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The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-05-24
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We have before us the Mobile Weekly
Register of the 1lth instant. 1t is edited
by the Hon. JOHN FORSYTH, one of the later
adherents OF secession, and gentleman who
has enjoyed high reputation for candor
and ability. We are amazed, in spite of
this, or, rather, the more on account of it,
at the marks of recklessness or ignorance
which the columns of his paper display. A
fair specimen of the talk which even the
ablest of the Southern leaders utter to their
people, is found in an article devoted to the
demonstration that Washington is not
worth the capturing by the Confederate
troops. After showing, conclusively
enough, that the federal capital would be of
no material consequence to the Southern
Confederacy, the Register devotes it to
destruction in the following terms:
Nor is it of any value to our enemies except
as temporary convenience in the use of the
public buildings, until they shall establish their
government in some other place. They will
choose as their capital some city nearer the
centre of the Northern States, and more free
from danger of insult or capture. In few
months Washington will be abandoned and fall
into our hands, without blow being struck
prize without value. 1t will be plundered
and abandoned, and will be deserted city
like Balbec and Palmyra-by its magnificent
columns, attracting the curiosity and calling
forth the admiration of the traveller. And it
will be an enduring monument of the faulty of
that generation of Northern men who, by assail.
ing the equal rights of their Southern fellow
citizens, have demolished this once glorious
fabric of Union.
This is the kind of food on which the
Southern mind is fed, and by which the
Southern masses are nerved up to face their
own destruction.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-05-24
CENsUs OF 1860. n CENSUS OF 1850.
What they Expect will be the Result
In England.

In kLnSl0nOs
The London Morning Herald, the organ
of the Lord Derby (Tory) party in Eng
land, is very anxious that Mr.. Lincoln
should assume dictatorial powers. 1t says:
Fort Sumter taken, he will now proceed to
call an extra session of Congress, and demand
from the representatives of the people such an
increase of his powers as will place him, for
the time being, above the law. and enable him
to use the fleets and armies of the Republic as
he sees fit. Without the authority of dictator,
he is utterly and completely incapactated for
action, and we have reason to believe it was
specially in reference to this dictatorship that
his claims outweighed those of his rival in the
Chicago Convention.
I'VE shall not be surprised if Abraham Lin.
coin, the Dictator, should prove far different
man from Abraham Lincoln, the simple Presi-
dent"
Some of our English friends would doubt
less be glad to see q Dictator destroy our
Republican institutions, but we can assure
them that the American people have no
idea of losing either the Union or their lib
critics, which it preserves. Their motto is
"Liberty and Union, now and forever, one
and inseparable."
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-05-24
Flight of Fugitive Slaves.

The number of fugitive slaves for the
year ending June, 1850, according to the
census of that year, was 1,O11. According
to the census of 1860, the number was 8O3,
showing that the number of fugitives had
fallen two hundred and eight below the
number reported by the census of 1850.
" Northern emissaries" have not been so
busy, after all. The official figures, derived
from the census returns, areas follows:
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-05-24
No More Regiments from Minnesota |
-.Let our Patriotism Expend Itself |
upon our Soil. /

