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St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1862-11-06
For United States Senator.
ALEXANDER RAMSEY
PROCLAMATION.

~ Alexander Ramssy, Governer Of the
state OF Minnesota.
Wur.sAs, it is meet and in accordance with
a GOOD and cherished custom Of our fathers
worthy to DO "a statute forever in all our
dwellings," that the people ''when they have
gathered tha frui, Of the land" should keep
a feast unto t 9 Lord" in concentration OF
his goodness, and by public act Of Christian
worship, acknowledge their dependence e."
community upon Him in whose hand the King
doms Of the Earth are but - dust in the b'l
ance -. -
Therefore, I, Al, xA>DER Ramsey, Governor
Of the State Of Minnesota, do hereby set apart
the TWENTY SEVENTH DAY OF TIE PRES.
EMIT MONTH OF NOVEMBER. as day OF
Thanksgiving to Almighty God for his wonder
full mercy toward us-for all the good g'fts OF
His Providence for Health a,.d restored DO
nestle Peace and the MEASURE Of general pros
perity which We csj"y.
Especially let u recognize his mercy in that
He has delivered our borders frUm the ssvag.
enemies who rose up against ussnd csst'h III
t, ,h. pit they had privily dug for ~ that our
friends have been rescued from the horrors OF
CAPTIVITY, and that our homes and household
treasures are now safe from The violence Of 10
dian robbers and sssa.sins. And let us praise
Him for the continued preservation ofthe Coz
eminent Of our Fathers from the assaults OF
trsitors and rebels; for the sublime spirit o.
patriotism. and courage, and eo"stancy with
which lie has filed the hearts Of its defenders
for the victories won by the valor Of our troops;
for the glorious share Of Minnesota in the
struggles and triumphs Of the Union cause
for the safety Of the sons who have passed
through the fire of battle unscathed. and the
honorable fame of tho gallant dead; fpr the
slscrity and devotion with which our citizens
have rushed from their embarrassed fields to
The standard of the nation, and above al for
tho assurance that their tolls, and perils. and
wound. aud self devotion are not in vain; for
the tokens now nisu,rv." s'1';+ will. that thro'
tho blood and sweat Of suffering aun --~rihc<
the nation is to he saved from it's great ca'am-
ity AMI the great crime Of which II - at once
the effec, and punishment and that behind the
thunAers, and ligh,nings, and clouds Of the
tempest the awful form Of Jehovah IL visible,
descending in fire upon the mount to renew
the broken tablets Of the Constitution, and Pr
claim FasxDon % tho condition and the lawot
restored aud regenerated Union.
Given unde, my hand and the Great Seal ofthe
State. at the city ofssin' Paul, thisthird.
T.. 9 day Of November, ia the year Of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and sixty
w.. +" ~ - 49,.
ALEXANDER RAMSEY.
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~'' secrettry Of st.ts.
ESsi1os1 1l.f ~ slISssald have written
some this week it We had not been tend.
St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1862-11-06

