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I I E O A LATSI.T"r«i: DEMOCRAT," FvMlshed every Thursday afternoon, AT ST.'CLOlTD, MINN. a a of iVunhlugto AVCHUH W I E KtlTOU AND riiOrRUJTOR. S S S I TWO DOLLAR r-* TABLE {X ADVAyCE A»«xtM-.pywi:!bn..-Ht.,nkUi. t.. the s*««» «r faclnbot teuitt'jsati k- S Of A a a S I S Hqunre I 00 1 3l)f a 00 1 9 75! S30 aM 3 AS *50 8 »., $J*j OtKI 10 00 1500 5 OJ S 00 14 80 -I'l 50 RJ51 UOJ 18 0 i-j so aa0dooOUoe JO I. Uav-al vu.l J*V»raiueat. Iverti-omont 75 cent.per th* «lr,t iMtfthn. »ua 3 tf*4oU per '•T\ -vV lorlL l.-frit •WertUoaAfeta arc renrdeda" "-wr.it vb I tli.- of ths name, ua .•„• i! -.-«• .:uat charge tSo *uue i»r»irtr. UMli'.i a to Uo wade in mlrtrm vi' uvon deliver? ef tbo affidavit. 3 VicV i-•-''••'•'' eonnp-.'t in- to tr.instant, aud 10 -it- llae raSul «-. idvortl««r». 4 N'iti fJentb simple innonaeea»eufJ25cents oM:V»rv .tices, -'tit- pci line m.irrias* notice, 50eouH. ., ., VII '.itlcal,religuttS orjthor notices,a conts »«r.llne. i. .• i! 'Uco ijrcrtlaemeata tuboiaserted at r't'.M agreed upon. 7. V.»»rly ilvortisoru to pay quarterly. 8* Str.vtiers muit p.» iu advance, or give :Uis f.i tory reference. 3 0 I N I N 11 tmU.nlai or colored, ©xecuted on short rio 1 in ths best style, and at St. P:iul price*, ,1'riut done la German and Norwegian, a* welt tus •U, and wurrantedto give aatfajhetion, a a TATLOB. EDWIN M- WMOHt A O &. W I ATTOENET3 & COUNSELORS AT LAW, (OJic-r over Sims Br-..' Stors.') si. CIOVD, niyy. H. 1 GOBDOS. W COLLINS O O N & O I N S A O N E S A A W AND RBAL ESTATE AGENTS, 03ce over J. F. BUI rf .t*."* Store 8T. CLOUD, MINNESOTA. Partttular attention giren to tsiness in adioining Conntiea, T«. Wright, Sher bume, Beaten, Morrison, Todd, Douglas, Monongalia, Popo and-Meeker. 4# WK. 9 MOOKB. COA9 E MOORE & KERR, A O N E S A A W SI/CLOUD, "1 MINN. Qfict on Washington Avenue—formerly' McKelvy Kerr'*. EDWARD O. HAMLIN A S E E S E E A I E O A W IN ST. CLOUD. MINN. Opiee in EJelbrackt B:o- k. corner of Wash ington avenue and St. GermHn .ifreet. QV.Q W S W E E A1TORXBY 4 0 rorXSELLQR AT LATi VI TILL attend promptly to Collections. and payment of taxes in -.teams and Benon Connties. Special attention given C!»se»bsS'ora the L??alund iieneral Land Officn. 935s« on St. Germain St., orer Broiftr's Store, ST. CLOUD, MINN. W. T. COLLINS, M. D.,' PHrSlCIAN AND SURGEON & flee over Ticknor, Tolman 4" Co.'a Drug Store, ST. CLOUD, MINN J. D. WHEELOCK, M. D., PHYSICIAN AXD SURGEON, Olice over Edilbroek's Store. Oftee hours from 9 to 12 A. M., and from 2 to 6 o'clock P. M. ST. CLOCD, MINX A E SE2JKJL.ER, PrjrSICIAN, SURGEON & ACCOUCHEUR ST. CLOUD, .1//.V.V. OtHcein Alden"sBrickbuitJing, \T*shinatomveune. B*didencs, Richmond Street opposite Wright's Ferry. BssnlarofllcahonrslOtol and 2 to 4. v9nll P. GOETZ, M. D., S I I A S AND S E O N Ofict over Edelbrock's Store, ,7y Office hours frem 9 to 12 A. M., and from 2 to 5 o'clock P. M. BJ. CLOUD, MISN. CHAS. S. WEBER, M. ST.CI.OVD, MjyV DENTISTBY. I am now permanent1, located in I irln9t BANK OF ST. CLOUD. GENERAL BANKING AND EX CHANGE BUSINESS TRANS ACTED. O O A N S I I A LAND WARRANTS, College Sci ip anil Foreign Exchange BOUGHT AXB SOLD. Particular Attention given to Collec tions, and Proceed* Promptly Remitted. Office open from i) to 12 A. M. 5 P. jr. Office over Edelbrock's store. Maps of Stearns County for sale. D.,j HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN, Ml. CLOUD. MINN. Ofioe on St. Germain street, 3d door east of Catholic Church OCeit koars from. 10 A M. till 3.. M. J. S. BANDOLI^H. ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW. PATNESV1LLE, MINN. WM. B. JrlTjNaa. .*. ii A ir A SURGEON mrtBovn suns Dr. A O A E A N N RMidtnot on Washington avenue. n20 yti A atbis plaea in the practice of Dentistry, and hav ing had over fout teen yars' experience in my profession, hope "to gain fair share oi yonr patronage. My STOCK OF TEETH, (JOLD, &c, Ii eompltte, and I am prepared to do work of all kinds as perfect as at any point east of St. Clond. ALL WORK WARRANTED, And at reasonable prices. Offioe in Broker's liloek, front room on •econd floor. 1 i*H *.-. „f DR, A. PKLHAM. St. Cloud, Jan. loth. 186a "n26 ARCHITECT A^^ymym, T8nans, P^pared to'rarnfin plans.' speeiiea and estimates fer buildings also ZiS* °.?,lr.acl«' »»d k*»» «t car- Wttik ST. CLOUD. ST. CLOUD, A the latest and S^Nt approTed Us. Prices reasonable. S O S E St. eermalneatir^Bt -ajJ=*J7 and I to St. Germain Streoi, St. Cloud, Minn. J. Q. SMITH. Cashier. Sr. Clots.:. Sept. 16, 1807 vl S. I N N E X&V LICENSED MEALEtt IN FOREIGN & DOMESTIC EXCHANGE, Sigbt Drafts lor sale on England, Ire- A complete asscrtment of Etui *ad Scolland' and a11 countries ot Iris Ports. Collections made,hand proceeds remitted day of pay men. Ojlce oppotnte U. S. Land Office, ST. CLOUD, .._- MINN. T. O. McCLURE J± 1ST E let AND LICENSED DEALER IN exchange, Land \Varint«, Agrlcvl tturnl College Strii», County, and Statrj Orders, a a a Coh«"tions and Remittances promptly made. Ta paid for Non-residents. Also. pent for tho sale of PASSAGE TICtETS to or from all the principal GEfffllS, ENGLISH