:.
However gratifying it might be to our
feelings of State pride that Minnesota
should bear prominent part on the battle
fields which are to add new lustre to North
ern valor, and give new strength to con.
stitutonal government, we are not sorry
that second regiment is not to be taken
from the rural population of our State. A
regiment, or part of one, might be had from
the numbering districts, without disadvan-
tage to agriculture; but we have no more
men to spare from our farms. 1t may sound
like cheap valor, but it is true, that, in the
wheat and corn districts, a man NAV ex-
hibit his patriotism just as bravely, and
with quite as much good to his country
and its cause, on his farm as in the camp.
We cannot all be soldiers. Productions of
the soil and of the shop are needed in times
OF war in even greater amounts than in times
OF peace. And whoever aids by his labor
10 furnishing the products to feed and clothe
the armies of his government, is engaged in
a work just as patriotic, because just as
necessary, as be who enrols himself among
the brave defenders of his country's flag,
and so goes forth to fight his country's bat
ties.
We know that when the country is as
sailed as ours now is, by treason, the first
thought of the chivalric mind is, with the
noble CLAUDE, that the State needs soldiers /;
and the first impulse is, like his, to take up
arms and fly to its defence. But, if the
State needs soldiers in the field, it also needs
aborers en- the farm. The armies of the
government can be filled twice over from
communities whose pursuits are destroyed
by the existence OF war, and whose citizens
can therefore enter service without damage
to the general prosperity. Let such do the
fighting; but let our farmers content them
selves to serve their country as they can
best do now, by raising the largest possible
crops, and by selling them to the govern
ment at the lowest possible prices. Let no
man who has a piece of ground TO work.
grumble because heis deprived of the chance
to enter the ranks, and thus signalize his
patriotism by the tender of his life for if
he cannot fight with his musket, he can
work with his hoe, and make the saying
hold true in war as well as in peace, that
" the post of honor is the private station"
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-05-24
Fort PIckens.

The design of the enemy at Pensacola
evidently is to make no attack on Pickens.
They have now seven or eight thousand men
in camp, and are giving them thorough
military training. Indeed, Pensacola is be-
ing made military school, where troops are
thoroughly drilled, prepared for service and
sent off to do active duty elsewhere. The
Federal Government should take early mea-
sures to break up the Confederate camp at
that place. 1t has quite navy there, and
Fort Pickens Is in admirable order for
work. The hot season is approaching,
which will bring with it diseases that will
decimate the unacclimated troops crowded
in the fort, and will bring upon the Gulf the
severe storms known to prevail there in July
and August, and which will compel our
vessels to leave or be driven ashore. But
if our Government means to be aggressive
at all, it should have, it so seems to US, used
its navy at Pensacola and the guns at
Pickens to break up BRAGGs camp at Pen
sacola. We have no doubt it could be
done now. But every day makes Braces
position stronger and stronger and more
difficult to be taken, and creates the means
by which Pickens can be the more easily
reduced. A vigorous blow struck at Pen
sacola and its capture would open up the
rear of JEFF. DAVIS army to assaults from
the Gull, which could not but be disastrous.
- Vanderbilt has rendered his three
steamers at prices to be fixed by the gov
eminent agent. If that is declined he will
give the government the Vanderbilt.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-05-24
Modern Weapons of War.

The invention of the MIME rifle and
similar long range guns during the last ten
years, has completely revolutionized the
systems and plans of war. Before that, as
in our Mexican war, for instance, field bat
teries and cavalry were terrible and de-
structive arms of offensive warfare. But
the Crimean and Italian.Austrian wars
have demonstrated the fact that the old
style of warfare must give way to new
order of things. The terrible MIME mus
ket, that carries heavy ball full mile,
has almost rendered the use of flying artil-
lery and cavalry obsolete, or greatly de-
stroyed the efficiency of these hitherto i'm
portant parts of an army. The old smooth
bore musket, dangerous only at hundred
yards distance, and very inaccurate, has
been entirely discarded, and "sharp shoot
ing" is the order of the day in the splendid
armies of the European governments.
Col. CHEsNEY, military writer, says:
Besides more distant execution, and other
| advantages claimed for the new fire-arm, espe.
cially for the Prussian pattern. its advocates
do not hesitate to affirm that its fire will be
more formidable than that of grapeshot; that
| the gunners would be picked off at such a dis
lance as to make it impossible for them to
serve the guns in face of light infantry, and
that it will, in consequence, supersede the use
of light artillery. 1t is also alleged that per-
| sonal conflicts, such as line against line,
will cease altogether, and future battles be de-
cded by the effects of rapid and destructive
fire, in the prec ision of which, rather than on
personal contact and extensive combinations,
the result will depend.
Future battles will be decided by ri6ed
cannon, and by sharp-shooters with the i'm
proved firearms. Some have gone so far
as to doubt if columns of infantry
can, in the future, be approached sufficient
ly near to each other to cross bayonets.
Under these circumstances, the proficiency
of our men in the use of the improved fire.
arms, becomes of the highest Importance.
1t has been stated that in India an entire
corps of advancing Sepoys was destroyed
by MIME rifles. With the old style of
musket it has been found that, in many
battles, as many as eight hundred bullets haze
been. shot to each man killed. This is, of
course, all done away with, and the army
of best marksmen will be the one that will
be successful in the coming conflict, other
things being equal.
Thorough craftsmanship, therefore. is
what our troops should learn, as of more
Importance than elegant battalion field
movements. 1t is a science not acquired in
day by the inexpert, and they should soon
be drilled in the use of the MIME musket.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-05-24

