The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-06-24

LATE NEWS ITEMS. ese
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In the examinations of drafted men
there are frequent exposures of the untruth-
fulness and moral weakness of men who might
have maintained the appearance of honest
manliness if never brought to such = test 40
this, but there are more numerous evidences
that the good old fashioned honesty and other
virtues, sometimes imagined to be almost exc
tinct, yet exist among the people. The cow
ardice of some and the falsehoods of others are
disgusting. though in another sense, equally
with the unclean limbs and bodies of the un-
washed. But there are more who display the
highest courage who neither limp nor beg, and
who tell their situation, if they speak of how
hardly the draft bears on them, in such spirit
as 10 gain the respect as well as the sympathy
Oh their bearers. These, if they are compelled
!" remain for service, submit without useless
compialnings or unjust revilings of the gov
eminent and its officers. The virtues we a.
cribe to the highest type of the old Roman
character nave mad their representatives among
the plainly clothed and common looking men
gathered daily at the door of the Office of the
Board of Enrolment in this city-yirtues no
less grand in that they may be unrecorded and,
unrecognized among men.
If there is any relief to the regret which
must be felt that the operation of the draft
bear hard upon the poorest classes of our citi-
zens, it may be found in incidents like these:
Joseph Boil, of Minnetrista, goes as substitute
for his brother Andrew Boil No bounty.
| David Maxon, unmarried, of Medina, goes
as substitute for lis brother, Benjamin Maxon,
married. No bounty. el3allf.
| John Moran, of Eden Prairie, aged 18 goes
as substitute for his brother, George Moran,
married. No bounty.
These are recent instances. We understand
that others have occurred of like nature, the
substitute Offering themselves without bounty,
in place of relatives whose family ties or other
circumstances made their going into the army
an especial hardship. Honor is given to the
volunteer who, with the inducement of higher
| pay, and large bounties, with chance of promo
ton, gives himself to the service of his coun-
try. These men, doubtless equally patriotic,
| exhibit virtue which should redeem the des-
ignation of substitute from the stigma attached
| to it by the conduct of Eastern bounty Jump
ers So faithful and selfsacrifcing at the call
of fraternal love, we doubt not they will prove
themselves earnest in the cause Of the Union
and gallant soldiers.
| Gen. Buell. has resigned his colonelcy in
the regular army and retired to private life.
| A paragraph in the New York HeraM
says:
| Major Merritt, late Engineer in Chief of the
| Western GunbOat service, is sole heir, by the
will of relative, to property valued at two
! and half millions of dollars ($2. 500 00O.)
| It is to Major NJ. that the credit of the eff
| cheney the gunboat service is due more than
| to any other man; and it is pleasant to learn
| that he is in luck.
| "A gentleman in conversation remarked to
Presinent Lincoln on Friday that nothing could
defeat him but Grants capture of Richmond,
to be followed by his nomination at Oh. cago
and acceptance. 'Well," said the President,
81 fell very much like the man who said he
didt want to die particularly, but if he had got
to die, that was precisely the disease he would
like to die Of"
"A counterfeit $50 treasury note has been
put in circulation in Philadelphia. 1t is said to
be an exact imitation of the genuine though
the shade of the ink in not precisely the same,
and on very close examination, a slight differ
ence may be observed in the engraving of the
portrait in the centre of the note. Care should
be exercised in handling treasury notes of this
denomination. .....rrf.e
The great New York State Inebriate Asy-
lum, at Binghampton, is approaching compile
ton, and its friends are expecting great things
from it. One ward will be open for patients I
the present month. Among the Board of Di- .
rectors for the ensuing year are DR.. Valentine
Mott, President, ex President Fillmore and ,
Daniel s. Dickinson. Mr.. Prime has been
chosen Chaplain. /
Colonel Marshal LETTERS. late commander
of the 9TH New York Regiment, National
Guard, has been appointed Brigadier General
by Governor Seymour. 1t is understood that
his new command is to be the 22d Brigade, but
it is not yet known whether his assignment is
to duty in the field or in the State.
After a protracted contest over the Daco.
tab contested election case, the House of Rep
resentatives, to-day, voted Gen. Todd, Mrs.
Lincolns brother, as having the right to the
seat. The report in this case showed the most
glazing fraud.
Gen. Finnegan, who was not long since in
command of the rebel army in Florida, and
who defeated Gen. Seymour at Olustee, was
subsequently sent to support Joe Johnston in
Georgia, was present at some of the recent bat
ties of Gen. Lee, and is now lying wounded in
Richmond. This fact shows how rapidly and |
how constantly the rebels are moving their
forces from point to point, to sustain the weak |
places when necessity demands it.
"A dispatch from Milwaukee says the crops
of Wisconsin are in prospect of being almost
totally ruined on account of the protracted !
drouth that prevails, and the numbering inter- |
ests are also in danger of suffering very mate |
rally from the same cause.
The bogus proclamation (by Howard, of |
the Tines, regarding the effects of which |
abroad so many apprehensions were expressed. |
was taken out by the Scotia, which reached
Liverpool May p. The telegraph summaries
of the news, forwarded to the press in advance |