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The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-01-29
Secesl Women of Vfcksburr.

The following order was lately issued by
Gen. MCPHERSON. 1t has the rirr of Gen.
BUTLER about it:
HEADoUAR's 18TH ARMY CoRps.,
PRovOsT MARsHALs OFFICE
VICKsBURG Miss. Dec q, 1865.
CIRCULAR.
The following named persons, Miss Kate
Barnett, Ella Barnett Miss Lauta Latham.
Miss Ellen Martin, and Mrs Moore. having
acted disrespectfully towards the President
and Government of the United States. and
having insulted officers, soldiers and LOYAL cti-
zens of the United States who had assembled
at the Episcopal Church in Vicksburg on
Christmas day for Divine service by abruptly
leaving said church at that point in the ser
vice where the President of the United States
and all others in authority are prayed for are
hereby banished and will leave the Fedora!
lines in torty-eight hours, under penalty OF i'm
prisOnment.
Hereafter all persons. male or female. who
by word or deed or by implication, do insult
or show disrespect to the President, the Gov
eminent or the FLAG of the United States. or
to any officer or soldier of the United States.
upon matters of national character. shall be
fined, banished or imprisoned, according to
the grossness of the offence.
By order of Maj. Gen. Mcpherson.
JAMES WILSON,
Lieut. Col. and Provost Marshal, 18th A. C.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-01-29
Visit OF British Officer to Fort
Sumter.

The London Times publishes an extract
from letter of British officer at Charles
ton, dated the 10th of November, as fol-
lows:
went yesterday evening" the 5tb) to
Fort Sumter 1t was most interesting
expedition. The Federals use a powerful
calcium light at Battery Gregg, with which
they illuminate Sumter to such degree
that it is impossible for steamers to 90 up
to the wharf at night as they used to 90,
and we had to land in row boats. They
were Smelling very rapidly, and it became
most exciting when we neared the fort,
especially when We came into the glare Of
the calcium light. and they could see US.
No accident befel us, however. as we went
in, and once inside the place, and in the
bombproof, we were perfectly safe. The
bombproofs are lofty and spacious, and
well ventilated. The last bombardment
has not injured them in the slightest de-
gree indeed, they are if anything, real
ly stronger than before, from the amount
ofthe debris knocked down upon them.
Major Elliot, the commandant, was kind
enough to take me into the area and on to
the parapet, to show me the effects of the
bombardment- courtesy by the way.
which, considering the lively way in which
shells were flying about us, was indicitive
of genuine politeness. a @
We had not beer half minute in the
area when one of the lookouts got his jaw
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-01-29

broken with bit ola shell, and We hardly
got back when another poor fellow was
brought in with two-thirds of his head
knocked off Under the circumstances
we did not stay long still, I had time
enough to look around and see all l wish
ed The place is undoubtedly very much
injured indeed, it is hardly possible to do
the walls any further injury. The sea
front is almost entirely knocked into the
area and you now can walk up from the
area to the top OF the walls which once
faced the sea. The wall which they bat
tered So in August, is now the best one
lett it retains petty well the original
height. 1t is the part of the building
which originally contained the officers
quarters. and was made pretty solid be-
tween April and August by filling up ev-
vacuum with sand. The side toward the
city has also, suffered little. The casual
ties in the Fort are seldom heavy, and
arise from the men exposing themselves
care!essly. The sentinels most of whom
have to be posted at night, have mostly
shelter into which they can dodge when
they see shell coming. On our return
from the fort we were again pelted with
all kinds of missiles, even with grape this
time and one OF our boatmen cot hit in
the hand, and another in the back. though
very lightly,
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-01-29
Good Prices for Old Iron.

At the recent sale, in Alexandria, OF
nearly two thousand tons of wrought and
scrap iron, eight worn out locomotives
brought prices ranging from sixteen hun
dred to twenty-five hundred dollars each.
Old car wheels sold for forty-fve dollars
and half per ton. Old steel springs, one
hundred and twenty-seven dollars per ton.
Cast scrap iron, thirty-seven dollars per
ton
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-01-29
THE DRAFT.
Number of Men Furnished by
Each Town.
Quota and Deficiency OF Eacf
Town.