One of the soldier boys in Washington
wrote home to his mother that he was hav-
ing frst-rate time, but that Washington
was the scorst federal capital he ever saw.
That boy ought to come home and engage
on VanitV Fair.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-05-24

.
Aggregate. free and slave states and terri
tories, 5, 4S4,000.
There are several interesting deductions
to be drawn from these tables.
In the first place, the actual white popu-
lation of the fifteen slave States, between
the ages of eighteen and forty .fve years, is
shown to be only trife over million and
half of souls p,655OOO); while the free
States (nineteen in number) show an aggre-
gate of very nearly four millions (3,77S,OOO)
The States of New York, Pennsylvania
and Ohio Showing respectively white
male population of $4,000, 5S1 900, and
468,OOO exceed the entire wh,te male popu-
lation of all the slave States. Three States
against fifteen is pretty fair exhibit, sug-
costing the question: Where will the slave
States find sufficient force of volunteers to
prosecute this war against the Union?
Again, admitting that one-half the white
males in the free States returned as between
the ages of eighteen and forty-fve lin other
words, liable to military duty are incom-
petent for active service by reason of sick.
ness or chronic disease, or physical disability
of any kind, there is still left in the free
States an available military force of one
million eight hundred and eighty-nine thou
sand men, able to take the field, if need be-,
against the force of the slave States.
Making the same deduction, for the
reasons indicated, from tie total number of
white males in the slave States, we have an
aggregate, between the ages of eighteen and
forty five years, of 827,5OO.
The relative forces will therefore stand as
follows:
Free State Militia. ...... 1,8S9,OO
Slave State Militia. ........ $4,000.
In other words, the South is outnumbered
more than two to one, making very liberal
allowances.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-05-24
White Males In the United States
Between Eighteen and Forty.five
a Years Of Age..Number OF Fugitive

The Superintendent of the Census has
published some valuable statistics, derived
from the official records of the census of
1860, showing the number of white males
in the United States between the ages of
eighteen and forty five years.
For the purpose of more convenient ref.
erence we separate the free from the slave
States. ,..I ii ..
WHITE MALES BETWEEN THE AGES OF EIGHTEEN
AND FORTY.FIvE YEARS.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-05-24

TIE mail cars on the Southern railroads
are now letterd 20. s. MAIL" instead of
~. s. Mail" as heretofore.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-05-24

IL" III vi Coi ual y was tuC COlutSt Jay,
being 40 degrees below zero, and the 18th
December, which was 80 degrees below, was
the next coolest day of the winter January
was, on the whole, the coolest month, the
average being almost l degree below zero.
The foregoing will give good idea of
Red River winter. We only add that this
last winter has been more than an average
in length and in quantity of snow, but not
in severity.
The northward DETECTION of isothermals
as you pass west of the great lakes and to-
ward the west coast of the continent, is a
fact well known. Red River nobody sup.
poses to be as cold as Labrador. 1t finds
its parallel in the climates of the interior of
Northern Europe and Asia. The summer
temperature is high; the winter cold and
severe. There is plenty of rain in the
summer months, a general absence of late
spring and early autumn frosts. Professor
HIND found, in 1896, the summer of
Red River four degrees warmer than that
of Toronto, with 2l.74 inches of rain in
favor of Red River.
The NOr'- Wester condemns an act of the
Council which imposes IS. on every gallon
of liquor imported from the States, but
admits free all liquor from England. 1t
says I" it is an odious exhibition of selfish
ness and self-interest on the part of the
Hudsons Bay Company, and proof of
the subserviency of our Council to that
wealthy corporation"
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-05-24

