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ThursdaySWISSHELM,.
And Mr. SLIDEL a Southern Democrat
:-says, "the condition, of his slaves is a dis
grace to the owner. They are badly fed,
badly clothed, and excessively overworked.''
In this view of the^case we beg leave to
take back every word we have ever said
in favor of Mr. DOUGLAS.
Wc partieulary, especially, pointedly and
personally repudiate him now and forever.
The man who claims to own his neiirh
iors wife the right, to take an infant irom
its mother's arms, and toll it like a dumb
beast, is no Democrat. He who would
buy and sell one class of laborers would
buy and fsell any other class of laborers if
he had the power.
Every man, no matter what his color, or
in what country he was born, has a right
the proceeds of his own labor, to live
'with and protect his own wife and chil
dren and he who denies the .poorest,
"the humbles or most ignorant those ina
Jienable right? is a dangerous aristocrat
and has not one drop-of Democratic blood
in his veins.
What are the Kings, Emperors and
Lordlings of Europe who tax and oppress
the laborers of their various lands, to com
paie to these petty lordlings who buy and
sell working men, whip women and steal
babies in our own land.
Is sot the cry of the oppressed gone up
into the ears of the Lord of Sabbaoth, and
will he not visit with his judgements the
oppressor who sets his heel upon the neck
of God's suffering poor lie who holds
his fellow man in bondage is an cjjemy to
God and man, is unfit for any place of
.trust, for thc confidence of any people.
We account every Slaveholder as a dan
gerousenemy to his race and feci as much
bound to strike him the hardest blow in
our power as wc do to lull any snake that
crosses our path. So, our democratic
friends who &< like adhering to the for
tunes of Senator I ouglas, need not expect
aid or comfort from us. We shall stick
to the interests of free labor, free men,
free soil and continue to honor the men
who work for their own living, and pay
the laborer his hire. Those lordii igs who
inu3t have slaves to work for aud wait up
on them we despise from the inmost
mm
The Little Falls Troubles.
to .ive him a trial, and so "Bill" ''still acquainted with the transactions.
lives." a "monument of mercy." This week wo lay the account before
Tho result is that wo now have peace
juid umet whore disorder anu violence be- ,,,, ,,' „.
fore prevailed, and our town is completely he speaks ot is the same
rid of that ruffianism and crime which' we noticed at the tuiic, as oonunittcd, at
has so tonjr disgraced us, and the lives the instance of leading^ politicians, upon
And property of our citizens are as safe as SIMMONS, in revenge fur his refusalsaucy
many town in the State denouement has fixed
lo this desirable result wc are indent-1
*i to the firmness, determination and the guilt upon the very., men then sus
prudence of those of our 'citizens who pected.
took the responsibility of enforcing their Wh«sn such men as these hold offices of
rights, by a resort to those extreme meas-!
ures wnich can only be resorted to, when ..
all others are denied or have failed.-, l*°P
Dec. 23d 1858.
List of the amount of grain received in
payment of one year's subscripitou to thc
St, Cloud DEMOCRAT
Wheat Two bushels
Rye Three bushels j.Mr. RICHARDSON is our prcse
Corn Five bushels Wc have never met this gc
Barley
Oats
Buckwheat
Flutter
Beef
Fresh Fork
The same proportion for six months.
The produce to be delivered at the
store of If. Z. MITCHELL, Lwver town,
opposite the Plancing Miil.
2flr. Douglas
We regret to learn that Senator DOUG
LAS has not emancipated his slaves. It
has been generally known for years that
4iis first wife left him a large number of
slaves on a plantation in Louisiana but
last winter when he was recognized as thc
champion of Freedom in Kansas, it was
understood that he hud in some way bro
ken his connection with thc institution of
slavery. This was a mistake, he still
•lives upon the unpaid labor of his fellow
auen.
depths of our soul and always feci like when we became a State, Dacotah was
.spitting upon them wherever we meet. lefb without a Government. Congress re-
Not being able to hire a reporter to go: tives and this is the first Message.
