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The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-07-22
Rebel De serifOns in Georgia.

A letter from a Minnesotian in SHER-
MANS army, more than confirms all the
printed accounts we have read of whole
sale assertions from JoHNsToN's army.
Where he is stationed, whole companies,
including officers, have come in and sur
rendered, avowing their belief in the
hopelessness of the rebel cause, and re-
porting that more than half of JOHNSTON s
army would be glad to lay down their
arms if favorable opportunity was atfored.
JOHNSON has from twenty-five to thirty
thousand old troops, on whom he can re-
ly, but the balance, consisting Of militia
and conscripts, only fight on compulsion.
The feeling prevails extensively that the
Southern Confederacy has "gone up"
and the people are not at al anxious to
die in the "last ditch"
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-07-22
Tho Men We Send to Congress.

The New York Tribune contains som,
very wise and opportune reflections on tht
decline in the intellectual and moral char
acter of the members of our national Con
gress. That paper said:
The Thirty eighth Congress which has JUS
| closed its longer session, was an uncommOnIy
| green one. We believe not more than half III
members ever before held seats in either House
| A very considerable portion of its members arc
men of quite moderate abilities, about eoua
to the duties of justices OF the peace. Some OF
them bought their nominations outright: 9th.
ers traded for them; perhaps fifty in all got in
because they were really fit for legislators. and
the people knew it.
1t is solemn fact that we do not send as
able men relatively to Congress as were sent
forty to sixty years ago; and our detestable
system of primary meeting s and regular nomi-
nations are the main cause of the falling off.
though our wretched practice of cOnfiding the
choice OF each district to residents there ma
practice founded neither in law nor in reason
lis partly responsible for it.
Neither Clay, Webster, nor Calhoun could
remain in the house eight years under the
prevailing system. What district will set the
example of calling some able and upright
statesman by public requisition to serve it in
the next Hopse9 We ought to have Edward
Everett, Salmon P. Chase, Henry c. Carey,
Hamilton Fish, Gerrit Smith, John P. Ken
nedy, etc., ETC., in that House; viii our poll
teal opponents should likewise send to it Mil.
lard Fillmore, G. O,COnnOr. Judge Woodward d,
George NJ. Dallas, etc., etc, if they con.
There is a holiness, as well as business,
in the above remarks, which must CON-
mand the respect of candid and intelligent
men of all political parties and opinions
How sad it is to reflect that man can
not, in our country, get nomination for
public office unless he buys it, and cannot
be elected without resorting to all manner
of dishonorable tricks and expedients |!
One who is above such base practices ia
precluded from political life. no matter
how eminent he may be in all those talents
and attachments which qualify him for any
station in the gift of the people. Indeed
his very virtues are positive barrier to his
advancement, and what GU. hit to be re-
garded as the strongest reason for placing
and keeping him in The service of the State
Is made a disqualification by those who
form our party tickets and determine for
whom We shall vote.
1t is notorious that most nominating
conventions are accessible to the worst
possible influences, and that their action is
governed by anything in the world but a
disinterested concern for the public well
fare. Why they should be so patiently
tolerated, when their conduct is so corrupt
and pernicious, is inexpl:cable.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-07-22
Truth from the Right Quarter.
The Newburvport Herald, an influential

The Newburvport Herald, an influential Re-
publican paper in Massachusetts says:
We never did knowingly, and never intend
to infringe upon the Constitution and trample
down the laws ard usages and compromises on
which the nation stands. for the emancipation
of slaves in the Southern States Holding to
State rights-lhc right Of each community to
legislate on and control its local affairs, which
idea is at the bottom of American freedom
the very keel of our ship of state we do and
have always repudiated interference with local
matters i'll States 10 which we do not telOny
1t was never necessary or justifable We have
no slavery IN Massachusetts, and we would re-
sist 10 the death its imposition upon us; but
If we had slavery here established BY the free
will Of the people. as just right and expedient
for u.s. though We might differ from the major
lty, we would resent and resist any reference
on the p RI of Maine or Vermont or auy other
community or Z 'vernment under heaven, TO
forcibly or unlawfully to abolish that slavery.
When even slavery is abolished by violence,
at tine expense Of the Constitution and Unicn,
1t will hot make the negroes free, tut it GER
tainly will destroy the Liberties of thirty mil.
lions OF whites There can be no OF Ter result;
Tor our freedom is in the Union and under the
Constitution; and when these go, where will
the republics have gone before it; and when
that sinks, the Star of the worlds hope
in our great political experimentation surely
it Is nothing yet but an eXperiment-gOes
down III backness and darkness. Ii anybody
would risk its settling by lawless aud revOlu.
tionary action tor tmancip, ton or anything
else we go not with them. The safety of all
whites and backs-is as in the case Of st.
Paul's shipwreck-in sticking to the ship,
keeping The old flag fly ing, employing expe-
rienced hands aud pilots and RUIN ny by the
old chart where we have it to he correct.
If the dominant party was only governed by
such sentiments as are above expressed, the
Union would soon be restored and placed
on enduring foundations.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-07-22