General Headquarters, state OF MINI
nesOta.
ApJUTANr GENERALS OFFICF,(
ST. PAUL, MINI, Jan. %, 1864.
GENERAL ORDERS, NO. 5.
The quotas of the several towns in each
congressional district of the State under all
calls of the General Government up to this
date, are hereby assigned and awarded as fol-
lows, with the credits of all volunteers that
have enlisted in pursuance Of such calls.
The first column of figures exhibits the num-
Der of volunteers with which each town has
been credited; the second, the number neces-
sary to be furnished in order to fill its quota
under all calls of the Government up to this
date.
The whole number of volunteers thus
far credited to the State is .......... l., 574
Number to be yet raised ............... 2,776
This is exclusive of all members of the old
regiments who have re-enlisted except forty
three names, that being all that have'been yet
officially reported.
Other credits are yet expected from volun-
teers who have enlisted in Wisconsin regiments,
for which negotiations are in progress and
full credits, it is hoped, will be received in a
short time for all who have so enlisted, except
within very short time.
Three hundred and sixteen names at present
exist, not claimed by any town, which will be
distributed, pro rata, upon final adjustment,
unless they shall have been sooner claimed by
towns.
The quotas due under the several calls for
volunteers, during the years 1861 and 1862,
have been apportoned, in most cases. on the
basis of the enrolment made in the summer of
1862. The quotas for the last two calls are
proportional to the number of persons enrolled
in the first class. In the counties of Brown,
Carlton, Kanabec, Lake, Kandiyohi, Mcleod,
Meeker and St. Louis, the quotas are entirely
based on the enrolment of 1868. In the town
of Warren in WinOna county, the number
given for the first class is so large as to make
it probable that mistake has been made.
The qnota for that town is made from the
old enrolment, but it will be corrected to
correspond with the others when the correct
number can be obtained from the Provost
Marshal's Office of the District
First District.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-01-29
WRIGHT COUNTY.
OSCAR MALMROS, Adj. General
The Whisky Excitement.

The excitement about the whisky tax is
getting to fever heat Distillers who have
been running their establishments night
and day, expecting not to pay duty till
they sold it, are very much alarmed. If
the bill becomes law many of the heavi-
est manufacturers say they will be bank
rupted. Eastern distillers are urging that
their rum should not pay as heavy duty as
western whisky, on the ground that molas-
ses. from which the rum is manufactured,
has already paid a duty. Western men
say that their loss from leakage fully bal
ances the impost on molasses.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-01-29

Five hundred of the rebel prisoners
at Rock Island have enlisted in the United
States navy, and more are ready to do SO
as soon as their services can be accepted.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-01-29
Second District.

*Dresbach not enrolled in 1868; its quota
would be 10 or II.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-05-23
DesOIatiOn.

B Z. TAYLOR. in a recent letter TO the Chicago
Journal, points out the signiication of the word
"deSolation" a. follows:
Your readers do not know the meaning of the
word 'desoiatiou," from anything they hod in
lexicons. but it is legibly written and terribly de-
fined along the faces of all these regions. as upon
pige. To this blessed sun. that does so much
for you, gardens make no answer and fields are
dumb; orchards blossom in Loneliness around de
serted dwellings; the winding path To the spring
has grown Him.; flowers, once pets of the house
hold, are safe from the little hands of children
that shall covet them no more. Two Sundays
ago had YOU strolled bey cnd The picket line TO a
certain point where Mission Ridge bends away TO
the south. YOU would have come upon an old
homestead standing "where once a garden
smiled" the ruined, ~fenceless ground lying blank
and bare. 1t was a lovely morning, and the sun
brought out the picture painfully; the silent
threshold. the orchard, standing like broken
ranks after Il battle. You strike upon the door.
and it returns a hollow sound like a clod upon a
coffin lid. And vet the birds. brave in the lone
illness. sang all the same. A poor old horse was
feebly grazing near by. and a man sat upon the
ground by the angle of the wall. reading A
few words told the story; that man was once the
head of the vanished household; of that little
farm there had once been more than enough to
saw ours" A son whom he had educated be
came principal Of the academy at Rome, was
conscripted. and bis fate unknown. Stripped of
all, garner empty. fields u~nkempt, the little band
wandered away; and now he came, that pleasant
morning. on a lonely pilgrimage, to liuger out
the day around what was the very cenotaph, the
empty burial place. of a dear old home. OfhOw
much tender and delicate sentiment those scat
tered and srrown inmates we're possessed, ] can
not tell. Probably not much; and it was better
so. for if God does not always temper the wind
to the shorn lamb" he sometimes gifts them
with tough endurance.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-05-23
Rotten convention.