The Sioux WAR-We have received
pamphlet entitled The Sioux War:
What shall ve do with it? The Sioux In
lians: VIVA: shalt We do with them2'
being reprint Of papers communicative"
to the 81. Paul Daily Press in October.
by Hon. James ". Taylor In answer to
me question, is The war ended?' NJ
Tayl"r states that az i det1msive war. it
may be, but az an '6ensire war, it has
just begun. He argues that 'present
safety Of our Minnesota frontier is not
enongh-even indemnity for the past il
not enouyh FOR THE FUTURE
is the object Of the Wal" The number If
warriors whose hostility is certain, Mr..
r. rs';r"-.ea at 1000. and 600 more
who will probably be hostile. scattered
s,'rongto on. the country on east and west
Of the Missouri river 80
The great question now occu'ying ali
minds ~, "Where shall the Indians 60"
In t.ply to this, Mr. r shows theapccu
.,ar adapteduess Of Isle Roysle. in I.aAe
Superior. aud suggests that it be perma-
nently occupied by tn" Government for
the con6nem ent Of alt the Indian remnants
If the States Of Michigan, Wisconsin and
Minnesota. aud Of the entire Sioux nation,
where. n scattered ii the Territory of Da
kota. Isle h,yale il forty two miles in
length hy' five 10 eight miles 10 width,
embracing POI ,seO actej IF land: tits
heavily timbeted, With = fertile sell and
climate similar to Now Scotia, Let, the
Government, he says, here concentrate
the Indis"s Of tho Chippewa tribe. 49,.
500; Menomonee, 500; Sioux, 80, 4so !;
'wi"neb.go, 2.loo,-in oil. 1880, thu.
giving " acres to each man woman .ni
child. iH lsos H4t n .,,,3}g.f
When .ssembled upon Isle Royale Mr..
T. contends they should be totally di.,rn-
ed, except > tish-hook; total non-inte'-
course with whites, unless by Missionaries
aud other Government official. the isl
and guarued BY = revenue cutter; while
every encouragement is given to agricul-
:t v .! sud fishery, but the principle reoog
mixed that starvation would be barely
averted by Government assistance. We
have given above but the me,est outline
o.ftMr. Tsylor's plan Il is RATIONAL, and
i certainly the best that l'a. been yet pro-
lused. ~ This little pamphlet Contains
much valuable inflammation concerning the
present, s.ntu. 81 the lndi a tribes, and
would y eer... I be worth procuring The
c,~t would hot exceed ten oeat. per copt,
and Gu be I'D BY .ddressing The Pres.
O6ee. St. Paul. s't'1'e'ir H",o'5n s4sa.
NJ Id b.1tg .s,.t .~ 62f,i ~ TIE .Ertt
St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1862-11-06

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A sETrLER.-SSop,e Years since black
man called upon 4 ~clejJY yn,sb in Western
New II ork,t avewsas himself. d sfuyitive
slave. and askcd for TODD and shelter,
Which. were freely accorded. - Two or
three persons being c''enizant Of the fact
called 70 see.the rru paway nigger," .wl'"n
the, following interesting Dubuque took
ras:
.. ''S'p',ee you had plenty of hard times
dow" South licking a plenty? ?" -.
.,s:"No--never was whipped" =: u"
Want! Well, you had to work: most
awful hard - .:.s T.,
= My work was light" =. -,
Il guess your clothes were not very
uicc :" .14~~..r.~> 49,. ..'
~ was we'll clothed-a good house SER
want" ~,..,.> -: y: .:s,...
II reckon your victuals were not un-
con'n,an finc p ,"
y AS y.x,d as desired" >.:. -.
"Well, shonld give it as my opinion
that You were u mighty big IDOL fur run
ming away trom such place as that. just
for the sake of Sinking for yourself"
"Gentlemer, my place down South il
vacant. Any CT you can have it by ap-
plying fur it,"
St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1862-11-06

10 incite our so.dicrs 10 insubosdinstios
on scsoant,oof Coy: Ramsey having msds
The rsgirept.l app4 (ntments. It is edited
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St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1862-11-06

Enoi1osiXk IVA should have written
some this week it We had not been tend.
ing the sick, having q headache ard ma
king . roller. 49,. - :e -
St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1862-11-06

"a We will receive wheat, oats. corn
Anur, wood. good butter, eggs. or anything
else We can use, in payment Of subScrip.
tions 70 the DEMOCRAT or debts due the
establishment. Now is the time to sub
scribe or settle old bills.
St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1862-11-06

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New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-10-02