AN IRISH PORTS. Oihceon Washinaiton avsune, one door «outh of the Central House. v7n44-tf O. E. GARRISON, CIVIL ENGINEER AN9 ARCHITECT, ST. CLOUD, MINN. Flaying had twenty yea-s' experience— ien-in Gjvernmotit survey,—I hope to give Stttisfaetion in all branches of Engineering. Pino and other Lands entered and taxes paid for Non r»?ident3. and full descrip tion given from personal examination. ». B. PISSKT. WM. MULLIKEN P1HNEY &iHilULLIKEN, REAL ESTATE AGENTS Opposite V. S. Land Office, ST. CLOUD, MINN. Will buy and sell REAL ESTATE on com nission. Locate Land Warrants and Agricultural College Scrip. Paj Taxes, and transact all Business con nected with such an Agency. v8n44-ly M. P. NOEL, SURVEYOR AND GSViL ENGINEER, ST. CLOUD, MINN. Also, Dealer in Real Estate will give strict attention to locating pine and other lands, PAYING .TAXES FOR N JN-RES1BENTS, Selling property on commission, &c &c, and is prepared to give informalit as toImporting the character of Government land through out the north-western part of the State to parties desirous of locating. Office on Washington avenue, opposite the U. S. Land Office. v9ii48 VANHOESEN & MITCHELL/ REAL ESTATE AGENTS, ALEXANDRIA, DOCOLAS CO., MINK. Buy A Sell Real Estate on CommUslon, Pay Taxes for Ncn-Residentt, And select and locate Government Lands for others with cash, scrip or warrants. UTHR0P & KINNEY, REAL ESTATE AGENTS, GLESWOOD, POPE CO., MINX. BUY AND SELL REAL ESTATE ON COMMISSION, Pay Tatzea In muy pnrt of the State, Select and Locate Government Lands for Others with Cash, Scrip or Warrants, Make out Homestead and Prt-emptlon Papers And Abstracts of Title, and buy and sell County and Town Orders. m2G CITY^ RESTAURANT. E S O S E S FRESH AND, CANNED FRUITS ALL KINDS. And Everything usually MEALS XT AH, HOURS. MINN I N N OOD assortmentof Watch*!, G%w Cloeks and Jewelry always on' j£jL hand. Oalvanixing^one. Itepairing neat ly done and warranted for one rear, nlv A Wfe to*fqp$tm*t*/iHM .. matswea JOS.«GOYETTE,, Proprietor. St. Cloud, June 6, 1866. v9n26 DESIGNS OF SCULPTURE WORK, Monuments, Grave Stones, Mantles. Table Tops, &e., made and famished to order. J. E. WEST, General Insurance-Agent, Represents the /E N A Or Hartford, Comn A O Of Hart'orct. Conn. Also—Life, Aicidcnt and Live Stock In surance Compatms. Office in WEST & CO.'rt l?ook Store. New Goods! New Styles! I J. W METZROTH, E 1 1 A N A I O jnst received a large lot of lm La«i Warrants mid A| rlcnltnral Col- warranted to be of excellent quality. l?ge scrip. i_ Cloths and Casslmeres, Of new tad fashionable styles, for spring aud summer wear—•will be sold cheap. A large otock of Ready-made Clothing, I obtained specially for this market, and Gentlemen'-s Furnishing Goods The hts-hest premium paid for Gold, Sil- including er vad Foreign Drafts. FUR HATS, CAPS, COLLARS & GLOVES, Agent for the sale of Passage Tickets to and from all the principal German E is a Cloth, Felt nucfother Hats and Caps of the latest styles, And the ben KID GLOVES in the market. Call and examine^py ?tock. _, J- W. METZBOTH. _St. Cloud, Oct. 1666. viWU-tf ST. CLOUD BOOK STORE. ROSENBERG ER BOOKSELLER,STATIONER it yEWSDEALi.Jt Oai always on hand a Fine AitortmentBi a S a —ALSO— THE LATEST PAPfiUS & MAGAZINES THE STANDARD SCH00LB00KS, And everything usually found in a first class iJooksiore. »6n18-tf NEW LIVERY STABLE. Chas. E. Foster & Co have opened anew UVEKY, SALT, AND BOARDING STABLE In Hansons stable on Richmond avenue, whe.-e they will keey at all times, for the use of th» pub lie, a splendid lot of HORSES. BUJGIE3 CUTTERS, Which will be let at reasonable rates. Their stock is Till of the vry best, and they are confident will he appreciate^, as such by tlieir customers. Leave your orders for livery with CHAS. E. FOSTErf & CO. St. Cloud. Dec. 19th, 1806.. ,v9n22 Livery! Livery! Livery 1 E N A O S E Livery and Sales Stable. My friends and patrons are hereby noti fied that 1 am prepared to furnish them with EVERYTHING IN THE LIVERY LIRE, On the shortest notice and most, reasonable terras. Office at Central House. J. E. HAYWARD, Proprietor. WILLIAM LEE, IMPORTER AND WHOLESALE LEALEIt IN DRY GOODS & NOTIONS, No. 156 Third Street, ST. PAUL, MINN. My arrangements with pne of thc^pHeel and J'o'bbitig'H6uses of tfiWrJasV,' and having a buyer iu the market all the i'me, and -buying my Goods all for cash, Minnesota Merch nts will find arjfR.in»i»t all time* mv* Store. vdnl^tf Lumber for Me :pKeap AT OILMAN'S MILL. The undersigned are manufacturing all kinds of f\ r\ 3 7 ,- And Shingle* of the very beet quality. Th«B«it Cemoion l^nmlicvr. The lleiit Clcnr fiiimbrr, vztjg. VALENTINE & SPRAGUE. Gilmanton, Nov. 20th. 1867 n20-6m E A O WHOLESALE DEALERIN Wines, Liquors and Cigars, 107 Third Street, DEALERS OF The Chcleeet Conftrtloaery 4c Pastry ST. PAUL, MINN. STRONG & WILLIAMS, (SUCCESSORS TO R. O O N »S5 Third .street, at. Pawl, in Carpets, Oil Cloths, "Mat- tings, Curtain Materials and Trimsafcigs Upholstering and Furnishing Goods. Win dow Shade Wall Paper, MattrMMl, Feathers, & v7nKwy E N *W. W E A CARRIAGES! A E I rkept in a ftrst-elass Restaurant .and Fruit Store. A E removed to My*new shop near the Bridge, where I am prepared to do •11 kinde of Work in the" Carriagettfiiing-1 ine. Wagons, carriages and sleighs made a neat and substantial manner at low ates. Particular attention paid to repair v8-t/ T)EMEMBER the place to get a nice se of Silver Coin Jewelry, Brens- Pin« MINNESOTA MARBLE WORKS, I Sleeve-buttonsandEar-rings.isat BUSII'g ~. 