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The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-09-12
HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES FORCES. I
Baton Rouge, Aug. IA, 1862.

Baton Rouge, Aug. IA, 1867.
tiENERAL-In reply to your communica-
ton of this date, l have the honor to make
the following statement:
None of the acts therein referred to have
been committed, to my knowledge, in this
part of the United States, under the order
of our officers.
No private houses have been wantt My
burned, Since your attack of the 5th inst.
disclosed your purpose to drive this army
from the public property of the United
States, l have determined to adopt such
measures as will enable me, in strict accor.
dance with the laws of civilized warfare, to
maintain my present positions. The accom-,
plishment of this purpose compels me re-
luctantly to burn small number of houses,
including those of the United States gov.
eminent and OF private persons. While it
is not impossible that, through mistake, in.
Justice may have been done in individul
cases; and, although the vigilance of officers
may not always suffice to prevent wrong on
the part Of subordinates, yet believe that
DO unarmea citizen has been seized or car
RED into Imprisonment upon false or frivo-
lout pretexts, No negro slaves have been
armed against you in this department. l
have no information respecting the order
alleged to have been issued to the Mayor of
Bayou Sara.
In future | shall permit 70 wanton de
struciion OF private property shall per-
nit no unarmed citizens to be seized upon
false or frivolous pretexts. l shall not arm
negroes unless in accordance with the laws
OF the United States
But am informed that corps OF black
fought against US in the battle @. Baton
Rouge, aud that our pickets were found
tied TO trees, shot through tbs head Aud
l am sorry to remind you that a most bar
barous system OF guerilla warfare is author
lied by your officers, and praoticed by your
men in this department. While we saved
your drowning men at Memphis, you shot
ours at White River. [ am informed, too,
that occasionally you have raised the black
flag at the commencement of an action.
Nevertheless, | shall never raise the black
flag, which all civilized nations a5hor; but
l shall try to naiptain the flag which you
have so often promised to defend.
Your obedient servant,
HALBERT E. PAINE,
Colonel Commanding U. S. A. Forces.
Major Gen. JOHN G. BRECKINRIDGE, c S. A.
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ADJUTANT GENERALS OFFICE,
ST. PAUL, Min, Sept. 2, 1862.

ADJUTANT GENERALS OFFICE,
ST. PAUL, Min., Sept. 2, 1862
SPECIAL ORDERs-NO. "A.
Pursuant to authority received from the
President of the United States, the Com.
mander.in Chief calls upon the people of Min.
nesota to furnish regiment of mounted men
to serve against the Indians, at war with the
Government of the United States, for the
period OF three months, and to be designated
as the First Regiment of Minnesota Mounted
Rangers.
The Regiment will be organized to consist of
three Dattalions, each battalion to consist OF
TWO squadrons, and each squadron OF two COM
panies, each of which companies will be Or
gained as follows. each company shall have !:
l Captain,
First Lieutenant,
Second Lieutenant,
Supernumerary Second Lieutenant,
First Sergeant,
Quarter Master Sergeant,
Commissary Sergeants,
Sergeants,
Corporas,
Transfers,
Farriers and Blacksmiths,
l Saddler,
l Wagner,
IS Privates,
l04
The regiment when fully organized with the
battaliOns will be rs follows:
Colonel.
l Lieutenant Colonel.
Majors.
l Surgeon.
l Assistant Surgeon.
l Regimental Adjutant.
Regimental Quarter Master.
l Regimental Commissary.
Sergeant Major.
Quarter Master Sergeant.
Commissary Sergeant.
2 Hospital Stewards.
l Saddler Sergeant.
l Chief Trumpeter.
l Chief Farrier and Blacksmith.
, Each volunteer will be required to furnish
his own horse, horse equipment and arms, un.
til such time as the latter shall be furnished by
the United States.
A rendezvous has been opened at Fort Smell.
ing, and one at st. Peter, at either of which the
volunteer will report himself to the officer
commanding the rendezvous; will be exam.
ned by the Surgeon, and his horse and arms
inspected. If accepted he will at once be
sworn into the service of the United States,
and his pay will commence from the date of
his leaving his home for the place of rendez.
vous, and an allowance will be made for his
reasonable expenses on the journey. In add.
ton to his pay, which will be that of other
mounted troops of the United States, each vol
unteer will receive so cents per day for the use
and risk of his horse, and so cents in lieu of
subsistence. until furnished with rations by the
United States.
Any volunteer who may be received into
the service of the United States under this
call, and who may be wounded or otherwise
disabled in the service, shall be entitled to the
benefits which have been or may be conferred
on persons disabled in the regular service.
By order of the Commanderin.Chi
OSCAR MALMROS,
Adjutant General.
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General Headquarters, State Minnesot

