The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1859-06-09

turrerpeQdencc OF tn~ ttehcrf pc"h'fsA
TsAvKRsE DIS Sioux, June >, 1859.
A rev era is inAuydrated, aud We are
once more aAoat in the clear tide Of prosper
Gus times! Industry has a channel store
keepers are excited; bar-rooms are a@n-
aoned eucher and draw-poker have lost
their facination even fishing, ducking, poi
itics and religion are not now displayed as
peculiar fortes bu, old and young, the pa.
trician and the plebian, the prudent and the
desolate, are all agog with" Ginseng"
Your dealers have doubtless like ourselves
frequently seen in the eastern prices current
in alphabetical order after Flour y and
next to "Gunuy bags" the uninteresting
quotation -" Ginseng 75 So" and wheth.
er Ginseng was a liquid or u solid, sim
pie or compound substance, never once
excited our enquiring minds. That il was
plant OF the genus Psnar, an important
article OF commerce, abundant in our woods,
said to be slightly stimulating and restora-
tive in lis effects on the Chinese and til at
it might, would, could, or should ever he
restorative of one iorcclosei quarter sectio u.
and intoxicating as the juicc of the somnii =
erous poppy on ourselves, inspiring visions
las it has) of returning Eagles and peck
ct change 10 the frontier men OF Minnesota,
never certainly entered into the widest the
cries of our political economy.
Ii was only last autumn that atten
ton was directed 10 the fact that few idle
men who had nothing else TO do were " gath
ering Ginseng for PRATT our enterprising
and clear headed friend the Colonel being
then supposed to have contract with some
heavy root doctor in the east but with
the return Of spring aud steamboats, root
doctors aud their agents had multiplied
amazingly, and all our stores, and many
strangers ruth the yosts, were buying Gin.
seng six cents in cash, eight in trade, were
the first figures then eight, now ten cents
per pound in cash is freely oilerei. The
effect was magical. We are credibly in.
formed that capital TO any amount will be
forthcoming TOR the purchase of Gnscng at
these rates, and that nearly II not quite
100000 is already here in the trade. 1t
il said that ten TO twelve pounds day is
good digging in New York, Western Vir-
GINA and Indiana, where the supply has
hitherto been gathered; here it is much
more abundant and exhaust,ss thirty
pounds is an average digging, and forty,
fifty and even sixty pounds. have been dug
in this neighborhood in from eight to ten
hours A German friend Of ours, has to our
knowledge, averaged forty pounds day
throughout the past week, and We have re-
ports OF parties having much greater success.
The work is easy and pleasant enough,
neither is there any difficulty in striking
a lead" A little fellow OF twelve sum
mers, whose father started for Pixies Peak
in March last, brings IN about dollars
worth every day, and declares that he could
dig twenty times that much IL II didn't get
50 heavy coming home. We think JACK
cxaggernies. but predict nevertheless that
when the father brings in has pile the little
fellow will show ieetie over twenty times
that much
II IL curious to notice the effect OF this
new discovery on our population, coming as
it has upon the heels OF hard times. During
the dsy Traverse and ST. Peter seem de
serted buildings in various stages Of com
pction are quiet, or only the solitary ham
mer Of the boss builder the familiar faces
Of many loungers who had 30 long and pa.
,ieptly waited ior . something to turn mp, /"
have all vanished sop'thing has turgd
up" and they are oil with II sack nnd hos
to the sylvan depths Oh our forests and ra-
vines. Towards evening u troop Of diggers
come dropping 10 with their well filled
sacks. and the general spirit OF hopeful &c
tly:ty manifested, carries US back To the
TIMES oi 1886, when everybody had their
pocket full Of gold-,be purchase Of their
presumption, or borrowed on their claims al
three per cent. per month.
The beneficial effects Of this new resource,
10 the interests Of our State can scarcely yet
be estimated. We have 20 information o.
TO whether the article IL 20 generally abupd
ant. II probably extends through all 'he
bard wood forests, and crossing the more
thickly settled portions Of the State; but a,
this moment there cannot be less than one
Thousand persons engaged in Nicollet and
Le Sueur counties getting out GDseng. A.
mn article Of export it Is something that viii
bring money in. II requires no capital and
oilers highly remun.rating employment 10
every oae who will work. Vrs Ia Sung
say WE. Yours,