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St. Cloud visiter [sic]. [volume] (St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1857-1858, 1858-07-22
u-APRIL.

PACIFIC ROUTE celebration, OH
the 5th, at Minneapolis "The northern
route to the Pacific" Yves given as a toast.
c. &. Andrews Esq. o. St. Cloud, respond
ed in brief but able speech Of which the
following is an extract:
Thus far two maxims have been the
leading feature of our policy in Minnesota.
First. to find out what can and oughtto be
done,-Secondly,to do it. Now we have
ascertained that railroad can be built on
the Northern route, through Minnesota,
To the Pacific. Thorough and reliable ex-
nlorations have rendered it comparatively
certain that such route is most practica-
BILE. It has long been admitted by states
men Of all parties, that railroad y the
Pacific is necessary as means OF defense
to the coast. and as means Of economy in
transporting the mails. It is unnecessary
70 sneak of the advantage which such a
road would be to Minnesota. Those who
remember wha tthe overland emigration
to California and Oregon did for western
Missouri, can form some ideaof the results
which would accrue from a great Pacific
route through the State. What espe-
ci.lv desire in these remarks, is to call at
tention to the fact that far to the north
vest of US is a region which will need, and
contribute to support the proposed north
ern road. The vast Territory extending
ten degrees north and west Of here, lying
chiefly in British America, is we'll adapted
to agriculture. It is as far north Of US as
We are north of Tennessee. 1t is large!
than all the middle aud New England
States together, and watered BY the ASSN;
ehoin. the At]labasca, Saskatchewan and
Peace rivers. The other day was look
inc into Mackenzie's account OF his voyage
through North America in 1892. Afte'
exploring the great river, which will carry
his name down to posterity, he aseendeo
the Peace river Some OF the scenery OF
that river, he says, was the most magnii
cent he ever saw. He then found gar
den. which he states, equaled any vegeta
ble garden he had ever seen in Canada =
The great region of which I speak, has to
two centuries been under the jurisdiction
Of . gigantic monopoly the Hudson Be!
Company. It has been for the interest o
that company to keep thetenitory . wilder
ness, to promote their fur business Jana &C
oordingly their combined influence ha
been exerted to represent. it as unfavora
bic for agriculture. Lately, however, tnel
affairs have been inquired into ny tn
HouseofC Comnons, and testimony was tax
en-, showing the a1npleresourc that ooq'
try THERE'S prosPeet that i .illsoono .
:; ;wrested from the retarding influence Q
that monopoly, and opened up 70 settlers
When this is done, As itshould and vii b
done, a great stimulus will be given to on
northern route.
1 have said something ofwhat may con
tribute to our material prosperity. Letm
St. Cloud visiter [sic]. [volume] (St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1857-1858, 1858-07-22
St. Cloud June 26th 1858

