Tn
a of tho P«meer$IvnocraK
TW. Postmaster^General has this day direct-
ru that a contract for carrying the mail from
St. Cloud via Breckinridge, to Fort Abercrom
•i» bo made with Mossers Allen and Chase—
a proposition having beeu made by them which
deemed reasonable.
Respectfully. H. M. llice.
Homestead Exemp ioa.
W give our readers to day the
stead exemptio Bill of Minnesota. re
s, as observe, quite a diversity of sen
as to its justice and propriety. W
entertain he opinion that a rascal will
vhea you exemptio or no and
.his law may shield honest debtors from
he severity of unfeeling creditors, until
time as they can accumulate a suffi
ciency to pay their entire indebtedness.
A all events we can give it a fair trial
if it disappoints the expectations of its
ends it can bo repealed.
A N A O A O E S E A E E I O N
Be it enacted ly the Legislature of the
Stdteof Min itesota
S E 1. at a homestead consisting of
a quantity of land, not exceeding eighty
acres, and the dwelling house thereon and
its appurtenances to be selected by he
thereof', and not included in any in
corporated town plat, or city or village.—
O instead thereof a the option of the
owner, a quantity of land not exceeding in
1
house thereon and its appurtenances own
and occupied by any resident of this
Sfc°.te, shall not be subject to attachment
levy or sale upon execution, or any other
process issuing out of any Court within
this State. Thi section' shall be deemed
and construed to such homestead
in the a aforesaid, in the time
it shall b,e occupied by he widow, or mi
S E 8 W a levy a a
upon the lands or tenements of a house
holder, whoso homestead has not been se
lected and set apart by metes and bounds
such householder may notify the officer at
he time of a in such levy, of at he
regards as his homestead, v/ita a descrip
tion thereof, within the limits above pro
scribed, and he remainder alone shall be
subject to sale such levy.
S E 4 I the plaintiff in execution
hall be dissatisfied with the quantity of
land selected and set apart as aforesaid,
he officer a in the levy shall cause the
same to be surveyed, beginning at a point
to be designated by the owner, and set off
an a compact form, including the dwelling
house and its 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
S E 5 Afte the survey shall W
been made, the officer a in he
may sell property levied upon and not I
included in the set-off, in he same a
as provided in other cases for the sale of
real estate on execution, and in giving a
deed of the same, a describe it
considered as exempting any real estate
nientr execution or sale or any final process
issued from a court in this State:
First he family bible.
Second. Famil 'pictures, school books
or library, and musical instruments for use
of family.
S ix re cows, ten swine, one yoke
oxen and one, horse or in lieu of cue
vokc of oxen and a horse, a span of horses
or twenty sheep and he wool from
he same, either in he raw material or
manufactured into yarn or cloth th nec
essary food for all he stock mentioned in
this section for one year's support, either
provided or growing or both, as the debtor
a choose also, one wagon, cart or dray,
one sleigh, two plows, one drag, and other
farming utensils, including tackle for teams,
not exceeding three re dollars in value.
S Provisions fort he debtor and
is family necessary for one years supoort
it provided or growing,*or a
fuel necessary for one year
E he tools and instruments ot
a mechanic in or other person, used
a for he purpose of parrying on
is trade or business, a in addition there
to stock in trade not exceedind four hun
dre dollars in value he library a imple
of a professional man all of
articles 3iubefore intended to be exempt
nhall be chosen by he debtor, his agent,
clerk, or legal representative, as he case
may bej
aaroaynaiacaMKttatiMtWf^
S 9
a
cording to his original" "exesntin* a does not depend upon the number of
xi_... .° *"*•*"', _wuo rulers. It may have one ruler or many. Rome
therefrom by metes and bounds according
10 the certificate of the survey, the quanti
set-off as aforesaid.
S E 6- A person owning and oceu-
in any house o*- laud not his own. and Ifi -1 -.
«%unma ««M W uwu, am
A seat or pew in any house or
place of public worship.
A lot in any burial ground.
