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S E E N I E
ATTORNEY COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
BT- OLOTTID,
Lower Town.
If ill make collections, invest money, buy,
sell or loan,land Warrants, and enter purchase
or dispose of Real Estate.
A E S E
ATTORN El & COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
ST. OLOTJD,
Lower Town.
Will make collections, invest money, buy,
•ell or loan Land%arrants, and enter, purchase
or dispose of Real Estate.
W J. PARSONS,
COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
Orrica WAMIISGTOX ATRNUB,
Corner of Monroe Street—Monti's Building
8T. CLOUD Min
CrEO. A N O S E
(Late ei St. Anthony,)
ITTtMEV AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
Grits MCCLVBQ'S (PMOSXIX) BLOCK,
Nram TBB BBIDOB.
«T. PAUL, Min.
WM. S. MOORE,
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FISHING TACKLK, POCKET CUTLERY,
FANCY ARTICLES, TOYS, &c.
Three doors above the Trcmont Hotel.
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June, 10, 18-58 vollnol3,l
J. W METZROTH,
MERCHANT TAILOR,
DEALER
in Clothing, Cloths, Gassimeres
Vestings, and Gentlemen's Furnishing
goods, eo the inspection of which he invites
his friends and the publie.
deel0.1867-ly
T. H. BARRETT
Civil Engineer and Surveyor.
'Office on First Street, Lower St. Cloud
Maps'of all surveyed lands, and plats of al
the leading towns of Northern Minnesota, can
had at all times at my office.
STBPHM MILLKft. HENRY SWISSHELM
REA ESTAT E AGENC
ST. CLOUD, MINNESOTA.1**
undersigned offer their services to loan
money upon best real estate security and
tit purchase and sell property either real or
personal, for a reasonable commission.
They have now for sale, at low prices:
20 quarter sections of good land.
60 lots, (some improved,) in St. Clou.d
20 in Nininger addition to St. Paul.
20 in Nininger city,
10 in Mound city, Illinois.
MILLER ft SWISSHELM-
St. Olend, May 18,1868.
BEEDE & MENDENHALL,
B-A-ISTIECIEIRS,
HORTH-WESTERI LAND & COLLECTING
A E N S
I N N E A O I S I N N
BUILDING.
fTMHE undersigned takes this method of
'X. forming those who may have houses
build mills to frame, or carpentry and joiner
in any or all of its branches, that he is prepar
ed to take contracts, and do all kinds of work
in this line, on the most reasonable terms and
(n a good, workmanlike manner.
A. E. KUSSET.
H. Z. MITCHELL, Merchant, Lower St. Cloud,
Has received a large Stock of New Goods,
which he will sell CHEAP for CASH.
"ONE trouble arising from the obstinate
siloncc kept by the Repnblcans, is the impos
sibility which it presents of giving true
pictures of their leading men to your readers.
They sit like marble statues on their sofas,
sometimes attempting to read newspapers du
ring speeches as that made to-day by Otlio
R. Singleton, of Mississippi sometimes laying
their heads together for a moment and conver
sing in whispers. "Vote, vote!" is their cry
from the cessation of morning prayers to the
moment of adjournment and except for their
human figures, and human voices' it might
be thought tliau ninety one Democrats, twenty
three South Americans and five Anti-Lccomp
ton men were attempting to talk sense into
one hundred and twelve parrots, who hado
learned only this one cry —"Vote vote! Vote
vote! Vote, vote!"—Washington Correspon
dence.
We ask the people of Minnesota to
make a note of the above. Like the
wolf in the stream, they are determined
to find fault with the actions of tho Re
publicans, but can only bring against
them the charge of steadily insisting
upon organizing the House and proceed
ing to the discharge of their duties
While the "ninety-one Democrats" are
consuming the people's time and money
in making disunion speeches, and the
only response they can get from the Re
publican side of the House, is "vote, vote.'
