St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1865-10-19

river, rather more than $8,OC0,O0O
to-day. Allowing $2,ooo,0Oo for her oat
crop and the little corn that will be spared
by the southern counties, Minnesota Is seen
to be abundantly able to pay for all the
goods she ought to buy, and her thrifty,
Woodworking people e,U pay, do pay. for
what they bay. Whoever chooses to sup
ply the other sort on credit will doubtless
deserve what he gets and get what he de-
serves.
The climate Of Minnesota is her chief
bugbear; and while have q little fellow
feeling with the chap who confessed to "a
prejudice against the equator" own up
to slight repugnance to AGO below zero
| And yet the climate with most Minneso-
ti"ns Is heir strong point. Nearly oil |
have met assure me that they never passed
winters so delightfully."- in milder latitudcs
as here; several spent winter here as an
experiment before migrating, and found the
dry atmosphere, bright skies and steady
cold, so exhilarasiug that they could not
thsncetorib live elsewhere. Several have
assured me that they fee! the cold far less
than they did in Central Ohio, New Eng
land, or even New York city They say
that the winter days are almost uniformly
! still and sunny, and that man comfbrtq
bly, clad does not fnd the cold unpleasant.
/ They admit, however, that there are few
days each winter ut once cold and windy,
and these are most agreeably passed be
tween roaring fireplace and q hot stove.
There are hundreds here-perhaps thous-
ands-who came to save their lives; and
all insist that the climate is an antidote to
pulmonary affections. and cure for con-
sumptives in the ea1ly stages OF their dis
ease Many are we'll here who believe they
would have died years ago had they re-
NAMED On the seabOard On the other
hand,ssnl rs said that nervous disorders,
heasssepmplaints, etc, arc reaggravated-
3 mospherc q. too stimulating for per-
1As thus affected. only report what I
1near. | cannot doubt, however, that this
IS region remarkably favorable to health
and longs1
timber Is Tess abundant and less excellent
than at the East, which, in country where
good fires are necessity, is lamentab,e.
There is wood in the marrow intervales of
most Of the riversssI1d smaller streams, and
these are quite co6tInon, though their flow
is scarcely: SO copious as with u.s. Thus the
Minnesota (fQrmerly St. .Pctcr's,) which
1 rises partly in Dakota, and runs first south
easterly, than northeasterly across tho
southsra~hasf Of the State, falling into the
Mssis ippi between Fort Smelling and
Mendoza, half way from here to St. Paul,
is not so large, after its course of $50 10
400 miles, as the Mohawk, Merrmac, or
Saco, neither Of them half so long, or drain
ing IT. If so large an area And this is by
far The largest Of the tributary streams
which have their coul Sc mainly in this State.
On the other hand, tho lakes Of Minnesota
are estimated at ten thousand; and this, if
every body Of non flowing water which
does not dry up in summer is to be called
2 lake, is doubtless far within the actual
number. Observation-Disclosures which
are barely more than giant springs-lakes
a huudred miles around, and lakelets OF
scarcely half an acre-dot the State in ev-
ery part, but especially throughout the CEN
trail and northern portions, in profusion
no where paral!eled. Gifts 1000 square
miles or $4,000, 900 acres, judge that near
ly or quite tenth are permanantly cover
ell by wafer. Minnesota is a grand pla-
teau, ranging from 900 to 1000 feet above
the ocean level, wherein the Mississippi,
the St. Lawrnece, and the Red river of the
North, have their ultime sources. There
are some stout hills in Tie remeter sections
r but the nigh table-land is seldom broken
save by the streams, which traverse il
through intervals ter to three hundred lee,
below the level OF the adjacent county
, These intervales are i'll good part wooded
/; alld the plains arc diversified st moderate
l though unequa1 distances by belts Of low
.scrnbby brGshwood, with. tough, rsgged
i! windrocl<cd oaks rising occasionally .ahoy,
. the thick copes, wherein poplar and WIKI,
: birch disagreeably abound. Of course
there are extensive tracts Of valuable tim
her especially Of pine mainly in the north
> while sugar maple is found in other quar-
Il i.ters but cannot resist the impressic:
j chat good timber grows slowly and scrub
;, billy on the broad, windswept table land
;, that the climate is less genial 10 the tree
than to men. shall be very happy to find
i on fuller acquaintance, this impression
k mistaken. -~~cs%~ .7r- s~~~
- The Mississippi is the most salient fen
= ture of the landscape. Rising wholly with
u in this State, it has n. course. Of over. 8O'
# miles within i: or upon its eastern border
d during which it absorbs some ten or twelv
!. considerable rivers, with innumerable small
ler streams, and becomes sufficiently capa
Q cious to be navigable at oil SEASONS TO
Il. - - l~a,. L. Co1 H..
4 St. Anthony, at this point, present the frs
rent hence to St. Paul (sixteen miles b,
9 water, nine by land) is rapid and shallow
y 50 that most boats stop at that city, whc
= has, in fact difficult t.bar'' or shallo,
: some miles below it. There were three o
l point; but the extreme low water of tn
J. last two dry seasons discouraged their own
! ers. so that they managed to get then
> above to rafts and fat-boats, through the,
n might nowb be glad to have them bcak again
n But rivers, unless of the first quality
= itself will soon be regarded as an old fogy
It run down its valley, crossing it at Hastings
h and again near Winona, is already bein,
graded. and will doubtless soon be in opera
- ton, taxing q good share Of the river trans
. portation, and nearly allits travel. The1
the Minnesota Central just opened henc
to Northfeld, and in few days more to ru'
" to Faribault, is to be rapidly pushed du
$ south, till, in connection with afiliate'
s roads, it forms o through line to St. LOUIS
Alb miles from these Falls, answering L
over 500 by the river These will be riva
{ rnada hut tho world is wide enough fo