St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1859-07-14
ST, CLOUD, STEARNS CO., MINNESOTA A.. A.. F
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THE FRAZER RIVER TRAIL.
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77o'.5 ia St. Cloud, June Goth, 1852 :
Sunday eoos a fine day; quite too: fine to
while, away in writing for: an: ungrateful
public; so fine indeed that it seemed to
me as if the world had just emerged from
the bowels Of some deep subterranean cav
ern such as where Jove's servile black
smiths forge him thunderboltsin the lower
story of Mount Etna-and burst like a
huge blue -pinioned lark into the fresh morn
ing light, self:poised and rselfensphered in
the sweet ether.
tits Monday now and a glorious soft
skyed morning. again. L have scarcely
time to write you three words ofta two
weeks good bye, before I shall have to
mount my fleet femenine ,Buccphalus, my
mare in vulgar parlance, in pursuit of the
party which started an hour or two ago
St. Cloud is the actual starting point of the
expedition On its voyage Of exploration as
in fact it seems to me it must always be to
a great extent the secondary point of de-
parture for all the lines Of trade and trav-
I ell that stretches from St. Paul westward
ly and northwestwardly to she Pacific, and
/ think that our necessity Of waiting here
at the last outpost of the frontier, to COM
plete our outfit, areshadows the eventual
pestiny of this point, as the local depot,sof
khe Red River trade. ~ q . -... -:
COL Mobiles ordered the tents to be struck
this morning at eight clock. Before you
lose sight Of us, then, in the abysses Of the
Wilderness, it will be proper at least to
leave an admiring world the means of rec
ollecting our illustrious names. 49,
I Isl The party is not so large as was expec-
ted, and some Of the stragglers who were
expected to Join US here have already pre-
ce led US on their way to Red. River. It
now consists Of twenty men, which will
probably be increased to twenty-six when
they all meet at Pembina. 1T,
" The names Of the party are as follows ::
COL VIM. H. Mobiles, whose experience
as an, explorer has given him a national
reputation, and fits him better than almost
any man living for the leader Of an expe-
dition like this. James w. Taylor, His
Photographer 4of the expedition; Dr. J: D..
Goodrich, Physician; DR.. G. L. Anderson,
Naturalist and Geologist, for the Smithso-
MAN Institute; Manton Marble corrcspon-ss
dent of the New York Evening Post and
Harper's i WeehIy and Monthly; J. w.
Hamilton, correspondent Of the y ew York
Tribune; j. A. Wheeloek represented the
Pioneer and Democrat. H*
The above names comprise the literary
and scientific force of the party. The re-
manning members of the party are:-John
P. Dignan, Wagon Master; Duncan p.
Kennedy. DR.. A: j. Thibado, Thos. Lynch,
w. w. Thompson, Jno. B.,Sandford, Hen
ry Smith, John Young, James Cheever,
VIM. N. Caldwell, Geo. McCully, Nelson
Harris, Geo: Mordeaux, Geo. N. Reed.
The party is organized in three messes -
each with its own tent, provisions, peculi-
arities and cook, who is usually an addit-
ional popularity: .~ ~ =: r.! :~.gl
I have placed the name Of James w.
| Taylor, down in its place, as he.is expected
at St. Cloud to night, and his name which
represents all the motives and objects of
the expedition, is necessary to give any
point or purpose to the assemblage ofoth-
i ought, before leaving st. CLOUD, to say
/ something about the rural beauty Of its
surroundings ts:urban aspirations have
wings enough to take care of themselves,
and if its fame depended upon me now, I
could think of uothing in the hurry Of this
writing, except that it has a, charming 1sit-
uation an Indefinite number of fine. houses,
and fine people=--:abont one thousand iu al
| I believe-thatit has a Yeutonic centre and
.Anglo-S Saxon. extremeties, two: miles apart;
that it contains two or three churches, a
Hospital of the Sisters of Mercy, two three
excellent hotels, ,and among other objects Of
susc! and ornament, the famous Mrs. SWISS
helm, whom did; myselfthe honor to call
and see, and who, by tho way, proved to
be a very agreeable, chatty person, not at
all demoniac or elfsh,:in her, general ap-
pearance- woman of small Stature, with
| brow of really fine contour In the. wide
arch and :Grecian sweep Of the nercentiH-
and ideal .nrn-"' -.
ibellir o.-s; W. u large, unsteady. re
eyes too, that look as If thee,y could
T nash, Wheth they could met or not: and
with lips to- back the eyess assertion
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