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Homestead Exeinptioa,
W give our readers today the Howe
stead exemption Kill of Minnesota. There
is, as we observe, quite a diversity oi sen
timent as to its justice and propriety. W
entertain the opinion that a rascal will
cheat you exemption or no exemption aud
this law may shield honest debtors from
the severity of unfeeling Creditors^ until
such time as they can aeeuinulate a suffi
ciency to pay their entire indebtedness.—
At all events we can give if a fair trial
aud if it disappoint^ the expectations of its
friends it qan bo repealed.
A N A FOR A IJOUESTKAI* E E I O N
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the
State ofMiniiesvta
SEQ. 1. That a homestead consisting of
any quantity of land, not exceeding eighty
.icres, and the dwelling house thereon and
its appurtenances, to he selected by theat
owner thereof, and not included in any in
corporated town plat, or city or village.—
Or, instead thereof at the option oi' the
owner, a quantity of land not exceeding in
amount one lot being within an incorpora
ted town, city or village, and the dwelling
house thereon and its appurte nances, own
ed and occupied by any resident of this
StHte, shall not be subject to attachment,
levy or sale upon execution, vtr any other
process issuing out of any Court within
this State. This section shall be deemed
and construed to ex nipt such homestead
ni t'ae manner aforesaid, during the time
it shall be occupied by the widow, or mi-Range.5,
nor, child or children of any deceased
person who was when living on titled to the
benefits of t-is Act.
SEC. 2. tlmk exemption shall nor ex
tend to any mortgage, thereon lawfully ob
tained, but sur-h mortgage, or other alien
ation, of such land by the owner thereof, ii
a married^ man shall not be valid without
the signature of the wit!" to the same, un
less such mortage ahall be given to se
cure the payment of the purchase money
or some portion thereof.
SEC. O\ Whenever a levy shall be made
upon the lands or tenements of a house
holder, whose homestead has not-been se
lected and set apart by metes and bounds,
su-h householder may notify the officer at
the time of making such levy, of what he
regards as.his homestead,, wits a descrip
tion thereof, within the limits above pre
scribed, and the remainder alone shall be
subject to sale under such levy.
S:c. 4. I the p.'aintiif in execution
shall be dissatisfied with tiie quantity of
land selected and set apart as aforesaid,
the offieer making the levy shall cause the
same to be surveyed, beginning at a point
to be designated by the owner, and set off
a cempaot form, including the dwelling
house and JT^ appurtenances, the amount
specified in the first section of this Act,
and the expense of such survey shall be
chargeable on the execution and collected
thereupon.
SEC. 5. After the survey shall have
been made, the officer making the levy
may sell the property levied upon, and not
included in the set-oif, in the same manner
as provided in other cases tor the sale of
real estate on execution, and in giving a
deed of the same, he may describe it ac
cording to his original levy, excepting
therefrom by metes and bounds, according
)o the certificate of the survey, thecjuanti
ty set-off as aforesaid.
SEC. 6- Any-person owning and OCCU
I E S
a
house or land not his own, and
claiming said house as a homestead, shall
he entitled to the exemption aforesaid.
SEC. 7. Nothing ii) this act shall be
considered as exempting any real estate
from taxation or sale for taxes.
SEC. 8, No property hereinafter mention
ed or represented shall be liable to attach
ment, execution or sale, or any final process
issued from any court in this State:
First. The family bible.
Second. Family pictures, school books
or library, and mu-ical instruments for use
of family.
Third. A seat pew in any house or
place of public worship.
Fourth. A lot in any burial ground.
Fifth, All wearing apparel of the deb
tor and his family, all beds, bedsteads, and
bedding, hept an 1 used by the debtor and
liis .niily ml sieves and appendages put
up or. kept for the use of the debtor and
his family ::il cooking utensils, and all oth
er hoashold funi&bre not herein enumer
ated, uoc exceeding five hundred dollars
in value.
Sixth. Three cow--, ton swine, one yoke
of oxen, and one horse or in lieu of one
yoke of oxen and a hor*e. a span Of horses
or mules iv.xnty sheep and the wool from
the same, either in the raw material or
manufactured into yam or doff the nec
essary food* for all the stock mentioned in
this section for one year's support, either
provided or growing, or both, as the debtor
may choose also, one wagon, cart or dray,
one sleigh, two plows, one drag, and other
farming utensils, including tackle for teams*
not exceeding three nndred dollars in value.
