Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1859-08-27
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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 our
thanks. tr.t ... a aas..5.
Watcrmc,ons .-t.,.
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 few baskets? We think they'd sell
first-rate., -
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 N orthern 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 onr thanks
for number Of late papers.
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Obstruction: to Navigation.
Oar attention has been again called to
that nulsance-the wreck of the sloane,
Galena-and after having conferred with a
number of our citizens upon the subject, we
have concluded to give some of the reasons
why it should be moved from its present
position.
First, it gives the levee very shabby ap-
pearance. and strangers visiting our city form
anything but favorable opinion of our
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 respccta
bic appearance, is the removal of the wreck.
Secondly, it siloH,l b, removed because it
is gradually forming a bsr in front Of the
leyec, which will eventually turn the chan
mel to The other side Of the river. ~. IT,. .e
Thiialy,i it ought to be removed, l,eca use,
SHOULD it turn the channel of the river t.,
the other side, it will occasion The citizens o;
Red Wing great deal Of inconvenien c BY
causing t.leln to move il back aga:n, or TO
move the city across to the ,slan,I-sn III
tentative which would 10 doubt be as ex-
pensiye SIS inconvenie:!t.
For the e and other reasons i should he
hauled CAT. We have neither time nor
space to 80 into details upyu this SUBJ ect,
although it is an important one We will
here remark, however, .i1at We 40 not be
lieve the Packet Company will move it until
they are male q ao Il.
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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
|proying them. The old road to the Nor
Iweglan settlement has how become !npas
sable the ravine leading up from the val
ley OF Hay Creek, having been so badly
guided GU: by the spring rains, as to be worse
than it was in a state Of nature. In view
OF the Fact that the now road by Elder So
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 r;ght-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
is 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-and she
has. Yet the hundreds Q: thousands
OF 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-mas ter or constable, and turn out
with bands and professions and cannons,