General Headquarters, State Minnesota.
ArJUTANT GENERALS OFFICE,
ST. PAUL, Min, Sept. 4, 1862.
ORDERS, NO. Is.
All privates and non-commissioned officers
of the Third Regiment Minnesota Volunteers
now absent from their regiment will report
without delay at Fort Smelling.
BY order of the Commander in Chief
OSCAR MALMROS,
53t Adjutant General.
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"A dispatch from Washington in the
Chicago Tribune says that Colonel O'Con-
ner, of the Second Wisconsin, was killed in
the battle OF Friday near Manassas. The
Second Wisconsin formed a part of General
Kings division, in which were also the
Sixth and Seventh regiments of this State.
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A Rebel Threat to Raise the
Black Flag.
CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN GENERAL
BRECKENRIDGE AND COL. PAINE.

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF.
NEW ORLEANS, August II, 1862.
To the Editor of the Delta:
SIR: am directed by the Major General
commanding to send you the following I'm.
portant official correspondence, inorder that
it may be put upon record in on enduring
form.
The flag under which the lConfederates
have hitherto fought is so dark to US that a
slight change of color will notbe observable
Respectfully yours, R. s. DAVIS,
Captain AID A. A. A. 6.
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CTATEOF MINNESOTA, DISTRICT

NJ COURT, SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT
COUNTY OF RAMSEY,
Euge ne n Lerpenteur agains! James A. Lee and
Dorcas Lee, his wife, Jacob h. Stewart George o. Ro-
bertson, Thomas Yardley, Joseph c. Herr, Reuben
Burnand Adolph evils, Mathew W. Brown, John o.
Sullivan and Timothy Lawrence.
Summons
The state Of Minnesota. to }he defendants above
named
You and each of you are hereby summoned and re-
CURED to answer the complaint in this action which has
been filed in the office Of the Clerk of this Court at St.
Paul. in Ramsey County, in the State OF Minnesota and
to serve copy OF your to the said
tne subscribers At their office in St. Paul. in the County
of Ramsey in said Sste within twenty days after the
service OF summons you, excessive of the day OF
such service and you fail to answer the comp ain!
within time aforesaid the paintifln this action VIII
apply to the Court for tire relief demanded in the said
complaint. ..
.-iH VAN ETTEN 4 OFFICER,
H.1r ed. ss--. Pl intltfs Attorneys.
Dated st. Paul. Minnesota July 8. 1862. augl6
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HEADQUARTERS IN TIE FIELD,

HEADQUARTERS IN TIE FIELD.
NEAR BATON ROUGE, August Ia, lS6z.j
To tn. Commanding Officer of the United
States Forces at Baton Bouge:
Sir: The object of this communication is
to call YOUR attention to acts OF outrage re-
Gently committed in tbs part OF the Con.
federate States, under iae orders of officers
of the United States amy, and to other acts
which, am informed, are In contemplation
under the same orders
Many private house have been wantonly
burned, much private property has been
taken or destroyed, without compensation;
MANY unarmed citizen have been seized and
carried away into Imprisonment upon false
and frivolus pretexts. and information has
reached these headquarters that negro
slaves are being orgarzad and armed, to be
employed against US.
It is also stated tina the Mayor of Bayou
Sara has been orderei lin case he cannot
procure negroes) to Impress all able-bodied
white persons, for the purpose OF loading
coal upon the boats o. the United States
fleet. '
1t has been the ernest desire of the
Confederate authOritie to conduct this war
according to the usage of civilized nations,
and they will adhere b them so long as
they are respected by tie United States.
am instructed by Major General Van
Dorm, commanding thi department, to in-
form you that the above acts are regarded
as in violation of the usages of civilized
warfare; and that in future, upon any de-
parture from these usages, che will raise the
black flag and neither give nor ask quar-
ter"
have the honor to request an answer to
this communication, informing me of your
future purposes touching the acts herein
complained of.
am very respectfully your obedient servs.,
JOHN G. BRECKENRIDGE,
Major General G. 8. A.
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WHOLESALE AND RETAIL

BOOT AND SHOE STORE, JACKSON STREET.
between 5;h and 6h 81. Paul. G. Geizan takes this
method Of informing the trade that be is prepared
I'll at Wholesale liberal terms than any other
house in this city His stock large, nd selected
with great care, and strictly for cash. He invites
give him a call. Orders from the country will be
filed promptly.
mr26 WON G. GOTHAM.
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DIED.