Seventh. Provisions for the debtor and
his family necessary for one years support,
either provided or growiug, or both, and
fuel necessary for one year.
Eighth. The tools and instruments of
any mechanic, miner or other person, used
and kept for the purpose of carrying on
his trade or business, and in addition there
to stock in trade not exceedind four nun
'dfUti dollars'in value the library and imple
ments of any professional man all of whieh
articles hereinbefore intended to be exempt,
Khali be chosen by the debtor, his agent,
clerk, or legal representative, as the ease
may be.
SEC. lb Nothing in this act shall be so
innatraed as to exempt any property in
this State from execution, or attachment,
for clerks, laborers or mechanics' wages.
Sec. 10, AH laws meq«siftenfc with
MOvision? of this Aot are hereby repealed.
8 11. Tin* aei jhall tofee etleot tiqm
and after its passage.
J':.
(5EO. BRADLEY, S^)ea¥cf of ihTBToTIC
W HoiiCOMBE, Pres Senate.
Approved August 1 2 4 1858.
A. SIBLEY, Governor.
WASHINGTON:, July 17,. T858
.Editors of the Pioneers-Democrat
The Postmaster General has this day direct
ed that a contract for carrying the mail from
St. Cloud via Breckinridge, to Fort Abererom
bio be made with Messers Allen and Chase—
a proposition having been made by them which
was doomed reasonable.
Rospcctfnlly. M. Rice.
HEAL E S A E SALES.—Th follow
ing is a list of the sales recently made by
our old and enterprisng land-dealer^ (Job
McKenty.
WASHINGTON Oor.NTv.
SO.SCl acres hi Section 0. Town 80, Raftge 21,
$&-^$ldl,5Q.
177,00 aorcs in Section Town .10, Range
21 at ?-$83 S0.
129,00 acres in Section Town 20, Range
2J, af .t*—040 45
40 acres in Section 3, Town SO. Range 21,
at §5—200,00.
Fir.hMOBE Co.i.NPV,
loO acres in Sections 3 and 4, Town 102,
Range 8, at $10—gt600,00.
HOUSTON OOL'KXY.
•2-10 acre* in Section 10, Town*l03, Range 5,
at $5—$ 1200,00.
480 acres in Sections and 12, Town 105,
nt ^5—82400,00.
Sii PBBTOR, WlSOONSlX.
v2-
lots HI ^Mckenty^ Addition/' at $100—
$2000,00.
Col'TAOt: HoM£S.
Lots 12 and 33—-£1000,00.
COMO.
lots 2 nad 3 of* Block SO—$000,00.
li OrfO\ W(SC»NSJN.
00 Lots in McKenty's sddUion—$1 500,00.
T! il amount of saleh t:?,28G,75.
We are glad to inform Ool. McKenty
that he does not make all the pales. Mr.
bYeemau present month sold a claim
eight miles north of St. Cloud foi $1,000
0. Moore of Grand Lake refused $1,500
for his, twelves miles west of this.
A one fourth interest in ISO acres, one
mile East was sold for 1800 and claims
are in demand at prices almost equal to
those of IS months a&b.
I E I E
Ch
FULL supply constantly pn hand, by the
.subscribers, at their kiln in Lower S
•1. li. A. SMITH, & CO.
LAND OFFICE.
St. Cloud, May, 20, 1858.
To Danitl F. Banks. Ton are liereby noti
fied that on Thursday, the 17th day of June.
A. D.-1S58, at 10 o'clock, A. M., proof will be
offered at the Land Office at St. Cloud, in sup
port of the chiirxi of Thomas Tollingtou, to pre
empt the east half of the south-east quarter and
south-east quarter of north-east, quarter of sec
tion No. 24, township |22, range 27 west, arid
south-west i|uorter of north-west, quarter of
section !vo. 10, township 122, range ^tiwest, to
which you are an adverse claimant at which
time and place, you will be required to ofFer
proof in support of your claim to said land.
THOMAS TOLLJNGTON.
May 20. 1858. it*
NOTICS.
Territory of Minn'.'sobi 1 in .Tustic'C Court.
Oounty of -Stearhes
To T. A. Holmes and Geo. Stallei or theof
E.plmes City Land Company j'ou are hereby
notified that a writ of attachment has been
served against you, and your property attaeh
menr to satisfy the demand of Xaver Popping
amounting to sixty seven dollars, Now unless
you shall apnear before Harmen ilruniig a Jus
tice of the peace in and for said county at hie
office in the Town of Richmond in 3fud county
on the iv)th day of June A. D. 1358, at one
..'dock in tiie afternoon Of said day, judgement
will be rendered against you, and your proper
sold to pay the derbt.
