St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1861-09-26

Church. r. has regular sessiopa II
\ first class school p1der. fhe Principal, Rev.
A. J. Nelson, with .lsree attendance OF pupils
from this and neigkbofin4 towns Near it i
the Everett School ouse, il which thesDis-
trict fchooiiS kept four months in each year
Beside this is the First Baptist church, a large
and handsome ediace STU un6nishsd,~ while-
the congregation worship in the Everett School
House. The parsonage stands in the grove be-
hind, tasteful homestead, where the pastor,
Rev. :fhlltpss snpe scholar. xiyea private lez:.
sons in the classics: The Protestant Episcopal
church, = quaint little brown building stands
in range With the Eseret& School Rouse and
Baptist church. 1t IS finished, has fine me-
lodeon preseated by Mrs Sigourney, is hand
somsly ssspsesd.ss nd =preseulys 9uitx.Acitidsds
air. As you 60 on up street past tasteful res
idences, you pass the office and residence Of
DR.. Simonton; then that Of DR.. Hunter, our
Oldest resident physician, who has q quaint es-
Establishment On the. edge, of~a a,lcep trayine,
which separates Lower aud Middle St. Cloud,
and over which there is q bridge At the
other end is Jones blacksmith Shop, where
Jones makes ''shooting sticks. for the Ill,
and rolls them in tracts TO prevent the brim.
stone burning his fingers a. hs delivers them
There is Weary's Carriage Factory, the Post
Office, Marlatt's Drug Store, +. c. Smiths
Shoe Store, the American House, Powelrs
hardware establishment, New York Store,
Book Store-well, two long rows of stores,
County Offices, Land Office, Bakeries, Hotels,
&C., &c., until the road passes down just such
hill as it winds up At the lower ferry, and
YOU are in Upper Town, at the upper landing
and upper ferry. Here is row Of business
houses, Burbanks oeing the most extensive
and prominent in this upper country. Diifi-
Guilty about titles has driven the heavy bust.
ness to the upper landing, although, boats
come to the lower landing long after the water
is too low to permit their getting further ny,
bridges are chartered, and must be built across
At Lower Town. This title dificuty.w was dis.
posed of last week (Sept. 1860 at ths General
Land Office. and it is probable business will
have . Lower Town tendency. "a The greatest
number Of dwelling houses are there now, .
steam saw mill, planning mill and sash factory.
There is the famous St. Cloud Sulphur Spring,
the waters Of which are imbibed by invalids as
. cure for everything but secession There is
= magnificent but unimproved water power;
here: and the ''thousand islands, and GCatho
lie school for boys lie just below. The site of
St. Cloud is the most beautiful that can be
conceived, and the best adapted for building
large city. It is growing more rapidly now
than any other town in the State. -.
TuE CLlMATE AND ITS EFFECT ON
ANIMAL LIFE. ,t~~s 49,.
, But few settlements in the State lie
north Of this point and so it is. called
Northern Minnesota / have spent the
last three winters here and it has been
amusing as we'll as provoking to read in
the New York Ledger, and other eastern
prints that the snow was twenty feet deep
in Minnesota that who'c villages were
buried aud people frozen in their houses.
where fire appeared t. have no effect in
the cold, while there has not
been more than ten inches Of snow at any
time. by such buX-bear stories, cour lied
with the financial ruin into which the
State was plunged by spectators, thou
sands of emi grants, whose proper places
are in Minnesota, have been led to seek
homes in uncongenial and unhealthy eli
mates. I despair Of giving anything like
a correct idea Of a Minnesota winter be.
cause it is source of never cessins won
der to myself W. are much less troub-
led by untimely frosts than We used to BE-
in Pennsylvania. The June frosts Of last
year did not reach Minnesota and We
had MORE in the autumn until Iate in Sep
temher, after the corn was fully ripe. In
November, the river has been running
with floating ice, every year since the
white man went there to live and by the
middle Of December there is brid &c OF
ice two or two and half feet thick. Thi,
is 4 winter arrangement; and may be dc.
pended upon. Light SHOWS fall and melt
in the sunshine early in November, until
in December, when it. generally amounts
to slei.hing; and cont nues until March.
Sometimes wo have three days Of exccs.
sively cold weather and once, in the three
years have spent there, spirit therlnom-
eters indicated 40 below zero. 1t re-
NAMED 50 for perhaps half an hour and
began to rise, but for the entire three
days and nights, the mercury is sometimes
never above 100 below. The way we know
that it is so is b. looking at tho thermom-
etcr. It is no use to ask the children,
for they will 60 out to romp the cattle
know nothing about it, and step around
rs if it were nothing unusual the Shang.
hal h.ns will come out. and stand in the
give you their egg every day
and 90 barefoot and the young folks new
or think Of foregoinga sleigh ride unless
i blows, when people generally stay in
doors unless they have some business out,
and they are almost certain to have bust
ness, so that our coolest weather is often
the busiest time. The atmosphere is dry
and pure, and appears to contain some pc.
culiar vitsl1zing property which sets the
cold at defiance. Men who. arc drunk
and lie out. or are caught lnsuf6ciently
dressed It distance from shelter, are apt
to have their feet or hands or ears or no.
ses ftozen but he is thought very stupid
who does not immediately rub tho frozen
parts with snow until the frost is extract
az when T. IL all RIGHT. In damper and