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The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-09-12
Let the Sioux Race be Annihtlatett,

From the Saltwater Messenger Of Tuesday.
On Friday, the 22d ult., surrounded by a
horde of six or eight hundred remorseless
savages heleagueriOg little band of brave
men and three hundred wounded and hall
starved refugee women and children men
exhausted by continuous days and nights of
battle and labor-with ammunition almost
exhausted and the heart sick and faint with
the hope of reinforcements dying out
seemingly deserted by friends, and being
pressed inch by inch into closer quarters by
blood thirsty enemies-with no light to cheer
the gloom except faith 10 God and SOL
emn resolve to die at the post OF duty, if
die we must--a little band of us-the "Old
Guard" of Fort Ridgley--mutually pledged
ourselves upon the altar of the Eternal God,
that if either or all of US escaped from our
then perlous situation, we would prosecute
a war of utter determination of the entire
Sioux race that wherever a member OF
the race might be found, irrespective of
age, sex or condition, his blood should atone
the untold outrages of the past fifteen days
on our western frontier. We believe this
to be the spirit which should actuate every
white man. The race must be annIhilated
every vestige of it blotted from the face
of Gods green earth. Otherwise our
State will be ruined and white men slaught.
cred or driven from our noble young State.
ANNIHILAT1oN that is the word.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-09-12
Narrow Escape of Gen. Banks---Hi
Former Injury.

Correspondence Of the New York Tribune.
General Banks had very narrow escape
from death during the engagement of bis
troops on Saturday morning, on the exc
IRENE right Of our line. He was leaning
against tree, watching the progress of the
fight, when rihed shot from rebel bat
terry struck the tree about eighteen inches
above his head, cutting it clean in two.
With bis usual good fortune, he escaped ins
jury, even from splinters. found the Cen
eral On Friday afternoon, lying in the shade
of a tree, with bis staff about him, and the
horses picketed close by. He is looking
thin and little pale, and bis leg is still stiff
from the effects of his recent injury. Until
Friday, be had ridden i'll an ambulance from
place to place, but on that day be mounted
bis horse and directed the movements OF bis
corps in person. From him l got the true
version of the accident which happened in
the hard battle of Slaughter Mountain. 1t
seems that be and his staff were lying on the
ground, as ! found them on Friday, when a
sudden dash was made in their direction by
some rebel cavalry. The tumult frightened
the staff horses, and large, powerful ami.
NAL OF the Generals, becoming seriously
scared at the discharge of pistols, gave a
sudden plunge forward, and, striking the
General 10 the hip with great force: threw
him down and bruised him severely.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-09-12
Death to Hunter and Phelps.
The rebels have issned the following threat
in an official form

The rebels have issned the following threat
in an official form:
WAR DEPARTMENT,
Adjutant & Inspector Generals Office,
Richmond, August 81, 1862.
GENERAL ORDERS, No. COL. w hereas,
Major General Hunter, recently in command
of the enemy's forces On the coast of South
Carolina, and Brigadier General Phelps, a
military commander of the enemy in the
state of Louisiana, have organized and
armed negro slaves for military service
against their masters citizens of this Con.
federacy, and
Whereas, The government of the United
States has refused to answer an inquiry
whether said conduct of its officers meets its
sanction, and has thus left to the govern
ment no other means of REFRESHING said
crimes and outrages than by the adoption
of such measures of retaliation as shall
serve to prevent their repetition,
Ordered. That Major General Hunter
and Brigadier General Phelps be no longer
held and treated as public enemies of the
Confederate States, but as outlaws; and
that in the event of the capture of either of
them, Or that of any other commissioned
officer employed in drilling, organizing o.
instructing slaves, with view to their
armed service in this war, he shall not be
regarded as prisoner of war, but held in
close confinement for execution as felon,
at such time and place as the President
may order, By order,
GOficial.l S, COOPER,
Adjutant and Inspector General.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-09-12
Letter from the Ncgre Robert Smalls.

