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June Gray Swiithelm EditorV
Persmal.
Mahy whohave-known us-as settled
for life at Swistivaie, with our lite-work
before us. in editing the paper Ave
had established, will think it strange
to hear of us now on the confines of
whatevcr little reputation for sanity
we may have enjoyed, it is necessary
to say, that early in the fall of "oti
never be finished.,-for hand and brain
were numb. This sudden and unex-
plained withdrawal from our p^ft was
unjust and injurious to the .gentleman
then proprietor of the Pittsburg Visi-
ter but we had labored under great
disadvantages in residing eight miles
from the city, and being encumbered
with the full amount of domestic
cares and anxieties which usually fall
to the h': of women. Every year had
added to our inability to give anything
lik^ sufficient attention to our edito-
rial work and when at last we
•at work and the question was, "when
will they stop ...
W a
Early in the Autumn previous they
had come in one night settling upon
sCntincr
K'M
^^,-s- .,-,^.
.j i. ,v,i son from Fort Ripley on their way to
n'/d.!?ation. at may not lose I
Kansas, and knowing we wee with-
our Strength utterly and suddenly
.. ,,,, ,.L if fii I open revolt, who could come from the
Jailed. Th editorial halt wnt.en *.«
*•£. ., nuntuur grounds over whichthev stil
-tor the next visiter, could ..
Vvu»
do no more, there was no reason to
assigw, and none why we should not
die except for the sake of one who
would nestle in our bosom even while
she sobbed, "Mother your bones
do hurt me so !5
That would not and last
Spring we got. up out of bed, made
what preparations we could and came
to the only near relatives we have
living a sister and her family who
had emigrated to this place, hoping
the change would be beneficial
We arrived here in the latter part I
busily engaged in destroying the
crops. So far as could be heard from
they had finished up the wheat, the
strawberries and young fruit trees,
garden vegetables they bail taken up
*oots and all, and had left but little of
corn and potatoes. They were still
of June and found the grasshoppers ty men each, furnished with muskets
the prairies like a shower of hail/
stripping many of the gardens in an*again
hour and utterly destroying the crops
then standing. These had deposited
their larvae and died, and it was the
young brood that was now at. work.
Would they emigrate, and how soon
was now the question and one that
was answered early in July, when
tor ten days or more, millions of sil-
very wimrs, going with the wind, dar
kened the air like an April snow
storm.
During nil this period of anxiety
and prospect of famine, it occurred
to us that the people had a very
cheery way of submitting to circum
stances, not a solemn face to be seen,
or a lamentation to be heand. Folks,
looked at the black, war:n soil and
nodded their heads, knowingly,. as
much as to say, Well, the grasshop-1j
pers are in luck this time but it will
be our turn next."
Their cheerfulness was rewarded.
for after the pests left, the late crops
ioty horde, and in the county there is Ir^Sjf.
But the a was not the
thom'ivithi•
nins and blanVpfc Mi
The the squatter sovereigns downf •. -h \&M$£&&
som pl^ce iM
Kansas, had 1
tv. *O course, nou.,*.,
I
to complain, for it is a well established:.j anu IA*VW
principle in law and government, that the 17th of November
personal safety compared with prop-
erty safety, is a fourth or fifth rate
consideration.
Coming one day in from a visit to
Eagle Nest Lakes VA met the garri-
out a show of government protection,
between U3 and some thvee or four
thousand Indian warriors, in a state of
roamed, in twenty-four hours easy
march and stand under our windows*
W thought the men here should
perty of some citizen of Missouri.—
The a the government would have
been compelled to send the navy up
to Lake Superior and the army to
St Cloud to catch the thieves and'
reclaim the property. We could
easily have found them one year's
.. occupation at the business, and, in
Medary could have had the trouble
settled. But our folks to,)k the pros-
pect of scalping just as they did that
of famine, looked cheery and counted
heads. Well, they rather appeared to
like the idea of doing their own fight-
ing and no thanks to the regulars.—
jn all these up river towns they or-
ganized themselves into volunteer
companies and sent to Gov. Medary
for arms. These were supplied and
S a
during the winter but. no danger is
apprehended as our blue coats got
safely through with the siege of Law-
rence, frightened the wicked Yan-
kees whp were going to kidnap the
black babies and have got bock
to Fort Ripley.