EMM this 22 dav of May, A. U. 1858.
XATEJri'OPPINC,
Maintaff.
Sec. i'tiiuuten
•'.nnch Demoerat
ia a speech delivered in Kansas, thus
comments on the English bill.
Oemlttrnan. Icau hardly trust myself to speak
of: 'lis passage in the history of my country. .Ao
fftekfF,Grime agoin&llilerty hishctn anyicherscom-privaten
mHhltfaritijjtkk emtury. AH, the mmrahlf and
tlivif)/ preti-xhs—fill th* icchnxydpreposterovn dog
meu—hy which ihh •/A»h?iriJi/,r fahefwort fails been
'jiinnipied to lnjusli/wi end upheld, ariihut the
tfmi ui'^uke under which tyranny (tndwrcj/ig Hope
,'n conieed their u.uholy purpmtex. Ttie Aduunit.
tration well knows— Congressknows—the who
le world know*—that the people of Kansas are
almost ittiauimeus against tiie Lecompton fraud.
The unfortunate and discreditable circumstan
ces- under which the instrument was clothed
wirh the regular niid technical forms of law,
havo bden fully exposed. No man need be ig
norant-of any of the facts. And yet by mean
of a technical presumption—though a mere le
gal fiction—positive and well known facts are
made to give way—a known falsehood is to bo
e.-stabli-dted as truth—and the constitutional
rights of a free prople are to be sacrificed and
ampled in the dust! Gentlemen, .when the
passions and prejudices of the present hour shall
have paasod away, the spectacle now exhibited
will be coinddeved otio of tho most' extraordinary
phenomena «-vcr presented in the history of the
world. The solid and substantial liberties in
tended to have been secured to the States and
Territories, by the constitution of the United
Statvis. are to be substituted by a mere sham,
a mere printed bubble, a mere gossamer, cob
web tissue of false logic and contemptible tech
nicalities and almost the whole body of a once
powerful and patriotic party is seduced infatua
ed and mesmerized, to believ the patent and
talefal lie!
The Mammoth Pictorial Brother Jonathan
for the Fourth of July is out. It rich end
(spirited in 3l»graving8, as usual, and is sent
by mail, post paid* for 12 cents per copy.
B. H. Day, Now York, is the publisher.
STATK LOAN DAKXK.
We learn from the New York Trihune that
'.the IMinnesota State loan of Its credit, not the
loan for Railroads, hut fortius payment of the
debLs, ha? been taken in fcnat city. T3»^.
mttkc:i State Serip wortji I per aoat prmmmx
ATT WTTXSWZ
TTTHOLE interestH in ihet?..ui'ishinglowri^of
8T. 0L0UD & EAST ST, OI.0UD.
Iiots, aingle or in quantities, to suit nurcluu.
sera, at. tousonabte rates.
A rare chanooTfor safe investment».
All communicitioTis to bo addressed to
a
J"
The
H. TAYtOBji StCloua, M.T.
OHIO STATE AND UNION LAW COLLEGE.
This institution haa been romovod to Clovo
land, Ohio. Degrees are legally conferred, and
Students upon graduating may be adsrtitted to
proctioe. Per oiroularf, address at Okvnlatid,
M. A. K1KG. SKCUETAUY
The proprietors of East St. OhJud have
had an advantageous offer for the greater
part of that property, by ti New York com
pany. I is doubtful if tiiov will aoeept
it, as last year they refused an offer for
three hundred lota, whieh, \f aecepted,
would have uiade the remainder worth
more than it is all worth now but it. will
require long course of persistently had
management to present Kast St. Cloud
property rising rapidly in value.
Then never was.a time when a small ea,p
ital could ho hotter ihvested in St. Oloud
than it can be to-day, and how we should
rejoice to see thousands of men of small
means securing homes now, when proprie
tors arc short of cash, and have notes to
pay.
E N E A A N O I E
W A S I N ON April 9th, 1858..
,1. N. 31ASOM, KSQ
S IR :—In reply to your letter of the loth
ult, have to inform you that See. 27. T.