Fifth Al wearing apparel of the deb
tor and his family, all beds, bedsteads, and
bedding, and used by the debtor and
his family ail stoves and appendages
up or kept for the use of the debtor and
his family all cooking utensils, and all oth
houshold furniture not herein enumer
ated, not exceeding five re dollars
in value.
N in in this act shall be SO
fc
a
iVom execution, or attachment
for clorks, laborers or mechanics' wages.
Sec. 10 All laws inconsistent, with
revisions of this A are hereby repealed.
Bee. 1 1 Thi act shall take effect from
(1 after its passage.
E O A E Speake of he I I of R.
W O O E Pres' Senate.
Approve A 12th 1 8 5 8
A ii StBLEY, Governor.
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Thi gentleman who as been elected to
the next Congress, from Pennsylvania,wa
a in 1850 and on the 2 0 of
.February of that year, delivered a speech
of wo give an extract below.
rill be apt to add greatly to Mr an
felicity in the last years of his
•i am opposed to despotism throughout the
world. Inmy judgement, not^only the Slave
State3, but the Genera] Government recogniz
ing as it does, slavery, is a despotism.
0
from taxation or sale A a sv/aitliY Ethiopian. The former by court
QTT. \T^ I
es-v
NOTICE.
fr
a despotism under Nero: so she was under
the Trumvirate. Athens was a despotism un
der her Thirty Tyrants under her Pour Hun
dred Tyrants under her Three Hundred Ty-
I it a
claiming said house as a homestead, shall as we delight to be called. All others are sub
be entitled to the exemption aforesaid. jects.
S E 7. N in in this act shall be
In this government, the free
sovereigns
and the ruled arc of all colors,
a
it of the Caucassian tribes to
a a 1
S E 8. N property hereinafter mention- this government the subject has no rights, so*
represented shall, be liable to attach- cial, personal anhd politicalhim.lieH
while, the latter black. I
has no voice
a the laws vhic govern can hold
ao property. His very wife and children are
not his. His labor is another's. He and all
that appertain to him are the absolute property
of his rulers. lie is governed, bought, sold,
punished, executed, by laws to which he never
gave his assent, and by rulers he never chose.
ilo is not a serf, merely, with half the rights of
men, like the subjects of despotic Russia but
a naked slave, stripped of every right which
God and nature give him, and which the high
spirit of our revolution declared inalienable—
which he himself could not surrender, and
which man could not take from him. Is he
net, then, the subject of a despotic rule.
£The slaves of Athens^and Rome were free
in comparison. They had some rights—could
acquire some property could choose their own
masters, and purchase their own freedom,and.
when free could rise in social and political
life. The slaves of America, then, lie" under
the most absolute .-.nd grinding depotism, that
the world ever saw. But who arc the despots?
The rulers ol the country—the sovereign peo
ple! Not merely the slaveholder who cracks
the lash. lie is but the instrument in the
hands of despotism. That despotism is the
government of the Slave States, and the United
States, consisting of all its rulers, all the free
citizens. Do not look upon this as a paradox,
because you and I and the sixteen millions of
rulers are free. Nicholas of Russia is free.—
The grand Sultan of Turkey is free. The
butcher of Austria is free. Augustus, An
thony and Lepidus were free while they
drenched Rome in blood. The thirty Tyrants,
the Four hundred Tyrants, the Three Thous
and Tyrants, were free while they bound their
countrymen in chains. You, ami I, and the
sixteen millions, arc free, while we fasten iron
chains, and rivet manacles on four millions of
our fellow men tear their wives and children
from them seperate them sell tliem and. doom
them to perpetual, eternal bondage. Are wo
not then despots—despots suck as history will
brand and God abhor.
The copartnership heretofore existing under
the style of "Whitney & Co.,M is this day dis
solved by mutual consent.
Kingston Minn. A. P. WHITNEY,
August. 25 1858. \Q. A. NOURSE.
nov 11.
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O E interests in the flourishing towns of
ST. CLOUD fe EAST ST, 0L0UD.