ko Little Falls to learu the particulars of To our mind the movement is decidedly
(the occurrences which have bedi disgra-: premature. The population i« too sparce
vcing the Northern portion of our State.— to support any vigorous State organization
vWe hav« waited for the account which we! and young Miss Dacotah should not have
know hud been prepared, for the Minneso- been so testy. If cur good old Uncle
lian, by a responsible party and one well Samuel did overlook her claims, she should
a id
ftom g#
of
Throughout this reign of terror our citi-1 pic to expect but that our young State
reus have borne themselves with great will obtain aloud reputation abroad,
prudence and firmness, and have dealt election they have struck a
justly if rigorously with the criminals, .. «..
**?". I heavy blow at the rule ot rufniamsui in
who have so long intested and digraceu
our town
is
..„d
Mmncsota,what are those pec
*atr
a at
Yours truly, L. F. up, by continuing to elect such men as
!*"^?iL'i"-'tt*rj?r*:y^ their choice then fell upon, men of known
E S E O A I integrity and unblemished morals, or our
•AN'K G. EDITOR country wil.l be left to wild beasts and
^Jmu3t
wilder men
In two particulars we think the writer
for the Mmncsolian mistaken, viz in
thinking that Mr. SWEET" or Mr. Ricn
ARUSON had any complicity in screening
the ruffians from justice, that is if this
csent Senator,
entlcman or
Five bushels received any communication from him
Seven bushels but upon diligent inquiry are convinced
Four bushels he is one who would be likely to act justly
Ten pounds and honorably in any case. We make
Thirty pounds this statement as an act of justice to him
Twenty pounds and the more readily because we think
our reporter for the "Democratic" Con
vention"^ Sauk Rapids, misunderstood
that gentleman's position in assuming that
the Moccasins had "whipped him into the
traces." His conduct throughout the sub
sequent canvass, proved that he had not
been whipped in but that he maintained
his devotion to principle and the rights of
the people.
It will require good, strong proff to
convince us that either he or Mr. SWEET
intentionally gave "aid or comfort" to any
band of burglars or rowdies. We have
not this prooff so hold them innocent.
The Pioneer & Democrat says our
preachers up here resemble "old Syncsius
—thc jolly hunting Bishop of the primi
tive church."
^Cannot say about this, as we are not per
sonally acquain'ed with that old gentle
man but if our neighbor is correct Mr.
SYNESIUS must have been able to drive
home a charge of either lead or logic with
telling effect.
Our testy neighbor also hints that we
talk about the Editor of the St. Cloud
DEMOCRAT we are utterly astonished to
see even the Pioneer risk a statement so
manifestly absurd.
What possible motive could we have
for intcrfereing in the affairs of that
troublesome person? Why should wc be
little our colums with such a subject when
the Editor of the St. Paul Democrat is
there ready to serve his country by fur
nishing, in his own person, material for
any amount of public discusssion
What under the shimng sun would put
it into our foolish head to talk or write a
bout any woman when nobody else ever
says or writes a word on that subject.
Docs not every body know that editors
never favor us with homilies on woman,
her duties and her sphere, that lecturers
never lecture about it and that poets and
preachers are dumb about the weaker sex
and that more especially this particular
specimen of the class has been left to pur
sue thc even tenor of her way so entirely
unmolested that there could be no kind of
excuse for explanations or vindications or,
in fact for saying a word about her and
does any body think that any editor who
has even had the honor of supporting Mr.
BUCHANAN'S administration would turn
aside from so high a calling to drag up
from the rusty deeps of oblivion such a
subject as the Editor of the St. Cloud pa
per? Ridiculous, Brother Pioneer,—
now just try.jagain, for we can prove that
wc never have said nothing, no time,
in no way and on no occasion about no
such person.
Dacotah.
On our outside will be found the Mes
sage of Gov. Barber, of "the State of
Dacotah." to which we call attention.
