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The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1864-07-15
Letter from Lake superior.

SUPERIOR CRY, July s, 1864.
Editor Of st. Paul Pioneer:
The steamer Traveller, of Detroit, arrived
July I. 1864. and cleared the same day with
ninety-seven head Of Minnesota cattle for the
er-mining towns below rs on. the Lake !;
also number of passengers, many of them
engaged to work in the copper mines. The
schooner Pierpont left June goth for Eagle
River with one hundred and thirty-two thou-
sand feet Of lumber and ffty-fve thousand
lath. ;'y.-3.1 h.'Htf', .,i
j The Wisconsin Copper Company have been
prosecuting surface work on their location re-
Gently. and have found considerable amount
of copper in small masses.
The recent rains will doubtless cause our
Crops to be the usual average The Fourth
passed of quietly. A picnic on Corners
Point; considerable amount of powder ex-
pended, and a hop at the Agricultural Hall-the
most successful of the serson. The tails of
the worthy Treasurer's new st. Paul long,
tailed coat were whisked round to some pur
pose in the may dance, snd the cashier of the
Portland Bank was as usual in attendance on
the ladies. We danced all night till near
broad day light and went home early in the
morning. a
The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1864-07-15
Captain Semme&.

Aletter from Belgaum, India, on the 7th of
May, which is published in the United Serv;ce
Gazetts EnglanD says: o. = -, .'-s =
This pleasant station was startled out of all
propriety few mornings ago, by report that
Q party of the Alabama's crew were at the
travellers bungalow, beating up for volunteers.
Next morning it was found that Ave artillery
men had deserted; they were, however, oy-
ertaken on the Goa road, whence they were
proceeding to join Capt, Semmes. VINO was
quietly lying of Goa to pick up whatever
game his crimps managed to bag ashore. The
fact that party from the Confederate cruiser
succeeded In reaching station q hundred
miles inland, without let or hindrance, and
carried off whole subdivision of her Britanic
Maiesty's Artillery. is a lesson from which the
vigilant (saye the mark) Govemmentals might
The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1864-07-15

crushed, until they are startled and awak-
ened 70 knowledge Of the true situation
Of affairs, BY call for hundreds Of thou
sands more troops, and the notice Of an
impending draft. We think the Press
has pursued this course to some extent, as
can be abundantly shown by extracts from
that jou nal during this season. We have
only room for one:
The fatal blow Is struck and Richmond has
Writ tally "gone up!"-St. Paul Press, May 16,
Months have elapsed; tens of thousands
have been slain; there is an urgent de-
a,and for more troops, and Richmond is
not "gone up"yet. We have pursued a
different course from the Press, without
running into the extreme incredulty
charged upon US by our contemporary in
such discOurteOus terms. We have be-
lieved the people wanted to know the
truth, and have diligently endeavored to
find it and lay it bef:r them, and shall
continue to do SO until the end. When it
becomes necessary to buoy up the temper
OF the people by lying bulletins of sue
cesses, or to conceal our reverses, the Un-
ion cause, as the Press said Of Richmond,
is virtually gone up!"
The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1864-07-15

LAST Sabbath Rev. DR.. Thompson, of the
Broadway Tabernacle Church, in New York,
preached an eloquent sermon on manliness.
in the course of which he proposed that those
members of his congregation who are exempt
from the draft should take pains at once to
send representatives into the field. He named
twenty men as proper quota for the Taber-
nacle Church, in this extra volunteer service.
The subject was brought up again, and, though
the congregation was small, enough money
was subscribed on the spot to provide fifteen
men at IN sverage of $500 apiece. A com.
mittee was appointed to follow up the matter,
who hope, In the course of this week, to add
t.centy-fve men as clear gain to the army, by
this new method of recruiting. A noble
hearted woman: feeling that although she
would object TO her sex, rendered Lfve 2a.drSd
do&ys 70 tho fund. i'nni yoe3ils .8tsI
The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1864-07-15
Our Army Correspondence.
LRIIER FROM THE SEVENTH
REGIMENT.
In THG FIELD, La GRAsaE. TENN,

