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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1864-05-19
dence of the State Journal.
BATON ROUGE. La, April "a


BATON ROUGE, La, April "a, 1864.
This regiment having been transferred to
cavalry after serving as infantry upwards of
two years, required two new companies, let
tered L and NJ. Orders for the organization
of said companies were issued by the Gov
ernor of your State, some months since, and
they are now organized-one Of them (M,)
having already arrived here, and the other
being on the way. Yesterdays morning re-
port showed that our regiment numbered
1000 men all told, exclusive ofthe new COM
panies. About 200 of the number will be
mustered out Of the service on the I'd of July
next but it is expected that enough new re-
cruits will be obtained before that time, to
offset that number, and the regiment will be
l 200 strong to do battle for another three
years.
Since the late battles up Red River, of
which | spoke in my last, no movements have
taken place, but everything remains as before
reported. Some fault is found by military
men in this department with Banks tactics
during the recent fights. 1t is still an open
question which side received the severest pun
ishment.
In the Louisiana State Constitutional Con-
venton which is now in session at New Or
leans the following resolution was introduce
ed on the 2lst inst. by Mr. Gorlinski:
Whereas. On the evacuation of Baton Rouge. af-
ter the ever-m emorable battle of the 5th day of
August, 1862, Col. Paine, of the 4th Wisconsin
Volunteers, then commanding the post of Baton
Rouge crowned his heroic deeds of that day by an
act which has secured to the of this Gonyen-
ton and the State, valuable public library, to-
gether with Thorpes great painting OF Gen. Zacha-
| ~ Taylor and other paintings, which now adoru
the hall of this Convention, and also saved Hiram
| Powers statue of Washington, which is said now
to be in the Patent Office at the national capital
all OF which would have been stolen, destroyed
fire the which demolished the State House, had not
| Col Paine caused the same to be removed to this
! city, when by order of Gen Butler they pro-
tected as the property of the State; therefore, be
ResoErsd, That the thanks Of this Convention,
and of the people OF LOUISIANA, are due and are
| hereby rendered to Major Gen. B. T. Butler and
| Col. Paine for saving the aforementioned vslua-
| bic State property.
Major NOW Colonel Boardman superintend-
ed the removal Of these valuables, audit was
partly through his indefatigable exertions that
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1864-05-19
From the 18th Wisconsin Cavalry,

The Regiment 1900 Strong Compliment to
Gen. Paine by tie Louisiana Legislation-7d
graph from Baton Rouge to 4lerandria-
Presidential Candidate
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1864-05-19

THE THIRTY-SIXTH AT CHCAGO.-W ednes-
day mornings Trj5aNne, thus speaks of the
passage of the 3Gth Regiment through that
city:
About nine o'clock last evening the 36th
Wisconsin infantry, a new regiment lately
raised in that State, arrived at the Rest on
their way to the front, under the command Of
Colonel F. A. Haskell. The regiment num-
bered about $50 men, and presented SPLEEN
did appearance. Wisconsin has ever re-
sponded nobly to the calls made upon her to
furnish men to quell this unrighteous rebel
lion. Her blood has been split like water
upon numberless battlefelds and now that a
further demand is made, she freely supplies
fresh men, though now her sons meet the reb-
els at every point. The regiment has heavy
work before it, for it is assigned to Gen Han
cocks command in the I'd Division of the
Army of the Potomac. The boys start full
Of energy and are determined to conquer or
die. They fight in the haliest of all earthly
causes, on the side of freedom, and may the
God of Freedom grant them speedily decisive
victories After supper at the Rest the regi-
ment left for the front via Washington.
VINO SAVED KENTUCKY.-It was reserved
for rebel and traitor to pay involuntarily
the highest tribute OF praise which mas ever
been awarded to the much praised and greatly
loved HENRY CLAY. POLLARD, of Richmond,
in his smart, reckless, lying Southern History
Of the War, says:
"The persistent adhesion of large portion
Of the Kentucky people to the northern
cause must be attributed to permanent causes;
and among these were, first, an essential I'M
soundness on the slavery question:, under the
influences of the peculiar philosophy OF Hen
nv CLAY, who, like every great man, lett an
impress upon his State which 1t renamed Tor
FIXTURE even more than contemporary genera
tiOns to attest"
A physician examining student as to
his progress, asked him" Should man fall
into Well forty feet deep, and strike bis
baad AGAINST one of the tools with which he
had been digging, what would be your course
if called in as a surgeon" The student
ranIied II should advise them to let the
man lie, and fill up the we'll"
-Anting pite you dar " inquired one
Dutchman of another, while engaged in an
Cling.
No, noting at all"
"Veil," returned the other, "not'ing pite
me, too" sz - 49,
Why is waiter like race horse? He
often runs for plate or cup.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1864-05-19

