The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-05-24

Eighth regiment, Col. Lyons. 900
Thirteenth regiment, Col. Smith. ........ 700
Twenty.eighth regiment, (Brooklyn). go. $50
Fifth regiment, Col. Schwarswaelder.. 800
Col. Ellsworth's Zouaves. 100
In addition to the foregoing, the New
York papers give list of twenty.six regi-
ments and battalions of infantry, ten bat
talions of artillery, four squadrons of cav.
airy, and one naval brigade already organ
lied and ready to march on short notice,
making force Of 22,10O men.
There is also one California regiment,
commanded by Col. (Senator) Baker, most
ly recruited from New York City, and
composed mainly of returned Californians.
The City of New York has therefore raised
the following number of troops:
Sent to Washington. Observation-Disclosures. $3.50
Ready to March. ............... 100
Returned California regiment. .......... 720
Grand total. SO, $50
Here is an army of thirty"three thousand
men, raised, organized and equipped in the
space of three weeks in the commercial en-
porium. Who will say that the Empire
City has failed to do her duty.
The Richmond Dispatch, in leading
editorial of May 8, recommends that the
Virginians should form themselves into COM
panies for guerilla warfare, and also sug-
gests that where rifles cannot be procured
for this branch of the service, that double
barrelled fowling piece, loaded with buck
shot, should be used. 1t further states that
the people need not wait for the action of
the authorities to prepare for and provide
the means of this mode of warfare. If the
line of march of the federal troops is made
to swarm with our guerillas, who will pick
off every man and every squad that dsres
to leave the main body of the invading
column. The very success in the field will
prove ruin; for they will tempt the men
further and further into the interior, and in
volve them more and more inextricably
in the meshes and snares of guerilla war
fare.
Indiana has eleven regiments in the field.
The Twelfth will be composed of two squad.
rons of cavalry, two batteries of artillery,
and perhaps corps of sappers and miners.
The five regiments in the State service will
be armed and uniformed in the next fifteen
days. 1t is understood that the camps at
Richmond, Terre Haute and Lafayette are
temporary, to be occupied until the troops
are armed, uniformed and furnished with
tents. These tents, with comfortable booths
and beds, were furnished by the respective
cities free of charge. One, and perhaps
three more, regiments, for three years, de-
pendent upon instructions from the War
Department, will be raised for United States
service in the course of the next ten days.
"A correspondent at Pensacola, writing
to q Georgia prper, thus describes the con.
structiOn of "sand batteries"
The sand batteries are built by digging a
square pit in the sand some twenty feet square,
then taking the sand and fill bags and facines
with it. You then take the bags and pile them
up some three or four feet high, and sixteen or
eighteen bags thick, and fill the cracks between
the bags with sand. There are places about
four feet wide left between the piles of bags to
run the muzzles of guns out In the pit there
is passage dug and boarded up with sand
bags piled up around it, and perfectly protect
ed with sand, for the magazine. The balls are
piled up in the pit near the guns. On the out
side, in the rear, protected with sand bags, is
trench some five feet wide by three or four
feet deep, for the men who are not at work at
the guns to lay in. There are eight men to a
gun, who have to be relieved every twenty or
twenty-five minutes, as it is very laborious for
eight men to work gun weighing some ten or
twelve thousand pounds. There are some three
or four sand batteries between here and War.
rington.
AS specimen of the sort of items
that fill the Southern papers, we clip the
following from the Southern Contedsraey,
published at Atlanta, Ga. It is just the
very thing that the Confederate fifteen
million loan Commissioners have long been
looking for.