Lots, single or in quantities, to suit. purcha»
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cannot your finger on a
part of he Constitution conveys he
or he power to carry slaves from one
of he States of he on to any Territo
ry of the it S a Clay,
1 8 5 0
O O
St. Cloud is the point at which the Red-Riv
er trains cross the Mississippi on their way fo
St. Paul, which proves it to be the natural
junction of land travel between these two great
arteries of trade. I is at the present head of
steam navigation on the Mississippi. Boats
run regularly, during the Spring and early
Summer months, front St. Anthony to this
place.
The map gives its .position correctly with
reference to all the most important points in
the territory, but the peculiar beauty of its
location, and fertility of the surrounding coun-,
try cannot he transcribed. Within fifteen
miles of St, Cloud, on opposite sides of the
river, and at different points of the compass
arc eight lakes, varying in size from 1* mile to
5 miles in circumference, all, save one, beau
tiful, exceedingly, three of them at least, deep"
enough to float a man-of-war. Wooded banks,
clean pebbly shores plentifully mixed with
cornelian and waters abundantly supplied
with fish.
When Gov. Stevens made his survey of a
northern railroad route to tho pacific, in '53,
he camped on the western side of the Mis
sissippi, below Sauk Rapids." The place was
nameless—the present site of St. Cloud but it
is here bis route leaves the river. I the sum
mer of '55 a claim cabin was built on the spot
where we now write, a good saw mill, the
frame of a large Hotel and eight, other dwell
ings were put, up that summer. This last fall
there were three hundred and thirty-two votes
polled in the precinct. Not the votes 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 perpetual pleasure. As yet, our physi
cians have discovered no diseases peculiar to
the climate, no indigenious complaint except
the '"Minnesota Appetite" which requires one
fourth more treatment than a modest Pennsyl
vania or Ohio attack of a corresponding dis
ease.
Any body who wants to drink whiskey in
peace had better uot come here, for the treaty
by which the hind was acquired from the Sioux,
forbids its introduction and the Legislature
has passed a law enforcing that provision but
people of moderate means and industrious hab
its who have children to educate, will find few
places where the opportunity for correct moral
training, healthy development of muscle, and
the means of pecuniary independence are bet
ter combined.
There are immense tracts of pine lying above,
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, whe are to be supplied
with provisions clothing and feed. The soil is
wailing for an opportunity to produce unlimit
ed quantities of food, without troubling the far
mer crushing clods while the Mississippi from
St. Paul to Little Palls can afford to turn a mill
at almost any point and has water power
enough to do the manufacturing for a Conti
nent.
Our natural meadows produce a grass from
four to six feet high, and the beef killed off our
prairies is quite equal to any stall fed we have
ever eaten. Our venison is fine at ten cents
per pound, rabbits, prairie hens, partridges,
ducks, &o., plenty. Thousands of bushels ot
acorns for lite hogs that are not here roPcat
them. Fuel-for the labor of cutting and haul
ing off the ground and there is no likelihood
of the supply running out soon, as the "Big
Woods" extend from this pke some twentj"
miles or more, down this side of the river, and
from eight to twelve miles back. Our prairies
are all dotted Avith strips of wood land, '-Oak
Openings" which just look like old orchards,
dense thickets of plum trees bearing delicious
fruit, ,grape vines, doing likewise, thousands ot
acres of hazel bushes and strawberry vines, en
gaged in the same business while some hun
dred acres arc in the cranberry trade and turn
out an article, which for quantity and quality
cannot be excelled. The blackberries, red rasp
berries'and hops tack up their shingles in the
woods and seldom disappoint the most san
guine expectations of their customers. There
is still land ten or fifteen miles back which set
tlers can get, at government price, by building
a cabin and living on it until it comes into
market. Actual settlers can buy lots here at
from one to five hundred dollars, and specula
tors can have the same lots at from five to fif
teen hundred.
In some of the river towns back, places that
will bo 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 be a palace compared
to the dens rented in large cities for 4 and 5
dollars per month, while the lot, witli only the
aid of a grubbing hoe and a few days labor,
would bring vegetables to feed a family, and
every township has GOO acres appropriated to
the support of schools.