News from the Red River Of the North.
We have received the numbers of the
Fort Garry Nor, Wester, of April lst and
18th, and make few extracts.
We find thermometrical summary for
the halfyear ending April LIST, 1861, which
shows that the degree of cold in that region
is not SO great as many suppose:
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1861-05-29
BLOOMSBURY. COUNTY. "A. WEDNESDAY 20 1861

musl and shall be sustained. Great ap-
plause.] And when the Government is
sustained, we will 90 as we have ever done
give every body i'll the Union their rights
under the Constitution, and every body out
of the Union the steel of the Union until
they come in under the Constitution. ['We
like that that's the talk and immense
cheering.] And now, my friends, allow me
to bid you good night. [Cries of GO on
Give them another right hand shot, Gensr-
all Three cheers for General Butler
Give them ten pound shot, Order &c.
1t is immpossible Tor me, my friends, TO
go on; this is no time for speech making.
II you will return 10 your homes, and the
Government will give me directions, will
go South and you shall follow ne. Nine
cheers for Butler
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1861-05-29
Artcmus Ward on Secession.

The great Snowman has come ont elo-
queutly Tor the Union. We quote the con-
clusiou OF his recent speech on the subject
OF secession
81 say TO the South, don't sesssh ! say
to the galyent people OF that sunny land,
les lock up few hundred OF them tearin'
and roariu' tellers ofyourn in some strong
boxes, and send 'em over 10 Mexico. And
we people up North here will consine a
ekal number OF our adde-brained rib snort
els TO the same lokaIi'y, and thar let 'em
fife Ii out among themselves. No conse-
kents, not the slightest which lickS Why
shouldn't the people who got up this fife
do the ftin Gil these ornery critters out
O. the way, and the sensible of the people
of the North and South can fix the matter
up very easy. And when Ills fixed let
both secshuns mind their own bizness.
"Feller silterzens-I am in the Sheer and
Yaler leef shall peg out one of these
dase But while do stop heer shall stay
in the Union. know not what the Super
vZers of Baidinsvill may konklude TO do,
but for one shall stand by the Stares and
Stripes. Under no circumstances what
sumever will sesesh, and let The Palmet-
ter flags aoie thicker nor shirts on Square
Bakers close line and still thar I'll s,and &
stick onto the good old flag of the STATS and
stripes. The countey may 60 TO the dev il,
but / won't And next Summer when
start out on my campane with my show,
wherever pitch my lille tent you shall Sc
a floating proudly from the center pole thar
the American flag with nary stare wiped
out, nary a stripe lesser, ba, the same old
flag that has alters fotid thar, and the price
OF admission will be the same it alters was
-15 cents, one-eyed men ard wimn.in and
children half price.
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1861-05-29
Army Clothing.

