Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1859-08-27
e. 4. LlTTLEFIELD, Local Tldi.or.

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| We acknowledge the receipt Of = bundle
Of late papers, for which Geo. s. Pierce Esq
Of the steamer Key City will accept opl
thanks. ttts fs# % ,rgsag;es
Watermclons 4.., Gf,-
Are very plenty in market-E. P. Iowa
ser has some fine ones. Peaches arc very
plenty down below. Won't some one send
for lew baskets !? We think they'd sell
6rst-rate., -it 'aa
A Good Arrangement.
The fine steamer Golden Era, which was
taken off the Galena line of packets to give
place to the. Itasca and Milwaukee, has
again come into the line to supercede the
steamer Northern Light, which will here.
after run through to st. Louis. This is a
good arrangement, and we are gled to see
Capt. Laughton and Charley Kinds occupy.
ing the positions which they are so compe.
tent to fill. Charley will accept orr thanks
for number Of late papers.
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obstruction to Nayigation.
| Oar attention has been again called t.
that nuisance-the wreck Of the steamer
Galena-and after having conferred with q
number of our citizens upon the subject, We
have concluded to give some of the reasons
why it should he moved from its presen,
position.
First, it gives the levee very shabby ap.
pearance. and strangers visiting our city form
anything but favorable opinion Of on,
home enterprise. The levee has been par.
TALLY cleared Of the rubbish which has here.
tofore obstructed navigation by land, and all
that is now necessary TO give it respecta-
bic appearance, is the removal Of the wreck.
Secondly, it should be removed because it
is gradually forming bsr in front Of the
levee, which will eventually turn the chan
mel to the other side Of the river. 4l'. t.. ~
II Thirdly, it ought to be removed, .teca use,
SHOULD it turn the channel of tie river to
the other side, it will occasion the citizens OF
Red Wing great deal of inconvenien C by
causing them to move it back aga.n, or to
move the city across to the i|an,l-an Ill
Tentative which would no doubt be as ex-
pensive as announcement.
| For the e and other reasons It should be
hauled out. We have neither time nor
space to go into details up>n this subj ect,
although it is an important one. We will
here remark, however, that we 40 not he
lieve the Packet Company will move it until
they are na:'e % do 1t.
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8 Ii>nsteeah!e Subject. ~
We are ashamed to have again to call at
tention to the horrible state of the roads
leading from Red Wing into the country
Another year has rolled around, and moth
ing whatever has been done towards i'm
proving them, The old road to the Nor
Iwegian settlement has now become impas
sable the ravine, leading up from the val
ley OF Hay Creek, having been so badly
|gulled out by the spring rains, as to be worse
than it was in state Of nature. In view
Of the fact that the now road by Elder 30
rims farm had been laid out and PARTIAL y
worked; the people living along the old
road have fenced it up-we know not by
what right-and force teams to 60 around
three sides of an eighty acre lot, instead Of
going straight across.
The new road is still greater disgrace.
Anticipation was high when it was first laid
out-the country people were charmed
with the idea-and the citizens Of Feath.
erstone precinct turned out en- masse, to
work their share upon it; and early in the
season they had made that ,portion running
through their township fit for race course.
But Red Wing township, after talking the
matter up year or so, and causing the old
road to be abrogated, and permitting Feath-
erstons to expend hundreds Of dollars on its
end. has apparently got tired Of the subject,
and dropped it for good. Isn't this treating
Featherstone shamefully? Is it not neg.
lecting our own interests still more shame
fully
Red Wing can show by the map that she
lis the nearest point on the river to
Steele county, by ten miles. She CLAIMS
that she has better natural route to that
county than has any other place land she
has. Yet the hundreds o. thousands
lot dollars Of the annual trade Of
that county goes to Hastings and Winona,
just because Red Wing has not got life
enough to work her roads. Our people
will get perfectly ferocious over the election
Of path-master or constable, and turn GU,
with bands and professions and ,cannons,