Letter from the NcSf0 SsOoert SInaiIs
Robert Smalls, the negro pilot who
brought the rebel steamer Planter out Of
Charleston, and delivered her to our naval
forces, publishes the following letter in the
Washington Republican,:
Mr.. EDITOR In your paper of yester-
day it is stated that an application had been
made oy me to Senator Pomeroy for pas.
sage to Central America. wish it to be
understood that l have made no such appli-
cation but at the same time l would ex-
press my cordial approval of every kind
and wise effort for the liberation and eleva-
ton of my oppressed race.
After waiting, apparently in vain, for
many years for our deIiverance, party
consisting of nine men, myself included, of
the city of Charleston, conferred freedom on
ourselves, five women, and three children /;
and to the government of the United States
we gave the Planter, gunboat which coet
nearly thirty thousand dollars, together
with six large guns, from 24-pounder
to 100.pound Parrot rife.
We are all now in the service of the ma.
Wy, under the command of our true friend,
Rear Admiral Dupont, where we wish to
serve till the rebellion and slavery are alike
crushed out forever.
Very respectfully,
ROBERT SMALLs.
Washington, d. G. August 81, 1862.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-09-12

wards the field of battle, between Centre.
vile and the Orange and Alexandria Rail-
road, and who returned to this city last
evening, we are enabled to gather very little
information OF O connected and satisfactory
character.
What seems to be generally admitted is
that up to Saturday morning the Union
troops not only maintained their ground
but successfully assailed and pressed the
enemy from bis position for several miles.
On Saturday morning the two armies were
again engaged, and the battle ragged with
fierceness till about IL o'clock, at which
time the Union army held possession OF the
field.
From eleven o'clock till about three in
The afternoon there was partial cessation
of the contest, but at the last named hour,
the enemy having received heavy reinforce.
ments, to their numDlr, it is thought, Of
10000 men, he renewed the attack with
great fury On the corps under General Mc~
Dowell, which be at length succeeded in
breaking through, and thus reversed the
respective positions as regards the field OF
battle, which is now 10 the enemy's possess
sion. It was On this account that the citi-
zens, clerks, and other employees of the
Government, who were sent forward on
Saturday afternoon 10 succ0r the wounded
and assist in burying the dead, were unable
to carry their benevolent designs into effect,
the state of affairs preventing any approach
to the field.
General Pope fell back in good order to
Centrevilie, where he has been reinforced by
the divisions Of General Franklin and GeA.
Sumner. With these additions to his army
we may expect that General Pope will
render a good account OF the daring foe,
who must have received heavy reinforce
ments indeed, if enabled to resist, for any
time, SO large an army as that now gather
ed around him.
In the engagement of Saturday both ar
mics suffered further heavy losses. We
have heard that General Sykes, OF the reg
ular army, received a severe wound in the
arm. General Schenck, of Ohio, was also
so severely wounded in one OF bis arms that
it is feared amputation will be necessary.
He is now at Wizards Hotel, 10 this city.
Among the wounded left on the battle
field is Colonel Fletcher Webster of Massa.
chusetts. We are told that he was badly
wounded by a SHOT through the chest.
During the battles the Union forces took
two or three thousand prisonets, ona thou.
sand of whom, we learn, arrived at Alexan
dria yesterday.
1t is reported that to provide against the
worst that can possibly occar squadron
of gunboats has been ordered to rendezvous
in the Potomac river near Washington.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-09-12
Mr. FOOte Dead.

