The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-10-18
SAINT PAUL. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 1s 1861

command in Kentucky, is actively engaged
in preparing an army to drive the rebels
from the State. His headquarters are at
the Louisville Hotel, at the room lately
occupied by Gen. Anderson. The following
general order was issued on the 9th:
1. The chiefs of the different departments of
the staff of this military department are
directed to estimate at ence for funds adequate
to the supplying of IN army of (60 000) sixty
Thousand men.
II. A Quartermaster and Commissary of Sub
sistence will be detailed by their respective
chiefs for each of the armies now in p9rt of
Louisville and Lexington. They will beiaiber-
ally supplied with funds to be disbursed for
transportation and supplies.
Ill. The Chief Quartermaster and Ordnance
officer will see that Col. Buckner Boards regi-
ment of cavalry is supplied with horses and
armed and equipped as cavalry at the earliest
possible moment.
Nv. Commanders of armies in the field and
commanders of separate detachments, will use
all possible efforts to protect the property of
the inhabitants of the country. When forage
is taken it must be paid for, and when articles
of subsistence are taken, a certified account
thereof must be forwarded to the Chief of Com.
missary at Louisville to be paid and charged to
Other damages must be certified to and held
over, till the restoration of peace, to be .ad-
justed. 81
By command of BRIG. GEN. SHERMAN.
OLIVER D. GREENE, Asst ADJ. General.
RosEcRANs MORE THAN THEIR MATCH.
A man named Michael Price, one of the
first advocates of secession in Virginia,
and recently in the army, opposed to our
forces under Gen. Rosecrans, has become
disgusted with the cause, and returned to his
home near Harper's Ferry. He controlled
and exercised great influence in getting the
State out of the Union; but has become
convinced that the Confederacy can't stand.
He now wishes his Union friends to inter.
cede for his return to loyalty. On Thurs.
day he dined at the house of an old friend,
and remarked that the rebels might as we'll
fight against the devil or North Star as
Rosecrans. "For," he said, "just as We
thought we had got him, be was all arognd
us. At other times, when we thought we
were safely encamped for the night, he
thought he would attack US, and did, too. I"
He says, also, that Rosecrans IS more than
a match for all the rebel forces west of the
mountains"
AFFAIRS AT RICHMOND.
The Washington Sunday Morning
Chronicle publishes an account of an inter-
view with Mr.. Eyster, who has just return
ed from Richmond, where be was sent as
prisoner July 23rd, the day after the bat
tie of Manassas. Mr.. Eyster says that he
was surprised on gaining his liberty to find
the universal despotsm which the rebel
government exerted over all classes. The
people looked abject and subdued, and every
man seemed to suspect his neighbor. The
conclusion he formed was that the people
were dissatisfied with their government,
and always afraid lest they should betray
their loss of hope in the men they had plac-
ed over them. Very little business Of any
kind seemed to be doing, and be did not
merchants to part with their goods
and receive in return worthless cOnfed-
crate notes, which to keep in circulation
it requires the penalty of death againt any
one who refuses to receive them. lie re.
r,ained short time in Norfolk, waiting for
flag Of truce to go to Fortress Monroe,
and took lodgings at boarding shouse in
order to avoid, as much as possible, public
observation. But he failed to escape in
suit, for even the women would point to
him while sitting at table, and try to hurt
his feelings by their intemperate remarks
against the North. Norfolk is well forti,
fed, and is occupied by $4,000 men,
while 25,0OO men were represented to be
encamped at Yorktown. Whisky was
cheaper in Norfolk than ice>water the
former selling for ten cents glass, the lat
ter at shilling q glass. ,s
TOTAL DEPRAvITY ABOUT REACHED.
We all know what sort of beings the
spirit of secession makes of most of the men
and boys upon whom it fasteus itself. The
following from the Frankfort Commonwealth
shows what it has made OF late preten-
tious citizen of Louisville. The stealing OF
the State arms at Elizabethtown was not,
it seems, the first act in Blanton Duncan's
career of theft:
When this individual Colonel Duncan) left
Kentucky the only charge that existed a against
him consisted in treason against his Govern.
ment. and in inducing hundreds Of young men
to follow him into his reasonable purposes, al
to curry favor with the people of the South. to
save from coniscation his land and negroes.
This was. bad enough in ell conscience to damn
any man of sound sense, much more man as