The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1863-07-31
THE HOWL OF THE DOOMED +!
NAME, TEKEL, UPHARsIN
A Call for Martial Law over the
Whole COnfederacy. ..r

A Call for Martial Law over the
Whole COnfederacy. .sn
From the Richmond Enquirer, July 16. s..tf.
** There are much more than
one hundred thousand men in the Con-
federacy who have hired substitutes for
service. They have paid for them from
three hundred to three thousand dollars,
and have up to this time avoided the risks
of battle, and used their time in growing
rich. Now, do these men estimate the
value of their country's freedom, each of
them at his three hundred or three thous-
and dollars? When that sum has been
paid, is all that they have ever owed to
their native land discharged forever?
Are they willing to invest just so much to
rescue their children from vassalage to the
Yankee nation? Will they not bid lit
tie higher? If not, we must have the levy
en- masse, and take /. them all. Then, let
anybody visit the neighborhood of Gen.
Winder's office. 1t is choked with crowds
OF cowardly wretches, calling themselves
orelgners-Germans who were but too
glad to get out from under the tutelage
of their grand dukes and serene highnesses
-lrishmen who long ago renounced with
a malediction, their allegiance to Queen
Victoria all crushing one another in the
race to show "protections " from these
very queens and serene highnesses, and so
fly from the land that sheltered them in
its utmost peril. We cannot estimate the
number of such men in the whole Conted-
eracy, but certainly they would make
corps d'ormee. 'All these points, which
are here only touched upon--the strength
ening OF our military organization, the ap-
plication OF martial law to the whole
country, as in a state of siege-the abso-
lutte control of all trading Especially trad
ing in drink, as within military lines-the
abolition OF substitution, exemption and
foreign protections-the material enlarge,
ment OF the Presidents power to revise
elections of officers, and to make appoint
ments and get rid of incompetent officers
these things form too large and momen-
tous subject to be disposed of in an arti-
Gle. For to-day we only desire to excite
reflection upon them.
NO ESCAPE FOR FOREIGNERS FROM CON.
SCRIPTION IN REBELDOM
Firm the Richmond Enquirer July 16
The office of General Wlnder exhibited
yesterday very strange scene and strange
proceedings
A motley crew of foreigners of every
age and sex, crowded themselves around
the doc, anxious to get passports to go
north by way of the blockade The Jews,
whose ample pockets were stuffed with
Confederate money; Germans, with hands
on pockets tightly pressed; Italians, with
the silvery jargon, and the Irish woman,
with "nine children and one at the breast
(but few lrishmen were there) all beset
the office, and wanted passports to leave
the country.
But few, however, obtained entrance
without great difficulty. Several gentle
men of the legal profession were in at
tendance, and each one who could pay a
utficient bonus received the assurance
that he, the lawyer, would use all his infu-
ence to get the required pass One man,
we are told, paid as high as $500 to a law
Ter TO vouch him, in order that he might
be "fxed up"
We cannot think that General Winder
or his aids understands exictly the matter
of the lawyers making use of them for
the purpose Of extracting money from
those who desire to get passes. There are
certain regulations laid down by the de-
partlnent relative to the issue of passports.
and these being complied with, there is
no need OF the interpOsition of gentlemen
of the legal profession.
There is one thing, however, which
should be done. The name of each appli-
cant tor pass to go north, there to re-
main, should be published at least for
week beforehand, in order that any per-
son who could certify to the applicant
having voted, or in any way exercised the
rights of citizen of the Southern Con-
tederacy, might come forward and testify
to the facts, and those be shipped in the
proper manner.
1t is not fair that those who have drain
ed the very life-blood of our people should
be let off thus quietly, and not be made to
she'd the first, at least, if not the last drop
of their bloc for the government which
has protected them in the collection of
their honored pelf.
EFFECT OF UNION VICTORIES ON THE SOUTH
ERN MARKET.
From the Richmond Enquirer, July II.
The markets lobor under the pressure of
revived anxieties. The public has become
used to the siege Of Vicksburg, and even
in the most critical hours of that ill-fated
city, business pursued passive tenor, and
some began to think that it was regaininp
it's natural channel. But Vicksburg went
down, followed by Port Hudson; the fever
of speculation broke out again, and sugar
being the most plausible commodity to
operate with, sugar was consequently
marked for a furore, It went up like
rockets. Men who had accumulated