In our last we gave an account of Mr..
Foote'S fight with fifteen Indians, bis killing
two after be was wounded, his wife Defend
ing the house seven hours against the re-
naming thirteen, and, after waiting thirty
six hours for help, leaving him, at his earn.
est request, to save the children and find
help. After she left he lay two days and
nights in untold horrors, making every eff
fort to take bis own life until he was res.
cued by a noble Swedish woman, who
brought him to Forest City where his moth
er went to him with DR.. Palmer and brought
him to st. Cloud.
Here he found bis wife and children, but
in defiance of the tenderest care he died last
night. What coward will leave Minnesota
before the blood of this martyr.hero is
avenged?-&. Cloud Democrat, Thursday
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-09-12

"A correspondent of the Philadelphia
Press writes, August 9th AS Mr.. Zels
ger and his companions were proceeding
towards Washington today, with the body
of General Bohlen, they were attacked by
gueriIas, and forced to abandon the remains,
and take to the woods, where they stayed
for long time, the rebel sentries being in
sight. They finally made their escape with
great difficulty, under cover of darkness to-
night.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-09-12

The United States steamer Hatteras
captured. while trying to run the blockade
of Berwick Bay, the rebel schooner Joseph
inc, with 32l bales of cotton, bound for
Havana. The United States steamer
Bienville captured, on the 2lst ultimo, near
Charleston, the schooner Eliza, from Mas
sau, with 500 sacks of salt and 5 cases of
cards. The mate admitted that it was
their intention to run the blockade. The
United States steamer Stars and Stripes
captured on the Oath ultimo, near Viii
mington, the schooner Elizabeth, from Mas.
sau, loaded with salt and fruit.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-09-12
The Attorney General of Massachu
sets concludes letter on the enrolment of

cOlOred citizens as follows
The authorities of Massachusetts have no
more right to diminish its quota of troops by
refusing to enroll black men than they would
have to reduce the age at which the obliga.
ton of military service terminates from forty.
five to forty years. The only possible ques-
ton now open is, whether colored men are
citizens of Massachusetts. which no one, pre-
sumo, will have the hardihood to deny, mas
much as they are taxpayers, voters, jurors,
and eligible to Office and there is no Unequal.
ity founded upon distinction OF races known
to our laws.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-09-12
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
THE ORPHEUS q. KERR PAPERS.

Army, Navy, and Government come in
for a share OF these satirical comments, as
well as the seeding gentry OF the South.
They have been widely read on their sue
cessive appearance in the columns of q
popular weekly Journal, and though plain
spoken and saucy, ore c!eary Without fes
lorious intent. No one will accuse the
writer Of putting too fue q point on bis hui
NOR, but be propounds many wholesome
truths that may not be less effective Tor the
comic junction with which they are sci
forth. III is occasionally pOetical as well
as Gatirical, and makes some of his best hitg
in verse, as witness the following picture Of
REPUTATION.
Meath ragged Palmetto a Southerner sat
A twisting the band Of his Panama hat,
And trying to tighten bis mlud of ] load
BY hummng The words Of the following ode
''Oh for d Niger and oh ! for a whip
Oh for g cocktail, and Oh for nip ;
Oh for shot at old Greeley and Beecher
Oh for a crack at Yankee school teacher;
Oh for q captain, aud oh for ship;
Ola for cargo of niggers each tip"
And so he kept ching Tor all he had not,
Not Contented with owing for all that he he'd
got.
Orpheus Is by no means exclusive in his
attention to matters OF mighty pith and
moment, but even has a f!ng at the veneer
able prize committee 90 National Hymn.
He iavors bis audience with few speci-
mems OF the rejected anthems which had not
before been brought to the notice of the
public. We give one or two Of the most
strocious, with the side winders of O. G. K.
NATIONAL ANTHEM.
By RALPH WALDO E..
Source immaterial of material naught,
Focus Of light nfatesmal,
Sum OF all things by sleepess nature wrought,
Of which abnormal man is decimal.
Refract, in prism immortal, from thy stars
TO the stars blent incipient Ga our flag,
The beam translucent, neutrifyirg death;
And raise to immortality the rag.
This anthem " was greatly praised BY a
celebrated German scholar but the COM
mittee felt obliged to reject 1t On account CT
its two childish simplicity.
Here we have a
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-09-12
NATIONAL ANTHEM.