Thus by the confession of the Democracy,
the Republicans are proving themselves
true to their constituents and the country,
and are faithfully striving to avoid the
agitation of the Slavery question, while
the Democracy arc forcing it upon Con
gress. Men of Minnesota, who arc the
"agitators," the"fanatics" in the present
Congress, and who the true friends of
the country ?—State Atlas.
TH E MONKEY S SNEEZE."—Th
Charleston Mercury is laughing at our
Northern "Union Savers." It says:—
"But let the jugglery go on—it will amuse
somebody, we suppese. 'Jack stand
The Black Law in Missouri.
The St. Louis Evening News says the
Free Negro law, which has just parsed
the Senate of Missouri, is harsh and op
pressive in the extreme. I prohibits any
slaveholder from rewarding his faithful
slave for long years of devoted service, by
giving him his freedom, unless he enters
into a bond of $2,000 to remove the
emancipated slave from the State forever.
It provides that every free negro or mu
latto, over the age of 18 years, now living
in the State, shall leave it before the first
Monday in September, 1860, on pain of
being sold at public auction into slavery
for life. Allfree negroes and mulattoes
under 18 years of age shall be bound as
apprentices till they are 2 1 years of age,
twelve months after the expiration of
which they shall leave the State or be
sold into Slavery. An free negro or
mulatto who shall come into the State
after the first Monday in September 1861
and remain twenty-four hours, shall be
sold into slavciy. -Such aie the. leading
provisions of the bill. It is positively
inhuman.— Grand Rapids J$agle.
E resignation of Garibaldi, as tho
commander of the army in Central Italy, is
of evil import. It looks as Victor Eman
uel, the King of Sardinia, had been co
erced, by the outside pressure of France
and Austria, into a change of policy, and
that the exiled Princes are to bo forced
upon their unwilling subjects. It is, un
doubtedly, at the dictation of Napoleon
that the heroic patriot, Garibaldi, retires
from the services of his countrymen in
Central Italy.
Treasury Estimate for the
Coming Year.
The financial estimate of Secretary
Cobb shows that there will be needed, for
the year ending June 30th, 1861, appro
priations amounting to 846,278,893.56.
Of this sum the principal items are: Formediately
the Military Academy, 8183,892 for
the naval establishment, 811,244,854.63
and to supply deficiencies in the Post
Office revenues' 85,988,424 04. The
estimated ballances from appropriations
for the year ending June 30th, 1860,
©Ml
4on
one
side andtlet the monkey sneeze. It is a funny
beast.'"
Poor flunkeys and 'Union Savers/ we
really pity you. Having licked the dirt
from your master's boots, and dove all
over in the filth at their feet, where you
lay wrigling in your nastincss before them,
they now spurn you away as silly and
craven 'mud jugglers,' 'silly monkeys,'
'filthy beasts. You are serving hard
masters, ain't you? But then you were
made for it. so go on with your wrigling.
—Ibid.
.,Havc the Democracy of this State
learned to cat dirt ?"—Winona Daily
Republican.
What a question Sinclair. The De
mocracy have done nothing but 'feat dirt"
just as fast as their Southern masters
cramed it into them, for the past ten
while all they have ever got for
it has been an occasional kick for not
swallowing faster.—lb.
Speak unto the children of Israel that they go forward."—EXODUS,
part of which are required for the payment
of tho liabilities for the present fiscal year
but which will not be drawn from the
treasury until after June 30th, i860, and
the ballance apblicd to the service ofthe
ensuing fiscal year, amount to $12,202,412.
75. This with a total of 8,173,258.48
of the appropriations made by former acts
of Congress of a specific and definite
character, increases the grand total of the
estimates to 06,714,928.70. The anual
and permament appropriations for the
year ending June 30th, 1851, exclusive
the public debt, amount to 51.065,854.
70.
ROMANC E I N E A I E W learn
that Miss Harriet E Smith, daughter
of Horace Smith, of Spafford, will start
soon for Washington Territory away in
the North-west beyond tho Rocky Moun
tains to marry a man she has never seen.
