follows:
The blue eyes and fair compilations of
the North, in union, though in contrast
with the dark eyes and olive complex
ions of the South. Immediately IN the
rear of all these, and occupying the re-
manning portion of the 'car triumphaI"
was the president of the United States.
himself citizen of Minnesota, mem
bers of the cabinet and heads Of depart
mentS, deputatiOnS of members from
both houses of congress, foreign minis
tiers resident at Washington, executive
officers of several of the Pacific states
returning from all excursion trip from
Washington to San Francisco; and
lastly came delegation of aborigines,
consisting of the chiefs and head men of
the nations of the plains.
Thus appointed and arranged, IT,
train arrived opposite to the busin S
center of the city, advanced upon the
bridge and halted. Then Christian
minister, Rev. E. d. Neill, l think, &C
companied by the president and secre-
tary of state, with heads uncovered,
proceeded from the extreme rear,
women representing the different states,
and as they passed along each successive
State stood with head uncovered, in
token at once of their respect for Re-
igion and their fidelity to the General
Government. + He then stepped
aside and the Chief Magistrate Of the
nation, having closed the discoursive
part of the ceremony with few
appropriate remarks, signal was given,
whereupon the sisters, "Peace'' and
Commerce" gracefully inverted the
Golden Vase, and the waters of the
Pacific ocean were mingled with the
waters of the mighty Mississippi. The
Bay of San Francisco was welded with
the Atlantic and gulf of Mexico. and
the brig hit drops of the Sacramento were
mingled with and flowed with those of
the ''Father of Running Waters.''
AT that instant another immense train
arrived in fifty hours from New Or
leans, sixty from the Rio Grande, and
four days from the City of Mexico. 1t
contained pleasure party, numbering
were coming to spend few weeks
amid the noise and spray of
the Little Falls" or Minnehaha, and of
our great st. Anthony. The eastern
train from Philadelphia, New York and
Boston, and another from Lake Supe-
rior. and still another from Pembina and
ASsiniboia, near Lake Winnipeg, also
came rafting in, alive with human
freight, from the east, the north and
northeast.
The vision then continues with the
sight of 1.-The mighty throng of assem-
bled thousands" raising "a loud no.
zanna." the chorus of their voices re-
sounding down the Glowing stream,
and DER the Gulf and broad Atlantic,
oiiNt ei1SA ASetSiiSu oS1Ooo SulOpC pCO-
pied surface with redoubled force,
till in the wilds of Russia
it reached the last and only
home of the despot-the descendant of
the Nicholas of 1S53-who has long since
laid Wondering in tyrant's grave"
This made the old autocrat tremble
when he heard the mighty host exult-
ingly jubilate on that centennial ami
versary of nations birthday-the
greatest nation too, which old Time and
events have yet given to the world, its
population now being 6O,0O0,OO0." The
conclusion of the vision is that, in
spired by this shout of victorious free
dom, all the Republicans of Europe
arose and struck for liberty, with de-
cisive victory over despotism, until all
Europe was Republican, while the cres-
cent had faded away in Asia before the
light of the cross, and the religion of
Christ extended over the whole earth.