1 Jewelry store. He engraves them beauti Corntr Robert end Righth streets, near fuuY. the International Hotel, SPECTACLES J. F. TOSTEVN. P. O. Box 940, St. Paul IBifc'-.v''..-. IH* AND EYE GLASSES Genuine Pebble Glasses. Double Fo cus, Periscopie and Convex, worth from*. octsto $5,00, for sale at BUSH'S. Can bo exchanged if not found suit after a borough trial. fOL. X. ST. CLOUD, ^IfjfE^OTA, THURSDAY, MARCH 26. !86S. J. E. Keep constantly on hnnd a fine stock of BpOf^.^ST^NERY, WALL PAPER, CURTAINS, WINDOW SHADES, I FANC GOODS, PICTimE&^d? B&MBf TpYS, &v&c, Also, Ae«ntafor Celebrated Gold Pensi •••lj J. AST)— GROVERA BAKER'S SEWING MACHINES. Cfcll *aftd 8e6 fntexdl si AVERILL, SECOMBE & CO PBOPRIETOKS OP TnK .• And Wholesale Dealers in Are now manufacturing! htir C$LEBHA1E& 8BEEtfNT' PAp£k\ 1 WITH AN Improvement over that'of last Season. Tho in'provsment consists of iis ricirtp two-ply and containing anew Jogrediept, which uro-iuees cferai-cT^ness'of texture than that formerly niado. Beneath the outside covering, Without the, Sh»«£ing^Boerds our salesroom here and by I igewtrtrl the principal towns* throughout A the State. AVERILL,..SECOMBE & CO MELROSE MILLS. THE KEW O I I 3 I At JU«troa», Steartta C»., Minn., Has been completed, and is now ready to, do Custom "Work for the FARMERS OF SAUK VALLEY. The ProprietorsXaal confident of givjjng^ Flour, Corn Meal aud Fjed for Sale. \. 1 We have commenced the erection of a Fflr^t-Cl^s Saw IVUI!, And wi'l be prepared in the Spring to man ufacture Lumber, Lath, Shingles, &c. E. & W H. ChARK, Proprietors. McINTIRE & CASTLE, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in FARM A I N E ,*boeO ar4» -..iSTOTT^BS ST. CLOUD, MINNESOTA." vl0n2b-tf BEAVER DAM BT^o.A.:Da-A.s r. .' SEED SOWEkW AND •.*•*:•'JA^:J JWOUJIE PiOWS lh F0R 8ALEBv O A sKleilhX3'*Z-% Jk.*3i FARM A I N E nil Washington avenue, Cloui (Successor to Huber & Porter.) GROCERIES W Flour,. Grain &Wedt. Washington Avenue, St. Cloud, Minn.. Goods delivered free of charge in aay part of tho otCy.-^ft Produce *f all kjn3s »»k'«n for goor's.v CHAS. E. FOSTER, TA^CT^ieNIJJtR^ 8T CLOUD, day cornea up above the rncfn AH s.ill^w from a ulglt of rain Tile Bound of feot, oi wheels aud hoofs In tho huiTivil Btreetn begin npxlii. The XI Tim %ir.!C iinniottniog smuos It can put upon tat bare Studd,^ po^cr,'to township 122 north, ran^e '29"we'st thence souih between ranges 29 and 30 to the southwest corner to section IS in town.,Ij2l north range 2D I west thence east on the section lino tolj if desired, producing the desired result of I the southeast-corner of section in excluding the cold air and pioteetine the L„™^ i«i .1. warmth of a room. S &V™* rooms 6hoircrrJo ere'ctetTwifliout if. Th« jost.,ycomparatively,,forbids ••:i».«roUl ti|l—ncWitj!—no It^n, Riiie vlluyabbhyj my ent» the s:inii« Most miserable dearth of farx r. OV.'J •ihA liopfitne vile somiJs tbe gnsnotlull lack i.u'lustre in thejl'\'bl gray.' Tt fJi-dlris like AVafr-'rday come back Villi ii ol.l things, IUKI n..t Today. «Q». .— MARCH. '-=Wss i«lcWt', O'Tinidlorar Mnstorfpg March, VThfti "Boreiw theKude" holds his court And ii' .vcu'vo tho least bit uf ieiliu^ for inc, ^Si^i^iJiuucryJiyiilpitB SlW"W .-» ty I Ion on is triflinz,' a! sompare^y trifl.r.* and its al I 1 7 a el of the Mississippi river thence up the Mississippi river to the place of 0, beg^iu a 4 a 6 8 & I $ AB*vA. The area of the county is 1530 square miles—983,040 acres—inclu- I ing the area of lakes and riveis. Of this98miount6P5,419 acres, according to retrfms-oF the toWn assessors are sub ject to taxation the remaining 377,621 arc United States land, State md lakes. aorei swamp land, railroad land The separate amounts 01 each I hnvo not the means at present of dctenvin ins. About onc^ third, of the area of! tl tire satisfaction to their cwtomefc..~-l~ -.. entire county is prah'ji?, balance brin» tiuiber and meadoR. a more detailed ac count of which Will be given under the »ie^cri*pfion? of :*ardfi Ijr EsliK'iJ* wtJn- siimtatfrto tnsto, And—I've si particular reason -'Or li'istc. 1 would it were poBsiWo I could arrange Sj ue luifihvlwve Juno befyro iiny a Jin'tdoit, 0 olatoft] Please let me sleep one mouth away. The reason I wish to have Bummer so soon Is this—I'm engaged to be married in June. JtdjJiSiiM 'ii S I MS COUNTY. .i«f„r ,Mrrji„,. W AJTW S 0 1 POpUlatlOn. ***&**, and most of the lime used in building in the county comes from ___ this source. I O W N S A N I I E S The Sauk river enters the county Aff'INHRBSTIirCr SKETCH OF THE SETTLEMENT AND GROWTH OF THE COUNTY. I ., BOPSWARIES. Steams county is bounded as fol .lows: Commencing at a point in the Missifesipflji riv&p-, opposite the mctjth of Platte river thence west to the range line between ranges 35 and 36 town jshi| 1 north ^.thence south on range ltue1 Vetween ranges 85 and 30, to the South-west corner of township 123 north, range 35 west thence east be tween t: wnships 122 and 123, to the south-west corner of township 123 north raneC'32 west thence*outh between ranees 32 and 33, to tha southw-st corner of township 122 north, rau«e 32 Wds^-thetioe east -between townshris 121 and 122 north to the southwest a Wages- Statistical Information. town 121 north rango 29 west thenee ,, 5« ranges „„j on ,, .