The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-09-12
Late News from Richmond.

The latest Richmond papers that have
found way to the North since the withdraw
al of our army from the peninsula, are of
the 23d ult. In an editorial on the duty
of Congress the Richmond Wing says:
The grand army which besieged Rich.
mond has, by the mastery strategy of Lee,
been driven from its position, and only e..
capped capture or humiliation by the fail.
ure in the execution Of details by subordin
ate commanders. 1t has changed it's base;
but it is still intent on the object for which
it was organized--the capture of Richmond.
1t is to be reinforced by six hundred thous-
and men. To meet this new array is the
first duty of Congress. The enlargement
of the CONSUMPTION is the obvious remedy !;
not with the view of bringing into the field
as many as the Yankees--this is not posi-
BILE; nor if it were would it be polite and
wise. Enough men must be left at home
to produce food to support the army.
Those under eighteen are, as general
rule, too tender to endure the hardships of
camp life, and, as was very we'll said by MIR.
Davis last year, to call them out would be
like grinding seed corn. Those between
thirty.fve and forty.fve are as vigorous and
able-bodied as at any age, and, if the proper
energy is employed after they are enlisted,
will constitute an ample force to meet all the
powers of the North. OF the 100000 new
Yankee levies, not one from east of the Ohio
knows how to fire gun or ride horse, and
six or eight months will be necessary for
them to learn these indispensable quali6cas
tons for war. In the meantime they will
be food for panics. Every Southern man
and boy can ride and shoot, and they have
only to learn one or two words of command
and few simple movements to be as good
soldiers as twenty years. drilling could
make them.
This superiority of our population was
strangely overlooked last year, when we suf.
fered the finest army ever assembled to rot
at Manassas, and gave the enemy time to
drill their new levies. If we pursue the
same policy again we shall again suffer.
But if Congress will extend the conscrip.
ton so as to embrace all between eighteen
and forty five, and if the war is then push
ed, pushed at once, and into the enemy's
L
avail them nothing ; but on the contrary,
being little better than rabble rout, will
prove an invaluable aid to our advancing
columns
If, in addition, Congress could infuse a
little of the ardor of the country into the
President, and persuade him to dismember
the departments of some of the Yankees
and Jews with which they are infested, we
might look forward to better results at no
distant day. That there are traitors and
spies in the departments no one doubts.
General Lee to elude them in planning his
attack upon Mcclellan on the Chickahom.
my, had to resort to the extraordinary ex-
pedient OF sending $4,000 men to jackson,
by way of Lynchburg and Charlottesville,
as though Washington were the object
aimed at. The ruse succeeded. Mcclellan
was instantly informed of the movement,
and Lincoln made it the ground for refusing
to send any more troops to the Peninsula.
The same traitors are still in Richmond and
in Office; at least we have not heard of any
of them being removed.
The City Of Washington must be annihi-
lated. There can be no peace until that
nest of Yankees and traitors is extermina.
ted. 1t is bar to any satisfactory inter>
vention by foreign Powers; and would for.
ever constitute bone of contention in the
event of a temporary adjustment The fate
of Carthage must be that of Washington.
Let "Stonewall" have one lick at it, and we
shall have no more trouble from that quar-.
ter.