123 11. 2!s west, in the Bank Ilrpids Dis
trict, appears to be outside of the six mile
limits oi'the Branch Line of the Minneso
ta and Pacific Kail Road, and if so your
claim on said Section will he good, provi
ded you have complied with the pre-emp
tion laws.
riL'hbt
or'
the
road attached to the
.u«j iu iuq^HM«£«M
liimits
veying, making and .staking off the aaind,
from poiiit to point, on the face of the
ground. But the odd sections emisMs of
the six and within the fifteen uiile limits
of said road and branch line continued sub
ject to pre-emption until the 1 6 $ of Jan
vary last, at which time they were selected
for the rond by the authorized agent, and
ceased to he pre-emptihie, except to jjer
spuswup had made bonafiek settlements
•prior to that date.
Very Respectfully, &c,
O a A. HKNDEJCKS,
Commissioner.
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unrepresented, ao that while each number will Openings'' which just look like old oveharl*.
dense thickets of plum tveah bearing delicious
fruit, grape vines, doing likewise, thousands pi
acres of hazel bushe^an'd strawberry vines, en
gaged in the same Wtisiness while some hun
dred acres are in the cranberry trade and turn
out an article which for quantity and quality
cannot be excelled. The blnckbcrrk-s. vaC rasp
pon to fill the pages of the AT- berries and hops tack tip their Shingles' in fhe
woods and seldom disappoint the r.tostsan
guum expectations of their customers.' There
is still land ten or fifteen miles back whieh set
tlers can get, at government price, hy building
a cabin and living osi it until it comes into
market. Actual settlers can buy ioty here at
from one to five hundred dollars, and specula
tors can have the same lots at from fivo to fif
teen hundred.
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II. W. LoJV«?ni.TiOW,
UFA. ¥. H. IIBOOV.,
N IlAvmionNJS,
J. G. WniTTren,
O. W. Itol.lHES,
.1. 11. Lowni,!,,
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G. W. CURTIS,
H. MBLliVItMB,
PROS. C. C. FSSMOX,
PEOV. F. J- CuiiD,
E. P. Wuirpis
EDMVMU QUJHCY,
T. W. 1'AJtSONS,
J. T. Tnitowmnio»,
Mas. It. P.. SIOWK,
Mas. GASKBI.T.,
MBS. L. M. Cun.n,
S. KiaKJLAsn,
MRS. PJKK,
MISS ROSK TRRRY,
W. Coraiss,
G.
Saiatuv
Bi M.
J/,MES HANKAY,
O. W. PiniiiiBO.
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O:L.OTJXX
St. Cloud 1B the point at whieh the Red iliv
or trains orma the AUaamippi on their way to
St. rank which .proms it to be the natural
junction of land travel betwoen these two great
arteries of trade. It is at the present, head of
steam navigation on the, Mississippi. UoatH
run regularly, during the Spring and early
Summer months, from '6i.' Anthony to this
place.
The map ?iveg its .position ourreetly with
reference to all the-most important points in
the territory, but thy peculiar beauty of its
location, «aidfertility if tlu.surrounding ooun
try cannot be tran4qa?5.bed. With la lifteen
•mules of St.. Cloud, onoppoh-ic tsidt-s of the
riTer, aud at diifercut points- oi' the compass
are eight lakea, varying in size from 1 mile to
5 miles in cireumference. all, save, one, beau
tiful, exceedingly, three of them at loast, deep
enough to tloat. man-of-war. Wooded banks,
clean -pebbly shores plentifully mixed wkh
cornelian and waiei-s iibuxuhmtly supplied
with fish.
When Opv. StevwK made ids survey of a
northern railroad route to the paeifie, in '-W,
he oanmed "on the we?tcni side of tlie Mis
sissippi, below Sauls Rapids." Theplaoewae
nameless—the present site of St. Cloud but it
is here his j-oute leaves thoriver. lb (liesum
mer of '5-S a claim cabin was builr, on the spot
•where we now write,, a good saw mill, the
Tramo of a largo Hotel and eight other dwell
ings were put. up that, summer. This last fall
*hcre were three lmndr«'J *nd thirty-two voted
polled in the precinct. Not the vote-^ of Indi
ans or Half Breeds, for there are none here
A majority of .the inhabitants of the county
are hardy Germans^, with sturdy wives and
children, cultivating the soil and working at
mechanical employments.