Dacotah was formerly embraced in the
Territorial Government of Minnesota and
fusing to organize that Territory, she now
claims to be a Stat has elected her Gov
jernor, Senate and House of Representa-
...,.
remember that her climate is thought un
suited to slave labor, that Territories
expecting to become Free-labor States, arc
required to be humble, and wait.
A little humility is good for us all
and very young Misses should uever be
with old, guardian Uncles. It
would have been much better for Miss
Dacotah to persevere in claiming the
guardian care of a minor child, than to
set up a claim to the dignity of twenty
one.
Gov. Barber is, no doubt, correct about
the location of thc Capital. The head of
Red River will, doubtless, be a very im
portant point and the continuation
of the Rail Road from thence on across
Dacotah toward thc Rocky Mountains
is of momentous import in the plcn of
connecting thc Atlantic and Pacific
Oceans by railway: but Dacotah' needs a
Territorial, not a State, government and
Congress could not long have refused to
organize it.
We do uot believe in the doctrine of
Popular Sovereignty—that is, in the right
of a Territory with one, two, three or four
thousand inhabitants to come into thc
Union, and exercise as much influence in
the United States Senate as a State with
as many hundred thousand citizens. We
do not believe that ten thousand millions
of men could have a right to rob any one
man of any one of his natural rights,
hence we hold that the whole outcry about
Popular Sovereignty is a bundle of Soph
istry but Dacotah, so far as we know,
does not propose to set up any despotism
over any portion of her inhabitants. She
only claims an influence equal to New
York, in United States Senate and to
this she is not entitled. True, she has
precedent in her favor, and is better enti
tled to a place in a family of Republican
States than South Carolina, but one wrong
does not justify another and Dacotah
should be a Territory, not a State.
However, we congratulate our friend
Gov. Barber upon his accession to the
gubernatorial chair and wish him a large
measure of prosperity, although he did
try to beat us on beets, last summer, by
sending down a bundle of his Red River
esculents and though he did not keep his
promise to act Breckenridge reporter for
the DEMOCRAT.
WEATHER.—For two weeks past we
have been having the most gloriously beauti
ful weather that ever gladdened any por
tion of the Earth's surface. Old winter
could not possibly have put on a more
winsome garb.
There is about five inches of snow on the
ground, the mercury has been coquetting
with freezing point, so that our snow has
packed close for sledding without melting
even on Southern slopes.
The greater part of the time our days
have been full of sunshine and at night
"my bonny lady moon" has given an a
bundance of light to enable folks, of ordi
ary vision, to read such print as that of
our paper. Then, our glorious atmosphere
with its peculiarly exhiterating and blood
circulating properties, the gingle of the
sleigh bells and the creak of thc snow
under sled loads of produce coming to
mill or market, the pleasant faces of our
highly favored citizens and predominance
of the soft brown and grey tints of our
leafless timber lands, varied with clusters
of evergreen and illuminated by our gor
geous sunsets and sunrises make up a set
of reasons for living happy, which it re
quires some considerable exertion success
fully to resist.
Taxes.
Our citizens are, very generally, indig
nant at the Tax Notices served upon them,
this week, by B. OvERBECK, Tax Collec
tor,
Property is taxed thirteen mills on the
dollar, and nothing appears to be exempt
while the Assessor, alone, is the sole judge
of how much property each one has.
Some are taxed largely for money at
interest, who have not one dollar loaned,
but are paying heavy interest on money
borrowed. There is no Court of Appeal,
or if there is, no notice was given. The
Assessor is L. ROBERS, the gentleman
who wanted to be elected to Legislature,
last fall and this tax is a remnant of the
Moccasin rule in our county.
The Town tax is to be paid over to the
Chairman of thc Board of Supervisors,
who is not required to give bonds and
has already drawn $14,000 from the Coun
ty Treasury, which are not accounted for.
Our Moccasin Governor will not call
thc Legislature, for fear they would elect
an Anti-Moccasin Senator and so our
people can have no redress. They cannot,
for two years, get a law granting a Court
of Appeal, or requiring notice. Some
talk of organizing and forcibly resisting
the Collector. Wc think it is better to
I li
pay the taxes, this time, and next Fall
vote the whole Moccasin tribe into oblivi
on, and elect honest men to tako their
places.
