The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1852-05-13
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following extracts from late number ofthe
Maness!ian, published at St. Paul, the esPi-
tol ofMinnesota. The number before US 10
dated May /, and the items will be read with
interest as showing the progress ofour eoun-
try in one portion Of the Great Vest
Arperson will have to take daily walks
over st. Paul, if he begins TO keep track oi
the new enterprises and improvements com
menced in various localities OF the town
Nothing Is more common tfuh to see four OF
five workmen putting the roofun some build
ing where yesterday there was not even u
pile rock. II you ask them whose Dulid'hs
they are putting up, il is ten chances 10 one
that they don't know, but they believe II Is
for somebody who has just come to town, ana
who is gong to start shop, or clothing
store, OF provision store, or something else
ms the case may be; and the next time you
have occasion to go that way, probably the
building has been finished and some business
has commenced in earnest. Our readers in
the States may consider this fancy sketch,
but we assure themit is not, Of which all our
citizens will readily testify.
The Saint Anthony Express says that
those who have recently visited the new lake
discovered by Mr.. Tuttle, fully corrobOrate
all previous favorable reports. Beautiful
prairie and fine thrifty timber land is very a.
bundant. Between this lake and the Min
nesota river, Mr. VIM. Chambers and Others
saw recently large quantities Of white oak
six feet through at the butt, and fifty feet
without limb. The Express defes any parl
of the world to beat this, and lest any one
should question the possibility of the state
ment, It says that Mr.. Chambers word il
perfectly reliable, being man OF strict IN
tegrity, and that his statement is fully con
frmed by others.
On Saturday last we had very heavy fal
of snow. 1t commenced in the morning ant
continued until little after noon, in yer!
brisk manner. There was as much snow
fell, as there has been at any one time thl
winter. 1t clearedup during the afternoon
and by the next evening it had all disap
peared. The past four or five days has beef
exceedingly pleasant-warm, with soutl
= wind and continual sunshine. Yesterday
, rained the greater part of the day, and tn
q grass has started up finely.
Col. Clinton, of New York, son of the la
: mented Dewitt Clinton, left on the Sain
A Paul, after spending few days in visitin
= various localities in our Territory. Like tn
the great majority who have visited us thi
spring, he was astonished at seeing such
0 fine country and such vigorous settlements S
far in the Northwest, and feels confident th0
if the treaties are ratified we shall 500
have fine State.
C Notwithstanding there are three steam
e mills busily at work with plenty of logs, yt
o it is more difficult to get lumber now than
e was two years ago, when it was all brougl
= y, from st. Anthony and Saltwater. We no
u have two brickyards, and soon will have tn
: third, and much greater facilities for quarry
is ing stone, but the scarcity of building mat,
= rials is every day becoming more severe
10 felt.
70 Recent accounts state that many who ht
'i started for California, have already turnt
back on account of the bad roads. The
+, find that many of their teams, which tht
l. supposed would perform the journey wi
y, ease, are completely worn out before they
Id two hundred miles.
The roads across Illinois are represent
" to be in terrible condition this Spring. ~
Ut arrival ofthe mail at Galena from the East
of very irregular. This accounts for the We
es small mail thatis sometimes received here
a. Our town is so filled up that it is almo
impossible to obtain respectable place
live in. We daily meet individuals inqu
,e ing for a house, any thing in fact that tn
could live in.