The subsoil is sand and although the soil is
from one to three feet deep, a rich black loam
supporting a rank vegetation, the drainage is
so perfect and the air so pure, that breathing
is a perpetxial pleasure. As yot, our physi
cians have discovered no diseases peculiar to
the climate, no indigenous complaint except
!!K •"Minnesota Appetite" which recmires one
fourth more treatment than a modest. Pennsyl
vania or Ohio attack of a corresponding dis
ease.
Any hotly who wants to drink whiskey in
peace had better not come here, for ?he treaty
by which the land was acquired from the Sioux,
forbids its introduction and the Legislautre
has passed a law enforcing that prevision but
people pf-moderatemeans and industrious hab
its who have children to educate, willfindfew
a a S op 01
du numborod sections within the six mile training, healthy development of muscle, and
of the route from the dates of sur- the means of pecuniary independence tire bei-
.f.
allit mca
a
pecuniary indep
ntnt.
Our natural mcadqw.8 produce a grass from
four to six feet high, and the beef killed off our
prairies in quite equal to any stall Sfed-we have
ever eaten. Our venison is fine at ten cents
per pound, rabbits, prairie hens, partridges,
ducks. &c, plenty. Thousands ox bir-du-.ls or
acorns lor the hogs that are net here to eat
them. Fuel for the labor ol cutting nr.d haul
ing off die ground and there is no likelihood
of t,be supply running -out .-vmn. as the "Big
Woods" extend from this place some twenty
miles o.'1 move, down this side of thi
ter combined.
There are immense tracts of pine lying abort,
from which-the mills at St. Paul, St. Anthony
and the Minnesota Valley are supplied. These
employ a large and ever- increasing force of
men, horses and oxen', who are to be supplied
with provisions clothing and feed. The soil is
waiting for au opportunity to produce unlimh
ed quantities of food, without troubling the far
mer crushing clods, while the Mississippi from
St. Paul to Little Pails can afford to turn a mill
at almost any point and has water igoyreae,.]S'fs'Tnfftty..1 •'u'Hsj' w''T''{•"•'S^fo-T^" I
twenty
river, ani
from eight to twelve miles back. Our prairies
are all dotted with strips of wood land, "Oak
In some of the river 'owns hard:, places that
will be pleasant, villages, lots can be had gratis
by those who will build and live on them.-—
This, in places where a house can be built for
fifty dollars, that would he a palace compared
to the dens rented in large cities for 4 nod 5
^lltirsper month, while the lot, with only the
aid of a grubbing hoe and a few Says labor,
would bring vegetables to feed a family, and
every township has 600 acres appropriated to
the support of schools.
Seventy thousand fierce are appropriated io
a State university. A iim building has already
been erected for. the use of that iuatiuilion. It
is situated at St. Anthony, built of stone on an
minence commanding a view of the falls, and
other prairie State is so well timbered as Min
nesota and no State more abundantly supplied
with clear water. Jn vhe coemry surrounding
St. Cloud and as far North ?ud West as we have
any reliable account, settlers iiml no difficulty
in locating land on a running Stream or tratis
parent lake with plenty of timber at hand for
building, fencing and fuel, and as the land on
the West side of the Upper Missiasipi is only
open to pre-emption, there little opportunity
for speculators, and settlers have assurance of
neighbors and that rapid increase in the value
of their lands and in social advantages which
arise from the system of land in limited quan
tities to actual severs.
The country around St. Cloud, west of themercial
Mississippi was purchased of .the Indians in a
treaty made with them by Hon. Alexander
P«.amsey and Luke Lea in 1852 and ratified by
the senate the same year. The Sioux had
owned the land from 1827 but had not occupied
it, and it was used as a hunting ground by the
Winnebagoea whose land reached within four
adles north of St. Cloud. Their country was
ceded to the United States by a treaty began
with Gonimissioner Manypony and concluded
Washington iu Fob. 1855 and ratified by the
Senate March'8d of tlie same year. In*May
following they removed to their reservation on
tho Blue Earth river and only since that time
has Stearnp comity claimed kindred with civili
sation. The first house within the corporatod
limits of St. Clou'd was Inult by James Hitch
forGenetal Lowry. James Hitchens being
the first white man who slept iu a house here
is entitled to the distinction of being the "old
est inhabitant."' The sit© of Lower St. Cloud
was taken up as a claim by Martin Woolly, a
who sold lm right to George P.