Sept. g. 1862, SUSAN g., wife of John Mwaine, aged
A years,
On the 4th instant, FRANK FULLER, son of Fuller
:. and Elvra Thompson,
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It X G Z l. S | 0 r
Buzz. StO ne Mills
(FOa FARMEaS AND MlLLERs,)

(FoR FAaMsaS AND MlLLERS,)
ANTI-FRICrION HORSE POWERS.
al oilers. The Mil may be driven BY horse water
m is ia milling ss ao sh nent aud requires but
half the power to drive the largest sizes. They
laai Thirty Years, and cost nlIbing fer re pairs.
Pric as 90, $40 AMI $40. Flour Bolt tor smallest
Mil. So extra.
THE RISE P o WEIR
has isself,o be the best ever invented. The
bearngs, that the Who'll weight Of the essnes runs
upon them. Taree pounds draushtat the end OF ten
feet lever will keep the power in motion thus IT.
ing he entire siren g of toe hGrsss to be used GU the
hine to be driven. One horse VIII do as much
wors on this power two on the endless chain power.
1t is p,rtab snd may be used h field well in
tie house. >:ore than % per cent Of horse flesh is
a.ruction and not liable to get our ofocder.
Price of Power ter l 10 horses......... SIS %
viii iHf
Every Machine is guaranteed 10 give satisfaction, or
the money VIII b; refunded
REFERENCES
GENTS With two horses on your Anti-Friction Pow.
err we dive your No. l MIL, grinding 10 bushels OF
Corn per bonr an cut large quantity of bay the
little friction aud onsequenty with SO little strain
upon the horses.
Supt. 18th 18TH ST. Pass. r. r. Co.
CLo:TER. n. j., Jan. SO, 1862.
MEssRs BENNETT Rg0THgRs, GEyTs-I an very
much pleased with the Power 1t runs easier than any
9th Power this vein ty and with the same horses
viii 90 nearly quit as much work run my
Threshsr at 1900 rsY1u:ions per minute. and "a inch
Gross Cut saw, at l,ZuU uious.
Yours truly, rATrR j. WHITE.
re- On all or received before October LIST, 1862,
the freight will be prepaid Chicago any port
Lake Michigan.
Liberal discount to dealers Agente wsnted. State,
County and Shop Rights for sale.
For further information send stamp for Illus rated
Circulars to BENNETT BROTHERS.,
juiy25 3m AZ and4 Greene street. New York.
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BURBANK'S COLUMN.

SCHEDULE
OF DEPARTURES FROM SAINT PAUL
For Stillwster-Daily at So'clock An.
For Shakopee Jordan, ST. Lawrence, Belle PLANE +,
Henderson, AZ Sueur, O,piwa trayersesd de Sioux, St
Peter and Mankate-daily at 2, p. n.
For R0sem1unt, Castle Rock, Northield, Cannon
City, Farbsult. Medfor Clinton FALLS and Owatonna,
connecting 0waonna for Wilton, St. Marys, Whine.
bago Agency AID Maakato also for Rice La re, Clara
mont, Wasioia, Mintorve, Rochester. Chatfeld and
Winona-daily, at 4, A. VI.
For Iniuriana, AuoSa, Orono, Orlando, MOnticel Ito,
Clear Water, st. Augusta ii 81. ClOad-daly at ),
A. NJ.
ForSsuk Rapids Belle Prairie Fort Ripley and Grow
Wing-Tues days. Thursdays and Saturdays, at 5. AM
For Richmond, Sank Centre Alexandria, Chppe-
wa, Pomme De Tarre, Breckioridge, Fort Abcrcrom-
bic and Qeorget own, Dnnecting at Georgetown with
the steamer International for Penbina Fort Garry and
the Red River Settlement and Thursdays at
5, A M.
For Sunrise with connections to for Superior and
Bayaeld--Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday,
att, NJ.
For further particulars enquire atthe General Office
Third street
j. C. BURBANK CO.,
Proprietors.
ST. Paul, July "a, 1862. uly24
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The Pre.ide.t Has = Policy.

