St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1858-09-30


IL was iroor III the winter of ,66
Land Id April s58, from
sauk Upper Nm. 81 The post Office
as. III Middle which inh BY in
dustript,s md vel. to-slc9 German q
}is h,sre, and Iii hell be-
longing to ii, lii the first ataurch going bell III
sstearsas county and has i'll o the distinction Of
being audi Ia fburnc and Benton
counties which corner on the Oh Dsite side Of
tIe river There too is u school kept by d COM
'pany Of Beneaiciine Nuns where music draw
51ifa. nee1leWerk and German are Yelltaugat
hy ladies ut polished manners aiift arssisua1
proficiency. q. 355# Il ...56
Lower Town has TIVE protestant churches, in
process Of erection one, about completed. We
have q pa5lic school in the Everett School
house ana a handsome Library dedicated by
Hon. Edward Everett The engines of ma ex-
|eellent saw mill and planning mill, sash faete--
Iry.; and Of o good Touring mill IRE this me-
nenf putting away within half a dozen rods Of
our office. We have from Eve 10 six steaIa boat
arrivals here weekly and The smallest proper
ton of tlroAes We have ever seen in any hive
In the fall OF .,pe GTasshoppers cams in a
cloud and settled down in this and adjoining
counties, destroying the greater portion Of The
crops They deposited their larvae and died.
karl in the spring Of 81 the young brood
came ont and made such havoc that serious
fears aof famine were entertained by a large
portion Of the people; but they left in July, and
50 many Of the late crops survived. that with
the full crops Of particular places, where they
did not appear, there was g large amount Of
food. In autumn it became a question whether
there Was. enough fer winter consumption With
what the people had the means Of purchasing
from below. The German settlers were gener
ally Of the opinion that there was not, and the
Priests sent commissioners to Dubuque to ask
contributions. When this became known in
Lower st.. Cloud Indignation snaaefingss we're
held, and strong resolutions passed condemn
ing the measure as altogether unnecessary, and
one calculated to do the country great injury
by preventing emigration in the spring. The
Correctness Of this view Of the case is now PROV
en-, The third week Of May is here potatoea
sell at % cts, per bnshel, corn 81 90, wheat
81 rs, oats 80 cts. and we have heard of no in
stance In which any have suffered for want Of
food, while a very large proportion ofthe EN-
igrants who had last year designed emigratins
TO this poiIt have been deferred by this bug
bear cry OF famine, and have gone elsewhere
The time is now past ct which the Grasshoppers
appeared last spring, and the milds Of the
people are set on rest as the question Of WEaeth-
err they left lavae, last year, before they emit
grated. It is evident that they went to other,
localities as they came here to eat, deposite
their eggs and die. There is no sign that they
have left any deposits here, and as everybody
is putting in a crop Of something good to eat
we expect next fall to be encountered with q
surplus Of the good things Of this life, and to
illunaate ST. Anthony Minneapolis and ST
Paul, with vegetables and grain after supply
anI; the Pine regions. and The laborsrs on he
Rail Road. @
E3E1EcCK--EInJ EII0C5El-
I FEfHiS town is situated on the Sioux
: ! Wood river, and is the Western tern1i
nus 1T The Minnesota and Pacific railroad !;
the point laid down by Capt, Pope on his
map rs the head Of steam navigation on the
BED riTer:; the Valley Of the RED river is
about twenty miles wide on either side CT the
stream, a5la about five hundred 1niies long;
the sllrface is level and drained By numerous
streams which are skirted with elm, ash, bass
wood. white wood and pine af The largest
growth, the remainder Of the valley is prairie.
composed Of rich. black loan free from sand
:barrens or swamps. Red river is deep, slow
stream, has Iio islantls, salad bars or snags to
obstralct nitysgation The banks are about q
feet high, and not subject to overflow many
of the tributaries Of the Red river are strong
ly ianpregnated with salt, and indications Of
iron and coal are numerous in the vicinity.
The farmers Of the valley Of the Red river
gare to Major, Woed} SIS the average Of their
crops wheat 80 to 40: barley DO to SO; oats
40 so :: and potatoes 200 TO 500 bushels to the
acre. Al Penabina, I20o miles north If Brock
enridge. ex-Gov Ramsey says, 6 on the I'd
October, 1851, water melons and oartelopes
were sersedto us for dessert, and the frs, frost
that occurred was on the night Of that day,
[see address beforethe Minnesota AgiScultu-
raj Society. Oct, 10th, 1856 Two large SET
Elements have long existed on Red river
Pernbina and selkirk, both Of which yearly
raise s. large surplus Of the products Of the
farm the whole valley of the Red river is
rapialy filing up with au energetic and intel
ligent population The country being exceed
ingly healthy, and Should the indications of
iron and coal lead to the discovery Of those
will sooa be swarnaing with a population en-
gagged in agriculture mining and ,nanufaetnr.
ing. supplying eastern Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Iowa ind Missouri With the produetsof then,
labor and skill: the Minnesota and Pacific
rallroad will be placed Immediately under
contract aa4by the terms ofits charter 1t must
De finished from Saltwater to St Anthony With
in two years, and completed to Breckenridge
within ten years frem. the Sd Of March, 1857,
or forfeit its franchise rs well as the lands do
natel to it. 5} HIN l Il. ~ i M.
Breesenridg is also at The poinS where Goy-
pf,
road crosses The Sioux Wood river, an exam
nation Of The Western States, and a reference
Q the writings OF Gov. Stevens. ex-Gov. Ram
say or the Congressional documents containing
the .reports OF Maj. Long and Capt. Pope, cam
moi fail to convince that such is The geograph-
ical position Of breckenridge; that all thai
portion pf the, Territory Of the United States
which layts west cf The Mississippi and north
Of the head waters Of the Minnesota rivers
must ' forever be tributary to that city, and
that breckenridge Is To- be not only: the CONF
rlere'al centre for the northwest, brlt will
forever be the gate city on The great northwest
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