FAT VENISON.—No surer test of the
superior quality of our pasturage could be
offered than the venison brought to mar
ket. We have haunches in the house
with an inch of fat lying all over on the skin
side and the entire hollow under the
tender loin filled out Avith kidney tallow
while the meat is of a bright red, tender
and juicy.
Until this season, wo had supposed
Venison was always dark and lean meat
but this is all a mistake. A roast of our
venison yields a pan of drippings as rich
as we have ever seen from a roast of beef.
The family of T. ALDEN have used, as
their staple winter light, candles made
from the tallow of the deer he has killed.
Mr. NOEL, our present teasher, has
killed eight deer this season but has
left thc chase for the schoolroom, where
he is likely to be quite as successful as in
his Nimrod excursions.
Fashions.
In sweeping or mopping the floor with
one's skirts they enable one to go over
five times the space in the same time and
it is quite incredible the ease they impart
to greasing, beflouring, scorching and tear
ing dresses, knocking over chairs and
small stands, dragging off table covers,
breaking vases, burying children and
small men and various other useful and
ornamental performances.
When parlors are six feet square, hoops
should always be eight feet across, as this
greatly aids a hostess in accommodating
large companies and makes things pleas
ant all round.
Bonnets arc three inches deep from the
edge of the brim to the top of the crown
and made of velvet or blond to suit the
taste of the wearer. The trimming may
be feathers, ribbonds, blonde orflowers,no
matter so there is plenty of it and no part
of the fabric of which the bonnet is made
is visible.
When the Mercury is from ten to twen
ty degrees below zero, a bonnet made of
alternate strips of gimp and blonde, cov
ered with flowers and pinned fast to the
back of the head, is found exceedingly
comfortable, especially if one has some
distance to iide or walk. To have the
entire top of the head uncovered, and a
little funnel on the back part to collect
the wind around the bumps of combative
ness, is found to harmonize beautifully
with a woolen shawl eight double, and
wadded furs, around the shoulders.
Fur caps are also worn, by ladies, made
with a bow of ribband in front, instead of
a brim, and, for sitting in a well heated
church, make a convenient arrangement
for any amount of influenza.
The plan of ladies wearing, in winter,
some light covering of thc head to be
protected while out of doors, by a hood
or cowl that shall be removed upon going
into a heated church is one which is to be
considered shortly prior to the Millennium.
For gentlemen's head-dresses, the la
test are made from the hinder half of the
skin of a wolf. It is dressed into the form
of a dowd nightcap, lined and wadded,
and made to come well forward over the
face, like the brim of a Cottage bonnet
the skin of the two hind legs are used as
strings, to tie it under the chin the tail
of the animal hangs over the coat collar,
between the shoulders, of the wearer and
the head-dress has a unique and charming
effect.
Another of almost equal elegance is
made from the skin of a fox into the form
of an ordinary fur cap except, that, in
stead of a brim, the nose of the animal
lies between his two front paws, directly
over the forehead ot the wearer. Two
glass buttons fill the place of the eyes
white paper or wax teeth between the
Vfcvt'Ww::
As 'St. Cloud' has long been acknowl
edged as the point from which the edicts
of Fashion are pronounced, we have been
sadly deficient in publishing her decrees
but now feel called upon to issue a mani
festo. It appears there is a place in
Fiance calling itself by the name "St.
Cloud" and inhabited by a lady named
"Eugenei," who is claiming to be the
vicegerent of the fickle goddess and whoselling
has issued a bull forbidding the use of
hoops and crinoline. It is therefore with
great pleasure we announce that, here, in
the genuine "St. Cloud" the fair divinity
has decided that hoops are to be enlarged
as the mercury descends.
