St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1859-06-02

est inhabltant." The site OF Lower St. Cloud
was taken up as claim BY Martin Wolly, a
Norwegian, who sold his right to George +:
Brott, WHO surveyed andrlatted itin the spring
Of o5. about the same time John l. Wilson
surveyed and plated what is now called nliudle
town, which aajoins and lies higher up the riv-
CT, while General Lowry surveyed and plated
upper town, called Lowrys Addition, the win
tor following, It was MIR Wilson who gave
the town the name Of 81. Cloud; BY this natnne
itswas; Incorporated insthe, winter Of So &C.
The land Office was removed in April '58 from
Sank Rapids to the Upper town. The post office
is in Miadletown which is inhabited by in
dustrious and we'll to do German Catholics
The Catholic chapel is here, and the bell be-
longing to it, is the first church going bell in
Stearns County and has also the distinction Ect
being the first audible MISFORTUNE and benton
counties which corner on the opposite side of
the river. There too is school kept by COM
pany Of Bcncdictine Nrns where music, draw
ing, nccd'ework and German are well taught
by ladies Of polished manners; and unusual
proficiency. "-,
Lower town has two protestant churches, in
process Of erection, one quite completed We
have public school in the Everett School
house, and q handsome Library dedicated by
Hon. Edward Everett The engines Of IN ex-
cellcut saw mill and planning mill, sash facto-
ry; andaof q good Touring mill, arc this mo-
mcnt putting awey within half a dozen rods of
our Office, We have from Eve to six steamboat
arrivals here weekly and the smallest proper
ton Of droncs VIC have ever seen in any hive.
In the fall o. SO Grasshoppers came tn a
cloud and settled down in this and adjoining
counties, destroying the greater portion of the
crops. Tttey deposited their larvae and died.
Fairly in the spring OF 81 the young brood
n0v md 10 l,@
fears of famine were entertained BY large
portion OF the people; but they left in July and
80 many Of the late crops survived. that with
the full crops Of particular places, where they
did not appear, there was a large amount Of
food. In autumn it became q question wheth-
er 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 land
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 rs 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,OO, wheat
Sl.25, oats; 81 cts. and We have heard Of no
instance il which any have suffered for want
Of food; while q very large proportion Ct the
emigrants who had last year designed enigra-
ting to this point have been deferred by this
bugbear cry of famine, and have gone else
where. The time is now past at which the
Grasshoppcrs appeared last spring, and the
minds OF the people are set On rest rs the ques-
ton Of whether they left lave, last year, be-
fore they emigratcd 1t is evident that they
went to other localities a. they came here to
eat, depositc their eggs and lie. 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, we 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 la
borcrs on the Rail Road. T. ~.