IN TEM FIELD, LA GRAror Tvus
June 20, 1854
10 the Editor Of the R0neey:
We are making slow progress toward For.
rest, but sure. The principal object of our
corps is, as 1t appears to us, to keep open this
rail- DAD (Charleston and Memphis } and to
open and build up the other roads which lead
to Sherman.
on Monday last we lett Moscow and came to
this place, about ten miles. Thi, march
though Short compared with our last sum-
lheF o marches, was rather hard on US. The
neas was terrible Several men were sun
struck' but not dangerous. Some four or five
men out of the whole Corps died, A great
many have not yet recovered from that 6avs,
march. The citizens say we will not see anv
hotter weather this simmer, great many
men have injured themselves by drink;uc GOO,
water afser marching through. Aman belong.
ing to an Iowa r. gimens dropped dead at the
well while drinking.
We are now waiting on the telegraph mend.
ers and railroad constructors, but believe The
railroad 10 finished for ten or fifteen miles he.
yond here We are now in sight of Grano
junction, and will be in Mississippi on our
next move
the rest we have had since the last march
Is not quite enough for us TO recover from the
exhaustion, but if we are ordered to advance
to morrow We are willing to go. -a-t
In my next letter, probably, will give you
something of the fighting qualities of the
Seventh Minnesota SEVENTH.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1864-07-15
Death Of Gen. Taylor.

Brig. Gen. JOSEPH p. TAYLOR, Commissary
General of Subsistence of the United States
army, died at Washington on the 29th ultimo.
Gen: TAYLOR was younger brother Of the late
Mai. General and President ZACHARY TAYLOR.
He entered the military service of the nited
States ss third lientenan. OF the Twenty eighth
infantry in 1913. and acted in the subsistence
department for most of the time thereafter till
1929, when he was appointed a captain. He
was promoted major of subsistence in 1888 and
lieutenant colonel in 1841, and on the death of
Brevet Maj. Gen. GEORGE Grssox, late Com
missary General of Subsistence, he succeeded
that officer with the rank of colonel Under
the act of Feb 9, 1868, providing for the addi-
ton of a brigadier general to the Subsistence
Department, Colonel TAYLOR was selected for
that position.
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Why the Pirates Rurn prfxes.

captain SRMAEs, of the rebel steamer
Alabama, requested the London Times to
insert the reasons why rebel cruisers burned
their prizes and his suggestions for REM
edy. The communication fills two columns
and ha f of the paper. He says it was
his intention to have sent all his prizes for
adjudication into the ports most conve-
nient for the parties concerned; but his
intention was frustrated by British order
in council Captain SEMMRs asks, was it
expected that he would abandon the right
of capture altogether, or that he would be
guilty of the childb play Of capturing the
enemy's ships with one hand, and releas-
ing them with the otherP
Further, he inquiries what inconvenience
to Great Britain, tor example, could posi-
bly, have grown out of the fact of the cap
tured vessel lying quietly in the port of
Liverpool in charge of ship-keeper and
prize agent until she could be aGjudicated !;
and If she should be condemned, why
should she not have been sold as quietly
asi she had been seized and sold under
any execution for debt. Captain SEMMEs
takes credit to himself and his officers for
every ship set on fire, insomuch as they
sacrificed their own chances of prize money
to the good of the Government.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1864-07-15
NEWS OF OUR OWN STATE.
From the Minneapolis Atlas.

From the Minneapolis Atlas.
SHueoINo.-Ttis is settled feet tha: large
and clsndestine trade is being carried on be-
tween citizens of the United States and certain
parties located ON the British side OF the line,
at or near Srlkirk Settlement If We are not
greatly misinformed. certain sharpers, resi-
dents of st Paul and st. C'oud, are in; the
habit Of smuggling through alcohol In barrels,
labelled =. coal oil = thus cheating the govern.
ment out Of good round percentage. 30 with
many other articles we might mention. This
clandestine trade has assumed a magnitude
more than sufficient to deserve the prompt in
reference Of the United states authorities.
this ontrageous violation of law; and vet such
men profess a show Of patriotism at times. 20
az to conceal their persistent violation of dutv
to their government 90 1aod8 eav
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Accident TO the Carte

From the Fort Garry Nor Westes, June e..
Some fifty carts nave Just returned 10 tie
settl, ment, being turned back on their way 10
st Paul by the terrible fires that this extraoy-
binary season are making such hayoc il the
country. The borders even of the Winnipeg
in all directions visible, are oyerhuuy by dense
clouds of smoke from the hurniog mines sn6
other woods within.
When some three days out from PeInbina
while crossing newly burnt swampy track
the oxen commenced lying down, their feet
being so miserably burnt 10y she still glowing
but hidden soil as to render it necessary to
Kill number Of them and return with the
balance at once We regret to say that Mr..
John Matheson was rather badly burn. whse
engaged with his teams.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1864-07-15
Puni.hmens OF Soldiers