Twelve thousand dollars worth of fourth
OF July celebration is to bone off in Boston
this year. F-h'5i IS 80
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1864-05-19
From Admiral POrter's Fleet,

Returning dorm Rel R,ve,'-Looc stage Of Va
ter-7Ae loss Of Tie Eastport-=Bad luck uiM
Captured Rebd PrQperty-Au Unpleasant
PrOsDect
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1864-05-19

The massacre at Fort Hillow is said to
have greatly stimulated colored enlistments.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1864-05-19
From the Twelfth Regiment.

The Trip to Cairo-7}iJute to Chicago Laslias
Shabby Treatment on Illinois Central Il. r.
Serious AccidentS-De Demonstrations on IL
UGu-THe Situation ct Cairo,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1864-05-19

The 22d en- route for tie F5"ont-F1'ona Nashville
to Lookout Valley Camona81sg heard from
tue top Of Lookout-'' Sixty roMpdsof Annl,l-
milton and no KnapsackS."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1864-05-19

Why is waiter like race horse? He
often runs for plate or cup.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-06-17

The Herald Of the 9Th devotes eight or ten
closely printed columns to the. grand ovation
to Gen. GRANT on Saturday last in New York.
The speeches were eloquent and in good taste.
but contain nothing very interesting to the
general reader. Among the letters read was
the following from Secretary CHASE
WASHINGTON, June 3, 1864
GENrLEMEN-The loyal citizens of New York
honor themselves by meeting in mass to ex.
press their gratitude to the great soldier under
whose lead the heroes of the republic have
achieved so much for their country, to reaf.
firm their devotion to the Union and to pledge
their energies to the complete suppression of
the rebellion. / thank you for the honor of an
invitation TO take part in their patriotic action,
and fregret that the necessity of devoting my
whole time to my official duties will make it
impossible for me to be. personally present.
Nothing can be said, however, in the spirit of
your letter to which my whole heart will not
respond.
Permit me to add that, while we rejoice in
the success of our armies and give thanks to
God for them. we should not forget that there
is one class of defenders of the fiag-one class
of men loyal to the Union-to whom we yet
fail to do complete justice. 1t will be the mar
vel Of future historians that statesmen of this
day were willing to risk the success of rebel
lion rather than entrust to black lOyalists bull
lets and bayonets. ~ .-.. ~
-- Very truly yours, s. P. CHASE.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-06-17
Siege OF Richmond.

1t is estimated that during the fighting of last
week GRANTS losses were over seven thousand
five hundred men. This indicates that LEES
army is still very formidable; if it were not,
no such loss could be inflicted on the Federal
arms outside the intrenchments. A battle is not
to decide this contest. 1t has pleased, and still
continues to please the Washington author
tiles, to delude the people with false
stories of victories from day to day, when
the most favorable view that can be ia
ken of the situation is, that number of bloody
but indecisive engagements have taken place.
The enemy has shown himself sufficiently
strong to infict disastrous blows upon our ar
my in the open field. What are we to do when
he sees fit to take position behind his fortifica.
tons? Our work must then be slow and toll
some, for the siege of Richmond is no holiday
affair. Says the New York World:
Richmond will not be invested as was Don
only one side, and what a siege is under those
circumstances can be understood by referring
to the history of Sevastopol. 1t would take
an army of three hundred thousand men to en-
compass Richmond, and there is no probability
that Gen. Grant will have so large force at
his command. The prospect, therefore, is of
long siege-a siege not merely ofmonths but
of many months. A system of earth work
defenses, like Todtleben's at sevastopol, can be
used against us, and may prolong CHS unhappy
war indefinitely. The taking of Richmond by
q coup de main is out of the question. It
is as much as our army can do to
drive the rebels out of astily.thrown-up rifle
pits, but there are very few instances in this
war of deliberately prepared defenses being
carried by assault. Even the demoralized ar
my of Pemberton, when chased into the forti-
fications at Vicksburg after repeated defeats
repulsed successfully the victorious army of
no such disaster; 1t is much more ably han
died and hence there is no probability whatev-
er of the sudden capture of that city by an as
sault along the whole line. Nothing bu. a
siege will now insure the ultimate capture of
the CITY of Richmond
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-06-17
The Draft and the $500 Exemption.