Then, the majority of our oldest
inliaifcant^Jh^H,cjca»f.
"cullered pussons" known as the pro- acquired, have other and more profit-
companies of seven-
Our Uncle could not afford rifles for
Minnesota, but many have them in
their list of private property, with
revolvers to boot, and they talk of
not allowing the Indians to do all the
shooting if they .mould -come down
here since the
Spring of '55, and the winters!—
Whew Th story "of our Muscatine
friend who assured-vis that, up here
there was fifteen months winter
every year, was not SO .much
mistake after all.". Th river
close at the 10th of November,
fall before or soon after,- when we
should have our last view of the
brown earth until the March sun
melted her fleecy shrouds. Th Mer-
cury was to freeze in December and
stay frozen until late in February. So
that the only trouble which threat-
ened this doomed community, apart
from the ordinary ills all "rlesh is
heir to, were those of being starved,
scalped and frozen, and all the while
and when we
s!
in most places revived, and vieldedj. ,,
*linn/-i4«*i i, ,, ••'length-of "sorrowful proportions, while
abundantly, and all that sewed root'
we had .Very nearly reached the pre
felt to mourn over
their insensibility, the mirror revealed
the startling fact that bur face lacked
byhaving out grown that self same old
meriao. the comfort and com
of years gone by. Alas! for hu-
I H* & looking as mertf 7 as the man who
a 3 a
trouble. Last winter there was an The':Cause
outbreak amongst he Indians, who climate,,. .Some
mura, ^.about thirty whites. These fedejs ©«4 the blu
murderers fled, and has iwv?.r heen viriffi thin haze, for' lack of other va-1 WnritiM to one of their houses, or per
fei^JPMBti^^^*^^»^A*i.^iio|^^*4^^^.^i**ftS^?(fe5 $ which to 'tuuniiifactuzje•!miUect
so far as we. can learn, is still^pre- clouds while the prairie re toss
.re••-
anting cnera.-wiu guns an v™*f»ts-?$ ftefoj into th river t* be tumbled.'t ... I
"[dow its swift current}..over its dasn-
ihtb rebel heads to organize a fAffi'.••.'« dasa L.
•7 •& |lodejmentsome place below--J
city for thetttsefferf,I. Thi is the 9thd Bec«
1.'•• LI if 7-'J^ Tti'.it:.f/i 1 un?u-.v«i»jui!«}u:.ju*5Ji\t&t&
country ce
^rhich government tlireatened to'.enr.|,th«f current rushes on laughing cated, S W &
inches of snow which soon disap-
peared urfder the bright sunlight
and gave place to several days oi
warm rains. O the 5th inst, five
inches of snow fell and two days of
sunshine threatened to exterminate
but to-day proves it well settled
into fine sledding'.
But he personal. W have con-
cluded to rem» r. iu St. Cloud andour
as there is no room for idlers, must do
something. In the general distribu-
tion of labor ii appears best we should I
do the editing ibr our young 1
nity, as no one in it has had so much
have taken measures to get possession experience in that business, and those
of some one, two, or a half-a-dozen who have more abilities, natural and cient for his family use, for one year, ou1
able uses for them.
Th VISITER will, in 3ome respects,
take the place of the "Minnesota
Advertiser," a paper of which we
have seen but little, but know it
k*/J «^«»-v J' i«
gentlemen of marked ability. I was!
0 L.
decidedly conservative, and from itsj
the mean time, on red neighbors readers we must beg forbearance for ii back
would have been quiet, and Gov. the many sharp corners on our opi
nions.
We bring to our worjc fifteen years
shall do what we can to make the
I S I E useful and entertaining.