The sun sinks softly to his evening post,
The sun sWels grandly To his morning crown;
Yet not a star cur flag of Heaven has lost,
And not a sunset stripe with him goes down.
So thrones may fall; and from the dust of those
New thrones may rise to totter like the last
But still our cOuntry's nobler planet glJws
While the eternal stars of Heaven are fast.
Upon finding that this did not go well to
the air of g Y nkee Doodle" the committee
felt justified in declining it; being further.
more prejudiced against it by suspicion
that the poet has crowded an advertisement
Of paper which he edits into the first line.
Next We quote from a
NATIONAL ANTHEM.
BY GIN. GEORGE P. All.
In the days that tried our fathers
Many years ago,
Our fair land achieved her freedom,
Blood.bought, you know.
Shall we not defend her ever
AS we'd defend
That fair MAIDEN, kind and tender,
Calling US friend?
Yes Let all the echoes answer.
From hill and vale;
Yes Let other nations, hearing,
Joy in the tale.
Our Columbia is lady,
Hgh.born and fair;
We have sworn allegiance to her
Touch her who dare.
The tone of this anthem not being de-
votional enough to suit the committee, it
should be printed on an edition of linen cam
brio hapdkercbiefs, for ladies especially.
Observe this
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-09-12
NATIONAL ANTHEM,


One hue of our flag is taken
From the cheeks of my blushing Pet,
And its stars beat time and sparkle
Like the studs on her chemsette,
Its blue is the ocean shadow
That hides in her dreamy eyes,
1t conquers all men, like her,
And still for a Union flies.
Several members of the committee being
pious, it is not strange that this "anthem"
has too much of the Anacreon spice to suit
them,
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-09-15

that a return to rigid economy and accountability
is indispensable to arrest the systematic plumber
of the public treasury by favored partisans.
Res0lced That we consider the new excise law
unjust in many of its features, and particularly
oppressive on the agricultural States; and we
urge such amendments as shall make it equal
and just, and also general reduction of the
amount levied-so TO be within the present
ability of the people to pay
Resotued, That the strictest economy in the
administration of the affairs of our State Gov
eminent is imperatively required; and the exec
utiye, legislative and judicial officers should re
ceive for their compensation only the salaries
allowed by the Constitution of the State; and
that all additional fees should be paid into the
State or county treasures.
RESOLVED, That, in order to sustain the financial
credit of the United States Government, and to
relieve the people of the State from paying ex-
orbirant premiums to brokers for gold, we recon-
mend that all taxes be collected and paid in Uni
ted States treasury notes.
ReeOtUed, That we hail with satisfaction the
recent declaration of the President of the United
States, that his object is to "save the Union the
shortest way under the Constitution that it is
the duty of all good citizens to sustain the Presi
dent against the pressure of the radical Republi-
cans to induce him to depart from this principle.
and pervert the effort TO suppress wicked rebel
lion into war for the emancipation of slaves
and for the overthrow of the Constitution.
ResOlced, That the people OF Illinois having
inhibited by the State Constitution and law the
entrance of free negroes into this State, and as
the present disturbances in our border are likely
to bring in an influx of that population from other
States, we respectfully ask the public authorities
of Illinois to see that the Constitution and laws
are properly enforced on that subject. When the
people of Illinois adopted that negro exclusion
clause, they meant that the honest laboIing man
should have no competitor in the black race
that the soil of Illinois should belong to the
white man. and that he alone was suited tor her
| free institutions.
ResoIUed, That our thanks are due and are
hereby rendered to the officers and volunteers of
every corps, tor their brave and gallant conduct
in the war to preserve the Union and the Uonsti-
tuition. History will record their deeds upon the
bloody fields of Belmont, Doneson. Pittsburg
Landing, Fredercktown, Lexington and other
fields, for the admiration of all coming time.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-09-15
Illinois Democratic state Conven,io

