St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1860-09-20

/ e3st1nHhaMtans ,rhe site OF LoMer ST. Cloud
hMAs Oxen up}asIa claim by MarAns Whlly, d
Norwegian, who sold his right to George F.
Brett, who surveys ed and plated il IS fhseSp ring
estoo About he same time Johl:: IL Wilson
surveyed and plated what is now eaAed Middle
town, which adjoins and lies higl1f np ths4iv-
GRANVILLE General Lowry, surveys and aplkttsd
upper town., called Lowry's Additia win
ter following. Twas MI. Wil4l gave
the town the name Of 6ts Q}ss .hxss4ls name
i it,l ineorpeEst 6f 90 Sc
The Land n6g vas removed ii April '68 from
alk Raehh totke Upper town. TKabuht Office
jt1I4i1dle town, which is inhabited by in
dustrious and we'll to do German Catholics
The Catholic chapel is hare, sandthss sbell be-
longing to it, is thaN frat 9tmfcfh goj6gsbell in
Stearns County and has also the distinction of
being the trst audible inSherburne and Benton
counties which corner on the opposite side Of
the river. There too is school kept by a com
pany Of Bencdictine Nuns where music, draw
by ladies Of polished manners; and unusual
Lower tevnh hsstv,s} P5Tote.tspt;e Aas,ehes in
Proaess st erecSion, one quito completed $ We
'hdxv a'pub}lc school in the Everett School
house, and a handsome Library dedicated by
Hon. Edward Everett. The engines of an, ex-
cellent saw mill and planning mill, sash facto-
ry; and of a good Touring mill are this mo-
ment putting away within half q dozen rods Of
our office. We have from five to six steamboat
arrivals here weekly and the smallest sIropor-
ton Of dronss Eeks9es:s ssFsssepe 6nl hiye:*a
!. IL thu 4ahs 1ff aftasshoppers came tn a
eldadapd settled down in this and adjoining
counties, destroying the greater portion offthe,
crops. They deposited their lar7ae and died.
Early in the spring 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 Of the late crops survived, that with
the full crops Of particular places, where they
did not appear, there was q large amount Of
food. In autumn it became 9 question wheth-.
er there was enough fer winter consumption
with what the peoPlehea tAenseans:o 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.T per ,bushel; corn $780, wheat
$1,25, oats, 80 cts. and we have heard of no
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
Grasshoppers appeared last spring, and the
minds Of the people are set on rest as the ques-
ton of whether they left lavae, last year, be-
fore they emigrated. 1t is evident that they
went to other localities as thew came here to
sign that they have left any deposits here, and
asseverybodyri 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 gions and the Ia
borers on the Rail Road.
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