-,, 1 a 0 feact exteiigve use doubandsits a to its er jUienerj 'down "The'channel of the! western pl.u„s •tlWIffitolirffireT^*^ fo o|. thn town. EARLY SETTLEMENT. The county was named ..after the Hon. C. T. Stearns, cne of tho earliest -settlers and a member of the Legisla- din nsj west bank of tho Mississippi, in what iii now Stearns and Wright counties, preVidus'j*to ~f865. Among the first settler* in the county were IJ Wil son, S. Lawry, H. G. Fillmore, d.rnl *,H$^'%Etf£$Z Partridsre, Alexander Moore, T. Rigby, "It. M. Richardson, J. Linneman and others. A more minute account of turfy settlers will be given in the dc scfiptloh of lhe* different towns. (Since writing the above I learn that Mr. S. B. LoWry had a trading post oil Watab Prairie, six or seven miles above St. Cloud, previous to 1851 and Mr.furnish H. J. Fill more ca.ne with lrm. Mr. Lbwr*y opened a fai in on what is now a part of St. Cloud in 1853. Mr. John Becker, in 1853, plowed land for Mr Lowry and raised the first crop in Stearns county GEOLOGY OF TUB COCSTY. The county may be described geolog tenlly as of g«nite formation. The sur faco is gently rolling, in some parts "hilly, although the hills rarely exceed 100 to 150 feet above the general lev- I $7$f a Nteonflnflatio^frTOhcftftntrtaiTrwusdi£ 'trict horth of Lake Superior, extend- •jm^in^^sntjtnavt'sfr direction, fofn.inu ihdlTafls yf the St. Louis liver, fhc rap- leavin th Stat 0 in MINN. iD tho south- .western boundary. I have seen out. oroppings.of the.r.idgc east ofthe JHllo S »«»immenset waterM power second on- to St Authony's Pallj. To the Number of minors, between 5 and 20 1 west anJ north west oi' St. Cloud there I is a lar-e extent of level prairie bound- el on the wuuth and etist by this ridge. which at times approjohe^ to tho ohar tietcr of perpendicular lodges thirty or to: ty feet high. Frequent outor oppingp of this rock between St. Clrud and Pnynesville, afford excellent opportuni- GPan(i Ashley, a tiibutary to the Sauk river, and a little to the north if west from Sauk Cetitve, I have seen an outcrop ping of granite in places, but of a coars I 3r kind than that in the vicinity of St. Cloud. In the southeastern part of the-county there are found ledges of limestone from which a fair quality of lime has been made. There are also in several places in the county, large de posits of marl, one deposit joining St. Cloud and oue near Cleai water have its northwestern corner, and has" a general southeastern course for some forty-five miles, when it is intercepted by this ridge and is turned at almost right angles, thence running in a north eastern course about twenty^five miles, and delcuchfs in the Mississippi a few yards above tbe commencement of Sauk Rapids. At the point where the bend takes place theie 13 a considerable de pression in the rid»e, with lakes and marshes, having a general s.-s.-west course, through which in times of high water, I have been told the Indians were in the habit of paddling their ca noes to the noith fork of Crpw River. TIMBER. The country is well wooded except a stiu.ll part west and south-west from Sauk Centre, where the great treeless plains of the West encroach on tho titm her belt. This timber belt is somewhat peculiar, commencing south of a line drawn from Crow Wing in a northwest Course towards Otter Tail lake itt, western boundary has a south-e-stern, and the caste a south-western course. In the north boundary .f Stearns coun ty it has a breadth of about twenty-five miles then is confined principally be tween the Mississippi and Sauk rivers down -to the bend ef the S^uk, where I it ii about twelve miles wide, with a 28'I* a 8 c, a the Mississippi.. Th-.s r^r-te was S a a ississippi an: route was iotig ngo discovered and made use of by the Red River traders, and through it Gov. Stevens passed on his railroad sur vey to the Pacific ocean in 1853. From here the timber belt widens, extending t-i the Minnesota river. This track of country is of course not all heavy tim ber, but has numerous prairies, inter spersed throughout its whole extent, of the richest arable soil to be found in Minnesota. A few of these prairies will he considered when I come to de senptions of towns. 7 MhjmnSs course of the Saulc, thu fotmin«' & & easy route from the wester-, 1.S„ exceeded by none S a advantages for manufacturing iu all its various branch es. First in extent is Sauk Rapids, jdst above Saint Cloud. Here the Mis- sissippi river breaks through the gran ite rocks shose general course and ex tent was mentioned in a preceding par- agraph. ture in 1855, the year the county was where the descent is greatest and theone ofpihizfa.A 'l^rr€ou6ty/eoftiipiss]6u- ."