The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-10-16
From Washington.
Correspondence of the World.

WASHINGTON, Sept. "A.
HON. JOHN MINOR Bolts IN OUR LINES.
This gentleman is now within the lines
of the Army of the Potomac. His resi- :.
dence is near Brandy station. At one
place where he was yesterday in pursuit of
postage stamps Ghe regular three-cent
q. S. head-of- Washington kind) he was
not recognized by the person to whom he
applied. Some one, however, who knew
Mr.. Bolts, said: "Thats John NJ. Bolts
if you have any stamps, pray let him have
some" Hereupon a sergeant OF artillery,
who had just received goodly lot of the
article, spoke up and said: "Here, Mr..
Bott-, please take half of mine 1 under
stand that you are Union man. You
are the only one l have seen in Virginia;
take the stamps" Mr.. Bolts received the
article, thanked the soldier for the cour-
tesy, but insisted on paying the proper
price for them, which the sergeant was
very reluctant to receive. 1t will be re-
membered that Mr.. Bolts has been long
confined in prison at Richmond for his
devotion to the Union. He is now under
parole to the rebel government, not to
W Oul
ers. He looks care-worn, and probably
his long confinement and the troublous
times which are upon his state have i'm
paired his fortune and means of life. His
household, as is the case with all in the
neighhorhood where he lives, have doubt
less found difficulty in procuring food, in
the constant presence, now for two years,
of large armies. 1t was a graceful and
thoughtful act, therefore, that the COM
missary of our forces sent to Mr.. Bolts
house, some days since, goodly supply
from the abundant stores of the Union
army now encamped on the Rapidan. A
Union-loving people will commend this
attention to one CALAMITY and to the death
in favor Of the cold flag
THE PRESIDENT ADoRNs TALE.
President Lincoln does not cease to
make points by the introduction of those
anecdotes of western life which crowd his
marvelously-retentive memory. A recent
case is told of the manner in which he
closed an interview with, and silenced
further intercession from, a woman who
was begging for the life of her husband, a
soldier sentenced to be shot. In the West,
formerly more than now, the "bottom
lands, " as they are called, in places abound
ed with deer. The pigs, also, were ac-
customed to run in the same "bot. oms."
and only those who had considerable skill
as hunters, could distinguish the tracks of
the deer from those of the pigs. Hence
it became a proverb of truitless hunting
that one had spent bis day in following
"pig tracks" The President told the
woman that the execution of her husband
had been ordered by the War Department
and he could not interfere. She begged
him to go over to the War Department
and have the order revoked. "It's of no
use, madam, for me to 60. They do
things in their own way over there, and I
don't amount to 'pig tracks in the War
Department.
Mr. Stewards COMPLIMENTS TO MR.. SIMMER
It is intimated that Mr.. Seward NAV
avail himself of an early occasion to visit
New York city, when, in a public speech
he may give his views on foreign politics.
in which Mr.. Sumner has recently elabor,
Jately interfered. The impatience of the
latter will be remarked upon in that Quiet
and impersonal way which characterizes
the labored productions of the Secretary
of State. The United States have never
had public servant who has felt the dig
nifty OF his office more powerfully than