The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-08-30
After speaking ofprivate affairs the writer

are quiet. We have gained q great victory
over the Yankee Army in Virginia. The move.
ments Of our army are secret; but we will
probably have startling news soon.
am sure that the intelligent people of Eu-
rope must long ere this have seen the vast su.
periority Of Southern men and principles.
hope that you have read the message of the
Northern President, Nincoln) and then shat of
onr Southern President, Jefferson Davis)
What contrast. We have well organized
northern government is a total wreck-infatu-
ated. lawless, barbarous. Our harbor is still
blockaded, and of course we have scarcity of
such articles as hay, butter, coffee, tea, &C.,
but notwithstanding we have plenty of the
staff OF life.
The crops of cotton, rice and corn are most
abundant, for in country where slave labor
is employed the cultivation of the land goes on
uninterruptedly during war. 1t is not so in the
Northern States. They are in desperately
bad condition. They have no market for their
prOduce-their manufactures are all stopped
they have no cotton to work upon and if they
had, the only market for their fabrics is the
South, who by high tariff, were obliged to
take their goods at their OWE price. In fact,
their business is completely paralyzed, and
fully expect to see revolution there very
soon. Their government must have drawn
upon it the contempt and disgust of all the en-
lightened powers of Europe. wish / could
scuu you now anu tHeu SOule vi Our papers. DuL
there is no present chance of doing so.
Your affectiOnate brother,
(Signed) ALEXANDER GORDON.
THE TERRIBLE BATTLE NEAR sPRrNGFIELD.
All accounts from both sides of the bat
tie fought on Wilson's Creek, near Spring
field, on the 10th, prove that it was far the
most destructive engagement, in proportion
TO the forces, involved of the war. The
lists of the killed and wounded on both sides
are frightful. An account of the action
written by Col. ). Z. Hughes, OF the Con
federates, appears in an extra of the Weston
(Mo.) Argus. Colonel Hughes says Of the
death struggle, which took place at nine
O'Clock, three hours after the fighting COM
menced
On both sides the men were moved down
like the ripe harvest before the sickle. My own
regiment was then decimated, and Churchills
and Mclntosh's arkansas regiments suffered
most severely l Here 7 Gen; Lyon was killed
The whole field for miles is literally covered
with the dead. | have lost l42 in killed and
wounded and missing, from my command of
$50 mel.
P.S-We have lost great number of our
officers. will name some of them:
General Slack, severely wounded General
Weightman killed; Lieutenant Colonel Austin,
killed; Colonel B. s. Brown, of Ray, killed;
Captain Blackwood, of Carroll. killed; Captain
Edyard. of Rives' regiment, killed; Lieuten-
ant S. 5. Hughes, my own brother, killed;
Captain cambridge, of Clinton, severely wound
ed Captain Thomas McCarty, of Clay, severe
wounded a.
About forty Others of my regiment, including
the Clay county battalion, have been buried
on the battle field. Amos Stout, of Clay, and
r. D. Kelly and John Brooking, of Clinton,
killed; and James Porter and Samuel Brooking
wounded, and great many more whom can.
not now mention.
have never before witnessed such
a heart-rending scene-State, Federal, and
Confederate troops IN one red ruin, blent on
the field.
HOW NEARLY THE REBELS WERE WHIPPED
AT MANASSAS.
The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle and Senti-
mel of the 18th of August, has leader on
McDowells report, from which we quotes
Mcdowell makes no display in his report,
but it is plain detail OF his movements, and
it shows that he arranged and fought the battle
as well as any of LncOln's Generals, with
their troops, could have done, not excepting
Gen Scott. He managed it admirably in eve
ry respect and was very nearly successful.
The columns of Hunter and Heintzelman pass
ed up the Run, crossed Sudey's Ford and at
tempted to turn our left, which was the great
feature of the plan. Hunter did cross, did at.
tack as ordered and did force our men down
the Run, where they had to receive the cross
fire of Tyler's column; and nothing but the
protection of Heaven, the genius of Beaure.
gard (whO detected the unequaed heroic
courage and great endurance OF our men, pre-.
vented our left being turned, and perhaps the
seizure by Hunter ofthe Manassas railroad at
Gainesville.
WHAT PAKsON BROwNLOw SAYS.
The Washington Republican of Thursday
publishes private letter from Parson
Brownow, editor of the Knoxville, Tennes
see, Wing, in which this passage occurs:
An order has been made at Richmond to sup
press the publication of the Knoxville Wing,
but the notice has not been served on me yet.
Ihaye given them the devil in this days num-
ber and shall continue to say just what
please, until my Office is closed or destroyed
by brute force. They have about run me ashore
in pecuniary sense-~brOke up my business
withheld all letters containing subscriptions;
and thus am. driven TO the wall Win more
subscribers on my list than the eight secession
papers OF East Tennessee all put together. But
will starve, or beg my bread of UIion men,
before will surrender to this vile heresy OF
secession. With my best wishes, am, &c,
w. 6. BROWNLOW.
CAMPS IN AND ABOUT ST. LOUIS.
Lafayette Park will hereafter be known
as Camp JESSIE, named after the wife of
the Commander in the West. At the va
rious camps within one hours ride of the
Court House, are thirty thousand well
armed men. Of the five thousand at Camp
JESSIE, the Republican says:
He will find body of men, possessing such
physical qualities as would fit them for admis.
sion to the % tenth legion" of the Roman army:
A little intercourse with the rank and file will
prove to you that their intellectual and moral
is not below their physical status, These men
are not loafers and loungers that have been
playing at sundial on the street corners OF
towns AMI cities. They are not the roughs and
rowdies, drunkards and gamblers fished up
from the dregs Of an Overcl DIVIDED population.
They are the sober. honest hardwOrking yeo'
marry, forming the only sure and safe substra'
tum in a free government. These are not the
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