?er narrowest, having solid ledges of erslfttfraftin Sh Cloud the firlt Mon- cranite projecting in tho river on each day in April, 1855: s»de ,.%\\e site of the present city of St. 'here is a descent of over se.-cneen Cloud for many year was the scat of a feet and the banks on both sides of l}'- From a point in the rapids down sfeam about 1500 yards, •t among the Winnebago In-1 "Ter are exceedingly favorable for tt#tSi%ir reservation on'the «tmn. of mills. By building, a uam, which Deed not exceed five feet if heighty.above the solid rock bed of tbe river, and excavating a canal on each side, the whole volume of water can be used to turn machinery. The high bluff at the point indicated for a dam on the right ot S Cloud bank bears off from the channel of the river leaving a plateau from 50 to 500 feet wide. By excavating the canal near the foot of the upper plateau and side cuts or flumes to the river, any hized wheel from five to twenty feet in diam eter can be used, and the mills built directly oxer Ino flumes, will allow the wheels to be placed in situations where frost cannot pcnetiate. Sauk river and Us branchop, ABhlcy river, Clearwater river, and several other smaller stream a large amount of water power. COUNTY OFFICERS—1868. Sheriff— Mathias Mickley. Auditor—Barney Vossberg. Treasurer—A. Schroedcr. Register of Deeds—John Znpp, Surveyor—Nicholas Schmidt. Attorney—E. M. Wright. Judge of Probate—L. A Evans. Court Commissioner—L. A. Evans. Clerk of District Court—G. 8. Mattoon. Coroner—B. Overbeck. County Commissioners. 1st District—H. J. Fowler, Chairman. 2d Martin Fiedler. 3d Bartholomew Pin. 4ih Herman Terhaar. 6th Truman Parcher. HRMBKBS OF LBOXSLATURR. Senator— Chas. A. Oilman. Representative—-N. II. Miner. U.MTH STATES OFFICERS. Register IT. S. Land Office—11. Wait. Rcewet H. C. Burbank. U. S. Revenue Collector—A. Curry. th t°t, Assessor—L. Gorton. STATISTICAL. Ip 1867 the number of horses in I ,r •.. ». .. 'cattle, c407j Phicp. OJUo cwine, Lifo laW, ht a 16?tl« six or seven miles 3 7 S .g at .tal of 20,282 animals, south of tpp kke, when* the Rum river or i.n increase of 6,701 since 1866, one breaks through the ridge. Again tbe ycnr- The whole number of acres, ex West branch of Rum lliver has rapids 1 8 -UH W —j -i -i in 1867, amounted to 605,419 value and at Sauk lltipnls a wide track the a subiect to taxation ..m oo.-. I .. *1, i^ ,!oo. iotal valuation of tiixa- unifl ridge is laid bare by, tho abrasion bid ptop.rtv, 81,916,635 Valuation W tbd Wuters tho ississippU fotm- 0 property *not laxetly $171,3-27. Val uation of town and cit, lots. $288,856,- Andrews' a a 7 9 8 tora i' Th"c 'creiB5M„ A wc proceed in a north tve terly course. I *nct Court ii. I8fi7 1H7 Deeds females 1784 to-Wttjden UJJITBD HTATKS HEVENCE A Tas on 8,ileS) Sc^0«l. 1 9 3 9 5 income tux, c79 7§ Herenue stamps told, 4183.75 4Mfit *. §9,838.48 &c, average yearly increase to be .86^- cl m.",rr -,.^ li 2 recorded in 1807, 920 con- sideration ?678:175. ort^zes in 1867, 182 considerations 126.347. lhe vote according to official returns bj towns i„ 1867, as 7«" a S in 2120, but there 1866,2134 votes, and in 1»05, 1147—being an increase in one year of 887 votes whereas there was a decrease 1 4 8 6 7 in 1800. The following is the number 1867° 6 S a ear us t0 Votes in 1862, 858. 1863, 948, increase 01. 1864. 1444, 495. 1865, 1147, decrease 297. 1866, 2184, increase 987. for four years, making 2453 as the of voters in 1867. Assuming that the proportion of inhabitants to voters to be tho same in 1867 that it was in 1865, viz Gi— will give 15,944 as estimated population in" 1867, By census of 1865, there was a population of 7,367. The vote the same year was 1147, giving an average of nearly 6.'. inhabitants to each voter. TOWNS. The county at present is divided in to twenty-wx towns, which will now be considered. SAINT CLOUO. Town 124 north, Range 28 west.— This is the first town settled upon above Minneapolis on tho west or right bank of the river. John L. Wilson squatted on Section 11, in 1855. Previous to his settle ment the point was an important, one, being on the Missi-stpni where a line of small prairies reaching from the great treeless plains of the West through the timber It to the Mississippi, form ing a natural highway which had long been used by the Red River traders in their annual trips to St. Paul with fur ind skins. Here also after the gov ernment assigned tL Wincebagoes their reeervatior in lboO, was estab Ijs'htfd a trading post, but after the change of the reservation to the Min nesota river, the country west of the town, previously but little known, was explored by hardy bands of emigrants, Geo. F. Brott in 1855, claimed (un der the law ol Congress giving to mail contracors land for stations) three hun dred and twenty acres pf land joining Wilson's on the south, and luid out a town. In a'few months sixty-five or seventy houses weie built, araor'g them the Stearns House, costing about ten thousand dollars. Mr. Brott's right the land was contested and carried from court to court, and it was not un til 1866 that he finally received the ti tle. In the meantime Wilson's survey having undisputed title, advanced with gigantic strides in a career of prosperi ty winch bids fair to make the town the second in importance in the Stattv CITY CUARTERS. In 1862 the first charter election was held, and a city government organized, with the following officers Mayor—L. A. Evans. Aldermen—II. C. Burbank, Joseph Bro ker, J. W. Tenvoorde and B. Overbeck. Recorder—A. B. Curry. In 18(56 anew charter with extend ed boundaries and new privileges was adopted by the voters t'nd the following oflber- chosen in 1867 Mayor—A. B. Curry. Aldermen—J. H. Owen, 1st Ward. J. H. Kelly. 