St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1860-08-02

est inhabitant." The site of Lower St. Cloud
was taken up as claim by Martin Wolly, a
Norwegian, who sold his right to George F.
Brctt, who surveyed aud plated it in the spring
aiss5sss AbaAt sauna time John sI4.asaW ilson
surveyed and plated What is nov. lied middle
tow, whish aaidns ind lies higher uPAhe riv
er, while General Lowry surveyed and plated
uppert0wn,, called <Loxry's Addition, the win
tex folloNings Pa was Mr. Wilson who gave
the town the name of St. Cloud; BY this name
incorp oratsd al the winter. ofF'b5 &c.
The Land Office was;; rempfe in April SO from
;sauk Rapids to thsJ Viper own. Thepost office
~ "a Middle toNn y ihabitea by in
81 and xelf = 40 asaman ostholics--
longing til IL, IL the first church going bell in
Stearns County and has ALSO distinction OF
being the first audible inSherburnea nd Benton
counties which corner on the opposite side Of
the river. There too is school kept by a com
|pany Of Benedictines0u music, draw
iIg, need1ewofk and German are well taught
by ladies Of polished manners; and unusual
}peefciencyi X i J - ~ -
Lower town has two protestant churches, in
process Of erection, one quite completed ) We
have public. school in the Everett School
house, and ahandsoms 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 a 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 foil Of '56 zGrasshoppers came tn a
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 '57 the young brood
Dame out and made such havoc that, serious
fears Of famine were entertained by q large
portion of the people; but they left in July, and
SO many Of the late crops survived, that with
the full crops Of particular places, where they
did not appear, there WAS o. large amount of
food. ~ In autumn it became q question wheth-
er there was enough for winter consumption
with what the peoplehad the means of purchas-
ing from below. The German settlers were
generally Of the. opinion that there was not and
ike Priests sent. comni ssioners 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,OO, wheat
1925, oats, 80 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 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
,Grasshoppers appeared last spring, and the
minds of the people are set on rest as the ques-
tioa of whether they left lave, last year, be-
fore thew anoirrafnN II, ia ovi6cnt TINT %hnv
went to other localities as they came here to
eat, deposite their eggs and die. THERE'S 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-
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 la
borers on the Rail Road. ~@s<~,