St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1859-03-24

II was incorporated in INC winter OF $50 '56.--
Ihe Land Office was removed in April SO, from
snuk Rapids to Upper town. The post Office
is in Middle Town, which is inhabited by i'll.
dllstrious and well-to-do German Catholics
The Catholic chapel is here, and the bell be-
longing to.it, is the drstt church going bell in
stearns county and has also the distinction Of,
being the first audible In Sherburne and Benton
counties which corner on the opposite side OF
the river. There too is q school kept by . COM
pany of Benedictine Nuns where music, draw
inn, needlework and German are well taught
by ladies Sc, Of polished manners and unusual
proficiency. $3.50 ..@s
lower Town hasstwo protestant churches; ii III
process Of erection one, about completed. Is We
have a public school in the Everett, School
house, and handsome Libraryi dedicated by
Hon, Edward Everett The engines Of an ex-
cellent saw mill and planning; mill, sash facto-.
ry and Of d good Touring mill are this mo-
ment putting away within half dozen rods of
our office. We have from five to six steamboat
arrivals here weekly and the smallest proper
ton of drones welhave ever seen in any hive.
81 In the fall Of ,'56 Grasshoppers came in q
cloud and settled down in this and adjoining
counties, destroying the greater portion Of the
crops. They deposited their larvae and died.
Early in the spring Of 81 the young brood
came out and made; such havoc that serious
fears cf famine were entertained by a large
portion of the pcnple; but they left in July, and
SO many of the late crops survived, that with
the full crops of particular places, where tuey
did not appear, there was large amount Of
food. 4 In autumn it became question whether
there was enough for 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 mot, and the
Priests sent commissioners to, Dubuque to ask
contributions. When this became known in
Lower St. Cloud Indignation meetings were
held, and strong resolutions passed condemn
ing the measure as altogether unnecessary, and
one calculated to do the country great injury
Correctness Of this view Of the case is crox-
~. ".c ....1 week Of Nav is notatoes
sell g: 81 90 v,s. per bushel, corn 81, 90, wheat
l$1, 25 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 Of the en-
| igrants who had last year designed emigrating
to this point have been deferred by this bug
bear cry of famine, and have gone elsewhere.
1 The time is now past at which the Grasshoppers
appeared last spring, and the minds. Of the
people are seton rest as the question Of wheth-
er they left layac, last year, before they emf
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 a
surplus Of the good things Of this life, and to
inundate St. Anthony, Minneapolis and St.
Paul, with vegetables and grain after supply
ing the Pine regions and the laborers on the
Rail Road.