2d Ward. From th* -k ui I unemployed at wages from 32 to So per From the above table I deduce the day_,he average is about «2.75 per ..„.„.. day. Brick and stone masons 84.— 31o 9 votes .nii.:~t^*^ZSZ2!J"±per.. tie country becime thickly settled.— Mr. Wilson luid out a town in 1855. A few months after an author otc genaaf ll.. A 1 as loll i«s "But^che date of its start I St.the Paul daily papers contained advertise ments of about fo'ty different firms or individuals in St. Cloud, which is a sort of index to the business of the place, A printing press is. already in town, and a paper will in a few days be issued." The paper hinted at above was the Advertiser, issued in the fall of 185(5, but it was short lived. .Mrs. Jane G. Swisshelm started the Visitor in 1857 but changed the name to the Democrat in 1858, which she continued to pub lish until 1863, when she went East on a lecturing tour and fina.ly to Wash ington, as a clerk in the War Depart ment. The paper was continued by Mr. W. B. Mitchell, who changed it to THE.JOURNA in 1866, and ft is now of the best conducted journals in the Northwest. Mr. J. H. Siiuonton started the Times in April, 1864, sold out to Mr. N. F. Barnes in i860, and iri'1'867 the present editor assumed con trol, and it now forms a spicy sheet. Joseph Broker. 3d Ward. L. Endvrle, 4th Ward. Recorder—John Zapp. rorrt.vTiotf. The population of the city and town I estimate to have been 3250 in 1867. of which 1 should judge 2,000 are Germans, about 1.000 American born, the balance Irish and English. OP the German citizens it is no disparagement to any cLss to say that for intelligence, industry and thrift nono better can be found in any community. CHCRCHH. St. Cloud has five churches, vis Catholic, Presbyterian, Methodist, Con gregationol and Episcopal. The Bap tist, formerly were tho most in8uenti»l and among the first the field oft«r the German Catholic. The Cnthol'c cathedral is a large beautiful structure ol brick, and is probubly seeond to none in the State. Tho Congregationalists have also fine church of cream-colored brick. The other three churches are Minnesota and Dakota in 1S56 C. NO. 36: wruaurcs, nhh ample aecom uiwdatiotis foi their respective cotmreKa lions STOBE8. There are 62 stores in St. Cloud, viz 12 dry goods, annual sales about §335.000 12 groceries and provisions 480,000 5 77,002 26 hardware, 200,000 (i boot8 and shoes, &e., gS.000 4 drugs and medicines, 100 000 5\lfX'"^ft-'"M'"^1-^ tu,nit ur«. i5.oo» n»«Jt «md butcher shops, 60.O0J. 2O,0J0 Tolal, There are 18 beer saloons. 3 billiard saloons, 4 restaurants, 13 hotels and lodging houses, 1 bowling alley, 2 ex press offices, 5 lumber jarus, 2 steam sawmills, 3 sash, door and blind fac tr.ri«s, 5 wagon shops, 5 painters shor,?, 10 carpenter and joiners shops, 2 brick yard-. 2 lime yards, 1 plow factory. 10 blacksmith shops and 3 bakeries. WAGES OF LABORERS. The wa«es of laborers vary consider ably in different years and seasons.— During the building season good car penters and masons arc bard to be found Farm laborers get from §15 to $35 per month, and during harvest the demand isso great that frequently from 83 to 85 per day is paid. BUILDING MATERIALS. Stone of good quality, but hard to work, is found in inexhaustable quan tities. There are also very extensive beds of clay, making excellent brick farms two kinds, one-a white or cream-color- ed, the other a red, and sells from 86 to 812 per M. The latter price being for choice lots of cream-col red brick, man ufactured by H. Fowler, from an extensive bed of clay a little south of the city Lumber of the best quality is manu factured by the steam saw mills in St. Cloud, from logs cut i:i the extensive pineries up the Mississippi and its brioches, and sells from 812 to 840 per M. .. Lime of a good quality fa manufac tured irom a large marl bed joining the city, and is sold at from one to one and three-quarter dollars per barrel. Scone is quarried Irom th extensive beds of granite in aud near the town, and sells at from 88 to §10 per eord in the streets. PRICES OF PBOPERTT. The piice oi I »ts in town 13 from 850 to 8250 each, bat in the main business streets rangei from S2.» to 85' per front froot. Land near town sells for from ?50 to 810(1 acre, and that from three to S25 per .. O A W I N rnriT GAME, S VT? 2 usuallyvabout pesr as a town is not more than six months per da in first clas