St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1860-09-13

II LOCAL NE]7WS-a
Z 7sD1xoc1AT1o DlsT11or TlcxrT.-The D.
necraey Of this District havs nominated VIM.
9. Moore, q atearns County for Senator, and
p L. Gregory, Of Douglas Co.. Thos., Cathcart
q Grow Wing, and ". Nettleton Of Lake SUI
pseior for Representatives. ste: - 80
:, ,Huxrsas.-0n last Saturday evening par
~ arrived at the Stsarns House,
md the next morning started for the hunting
plains. Theywere accompanied by three la
dies Bssidsa buffalo. thepSrtyvere in search
Of health. :r:Ti i: : * i
TaADEas.-on Monday last, party of ira
d.rs under tho lead Of Robert H. Lemon, Of st.
Louis passed through on their way to the mouth
Of the Yellow Stone river, to trade with the
Indians. They had nine four-ox teams loaded
with goods. The distance from st. Louis is
1900 miles, and the time required to make the
trip, fifty days. Some Of the party intend re-
naming two or three years.
PxRsoNAI.-Geo. Finley, ESQ.,, who with his
family, has been spending the past six weeks
in this vicinity, returned to his home in Penn.
sylvani., on Tuesday last. He is greatly
pleased with the country, and has 50 much faith
In our future prosperity as to invest pretty
largely in real estate He declares his inten-
ton Of returning next season with some friends
and spending the Autumn months in fishing
and hunting.
Census OF SrHAnNs CouNrY.-By the recent
census, our county is reported to contain a
population Of 4,506. Number Of Farms, us.
Manufactures, l6. Deaths during the year
ending June ssoth, 1860, o.. The population
~ shown by the State census Of 1857 was
2,840; gain in three years, 1866. The
Ponce, estimates the entire population Of the
State 1t about III, 900; so that under the new
apportionment We may be entitled to but one
Member Of Congress, it being pretty generally
POPULATION OF NE1eHBoR1Na CorNr1Es.-
We clip the following census returns from the
81. Paul Pioneer:
Benton, eliminated At 700; sherburne, 725;
Wright, estimated at 5000; Kaudyohi, IS;
heeker, $50; Monongalia, $50; Douglass,
1876 Toombs, 40; Todd, 1876; Morrison, Cass,
Grow Wing, and Itasca, 1888; Becker, 1888;
Psmbina, 1876; Polk, 200; Brickinridge, 70:
0ttsr Tail, 240; st. Louis, 406; Carlton, 81 !;
Lake, 24s; Buchanan, 26.
DOUGLAS MEEr1Na.-0nl last Saturday even
Ing Douglas meeting was held at Wilson s
Hall. About seventy persons were present,
almost one-haH Of whom we're Republicans
Judge Meeker, Of Minneapolis, was the first
speaker announced, and, in truth, he was q
''hsavy dorg." He told US there were two Sec
tional parties-one = Northern party, the other
Southern party. The Judge then attempted
TO trace the origin Of the Republican party
back to the Abolitionists Of twenty years ago {:
aud declared that the Republicans Of 1860 were
nothing more than the Birney men Of 40, and
that Abraham Lincoln was to-day the candi-
date Of the Gsrrisonian Abolitionists! Judge
Mssksr must have Z very small estimate Of the
intelligence Of the people Of Stearns County
VIXEN he made such statements as the above.
Did he not suppose they knew that Gerritt
Smith is the candidate of the Birney men Of
40, and that the Abolitionists neuer had caa-
1idats, always desired the dissolution of the
Union, and thought the best way to secure it
was by the success Of the Democratic party
or was he ignorant of this himself? From this,
and some other statements made, we are COM
PEELED to consider him either as extremely ig-
norant, and therefore totally unfit to advise a
people; or, Is "a unprincipled demagogue, and
equally unit to address respectable audience.
He asked the citizens Of Minnesota if they
wished to elect man (speaking Of Lincoln) who
would carry raid into Virginia as John Brown
had done, and interfere with the domestic
institutions Of the Southern States subject only
to local law1 These are, as nearly as we can
remember, his exact words; and man who
will thus attempt to mislead and misinform
the minds Of his hearers deserves nothing but
tho most Implying contempt. His entire
speech was made up Of such assertions as the
ones just given. He told the old story Of Lin.
coins being afraid to 60 to Kentucky through
fear Of bodily harm-which falsehood has been
denied again aud again; laid out the proceed
ings Of the next Congress with perfect "loose-
ness" told what they would do and what they
would not do; charged the existence of the
secession party at the South upon the Repub-
licsn party:-evidently forgetting the assertions
Of tho Pioneer that the fre-eaters had declared
they would vote for Lincoln in preference to
Douglas and many other like stories.
He then came to that great and almighty
''third'' party, which is destined to sweep the
country like whirlwind-bridge the Atlantic
-quench Vesuvius-"save the countryside.
etc., and Of which Stephen A. Douglas is the