EllInOlS De tnOCT-AllC convention
The following resolutions were unanimously
and enthusiastically adopted by the Democracy
of Illinois, at their State Convention on the 10Th
instant:
ResolUcd, That the Constitution, and laws
made in pursuance thereof, are and must remain
the supreme law of the land, and as such must
be preserved and maintained in their proper and
rightful supremacy; that the rebellion now in
arms against them must be suppressed, and it is
the duty of all good citizens to aid the General
Government in all legal and constitutional meA-
sures necessary and proper for the accomplish
ment of this end.
Resolved, That the doctrines of Southern and
Northern extremists are alike Inconsistent with
the Federal Constitution, and irreconcilable with
the Union and harmony of the country. The
first have already involved US in a civil war, and
the latter, il permitted 10 retain ascendancy, will
leave to the nation but little hope of the restora-
ton OF the Union in peace.
ResOlred, That.we protest in the name OF our
selves and of children, and in the name of all
we hold dear in the future of our beloved coun-
try against the resolution OF pledging the nation
to pay for all the negroes which may be emanci-
pated by authority of any of the Southern
States; and that we regard such measure involv-
ing as il does the expenditure of thousands of
millions of dollars, as measure of transcendant
enormity AID fruitful only of national beggary
that we are unaterably and uncorditiopally OPP
posed to all schemes having for their objects. i'm
mediate or remote, the taxation of the white
man for the purchase of the negro anywhere.
RESOLVED. That the recent arrests OF citizens OF
this State, charged With violations of civil law,
and their transportation to military prisons be
yond this State calls for the most unqualified con-
domination, and are direct and open violations of
the Constitution of the United States That the
people of this State have right to demand that
all of her children so arrested shall be immedi
ately restored to their homes and allowed n fair
and impartial trial, according to the provisions of
the Constitution, so that if guilty they may be
convicted and punished, and il not guilty that
they may have their regulations honorably yindi-
Gated.
Resolced, That while we deprecate and con-
denim the extravagances of some portions of the
public press, and still more strongly condemn all
secret political organizations as unnecessary, we
will even protest against all unjust interference
with the freedom OF speech and of the press. by
arbitrary and illegal arrests and imprisoDments,
or by extr. Judicial suppression of newspapers in
the loyal States where the ordinary courts OF jus
tice are unobstructed as tyrannical, oppressive TO
individuals and d ngerous to the public liberty.
Resolred. That the people justly view with
alarm the reckless extravagance which pervades
every department of the Federal Government;
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-09-15
News from Kentucky.

The Louisville Democrat of the 18th contains
the following information in regard to military
movements in that State:
We learn from reliable authority that rebel
force. 10000 strong, in command of Gen. Polk
entered Glasgow Yesterday afternoon and took
possession Gen Bragg was reported to be fol-
lowing close on Folks heels, the whole force be
leved TO be 30 600
Dowx THE RoAD-We learn from Capt. Tom
Berry, of the Louisville and Nashville railroad,
that train left Bowling Green yesterday for
Franklin, but turned back, unable to proceed; the
track had been torn up between Franklin and
Bowling Green, a force of rebels having made
their appearance within twelve miles of the latter
place.
Forests cavalry, numbering about 900 men,
were in Franklin yesterday where they killed one
Federal soldier and made prisoners of lot of
stragglers. They have torn up the track in that
vicinity, burned depOts, and did considerable
other damage.
LATEST FROM CUMBERLAND GAP.-By informa-
ton received in this city from a reliable gentle
man ct the Gap, we learn that force left the
Gap on the 2Sth ult. and made attack on the
Georgia brigade, who hld been within four miles
of our forces for several weeks, when our forces,
under the indomitable Gen George W Morgan
made an attack aud completely dispersed the
WnOie origaue, Killing several ana takiiS great
many prisoners and capturing their entire camp
equpaSe, ratons, &c, sufficient to last our en-
tire division for two months This is a fortunate
occurrence for our troops stationed at the Gap.
as they have been on short ratiOns for sometime
past. This will place them in a position TO hold
out for double the length of time they have so
far.
The rebels will find that they have a hard
customer to deal with when they hold of sen
eral Morgan and the men comprising his d.
vision