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wi s. &BGAL! OUTU A sU£ SALE.—1E A jVx HAVING UJiKN »A»K in the payment of lire Bain of Five Hundred uud Seven Dollars ($507,00) principal and interest which is claim vd i* bo due tii the date of this notice on a vertaiu Montage, bearing date the 31st day of October. A. i. 1^67, executed by John Jones «f UMJ town of Sauk Rapids Benton County •**uitj of Minnesota to Chauncy A. House of *l»e same place and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds fur said Benton County on the 31st, day of October A. ,1). 1857 at 6 Voloek: 1'. M. of said day in book "13" of Mort gages on pages 1-0 & 121: Now therefore by virtue of a power of sale 'contained in said Mortgage and of the statute 4n such case made and provided notice is here by given that the premises described in and •covered by said Mortgage to wit Lot No. Four (-4) in block No. twenty-three (23) in the town of Sauk Rapids County of Benton as surveyed and platted by C. B. Chapman in July 1854 and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds i'oi- said county. Also lot No. three.(3) in'block No. three and lot No. ten (10) in block No. four (-1) iu Leech's addition to Sauk Rapids as surveyed by R. D. Lancaster 1850 aud recorded iu the Office of the Register.of Deeds for said county in book *'A" of town plats, together whir all the hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto in anywise appertain ing will be sold at public auction on the 3d day of February A. D.1859 at 10 o'clock in the forenoon of said day at "Day's Hyperbo rean Hotel" in Sauk Rapids in said Benton county to pay and satisfy the deht and interest then due on said Mortgage and costs of sale us allowed law. CHAUNCY A. HOUSE, Mortgagee. Dated December 15th A. D. 1§58. HALL & Moons Attorneys. declG.Ow. ji ,j O 11T A E S A E.—D JJFAUL J\J_ HAVING BKEX MADE in the payment of the sum of Eight Hundred and Sixty Dollars and Sixty Ceuts ($800 00-100) principal and interest which is claimed to be due at the date of this notice on a certain Mortgage' executed by Lewis Clark and Buvnham Hansen to Stephen Emerson, bearing date the 11th day of June A. D. 185*5 and recorded in the office •mX the Register of Deeds for Benton County onset tie iltjth day of June A. D. 18f0 at 3 o'clock, 1*. M. of said d.iv in Book "A"' on pages 226, 2-7 & 22b: Now therefore by virtue of a power of sale contained in said Mortgage and of the statute in such case made and provided, notice is here by given that the premises described in and covered by said Mortgage to wit: Lot No. one (I) of Section No! Twenty-eight (25) in Town whip No. Thirty-seven (37) North of Range No. Thirty-one (31) West, in the County of Benton State of Minnesota containing Eighteen and 10-100 acres according to Government survey, the map or plat of which said survey is on file in the United States Land Office at St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minnesota. Also the East-Half of the Northwest quarter of sec tion No. Thirty-four (34) in Township No. Thirty-seven (37) North of Range No. Thirty one (31) West, in said County of Benton and containing Eighty acres according to the Gov ernment survey, the map of which said survey is on tile at the United States Land Office at •St. Cloud aforesaid: together with all the her editaments and appurtenances thereto in any wise belonging or appertaining will be sold at public auction on the 4th day of February A. D. 1850 at ten o'clock in (he forenoon of said day at "Days Hyperborean Hotel" in Sauk Rapids in said Benton County to pay and sat isfy the debt and interest then due on said Mortgage and costs of sale as allowed by law. STEPHEN EMERSON Mortgagee Dated December, 15rh, A. D. 1858. HALL & MOOUE Attorneys.' declGjOw. I O A E SA L'.—WHEREA S IfJL default has been made in the condition of the paymert of a cerrain mortgage executed and delivered by D. W. C, Dunwell and Mary Dunwell, his wife, of Dakota county, in the State of Minnesota, and William E. Hartshorn and Sarah M. Hartshorn, his wife, and William Colter, of Ramsey county, State aforesaid, to II. M. Goriu, of the State of Missouri, which mortgage is upon the lands hereinafter descri bed, and was given to secure the payment of the sum of §5,947 88-100, with interest, on or I before the first day of January, A. D. 1858, and which mortgage bears date the eleventh day of November. A. D. 1857, and was duly recorded in the office of Register of Deeds of S'earns county, Minnesota, on the 18th day of November, A. D., 1857, at 7 o'clock 1'. M., in book A of mortgages, on pages 227, 228, 229 and 230, und the sum of $7,590 39-lOoVnow due at the date of this notice upon said mort gage, and no suit nor proceedings have been instituted or had at law%r otherwise, to recover the debt secured by said mortgage, nor any part thereof— Now therefore by virtue of a power of sa!e contained in said mortgage and of the statute in such case made and provided, notice is nr. 1,ert S iv {jitf the lands and premises lying the county of Stearns, in the State of Minnesota, and described in said mortgage, as follows, to wit: The equal, undivided one-half of lot3 num bered one [1].