St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1860-06-21

Oft ipnsbitalt. W Tia sit4 % Lover, Sc. Cloud
was taken up - {, claim BY Martin Molly, Z
Norwegian. Who hia right toa asorge Fl
Bse9t, who1nrs(e md plattsditi IS the spring
Of q NAboutst sa1h1 ftane, John n. Wilson
axrysgtS1a and plattSd~ hat i e Hsalled middle
town, Alek adjo and sliss htS rs The rivI
or, vhils nssal LoWry survey 1fsnd ted
appsr town Ned Lo*sy Adai.ig shsswin-.
Sc &. i ss@s 81 c,aes 8 Il. en-:
twas incor "a th,s IL -
The Land Office was removed in April $50 from
Sauk Rapids to tke Upper town. The post Office
Ia in Middle town, which Is inhabited by in
dustrious and we'll to do German Catholics
The Catholic chspal is here, and the sAben be-
longing to Il, is the first church going BELL in
Stearns County and has also the distinction Of
being the; first audible in Sherhnrned1d Benton
counties which corner on the opposite side of
the river. There too il = school kept by a com
pany of Benedictine Nuns whore music, draw
Ing, nesdlsuofk and Gmman arS ven taught
by ladies Of polished manners; and unusual
proficiency. -r:~a~7-x~.--r<, >r>g~. = s-~.
Lower town has two protestant churches, in
process Of erection, one quite completed W.
have public school in the. Everett School
house, and q handsome Library dedicated by
Hon. Edward Everett. Z. The engines Of an ex-
cellent saw mill and planning milk aash tacto-
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 .
cloud aud settled down in this and adjoining
counties, destroying the greater portion Of the
crops. They deposited their larvso and died.
Early IN the spring q 81: tho 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, ard
SO many ofthel late crops survived. that with
the full crops 81 articnIar places, where they
did not appear, theirs was . large amount Of
food. In autumn III became : question wheth-
or there was enough fer winter consumption
with what thepeoplehad 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 we're
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. Thethird week Of May is here, potatoes
sell at 25cts. per bushel, corn 81 90, wheat
pA,Ao, Odts, oV U.s. oA0 VIC A"v AeoAN W Nv
instance in which any have suffered for want
Of food; while = very large proportion Of the
emigrants who had last year designed emigra-
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
Grassboppers 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-
fsre 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 HAYS left any deposits here, and
as everybody is putting in = crop of some
thing good to:eat, we expect next fall to be en-
umbered with . surplus Of the good things Of
his life, and to inundate st. Anthony Mime
apolis and St. Paul, With vegetables and grain
after supplying the Pine regions and the Ia
borers On The Rail b Roada,a u = G