The following highly important dispatch ap-
peared in our telegraphic report yesterday morn
ing:
"A mass State Convention was called ut
Beaufort. South Carolina, for the 18th of Nav,
TO select delegates to the Baltimore Convention.
A similar movement is reported to be on foot in
Florida"
This is about as cool an operation rs the his
tory of these singular times affords. South Car
olina to be represented in the Baltimore Conven
toni There are not twenty citizens of the en-
tire State Of South Carolina within the neck of
land covered by our lines. Do the miscegeDs
propose to admit our uniedged African brother
TO their Presidential c%ouncilsH 1t is time that
the Radicals boiled from Mr.. Lincoln and repu-
dated the Baltimore Convention, for under the
operations of Mr.. Lincoln's strategy there is not
the ghost of n chance for a fair nomination Mr..
LincOln's office holders. probably assisted by the
multitude OF female New England teachers, will
ok up a delegation for their master, and fix the
stigma Of dislOyalty upon all who whisper a
doubt ms to its right to sit ia the Convention.
The history of rotten borougbs and false elec-
tions affords no instance equal to this in impu-
dence OF villainy. John Candlebox Calhoun is
cast ia the shade. n
"a similar movement rs on foot in Floridal"
Mr.. Lincoln procured the butchery of a thousand
good men and soldiers in order TO get the capital
of Florida to give his presidential scheme the
show of legality and fairness; but as the expedi-
tiOn failed he has concluded to cast aside even
the ~preteDse OF fairness. and secure the benefits
without attempting to conceal the shameful cor
ruptiOn Their submission to such i~mpudent and
shameless impositions illustrates the natural sub
seryience and servility of the abolitionists. Such
an attempt by a leader to corrupt a Convention
would meet the unanimous and indignant con-
demnat;on of any other party; but the abolition
lists are happiest when ridden by masters booted
and spurred Ohio Statesman.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-05-23
south on Ihs RapIdan.

Matters south of the Rapidan seem to have
had a stand still; and although it will be taken
as evidence OF ''disloyalty," we must venture
the assertion that everything relative to an over
whel ming victory over Lee is not as clear as IL
might be. Our dispatches ali come through
Government channels. and from them we learn
that we have lost 81 900 men. and that Lees
loss is equal to and probably greater than ours
In addition to this loss by Lee-estimating il at
the lowest figures of 81 ,00O-we have taken
from him $4,000 prisoners. making his entire loss
49, 900 men.
In addition to this enormous misfortune. Sher-
idan, so Stanton and Sanford tell US. totally de
stroyed Lees communications with Richmond.
and all the supplies gathered at secondary points.
The sam authorities also told MS, at leasta week
since, that Lee was nearly out OF ammunition,
Summed, Lees misfortunes are: %
I Loss Of 40 900 men, and some fifty or sixty
cannon. 81 6 aH41 Hsa
2 Total loss Of bis communication with his
base Of supplies sf1Hs ai f.
3 Ammunition nearly exhausted, and only
quarter ratioBs some eight days ago.
This being the condition of Lee, according to
loyal information, il is extremely difficult 10
understand the condition of Affairs near Spottsyl-
vania. According to Stanton. Lee was COM
pletely routed at that place on Friday last. and
still, despite this defeat, and despite the unfa-
vorable circumstances above enumerated. Lee
has not fallen back, and gold has advanced to
lis.
II Lee was routed two miles in front Of Spott-
syivania. what il the meaning of his being in
line Of battle one mile south Of the same posi-
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-05-23
our Iron.CIad. ana Charleston.

