The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-09-20
Notes of the Rebellion,
VIGOROUS POLICY OF THE GOVERNMENT.

vigorous policy with some Of the rebel SYM
pathizers at Baltimore. Twenty of them
were arrested few miles from the city on
Saturday night, while on their way to Virs
ginia. They had in their possession wagons,
horses, military uniforms, flannel, medicines,
rebel flag and number of letters, all of
which were taken possession of by the gov
eminent. A wagon maker was also arrested
10 Baltimore for making wagon with false
floors, &C., beneath which were discovered
number of contraband articles and letters
from important Baltimore citizens to promi.
nent rebels in Virginia. The documents and
other articles were sent to General Dix.
An order has been issued by the General
commanding prohibiting all communication
with the State prisoners in Fort McHenry,
to which place some of those thus recently
arrested have been sent. IN, tr..9
PEACE PROPosITIoNs.s
The following letter from the Hon. LES
LIE COMBS, of Kentucky, was read at the
recent Peoples Union Convention, held at
Syracuse, New York:
FRANKFORT, Sept.2.
DEAR SIR-Yours of the 3Oth inst. and in
closure were received. These peace prOfes.
sions are mere soft words for treason, and we
shall so treat them. am gratfied to find that
you are still at your post, and have not caught
the Bull Run panic, which has done US some
mischief in Kentucky. am on my guard all
the time. Ii the rebels dare make war on us,
we shall sweep them clean and rapidly.
80 Yours truly, LESLIE COMBS.
LOUISVILLE FORMAL ON GRANTS INVASION.
The Louisville Journal of the 9th, thus
comments on Grants taking Paducah:
The movement of Gen. Grant on Paducah
was right. 1t was necessary. 1t was not
made an hour too soon. If it had been delayed
little longer the town would have been
in the hands of the Confederate troops. as
Hickman and Chalk Bluffs already were.
Gen. Grants proclamation, which our readers
have seen, Was exactly what the occasion de.
manded. And now the conflict upon Ken.
lucky soil, so long and so earnestly deprecat-
ed by US and all other good citizens, is at hand.
The legislature must act with a
promptitude and an energy suited to the ext.
gency. And the people. aye. the people. must
act with corresponding prOmptitude and en-.
ergy. Whatever there is of state pride. what
ever there is of chivalry, whatever there is of
patriotism in the hearts of kentuckians must
be aroused to action, to instant and resolute
and resistless action, by the knowledge of the
startling fact that Kentucky is invaded, that
her soil is trodden by the armed enemies of her
country.
We can tell the secessionists that if they
think there is no preparation to repel agrees
sion of the confederate states upon KeDtuky,
hon N hot t<o H.
taken. What has now happened was not un.
anticipated, and it is not wholly unprepaled
for. The invaders must retire, or there will
soon be such swarming of loyal hosts as will
appal the enemies of the country.
LET THE WAR 60 SOUTH.
The st. Louis Republican, in the follow
ing we'll considered article, but expresses
the wish and judgment of the people, that
the war should go down the Mississippi.
Itsays:
The temporary occupation of Paducah by
portion OF General Grants command seems to
have aroused wholesome fear in Tennessee,
where the movement is regarded as step to-
wards the "invasiOn" of that State Thus it
is doubly beneficial; for while it keeps the dis.
union troops from attaining coveted position
threatening Cairo, it looks to this as premin.
airy to an advance, and puts them on the defen.
sive. The fact of the federal officers being
prepared to spare two or three thousand men
| from Camp Defiance, is also circumstance
upon which the COnfederates do not appear to
! have reckOned, as they have evidently sup
posed the post in state of siege.' At Meme
phis and Nashville the people are apprehen-
sive of an attack. The embargo recently laid
upon all communication by railroad from Lou
svllle, the fitting out of feet of gunboats.
fhQ nil mfr tinn of L
Birds Point. and the expedition from Ironton
and Cape Girardeau, have significance to tie
Tenhesseeans which we may not be able to APP
preciate.
One thing is sure. Whilst some weeks ago.
Missouri was invaded by a large body of South
ern soldiers, who came with great blowing
OF horns and high sounding prophecies of
speedy subjugation of the State, they are at
this day trembling for their individual safety.
Though they found our situation little better
than defenseless one, not single victory has
thus far perched upon their three. barred ban.
ner, and now, after proving about our con.
fines, they find themselves worse eff than
when they came. They have eaten out the
substance OF the people upon whom they have
quartered themselves. and given range to the
most wicked promptings. until Generalization
and recklessnesS leave them in no condition to
fight, even If lighting were really the purpose
OF their generals.
Thus tar in this war the Union forces have
acted almost entirely on the defensive, and
whether or not they will continue to do so, it
is at least good sign that the Confederates
themselves have just begun to see that the
Federal army can thrust as we'll as parry.
The capture of the forts at Hatteras Inlet on
the North Carolina coast, by which position
of scarcely measurable importance has been
wrested from the secessonists, has set the
| whole South into fever of excitement. 1t
| will weaken them in Virginia. and perhaps di.
| vert their strength everywhere. Now let US
have Memphis, and commence the work of
opening up the navigation of the Mississippi
river, even to the Gulf
SKETCHES OF JOHNSTON AND BEAUREGARD.
A correspondent records his impressions
of Generals Johnston and Beauregard, as
follows:
l have had the pleasure of seeing General
Johnston. He looks like a general. He is
about five feet eight or nine inches in height,
! good form, very erect, handsome face. thick
mustache, and beard some what sprinkled with
white. His hair is slightly gray. His organs
of benevolence and veneration are extremely
large, and his eye very full and large. He
should talk well and speak fuently. He has
the decided advantage over General Beaure-