St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1863-09-17


What 1t is Destined to be.
Il HAt cHilef 'a61eA'opaa Enptoks,u,n o. ,lll
The TRADE OF THE NORTHWEST"
ia. wheclocp, Esq, chief editor of
the St. Paul Press, who is with the Treaty
party that goes with Gov. Ramsey to the
Red lake country, i'm correspondence. ito
the Press, pays, the: following JUST tribute:
to st. CIeuds its present prosperity and
tic. proud future that is in store for it: =
While the nucleus is riding on through
tho smooth. and beautiful prairie west Of
st! Cloud. / turn back to look at the beau
tiful'to~n,>sprcad out thinly, but far: and
wide, like an eagle spreading his wings
for flight, to the green verge Of the bluffs
which here line the Mississippi. 1t is a
lively town; though how it got, here,
away out on what most people think the
f;rthest edge of the frontier, seems a lit
tie strange to the casual observer. IT,"
n.None of your sickly, mushroom .vege-
tations this, buta saplipg Of vigorous and
lusty growth, firmly rooted in the strong
Teutonic subsoil which'is the chronological
base of the county, of Stearns;," while the
rich mould Of Yankee, wit which .overlies
it furnishes the luxuriaut and rapid
growth. i - =. .- $685..
i... MIXED POPULATION.
i The mixture Of the Dutch alkali with
the Yankee acid, makes light and spark
ling ,effervescence Of life in the streets of
the young city, like the foaming and cbul-
lient seidhtz, which antilotes the nights
debauch, and draught of it is good, like
that, to take to settle the headaches and
the pestilent humors of the dizzy ovcr]ife,
you live down there, at St, Paul. >.+..
LAGER BEER VS.. WHISKY.
= The dual elements Of population in this
town are Enthusiastically represented in
the rivalry between Lager Beer and Whis-
ky, as popular beverages. The heavier
and grosser fluid like the German element
far surpasses the other in quantity, but
tIwbat the Yankee whisky wants in guam
tity it more than makes up ia intensity,
and whisky accordingly predominates in
influence, if not in gallons.
j." RESOURCES OF THE COUNTRY:
OF course am not trying to account
for St. Cloud, by these chronological meta,
phors. Back Of ethnology in the chain OF
causatien though some of our phjloso:
phcrs don't see titles geography, and
back of the St.. Cloud Dutchman and
Yankee lies , the wondrous'y beautiful
Sank Valley, the cornucopia. which pours
its fruits into the lap of the young city
and beyond the Sank Valley west and
south oft, millions Of acres, like it, of the
best soil in the world, in which there lies
stores of undeveloped wealth.: sufficient tc
make the whole green plateau on which
St. Cloud is scattered, up and down fol-
two Or three miles along the river, one
thronged and compact lnartEof golden
grain.
EFFECTS OF THE INDIAN SCARE.
Just now, however, the Agricultural
resources OF the district for: which St
Cloud is the emporium, have little to dc
with the hubbub of business in its, streets
The Indian scare this summer has par
allied the agricultural industry of thu:
region, and st. Cloud has Become the. de-
pot of supply, for the cham Of militar!
Eposts which stretch thence westward t
Abercrombie, aud southwark in severa
directions, as it is the depot for the trade
and travel to the Red River Valley.
WAREHOUSES; OF BURBANK AND NEWsoN
," H. G.. Burbank, and lis capaciou
stores and stables, and Capt: T. NJ. New
son and his Commissary Warehouses;, art
! the, great ccnters of activity, the sun ant
moon from whose irradations Of pork ane
-four, and horses and mules, &C., thi
whole region derives its light and warmth
s'.:' s.. WHAT ST. oLouD'9w1LL BE. .~11
! The immense trains now moving back
ward and forward over the broad plains
between st. Cloud and the Red River
are deepening the track, laid out by Bur
bank and Blakeley four years ago wher
We passed over it, of a'future commerce
which is destined to make St. Cloud one
OF. the i largest commercial. cities in thu
State: It's geographical position rclativt
to the head Of Lake Superior, and tn
head Of navigation on the Mississippi
! gives it the command Of both the grea
outlets toward the East 1t occupies, Sc
to speak, the confluence Of two great com
mercial: currents, and when the railroad
i from St. Cloud to St. Paul, and the Land
Grant Railroad from st. Cloud to Supe
, rior are completed,i it will spring at once
to the rank of the chief interior emporium
of all the tradegof the Northwest
4 5o3oo5 .:I> H g. DBuRBANK. ~ ..sI.l oil
az II!!C! Burbank has evinced: his faith In
its ,destiny by building, residence fol