The President Has = Policy.
The following from the Washington cor
respon6enee Of the Nswa York Commercial
IS significant, considering the source from
which It comes &Sss<0~1 ".35.1. # -S
Those who suppose THAT the President o.
the United States, w:th millions Of strons
and patriotic people At his back, is covering
and crouching before . few hundred thou.
sand Shareholders il the Border States, do
not know the man. He IS taking his own
time and bis own way, Is be has perfsc,
right to do-for on him rests the response.
biIity. He understands Tho people perfectly
|It will not Be long ere tie people understand
him. His policy IS marked, snd designed
|ios great futars. His principle anxiety !
not TO divids the North. He y 1aily up q
|shs advancing puh,ie ssntinent Of ~ -,
|asd will provs himself ths nsn for tbs boar
Psspars The people for movements II ~
|tsoad aIsa = frssdom, = sr.nd = thsal
|nsds - H. Empsror q Ra1sia. Ths Rs-
Ipsblse win - ssssl y ~ b1 of aniivs1sa
ibssty. g.
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ANOTHER SRELL FRox THE RURAL DIS.
rErors-The Janesville Gazette, after nd
the report Of the Chicago River Smelling
Committee" says: Il = H.: e.,
"This condition Of the Ct go river has
its effects upon the people WHO dwell upon
its banks. They have become so much ac
customed to foul stenches that they canno,
live without them. 81 1t is said that Chica-
go man, who had not been outside of the
city for years, had occasion not long since "a
make An excursion 10 our city, and when
he arrived upon Rock prairie.ihe air was g
free from noisome smells and 80 excessively
pure that the Chicageian tainted away. He
was only resuscitated by putting dead fish
to his nose, when he slowly revived, ex,
claiming. That IS good; it smells just like
home = lKil.0aske. Sentinel .s>s...e serszs
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How IT Is, BoRNE.-It is strange how diff
ferently deep trouble shall affect different
persons. One cries aloud for sympathy, with
outstretched hands of anguish; another clasps
the hands tightly over the poi soned arrow to
concealit from all eyes and silently dies of
the pain. Another affects jollity and rushes
wildly from one excitement to another, hop
ing for nothing, caring for nothing save new
er to be left one moment alone with his misery
Which of these is the greater sufferer, God and
his own soul only know. To f1y is not always
to shun. He who placing chair for misery
accepts him for an inevitable guest, and goes
on with his ordinary employments all the same
as if he were not there, stands the surest
chance to be rid Of him, or grow Indifferent e
his unwelcome presence. To all, however
il is not given to do this; but at least even 70,
them, there eometh an end to all things
Funny Fern. -g.--... ..s~ ~ s.-s.s..< .<.
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Se1fftsa Bpetry.
summer.

Lo! lazy Summer, swarthy, in the sun
Lies painting, with bare breasts, upon the hill:
Swathing her limbs in hazes warm and dun,
Where splendors into dusky splendors run,
And sultry glory all the heaven o'erflls '-
Not white dimple stirs amid the corn,
Not low ripple shivers through the leaves:-
Since, wrapped in gold and crimson CLEANS un
shorn.
Came, flashing through the east. the regal morn,
No throated twitterings gurgle round the cave:
Flooded in sunny silence sleeps tie kline;
In languid murmurs brooKlets float and flow;
The quaint farm gables in the rich light shine,
And round them jasnned honeysuckles twine,
Ard close beside them sun-fowers burn an
blow.
Amid the growing heat lie me down,
And into visions swarms the noted air;
CLEANS up before me many famous town,
Pillared and crested with regal crown
Outshimmering in an orient purple glare;
Lo! lowly Tadmor, burning in its sands
Baalbeck and Babylo IL see slow streams
Gliding by mosque snd minaret, > see the CLEANS
OF seas in sunset-slips of strands,
And drowsy Bagdad buried deep in dreams;
See swarthy monarchs flushed in purple rings
VI sliken cOurterS Through half-Open doors
Catch the spice odors, and the cool of springs
Leaping forever in d mage of wings
See light forms dancing over pearly foors;-
Sleeping seraglios, spire, and tremulous dome
Wnking in drowsy splcndor all the day
See forest haunts where thick the lions roa,u,-
See thirsty panthers splashed in bloody foam,
Leap terrible as lightnings on their prey:
Or stand with Cortex on a mour :..in-pcak
Above the Aztec city,-see unrolled
Gem threaded shores Of Montezuma weak
See the white temples swarming thick and sleek
And sunny streets stretch up by towers Of gold
See silken sails float by, ambrosial,
Laden with spices, up Persian glen;
Or standing on Lebanon, mid the cedars tall,
Or hear the soft and silver fall
Of water down jut of Daricn.
But 10! waking shiver in the trees,
And voices mid the cocks in the glen;
The sun is setting, and the crimson seas
Arc shaken into splendor by the breeze,
And all the busy world is up again!
London Atheneun..
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Is! yv,oras.ia seasona;,nsagp ps!1