Provost Marshal Gen. Fry has written the
following reply to Gen. STEELE, member of
Congress from New Jersey, constituting the
$500 exemption for commutation for the draft {:
WAR DEPARTMENT,
PRovOsT MARSHAL GENERALS OFFICE
WASHINGTON, D. c., May 20, 1864.
Hon. VIM. q. Steele, y. s. House of Represen-
tatires. Washington, d. c.: .--
SIR-In reply to your enquiry of this date,
as to length Of time to which the payment of
communication money exempts man from lie.
bility to service, have the honor to state that
the language Of the law seems to me to make
the subject plain. The law says I" if any drafted
person shall hereafter pay moneyfor the prpcur-
alton Of substitute under the provisions Ofthe
act to which this is an amendment such pay
ment of money shall operate only to relieve
such person from draft in filing that quota.
If it should be necessary to make several draw
ing of names in order to ill that quota, that is
to say, the quota already assigned, the person
paying Communication money will be exempt on
account of such payment, from all the draw
ings to I'LL that quota made subsequent to the
one in which he was drawn, and for which he
paid the communication. 81.
I am, Sir, very respectfully. your obedient
servant, JAMES B. FRY,
Provost Marshal General.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-06-17
The Great Flood at Denver.

The Denver City (Colorado) Commonwealth
has long account of the terrific food which
swept through that city on the 10Th of last
month. 1t was caused by heavy rains at the
heads of Cherry and Plum creeks, both of
which at Denver, are dry for the most part of
the year, but which swelled by the discharges
from the cisterns of the upper Deep" that
were on this occasion broken up, assumed the
magnitude of great rivers A large part of the
city was inundated by torrents of such power
as to sweep away the most solid structures and
the very lots they stood on. Such was the
fate of the Neaos office. The pecuniary loss is
roughly estimated at million of dollars
while some twenty lives were lost. The fol.
lowing particulars are from the Commonwealth
Among the victims were C. Bruce HAYNES.
late of the Quartermaster's office, Gumble
Rosebaum, clothier, Otto Fisher, (our years
old, Henry Williamson, who herded stock
and two children from up Cherry Creek,
woman and two children from Plum Creek,
and q Mr.. and Mrs. j. r. Tyson and two
children. August Metz, of Blake street
bridge, who was carried along with
the torrent eighteen miles to Henderson's
!siaLu, ~ sAc OnV person wounded WnOm we
have yet heard Of Among the heavy suffer-
ers efproperty, are Byers & Daley, publishers
and proprietors of the Rocky Aounfa;a News,
who lost their entire all, with the building and
the lot It stood on, A. E. & C. e. Tilton, house,
lot and $6, 600 worth of goods damaged; also.
F. A. Clark, Gen. Bowen, VIM Mckee, Mr..
Charles, Messrs. Hunt, Metz and others, lost
all they had in store or office, together with
the bildings, and sand substrated lots on which
they stood. Esquires Hall and Kent lost near
~ all their Office books and papers. The pro.
bate Records, City Records, Commissioners
Court Records, Judge Odell's old dockets.
Judge Wicox's dockets, and the city safe itself.
saith not. 3ssl .Heas- > T,0-.'-|
In the country, Messrs. Gibson, Arnold,
Schiller, Lloyd & Stoner, ranchmen, and scores
of Others, lost stock, and had their well-tilled
farms desolated into wastes of sand and gravel,
ID. G. Cakes lost his saw mill, part of which
was impelled down the current for few miles.
Messrs. Reed, Palmer, and Bornes lost, collee-
lively, over four Thousand sheep off their
ranches up Cherry Creek MN
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-06-17
Wisconsin Swamp Lands.