A letter from an officer of Major
CIowNeYls command complains that cer-
tain unjust censures of Henderson paper
concerning punishment inflicted upon
men Of his command by Major CLowNEY,
was copied into paper of wider circula-
tion-the St. Paul Press. The men had
been guilty of gross insubordination the
Major punished them by making them
carry heavy knapsacks on the march
Now, if those men had robbed or insulted
private citizens, the whole command would
have been thereby disgraced, and their ac-
ton would have been reproach upon the
name of American soldier. The Hender-
son paper might then, perhaps, have justly
censured the commanding officer. But
when he maintained good conduct among
bis soldiers by strict discipline, and caused
those who might be inclined to do wrong
to observe the rights of citizens and the
ordinary rules of the army, by prompt
and not undeserved punishment on offend
ers, it was unjust to him that news 'aper
should 80 uncharitably condemn him; but
his subordinates might not have noticed it
if the Press had not incautiously given
the ill-nature of the Henderson paper 3
wider circulation.
We can add, from personal acquaintance
with Major O1owNEY and near half the men
Of his command, that he is deservedly pop
ular with them, and in all respects faith
full officer.
Our readers will recollect the complaints
made against one of our Minnesota regi-
ments-the Mounted Rangers conduct
on the march; and that they, really sgood
regiment and generally good men, were
actually designated as the " Mounted Rob-
bers by people who suffered from the
conduct Of few members. Major Glow
NRY desired to save bis command from any
such name and shame by prompt punish
ment of offenders, and If the Henderson
paper is earnest in its sympathy for SOL
diers, it will rejoice, with the majority of
good soldiers, when bad men are deferred
from disgracing the blue uniform by the
strict discipline of such An officer as Major
CIOWNEY. r.. --lf 20
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now; in the second place. he says that inter-
cepted rebel letters now in possession of our
military authorities confess that in the battles
of tho Wilderness Lee was 90 completely
whipped that he could not afterwards get his
men to take the offensive in any Of the en-
gagements; and thirdly, he assures his cor
respondent that if he is disposed to be doubtful
or gloomy as to the result of operations below
Richmond, he may at once dismiss his fears,
for 1t Is all "going on well and right"
The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1864-07-15
Disastrous Fire as a U. 3. Arsenal.

PrILADELPHlA, July 3.-The .Sxnda, Dis
patch publ he'd an extra which says, under
date Of Springfield, Mass., July Cd. at eiSht
o'clock last night, FIRE broke out in the attic of
the milling shop. arsenal building. 800 feet
long: TWO stories high. The building was
totally destroyed with all its contents. At
one time It seemed impossible to save any par.
OF tne Doiloing north Of the square, and many
snoPe were cleared of machinery tools and
stock. The IRE however. was srYestsd At 10
O'CLOCK: IL is supposed to have been occs-
sioneo Dy spontaneous combustion The arse-
nat on the opposite side OF the square, with
oOO, coo n4Ns, was not injured. e93
The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1864-07-15
An Encouraging Exhibit.

We learn that the total interest upon the
public debt including the seventy five million
loan now under negotiation and the four hum
dred million bill passed by Congress, will not
exceed $s5 0O0, ,OeO in gold. -
There is abundant and superabundant means
for the payment of the public debt Qnterest)
during the year, probably an excess Of from
twenty-five millions 70 thirty millions in gold
per year. a,s a.,l 81 49,.
The revenue for the fiscal year ending 3Oth
June instant, It is now ascertained, will amount
TO about $210, 600 90. This includes custom
duties, which are oil paid In gold, internal
revenue receipts. and miscellaneous receipts,
which last item this year amounts to the very
large sum of. $40, 100000. vi fe5iot
The receipts from customs were for
LIST quarter fiscal years q, 600, 600 and upward.
I'd quarter fiscal year ......... .$21, ,0OO. 900
sd quarter fiscal year. r.............. q 900 900
4th quarter not yet ascertained, pro- We.
badly .......................... 25, 100000
Making total of nearly 800, 0OO 600 in gold
collected from customs this year.-Wash Star,
The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1864-07-15

The National Intelige~cer says: F" 1t is known
that Mr. Lincoln, finding Mr.. Chase bent upon
the appointment of Mr.. Field, prevailed upon
Mr.. Cisco to withdraw his resignation. He
then wrote to Mr.. Chase q letter regretting
that on this as on previous occasions persis.
tent demends have been made for the appoint
ment or retention of treasury officials in op-
position to the wishes of the administration.
Mr.. Chase's reply was regarded as resigna
ton, and was accepted ss such. 1t Is not be
lieved that he would now return to the treas
ury department were he invited to resume his
portfolio" '5.'. -i<.-s -'- -'''' ~' {,
The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1864-07-15