Seventy thousand acres are appropriated to
a State university. A tine building lias already
been erected for the use of that institution". It.
is situated at St, Anthony, built of stone on an
eminence commanding a view of the falls, and
no State in the Union, has a better foundation
for a good system of popular education. No
other prairie State is. eo,Well timbered as Min
nesota and no State more" abundantly supplied
with clear wa tor. In the country surrounding
St. Cloud and as far North anoTWest as we have
any reliable account, settlers find no difficulty
in locating land on a running stream or trans
parent lake with plenty of timber at hand for
building, fencing and fuel, and as the land on
the Y«rcst rude of the Upper Mississipi is only
open to pre-emption, there is 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 settlei*s.
The country around St. Cloud, west of the
Mississippi was purchased of the Indians in a
treaty made with them by Hon. Alexander
Ramsey and Luke Lea in 1852 and ratified by
the senate the same year. The Sioux had
owned the land from 1S27 but had not occupied
it, and it was used as a hunting ground by the
Winnebagoes whoso land reached within four
miles north of St. Cloud. Their country was
coded to the United States by a treaty began
with Commissioner Manypeny and concluded
fit Washington in Feb. 1855 and ratified by the
Senate March 3d of the same year. In May
following they removed to their reservation on
the Blue Earth river and only since that time
has Stearns county claimed kindred with civili
zation. The first house within the corporated
limits of St. Cloud was built by James Hitch
ens, forGeneral Lowry. James Hitchens being
the first white man who slept in a house here
is entitled to the distinction of being the "old
est inhabitant." The site of Lower St. Cloud
was taken up as a claim by Martin Woolly, a
Norwegian, who sold his right to George
Brott who surveyed and platted it in the spring
of '55. About the"same time John L. Wilson
surveyed and platted what is now called middle
town, vhich adjoins and lies higher up the riv
er, white General Lowry surveyed and platted
upper town, called Lowry's Addition, the win
ter following. It was Wilson who gave
Ihne tow the name of St. Cloud by this name
it was incorporated in the winter of '55 '56.
The Land Oftice was removed in April '58, from
Sauk Rapids to Upper town. The post office
is in Middle Town, which is inhabited by in
dustrious and well-to-do German Catholics.—
The Catholic chapel is here, and the bell be
longing to it, is the first church going bell in
Stearns county and lias also the distinction of
being the first audible in Sherburne and Benton
counties which corner on the opposite side of
the river. There too is a school kept by a com
pany of Benedictine Nuns where music, draw
inn, needlework and German are vnell taught
by ladies of polished manners and unusual
proficiency.
Lower Town has two protestant churches, in
process of erection one, about completed. We
have a public school in the Everett School
house, and a handsome Library dedicated by
Hon. Edward Everett. The engines of an ex
cellent saw mill and plaining mill, sash facto
ry and of a good flouring mill are this mo
ment puffing away within half a dozen rods of
our office. We have from five to six steamboat
arrivals here weekly and the smallest propor
tion of drones we have ever seen in any hive.
In the fall of '50 Grasshoppers came in a
cloud and settled down in this and adjoining
counties, destroying the greater portion of the
crops- They deposited their larvae and died.
Early in the spring of '57 the young brood
came out and made such havoc that serious
fears of famine were entertained by a large
portion of the people but they left in July, and
so many of the late crops survived, that witli
the full crops of particular places, where they
did not appear, there was a large amount of
food. In autumn it became a question whether
there was enough 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 not,-and the
Priests sent commissioners to Dubuque to ask
contributions. When this became known in
Lower St. Cloud Indignation meetings were
held, and strong resolutions passed condemn
ing the measure as altogether unnecessary, and
one calculated to do the country great injury
by preventing emigration in the spring. The
Corectness of this view of the case is nov.* prov
en. The third week of May is here, potatoes
sell at 25 cts. per bushel, corn §1,00, wheat
$1,25, oats 80 cts. and we have heard of no in
stance, in which any have suffered for want of
food while a very large proportion of the em
igrants who ha I last year designed emigrating
to this point have been deterred by this bug
bear cry of fiimine, 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 emi
grated. It is evident that they went to other
localities as they came here to eat, deposito
their eggs and die. There is no sign that they
have left any deposits here, and as everybody
is putting in a crop of something good to \r
we expect next fall to be encumbered with a
surplus of the good things of this life, and to
inundate St. Anthony, Minneappoiis and St.
