St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1862-12-04
LOCAL NEWS.

LOCAL NFwS. !
To 1HE PEOPLE OF NORTHERN MINNIE
sorA.-As I number Of antediluvian phil
anthropists and itinersnt reformers in the
East-who make it their business in this !
world 70 attend to everybody's else affairs
but their own-are making the post SIREN |
nous exertions to persuade the President
70 pardon, not only some, but all the con-
demned Sioux Indians, our people must
take immediate action in the matter, or
these oiicious meddlers will succeed but
too we'll in their object. President Lin
colu's nature il 50 forgiving, and bis heart
20 kind, that he would not injure flea
and he could not touch an Indian without
crushing score OF these, besides myriads
Of other vermin too numerous to mention
If it were possible to avoid it, and by
persistent Misrepresentation he may be
led in attempting to be mercitul,
70 do the greatest injustice and ,naict
the most misery in the end. There.
fore, let meetings be called through bout
al this portion of tie State. At 81. Psul
south Of there, and in the Minnesota Riv-
a. country this has already been DONE
Let the people Of Maine Prairie, Sank
Centre, Fair Haven, Richmond, st. Jo.,
Cold Spring, Sank Rapids, Little Falls,
aud the other towns in this section Of the
State. call meetings at once. and by reso-
lutions and petitions urge the President to
do bis whole dnty in this matter, and not
through, any unwise feeling Of tenderness
allow the numbering 6ends to escape the
punishment they have merited a hundred
fold. No time should be lost; move at
once! Will not some Of the citizens Of
s. Cloud take charge Of this matter and
make arrangements for meeting in this
place at an early day--say Monday or
Tuesday evening next? 4.8x
CLERK OF BoARD.-The Board Of
County Commissioners "et 0" "Wednesday
and appointed f. D. Atwater Clerk. In
ten days from that date, Mr.. A will quail
.fy to fill the uncxpircd term Of Mr.. Read.
late County Auditor, who has left the
3tatc.
PERsoNAL.-James F. Dralf,rl, for
merly merchant in this city, and lately
engaged with the firm Of d. ". lngersoll
/ Co., St. Paul, has gone to Mcml his,
Tenn. $780,. 49,.
INSANE PArlENTs.-Scvcn insane pa
,ients were take" on Monday to the Asy.
lum at Mount Pleasant. Iowa: in accord
~ncc with arrangements made by our State
authorities. Hon. s. b. Lowry, now ut
Cincinnati, is also to be removed to this
A.ylum.
REruRNED.-E. l.. Spencer, who was
one If the proprietors of the Breckin-
ridge House before the Indians undertook
e. keep hotel"-burniag down the es-
'ablishmcot in the attempt-rcturned on
Monday evening from two months visit
in the East lie considers that entire
district Of country complete humbug,
and thinks Minnesota the only place worth
mentioning. St. Cloud, he says, does ten
f,ld the amount Of business ofany town he
saw in the Fast If the same xize
READ the new a,lverti ,cments The
Quartermaster's Notice will interest many
in this section Of country.
SrATlo~ED.-Capt. Libby's Company,
Seventh Minnesota Regiment, is station
ed at South Bend, Blue Earth County,
where it will doubtless remain until Spring.
Lieut. McKelvy is, at present, in com.
a,and Of the Company, Capt. Libby being
in St. Paul to answer charges preferred
against him.
Col MlLLER.-The headquarters Of
the gallant Colonel have been established
At Mlaokato. BY private letter we learn
that with two hundred men he has the
duty Of guarding the three hundred and
four Sioux Indians condemned to be huns
(Which little arrangement we hope Uncle
Abraham will not interfere WITH for par
Gcipstion in the past horrid outrages.
Col. NJ. says he experiences more difficult
y in protecting the Indians from the en-
(driated settlers, than in preventing the
escape Of tie copper-oolored devils. The
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