The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-08-15
THE WEEKLY lS] y PIONEER AND DEMOCRAT

Union men say one effect of drafting
in Kentucky will be to drive large numbers
of young men out Of the State, and prob
ably into the rebel army; but still say it is
precisely what they want, that they had bet.
ter have them driven out than to remain as
elements of dissension in the State. There
is probability of the same effect in Mary.
land perhaps, also, in Missouri. Seces-
sionlsts complain bitterly of the orders, but
manifest that they are very much alarmed
by it, and regard it as the most formidable
blow yet struck at the rebellion. The
squirming in Maryland is beginning al
ready.
Henry j. Sedgwick, formerly Postmas.
ter at Syracuse, New York, and brother of
Congressman Sedgwick, is under arrest at
Beaufort, charged with defrauding the gov.
eminent by misrepresenting the value of a
quantity of timber which he had purchased
to be ultimately resold to the United States.
The following note from son of Sam.
Houston, of Texas, appears in the Chicago
Times:
have heard that man calling himself Rev.
Charles Clark. and processing to be q son of
Ex-Governor Clark, of Texas, and son.in.law
of Gen. Sam Houston, lately made certain
father.inlaw, at public meeting held in Bos.
ton: Now, this reverend gentleman is certain.
ly an imposter of the blacklist dye, as Cover.
nor Clark's eldest child is boy twelve years
of age, and my Oldest sister is but q little girl
at school. I left home last March, and my
health than he had been for years.
lam, respectfully,
SAM HOUSTON, JR.,
.--. prisoner of War;
CAMP DOUGLAS, Aug, 2, 1862.
This "Rev. Charles Clark" from descrip~
tions in the papers, is the same fellow who
victimised, in small way, respected cler-
gyman of St. Paul, year or two ago.
The Wheeling lntellSgencer of the I'd
inst. contains scathing speech delivered
at Morgantown, Virginia, by Senator Viii.
ley, on the course Of his colleague, Carlisle,
in reference to the bill for the admission of
West Virginia.
The latest Memphis advices mention
rumors prevalent there, of the capture Of
eight Federal Paymasters by. the rebels at
Humboldt, Tenn, including Jacob A.
Camp, Yatzmer Coon, Hanna Yonn, and
Hazleton, with an aggregate of Sis. 600.
Army circles give these rumors no cre-
dence.
s9 "A Letter from Garrett Davis has been
received in Washington, fully confirming
the apprehensions of trouble in Kentucky.
He says that Union men regard it as Ger.
tain that the rebels propose attempting an.
other invasion like Morgan's, but on lar.
ger scale, whenever they can take our forces
off their guard. .....-.
-Gov. Tod, of Ohio, says be has requests
ed the President to authorize him to exempt
the counties from draft, that may furnish
voluntarily their quota, and if so authoriz.
ed, of which I have no doubt, l pledge the
several counties that it shall be done. 1t
will not be practicable, however, to extend
this to townships or wards.
"A young German, who has recently
escaped from Richmond, says: " United as
the rebels are on most points, they are still
more so in favor of the grand scheme for
the invasion and plundering of the North.
Of this they talk by day and dream by
night. The hope of the rich plumber of
Northern cities, and the retribution which
they expect to mete out to the hated Yam.
kee race, is the great spur to their valor,
and woe to the North if they should sue
coed. Their first movement of invasion,
they assert, will be made in Maryland and
Pennsylvania"
Col. Corcoran writes from his prison
at Salisbury, North Carolina, to Captain
Kirker of this city, that arrangements bad
been made for bis exchange, and that be
expects to be released very soon. He adds,
however, l have been so very much dis.
appointed before that cannot permit my.
self to be too sanguine until I am within
our own lices."
The New York papers have for day
or two past made mysterious illusions to
certain movements in that city, which EN-.
braeed the buying of steamers for imme,
date government use, the ordering of war
vessels at the Brooklyn navy yard into COM
mission, &c. The Journal of Commerce
says: cit is not proper to state the particu-
lars of government proceedings now going
on in this city, and though partially ex-
posed by some ipjudicious paragraphs in
last evenings papers, we deem it best to
suppress the information.
The Richmond Enquirer has seen the