The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-04-26
Military Matters.

The seventh New York regiment,
which left the metropolis on Friday last,
for Washington, is 1000 strong. 1t is the
best drilled, armed and equipped corps in
the United States. Hard gymnastic exer-
else constitutes part of their military dis
cipline. Probably no regiment that will be
mustered into tie service of the government
will endure more fatigue, or give better
account of itself on the field of battle.
There belong to the regiment squadron of
dragons, battery of flying artillery, and
corps Of sappers and miners. The eight
infantry companies are armed with best
Minnie rifles. The Seventh is complete
army in itself. The most perfect discipline
and order prevail.
The New York Herald says that the
President has received official information,
from which it appears that New York will
have fifty thousand men in arms by the first
of June, Pennsylvania forty thousand, Ohio
thirty-6ve thousand, and Indiana, Illinois
and Massachusetts, each about twenty-five
thousand, and the other States in proportion.
The employment of this immense force
will depend mainly upon the course the
border slave States will pursue in reference
to the secession issue. The Herald says as
matters are situated now, it is the intention
of the government to use the seventy.five
thousand men called into service, together
with the regular army, forming an aggre-
gate of about one hundred thousand men,
as follows:
First-A corps d'arnaee of thirty-fve thou
sand men will be collected in and about this
point for the purpose of defending the seat of
government, protecting the military. posts,
and keeping open the communication between
the North and the Capital. Washington will
serve for it's point d'dppui, while its line of OPP
erations will extend all along the left bank of
the right shore of the bay.
Second-A second corps, twenty five thou
sand strong, will be formed in and about ST.
Lonis. A portion of it will be employed in
protecting the Union men and federal proper
ty in that State from the violence of secession
sympathisers, and the rest in holding Cairo, at
the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi, the
most important strategetical point in the
Ihird-Of the remaining forty thousand, five
thousand are expected to be thrown into
Western Texas, to form a nucleus around
which the UniOnists of that State will gather
F0n h-Twenty five thousand will be en-
ployed in a demonstration for the relief of
Fort Pckens and the recapture of the other
tortfic atoms about Pensacola bay.
FUh-Ten thousand men will be kept how
ering in steam transports between Charleston
and Savannah, to worry the rebels by necessi
tating the presence of large defensive force
in both places, and effect landing whenever
opportunity shall offer.
The army operations will be seconded by a
strict blockade of the mouths of the MISSISSIPPI
pi and all the Southern forts. Orders for a
general blockade have not, as reported alrea-
dy, been issued, but will doubtlessly be given
as soon as the steam frigates now fitting out
will be ready for sea-
This programme reflects exactly what the
government has decided to do, but will, of
course, be materially changed in case Virginia
and the other border slaves should secede.
Washington, however, will be defended. and
Fort Pickens relieved at any cost of blood and
treasure.
- The entire enrolled militia OF the
States and Territories amounts to about
three and half millions of men. Accord
ing to fastest returns. the Army Register
for 1861 makes an abstract of the militia
force OF the country, which we have subdi-
vided into different sections, in order to
show how this force is distributed between
the n forth and South and the Border States: