St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1859-05-19

est inhabitant." s The site Of Lower St.a Cloud
was taken up % claim by Martin Wolly, ..
Norwegian, who sold hisright to George F.
Brott, who surveyed and plated il intho spring:
Of '65. About the same time John =. Wilson
surveyed and plated what is now called middle
er, while General Lowry surveyed and plated
upper town, called Lowry's Addition, the win
ter following, TWAS Mr.. Wilson who gave
the town the name of St. Cloud; by this name
it was incorporated in the winter of '55 &c.
The Land Office was removed in April So from
Sank Rapids to the Upper town. The post office
is III Middle town, which is inhabited by in
dustrious and we'll to do German Catholics
The Catholic chapel is here, andthc bell be-
longing to it, is the first church going bell in
Stearns County and has alsostheI distinction OF
being the first audible in Sherburne and BENTON
counties which corner on the opposite, side Of
the5river. There too is school kept by a COM
pany Of Bencdictine Nuns where music, draw
ing, needlework and German are we'll taught
by ladies Of polished manners; and unusual
proficiency. o. ~ 81 So. s& S pa &
Lower town has two protestant churches, in
process Of erection, one quite completed We
have u public school in the Everett School
house, aud handsome Library dedicated by
Hon. Edward Everett The engines Of an ex-
cellent saw mill and planning mill, sash facto-
ry; and>o "a good Touring millsar this mo-
nsent putting away within halfsa dozen rods of
our Office. We have from five to six steamboat
arrivals here weekly and the smallest proper
ton Of drones we have ever seen in any hive.
In the fall of Sc Grassl.oppcrs camo tn a
cloud ana settled down in this and adjoining
counties, destroying the greater portion of the
crops. They deposited their laryse and died.
Early in tllespring Of '57 the young brood
came out and made such havoc that serious
fears Of famine were entertained by large
portion of the people; but they left in July and
so many ofthe late crops survived, that with
the full crops OF particular places, where they
did not appear. there was large amount Of
food II autumn it became question .wheth-
CT there was enough fer winter consumption
with what the people had the means Of purchas-
ing from below. The German settlers were
generally Of the opinion that there was not, and
Ike 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 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 pro-
ven. The third week of May is here, potatoes
sell at 25cts. per bushel, corn $1,00, wheat
S1,25, oats, 81 cts. and we have heard of no
instance in which any have suffered for want
of food; while a very large proportion Of the
emigrants who ad.last year designed esigra-
ting to this point have been deferred by this
*hugbcar yIof famine, and have gone else
where. The time is row past ut which the
Grasshoppers appeared last spring, and the
minds Of the people are set on rest as the ques-
ton Of whether they left larss, last year, be-
fore they emigrated. 1t 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 some
thing good to eat, VIC expect next fall TO be en-
numbered with surplus of the good things of
this life, and to inundate St. Anthony Mime
apolis and St. Paul, with vegetables and grain
after supplying the Pine regions and the Ia
borers onfthe Rail Road, j.