The Charleston correspondent of the Philadel-
phia Inquirer. who is upon one of the iron clads
near that port, says:
The chances are that this noble feet of IRON
clads will not reach Charleston at present. if
ever. They missed the opportunity six months
ago, when Sumter was defenseless and in a pre-
carious condition.; when there was a large Fed
eral army e%ncamped on Morris and Folly Is
lands to give material assistance and co-opera-
ton. Now Sumter has formidable batteries in
newly constructed which command
the channel between her battered walls aud Fort
Monltrie. Sullivan aud James Island are also
bristling with forts and. batteries, where last
summer only a few Confederate guns were
mounted.
Fort Sumter was associated with the rebellion
in its incipiency. and promises t0 remain the bull
wark aud defense OF The pestilent metropolis OF
treason to the termination of hostilities. The
rebels have defended it with great sacrifice. i'm
mense life-offering. with extraordinary tenacity
and desperation. It's external appearance, as
seen from Gregg's Point. is but little changed
since November last. On the sea face, oblIque
from Morris Island. not a wall. rampant. parapet.
or anything resembling them can be distin
guished; nothing is there but a ragged mass Of
mortar. pounded into dus; by the thousands Of
projectiles fired from our guns and mortars.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-05-23
Well said.
The New Nation received the following letter,
which the Radicals heartily endorse:

The New Nation received the following letter,
which the Radicals heartily endorse:
81 have come TO the conclusion that the re-
election of Mr.. Lincoln would prove a greater
calamity to the country than would the election
of any other man who stands any chance of a
nomination. Many well meaning people are
greatly concerned lest the criticism of Mr.. In
coins Administrator should lead to a division
of the Republican party and the election OF a
Copperbead- If even this should be the case, l
am not certain that it would prove more disas-
trous to the country than an unquestioning ac-
quieScence of the loyal part Of the people in the
re election of Honest Old Abe" If pro sla-
very conservatives are to dictate the policy for
another four years, it would be as well, perhaps,
that they should bear tine responsibility and the
shame of their principles. | do not see the es-
sential difference between the policy of Mr.. LIN
coin. as cot forth in the Amnesty Proclamation
and exemplified BY the action of his subordinates
pnder it. and the peace policy of Mr.. Wood.
True. Mr. Wood would offer pardon and a full
restoration of all their rights to all the rebels,
while Mr.. Lincoln's proclamation excerpts certain
classes and requires them to respect all laws Of
Congress and the proclaim ltion, freeing slaves;
but how has he carried it out in louisiana"
We copy the foregoing from the Freie Press.
the organ Of the Republic Germans of Indiana.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-05-23
A Highly tmporfant Rumor Regard.
ing NaP0leon's Purposes.

A Paris rnmor, quoted by the London Globe.
"insists on the existence of a secret article in
the conventions betw cen the French and the
Mexican Emperors. in virtue OF which, previous
to The fin Il evacuation of the Gulf by the legions
Of Gaul. they are 10 be concentrated toward the
Pacific and put in occupurcy of the Sonora dis
trict. including The harbor of Acapulco. ostessi
bly, as a reserve force in csse Of aggression from
North Americe; but in reality to lay a ground
work for permanent annexation 10 drain of that
meralliferous trscr which all the local govern
ments in succession have hitherto turned to ac-
count There is sufficient plausibility in this
scheme to warrant the Journal de Brusselles in
ventilating it; nor was il at all necessary to re-
vive the remembrance of former French adven-
lures IN those diggings. when Comte Roussets de
Boulbon made a dash some years back, at them
from Lower California. There is already a pro-
tectorate established over the Island of Jahita.
Nothing connected with the Isthmus of Panama
has been overlooked by Louis Napoleon. A rich
Savoy on ihe Pacific seaboard looms in no dis
tant future. ,hioaasoss sJgpJ sa- tsis, 80.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-05-23
MALI and CrIma-

