The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-07-24
What the Esebels Say of Lees
Movement and the Prospect Else.

The Richmond Wing of the 9th instant,
discredts entirely the federal reports of a
rebel reverse in Pennsylvania, insisting
that from 1.-THE subdued tone" of our dis
patches it is evident that we have been
every seriously worsted." In another
place the Wig facetiously calls the rebel
offensive movement "a little summer tour
of the boys into Maryland and Pennsyl-
vania :" and adds that Richmond having
been compelled, in the absence of troops,
to defend herself, has "shown her teeth
in true mastitf style.
THE ''wHIG ON GENERAL HOOKER.
The Wing has terocious al ticle on
General HOOKER, from which we extract
the following:
A distinguished gentleman of the South had
occasion some years ago to spend four months
in the saddle on the Pacific coast. His bust
ness being of public character he was assigned
cavalry escort of twenty-five men, under
charge Of two United States officers. Those
two officers happened to be Hooker and Stone
man, the one now commanding 1.-The finest
of all the cavalry in that army. With these Of
ticers he spent every hour OF every day for the
four months, and slept by their side on the
grass at night. He necessarily came to know
them about as well as it is possible for one per-
son to know another. Mentioning the circum-
stance to us, he said of Stoneman, that he was
never more thoroughly convinced Of anything
connected with personal character than that he
was a cOward-an arrant coward. Hooker he
readily discovered to be a vain, cOnceited, pre-
tensions, boastful fellow, of very moderate ca
pacty and astonishingly Ignorant. He had
never seen a person Of the education implied
by graduating at West Point whose general in
formation and scholarship were so limited. He
knew nothing Of the literature and history even
of his own prOtessiOn-Of famous wars, CAM
paigns and battles, ancient or modern, or of the
most noted commanders or strategists. But
he pretended to know everything, and always
insisted that there was better way OF doing
anything than the way in which it had been
done or was proposed to be done. Not long
after this excursion Hooker resi- gned his COM
mission in the army, and fell into such disre-
putable ways of life in San Francisco, that the
gentleman 10 whom we refer ceased to recog-
niZe him as an acquaintance.
THE REBELS AND ENGLAND.
The Wig has no hopes OF help from
Great Britain In a long article, after
speaking of the hopes of British interfer-
ence which were at first entertained, it
says:
The proportion of Confederates who could,
until very recently, have been made to believe
that English luminosity to the South was so bit
ter as to override law, treaty stlpulatlons COM
mon Justice and humanity, was as one to one
million Two years have produced a vast
cbanoe Admiration for England has died out
utterly: respect is fast disappearing. With the
facts before them, the people OF the South are
Compelled to believe that the government of
Great Britain is hostile to them, and that the
people of Great Britain though aware OF this
hostility. prefer the administration OF Lord
Palmerston to any other
rup REREI. HOPES IN THE LATE CAMPAIGN.
letter from a rebel officer in Lees
armv written from Williamsport, June
25th, and published in the Wing, says:
You may rely upon it that the deeds OF + TINS Is
oIhers previous. General Lee and his lieuten-
ants are said to be in high flow OF spirits.
The demonstrations favorable to us IN WI
liamsport utterly astOnshed me. was II, mere
in the Maryland campaign of last year. men
oIosoSd and the place seemed possessed by soil
trde Int this evening the streets were III
e I'LL lined with ladies and many men, VINO
ohnr}ed and cheered and waved their nandker-
chiefs tn every Confederate that passed.
W., con torn no idea of the immense droves
&c cattIa and horses that are being sent TO the
rear from our advanced forces IN fennsylva van Ia
The supplies in this country are represented ~
he nearly inexhaustible.