The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-11-27
Extracts from Southern Papers.

We take from Richmond papers of the
18th inst, one or two suggestive para
graphs. Rebellion is evidently beginning
to feel bit discouraged. The way the
Richmond Enquirer growls over recent
events is interesting. That paper of the
18th commences an article on "Surren-
ders and Surprises" in this lugubrious
strain:
The people and army of the Confederate
States have been so much complmented upon
the proves and gallantry of their arms. 40
much battered for what has been Accomplished
| that they have lost sight of the fact that
| more surrenders have been made by their
armies than by the armies of any other nation
What nation in three years of war ever lower
| ed their flag eleven times in surrender? There
have been eleven Confederate surrenders since
| this war began. Near Rich Mountain, at Hat
| teras, at Island No. 10, at Fort Henry, at Fort
DonelsOn, at Roanoke Island, at Fort Phillips
and Jackson, at Arkansas Post, at Vicksbure.
at Port Hudson, and at Cum berland CAB
And then there has not been an instance of
punishment in this long list of disasters; but,
| ON the contrary, promotion has in some in
stances followed swift upon the surrender.
The same paper remarks:
If our people cannot understand why Euro
peans nations hesitate to recognize our nation
| atty, perhaps they may find the cause in the
| fact that the flag we seek to register among the
nations of the earth, though often crowned
with glorious victory, has, unfortunately, been
lowered very often in unmitigated digrace
Precisely!
In the Dispatch of the same day we
have the following candid confession of
the superiority of Northern arms:
1.-THE North, instead of having a vast nu-
merical prepOnderance and an immense supe-
riority OF all kinds of resources, were only our
equals in all these advantages, we should even
then be shamefully derelict to our duties and
responsibilities if we imperilled such momen-
tous trusts as those committed to our hands
by the neglect of any of those military pre-
cautions which are essential to the success of
our arms and the safety of our country.
But when we have every thing to contend
against-when we have foe who can bring
three soldiers into the field to our one and
bring against us at every point the heaviest
odds of material and munitions of war-it
is obvious that nothing can save us from des-
truction but the most unslumbcring vigilance
and the sternest and most all pervading disci-
pline. We must make up in these qualities
what we lack in numbers, and cease to place
an absurd dependence upon the superiority of
our individual courage, for, in war more de.
ponds upon discipline than upon courage, and
if we allow our enemy to surpass US not only
in numbers, but in watchfulness and energy,
we shall insure our defeat and humiliation.
Even in fighting qualities we ought to know
by this time that discipline can convert the
Northern masses into first rate fighting ma
chimes, and that the only way to counterfeit its
effects is by equal or superior discipline on our
side.
"Fighting machines" is pretty good.
But how is it now a-days about one
Southerner icing able to whip five Yam
KEGS? That sort of talk seems to be quite
abandoned among the "chivalry."
The Enquirer furnishes the following
interesting statistics of the bombardment
of Sumter:
Since the bombardment of Sumter COM
menced (on the 18th Of August) up to Thurs
day last, 49, 584 shots have been fired at it, of
which IL, 1902 struck. Of the garrison 27 have
been killed and So wounded. The flag during
| the same time has been cut down 81 times.
The average weight of shot being 200 pounds,
| the weight of iron was 8, 10000 pounds, or
lis, 439 pounds of iron to each man killed,
3d. 900 pounds of iron to each casualty. If the
charges of powder averaged Is pounds, we
have 223, 745 pounds of powder used, or 8, o57
pounds ofpowder to each man killed, and 2, 434
pounds of powder to each casualty.
The ingenuity with which the same pa
per extracts crumb of comfort from an
unpromising source, is amusing:
Charleston will have valuable iron mine
in the ruins Of Sumter, and even now, when
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little risk, might make fortune
Order for the Correction of Enroll.