he addresses this Iurid letter with ga damna-
bic conspiracy against three races of men,
against the Irish "by placing an inferior race
alongside of them in the corpfeld, and against
the Negroes who will all be murdered BIZ their
masters, according to G. +. T., unless the
Abolticnsts cease their proyocatiOns. But one
of Trains Vaccinations fortunately knocks the
other in the head. If the Negroes are all 10
be murdered, by their desperate masters, may
not the fastidious George spare himself all pain
full apprehensions of anybody being compelled to
work alongside the Black in any cornfied or
other field in this hemisphere Massacred
Negroes don't dig to the best of our knowl-
edge, Mr. Train
There is a race Of men-it is that to which
Mr.. Train beongs-whO mako a living not by
hoeng and digging but by Cabling about the
infinite superiority of being white-by De.
nouncng those who cannot see the exquisite
equity Of Human Servitude-by lecturing on
Politics as other men lecture on Mesmerism
aud -Tipping-wbo convert their countrys
agony into raree.show and so about enter.
tanning people with the public misfortune'-
who achieve notoriety By rehashing stale platl-
tudes and rejuvenating venerable libels-who
were unknown yesterday, are only notorious
to-day, and will be forgotten to-morrow-and
to this race Negro Emancipation Will prove
fatal for it will Iuin their business, which IL
that OF frightening honest folk and manufac-
turing buebears. Mr.. George Francis Tram
mus. not think that we mean to Dc dsrcspect-
full. On the contrary, when we put HIM III
this race we are paying him the greatest COM
piiment of all he ever received in his life, II
We except those which he has paid to himself.
We are ranking him with Doctors of Divinity
and Members of Congress- and Ethnoogists
and Politicians Of the most venerable variety,
who, when Emancipation has finished them,
will hail him 40 humble brother IN rnisfor-
tune, and will 90 hand in hand with him to
oblivion,
1t may be q satisfaction to the Cabinet to
know that Mr.. Train in this very letter, IN
nounces his generous intention OF standing by
it to the end. He processes the most unbound
ed affection for Mr. Seward but if that gen
ileman be as shrewd as he has the reputation
of being, be will hasten to beseech Mr.. Train
10 write no moro letters. 1t isn't every Aa-
ministralion tina. can stand Mr.. Trains ADM.
ration. And so much for George Francis
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-10-02
NEWS OF THE DAY.
THE WAR.

We have q dispatch from Gen. Mcclellan head
quarters dated yesterday giving an account OF re-
connossauce BY cavalry and artillery under General
Plessanton. He crossed the Potomac at Shepherds
town. found the Rebels not far away, drove them 10
Martnsburg, shelled them out OF thai place, and
then LEFT them. He had only two men wounded.
A Rebel lieutenant and two men were taken. 1t Ia
thought there are very few Rebel troops st Wnches'
ter Gene. Mcclellan and Marcy visited Harpers
Ferry yesterday.
Con. John Cocbrane is Of the opinion that when
the Rebel army fed from Antietam they were quite
demorazed, and had ur Generals known their con-
dtion they might easily have routed thsm entirely;
yet there were good and safH tent reasons for not
hastily following them up. Gen. G. says lie finds
no dissatisfaction in the army at the Emancipation
Poo smaton, and his observations are up to thu
present time. The Rebels are enforcing the Con
scription Act with rigid severity, not only in The
entirely Rebel States, but in Kentucky.
The Adutant- General Of Maine assures US tina
tho statement of our Washington Correspondent
that in some towns Of that State force necessary
TO compel draft, and that troops were called out
Il incorrect. The only trouble was in a single town,
and that from personal alteration; but the town
allied its quota Immediately by volunteers There
were no troops called out in any instance.
Oar dates from New-Orleans are to the sd
Dr. Ed Jenner Coke, an eminent ctizen is dead. t.,
country below the city is much troubled BY Rebe
marsuding parties, aud provost marshal for eacl
side of the river has been appointed. Some gueril
las from the upper country had voluntarily gyel
themselves up. grand Union meeting was held il
Jefferson City on the 10th ult.
We print this morning the official report Of Gen.
Sgel Of the operations of his army corps during the
recent campaign Of Gen. Pope in Virginia This
report will be read with unusual interest il view OF
the many runors Of disagreement-in opinion, at
ieast-with other Generals in that campaign.
Simeon Draper of this city has been appointed
Provost MarsbaGeneral of the United States under
the recent order Of the War Department creating
such an Office. The office is OF great Importance.
A very interesting snd complete report Of the
Battle of Iuka, prepared expressly for The
TRIBUNE by one who witnessed the entire conflict
10 printed on another page of this paper.
Brig. Gen. Rodman, wounded in the battle of
Antietam, died on Monday night, near HagerStown,
hid.
Seven Rebel bomb-proof magazines at Shipping
Point. on the Potomac, were blown up a few days
sgc by our troops.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-10-02
PEACE IMPOSSIBLE.