Mr. David Spalding, Jr., son of David
Spaldiii" of Spafford. The friends of the
particsjire intimate, and recommendations
to a correspondence between the parties
which has been continued two years, has
resulted in a marriage contract—and the
young gentleman being engaged in a
profitable business which he cannot con
veniently leave, has remitted funds to his
dearie, with a request that -she should
join him there. We sincerely hope that
"the course of true love may run smoothly"
in this instancer—Skanea'hs Democrat.
SOMETHING A O A I E S I is
stated by a medical writer, that young
babies often cry from actual thirst. Their
natural supply is intended as food, not as
drink, and makes them thirsty without
realy quenching their thirst, as a cool
liquid would. They cry for cold water.—
Many a mother is anxious to know what
ails the little sufferer, that it should cry
so loudly, and imagining it to be suffering
from pain, administers somo unnecessary
opiate or pain killer, when all the child
needs is a spoonful of good, pure, clear
sparkling cold water. A the experiment
is a very simple and easy one, let all moth
ers try it first before having recourse to
medicine.
THE WEST.
I bear the tread of pioneers,
Ofnations yet to be
The tirst low wash of waves, where soon
Shall roll a human sea.
The elements of empire here
Are plastic, hot and warm,
And the chaos of a mighty world
Is roundi into form.
Each rude and jostling fragment soon
Its fitting place shall find,
The raw material of a State,
Its muscles and its mind.
—{John Q. Whittkr.
A DUEL.—Whe our last was issued
it was thought A S A A. GRO W had
fallen so low as to accept the chalenge of
a duelist but it was a mistake. O
Branch of N. C. charged him, in the
House, with defeating the Post Office Bill
last Session. pronounced the charge
false. Branch sent him a chalenge when
he thus replies:
WASUINGTON CITY, Dec. 30, 1859,
seven o'clock r. M.
Sin: Your note of the 29th instant was
placed in my hands by your friend, Gov. Win.
slow, at twelve o'clock M. to-day. I know of
nothing that makes it necessary for me to
name a time and place outside the D"strict of
Columbia to receive from you a communica
tion in writing. Your note was doubtless, as
nothing else has occured betwece us, based
upon remarks made by me in debate in the
House of Representatives, in reply to pour
speech impugning my motives and the integ
rity of my acts as a legislator.
On that occasion, 1 used no language in
violatian of parlimentary law, and none not
warranted by your remarks thus impugning
my conduct.
If your note is to be considered of a hostile
character then I have this to reply: Regard
ing dueling as at variencc with the precepts
of tbe Christian religion and the sentiments
of Christian people, and it being prohibited
and declared a crime by the laws enacted by
the body of which we are members, I cannot
recognise it as a justifiable mode of settling
difficulties among men, even in cases of un
warranted provocation. But my personal
rights and freedom of debate guarantied by
the constitution I shall defeno whenever they
are assailed.*
Very respectfully, yours,
GALugnA A. GROW,
Hon. L. 0B. Branch.
A E A I E E O I N E
—-On Friday afternoon a fatal accident
happened a little girl, daughter ofMrs.
Cole, residing seven miles south of this
city on the Hcrnlake road. The little
girl, whose age was seven years, was play
ing in the house with her twin brother,
when he in the wantonness of sport, seized
a gun and fired at her, seventeen buck
shot taking effect in her throat. She im-Precinct
ran toward the door, where
meeting her mother, she exclaimed:
"Brother didn't go to do it!" and died
almost immediately. A display of hero
ism and fortitude equal to this, in so
young a child, we have not heard of for
years.—Memphis Bulletin.
CHAP, XIV VERSE
ST. CLOUD, STEARNS CO., MINNESOTA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 26 1860. NO. 2ft
S I E W S I E S
Caaaius M. Clay made a speech at Cov
ington on Wednesday evening, in which
he denounced Slavery With his accustom
force and bitterness, and predicted* the
triumph of the Republican party. The
Cincinnati Gazete says that near the close
of his- remarks he was interrupted by
some one calling out, "Let him down,"
"Tar aud Feather him," &c The speaker
informed these parties, in repl), that he
was nsed to that kind of* thing, and he
"would like to sec it done." It was not
done.