Brott who surveyed and platted it in the spring
of'55. About the'sarae time John L. Wilson
surveyod and platted what is now called middle
town, which adjoins and lies higher up tha riv
er, whiie General Lowry surveyed and platted
upper town, called Lowry's Addition, the win
ter following. It was Mr Wilson who gtivo'
time tow tke name of S Cloud by t}iis name
it was incorporated in the winter of '65 '66.—
The lamA Office was reaaoyedin April '68, from
Sauk llapids to Upper town. The post office
is in Middle Town, which inhabited by in
ilustnous and welirto-db German Catholics.—
The (-avJiolic ohjipel is h^e, and the bell be
longing to it, is tlie iirst thurch going* bell lu
Stearms county and has alpo ihe distinction of
being the first audible in Sawburne and Kenton
counties which comer on the oipfcsite side of
the river. There too is a school kept by a com
pany of Benedictine Nuns where music, draw
inn, nee.Vieworis and German are well taught
l} ladicj of polished mnnners ain't unusual
proflciojiey.
Lower Town has two protostani churches, in
process of erectidu one, about completed. We
iuive a public school in the Everett School
hoti, o, and a handsome Library dcdicattdVy
iHsxio. Edward Everett. The engines of an et
cellcnl. saw mill and pWhing mill, f.
vy and of a good iiouring mill art
ment puffing away within lialf a dozen rods of
our ofiiee. We have from five to six steam boat
arrivrds here weekly and thu smallesi propor
tion of drones we have ever seen in ,-iuy hhc.
hi the fall of ]M Grasshoppers came in a
cb-iul and settledoown in this and adjoining
counties, destroying the greater portion of the
crops' They deposited their larvae and died:
Early in the spring of T7 the young brood
came out and made Biieb havoc that serious
fears of famine were entertained by a large
portion of the people but they left in duly, and
?:o 7iiany of Ihe bite crops survived, that with
the full crops of particular places, where thev
••did
food.
there was enovgh for winter consumption with
what the people had the means of purchasing
from below. The German settlers were gener
ally of the opinion that there was nut, and th^
Priests sent commissioners to Dubuque to ask
contributions. When this became known in
Lower St. Cloud Indignation meetings ware
hold, and strong rosolutii ns passed condemn
ing the measure as altogether unnecessary, and
one calculated to do the country great injury
by preventing enngratiou in the spring. The
Corectuf-ii.-? of this view of the ease is now proy
Paul, with, vegetables and grain after supply
ing the i'ivie regions and the labor
!!r' Bead.
enough to do the manufacturing for hQonU-\^-\Y^r^ 7T I»«U«ritY of t3»e people of St Cl'-U-l how
rllHIS town is situated on the bi^ux'., ,. .J
stream harsswamps,
no islands sand bar snag
Obstruct navigation: the banks are about 2")
feet high, and not subject to ovevilow ni.iviy
of the tributaries of tiie Ecu ri\ «r are strong
ly impregnated with salt, and indications of
iron and coal are numerous in the vicinity.
The farmers of tlie walfejj? of the lied river
gave to Major "Wood as the average of their
crops wheat 30 to 40 barley 40 to SO oa?s
40 50 and potatot-s 200 to 800 bu?h2ls to the
acre. At Pembina, [200 miles north of Breck
enridge,] ex-Gov. Ramsey says, or. the 2d
October, 1851, water melons and cantelope?
were seryedtptis for dessert, and the first, frost
that occured was on the night of that day.
ISreckenrid&e is also at thepoin. »vhere(lov
ogteven's survey of a route for ib.e Pacific raij
rh facto- fieult, yielding iinpossihle
i,,:-
h:" nought the control of a
i. appear, there was a lavgo amount of calculate the cost of supplying territory
In autumn it became a question whether land Munitions for the war that will surely
.i W figltt all our battles on th.
enemys ground, and always use his wea
pons, so that be who makes personal war
upon ua had better be sure of his defen
sive armor. Let him make our private do
mestic relation^ the object of his public
sneers, av.d he may calculate to defend his
own.
si
en. 'Piie third week of May is here, potatoes ..
Bell Jit %b ots. per bushel, corn $1,00, wheat comment in all their political relations.—
$1,25, oats 80 ets. and we have hoard of no in-' W do not recognize any man^s right to
stance in whieh nny have suffered for want of privacy in any attempt to govern the rpo
food while a very large proportion of the em-
Woudrivur, and is the Western tcrm
t.,--i\ A
growth, tlie remainder of the valley\h prairie. pnvate elfort.? to m
BQJtt] ()Sfd of rich, black loam free i'rom sand 'J'^ roputntion, to COVtt r,\ir name
barreiiS lied river issa%,r
deep, slotw mthi &JLG$ odious cp-itheti:, andffTOBecna'Cs.
are still actively pursued. Wear«-with.ut
unit occure was on ii: nigato that day i,t-r+, ~«*-«. i^.
