St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1860-04-26
FOR PRECEDENT,
WILLIAM H. SEWARD.
Foa VICE PRESIDENT,
CASSIUS NJ. Clay, p
sUB1EcrTor THE pECls1oN OF. No10DFs
CONVENTION.
Correspondence Of the St. Cloud Democrat.
Tho Pixies Peakers on Their
Way.
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NO. 2.
Mrs. Sw'ssHEhM :--My eyes are still
considerably !aaamcd. so that must con
dense what l write as much as possible
and hereafter I will try 70 j"t down my
observations daily. Don't let any Of ou'
friends start across the country without
two pair Of goggles and one gallon Of eye
wash to the man. Were you 70 see nj
now, and did you not know my strong
Partially for cold water, you would proba
bly, address me in the language Of tn.
Quaker, "Friend if thee would wear thy
goggles on thy mouth, thine eyes would
get well sooner"
March: 24th. Travelled IL miles and
campcd at q o'c'ock.
March Is, Laying by for rest. and to
observe the day. Some Of us thinking OF
.ur former sabbath privileges in St Cloud,
lus
''The sound Of the Church going bel,
These Prairies anI Woods never heard"
Monday as, Started at 8 o'clock A. NJ.
and about u crossed the line and entered
Iowa: halted, gave tire hsarty cheers f.,
the prosperity Of Minnesota, and bid the
dear old (new) State, with her precious
memories and associations goodbye. The
first view presented by Iowa, is prairie
of2Z miles in width, without u tree o,
shrub, saying chow do you like that with
sour OK teams" Found few Scattering
trees on the north branch of the De-
Moines River, then miles farther before
VIC could get grass for the cattle, making
81 miles by Section lines, and about 40 by
our crooked read for toe day. This mus!
be the fastest time on record for oxen. A
Jew teams Of this description would make
So fortune, and a boundless reputation;
f.: your Minnesota Mail carriers. Tie
road and weather ever since we left St.
Cloud, Fave been very favorable, both
much better than We expt cted. 1t is cold
CT here than at St. Cloud when we left
No blowing yet on account If the Frost
Timber rery scsrce. No place that ".
have passed, SO we'll timbercd as Stearns
County.
March a., Rested until noon, struck
tent miles, passed Alsona, first town We
net in Iowa, and didn't meet much at that
no store, and not much Of anything else
three miles further and carped for the
night. Head Of a family about mile
trom>ou encampment, who proposed start.
ing for the Peak next morning, appointed
S. c. l. K. committee to wait upon then:
and tender them the benefit of our compa-
ny on the way. Committee returned witt
the man in the morning, but said Com
reported that they forgot to attend to tn.
little matter of business upon which they
were sent, and
Danced all night till broad Day light,
And felt like death in the morning.
The rest Of the company pitiod then
rrodigiously, "over tho eft" OF course
the family were not prepared to start Will.
US. We find 2any houses vacant all
through Iowa, not a f:w Of the citizens
have been, they inform me, living on corn
Dodgers, and ch;lls and fever, from two to
four years; aud the corn ground on Wind
Mills at that. Produce here is wortl
about the same as in St. Cloud, except
Flour which commands 65.5O-votet
unanimously that Minnesota is the health
lest, and every way the most desirable spot
Of ground under tie Sun, Pixies Peak al
ways excepted
March 28, Made Is miles and camped
O" the Des Moins River, at good farxl
Five miles TO nearest Post Office.
March %, Travelled 20 miles and
camped at Fort Dodge, on the Des Moins
R;ver-five or six stores, some fine brick
buildings and 900 Of a population.
March 80, Started at 10 Il. II. made
IS miles and cau'ped for the night. Our
course from the Minnesota River to. this
point has been nearly South.
March 81, Made twenty miles and
camped in the midst Of an open Prairie o.
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