The Winstead (Connecticut) Herald, in a re-
view Of an article in the Bridgeport Standard
representing New Haven as terribly demoralized
and as containing six hundred prostitutes, says:
The number seems astoniShingly large, but it
should be considered that New Haven has been
little else than a military camp for the last three
years, and prostitution follows military operations
like a hideous shadow. Nor is New Haven the
only locality Ia which this degrading vice has
thriven since The war broke out. That event
seems to have lifted the flood gates OF licentious-
ness throughout the land, and 1.-THE peculiar vices
of large cities" have not lost their popularity in
their universal prevalence. History and books"
have doubtless a thousand times told the reader
in vague, general terms of the "evils Of war;"
but history and 1.-The books" have but half re-
vealed their loathsome nature aud their broad,
~blighting sweep Truly, it becomes a people to
pause and consider before they accept the gage
Of battle.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-05-23

toni II he is out Of ammunition and rations,
and cannot get any by reason Of bis communica-
tons with Richmond being cut, how do his men
manage to live and TO 6ght2 1.-The has lost 49,
600 men, how can he present a front so defiant
as that described In Yesterday : telegrams2 And
finally. it Grant won an overwhelming victory
on last Thursday, why do we find him the next
Monday on the same ground engaged in max
ing important changes, in the positions of bis
corpsf"
We have seen too much of Grants fighting to
believe that he will win an overwhelming victory,
and then spend a week OF so in recognizing the
positions Of his corps" All OF Grants move
ments heretofore have shown that il is his style,
when he once gets an enemy under motion on a
retreat. to keep him moving When he thrashed
Pemberton at Champion Hills. he did not stop for
the next ten days in order to make important
changes in the positions of his corps" but fol-
lowed close upon the heels Of the discounted
foe. and his advance reached the works of
Vicksburg about as soon as did the rear Of Penn
berton.
We have the utmost confidence in Grant. We
know that he will do all that IL is possible for a
man to do. Nor have we any doubt that he has
done the best he could under the circumstances
We only say that something is wrong somewhere
that Stanton must have deceived the public;
for it is only upon this hypothesis that we can
understand the present position of affairs south
of the Rapidan.- Chicago Times.
Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-05-23

ther than to say that | am deeply solicitous for
the fate of the Republic. Ii is my deliberate
Judgment that the policy Of those in power at
this time will not bring peace, permanent and
lasting peace to the country. even with the most
decided and favorable military results; and with
out such results, and that soon, we shall be fnan
cially ruined.
The people ought to know and deeply feel
that all the tendencies are TO the Capitalization
Of power 10 the hands Of one man, or. at most. a
few men at Washington. Corruption is reward
ed. merit is neglected, vice is supported, and
public virtue is at-a discount. A change of
rulers and a change Of policy are the only hope
| have of saving the Union and the Constitu-
ton. 1l
We have been educated to think our Govern
ment could not be destroyed, we have forgotten
the history Of the past. we have failed to remem-
Der that the Roman citizen once felt the same Sc
curity, and il possible in a much higher degree.
We have forgotten how ambitious men worked
the overthrow of that once proud republic: how
civil connections and frauds caused the death by
violence oftwenty out Of tw enty five of her rulers.
How the soldiers Of the Pr@torian Guard actually
sold the crown and the right to rule the people
at public auction, from the ramparts, to one
Julian, for a sum less than two hundred pounds
sterling.
The ambitious Julian after be put on the pur-
chased robes Of Office, at last fell By the hand of
the assassin, and such are the lessons of history;
they admonish US of the dangers to be appre-
hended.
] have had. and | still have faith in mans ca
pacity for self governmert-but surely that great
problem is now under severe trial in this contest,
and should it fail, as / trust in God il may not,
the cause of civil and religious liberty will 60
back for centuries.
Ny faith in the principles of true Democracy
is mistaken, and every days experience adds to
the strength of my conviction, that the sooner
the Government is placed under the control OF
those who will administer the affairs of the ma
ton on the principles of Democracy, the sooner
will we have peace, prosperity, aud union. The
people must be aroused to IA full realization of
the impending danger that threatens to over
whelm them
We must have a free press, free speech, a FREQ
ballot, and we will ask no more. With these
weapons u~ntrammeled, IL we are beaten we will
submit without a murmur; but these we mast
have, or the consequences must fall on the heads
of those who would attempt to deprive us of Ell
Their.