[we address before the Minnesota Aprieultn-
contract as by (lie terms of its charter it must,
be finished from Stii'hvattr te St Anthony with
in two years, and completed to Breckenridge
within ten years' from the '?d of March, 1857,
or forfeit its franchise us well a^ the lands do
nated to it.
0
ral Society, Oct, 10th, 1856.1 Two largt se-! V*®P& supervisionn off it,, for the
ty uct iota «oti. TW O largt st-t proper supervisio it for th press feiust
tleroen'ishave long existed on Red river bo placed where it can be fniarded with
Pembina and Selkirk, both of which yearly I out hiring men for that'rmrnW
raise?.' large surplus of the t.roducts of the -r,™ 1
farm the whole valley of the Red river is
iron and coal lead to the discover of those .. VnnfP{f fe^*»n
minerals as large AS 1st anticipated, this-vallty W the press, mny
will soon be swaimdng with a population en- ™!}x here, in thi nominally free
gaged in agriculture, minifigand manttfactur- Stafe^ it is danger of beinn crushed
ing, supplying eastern Minnesota, Wisconsin, The Dew^-rat is no longer kio&$ ntm,
lows and Missouri, vlfh the pi oducts of their I althohph va sihWTl ,,.!-, W
labor and skill: tho Minnesota and Paoifio S ^3 make it a prommenr oh
railroad will be placed in.n.ediateiy under
road crosses the Sioux Wood river, an exami- -...•
nation.of the Western States, and a reference
the writings of Gov. Stevens, ex-Gov. Itam-
say or the Congressional doenments containing
the reports of Maj. Long and Capt. Pope, can
not fail to convince that such is the geograph
ical position of Breckenridge that all that
portion of the Territory of the United States
which lays .west of the Mississippi and north
of the head Waters of the Minnesota rivers
must forever be tributary to rhat city, and
that Breckenridge is to be not. only the com
centre for tho north-west, but will
foi-evcr bo the gate city on the great north-west
highway of nations.
Breckenridge is now being improved by the
Proprietors, who are erecting dwellings for
themselves, a hotel, grist mill, saw mill, a
ahinglfe and lath machine, &e.
Eov further pnrtioulars^nquire of
HENRY T. WELLS
Minneapolis,
U. CHUTE. St. Anthony,
CHAS. N. M'KUBBIN. Si. Paul,
Executive' Committee,
Or to GEO. P. BROTT, Beeckinridge.
May 10, 185& tf
The Democrat.
Our Prospecttis will be found on ourPost
third jiage,. and we ask the friends
of the freedom of the press and -of the
principles there laid down, to aid us in
maintaining them. Wo feel that in our
advocacy' of them in St. Oloud.we have
been milder and moreeonservatiye than we
have ever before been in our character ot
writer for the fcress. AVeMyflliot except
our large share of huraan weakness, our
life been iuoh as to feive no jjusteituse
of offence to any
ffW
May he we-are a fanatic butnfe cpnvic
tion ould be stronger ih our minxi, than
the feeling that the Lord hag prepared a?
by a long course of discipline, to stand pub
licly as the advocate of the oppressed ii
our own sex, as a representative of wwnan'e
right, under God, to choose her own sphere
of action. W have chosen ours with di
rect reference to the final account,, am,
those Who make it the subject of sareaeia
ridicule, or coarse personal abuse, may cal
"culate to meet all that is terrible in ear«
neatness of purpose.
We are so certain the Lord is on our
side, that it is tjuite impossible for us to
fear any force on earth. Dying not dif-
W have not
press here, but
when it was offered us we looted upon it
as a command from the Great Master to gc
to work in His vineyard. Our conscience
acquits us of having used it otherwise tht.n
in the service of God and man.. It is thus
we fetili hope to wm it, and not to gratify
any feeling of revenge against those who
have sought our injury with sueli singular
pertinacity and drspe-raiion.
We shall make no personal war upon
any, hut those who attack us, had better
We look upon all ]x?liti«dans. whether in
ffice or- out, as fair subject* of editori:
I W
granta wJio liaa last year designed emigrati
to this point have been deterred by tins bug*!
bear cry of famine, and have gone elsewhere.
