The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-04-22

3d.. cisive.
From the New York World.
SURAY, PAGE County, Va, March "a
The first days of spring find all Dixie in
tine feather. From the fiasco of Kilpatrick
and young Dahlgren near Richmond. from
MIR. Lncoln's shocking experiment in
Florida, from Palmer's disastrous repulse
at Dalton, and Sherman's magnificent
hzzle, they gather glad auguries for their
arms IN coming campaigns. While we
are just entering upon season of political
distractions, divided councils, jealous gen.
erals, voracious spectators, and a wran-
gnne press, they bring to the struggle an
united people, harmonious journals, and
an army stronger than ever before. and
eager for the trial of Observation-Disclosures
not in numbers perhaps. for it cannot ex-
coed two hundred and eighty thousand of
all arms, but in the stuff of Which it is
composed, in equipment, in supplies, in
discipline, in tried leadership, and es-
pecially in confidence and high hopes.
Veteran regiments have been re-enlisted
with remarkable unanimity men and horses
have been prudently recruited, subordi-
nate officers have been selected and dis
tributed with strict eye to their ability,
activity and popularity, and the reserve
force organized and drilled will suffice to
maintain the the fighting army at the re-
CURED standard of numbers and efficiency;
the artillery is powerful and of the most
approved patterns, and the cavalry, though
less numerous, perhaps, than formerly,
has been recruited into high condition
and thoroughly reviewed Lee is said to
have two hundred and sixty pieces of ar
tillery in his immediate command, and the
equipment of the rebel armories is equal
to the demands of the most vigorous cam
paign. ,..
It is notion fast finding acceptance
among Virginians, that the coming sum-
mer is to be decisive Of the fate of their
State; that if tire next winter should find
our arms no further advanced into the
bowels of their land than they are now,
our political and military powers will aban-
don Virginia as incorrigible, and transfer
their attentions to some one less willtul of
her sisters. Reading in our journals of
the mad carnival of prodigalty and heart
lessness in which New York is plunged,
they say the Babylonian catastrophe is at
| hand, and they rejoice that they can go
| forth and meet it with strong arms and
| exulting hearts
Meantime loud cry again goes up for
| offensive operations. The army once
more demands to be led into the green
pastures and by the still waters OF Mary
land and Pennsylvania-nor of those alone,
bat of Kentucky and Ohio as well. How
ever idly it may fall on the ear of Mr.. Da-
| Wis, it is certain that, even as | write, this
| o,,1 o<s
point them to Antietam and Gettysburg,
and ask, How about these? they answer,
as in their blind infatuation they always
have answered, that Antietam confirmed
the southern boast that they could Whip
the Yankees one to two; for there, Lee,
with thirty-five thousand men, fought for
the greater part of day near one hundred
thousand of the enemy under their ablest
leaders, held every inch of his ground that
night, defied them in battle array the next
morning, and then made good his passage
of the river without the loss of wagon.
As for Gettysburg, Meade owes his success
there, such as it was, to swollen river, short
ammunition, and Davis refusal to reinforce
Lee from Richmond. They maintain that
Sickles is right, that Meade had begun
to retreat, and that on the 5th be dispatched
an order to the General commanding at
Frederick to hold that place at all hazards.
"They don't mean to say that they were
not defeated at Gettysburg, but they would
like to try it oyer again." but not all Of
them-the Maryland men in the army are
said to be strongly opposed to the project.
The most thoughtful and earnest of the
people lament the partial decay of that re-
lgious sentiment which, inspired by the
personal example of StOnewall Jackson,
and promoted by his discipline, year ago
ran, in an epidemic of enthusiasm, through
| the ranks. When Lee led the army into
Maryland, every man OF entire divisions
| carried Testament or prayer book as an
especial part of his equipment and his dali
| ~ exercise. The remarkable conversion,
! through the influence of the dying Jack
son, of the formerly passionate and profare
Ewell, who at one time complained that
he had to do the swearing for the whole
army, produced powerful impression es-
pecially among the Virginians and Mary
landers-an impression which Lee did his
best to confirm, and which, though not so
plain as it has been, still abides.
Stuart is stirring, and the gay lads who
ioi1OW his ASdtIlcT, nave On ID6,r war
paint. When he comes l will let You
A no w. Il - i-...
Court Martial Findings in saint
Louis.
We find the following in the proceed
lngs OF recent court martial held in St.
Louis: 3
Benjomin Rockliff, Co. l, 9TH Minnesota in
fantry, drunkenness on duty and quitting his
guard without leave or urgent necessity, to
imprisonment and hard labor for one month,
and forfeiture of two months pay proper.
Samuel Budd, Co. G. 9TH Minnesota infantry,
neglect of duty and leaving post before being
regularly relieved, declared not guilty and ac-
Quilted. i--,4 -.i1
James Clark, Co. !, 10th Minnesota infantry,
for aiding others in breaking up furniture &C.,
in the drinking saloon of John N. Weyand, to-
three months imprisonment at hard labor. and
forfeiture of three months pay. my
Timothy Daley, Co. K, 10th Mimi, drunken.
ness on duty, to confinement at hard labor for
two months AGA '"S4t
Patrick Maloney same company and rerL
ment awarded similar punishment for SINH
lar offence. S~"""
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