ot. OAVOO VENeF,
. returned to this place yester
day from Breckenridge on Red River; being
one Of the party who located the State Road to
that place ana thinking some of the readers of
the Tsiter might wish to know something Of
the country which it traverses, propose to
give them sn idea, through your columns. In
the first place. A good road can he made onthe
line located with but very little expease. The
country is far better suited for road thsn
that which the ''old Pembina trail" traverses.
Very few bad sloughs are encountered. and
good crossings were found at all the principal
streams. The distance is about 40 miles
which is a saving Of at least 80 miles over the
Pembina trail.
The country is as good, if not better than
any other which have seen in the North West
and, by the way, have seen a large portion
oft. There is no point on the line until with
in 80 miles Of Breckinridge, where timber Of
good quality, and in abundant quantity, is not
found at distance no greater than half mile9
The soil Is excellent and yields wheat, oats
potatoes, corn &c. abrndantly. Any person
VII. doubts this I would advise to take a trip
up the Sauk valley and see the fields Of wheat,
corn and etctras; which there gladden. the heart
Of the farmer and he will doubt no more.
Probably no person has stronger prejudices
against this country than had before came
here; but they are all removed; I intend to
make it my future home.
The road is located through the tow. sites Of
Sauk Centre, Kandotta, Alexandria Lapham.
The latter place being at the crossing Of the
Otter Tail River which affords superior nat
ural water power; and is likely to make quitea a
town, Alaxandria is the county seat Of Doug
lass County and is located among some of the
most beautiful lakes ever saw. There is an
abundance of good timber close to the town
site, with long strips of prarie extending into
it. 1t is county which must soon fill up with
settlers, Tor any one who sees it cannot fail to
like it. Breckenridge is surrounded by fine
agricultural country; ami being at the head Of
navigation ON the Red River, and also the ter
minus of Minnesota s Pacific Rail Road can
not fail to make large town. The timber is
scarce IN the immediate vicinity;but this diff
Guilty is obviated by the fact that there is an
inexhaustable supply just above on the Otter
Tail which can be easily aoated dawn and
made into lumber ahd fuel. A large ''drive''
is now within few miles of Breckinridge,
Which demonstrates the practicability of this.
1t is designed for the mill which is to be
erected this summer by the town company.
IF the necessary exertion is made to cut out
the roadway through the brush and timber,
and to bridge few of the bad sloughs, so that
the travel VII: be directed into that channel
have no doub, but the whole country along the
line will be settled within Two years.
c, BROWN.
St. Cloud visiter [sic]. [volume] (St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1857-1858, 1858-07-22


petition" etc., phrase on which Adam,
Afterwards roasted him alive. Finally tht
pro-slavery side began to suspect that
! they were pursuing the negro in th<
! wrong direction that if there was a color
ed individual in the case at al, he was
more likely to be found in the paling thar
in the petition, and so they stopped to take
breath.
Then Mr.. Adams rose to address the
House. With great deliberation, hisvoic<
of a shrill key that penetrated to the reno
test corners Of the galleries, and with a
frail bit of paper rustling in the speaker
aged hand, he called the Speakers attention
70 the question he had put to him three days
ago, which stillremained unanswered, viz,
Whether a petition purportin9 to be from
slaves IFhe soere to present 1t, go to the
table under the order of the 18th Of Janu-
ary? Looking around him with an ex-
preston of mingled sarcastic cunning and
lofty scorn, which Lord Chatham would
have envied, he cried in voice, not of
thunder, but ina sharp, Kissing tone, such
as tightening might be supposedto employ
if it spoke at all, "AM I TO BE EXPELLED
FRoMTH1s LoQUAc1oUs, BABBL1NG HOUSE
FOR SIMPLY ASKING A QUESTION.
For the first time the thought flashed
on foe and friend, that Mr.. Adams had
neither presented the paper, nor proposed
to present it. Everybody felt queer, while
some grave men looked like lank sheep
suddenly denuded of their feeces. It had
now got wind that the paper was a forgery,
the work ofsome stupid politician in Wash
ington, and purporting to be written by
Scipio, Sambo, and othe, bogus negroes.
asking the House to expel Mr.. Adams
from that bed === - < : - :
And now the "old man eloquent" took
his turn in debate, How he demolished
one opponent after another scourging,
Aaying, scalping, and impaling to his
hearts content t-how rank upon rank Of
chivalry went down before his trenchant
blaae-how he spitted poor Droomgoole,
and roasted him before slow fire of sar-
casm, when he told him that "giving CO
lor to an idea" was not Northern but a
Southern practice, one of the peculiar in
stitutions Of Virginia, with which he had
no desire to interfere-how the House
screamed with laughter as Droomgoole es-
sayed a grim smile in acknowledgement
Of his delicate allusion to the bleaching
chemistry employed by the South to era
dicate the dark tints in their variegated
population how he wound up his trium-
plant philippe by warning his young ad-
versaries never again to run on an errand
till they knew where they were going
and how the House firmly refused to lay
the resolutions on the table, but brought
their authors to direct vote, and finally
trampled them down by adecided majority
Are not all these things written in tha
chronicles of the Old Hall of the House o1
Representatives.
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1-NoVEMBER.