hotels ago, since when it has been advancing with unsurpassed thrift, on a scale of affluence and durability. Its main street is surely a street in other re spects than in name tor it has on eith er side several neatly built three story blocks of stores, around which the gath ering of t?ams and of people denotes such an activity of business as to dis pel any idea that the place is got -jp under false pretenses." "The a 8 0 LS week two dollars TRASSPORTATIOX. St. Cloud is one of the most im portant points for starting overland expeditions to the western and north western forts. It is from here that Government trains for the forts on the north-western frontier start. The British Hudson Bay Company has for several years made this point a station for oi'er three* hundred tons ol goods annually shipped to Pembina, a fair share of the transpertatiop of which has been performed by our citizens. RAIUtOADS. The St. Paul and Pacific branch road has had cars running to a point opposite the city for more than one year, making two trips each way in summer and one in winter. The amount of business done in J.--unary, 1868, was as follows 4,532 passen gers 1,818,830 lbs merchandise 478.970 bu wheat 347 bbls flour 27 bbls lime 26 bbls salt 16 bbls headings 800 bundles staves 133 064 ft lumber 240 m. lath 50 shingles 1,050 cords Wood 145 ties 143 piled. Ol this amount perhaps two-thirds may SCHOOLS. St. Cloud has six school districts, and the assessors report 705 scholars between 5 and 20 years. There are h.ur or five school houses, three ol several private schools, u«.u«.lly '•o* the three State Normal Schools, M» bondB are now in »he market. !ifc Normal School Board hag »0ted ii tit St. Cloud and select a site for the pro posed buildiog. SACK. This is one of the original towns of Stearog county. Settled in 1854, when Addison Gillmore, Peter ScbaScr, Mar tin laily, G. A ica have succeed wed. dollars. Farms bring from three to Venison season is brought to mirket by the -'cord," when most plenty it sells at from three to b\ cents per pound, but usually sells at .\Jethod,st. Clearwuter lake, fonnim same price as pork and beef. Prai- 1 by competent teachers, furnishing su- penor advantages for preparation either j,, tor the common duties of life or for the li^her brancius tauyl only in JJcol ifg 8. St. Cloud has also appropriated 85.000 as a commencement for one of TJphatn and others ^penf farm,. But a small part of this town 18 pra-lrie. W a northern part or, the Missisiipw has some fine farms. Th re ig a W jmount of excellent Umber i„ the town. lhe bank river enters the Mwisriptri in •tosouth eaBu.n cor-r, wh ere tr,ere njrlernent=. 75.000 acre. I estimate the papulation at 70.000 1 .' .ut 350, ui 1867. about three-quarters of whom are Germans. Sl,400,C0o HOTELS, &C. is a good saw and grist mill. Watab river also firnishes a» excellent water power TfaU was well improved, a «aw mill having been in operation at its mouth 1857-58, bat tbe aam beio^ carried away it lias not since been re paired. Thefirstschool was taught in 1859, at Sauk river. There are now four schools in the town. Corn yields from 20 to45 bushels per acre wheat 15 to 30, 4v have been raised from oue acre oats yields 40 to 50 bushels per 9A1ST AU0U8TA. This town was settled in 1355. Mr. Join L. Wilson. Landrew, and others settled near'the mouth of a large creek, where Mr. Wilson built a saw mill in 1858-59, and l^d out a town, naming it St. Augusta. The land is hardly oi" average quality near the Mississippi, being of a sandy loam, with scattered scrubs ?nd burroaki,, but the middle and western portion is a rich black loam, and excellent crops of all the usual grains and vegetables are raised. There are only a few small prairies in the town, most of the land being open timber, with brush and meadow land.' Estimated population in 1867, 650, nearly all Germans, an industrious and thrifty class of farmers. SAINE PRAIHIB. Previous to I855 Httic nothing was known about the land of this town, but in that year the prairie now known as .Maine Prairie was discovered, and in 1856 Dam, I A. French, M. Greeley, D..Spaulding and others opened tfte P^neand soon its exceed I 8 8 a attracted an in teliigent and substantial class of farm, ers who have made the place one of the very best neighborhoods in the County. The first public school was taught in 1859. A Baptist church was formed in 1858 Elder Innman pastor, with is members, the next year in creasing to Fcrty. The Methodists also established a church tbe same year, Elder Sterritt preaching in 1859-60. There is a lyceum, and public library of about 400 volumes, and lecturers are frequently employed as a means of in struction and amusement. Estimated population in 1856, 750, exclusively Americans, principally from New Eng land. There are in the town several beautiful lakes where large and excel lent fih are caught and the forest abounds in deer, hundreds of which are killed every fall. The game laws are strictly enforced. FAIR HAVEN. This town wa«firstsettled by Rev. T. C. Partria^e, in 1856. is mostly timb3r, with a part of Maine Prairie extending into the western por- «'!. a «fa.