St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1859-09-01

ct innabitant." The site Of Lower st. Cloud
was taken up as claim by Martin Wolly,
Norwegian, who sold his right to George F.
Brott, who surveyed and plated in the spring
Of '65. About the same timc John T.. Wilson
surveyed and plated what is now called middle
town, which adjoins and lies higher up the riv-
or, while General Lowry surveyed and plated
upper town, called Lowry's Addition, the win
ter following. It was MIR. 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 '58 from
Sank Rapids to the Upper town. The post office
10 in Middle town, which is inhabited by in
dustrious and well 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 of
being the first audible in Sherburneand Benton
counties which corner on the opposite side Of
the river. There>too is school kept by q COM
pany Of Benedictine Nuns where music, draw
ing, nesdlework 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 handsome Library dedicated by
Hon. Edward Everett. The engines Of an ex-
cellent saw mill and planning mill, sash facto-
ry; and Of 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 we have ever seen in any hive.
In the fall Of SO Grasshoppers came tn 4
cloud and settled down in this and adjoining
counties, destroying the greater portion of the
crops. They deposited their larvae and died.
EaIlv in the spring Of '57 the young brood
came orc and mode such havoc that serious
fears of famin> were entertained by large
portion Of the people; but :hey left in July, and
so many Of the late crops eurvived. that with
the full crops Of particular places, Were they
did not appear, there was large amount o.
food. In autumn it became question whetS-
er there was enough for 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 as altogether unnecessary, and
on5 calculated to do the country great injury
- preventing emigration in the spring. The
Correctness ct this view of the case is now pro-
ven. The third week of May is here, potatoes
sell At 25cts. Per bushel, corn $500, wheat
Sl,2o, oats, SO cts. and we have heard Of no
instance in which any have suffered for want
Of food; while a very large proportion of the
elnigrants 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 as the ques-
ton of whether they left lave, last year, be-
fore they emigrated. 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 q crop Of some
hing good to eat, we expect next fail to be en-
cumbered with e 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
horers on the Rail Road.