St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1862-06-19
Letter from St. Louis.
ST.. LOUIS June 9th. 1860.

] ST.. LOUIS, June 9th, 1862.
EDIroR DEMoCRAT-We have had the most
remarkable weather the past month known for
many years here. It has been hot as mus
tard at times, and cool enough for fires; the
latter at this writing being the case. The pres
ent cool weather is excellent for our wounded
and sick boys in the various hospitals God
help them when the days are not only hot but
the nights too, and very oppressively So We
have about 5000 in all the U. 8. hospitals in
and about the city. We are glad that enlar-
ged preparations are being made to remove
many of them down to Jefferson Barracks nine
miles below on the river. where there is plenty
of room and the air will be fresher and purer
than in the pent up city.
The Fourth Minnesota was pronounced by
good judges to have been the finest body Of
They received cordial demonstrations as they
passed through our streets to embark for Cor
inth. Surely Minnesota has given good &C.
count Of herself in this struggle. Early in
the field at Bull Run. late in the retreat, dis
tinguishingly prominent at Mill Spring, and
Lieut. Cook, Of the First Minnesota Battery is
said to have fred the first piece at Shiloh and
that gun of the terrified Ohio 18th Battery
nor must omit to mention the chagrin of
your Second Regir ent who arrived toe late to
see the end of the Shiloh fight. Your Third too
under the care Of the accomplished and thoroug
tactician, Henry Clay Lester, its popular
Colonel, has won laurels every wherethey have
been, and like all the Mnnesotians only ask
t. be led against the "Butternut,," as we call
the unkempt, unwashed horde of Dixie. Talk
about the Unwashed Democracy Of New York
they can't compare with the masses of tho
Rebel army, and while the former may be
sbirtless, they are not brainless.
What fertility Of brainwork this great Yam
kee nation has developed since this war be-
gan! What engines Of war have been discov-
cred, both small and great, from impenetrable
them what you will-to guns that will carry a
ton ball for what know, annihilating both
distance and time, and race cen most if they
were only in the way. Some one has gotten
up a breast plate that is light and serviceable.
Then, there is q huge bread bakery with the
army which makes bread without yeast, nor
does the hand of man touch the -four They
put the -four in an iron cylinder in which are
revolving arms or kneaders, which stir the
dough and water up thoroughly, and then they
pass carbonic acid gas through the mixture at
high pressure. 1t is claimed that this bread
never molds or sours, and will keep fresh and
soft week or more. A scientific man of St.
Louis has invented an apparatus to put into
Collins Of wood which carries off the gases from
the corpse, disinfects and deoderizes every
thing, so that body may lie in coffin for
months in any place, no matter how warm the
weather, and no oder can be observed. What
valuable invention, and how truly go to the
friends Of our brave boys who die on the field
and whose dear remains they would bury up
home in the village church yard, or under
some shadowy elm ON the old farm! This has
been thoroughly tested and will speedily ban.
ish those ugly looking metallic cases which
never keep the body good. All these things
have been developed in consequence of this
war, and a. invention follows invention We
can only say, What next?
Everything is very quiet here now, and our
rebel sympathizers find twenty days sitting
in the military prison sufficiently threatening
to keep their unruly tongues from wagging Sc
cession lies. Strawberries have been plenty
and as cheap as twenty cents gallon green
peas are getting stale; cherries are plenty
also new beets, cucumbers, caulifowers, aspar.
agus &C., have been on the markets a long
time.
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