'Elder,' will you have a drink of cider?'
said a farmer to an old temperance man,
who was spending an evening at his house.
'Ah !—^huiri—no, thank ye,' said the
old man 'I never take any liquor of any
kind—'specially cider but if you call it
apple juice, I think I'll take a drop.
Senator Sumner has been chosen a For
eign Associate Member of the French
Society of Political Economy at Paris.—
He is the first American on whom this
honor has been confered—and well he
deserves the honor.
A movement has been started in Eng
land to encourage young women to learn
the watchmaking trade with a view to
qualify them to clean .and repair watches—
a branch of business in which there is
constant cmploymcnt'in large towns and
cities. The widow of a watchmaker in
Boston some time ago maintained herself
for years in working for the trade.
April 21st, theday fixed for the meet
ing of the Charleston National Conven
tion, is the birth dry of both President
Buchanan and Senator Douglas. It will
probably be the day of their political
death, also.
A French breakfast—two salt-cellars
and a muffin.
THE ST. CLOUD DEMOCRAT.
JANE G. SWISSHELM. EDITOR
Thursday, Jan. 26th 1860.
Wlearn
ANTED—At this office, TWO GiRLS i«
the printing business. We would
prefer that one of them should be over 'twenty
years of age, the other any age above twelve.
None need apply who cannot read and write
English, Reference required as to moral
character and as we shall take both into our
family and try, in as far as may be necessary
or possible, to supply the place of the mothers
they may leave, we would like to sec appli
cants before making any engagement.
SUBSCRIB E N O W W will furnish
the ST CLOUD DEMOCRAT and the At-
lantic Monthly, Godey's Lady*s Booh
or Harper*s Magazine, one year, for 83.50
cash, or 84.00 in produce, delivered at
MJLLER&SWISSUELM'S or the DEMOCRAT
and Arthur's Magazine for 83.00 cash, or
83.50 in produce. Send on orders,
Republican State Convention.
A Republican State Convention will assem
ble in the city of St. Paul, on WEDNESDAY,
FEBRUARY 22d, 1860, for the purpose of
selecting eight Delegates to represent Minne
sota in the National Convention, which meets
in Chicago, on the 13th of June next.
The vote at the State election of 1859, has
been adopted as the basis of representation.
Each County will be entitled to one Delegate
for 300 votes cast, and an additional Delegate
for a fraction of 12f.
The Counties in the State will he entitled
to Delegates as follows:
Anoka,
Benton,
Blue Earth,
Brown,
Carver,
Chisago,
Dakota,
Dodge,
Farribault,
Freeborn,
Fillmore,
Goodhue,
Hennepin,
Houston,
Le Sner,
McLeod,
Morrison,
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Meeker,
Mower,
Nicollet,
Olmsted,
Ramsey,
Rice,
Scott,
Sherburne,
Sibley,
Stearns,
Steele,
Wabashaw,
Waseca,
Washington,
Winona,
Wright,
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Counties not enumerated, will be entitled to
one Delegate each. DANIEL ROIIRER,
Ch. Rep. State Cent. Com.
Republican County Convention.
The Republicans of Stearns county will
meet in Convention at the Store of MILLER &
SWISSHBLM, St. Cloud, on Saturday, February
11th, 18G0, at two o'clock p. M., to select Four
Delegates to the Republican State Convention,
to convene at St. Paul on the 22d of February
next—and to attend to any other matter per
taining to the interests of the party.
St. Cloud will be entitled to three Delegates
in said County Convention, and each other
to one Delegate.
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The Republicans of St. Cloud will meet at
the Store of MILLER & SWISSUELH on Friday
Evening, February 10th, at Gf o'clock, to elect
three Delegates to the above County Conven
tion. STEPHEN MILLER,
Chairman Republican Co Com.
t.
Information Wanted.