In times of discouragement let us be cheer
ed by these words Of Gen. MCCLELLAN at West
Point.
Shall 1t be said in after ages that we lacked
the vigor to complete the work thus begun
That af.er all these noble lives freely given,
til our land was saved Forbid it, Heaven, and
give US frmer, truer hearts than that lIa
Oh, spirits of the valiant dead, souls of our
slain heroes, lend us your indomitable will.
and ifit be permitted you to commune with
those still chained by the trammels Of mortali-
ty, hover around us in the midst of danger
and tribulation-cheer the firm, strengthen
the weak, that none may doubt the salvation
Of the Republic, and the triumph OF our grand
old flag. iaF -f.o- fT,f IL lh.1ae et. s.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1864-07-15
The ss Press" on Hunters Cam.
paign and ssThe Pioneers,

The Press virtually accuses us of sym.
pathy with the rebels because we did not
look upon HuNTEE's recent campaign as
entirely successful. We quote:
AS an instance of the way in which it the
PIONEER strains at the Union gnat and swal
lows the rebel camel, witness its lying com
ments on Hunters campaign. The rebel pa
pers announced that Hunter was repulsed and
defeated at Lynchbnrg and driven back be-
yond the Allegheny mountains.
Now let us look for moment at the
facts. We know that he attacked the
enemy at Lynchburg; We know that he
was repulsed; and after an interval of
ten or fifteen days, where do We find
him j.? We answer, at Charleston, West
ern Virginia, some hundreds of m les dis
tant, from which place he sends dispatch
to STANTON, recounting his brilliant suc-
oesses. STANTON, with o tender regard
for HUNTERS reputation, neglects to give
the name Of the town where HUNTHR ted
his dispatch. Let any candid reader look at
the map, and fnd Charleston, W Westvirginia,
on the Kanawha river, only fifty miles
from the Ohio river, and decide for him
self whether HUNTER was not driven be
yon1 the Allegheny mountains. This COL
umn was destined, primarily, for the cap
ture Of Lynchburg, and the destruction of
rebel railroads, or in other words to CO.
operate with Gen. GRAxr in the reduction
Of Richmond. 1t was also expected to
secure the Shenandoah Valley, the inlet
to Maryland, from the rebels. That Hun
TER destroyed some rebel property, we do
not dispute. No army marches through
rebel territory without doing it, but it is
idle to say that he was successful in the
main objects Of the expedition. He could
not take Lynchburg, neither could be re-
treat down the Shenandoah from whence
he came, and probably was wise in getting
away from his pursuers in the manner he
did. But the result was, that finding the
Shenandoah Valley open, for SleEI was
not serious obstruction, the rebels pass
ed up the Valley, captured Harperis Fer
ry, and are now, or have been, raiding
through Maryland and Pennsylvania, de-
stroying vast amount Of public and pri-
vate property, and creating intense excite
ment, if not alarm, through other North
ern States. All this is directly chargeable
to the failure Of HUNrRR's campaign.
The Union cause has been injured by
the course which many journals have seen
fit to pursue in regard to our military ope-
rations. Every battle and every skirmish
is trumpeted through the land as a decisive
Union victory, no matter how indecis We
and unimportant- it may have been. and
when the truth comes to light, if unfayor.
able to the cause, it is carefully suppressed
The great mass Of the people who depend
on their local papers for the news, are
often led 70 believe the rebellion almost
The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1864-07-15
Strength Needed I'm Our Army.

The people have long been convinced
that it is not for want of troops that our
affairs have been SO bunglingly and disas-
trously managed, but that it is owing to
the lack of brains on the part of the Fed
eral authorities. Senator Co1LAMRR says
" The maximum number of our forces
should not be allowed to exceed 500, 900
men. Any excess over that number tends
to hasten national exhaustion, and thus to
defeat the avowed object of the nation in
waging war. The military energies of the
people are to-day suffering from the waste
of their strength put forth in spasmodic
effsrts to swell the number of our forces.
under the delusive idea that our armies will
be efficient in proportion to tie number of
men we crowd into the ranks and draw
from the walks Of productive industry
If this be the case, and Senator WILSON
gives truthful statement of the number
Of troops recruited last year, we now have
twice as many men in the field az are
needed, namely, about one million. Says
the National InteAigencer:
If that force be only concentrated and wisely
handled it is adequate to accomplish all that
can be accomplished by physical means but
no afauence Of physical means can atone for
error In generalship, defects in strategy, or
scattering Ut resources at time when every
thing depends upon vigor and unity of con.
duct. 1t is yet TOO early to speak with entire
confidence of the success of our impending
operations in Virginia and Georgia. the only
quarters In which our armies are doing any.
thing towards the suppression of the rebellion
And If these two armies are suffering for a
want OF men. it must be for some other cause
than for want of troops at the command of
the War Department, whsn it has million of
hem subject to It's disposition, unless. indeed,
The immense losses to which Mr.. Wilson re.
fers as having been sustained by Gen. Grant in
placing his army on the James River by the
overland route a-e much greater than the
country has been led to believe"
The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1864-07-15

