St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1862-01-09

make the following extract from private
letter received from Company L.
CAMP LESTER, DrrAcu'r 81 MINI. REo.,)
LEBANON JUNCTION, Ky,
* ~. Dec. %, 1861.
4 Our regiment is detached Is miles
along tho railroad. Two companies are now
doing the service here which 1t required two
regiments to perform a month and six weeks
ago. At the expiration Of one week, We ex-
pect to rejoin the main body of the regiment
at Belmont Furnace. The service is somewhat
laborious, and interferes with the progress of
our drilling. Our men have the true heroic
spirit, and perform every duty cheerfully.
The Post Office address for all in the regiment
is still Louisville, and probably may be such
for some weeks to como.
The Wiuona Republican is very
good and enterprising newspaper, but it
has one bad habit-that of taking our To-
Gals without giving "credit." 1t is very
pleasant thing. and very gratifying to our
vanity, to see our items all nicely loaded
and fixed up in the Republican as though
they had never seen any other paper
much less little ''country paper"-but
the enjoyment could be perceptibly height
ened by having the three little words
ST.. CLOUD DEMOCRAT attached to these
items.
SO far, only one club of thirteen SUBJ
scribers has been sent from this place for
the N. Y. Weekly Tribune This is not
right, nor as it should be. 1t only costs one
dollar year, and with its unequaled
wealth OF information is within the reach
of everybody. Hand in your dollar to 7.
c. Mcclure, who will forward your name
tothc Office.
STEASGE.-It is rather remarkable
with what gusto the Democrats chuckle
over the Pioneers having received the
United States printing 1t must be be-
cause it is so good a-RepuJlic1n pa
per-
IT. G. Field, of the great Dry-Goods
firm of D. W. Ingersell & 90, St. Paul,
arrived in townlast evening. He started
on his return homo this morning.
a GREAT IMPROVEMENT OF THE AGE.
1t is natural for the human mind to
doubt what 1t cannot comprehend. Thus
from time immemorial to the present day,
the advent of every new and useful inven-
ton. destined to ameliorate the social and
moral discomforts Of life, has met with an
almost insurmountable barrier to its sue
cess in adverse public opinion; and the
man who was so bold as to announce him
self the originator was considered proper
subject for lunatic asylum. When Full
ton first conceived the idea OF propelling
boat by steam he was ridiculed and de-
nounced as a fool and mailman but subse-
quent years proved his superior wisdom.
When Prot. Morse suggested the applica-
ton of electricity as means of commuhi-
eating though with lightning speed from
one place to another, public opinion at
once pronounced it an impossivil;ty. The
justice Of that verdict is exhibited in the
great net work of telegraph lines now
spreading over the whole civilized world.
But such has ever been the reception of
all great and humanitary discoveries; and
nothing but years of toll, patience and in
domitable perseverance can remove this
prejudice from the public mind It is
now several years since the advent of the
most useful and important invention, the
Sewing Machine. When first introduced
in its crude and imperfect state the public
ominously shook their heads and consider
ed this invasion Of their "Womens" Rights
failure ; and now, it is only within few
years that the country has aroused itself
to the Importance of its discovery, and at
the present time when it would seem as
thought the women of our land had risen:::en
masse," determined to relieve themselves
from the yoke Of bondage beneath which
they have bowed so long, the first question
which naturally suggests itself is, which
Machine is the best. We will endeayor to
answer this question honestly and fairly
At the present day common sense is too
widely diffused among the masses to make
them believe that Sewing Machine must
cost hundred dollars and upwards to be
good for any thing. It is no doubt an