Mr. Curtis Harding of Monroe, Pa has
two sons Anning and Dwight who left
Minnesota for Frazcr's River one year
ago. He last heard from them in winter
quarters at the Selkirk Settlement the 6th
of March. Mr. Harding has heard in
directly that the party* some twenty or
more in number, all perished except two,
by reason of starting too early in the spring-
If any one can give information of these
young men, will confer an act of humanity
by addressing Geo. W. Chowcn Esq., the
Register of Deeds of Heucpin County,
Minnesota.
O E
For the St. Cloud Democrat.
A E S O I N
N E S O A
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OFFICE LAKE SUPERIOR
AGRICULTURAL SOCIKTV
5TV,
January 9th, 18G0
The object of the Agricultural SocietyJ•
in addressing you, is to call your particu-
lar attention to the market now opcu for
all your surplus crops in the Lake Supe-
rior region. The following is a condensed
report of only a few of the Agricultural
and other articles, which passed the St.
Mary's Fall's ship canal into Lake Supe-
rior, during the month of October, 1859.
Observe the items of flour, coarse grain,
ground feed, vegetables, hay, cattle, but-
ter, etc., etc., etc.:
Flour, barrels, 5,742,
Estimated Value, $34,452.00.
Coarse Grain, bushels, 11,83G,
Estimated Value, $7,397.50.
Ground Feed, tons,' 225,
Estimated Value,
Beef, bbls 1,034,
Pork, 1,099,
Bacon, 77,
Lard, G4,
Butter, lbs, 44,000,
Cheese, 14,148,
Tallow, 1,500,
Vcgctablcs,bu, 1,593,
Hay, tons, 145,
Horses, head, 27,
Cattle, 608,
Copper,
Iron,
"izc., tons, 1293,
S5,G25.00
§12,372.00.
19,782.00
1,952.00.
2,560.00
8,890.00.
1,414.80.
150.00.
79G.50.
2,175.50.
3,275.00.
20,320.00.
168,880.00.
45,300.00.
018,500.00,
E.
Besides a great variety of Machinery. Lime,
Brick, Groceries, &c, &c &c and 1595 pas
scngcrs,
These facts and figures certainly speak
for themselves. The Official Report for
the month of November not having reach-
ed us at the date of this address, we give
a few extracts from newspapers, showing
that up to the 25th of that month they
exceeded the imports of October. The
Detroit Tribune, of Nov. 15, says
"The Steamer Montgomery left that port, last
night, with the largest load of supplies and
provisions ever shipped to Lake Superior
being not less than Eight thousand barrets bulk
The Lake Superior Miner, of Nov. 5th,
says:
"We learn that the Lady Elgin (of Chicago)
brought on to the Lake Twenty-fiTe hundred
barrels of lreight besides One hundred and
sixty-five bead of cattle. The Elgin contcm
plates making another trip. The Iron City, of
Cleveland, arrived, bringing a heavy load of
freight. The Illinois brought from Detroit a
large load of freight. The Mineral Rock left
Detroit on the 12th of November, with full Six
thousand barrels bulk, etc."
It is unnecessary to add that the side
The first load of copper, for the season
left Ontonagon, May 2d, 1859 and the
harbor was open up to the 5th of Decern
her. The North Star, in July 1838,
made one round trip from Cleveland to
the City of Superior and return to Detroit,
18G0 miles, in the space of 120 hours,
running time. During the trip, her
wheels made 111,206 revolutions. The
Propellers carry from 500 to 750 tons, and
several of them, when urged, have made
15 miles an hour. During the season of
1868, the North Star made, from April
27th up to November 23, nineteen round
trips of 2100 miles each, including stop-
pages, from Cleveland, Ohio, to the City
of Superior and return, equal to about
40,000 miles of Inland Navigation. The
fastest trip of the season, by a sailing ves-
sel, was made in November, 1859. She
was loaded with 45 0 tons of iron ore,
urged by strong winds, and arrived at
Cleveland four and a half days from Mar-
quette—distance, through the four lakes
and three rivers, 650 miles.
The shipments of Copper ore, from the
Port of Ontonagon, for 1859, were 2,003
tons and 1,331 pounds of pure copper, iu
"masses" and barrels, worth nearly Two
Millions of dollars. The shipments from
Eagle River and Portage Luke were also
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR
very large. The products of the Iron
mines of Marquette, for the year 1859,
were 100,000 tons of iron ore, worth over.