The dead leaves their rich mosaics'
OF olive and gold and brown,
Had laid ON the rain-wet pavements'
Through all the embovered town.
rhev were washed by the autumn tempest
They were trod by hurrying teet'
And the maids came out with their besoms,
And swept them into the street,
To be crushed and lost forever
Meath the wheels, in the black mire LOST
The summers precious darlings,
She nurtured at such cost!
O words that have fallen from me!
O golden thoughts and true!
Must see in the leaves symbol
OF the fate which swaiteth you?
II-APRIL.
Again has come the spring time,
With the crocus's golden bloom,
With the smell Of the fresh turned earth-mould,
And the violet's sweet perfume.
OGardner! tell me the secret
Ofthy flowers 50 rare and sweet!
II have only enriched my garden
With the blask mi1e from The stseet. !" -
St. Cloud visiter [sic]. [volume] (St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1857-1858, 1858-07-22

Unity Of continental discovery. The a.
gents of the Canadian government, lave
done for the terra t,.cognita Of Rupe1ts
Land more than Livingston has done 70;
the interior Of Africa, or than Perry did for
Japan. They have added a lew world 10
the domain of Colonial enterprise.
The discovey-for discovery we must call
it since it ceases to be the secret Of a cor
poration-ofa a vast fertile plain stretching
uninteruptedly from the valley Of the Red
River to the base of the Rocky Mountains:
watered across the whole expanse by navi-
gable streams of noble volume, and which
carries the isothermal zone St. Paul to the
sources Of the Mackenzie river, opens a new
theatre for the colonization Of the latter
half of this century, and determines dein'-
lively and unalterably the path OF the h'st
Railway to the Pacific. The level valley Of
Saskatchewan, which is navigable for 400
miles from the Rocky Mountains to Lake
Winnipeg, interlocking there with the wa
tiers of the Red River. which forms our
northwestern boundry, and adds 500 miles
more to this splendid chain Of inland nayi-
cation, fxes across these level steppes the
best route in the world for Railroad; and
tie Rocky Mountains which divide this
immense plain from the slopes Of the
Pacific shore, afford along the gorges which
connect it with the valley Of Fasear sriver,
the most practicable passes in the whole
chain. The extraordinary detection ofthe
isothermal lines which carry the climate OF
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St. Cloud visiter [sic]. [volume] (St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1857-1858, 1858-07-22
Northern Route.


We give the following able article from
ehe Fioseer& Denocsat on the natural land
route from the Atlantic to the Pacific
coast. Itadords much food for reflection;
and presensa very important chain Of faets.
We have little doubt'that the first railroad
that shall connect our eastern and western
seaboards will be this Northern route; but
he lioe now IN process Of construction from
istillwaser to BrcSkinridge on the Red
RIVER will be completed in few ycars with
connections :ilat will givea continuous rail-
::>>a from the schuylkll TO the Otter
Tail.
Oaee *'lere, an:, wav will soon open to
,nooeed. Que thing "A eilis connection is
wo::'I.y Of note. Ihe present Red River
s2aee m's'' 'e principally storne:i n st.
Cloud, savia1 At cats ainety miles % the
worsr "a. Of sae :oa'i; also si.e expense and
aelay Of fc::.yaSe. :;,,e ::'erchants OF o,.,'
;"i';-yeas s-ol: city ',ave seen 20 bus. accu-
Es;.g lanus At" ouv;,'::, .ovn sites hal i've
&. .'i.4! employ,I III o;Aer .,'siaess is alto.
s 8" .l7r Insufficient 10 sunp' .;,e demand
ZOE merchandise. IF IL were uot so, 81.
Cloud would, i'll great measure, relieve
It. ra'l from tle ,:e,:uce of lhe Red
Rive: % :; IS. Tjle .:,ea lave shown a dis
No tioi., ah:, s'''' -; IL 'tc:.ase acre; anil
; ,,e dealt wa o.:: ,;,eIcilai,ts more Than
:;."s dill last 5car: although their stock Of
Goods is quite inferior 10 what il :llen was.
\ few catermi:ins merchants witt, a
Moderate capital: added to our present b'.-
siilcss list woul.i e,.;..le st. Clo,ld to iutcv~
cept toe Red River trade; and to DO severa:
other Things which would be very we'll
worth the doing.
E.11oiorant and Railroad Ro11te
St. Cloud visiter [sic]. [volume] (St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1857-1858, 1858-07-22
Emigrant and Railroad Route
from St. Paul toPuget's Sound.