- two [2], nine [9] and ten [10], in block numbered D, and of the hotel and furniture thereon, jn the town of St. Cloud, according to Hie plot and survey of said town! as surveyed by John L. Wilson, and on record in the office of the Register of Deeds of said county of Stearns aforesaid, and in the county of Benton, together with all and singular the furniture, tenements and hereditaments there unto belonging, will bo sold at public sale by the sheriff of the said county of Stearns, to' •he highest bidder, for cash, to satisfy and yay the amount now due upon said principal sum and interest, secured by said mortgage aforesaid, and th? cost and expenses of °satd sale allowed by law at the front door of the •Stearns House, in said county of Stearns, on Monday, the 27th day of December, A. D. 1858, at ten o'clock, A. M. of that day '. Dated October 4, 1858 H. M. GORIN, Mortgagee. VAN ETTEV OF?ICEH, Attorneys for Mortgagee. oct 21-1 awtf. PRE-EMPTION NOTICE. ST. CLOU» LAND OFFICE MINX. To Aue proprietors of the town of Yarmouth *pd Joseph II. Tyler You are severally notified that on the 14th January 1859 at 10 o'clock A M., at the above named Land Office I shall offer proof of right of pre-emption to the South east fthe North west a«d lots No. 2., 5 and of section 3 township 122 N. range 29 and you »rej*quired to appear on said day to offer proof of year right to said land if any you have. HENRY GREIN. NOTICE. WHEREAy S my wife Louisa Mfller has this da .left my bed and board with- out any provieatioa therefore warn all per sons from harboring or trusting heron my account as I shall pay no debts of her contract ing after this date. VINCENT MILLER. St. Cloud Dec, 7, 1898. dec9,4ir THE PRE-EMPTION LAW 1. The settlor must never before have had the benefit of pre-emption under the act. 2. He must not, at the time of making the pre-emption, bo the owner of 820 acres of. land in any State or Territory of the United States. 3. Ho must settle on and improve the land, in good faith, for his own exclusive use and benefit, and not with the intention of selling it on speculation and must not make, directly or indirectly, any contract or agreement, in any way or manner, with any person or per sons, by which the title which he may acquire of the United States should enure, in whole or in part, to the benefit of any person except himself. 4. He must be twenty-one years of age and a citizen of the United States or if a for eigner, ho must have declared his intention to become a citizen, before the proper author ity, and receive a certificate to that effect. 5. He .ii-ast build a house on the land, live in it, and make it his exclusive home and must bo an inh i! iiaa no same at the time of making applications forpre-enption. (Un til lately a single man might board with his nearest neighbor, but the same is now required of a single as a married man, except that if the settler is married, his family must also live in the house.) G. The law requires that more or less im provement be made on the land, such as break ing, fencing, &c but pre-emptions arc gran ted where a half-acre is broken and enclosed. 7. It is necessary that no other person, en titled to pre-emption, reside upon the land at the same time. 9. No one is permitted to remove from his own land, and make prce-mption in the same state or territory. 0. The settler is required to bring with him to the Land Office a written or printed appli cation, setting forth the facts to his case of the 1st, 2d and 3d requirements here mentioned, with a certificate appended, to be signed by the register and receiver, and make affidavit to the same. 10. He is also required to bring with him respectable witness of his acquaintance, who is knowing to the fact of his settlement, th make affidavit, to the:4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8te acquirements here mentioned, with the same forth on paper, with a corresponding blank certificate attached, to be signed by the land officers. 11. The pre-emptor, if a ^foreigner, must bring with him to the land office, duplicates of his naturalization papers, duly signed by the official from whom they were received. A minor who is the head of a family, or a widow, mayialso pi'e-empt, their families being required to live on the land. The settler is required to "file a written de claratory statement of the intention to pre empt, before he can proceed with his-pre-emp tion. FEES—1st. The fee required by the regis ter, for filling a declaratory statement, is one dollar. 