8500,000. Eighty-nine vessels and steam-
ers were engaged in the commerce of this:
Port. The number of arrivals and de-
partures for 1859 reached 680 30 sailing
vessels and 5 steamers being the greatest
number at one time in the harbor. I have
not received, as yet, the official report
showing the number of barrels of fish ex-
ported from this Lake, cr of the Lumber
business—now nearly monopolized by the
City of Superior and the North-Shore of
Minnesota.
It is an undoubted fact that quantities
of Minnesota and Iowa flour arc shipped
from Chicago, 800 to 1000 miles to the
Lake Superior ports. Dc it remembered,
that the distance from St. Cloud to City
of Superior is about 140 miles, and from
Superior to'Ontonagon, via the Lake, 100
miles, a total of 300 miles against some
1G00 miles from St. Cloud, via the Chi-
cago route!
The population of Lake Superior, inclu-
ding the Indian bloods, may safely be
estimated at Thirty thousand people
mostly engaged in and connected with the-
mining interests. So great is the demand
for supplies of vegetables, fresh meats,.
&c, that the Saloon keepers on the steam
boats pay high prices for tho privilege of
supplying this trade. They generally,
sold fresh beef and mutton in 1859, at:
121 cts. per lb butter 20 cts. potatoes
75c(« 1.00 flour 7.50 to 8.50 corn $1.00
to 81.25 oats 75c to §1.00 ke., &c. I
advise tho farmers of Steams county to.
compare prices, aud bear in mind that
after November 1st prices and freights
arc advanced.
The Merchants of Superior, during the
approaching season of navigation, will
pay Chicago prices for grain, flour, etc
Steamboats arc constantly arriving, and
return freights from Superior to the Mines
are remarkably low, especially on cattle.
The distance to the celebrated Minnesota
Copper Mine is only 170 miles—time
required, about twelve hours.
The Lake Superior Agricultural Socie-
ty is anxious to hear from theFarmers of.
the Upper Mississippi: letters requesting
information, etc., may be addressed to the
Sccrctaiy. Tho Agricultural Rooms are-
always open to our friends in Stearns
county and they arc requested to send!
Agricultural .specimens for our- Collection.
JAMES S. 1UTCH1E, Secretary.
-—_•*-•«.-«».
Women Meddling in Politics.
While O HN lay sick' and in
prison, Mrs. CHILD asked leave, of Gov.
W I S E to visit and minister unto him.
Superficial observers would not have no-
ticed that the dear, old Quakcr-grand-
jnothcr—at the mention of whose name,
every true heart throbs with a kindlier
blood-flow—was propounding a great po-
litical question to a great political leader.
jjNlftelng Xhc sick and wounded, comlort-
Sng the ^prisoner and ministering to the
needy, have been, unguardedly, admitted
to lie inside "Woman's sphere so that
even Gov. W I S E in replying that tho
privilege she asked is a great political
right guaranteed by the. Constitution, fail-
ed to add that she was outside her sphere
in thus asking questions atout Constitu-
tional guarantees. Nay, he even wcut so
far as to write so much of politics to a
woman, that she was called upon to reply
in such way as to make the great Govor-
nors's logic look, in the grasp of her com-
prehensive arguments, like a Lilliput in
the hands of- a Gulliver —when A Vir-
ginia Matron comes to his relief and
the attention of this and other nations is
attracted by a political discussion between•
the mildest, gentlest, most lovcable- of•
American Authoresses, and the wifo of
an American Senator..
Next, VICTOR HUGO one of Europe's
greatest Statesmen and Patriots, writes a
letter on the central political question of
the world when, lo and behold a lady
who has been pattering around the magic
circle of Woman's sphere for forty
years—writirg trash and talking twaddle
—suddenly takes upon herself the task of
critic, and dashes out "nto t]ui unknown-
sea of the groat 'all-alive questions cf the
:igc Oi' course sfi? runs Upon a sand-bar,
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