-«6 £|Z,i,S^n?f rtft.^c£ wnter river, eleven miles from tho Mississippi, and eighteen from St. as pr are in operati«»n. The forests surround 7 plums grapes, strawberries, famish lar^e quantities of «nod blackberries, raspberries and blueberries hard wocd for manufacturing parrSses. are- brought to market in great quanti- The estimated population of town is ties. A lew of the farmers have coin- foar hundred, nearly or Quite all Amer menced cultivating garden fruits, and water »ower, which Unproved, a grist and saw mill ns. Lots sell for from ten to fifty twunt3--ave dollars per acre. Building materials are cheap and plenty. There a Baptirt (Free wili) Disciples and a a ii-i chickens, patndges (ruffled grous«) conntv, is a fine large body of water, quails, geese, ducks, mpe, fish, Ac fir6 miles long by about two wid*. are plenty in their season. surrounded by heavy timber, consisting BRIDGES. of oak, maple, elm ash Ac and abound" St. Cloud has now completed or in iug in fLh easily caught, coure of coestruction two bridge1, both of which will be an ornament to the town and lasting monuments to the energy and public spiritedness of the citizens. The bridge over the Missis sippi it is intended shall compare favoiably with the best bridges in tho United States, an-1 is one ot the largest structures of the kind in the Western country. The total length from bank to bank is 660 feet, in two spans, of the Hcwe truss principle, ^supported by three first-class masonry piers of stone, and will cost about 840,000. This oridge is built by a company, most of the stockholders bsing citizens ot St Cloud. The other is a free bridge, buit by the town ov Saak river, about three miles from the Mississippi, on the main traveled thotoughfare from St. Cloud to Fort Wadsworth, Fort Aber crombie and the North-western route to Puget Sound. This bridge will also be on tho Howe truss plan, of two spans ot 130 feet contract price 86.000. LYNDES. This is the extreme south-eastern town in the county, tbe souhern and eastprn boundaries being the Clear water and Mississippi rivers. The western boundary is range line between ranges 27 and 28. There is little or no prairie in the town, but good timber and meadow. The Clearwater river forms an excellent water power, which is improved to a considerable extent at Clearwater village, that part of tho village north of the river being in Stearns county. There are two sash, door and planing mills, two flouring mills, one saw mill, and one stave mill, all run by water. There is also oce steam saw mill, a short distance above the mouth of Clearwater river. There is manufactured here a good quality of stone lime, and two or three miles above the town there is a deposit of marl, which has also been to some extent used Estimated population in 1867, four hundred, about one-third of for eign birth. BOCKTILXK. This town was settled in 1857 by Germans. The town is principally timbered, a part scattered brash. but there is a fine prairie near the Sauk river, at the mouth of Rock creek, where the first settlers opened farms. There is a saw and grist mill on Rock creek, doing a good business. Timber of good quality is plenty, and building stone is readily quarried from the gran ite hills. The land in places is hilly and rooky the soil is good. Grand i^ake, in this town, is a nearly circular body of water, about one mile in diam* eter, much resorted to by pleasure par ties for fishing and hunting. It is about twelve miles from St. Cloud. Estimated population in 1867,350 about three fourths Germans, with few Irish and Americans. 9AIST JOSEPH. Among the earliest settlers in this town were H. Linneman, Casper Capser and otbeis. The town has a large quantity of good timber and meadow. St. village, eight miles be credited to St. Cloud, and this fron, St. Cloud, is on aTprairie eontain amount cannot be considered an a\er- 0 0 age of what will be done in a more pro- rounded by a large heavy growth of perious season. One of the routes sur veyed tor the Northern Pacific Railroad from Lake Superior to Puget Souud passes through St. ('loud, and the en gineer in charge says the route is one of the most feasible yet examined.— This line has already a land grant, and efforts are now being made to obtain for it the same subsidy given the Union routo. thousand acres, sw oak, maple, ash and elm timber, from which St. Clond is principally supplied with fuel. The village contains four or five stores, a Catholic church, a g.wd school-house, several blacksmith and wagon makers, a steam grist mill, and on the Watab river, a short distance north ot the village, saw mill. Pop ulation in 1867 about one thousand one hundred and fifty, nearly or quite all Germans, a few Irish and Americans. BSOCSWAT. This is the largest town in the conn y, contains quite 139 square miles, bv a which are in the city. There are alsoH ..cft|cd ,j ^nim of whichT.as as yet .been a tria principally near the Mississippi river. Among tbe earliest W re J. JJ. Hayward a tral House in St. C:oud) Capt. Asa Liby, Reuben Gray, M. Cetehell, John ComelwUd Vswtfc P»ft,