2d. For granting a pre-emption the register and receiver can receive fifty cents. ALEXANDRIA, DOUGLAS COUNTY. This town is beautifully located in one the finest Agricultural Regions in the North West. It is in the centre of the County and is admitted by all to occupy a natural Point for Town. Farmers in quest of Superior Laud—of claims combining Timber, Water, and Prairie Invalids seeking health and a comfortable re treat where hunting and fishing may be indul ged in to any extent or the lover of the ^beau ful in nature will at Alexandria find their sev eral tastes gratified Situated on the State Road to Breckinridge and Fort Abererombie—equaly distant from either—under the management of men posess ing the utmost energy, Alexandria bids fair to be one of the largest inland towns in Minn esota. The Country to the South and West is Prairie and Timber in the finest proportion while to the North and East there extends an unbroken body of Woodland the greater por tion of it being of good size and quality. The Prairies and Lakes in the Vicinity de serve particular mention. "Eden Prairie is ten miles long and from one to one and a-half miles wide, with timber along the sides and is well watered. It offers superior facilities to "Farmers and at many points along are beauti ful building spots on the shore of a beautiful lake. "Garden Door" and "Sedge" Prairies are also worth the attention of Farmers being of moderate size high upland, and entirely enclosed with timber. These Prairies all di verge from the Town Site and are accessible to the State Road. Lakes "Agnes" and "Wi nona skirting "Eden Prairie" charming bodies of water and for picturesque beauty cannot be surpassed. Within one, two and three miles are Lakes "L. Homedicu" "Carlos" and "Dar ling" connecting and forming a sheet of water 20 miles in extent. These lakes are grand and beautiful. Along their banks are thousands of claims—a country capable of surporting dense settlements, and to those seeking Homes in the West is presented country possessing ex traordinary attractions. The Company offer the most liberal inducements to actual settlers on the Town Site. Letters addressed to the Executive Committee, John Ball, Wm. Kinkead, or Judge Gregory, Alexandria, or to George F. Brott, St. Cloud, will be promptly answered Alexandria, Sept. 30 1S58. J. W. METZROTH, aSEROHARIT- TA DEALER in Clothing, Cloths, Cassimeres' Vestings and Gentlemen's Furnishing gooc" ?, to the inspection of which he invites his friends and the public. OHIO STATE UNION LAW COLLEGE. This institution has been removed to Cleve land, Ohio. Degrees are legally conferred, and Students upon graduating may be admitted to practice. For circulars, address at Cleveland, M. A. KING. SECRETARY NOTICE. The copartnership heretofore"existing under the style of "Whitney ct Co.," is this day dis solved by mutual consent. Kingston Minn. A. P. WHITNEY, August 25 1858. G. A. NOURSE. nov 11. mi B. THOMPSON, WATCH-MAKER AND JEWELER, ELain Street, Upper Town, S A3STT:EIO:N""Y",:M:_T V\ TATCHES, Clocks and Jewelry repaired VV on the shortest notice. All work war anted, and entire satisfaction guarant eed. WASHINGTON, July 17, 1858 Editors of the PipneergDemocrai: The Postmaster General has this day direct ed that a contract for carrying the mail .from Ft Glotid via Breckinridge, to Port-Abererom bie be made with Messcrs Allen and Chase— a proposition having been made by them which was deemed reasonable. Respectfully. H. M. Rice. NEW YORK TRIBUNE- 1 8 5 8 5 E successful laying of tho 'trans-Atlantic Telegraph Cable marks anew era in the history of Human Progress. 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Subscriptions may commence at any time.— Terms always cash in advance. All letters to be addressed to HORACE GREHLY & CO., Tribune Buildings, No. 154 Nassau street, New York. ST. ANTHONY BOOK STORE WHOLESALE ANl RETAIL DEALEB IN BOOKS, STATIONARY, WALL PAPER, FISHING TACKLE, POCKET CUTLERY, FANCY ARTICLES, TOYS, &c. Three doors above the Tremont Hotel. St. Anthony, Min. June, 40,1858 vollnol3,l LIMB. ^M^I A' FULL supply constantly on hand, by the subscribers, afc their kiln in Lower St. loud. E. A. SMITH, & CO. S^JTIsTT CXiOTTID. St. Cloud is the point at which the Red Riv er trains cross, the MississippiJpn their way to St. Paul, which proves it to be the natural junction of laud travel between these two great arteries of trade. It is at the present head of steam navigation on tho' Mississippi- Boats run regularly, during the Spring and early Summer months, from St. Anthony to this place. The map gives its position correctly with reference to all the most important points in tho territory, but the peculiar beauty of its location, and fertility of the surrounding coun try cannot be transcribed. Within fifteen miles of St. Cloud, on opposite sides of the river, and at different points of the compass are eight lakes, varying in size from 1 niUe to 5 miles in circumference, all, save one, beau tiful, exceedingly, three of them at least, deep enough to lloat a man-of-war. Wooded banks, qlean pebbly shores plentifully mixed with cornelian and waters abundantly supplied with fish. When Gov. Stevens made his survey of a northern railroad route to the 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 his route leaves thei'ivei\ In the sum mer of '55 a claim cabin was built on the spot where wo 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 tiiere were three hundred and thirty-two vote3 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 snbsoil 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 iudigenious complaint except the "Minnesota Appetite" which requires one fourth jiiore 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 not come here, for the treaty by which the land 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 