Delhi Ketaken,
The Arabia brings details of the capture
of Delhi by the English on the 14th of
September, Perhaps some of our isolated
readers may not knbw that, the nations of
British India have revolted, murdered
thousands of English and other Europeans,
sparing neither women-nor children but
accompanying their massacre with horror3
the. heart. Delhi was the principal scat of j..
the revolt and here the attrocities coomit-
every.human„heatt
Indiai were
vpit.
rfm
ed with the
msattrins, hot
'#where
a
l)
principally gavrisoned by fiends bound to W W
them, by the ties of fear, those cowardly &"<h
order of the day" with this clause:
Major General Wilson need hardly re
mind* the troops of the cruel murders oonr
taitted on their officers and comrades^ as
well as their wives and children, to move
them in deadly struggle, No quarter
lb* face of the Eartli, may
a re he should have foreseen much thathaa come\
with
to pass, "Why they couldr even have trust,j
to
a uI 1
." i: the profane eyes of Europeans, even
This is the Qthi Bbcember And ^gft SjfaSK '«*fj '--i •!7e
a
the bitterness of war and vengeance have •. ...
not forgctten that they were S S bornof* S W I
..,. rw-4. *r throwing a space across our river broa
christian aacestry. On the eve of thd' at
tack the commanding, officer published an nbutmont
W a
vilest of'Streetwalkers of J^urdpeaQ aud
it^'-At ••*.*•**•*• -M' 7'-'' iUular
But she appreheuueo
we have not yet heard if shotWas W
the victims to the general confidence, so,
strange aqd so fatally misplaced. Gov. "W uu.
ti-deinodra
Our Eastern news is meagre for
fourth page beside the map. Wo
could not give much account of the firli
settlement because we have not, t!ni3 Tar,
-en
a 0
£?*.definite and well authentr
$ &
We Jearu that Dr. Hunter of Sf
Cloud has made sigar^ and molasses suffi-
of Chinese 3ugar cane raised on his fan
•Marlett as Kelley are to ortten. next
week a drug store on the corner*T'fV
First
Street and efferson Avenue. This will be
the first drug store in St. 'ioti^ ,ai)d \f\\
we doubt not find patronage «ta.-moot
naa some editorial attention, from drugs for fear they should ffet sick. I -lM
a
ago,
had killed
8,7
xpenence as a writer for the press, jeamimr.to hunt,,c:ime home with nine coupty has a famine in it, and we cannot
are so situated as to be able to rabbits, proud as a peacock in early har- I allow our famine to run all about over "the
give more a to our business ?!?J| Territory in xhU way, Wewan ail the
than we could ever before do and
vest
INDIANS.-
too frightful to repeat and the thoughts of in defiance of the o.wner.
which makes the finger ends iirigl^ the
eye grow dim, and the blood curdie arount^
every- day expected. Th Sioux at
Grand I,ake, last week, entered and
robbed tiie cabin of a white settler,
sound of tho church going
bell, over prairies and woodlands was iirst
heard, on Sabbath last, when the new bell
|of the Catholic Chapel rung '.outfits
have opmpleted abridge across the Missis-
sippi uniting their twin cities
that r1
sonry
structure
course of the winter
the. people refused to lay it to heart.'
Mo« wmAA tirbicflft ««rl /.'i- uM May the records prove that this order settling away down South! Had vout ., Mi
Men would whisUe,and children romp |.__s ..lh ,..„e^
wa strictl„ obeyed, and while trusticome.c up here to Stearns county, your
that Delhi will literally be blotted Out from! «ver would not have been closed neither
?lhe
ei*wj after thnyleft, reaped plenteous f. *. 1J from the worshipers of Bramin. exception ot one week) we hare been siti ifousnnd bushels of grain were -shipped Bums
r,ward,. Some few a
!iot.p«m visited at all by the mi'iT ^.