lie FACTS developed III Cle penang CON
lest Of the Canadian people with the H,;'l
sons Bay Company, for the possession o1
tile s. i,,And:d=-territorial p, prize, which has
beeu so long locked up under the svariciou:
rule of that trading monopoly, has awaken.
ed ain interest in relation to the part of the
British possessions, which lies contiguous
10 the northwest boundry of our own State
scarcely less than if new Continent had
been discovered.
Fifty years have passed since Lord Sci
kirk, penetrating through the inhospitable
belt of territory which encloses the waters
of Hadsons Bay, and passing along tie
same parallels Of latitude from the climate
of Lapland, to the climate Of Crimea, from
tie Artic sterility Of northern Norway on
Nelson's river to the generous soil and lux
uriant vegetation Of Southern Russia on
Red river, declared that he had found in
the basin Of the Winnepeg, aud islanded by
artic SHOWS on the north and east and by
barren plains in the south, a country will
all the characteristics of the temperate zon<
embracing 300, 900 square miles, and capa
ble ofsupportinga population of3O, ,0OO, 900
The effort tofthe Hudson's Bay and North
west Companies to crush the infant colony
planted by him on the Red River, and thu
final assertion by these corporations under
the name and charter of the latter Of an un
limited monopoly over whole region
with objects adverse to projects Of fcoloniza
tion, explain the mystery in which tn
physical geography Of this country has 5eel
industriously involved; and the facts which
the recent contest has developed, often ex
torted from the unwilling witnesses Of tn
co,o n.rv ;tself have all the novelty and. !,
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1858-11-02

of February l776. Nor the exertons of our ct-
gems confined their territory Gen Francis Nash
and Col. Edward Buncombe gave up their lives on the
soil of Pennsylvania, and at the battle OF Eutaw the
North Carolina militia maintained the fight; in the open
field against greatly superior force of British regulars
so long and obsnatey refused to retire, when or
dered by their officers that the commandcr-n-chief de-
cared that their conduct would have done honor to
Prussian veterans. And when the gloomy cloud of
British domination moving steadily on from the
northeast like the dark shadow of an eclipse paused
before reached border. The tide of our
enemies recocd from the base of those "un
known mountains, and became reducnt when Ferguson
fell Soon after in the bloody battle of Guilford the
power of Corvallis the ablest and most dangerous of
our enemies broken, and he retired, with dropping
spirits, to the side to become captive
That North Carolina declined, for nearly two years
after its formation to become member of our present
Union in respect to her discredt Having profed
by her experience she slow to part with the
right of absolute self-government and finally, only
adopted the Federal Constitution, after important
amendments had been made. And should it, from any
cause afford her that protection to which she is
entitled the spirit which animated her early colonsts,
which resisted the Stamp Act and other British agrees
sons, and still higher at Mecklenburg and King
Mountain will again be ready to vindicate the prnci-
pies of civil liberty. That she may be spared the
cessity of exetions to that end ought to be the
wish of all her sons. The whole human is Largely
in the result of present system and should
it be successful there will be presented such Empire
of confederaed sovercgnties has yet existed
on the face of the globe.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1858-11-02
DENUNCIATION OF THE DEMOCRA
TIC PARTY.