If the Democratic journals of tie Free Slater
were truly loyal-nay, if they were tolerably
bonest--they would let their readers know that
a peace with tbs Rebels is impossible, because
no peace can be bad which does not involve
the absolute ruin of the Republic. Henry May,
NJ. G.. from Baltimore, a dubious Unionst,
elected in good part BY the Secession vote,
went to Richmond more than year ago ex-
pressly to ascertain on what terms the Coniede-
rates would make peace. They promptly as
sured him that no terms that involve a resto-
ration Of the Union were admissbe-that, il
they were offered blank sheet Of paper, with
authority to write on it their own condti' ns
of reunion, they would reject it. Ths has for
many months been matter of notoriety; but
how many Of the Pro-Slavery journals Of the
Free States haze given it circuationl Has it
ever been alladed to in any speech of Gov
Seymour or any one Of his supportersf
Lieut.. Maury wrote last Spring from Rich.
mond letter to French friend intended to
serve as Rebel manifesto. In this letter, be
distinctly declared that the terms of peace
which would DO insisted on by his fellow Reb.
els were such a. the Unonists would not and
could not accede to until they should be in the
last stages of exhaustion. They would have
West Virginia, which never adhered to but has
always opposed them, and they would require
popular vote to DO taken in Kentucky, Mis-.
souri, and Delaware, to decide whether those
States respectively should belong 10 the Union
or tho Confederacy. And the Lieutenant
though he crsmmed his letter with atrocous
falsehoOds, was frank enough to admit that he
did not expect the Unionists TO submit to such
terms until after they shall have been very bad
ly whipped.
To the same effect ia the manifesto Of The
Richmond Examiner quoted in our last. That
paper, while speaking of the existing war Us
one Of I" defense against wicked aggression, {"
on the part Of the Confederates, proceeds to
say:
For ourselves too. look with much interest not only
for peace but for svoh dirsn Of the yrent Hoytaeys ne
public shdH peace The future This dirison ri
surely come and me hs better Is territory presents
vast dispropor.ion between lis length and breadth Ito
treui.iss front great that look to different
parts Of the world and they separated from other by
4go Of longitude and air line OF Oc0 miles This belt
Of territory IL almost cut In two by Lsbe Khe and the Ohio
the connecting neck being only about 100 miles wide II Ia
nearly sundeed again by the vast desert plains that lie mid
way between the mssisspp and the Rocky Mountains It
10 as,iu Interested by the great ROCKY Mountain range
which allows but few doo Of communs alton between It.
eastern aud western bases"
This is simple and perspicuous. 1t is not
forever divided-it must be utterly exploded
and ruined. The yall,v Of tho Upper Missis-
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-10-02
GENERAL NEWS.

The Board Of Aldermen met yesterday, when
the Mayor nominated Tbos. +. Smith for Street
Commissioner. The nomination was rejected by q
vote Of TO 6. A message was received from the
Mayor, returning without his approval certain reso.
lutions which originated in that body, and which
were passed by the Councilmen, extending an invi.
ta,on to all the General Committees of the political
parties Of this city to join in grand Union demon.
y,rstion, but which, at the same time, condemned q
resolution passed in the Convention Of Committees
askibg the President TO adopt an Emancipation
policy. The Mayor says " the Proclamation Injuries
no who 10 loyal; it is only treason and traitors
that are 10 suffer from it; have the Rebels any
right 10 complain Of it," lie objected to the Com
mit,ee proposed by the resolutions because such a
Committee would sssune partisan character, act
arg IN synpa,by with the views Of the party with
which majority Of its members would be identified
ana would soon become wranghng political club
rather than patriotic Committee earnestly intent
on aiding the Government in the prosecution Of the
war
In pursuance Of the programme agreed upon OF
their State Convention, the Democratic factions of
this city are about 10 form fusion, or rather an sl
ancs for the sake Of spoil. After some dodgina.
Mozart has named Fernando Wood, James Lynch.
and three other COMMISSIONER while Tapmsnv
puts forward Emanuel b. Hart, Richard Connolly
John e. Deyelin, and VIM. Miner ss its representa-.
lives. The proposal Of Mozart 10 to have half the
city and county officers, Congressmsn, and Assem-.
blymsn, but Tammany ia not yet agreed. Several
conferences have been held, and few days will
ssvs 10 conclude the treaty, when Mozart will very
probably assume the sceptsr in tho old Wigwam,
and Fernando Wood will once more cit in the high
ssss, with PurdT & Co. under bis foot-stoo
Tho brig Conflict, Capt Rutland, from St. Kits
which reached pert yesterday morning, brought the
msster and survivors Of the crew Of the bark
MAXWELL. Of Philadelphia, wrecked while on her
way 70 LAguayra. She was caught in gale for
nearly hve days, carrying away her upper works,
rnasss, and rigging, washing four men overheard,
and finally making hes complete wreck The crew
were dashed In the rigging for five days without food
swstsr, and were on the point of starvation, wheu
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-10-02
TRAINS TROUBLES.