In summer they have been fmnd very
cool but in winter they are an invaluable
aid to keeping warm. In walking across
a prairie against a high wind, they are in
dispensable and in the various depart
ments of household labor their importance
cannot be overestimated.
parted lips and the red busty tjiil hang
mg down behind the chapcau is inimita
hie in effect.
low deer skin, drawn over his pantaloons
to the knee, and supplied with a sole of
white ox-hide/ half an inch thick, and
turned up, all around, over the upper, to
which it is fastened by a heavy seam
with scarlet woolen leggins a buffalo
skin overcoat fox skin mittens, and a
woolen comforter, three yards long, of
scarlet and yellow, is in capital walking
trim and presents an appearance which
would "takedown" any house.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Wheat
possible, to prepare one for the occasion,
subject, "Man.
Notice to Subscribers.
For some weeks we have been issuing,
every alternate week, an advertising sheet,
with which we do not charge our regular
subscribers. These are for the conveni
ence of legal advertisers and although
they continue in regular order on our files,
both as to dates end number, we do not
count these in making up thc numbers of
our subscribers.
NOTICE.—Wc havc been departing
from oUr published terms, cash in ad
vanc for transient and' legal advertise
ments, and have not been able to collect
one bill after the time of publication has
expired. So, we are obliged, in self de
fence, to enforce our rule and it will be
quite useless, for persons livine out of St.
Cloud, to send us an advertisement with
out the money. Those legal advertise
ments now in our columns and unpaid,
we shall take out, unless paid before
time expires.
inSJ
consented to take classes in Latin and the
higher branches of Mathematics.
FERNANDO WOOD made a speech re-
cently in New York, in which he gave a
little "professional advice," by stating on
his own knowledge, that "the Comptrol
ler of the City could easily pocket a hun
t/red thousand dollars of the public money
annually without being detected.
There are more public officers than the
Comptroller of New York who are more
correct for being well watched.
SENATOR DOUGLAS.—Judge Douglas
left New Orleans on the 13th on thc
steamer Black Warrior, direct for Wash
ington. He was escorted to the steamer
by the Mayor and a large number of citi
zens. A salute of one hundred guns was
fired and there wes great enthusiasm a
mong the people.—Pioneer & Democrat.
It is rather strange that the people of a
slaveholding city should show such spe
cial honor3 to a man who is honored by
another class as the friend of free labor
and looks as if Mr. D. had a face on two
sides of his head.
KINGSTON.—An interesting letter from
Kingston, Meeker County has been mis
laid but we hope to find it in time for our
next issue.
A gentleman in moccasin boots, of yel-^this district and he has issued a notice to»
all trespassers that he will enforce the'
law which punishes, with fine or imprison-'
ment thc cutting of any timber on schoa
lands.
Times thus reports
The Monticello
markets:
"Wood is selling in this place at 6200
per cord. Wheat 90 cents per bushel
Corn 35 cents Potatoes 25 Corn Meal
$1*75 per sack. Pork, wholesale, 7(5i8 I 7 *"V
Beef. W & ^sue was printed
cents per pound Beef wholesale, 5@ 6
cents per pound.
Monticello is thirty miles below us on
the river and here where the surplus crops
are very large our famers refuse to sell
for less than 81,00 per bushel. It is re
ported at 70 cents in St. Anthony, so that
exporting is out of the question with St.
Cloud Merchants. This is well enough.
At the distance we are from supplies in
case of any failure of crops it is well to
keep a large share of our present supplies
Until another crop is harvested.
Beef, the finest we have ever seen, is
for six cents all round. Venison
the same. Pork, there is almost none
the market.
SCHOOL LANDS.—The board of Super-
visors have appointed L. GORTON to take*
charge of the school' lands belonging to-
JB®*' Wc call attention to thc AAv4f-
tisement of L\ W. INGERPOLL & Co.,
Paul. Some of our citizens who deal at
this house assure us their orders arc always
promptly and honorably filled and tfeat
they get goods &t a Tery email advance wt
Eastern prices.
TEMPLE & BEAOTBE who tare a card"
in our advertising /xtlomn* arc said fer
those who deal with them to he riltabU
and accommodating nveir.
