The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-07-29
POSTOFFICE ESPIONAGE.
Government officials Violating Pri-
vate Correspondence and Rob-
bing the Mails.
The Cases of Gen. Mcclellan and
Fremont.
From the New York World, 21st.

IlOu tuC ANCW 1OIh VOIlu, lAhL
1t has become a matter of notoriety
that the administration has prostituted the
postoffice system of the United States to
its own personal and political purposes to
such an extent that no one is certain of
the safety of money, or of the inviolabil-
ity of private communications, when COM
mitted to the keeping of the mails. True
to its practice of violating every personal
liberty or right hitherto held sacred in
governments and communities, the admin
istration now arrogates to itself the inde-
cent privilege of tampering With the cor
respondence of citizens; and, to crafty
its malicious hate against men who dare
honestly to criticise and oppose measures
which they deem corrupt and imbecile,
has established system of espionage over
the mails as mean and shameless as it is
possible for the Originators to make it.
The prominent men of the country who
oppose Mr.. Lincoln and his policy now
take it as matter of course that their
letters will be opened, and though writing
nothing that they would be unwilling that
government officials should read, if they
had any business to do so, find great in
convenience in the fact that their letters
are on this account delayed two or three
days beyond the usual time of mail deliv-
cry, otentimes to the great detriment of
their business. and sometimes are not de-
livered ct ALL
HOW THE ARMY PAY-ROILS ARE BILIED
WITH MEN NOT IN THE ARMY.
This, perhaps, may give US clue to
discover where the immense number of
men that are on our army rolls are to be
found. Senator Wilson said that seven
hundred thousand men had been enlisted
or re-enlisted from the 10Th of October to
the 9th of June last, one hundred thou
sand of whom only were negroes. The
country has wondered where these men
are. The spies of the administration in
the North are probably all on the pay
rolls of the army. Every fellow employed
in tampering with the mails, o. employed
with the provost guards, under pretense
of hunting deserters, but really to keep
up the network of espionage and cor
ruption all over the North and finally to
force Abraham Lincoln on the people for
another four years, somehow, no doubt,
figures on the paymaster's list. The army
of fellows in the North in the direpatable
employment of prying into honest peoples
business would, perhaps, make an army
sufficient to capture Richmond by very
force of numbers-fOr they would not be
likely to do it by the exhibition of moral
or other courage. They should either be
made to go the front, or to obtain an
honest livelihood, as other people have to
do, especially as citizens, who are helps to
the community, are liable to draft to fill
Their places. ef a.ra... III. .... f,.
ALL OF GENERAL M'CLELLAN's LETTERS
1t has become notOrit US, and it is not a
matter of Q year but of several, that
General McClellan's letters are regularly
opened, and it is stated on pretty good au-
thority-not General McOlellans authori-
t., however, but by people who profess to
know-that the direct reason of his super
sedure after the battle of Antieran,, was
letter which he wrote to friend in the ir-
ritation he was under at the absurd Or
ders OF General Halleck and Mr.. Lincoln,
IN which some expression was construed
TO be reflection upon the President; and
1t ls said that this also accounts, in some
degree, for the extraordinary personal
spite and malice manifested against him
oy tn administration. OF the latter, the
recent removal of Colonel Bowman, and
reduction in rank OF Lieutenant Colonel
Oiitz, members of the committee which
invited Mcclellan to deliver the West
Point Oration, are instances. 81 H. All
| j GIN. FREMONT o LzTTERs OPENED.
In the case Of Gen. Fremont. the tam
pering with his letters has become 90 reeu-
lar and palpable that he has found il nec-
essary to have his correspondence ad-
dressed to some fictitious name to receive
it in due time BY the regular course Of the
mail. kilograms to him are also delayed
| in the same way, and singular fatality at