The Lounger,. in the last nunber 9
Harper's Weskly, says Y. II. s.. '.,7 - :, :
o' Let US suppress the abo)itiohists,' erie
some slick: wi.ted orator, and the rebellioi
will end !'" or course Il will, you dear so,u1f
and if all your fellow citizens had been :
your calibre and kidney there ould@hav'
been. no rebellion ato oalLn IT Hampton 'asanat
his friends had SAIL, LET us suppress thes
fellows who cry out gainst ship money,
England would have quietly submitted. I,
fthe tyranny Of tho sstuartss:: If Otis int
Patrick Henry had shouted, 'sHurrah fo
King George and the stamp ,a.ct!!' :therr,
would have been ',no bloody revolution, I
Mirabeau and tie French people had below
ed, 'Hurah @for starvation; saristocrats tof'
lever" all the trouble in France would shav,
tspeedily ended rs be sure every every figh
would have been annihilatcd, every 1ibert,
destroyed, ard a few rich and remor.sless
people would have governed France ! bu
there would have been no difficulty, excep
moral riot and general national decay. -.
'Let US suppress the abolitionists.' Bu'
suppose you begin 1T the beginning. Firs
subdue the common sense Of the people o
the country, then subdue those who inau
ence it. 1t is not what you call, with al
amusing persistence, abolitionism that caus
ed the war, but the opening Of the eyes o
the people so that they saw. The people Q
this world know perfectly we'll that slavery
is at the bottom Of this rebellion. If there
had been no slavery there would have beer
no war: just as there would have been nc
abolitionism, The temperance movement
Springs from drunkenness and when. :
drunken man tries to kin his wife, DOM
you think that the teetotalers are responsible
for it? '''' .'''5. '.' ..'
Slavery was trying to kill the country
1t has almost succeeded. Watch = watch
shouted the abolitionist. Slavery, maddenet
that its crime was discovered, shot and stab
bed right and left. There! there = CT,
the sensible Wickliae and Company thi
comes from calling the watch. Why tn
devil can't you hold your tongues {? Let u
suppress these fellows that cry watch
watch +! and all will be quiet again.
Certainly dead dog or dead nation ar
both perfectly quiet. And nation OF free
men throttled, with its own consent, by
slave system like ours, is the deadest AM
meanest of all dead dogs.
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Edmund Burke.

When Burke came forward, as his custom
was, to the middle Of the House of Com.
mons, to speak, the first peculiarity that
caught the eye Of the spectators was the glass;
es which he almost constantly wore in the
days Of his celebrity. He was tall and noble
looking, with decidedly prepossessing ap>
pearance; by no means smart in his dress
yet possessing personal dignity which the
tailor could not have given him. He seem
ed full ef thought and care; and the firm
lines about the mouth, the strong Jaw, and
severe glance Of the, dark ego, spoke Of many
an inward battle which was Known to nc
humane observer. The head was solid and
intense rather than massive, high rather, than
broad, and tolerab'e prominent fuller, one
would say at first sight, Of the reasonipgs
than Of the imaginary power. His nose
which was straight as if it had been cut after
a bevel, opened out into two powerful nos
trlls made, apparantly to sneer. Altogethe,
he looked like great man with a grea,
lesson to read to men, more than like gen
tie one, sent into the world to please. HI
spoke with decided Hibernian accent, al
though he left the country early in ,l,fe.--
But it is to be remarked that men Of genius
hardly ever lose the tongue Of their youth
He had voice Of great compass, and he neve,
required to hesitate for words. They came
quick and vehement, frequently almost be
yond the power Of utterance. As he spok,
his head rose and ie.l now it swung, ant
anon it oscillated from side to side OF hi,
body, msved by The intense nervous actio,
Of his frsme. Young Gilray, the foremos
of English caricaturists, sketches. Burke il
various postures and attitudes. One Of tn
most characteristic Of these represents hin
as r.pt in the delivery Of some splrnde'
Grafton, with his hands clenched and hi
arms raised erectly over his head, his Who'll
body picture Of living energy.-Nor,j
British Reritso. q .. w.
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ORDER,xG THE ASsEIs-In the year 1850,
Pope Clement vi. ISSUED = bull granting
plenary absolution Of all SINS to those who
should visit Rome for the purpose In .
clause Of this ball he speaks IS follows
The Sovereign Pontf, in virtue of th.
authority he holds from the Apostles, renews
the souls Of those who receive this indulgence
to the same state they were in after baptism
and he orders the angels to introduce them
immediately TO Paradise, without ohligin.
them On their way thither to pass through
'Purz1tosr. D,bses's L:.fs ef RtrsreA.