ai*e 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, Iiorses and oxen, who are to be supplied with provisions clothing and feed. The soil is waiting for an opportunity to produce unlimit ed quantities of .food, without troubling the far mer crushing clods while the Mississippi fron St. Paul to Little Falls 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 cur prairies is quite equal to any stall fed wc have overeaten. Our venison is fine at ten cent per pound, rabbits, prairie hens, partridges, ducks, &c, plenty. Thousands of bushels ot acorns for the hogs that are not here to eat them. Fuel for the labor of cutting and haul ing off the ground and there is no likelihood of the supply running out eoou, as the "Big Woods" extend from tliis place some twenty miles or more, down this side of the river, ft,nd from eight to twelve miles back. Our prairies are all dotted with 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 ct acres of hazel bushes and strawberry vines. gaged in tho same business while some hun dred acres are 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 be picapant 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, with only the aid of a grubbing hoe and a few days labor, would bring vegetables to feed a family, and every township has GG0 acres appropriated to the support of schools. Seventy thousand acres arc appropriated to_ a State university. A fine building has 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 abettor foundation for a good system of popular education. No other prairie State is so well timbered as Min nesota and no State more abundantly supplied with clear water. In the- country surrounding St. Cloud and as far North and West 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 Wrest side 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 settlers. 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 1827 but had not occupied it, and it was used as a hunting ground by the Winnebagoes whose land reached within four miles north of St. Cl6ud. Their country was ceded to the United States by a treaty began with"Commissioner Manypeny and concluded at Washington in Feb. 1855 and ratified by the Senate Marc*h 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 fir it 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 F. Brott vho 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, Inch adjoins! and lies higher up the riv er, whim General Lowry surveyed and platted upper town, called Lowry's Addition, the win ter following. It was Mr Wilson who gave time tow the nam of St. Cloud by this name incorporated in (lie winter of, '55 '50.— tnd Office was removed in April '58, from it was The Lan Offic was removed in Ap_ Sauk Rapids to Upper town. The post ofiice is iii Middle Town, which is inhabited by in dustrious and well-to-do German Catholics.— I The Catholic chapel ,Js here, and the bell be longing to it, is the first church going bell in Stearns county and has 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 arc well taught ladies of polished manners and unusual oficiency. Lower Town has two protcstant 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 steam boat rivals here weekly and the smallest propor tion of drones we have ever seen in any hive. In the fall of 'o(j Grasshoppers came in a cloud and settled down in this and adjoining counties, destroying the greater portion of the Tops- They deposited their larvae and died, arly 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 with 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 Corectncss of this view of the case is now. 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 had last year designed emigrating to this point have been deterred by this 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 emi grated. It is evident that they went to other localities as they came here to eat, deposite their qggs 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 eat we expect next fall to be encumbered with a surplus of the good things of this life, and to inundate St. Anthony, Minneappolis and St. Paul, with vegetables and grain after supply ing tho Pine regions and the laborers on the Rail Road. TjMIIS town is situated on the Sioux JL Weed river, and is the Western termi nus of the Minnesota and Pacific railroad the point laid down by Cr.pt. Pope on his map as the head of steam navigation on the Red 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 arc skirted with elm, ash, bass ivood, 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, slow stream, has no islands, sand bars or snags to obstruct navigation the banks arc about 25 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 Red river gave to Major Wood as the average of their crops wheat 30 to 40 barley 40 to 80 oats 40.50 and potatoes 200 to 300 bushels to the acre. At Pembina, [200 miles north of Breck enridge,] ex-Gov. Ramsey says, on the 2d October, 1851, water melons and cantelopes were served to us for dessert, and the first frost that occured was on the night of that day," [see address before the Minnesota Agricultu ral Society, Oct, loth, 1850.] Two large set tlements have loug_ existed on Red river— Pembina and Selkirk, both of which yearly raise a large surplus of the products of the farm the whole valley of tho Red river is rapidly filling up with an energetic andiintel- 1, labor and *'k" .