By the official report of 1862, it is seen that
the receipts for that year were &c. .13, and
that the school fund was augmented out of ii
to the gratifying amount of .fve thousand mills,
that the Madison Journal got 81 ,975 90 for ven
pers were aided and encouraged in running
the swamp institution 10 the sum of five thou
sand four hundred and thirty.seven dollars
Superior Chronicle.
Those who think the swamp lands of Min.
nesota have been unwisely disposed of for rail.
road and other purposes, win see by the above
extract that the Grant to Wisconsin has been
still worsely misapplied. If, in endowing the
railroads with these lands, sufficient security
had been taken that the roads should be built
within reasonable time, the people would
have been better satisfied with this disposition
of them than they are at present.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-06-17
To Enrolled or Drafted Men.

The following is specimen Of the affida-
Wits frequently handed in by the drafted men
to the Board of Enrolment:
STATE OF MINNESOTA,
Ramsey County,
l, John Smith, Of Smithton, in Smith county,
hereby certify under oath that having been enrolled
and drafted In and for the said town, county and
State that he IL not liable to perform military
vice, and for the following reasons 1st On account
Of internal weakness; that he Is unable 10 eat only
prepared food; that he cannot eat beef ard-bread
or salt food without its producing sickness; and
when he has not deted he becomes disabled to work
that he cannot walk fast for any long distance with
out being dieabled; and that when he becomes
heated he has dry cough and internal derange-
ment. I'd. That he has a sore throat, whlch De-
comes infamed and rendered very painful by dust.
Signed, sworn to, &c.
The signer of the above affidavit, creditably
passed very strict examination and-paid his
$500. Such affidavits are of no use or value.
If man is deaf or subject to fitsan affidavit of
his neighbor, knowing to the fact. might be
useful. but in ordinary cases of debility would,
of course, be entirely useless. Drafted men,
generally, will waste their money in patroniz-
ing lawyers. ..-
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-06-17

Letters from different parts of the State
agree with the newspapers in noting an unex-
pected increase of immigration this year as
compared with the two years last preceding.
Most of those now coming into the State seek
to settle along the lines of railroads which have
been commenced, but Others are met in the
northwest counties of the State and along the
Minnesota Valley, with their families, teams
and household goods, journeying along in
search of some locality to suit them. and, when
found. ready to purchase and commence work
at once. Several of the drafted men coming
in to pay their communication, report that they
raised the money by sale of their farms and
growing crops to such immigrants Nearly
every State exchange reports the arrival Of
large numbers of immigrants, some Of whom
are from Europe, but majority being farmers
and mechanics from States east and south.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-06-17
The Failure OF the Draft.

THE draft has failed to produce men," says
our st. Paul dispatch. The same testimony
was recently borne in telegram from Cincin-
natl. The leanness of every regiment in the
field, the demand for more men from every
part of the theatre Of war, are proofs in the
same direction. Ali the expense of enroll
ments, all the delays and postponements of the
draft to secure greater readiness have uni
formly ended in failure. The men are not
forthcoming, nor will they be SO long as the
$500 exemption clause affords cheap COM
mutation for the highest and most sacred duty
the citizen owes the state. Congress must not
adjourn without giving us a proper conscrip-
ton law.-Chicago Tribune, 9th.
Nearly one half the men drawn are entitled
to exemption for disability. Of these, large
proportion are cripples or blind men, who
should not have been enrolled, because mani.
testify unfit for service Of those not
exempted for disability more than nine
out of ten pay the three hundred dollar COM
mutation money-a very few of the others be-
ing able to hire substitutes at over $500. After
the examinations have ended, the deserters
been arrested, and the draft has been complet-
ed by drawing over and over again on account
of the deficiencies made by exemptions
doubtless the Government will have obtained
fifty soldiers from this Congressional District,
where eight hundred and seventy were re-
quired. And though our officers of the
Provost Marshal's Department in this District
labor faithfully for the interests of the Gov
eminent, giving more hours OF service each
day than we ever knew to be given in public
Office before they viii not, perhaps, complete
the drawings for deficiencies and the examin-
atoms, which are to produce this fifty soldiers,
before the middle of July.
These are the facts, needing no argument to
give them force. As the Tribune says, "Con-
gress must not adjourn without giving US a
prOper conservation law"
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-06-17
Improve Your Land.