The time is now past at which the Grasshoppers
appeared last spring, and the minds of the
people are set on rest as the question of wheth
er they left lavae, last year, before they onii
gncreti. It is evident that they wont to other
iocaliries as they came here to eat, deposite' Mfentaon to that point, no mat
thtir eggs and die. There i.s no sign that they ter where is, Or what is likely to be the
ha-ve left any deposits here, and as everybody consequence. W believe this i^ a dut^
jV
think we never will The people are
proper source of political power, and have
a righr to know a the imrposes and
plans of those xrh0 dispense power*and
patronage. Whenever we can trace a po
litical wire up to tho handle, we shall di-
To those who hi'] that these, our purpo
•n tlie ses, arc rightj we appeal for aid'in carrying
them out. The difficulties with which we
ii a Ci
tend are,very '^reut. A large
es
nus of he Minnesota and Pacific railroad but W adajtion to the troneral commercial
the point laid down by Capt, Pope on Ids crash, thici county hjis had to contend with
m*| as the h,ad of steam i|avigfion on the the l^ of the greater, ortiojb of two eroj'
Bed rrror the Valley oi the Leu river is }..-th,-./h.^-t-^
about-twenty mile* wide on either side of the
th^
stream, a-.d about.live hundred miles long *)ur ehemtes have shown themselves cu:
the surface is level and drained by numerous scrupulous W aetive- writtr"
stre.MOH ^s\u^Sk are skirted with elm ash, ba a of n.oro serious vinleme sfjmd ur.'
wood, white wood and pine of the hvrgest'
1
-,•, a
prisons, or regularly organized 'j-uduiary,
•md xU.se who take the rcsponMbil'.ty pS
thes.^. att icks nre totally irresponsible, as
9 artful and unscrupulous. They
well
Irnvt
Iready depriveti us of a hojfe to
which we had long looked forward, a 4fuif t,
humble, little honte of (-ur own. '*£hi
preparation wc had made for .build in,
now asnionov L-st, for it is nut tlwnfgl
safe for us to attempt livinfr alono.. Ou
offiee mu?t be• Stunted, that with our
unpopsiblc for
iU'c
rapidly filling up with an energetic and Intel- for, help, but we should be recreant to duty
ligenl population: the country being exceed now, not to state the facts, that those hi
ingly healthy, and should the indications of Imre thp .\nu.ri..«r.
a
fk
^uow
'^-J'psition to aid and sustain us,
devaatation of gra^hopperF.
us to have
not. Wont to make pitiful *ppeali
Ai
W the resources of north-
ern Minnesota but the great object of !te
to vindicate the freedom of the pres?
v. press
hor this, men here, of both parties^ have
contributed bo purehasa the material an I
incurred a lyrgo expenditure in publishing
it. Men ^m^rak^^. small H^esfi
ne
ac'^lYc
and effieietit as any, and we aw
anxious that the
responsibilit•
Stamps.
l*r
thus assumed
may not fall too heavily upon them. Our
terms of subscription are as low as we can
make them, and to all who favor us with
subscriptions, we shall trv to give the
worth of their money. 'Th people ot
St. tloud have acted nobly their part in
this matter, and to the friends of truth and
justice abroad, we now appeal to aid us ia
our struggle for the right.
OFFICE OF HRIGU 6ANK H0T£ C0»P*l»r
,/. J. O'SJTANESSr, mGltA ras, I
CoPfBa VhATB AKULlTHOGEATHlOPaWMiR,
Comer of Randolph and Dearborn Streets,
CHICAGO, ILL.
Weddingd Visiting Cards, W Plates,
Notary PubuVs Dies and Presses, I)rft£,Invei
oes, and Labels of every kind pro^fl^ execut
ed and sent by Express. jj®» A ^aok of tha
very best glazed or Bristol Cards with name for
two Dollars by a new and beautkil process
without cost of Plate aqual to the very choicest
Engraving samples whoa w^uredgn i»aiM»tef
4
d. J. O.
J®»Henry Ward 3?eechcr,iR his «Iaf
Tlioughtfi^says:-
4
Bible society kscmiin| its Bibles
all^vcr id to jr and the
Morca, to Arabia and Egypt it dates
not Head them to our wn.pabple Th
oolportour wlio ghould Wave a Bible
slave's «sU)in, twwtf go to ktfvfy, fi-eik the
Imewi tmh tf the ffatf fr&
