Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian., 1859-06-18
STATE ITEMS.


more than it costs to dig it. Let that suffice.
STATE ITEMS.
The St. Anthony Neaos, of June 7th, says
We are informed that there are three thou
sand acres of bottom lands under cultivation |
above st. Anthony, which are entirely under |
water. News arrived yesterday that the
bridge over Rum river, at Anoka, had been |
carried away, and was coming down upon US
to deprive us of all communication with Min
neapolis, by taking away the Suspension
Bridge, but Capt. Taper Immediately pro-
ceeded to nip this arrangement in the bud, by
chartering the steamer Enterprise to 60 up
and intercept the enemy but soon after the
steamers departure fresh despatch arrived
bringing tidings that the bridge had lodged on
an island seven miles above this city. The
steamer however kept on, and will make assu-
rance doubly sure, by securing the bridge be-
yond probability of getting away. The up
per Bridge is decidedly used up, there being
besides the draw, but one span left on each
side OF the river. There were Originally nine
spans. This bridge was constructed at cost
of nearly $4,000.
In 1880, Father Hennepin wrote, g the
Falls are forty or fifty feet in height, and are
divided in the middle by rocky island of pyr-
amidal FORM" Since the illustrious Jesuit
gazed upon it, the Falls have retreated four or
five hundred feet up stream leaving the island
in the stream below. During the late terrible
storm, the Falls in the middle have reccded
one hundred and fifty feet further up the
stream, and their form has undergone a cor
responding change, from the nearly direct line
of week ago to the arc of circle which is
at present described.
When the water subsidies, if we mistake
not, they will present the appearance of foam
ing rapids rather than of plunging cataract.
The beautiful Spirit Island, below the Falls,
has wasted away more than one-thrd during
the present flood, tons of shelving rock; and
huge tables of limestone covered with earth
and trees and flowers, having broken off and
rolled down the precipice into the rapids.
Yesterday the two cities of st. Anthony
and Minneapolis furnished nearly two hundred
persons to swell the already large army now
in the Big Woods digging Ginseng. Among
this large number of persons who have thus
been compelled to "root hog, or die" we learn
that bankers, doctors, lawyers, and profession.
al men are found.
Mr. Cossitt proprietor of the steamer En-
terprise, has just closed contract to deliver
at the Chippewa Agency, seventy-five tons Of
f merchandise, and also to deliver at st. Cloud,
) for the Hudson Bay Company, two hundred
tons of merchandise, which is to be taken from
; ST. Cloud by Burbank & Co., to be by them
delivered to- tic steamboat on Red River as
soon as it commences to run.
TIE Chatfield Republican of June 7th says
W had rhf 1ocf
doing much damage to vegetation in some
localities.
WE have been informed that five additional
miles have been sub-let on the S. M. Railroad
/, which will bring the grade to within three
miles of Rushford. We arc glad to hear also
that the "lrst twenty miles " which have
been reported completed about twenty times
$ are in reality /" done" and ready for the iron
0 The Winona Republican, of June sth says
. The U. S District Court for Minnesota is il
session at Preston, Fillmore County this week
;, Quite a number of our citizens have gone ou
II as Jurors and on business. The opinion i
. prevalent that many of those who have gon
i , to Preston ACQUIRING" will have to CAM
/ out while they remain there. When the tow
e was built, no provision was made for holdin
II United States Courts, or for the reception {
le such an invading host as follows in thei
wake.
Mr.. Republican, some six weeks ago tn
\. writer of this came all the way on the stag
v road from Decorah to st. Paul, and no wheI
,e on the route was found so large and well al
a pointed public house, as at Preston.-J. D.
#. The Albert Lea Eagle, of May 2sth, say
st, Stranger, if you wish to see your beau ide
ce of town pictured out before you, with
= nearer approach to perfection than your i'm
~ gination can invent, we would advise you
make visit to the hourishing County Seat
to Freeborn County In beautiful and pictu
as esque scenery, we challenge the West to pr
- duce parallel. The vicinity of Lake Abe
.o Lea, and the Shell Rock passing through
nc bordered with extensive groves and woodlan
OIL occasionally interspersed with choice prairie
is extending into and forming connections wi
the rich back country, so magnificently dive
si6ed with beautiful lakes, innumerat
wn groves, and all the elements of wealth, is tr
ut " surrounding character, calculated to
'an spire with pride all who have selected HON
us in our midst.
md Yesterday, we helped roll black oak
the on to the logway at Ruble's mill, which W
cir four feet in diameter and twelve feet long
, a There were three more logs, just like Il
VS. one, cut out of the same tree.
ley Eleven teams passed through this place
'n@ ring the last week, bound for Dakota Terri
all accompanied by goodly number
lax "brave men and fair women"
ore
NJ. The Wabashaw Herald, of June Sth, sa
My The Baptist Association of Wabashaw h:
vel. just placed in the cupalo Of their churc
'ge. bell weighing 80 lbs.
Ea. . The Faribault Republican,, of June
son says:
,me The severe frost which visited us on Frit
ter. last, made sad havock with the garden We
;ha- tables, many of which were killed, and
,wn ground since replanted. A gentleman in
we employ of Mr.. Gibson, on visiting his gart
into the morning after the frost, found his vege
nich bles all frozen stiff, and apparently goner
tol- He covered his frozen vegetables WIN 8
ek's loose dirt, and let them remain until EVEN
t in or until the frost was out OF them, then
)tta- moving the earth from them, he found tn
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