•»••"'--• i.•- .'- execed- :skill itions of ^. of those minerals as large as is anticipated, this valley will soon be swarming with a population en the Minnesota and Pacific railroad" will be placed immediately under contract asby the terms of its charter it must he-finished from Stillwater to St Anthony with in two years, and completed to Breckenridge within ten years from the 3d of March, 1857, or forfeit its franchise as well as the lands do nated to t. Breckenridge is also at the point where Gov ogtcven's! survey of a route for the Pacific raij road crosses t.he 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 andCapt. 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_enquirc of HENRY T. WELLS. MinneapoBs, R. CHUTE. St. Anthony, CHAS. N. M'KUBBIN. St. Paul, Executive Committee, Or to GEO. F. BROTT, Beeckinridge. May 10, 1858. tf The Democrat. Our Prospectus will be found on our third page, and we ask the friends of the freedom of the press and of the principles there laid down, to aid us in maintainLug them. We feel that in our advocacy of them in St. Cloud we have been milder and more conservative than we have ever before been in our character oi writer for the Press. We feel, that except our large share of human weakness, our life has been such* asto give no justcause of offence to any. {'. May be we area fanatic but at coswip tion ould be stronger in our mind, than the reeling that, the Lord has prepared u* by along course "of discipline, to stand pit Holy as the adyocate oi! the opfmawd our own sex, as a representatirtof woman'* right under God, to choose herownepheco of action. We have chosen ona with di rect reference to the final account, and those who make it the subject of sarcasm, ridicule, or coarse personal abuse, may cal eulate to meet all that is terrible in ear nestness of purpose. We are so certain the Lord is on our side, that it is quite impossible for us to fear any force on earth. Dying is not dif ficult, yielding impossible. We have net sought the control of a prets here, but when it was offered us we looked upon it as a command from the Great Master to go to work in Hi vineyard. Cu conscience acquits us of having used it otherwise than in the service of Gcd and man. Iti thus we still hope to use it, and not to gratify any feeling of revenge against those who have sought our injury with such singular pertinacity and despe-ration. W shall make no personal war upon any, but these who attack us, had better ealcr.late the cost of supplying territory and munitions for the war that will surely ensue. W fight all our battles on the enemy's ground, and always use his wea pons, so that he who makes personal war upon us had better be sure of his defen sive armor. Let him make our private do mestic relations the object of his public sneers, and he may calculate to defend his own. W look upon all politicians, whether in office or out, ns fair subjects of editorial comment in ail their political relations.— W do not recognize any man's right to privacy in any attempt to govern the peo ple. W never kept a political secret and think we never will. The people are the proper source of political power, and have a right to know all the jurposes and ilans of those who dispense power and patronage. Whenever we can trace a po litical wire tip to the handle, we shall di rect public attention to that point, no mat ter where is. or what is likely to be the consequence. W believe this is a duty which'ever.- editor owes the public, ana* we shall have to yet in a new supply of cowardice before we shrink from it To those who feci that these, our purpo ses, are right, we appeal for aid in carrying them out. The difficulties witl: which we have to contend are very great.' A large majority of tho people of St.. Cloud show the best disposition to aid and sustain us, but in addition to the general commercial crash, this county has had to contend with the loss of the greater portion of two ercpa by the devastation of grasshoppers* Our enemies have shown themselves un scrupulous and active. Their written threats, of more serious violence, stand un cancelled, while their private eii«. :is to in jure our reputation, to cover our name with most odious epithets, and gross crimes, are still actively pursued. W arc without prisons, or regularly organized judiciary, and those who take the le^ponsibiiity oi these attacks ate totally irresponsible, an well as artful and unscrupulous. I have already deprived -as of a hope to which we had long looked forward, a quiet, humble little name own. *1hv« preparation we *had made iur building, is now as money lost, k-r it is not thought safe for us to attemp living alone. Our office must be so situated, that with tnr debility it is impossible for us to bavo proper supervision of it, for the press must be placed where it can be guarded, with out hiring men for that purpose. 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