«.'• .... y-M-v ,«...,, Tvavn»n in-. «va ', I- r. Wt Three E^^^Mii e^hiv-tlirec Bnant
"--ttLi a
ths*«e
Jhg
ed to any assumed, feeling of "amity on lhe,'um° folks said 'it was, going to bo temple
bytenan Missionary who lias resided in! islimls of ice. W have not had two
l«ok .upon ope of their faces,
Kin^do women'who weve.vmble
American--CAICM.: Ourirtformamwash^re 7. •„.-. ,.
to provide-for leavin= 1
r» i. -t* Hu a escaped over the wall to avoid wmppingi •»,,„.
13 two fur South, Sir, too far South!
APi^
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that the editp&is engaged in diivihg
a
... 1 '-J ,,'":,. W the PibDe:eraM''MmneS6ti%fti#auld-iffJ The Traverse des \Sioux
with her
husbandthRi
I re
¥W*r%
eau-1f
aatives'with I
Sh Iikevrish
want of lata exchanges. i,government
—~-...--~—L ington to talk u»^ .^M*. ..
m* Our readers will find soma account I supporting squatter sovereignty.^
of St, Cloud and Eurrounding country, on Southern ^Democrats repudiate Gov. 'and, walk uT,
peorie
S
to lt
a a a a fineeu E a a S
•As we go to press we honor and all the profit of scarcity and
c^avj_njr.theo'i'. ,-„
must echo, fflf® BurDos.-The Republican of St Amh0 ^TMP^S^W* Wl€Z £f?W MW
•_... 7 oral Cotifbrfnce UT RTav^
next- w'hict co-^-i,r -a »s- otter t. a:i .neroIv
It ^therefore cause of devout thankful- ^ynnu JJinneapolis say?, J, Frost '•& Co I vents in Nashville:. u..& -a-,-ia-r.
ness that tli'h nest of monsters Has baan
recaptured, by those who so unwisely forti
fied it in former years, and left it to be
w"•.!
it open on tbese ni*-bts also but at bed
part of the natives is most unaccountable' cold. There, f^^v^^iraa^.jw^^rliJl+^iMf^dj^^fe• eannot: think ii S S 3
for an American lady, the wife^ of a •ftes-[ inning through our. river atnid! Minerva., are born with/their clothe'
on.
-By the St Paul Week§ Times drives cver^ Vrtdzy S S
of the |ls1 uit. wejearn, $ $
Vr
anxious least his colerhuoraries:
a~I^
b."s™^:
'.-'•'.•..i*'v 1 terfere• Withhi-1 business, :Should th
DEFECTIVE PA6E
mmMmmL®JW V™^ »o S fatXkw tW^iMlU^/.thevi
leaveseoh 2 and I7tho :.: if
7 .,-' '7 I JonesMJ^i i-k i-i
3
applecart '1 and, what is S S »eter
*j Friday at 6. M. Leaves every: TUPS- Highhbuse
c]aV
,,, ,. .,. 1 it but we will,
alker and iNorlhcrii Democrats re-
pudiate the Con en tic nj and we pre-'
traces and that the end of the per- 1
ici
i« 4.\ L'I .'ii \L aerated reports,''
diet that it will take, two years sound alt ntoral and political
drubbing to whip them into the Visiter, will aim to deal fair I 'hj,
whooiMer
forman.ee will find them docile as kit-! but the convictions of the eduor%''•'
tens and mild as new milk. |quently its creed will be:
__„_:.___„. ^St- Tut Divine law is the $upt,r.
The St. Paul Advertiser says: FarJ
,u ^,
O A
1
„','•*„ „,.. fundamental law
Stearns county extends from no
W
—A hunting party of one hundred In-. around over St. Paul and on across to Wis-! Qseit?.?ively confined to white
They Have been in different ever so many gates over the greater iMui'qn, Iguorauw., lx*MM
places iu the neighborhood.and-some days of t' Minnesota
Valley, and.
deer and.18 bears, Come, 6i
ctay our VVitley a boy, nephew, whoTo'Dacofahl.
is this v.-il never da. Itemember Stetrns,! wonders" of the world,
iKsT Navigation closed -A Stillwater on!