Some time ago, SAYS the Columbia Carolinian,
VIC published some extracts from Senator Wilson 5
speech showing what a stumbling block the Demo-
cratic party was ia the way of the Black Republi-
cans. He denounced it as "tool of slavery"
We make now some extracts from Senator Seward S
speech. He, too, aids the opponents of Dcmoc-
racy, and will crafty many i'll the Sout.. by his
denuncation of the party. Those liz our State
who assert that to be Democrat, is to be anti
States Rights administration Rights, will please
. read Senator Stewards speech:
Senator Seward addressed very large Republi-
can meeting in this city tonight Corinthian
Hall WIS crowded to excess. He spoke about an
hour and half, and dwelt chiefly upon the sub
jcct of slavery, showing, first, what the in
tcntions of the trainers of the Constitution, and,
second, what has been the tendency fthe Govern
ment under the control of the arstocracy of slave
ry. This country, he said, must be wholly free,
or altogether slave territory. lie arraigned the
Democratic party as the great ally Of the slave
power. Democratic Administrations merely record
its behests. The next demand of the slave power
will be the air g,tion Of the law SURPRISING the
slave trade, and SO they will import from Africa,
at the cost of only twenty dollars head, slaves
enough to fill up the interior Of the continent.
| Thus relatively increasing the number Of slave
States, they will allow no amendment to the Con-
stitution prcjudcial to their Interests and having
permanently established their power they will ex-
pect the Federal Judiciary to nulify all State laws
which shall interfere with the internal foreign
comm cree in slaves When the free States shall
be sufficiently demoralized to tolerate these designs
they may reasonably conclude that slavery will be
accepted by those States themselves. If it were
possible to conceive for a moment that the Demo-
cratic party should disobey the behests of the
shareholders, We should then see withdrawal of
the shareholders who would leave the party 20
perish. The portion of the party which is found
in the free States is mere appendagc, convenient
to modify its sectional character without impair
ing its sectional constitution, and is less effective
in regulating its movement than the nebulous tail
of the comet is in determining its appointed,
though apparently eccentric course, or the fiery
sphere from which it emanates.'
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1858-11-02


SUICIDE AND BLOODY AFFAY.-We copy the
following from the Marion Is. c.. Star, of the Goth
ult:
1--WE learn that man named Holden, living
some six miles South of this village, committed
suicide, Saturday night last He was living
! at the house of his brother and being out after
dark, the house, was heard to talk as if in
conversation with some one; he then called to his
brother to come to him, who started, and arriv-
ing within about hundred yards Of the spot,
heard the report Of pistol, and back and
called neighbor, Mr. Lloyd. This gentleman
approached the spot, and found the deceased lying
on the ground with an empty pistol in his hand,
the contents of which had been fred into his fore
head; he was alive, but speechless and only lived
about three hours. A jury of inquest was held on
Sunday, and gave a verdict that the deceased came
TO his death by his own hands.
Eve learn that an ARRAY took place, on Wednes-
day night last, in Marlboro District between
Sion Odom and Joshua Afford, Of this district,
which resulted in the death Of the latter, by gum
shot wound inflicted by the former. We have not
heard the particulars" r.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1858-11-02

EALrABLE MEDIcISE.-During the present yveek "a
less than six of our friends who have been induced ~
try Prof De Grath's Electric Oil for rhnmatisn, =;
sequence OF having seen this preparation advertised
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The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1858-11-02

A HERofNE.-The Danville Republican tells =,
a lady named Butler, in Caswell county, n. G.
whose s child Tree recently t tell into well sixty feet
bucket, went to the bottom Of the we'll took ,ta
child In her arms and then assembled the ron"
bringing the child along with her-an unparalleled
feat
The following opinion of counsel learned in tho
law" is worth at least hundred of any other eve,
given by the limbs of the profession:
Fee simple and simple fee,
And all the fees in tail,
Are nothing when compared to thee,
Thou best of fees-female!
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1858-11-02

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bespeaks its excellence in more forcble than
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Wecommcnd with than usual zeal and confidence
believing and knowing, do that it stands foremost
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The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1858-11-02

BRIGHAM COMPLETELY EcLIPsED-On the
evening of the 18th of September, the day of the
departure of the last mail from Salt Lake thirteen
births were reported in Elder Kimballs family.
The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1858-11-02

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