One Of the most painful decisions Of the day
is that Of Mr.. George Francis Train, who
imagines that the restoration Of the American
Union depends upon his eloquence. He isn't
the frat man who has mistskon yollAility for
value, and fux Of words for cogency of ar
gument. A mountebank may prattle in u fair
from morn till dewy eve, but it 10 only to
fools that he sells hi, corn.p lasters aud cough
drops. He may, no doubt, be overheard by
many wise men. but that does not make his
medicines nialbe, as he would have you be.
lieve; nor does the fact that Mr. Train writes
to the newspapers prove that no is states
man, for men who are forever writing to the
newspapers are always in danger Of bringing
up in a mad.hOuse. If Mr.. Train could only
for moment comprehend how infinitely silly
his productions appear to sensible men, he
would, We think, DO mortified into something
like reason. and would write no more letters
like this absurd one now before us, which is
addressed to Charles Sumner and others, and
which begins 6ercely: Conspirators!' Az q
general rule, we suspect that man who
writes confirmed slip-slop, and is never easy
unless he is gyrntng absurdly through all the
gymnastics Of rhetoric, is hardly q safe person
to call to tho rescue Of. an empire. 1t may be
prudenty presumed that Senator Of tho United
States is in no need Of Mr. George Francis
Trims instruction, and is quite above his
reprehenson-and, for that matter, of bis
comprehension also. Mr.. Trains only retort
must be: "Well, neither docs tho Honorable
Senator comprehend me"-and, for Mr.. Train,
the reply would be uncommOuly just and sous.
ibe.
Mr. Train oharses the gentlemen to whop,
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-10-02
OUTLAWED UNION OFFICERS.

Our authorities appear as yet to have takeT
no notice Of the Rebel General Order, No
CO." declaring that, in consequence of tho re
fusal Of our Government to say whether thu
action OF Ma. Gen. Hunter in arming Negro
Regiment received the sanction OF the Wal
Department, Gen. Hunter and all commits
stoned officers employed in drilling the Negro
Brigade should, if captured, be considered, not
as prisoners of war, but as outlaws and be
executed as feons.
That Government did sanction this expert
ment there can be no doubt, inasmuch as II
furnished the original Negro Brigade with arms
and q peculiar uniform, and has allowed all
the expenses attendant thereon to be met on!
Of the national eIchequer, through the Quar-
termnster's Department; ard it has since. ac'
cordng 10 uncontradicted report. authorized
by direct and positive order the enrolment in
companies, battalOns, and regiments of Fifty
Thousand Negroes in the Department of the
South, Of whom (ior the present. only five
thousand are 10 BE- armed as soldiers though
all are to be held in readiness 20 receive arms
o. any moment.
Under these circumstance is i just-is is
mauly-that our Government should still allow
Gen Hunter and the officers directly employed
10 drilling the Negro Brigade to rest under
the imputaton of ielons thus causing them TO
enter every subsequent contest for the Union
subject 10 all the penalties Of outlawry in case
Of capture Clearly mott ard we call upon
the Government at once to assume its jgst
responsibility in the premises, and relieve these
officers from their present false position. This
is the more important now, when, according
to Trustworthy report, the whole North-West
and West are GENEROUSLY demanding that
Hunter may be assigned to the consolidated
command of their forces. to relieve the inca
paclty Of Gen. Buell. and give concert aud o
plan to the many fragmcntary and conflicting
divisions and districts into which our forces in
that region have been broken up since the with
draval Of Major-Gen. Halleck from the West.
While on this subject, too, our Government
should take measures TO relieve the officers OF
Gen. Pope's command from the penalties de-
nounced against them in the brutal order of
the Rebel War Department. The Ter talionis
is an admirably self.adustng machine; and if
our War Authorities will place in ielon cells a
number of Rebel officers equal to those of
Pope's command so treated in Secessia, the
affair can readily be adjusted. Until some
such measures are adopted, and Government
takes its just care that no risks other than
those of tho battlefield are to DO incurred by
them in case of capture, it clearly should not
expose any Of these gallant men to the brutal
outrages likely to be suffered BY them should
they fall into Rebel hands