Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-06-11
STATE ITEMS.

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The foundations of Mr.. Lawther's and Mr.
Phelps brick blocks, on the corners OF BUSH
and Main Streets, were commenced TINS week.
WE have been shown stalk of rye, pluck
ed by Z. f. Towne, Esq, on the 10th ult
which measured three feet and four e"ctes;
1t grew about one mile and IL hall from Can
non Falls 1t is singular how anything man
ages .to grow III this awful cold. country"
Eastern papers are requested to copy this
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The Hastings Ledger Of June 18th says;
Every body is going into the Ginseng trade.
About seventy-tive men and boys have left
here, and are digging in the neighborhood of
Northfeld. Many of them are making
good thing of it, earning from one. to three
dollars a day each. In many cases, where
the digger is expert, and the root plenty, the
latter sum is made in few hours. There
are so many buyers that there is no difficulty
in selling it all, the buyers taking it at all
times, and in every State - as it is dug, or
washed, or partially dry--paying for it in
eastern currency. Mr.. Whitney, of. this city,
is now near Faribault, and pays out from one
I TO three hundred dollars per day, At Fari-
bault the sales amount to five or six tons per
week.
DURING the last week we have had series
of the heaviest storms of wind, hail and rain
that has ever occurred within the recollection
OF the oldest inhabitant. On Thursday night,
a large amount of damage was done on the
river and lake st. Croix The steamer Equa-
tor,while going up the Lake, was blown ashore,
where she was wrecked, the cabin being taken
completely off by the wind, the hull sinking.
A number of log and lumber rafts belong
ing to Hersey, Staples q Co., were blown
ashore and went to pieces, on Lakes st. Croix
and Pepin. The value of the RATS would
I probably, in all, amount to some $4,000.
We have not heard of any damage to grow
ing crops from the storm.
The Red Wing Republican, of June Sd,
says:
Operations upon the Episcopal Church
have been commenced. The contract for
building has been let to Messrs. McClentham
and Whitney. They are to have it compile
ted by the first of November next
During the high wind of yesterday morn
ing the steeple of the NJ. E. Church was
blown over, carrying away in its passage
down the greater part of the roof, the back
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terror of the church is one general wreck
The amount of damage is yariously estimated
at from one to three thousand dollars.
THE Chatfield Republican, of May 31st,
says:
| An unfortunate Pixies Peaker arrived in
this place from that region on Friday night
last. He brings disheartening intelligence
| He prospected sixteen days on Cherry Greek
and found three small particles of gold prob
| ably ten cents worth, and as none of the dig
| gins seemed to be doing better than this, he
pulled up stakes and started for home.
! \ tremendous storm of wind and rain Wis
| tied this vicinity on Thursday last No dam
age cone, that we have heard Of The streets
OF Csatfield for an hour or SO were filled with
running water in many places, two feet in
depth.
THE st. Peter Statesman, of June Sd, says
A farmer in this county has planted seven
acres of potatoes. At the ordinary yield in
Minnesota, he will raise 1000 bushels.
The ginseng excitement continues to race
with unabated fury. st. Peter is deserted
that is, all the loaicrs, and everybody else
who cannot make at least $3 per day in town.
are out in the Big Woods digging ginseng
One man, the other day, who had Just walked
up to the startling fact that from three to five
dollars per day could easily be made, in cash
rushed toward the woods in the most intense
excitement; but happening to think that hs
was ignorant of the appearance of ginseng, re
traced his steps, and being unable to find
top as speedily as he desired, picked up ;
root at one of the purchasing depots, ant
madea break for the new Eldorado, exclam
ing that he would find ginseng before he re
turned, if he had to dig up the entire wood.
to get the same root!
We saw man yesterday who said he hat
dug $40 worth in two days, and that hi:
brother had dug So worth Cat cents per h.
in one day this week.
"Oh, for lodge in some vast"-ginseng diggings
Seth Cadwalder, of Ottawa, lie Sueur Go.
is erecting large saw-mill about half mil
east of Ottawa, on Cherry Creek.
Mcssrs. Chiffon and Col B. F. Pratt ar
building large ginseng dry-house and refine
ry on Fourth street, purchasing huge piles G
it every day.
, Last Monday mornings sun witnessed tn
sudden departure from the full enjoyment 9
health to their original mother dust, G
about one half of the worthless dogs wit
which St Peter has been infested for tw
years past. Blessings, "lOng and Deep" fo
lowed their demise, but the perpctrator &
the righteous deed remains unknown even t
the oldest inhabitant." He must be dc
vout christian, or he would long ere this hav
e paraded over his own signature, this act {
: extremely disinterested benevolence befor
. this grateful community, in placards or throug
, the public prints.
!. The fruitful "local" subject presents til
same phase every week, and when we ha,
said that the river is high, we have said ii
S whole thing " in a nutshell" The water
F. decidedly wet, and there is great deal of
l. Whether this state of things is to be attrib'
ted to ginseng, we are unable to say with an
deuree of certainty. The theory, however,
: plausible one. The price of ginseng rise
a the roots themselves are coming up, tout
e the ground) the spirits Of the diggers are ri
ing, and why shouldn't the river keep up?
THE St. Anthony Ners says:
= Those who have looked upon the Falls OF S
el Anthony within the past four days, will
&c surprised at the entire change in their a
pearance since that time At the southe
~ termination, or at the point where the NJ
IS Company have erected their breakwater,
,p large fragment of rock has been broken O
as and settled down, which leaves the Falls mo
in the shape of on inclined plane, and with
far less abrupt fall than before, Still fartf
al out. near the middle of the channel, the gre
he mass of rock which projected far out over
T. space below, has been broken off by the v;
,,o volume and force Of the water, far up into
bed of the rocky floor above the Falls, leavi
'' their shape at present, very much like the
'e- agara on the American side.
nv The Mantorville Express says:
e'- We learn that the mail service on the ro
from Winona to St. Peters has been redu'
from tr-weekly to scmi-weekly. This is Ii
tie short of an outrage by the Department on
as whole people of this portion of Minnesota
49, The route passes through the leading toy
'h- of Winona, Olmsted, Dodge, Steele, and +
'as Counties, and certainly through one of
yer most thickIv settled portions of the State.