Paul, with vegetables and grain after supply
ing the Pine regions and the laborers on the
Rail Road.
I I S town is situated on the Sioux
Wood river, and is the Western termi
nus of A Minnesota and Pacific railroad
the in laid down by Capt. Pope on his
map as the head of steam navigation on the
Bed river the Valley of the Red river is
about twenty miles wide on either side of the
stream, and about five hundred miles long
the surface is level and drained by numerous
streams which are skirted with elm, ash, bass
wood, white wood and pine of the largest
growth, the remainder of the valley is prairie,
composed of rich, black loam free from sand
barrens or swamps. Red river is a deep, slew
stream, has no islands, sand bars or snags to
obstruct navigation the banks are about 2'j
feet high, and not subject to overflow many
of the tributaries of the Red river are strong
ly impregnated with salt, and indications of
iron and coal are numerous in the vicinity.
The farmers of the valley of the Rod river
gave to Major Wood as the average of their
crops wheat SO to 40 barley 40 to 80 oats
40 50 and potatoes 200 to 300 bushels tc the
acre. At Pembina, [200 miles north of Breck
enridge,] ex-Gov. Ramsey says,
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on the 2d
October, 1851, water melons and cantelcpes
were served to U3 for dessert, and the fir,:: fro-si
that occured was on the night of that c.\j,''
[see address before the Minnesota Agricultu
ral Society, Oct, 10th, 1850.] Two largo scl
tlements have long existed on Red river—
Pembina and Selkirk, both of which yearly
raise a large surplus of the products cf the
farm the whole valley of the Red river is
rapidly filling up with an energetic and intel
ligent population the country being exceed
ingly healthy, and should the indications of
iron and coal lead to the discovery of those
minerals as large as is anticipated, this valley
will soon be swarming with a population en
gaged in agriculture, mining and manufactur
ing, supplying eastern Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Iowa and Missouri with the products of their
labor and skill the Minnesota and Pacific
railroad will be placed immediately under
contract as by the terms of its charter it must
be finished from Stillwater to St Anthony with
in two years, and completed to Breckcnridge
within ten years from the 3d of March, 1337,
or forfeit its franchise as well ns the lands do
nated to it.
Breckenridge is also at the point where Gov
ogteven's survey of a route for the Pacific ra'
road crosses the Sioux Wood river, an exami
nation of the Western States, and a reference
the writings of Gov. Stevens, ex-Gov. Ram-'
say or the Congressional documents 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 that city, and
that Breckenridge is to be not only the com
mercial centre for the north-west, but will
forever be 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
shingle and lath machine, &c.
Eor further particulars^enquire of
HENRY T. WELLS. Minneapolis,
R. CHUTE. St. Anthony,
CHAS. N. M'KUBBIN. St. Paul,
Executive Committee,
Or to GEO. BROTT, Beeckinridge.
May 10, 1858. tf
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principles there laid down to aid us in
maintaining W feel at in our
advocacy of in St Cloud we a
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writer for he Press W feel, at
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he feeling at he Lor as prepared us
by a long course of discipline, to stand
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right God to choose row sphere
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those a it he subject of sarcasm
ridicule, or coarse personal abuse a cal
culate to all at is terrible in ear
nestness of purpose.
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any feeling of revenge against those
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ses, are right, appeal for aid in carrying
then', out he difficulties with we
have to contend are very great. A large
majority of (h people of St Cloud show
he best disposition to aid and sustain us
in addition Vo he general commercial
crash, thi? comity as ad to contend with
he .'ois of the. greater portion of two crops
by he devastation of grasshopper?.
O cneiiiie? have shown themselves
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