The following is the vote in ths Seaate on
the repeal CT the Gold Bill:
YEAs-Messrs. Anthony, Brown, Carlisle,
Clark. Cowan, Davis, Dooli.tle. Foot, Foster,
Grimes, Harris, Henderson. HENDRICKS John
son, McDougall, Morgan, Pomeroy. Powell,
Richardson. saulsbury, Sumner, Ten Eyck'
Wilkinson, Wilson.
NAYs-Messrs. Chandler, Hale, Hicks, Howe,
Lane Of Indiana, Lane of Kansas. Ramsey,
Sherman, Sprague, Trumbuil Van Wlnkle'
Wade Wiley
The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1864-07-15

ONE day little girl, about five years
old, heard preacher of a certain denomi-
nation praying most Justify, till the roof
rang with the strength Of his supplications.
Turning to her mother, and betkoning the
maternal ear to speaking distance, she
whispered: Mother. don't you think that
if he lived nearer to God he wouldn't have
to talk 30 loud =" Such 9 question is
worth q volume on elocution in prayer.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1864-07-15
Recent Decision of Cases in the
Supreme Court,

CDar'es A. warner We be COmmiss Oners OF Hex
nepin County Alph aion l.. terenppoly y map-
damus ~''t.
The location OF road established ev special acc
OF the egtiatu'e was declared By the act to be
c"mp'ete on the nling of The plat and fed roses of
he survey wi b Kegisiers f Heeoe of the couu-
ties through Or into which the road pas ed On an
app icatiVn for perem. lory wli OF noandanus TO
Omp he Goa mis- ioner> Of one of ID eountcs TO
open the road In their coanty: EeiG Ibs. the de-
PENDANTS having denied the c iEg of aaid pat and
field notes as prescribed by the act the WI. ooud
not sue
The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1864-07-15

--The President has appointed Thursday
the 4th day of August as day of humiliation
and prayer. This is sometime ahead, long
enough. We trust, to give rs Richmond and :
Thanksgiving. lkn' ol tor hra a.oei III ss'
The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1864-07-15
A Cheering view of the Cam paign.

The New York Euening Post states that
distinguished naval officer writes to q gentle
man of that city, frst, that having seen the
Army Of the Potomac under all its command
ers, he has never seen 1t so full of confidence.
20 cheerful, 90 determined, so efficient, az 1t u
The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1864-07-15
Promotions in the Third Regiment.

Second Lieutenant ErHRA1N PIERCE to be
First Lieutenant and Adjutant of the regiment.
First Sergeant HKNRY A. DURAAD to be Sec
ond Lieutenant vice PIERCE promoted. ~
The weekly pioneer and Democrat., 1864-07-15
Words ofCheer.

Making total of nearly 800, OOO 600 in gold
collected from customs this year.-Wash. Star,
The Portland daily press., 1864-03-07

A SIGNIFICANT cHANGE.-Wigfall, of Tex
as made speech in the rebel Senate lately,
in which he said that two years ago, while
Beauregard was at Manassas, he wrote to an
Orange County farmer that he wanted sixty
wagon loads ofcorn and provisions, saying he
would pay as soon as he was in funds. The
next Sunday the letter was read at every
church in Orange, and on Monday morning
the sixty wagons, loaded with corn, were sent
TO General Beauregard, free of charge, and
telling him to keep also the wagons and teams.
Such said Wigiall, "was the patriotism in
Orange county then. Now, those very farm
ers will actually burn their wheat rather than
sell it to the government at five dollars BUSH
ell for the use of their own sons and broth
ers." We have no doubt Wiglall spoke the
truth, and that the change of feeling mani
tested by these Orange County farmers is on
ly one Of the many similar indications that
the people of the South have become entirely
alienated from the cause Of the Confederacy,
and only uphold 1t through fear of the conse-
quences If they do not.