The months of June and July are the only
proper time for breaking new land. If broken
before or after this time the sod does not rot,
and the soil does not produce as well for sew
eral years besides this the blowing is sitter
and more difficult for year or two.
We offer these suggestions for the benefit of
the owners of wild land in this vicinity. Hun
dreds of acres lie here unproductive and eaten
into year after year by the cancer of taxation
which might be broken and fenced and made
to Weld not only the taxes but fair interest
upon the money ievested.
If broken now it is ready to crop next spring
without additional blowing. Nothing strikes
a stranger more unfayorably than to ride out
side of our suburbs and see the uncultivated
waste lands that lie idle and worse than USE
less, because of the dog-in-the-manger policy
of their owners. If these meH will not i'm
prove, let them give five year or ten veal
lease to those who will. Better give the lands
ten wears for fencing and breaking than to Lie
idle ten years, as some have done already.
Besides paying their way, they would sell
which in their present state, they would not
Who will take the hint now and improve
this month and next in breaking? Begin, j.
you only break five acres, and increase little
every year, and the prices of lands would
double and treble in few years, instead of be
ing drag and weight on their owners. AL
property which is not productive is constantly
declining, because of the taxes and the loss Of
iufQraSf
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-06-17
The Destruction OF Glenss Falls,
... New York.
PARTICULARS OF TIIE CoNFLAGRAr1oN.

PARTICULARS OF TIIE CONFEDERATION
The village of Glen's Falls, so recently de-
stroyed by fire, had population of five thou
| sand souls and extensive business connections
| with Troy and other towns in the vicinity. The
space over which the fire ragged included an
area of twenty acres, and the flames left not a
market, clothing, dry goods or drug store,
bank or printing office, and hardly church.
The fire was much larger, in proportion, than
the one at Troy in 1862 The Troy Times
says:
The fire spread from the kitchen of the
Glen's Falls Hotel almost instantly in each di-
| rectiOn. There was q gale of wind blowing
from the west, and the flames leaped towards
distant buildings, sometimes sparing others
near by: The fire spread up Glen street, TAX
ing the buildings on each side as far as the Div
idend Insurance Office. 1t extended up Ridge
| street on each side to Mr.. Lapham's including
the square at the junction of Ridge, Glen and
Warren streets. 1t destroyed in all at least 1875
buildings.
The fire pretty well burned itself out at last,
and the wind went down. Human efforts were
powerless to stay the direct force of the con-
Migration, but the firemen of Glen's Falls.
Sandy Hill and Fort Edward, did much to save
individual property and thus check the pro-
gress of the flames. Not till nightfall was
| their spread stopped-the fire commencing
about four o'clock. .a- l.
Few active participants in the work of STAY
| ing the fire were aware of its extent. The loss
is estimated at from $500, 900 to $500, 600, upon
| which there is an insurance of less than one
half The scene among the ruins is terrible,
and cases of individual hardship are numerous,
Rev. Mr.. Fennell, Presbyterian minister, has
the peculiar sympathy of his friends, from the
fact that he had just spent his entire means in
purchasing and identifying his house. which
was total loss. The residents of this gc-
ahead village, undeterred by temporary calam-
ity, propose to commence the work of rebuild
ing their stores and houses at once.
| During the fire the road half way to Sandy
Hill was lined with furniture. Many hundreds
of people stayed out doors all night.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-06-17
First Battalion with Grant.

1t appears from the following brief note,
Battalion Minnesota Infantry, which left here
a few weeks ago, is now with Gen. GRANT:
On TRANSPORT, PAMUNKY RIVER,
JUNE 2, 1864. {
To the Editor of the Pioneer:
We are to disembark at the White House
to-day, and shall proceed Immediately to the
front.
We hope to join Hancocks corps, but that
is uncertain, as the order has not yet been re.
ceived.
We are few in number but will do our best
to maintain the reputation of the old First.
Yours truly, 3.