The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-05-30
News Of Our own State.

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directed to Colonel Aldrich, asking for the
establishment Of a hospital at that place
was promptly attended to by the Colonel
but failed to procure from the Department
a favorable answer:
WAR Dept, WASHINGTON Cry, D. C.,(
May 7th, 1862.
SIR The Secretary of War directs me to
acknowledge the receipt of your note of the
I'd inst, enclosing petition from certain Ia.
dies of Minneapolis, Minnesota. asking for the
establishment of a hospital at that place, and
to state that the subject was referred to the
Surgeon General, who reports that this situa.
hospital. In which opinion the Secretary
cOucurs. have the honor to be
Your Obedient servant,
P. H. WATSON,
Assistant Secretary of War.
Hon. CYRUS ALDRICH, Il. R.
COL STEVENS, of the Glencoe Register,
thinks the Ohio regiments, which are said
to have run at Pittsburg Loading, have
been upjustly censured by the press for their
conduct on that occasion, and he cites
notable instances of individuals who have
been censured for cowardice and afterwards
nobly redeemed themselves. Col. Stevens
says:
Now We have heard the blue pills whistle
by our ears we have seen those next to US
fall in different battles during the Mexican war:
and by the powers we always felt like max.
ing bee line on every occasion, but either
through good luck or something else We never
got the name which perhaps we deserved. But
aside from this, is it quite fair to accuse any
body of raw troops of being towards for run.
ming when they first smell powder We think
not 1t is no fool of job to break cartridge
and take aim while the balls are showering
along thicker than hail.
The Colonel is not entirely satisfied that
such accomplished regular officers as Col
William Hoffman, Captains Anderson D.
Nelson, and Thomas M. Saunders, have not
received the promotion they deserve. He
says:
Is it because they are not politicians This
may be SO. but they are good fighters. What
old soldier in the Mexican war but remembers
tie gallant manner in which Colonel. then
Captain. Hoffman led the glorious old Sixth
Infantry into battle 1t is disgrace to the
''powers that be" that he has not been pro.
NOTED to a Generalship long since. Then
again look at the noble Nelson. Though his
health has not been very good, still his head
and heart, as we'll as his movements are in
the right place all the time. Captain Saun.
ders is loyal Virginian. His property was
coDfscated by the rebels. He has talent of
the very highest order. Surely his claims
have been overlooked. We do not know but
all these gentlemen are satisfied with the po.
sitiOns they hold at this time. We presume
they are, but we do know their friends are
not, and we trust the day is not far distant
when they will receive hoist in the right
quarter. We trust our delegation in Congress
will look to this matter.
We endorse every word of the above,
and trust the "good word" of Colonel Ste-
vens may have effect in the right quarter.
"RAIsINs." the war correspondent of the
Saltwater Messenger, has been appointed to
the position of printer at McClellans head.
quarters. The business is that of printing
orders, prOclamations, &C., large numbers
being required OF each for such an immense
army.
A SOLDIER of the Minnesota First writes
as follows to the Lake City Journal:
see that Mcclellan does not appear to be
very popular in the Northwest but here with
his army-and pe kno,c hunt is the other
way in the extreme. We would not exchange
him for any other commander in existence,
and the time will come shortly when you will
all agree with Us. Fighting in an editors easy
chair is very different from the actual reduc-
tiOn of such works as we are brought against.
j. L. TAYLOR, Esq, of Taylor Falls, sold
the fine tract of (unimproved) land adjoin.
ing the farms of the Messrs. Glade, on the
st. Paul road, six miles from Saltwater, to
Glade & Bros, q few days since, for the
snug sam of $4,000 cash. 1t is a beautiful
tract of 200 acres.
A POSTMASTER near Winona has been ar
rested on the charge of having broken open
a letter delivered at bis Office by neighbor,
and adding to its contents a postscript, the
tendency of which was to create alienation
between friends. Several witnesses were
examined pro and con, and the result Of the
trial was that the accused was bound over
in the sum of $500 to appear before the
United States District Court which meets
at Mankato on the first Monday in June
next.
The Mankato Record takes the Press to
task for its shutting, cowardly course in
regard to. Mcclellan. The Press could
copy all the dirty filings of the Chicago
Tribune against the young chief, but when
it found the tide was turning, and the cur
rent OF abuse was stemmed-the Press made
haste to get on the popular side. The Re-
cord says:
The St. Paul Press has been one of the
meanest and most unfair of all the journals
opposing Gen. McClellan's policy. Its oppo-
sition has not been open and manly, but it has
never allowed an opportunity to pass without
INDUCING some mean and contemplate slur at
his expense. Since the capture of Yorktown
and other events have demonstrated the wis.
dom of McClellan's policy, the Press attempts
to cover up its disreputable course by joining
the popular current in his favor, without first
frankly acknowledging the injustice it has done
him in the past. Under these circumstances
the Press "prase is half scandal"
Tho efoomor immortal from P;ttobpro