The com plants of the clothing furnished
the soldiers are general. correspondent
of the Lancaster Inquirer, writing from Camp
Scott, says =
The Fighting First, in the absence OF
anything better 10 do, has been giving The
devil TO the contractors who furnished US
with clothing. Such mean, fimsy rotten
stuff never saw equaled. The under
clothing is good enough; but the pants and
coats are the meanest specimens of needle
work that ever saw.
All the men have been supplied and yet
you can hardly find whole pair of breech-
es in the company. Buttons seem to have
been seized with the mania potu; they fly
off if you fonch them, while the stitches are
so far apart that you can see daylight thro'
In attempting 10 sit down with our unmen-
tionabIes on, we hear a prolonged and omi-
nous rip! ripw that warns US TO be care
fol- If we attempt TO button our coats, we
find the buttons in our hands, and our coat
tails beautifully floating in the brisk breeze
as signals of distress. All these mishaps
we must repair at our own expense. And
as 10 fits one of our Lancaster exquisites
would start aghast in holy horror. Men
whose girdles would not encircle small
beer keg are laying loose in pants that
would easily enclose a Fdlsiaff while
some fellow, whose underpinning is rather
extended, finds his feet reaching foot or
more through All these mishaps we can
l ,Lo al
only made strong. so as 10 wear any rea-
sona5le time. Onr overcoais are worse
than the pants; and for these miserable
things we are charged $40. 1t is burning
/ shame we shall be thus swindled and im-
/ po sed upon, without any means OF redress.
But guess we must grin ard bear it
The editor of the Philadelphia Evcaiig
| JounGi says
We were shown shoe to-day, one of a
! pair furnished 10 soldier, which lasted
just two days and half The inner sole
was wood. and 90 cnt across the grain thai
/ the party who showed il 10 US requested US
! TO handle it lightly so as not 10 break II. Oar
! friend promised TO show US a pair OF pania-
| looms which lasted a little longer than the
/ shoes.
We examined State Capital Guard whl
was up here on furough day or two ago
J His overcoat appeared 10 be comfortable
but his uniform coat looked if it wa;
made of flannel, and a good dIenchins
would wash il to pieces. The pantaIoon'
were lot bad but the cap was wilied int
the most fantastic shape by a single shower
and the shoes were-well, we won't under
take TO describe them.
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1861-05-29

tvERsE By OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
When our and is ilinmined with liberty's
smile,
II foe from within strike a blow at her
glory,
Down, down with the traitors that dares to
defle
The flag of her stars and the page of her
glory. So
BY the millions unclaimed who our birth
right have gained,
We will keep her bright blazon forever un-
stained
And the Star Spangled Banner in triumph
shall wave
While the land of the free is the home Of
the brave.
[vERsE BY MISE sTEBBIss, THE sCULPTREss
When treason's dark cloud hovers black DER
the land,
And traitors conspire to shlly her glory
When that banner is Torn 10y a fratricide
band,
Whose bright, starry folds shine illumin-
ed in story,
United we stand for the dear native land,
To the Union we pledge every heart, ev-
cry hand
And the Star Spargled Banner in triumph
shall wave
o er the land of the free and the home oil
the brave
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1861-05-29

A PRoTENTIoUs QUEsTioN.-"A large pond
OF ice was near school house where one
Miss C ''iaught the young ides." To
warn The boys against the danger of amus-
ing themselves npon the ''frozen element"
one day she related the following story:
Two young men who were very fond
of skating, out on the river one moonlight
night. Que of them placed sticks where be
thought there were air holes but the other,
in skating backward, passed the boundry,
the ice broke and he went under. His
body was found longtime aiterward by
some boys who were playing on the river
bank
"'Here the excitement in the school
room became intense, and one boy, about
eight years of aye, who, with mouth wide
open, hair on end, and eyes dilaied TO their
utmost extent, had been literally swallow :
ing' the narrative, started up, and anxiously
inquired, "Who got his skates p'
The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1861-05-29

HA Novel Adverisment.-A pew in
the meeting house is thus advertised foE
sale in the Amherst Express: "a pew IL
The first parish in Amherst. The man thai
owns the pew owns the right of a space
just as long as the psw is. from the bottom
of The meeting house TO the top of roof, AM
can go as much higher as ne can get II q
man will buy my pew aad sill in il on Sun
days, and repent and be good man. hs
viii go 10 Heaven if God lets him 90. Lss
a man start from the place, lei him go righi.
and be will go to Heaven at last, and my
pew Is as good place to start from as any
pew in the meeIing.hohss.