The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-12-27

0CrOy the HARMONIOUS union uOW oAiSuA6 W.
tween the civil government and the strong
right arm. sf
Among the proposed annoyances Of those
who fear that they cannot make the army sub.
missive to their schemes, is plan for CONSOLE
dating the regulars and volunteers. veteran
captains, who were educated at West Point,
and served in the Mexican and Indian wars,
will thus find themselves subordinate to the
orders of beardess field.0ticers, Ignorant OF
the art of war, and owing their commissions
to political favoritism, The plan, if carried in.
to effect, would entirely destroy the esprit'du'
corps of our gallant regulars, who serve as an
example to the volunteers. A generous rival
ry would be beneficial amalgamation would
destroy both regulars and volunteers.
Consul General Thayer writes from
Egypt, under date of November 18th, as
follows:
The Vicer0y of Egypt has again shown his
good will TO the United States, by directing
the captains of the port of Alexandria to eX-
clude all persons bearing an unrecognized flag
from the harbors of Egypt.
At an interview which had with him on the
Sd instant, at Cairo, his Highness assured me
that no privateers in the service of the domes-
tic enemies of the United States, will be allow
ed to be fitted out or to bring the prizes in any
port of his d0minions.
Air. Thayer also states that the Viceroy
has assured him that Americans shall have
the same facilities for cotton supply in
Egypt that are awarded to any other ma
ton.
The following magniloquent passages
form the conclusion of the inaugural adj
dress of Governor Brown of Georgia:
Were We disposed to yield, it is now too
late to calculate the cost OF submission. He
would but feebly enumerate the results OF our
subiugatiOn and would remind you that it
would fasten upon us the entire expense of the
war--load our industry and that OF our poster.
ity for generations to come with burdens and
taxation too grievous to be borne--subject us
to military despotism, and compel US to main.
tain standing armies quartered among us, to
insult US with their insolence, while they rivet-
ed more securely the chains OF our bondage
deprive US of our self-respect. and break our
spirits with the crushing weight OF our degra-
dalton.
Sooner than submit to t his, let the last man
in the Confederacy die nObly at the point OF
the bayOnet, and let our wives and our chill
dren, and all the property we possess, perish
together on one common funeral pile and let
the winds that pass over our graves, and
chaunt our funeral dirge. tell to other genera
tons in other chimes, that we lived freemen
and we died freemen,
The preparations for General Burn
sides expedition, soon to sail from Anapos
lis are on grand scale, AID only second to
the one so successful at Port Royal. There
are low forty-fve vessels attached to the
Expedition, which are being rapidly loaded.
They consist of steamers, sailing vessels
and river boats, thoroughly altered and re-
fLted for ocean service, and twenty prope'-
icrs Of large tonnage, together with large
number OF floating batteries, surt-boata,
&c. AL descriptions of camp furniture,
cooking utensils, and medicine chests, al
most exclusively suited to tropical climate
have been purchased; and the ordnance
stores, Including an immense number Of
cannon, ridad aud OF long range, With shot,
she'll, ana deadly prQjectiles are of the i'm
proved description. No possible want of
tie expedition seems, so far, to have been
overlooked, aud the careful supervision Of
the vast labors to complete it must insure
it success.
-~RUssELL of tie London I,aeS, having
no important events to describe, in his last
letters falls into a philosophical disserta-
ton to prove that the United States never
can have an army:
The impression s forcing itself into con-
yction that neither General Mcclellan nor any
other General will convert the mass of men
under arms about here into Well-pisciplined
army according to the European standard or
the notions OF the most easily satisfied military
critics. There is something radically deficient
"a sentiment wanting, without which respect
for the officers and obedience on the part OF the
man cannot be developed into a system Of uni
form action in all times and under all circum-
stances. 1t would take years TO intuse a sub
sttute for the feeling which produces such re-
suits in the European mind and facilitates the
change from the man TO the soldier so readily,
There is change and it effects the mans
intellect as well as his body, and you can
recognize it in the precision and vigorous ma
teralsm Of the one as much as in the upright
carriage, regulated pace, and even the eX-
preston OF the eye in the other. The recruit
there begins his career by respecting his OFF,
Ger here the lesson is scarcely ever taught
Or learnt.
One newly enlisted citizen talks to his SUI
perior in an easy ofhand way, and it is some
time before the poor fellow is cured of his
little cvlities in regard to his captains health
in the morning, or can be induced to refrain
when he meets his Colonel from making kind
enquiries after his general welfare.