MISTAKE.—Wc dated and
our paper wrongly on the f.nt
corrected the error, after abont
in
Ladies Temperance Social Circle
met on the 22sd at the residence of L.
GORTON
Wc were unable to attend, and so did
not hear the announcement for next eve
ning but by a previous arrangement we
understood that next meeting will be held
at the Everett School House when we are
expected to read a lecture and intend if
ad to is it to a
re a oh a a id a a or
31,50.
I TH E LITTLE PILGRIM for the begin-
ning of the coming year has already made
I our little people dance forjoy. Wc should
be giad to know it visited every family
where there are children. Only 50 cent*
a year. Subscribe.
Married.
By thc Rev. Philips, at thc residence of th*
bride's father,Mr. Win. Powel toMiss L. Annctt*
Marvin all of St. Clond.
At the same time and place, by the *.im«,
Mr. W\ H.Bradley to Miss Emma A.Donncll »ll
of St. Cloud.
The costumes of the brides were simple
and elegant, the one looked proud and
queenly, the other sweet and fair. Thc
grooms were attired in good taste and gen
tlemanly style and few places could boast
two as fine look'ng couples.
The lady guests honored the occasion
by rich and handsome toiletts. A superb
supper for sixty, mysteriously •dissappear
the I ed, jokes were cracked with a reckless
ness which appeared to augur an inexhaus
tible supply, without cost or carriagejpuns
SCHOOLS—The first Common School, I were perpetrated so prcvokingly, that
opened on Monday, the 20th inst.—Mr. Deacon W E ST "laughed out loud," an in
NOEL, Teacher. He has thirty-three discretion which will greatly sunrise his
scholars. The Nuns, in Middle Town,! many friends. The coffee went to more
have about the samo number and teach, heads than one and Hon C. T. STEA&SS
in addition to thc common branches, Ger- was noticed making himself agreeable to a
man, Drawing, Music and Needle-work, lady whose husband was not present, while
The demand for a High School is press-1 Judge SMITH was plainly heard planning
and Rev. PHILLIPS has partially an elopement, but it is thought that, with
the aid of another cup of coffee, their in
jured wives will survive the ruin of their
domestic felicity.
As we have one young lady in Lower
St. Cloud, who has been here two years,
it is moved we havc another wedding
soon, or that she get warning to leave for
some place where single blessedness is
tolerated.
May they all he as happy as they
deserve.
A METHOPIST'8 OPINION OP CON-
GRESS.—Mr. Gurlcy, Republican candi
date to Congress in Cincinnati, was for
merly a universalist minister. One of his
opponents was trying to crsuade an old
Methodist not to vote for him. you
think you are furthering the cause of re
ligion," says he, "by voting for a I'nivcr
salist, one who does not believe in hell
"Yes," was the old Methodist's reply: "I
by the time Mr. Gurley has been in Con
gress a year he does not find out there is a
hell, then I don't understand thc present
administration. 1 shall vote for him.
Iffir Are you a skillful mechanic
"Yes, sir." "Whut can you make?"
"Oh, almost anything in my line." "Can
you make a devil?" "Certainly, just
put up your foot and I w.li split it in
three seconds. I never saw a chap in my
life that required less alteration.
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page and
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THE men cutting out the iMnte Bead to
Red River are reported to be yetting along^
finely.
LITERARY NOTICES.
The Philadelphia Saturday Pintw
the best family newspaper in the United
States of North America commences, s»
January, a tale by P. R. JAMES th
novelist. The Post never flags in interest
or fails in sound morals and good plain
sense. In clubs of twenty it can be had
at one dollar a year.
THE LADY'S BOOK for August herei
and is a superior number, very interesting
to embroiderers and housekeepers.
ARTHUR'S HOME MAGAZINE for the
coming month is on our table and is fast
becoming a favorite. It gives about as
many patterns, diagrams, fashion plates
and fine engravings as the §3,00 month
lies and its literature has ever a special
object of teaching some useful lesson. Wfc
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