1 8
HoMol
Methodiste
Episcopa Churcli Southofatthe,|wattw,r
its
recent. ccnfeKep6e in Marion,' W.. rescinded, A^-e'r.
that clause in the discipline Avbich prohib Astr. -hebu ine.ss.pg^.jf
its the "'buying and selling,of men, wo-! *#C ha^ very little typ
men, andeld'dren for tho purpose of en
si.,
The Knpxville Whig fays
at LAROE WnBAt^u'op.—The Ma^tcvilie I we .mte'iu
I Hasting Democrat of the *oth S i&^^.thonv Bums the fugitive wii^jaf not proprietors Ijt-re.o ccp:
I a copieslbr ^15T.^t)copie-ft
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beim? in the State
world of would your people have been W in I S ****.lo Withfcfr $hM Arnold i,aein
Paganism learn that christian nations,: any.such unseasonable .amusement. Up, -Li-'.-r' tlasmt JRCOK
even i,nthe horors of war, differessentially to this rime- the 4.ih»f.December fwi»h-the •-••-•'••-.•«* ,y^ p°^!f\
Vorkrfrom Cahtorni.a. rhs wile i*expect- IphsnniaTBP
and wotsld have felt better f017l.lat-.Led hohie from France by^the a & Qbandier Geo
jtiQT-s He who cannot clearly express.
Uvery Mondfi}' and* Thursdav at 8,rA. Wf-»jijf%3y tf
[ThcM^il closes, at 7|-'A. 7 'iIloytA-B
'an••4"* 1 •'ft Harding! Josejflt
at B-AiM,
mfcyg personal $$%
I
mislead our readers by false oJ
Hitter with it but tie
in aI a
1 ,. 2d. AH men are createdim®
to the amount of $180,000 4 ii a ^h^tt lifb,
c* .1 •,
ported from St. Paul this year, «nd pub- nur.si.jtof happiness
\is\iv.i a map of Minnc ota- with 89'7 3d. The Bib!e,and the Coiistitutior
United States are anti slavery: ind
towns marked on it but.it doe.s not desig jchattledom is unconsiitutuM^l uV
-.,'l ,ni &r- Cloud as a county town. Accord-Isolation professing to receive eif
M"u","5i*,,aJ
out West
•K'
eonnned for
Missouri,
withoui m:
cense, were recently wlnpped ut el jai|,
maitarrives 6 S
^hCuld .they! the 24threvery rrlonth,. .and ™f™\ •.
fr&rBU i^mt^iWn
-0th,dana"2.4th47f
Wednesday at S
«the r'Tujasday,at#, A. M.
edito^«»H
portmen will never represent ari
it
& & & &
created by its author:
iav
it 1
Jt aymg taxes is as unw,
4 and to a privilege, hich
of^bis,:and 1
Slaver^. Intsmpen)nce,
a
some Mr Advertiset
Large Cities are thi ?-e'.
which eur.s the Eaith,
miseries more wonderful
boliis&ed before the r«
earth and good will to
rr)I
establishe(3.
6th. St, Clond.in depute of
do. to prevent, will -at no dlstajpi
to tha es((st-'amoanf of i^oo^
acconpi-lj
jj^ g^ fijto, ik
on-jtue .urwevv'. 'C
KMI, of danger and apparejd
., tha path of duty lies-. i\tn: ii^l.
conference "'•anu'f-'v
r'".-.'d
a a,'f-go
,forward!
il divide ',hi
th-i besi'khid, hoi ir.uea.•p'^pTr^l
mo. ey" than Agin- might 1'iifflfe'
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:vust e^i pc^atocs aid com rn^aj
ter ibr want at* 7 ''^b«v
!o &tmxr,
iiifiiii son
fmliil.serffifc'fVof the, %$j$j\
Tei MS"-%!e-c.,pfe»
To ^ybseribci-s' but -of Steams'' .\
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