In the last ten years there have been
built at the West, 1866 miles of railroad,
at cost of 1888. $40, 464, mostly by cas-
tern or imported capital. The Illinois
Central Railroad Company alone sent into
Illinois $3O,OOO,OOO, and built a road
which enabled the Federal Government
to sell $l1, 060, 900 worth of land, and the
Company to sell 2o,OOO,O0O more to ac-
tual settlers making over $61, ZOO, 900
concentrated in that State by the opera
tons Of one company. The cl,ief effect
of this has been to swell the aggregate re-
ceipts of grain at Chicago during the ten
years, to 1854, 554 bushels, which at
an average price Of Sc cents per bushel,
(the value for 1860 at Chicago), would be
worth $4,000, 900, thus, exceeding by
100000 the cost of the railroads
through the agency of which the grain was
made available. In 1851, the grain in
creased TO AZ, 697, 400 bushels, the Sonth-
ern routes being closed; and in 1862 the
amount was 60. $780, 800 bushels. These
figures but indicate the extent of that
prosperity which has developed so rapidly
during the last ten years in the northern
section of the West. 2 Il 13 fh eH.-; .
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-07-22
THE WEEKLY PIONEER AND DEMOCRAT

the supplies which the government neecs
for operations east of the monntains, bat
when danger threatens, she calls out in
piteous terms for assistance from other
States. One would think that State like
Pennsylvania, an empire insitself, with a
population about equal to that embraced
in the thirteen colonies befo the revolu-
tionary war, could repel a raid, and even
a formidable invasion, without the assist
ance of any other State. Every school boy
knows the history of the fights at Concord
and Lexington. The finest troops in the
British army could penetrate only nineteen
miles into the interior from Boston. The
people, with one accord, sprang to arms.
They did not run away from the foe, but
pressed forward to meet him. He was
driven back with terrible slaughter, and
would have been annihilated, if reinforce
ments had not been sent out to cover the
retreat. But Pennsylvanians, the thrifty
stay:at-home farmers, mechanics and
tradesmen are not made of the same stuff
as the heroes of Concord and Lexington.
We did not expect great things Of them,
but only the exercise of the instinct of self
defence, which they have in common with
lower animals. She could have concen-
trated force of one Hundred thousand
men in three day but during the whole
alarm she was an inert mass of helpless
humanity. She may boast of her Loyalty,
but until it is exhibited in the defence of
her own firesides, against the common
enemy, it will te only accepted as another
name for shoddy. .t...
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-07-22
The Raid.

From careful peru:al of all the dis
patches we are led to believe the force of
the rebels has been greatly exaggerated.
A body of twenty or fifty thousand men
would have required, on an expedition
which had for its object the invasion ofthe
North, trains for the transportation of am
munition, luggage, stores and implements
for constructing bridges and earthworks.
We hear of none of these things in connec-
ton with the late raid. Four or five tlOu.
sand cavalry are easily magnified to a
much larger number in the imaginations
of the frightened inhabitants of regions
through which they are passing. The de-
feat of Gen. LEW. WALLACE at MOnocacy
seems to have been the occasion for mag
nif, ing tie numbers of the enemy beyond
all reason. General WALLACE lost all the
reputation for good sense and general
ship he ever possessed, willie in command
at Cincinnati, during the famous raid OF
KIRBY SMITH. He never amounted to
any considerable sum, but always having
been subservient tool of STANTON, was
placed in command at Baltimore on the
retirement of SoHENoK, and naturally as
sumed command of the troops to repel
the invasion. II he had defeated the reb-
els, as probably better general might
have done, the raid would then and there
have ended. t.sa j., .o4
The border States will be subject to
these raids, and the country t. alarms,
unless there is more heroislm manifested.
We can very we'll understand why the
people of Maryland and Pennsylvania do
not like to enlist in the national army
The sylnpath es of the inhabitants of Mary
land, to great extent, are with the reb-
.ls. so much SO that if the military power
was not over them, it is said majority
would link the destinies of the State with
the Confederacy at once. Pennsylvania
| in making too much money out Of the war.
She furnishes at good profits, nearly all
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-07-22
How TO Live.

We commend the following report of an
experiment made by an eminent New York
physician in his own family and practice
He says that from May to December, he
habitually restricts his family and all bis
patients to two ounces each Of animal food
per day. urging them to use vegetables
freely during the summer. Having fol-
twenty years kept a record of the matter,
he estimates the mo, tally in the meat
eating families as about four time, as great
as in those households which Lave faith
fully followed the advice. I'fH Est' o'5
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-07-22

Mrs. GEN. WAsDswoRTH.-The Tri6ane's
Washington correspondent says Mrs. JAMES
8. WADswoRTu, widow Of the patriotic Gene
ral is here to gather from rebel prisoners and
from other sources whatever information .he
can about the death of her husband. Secreta-
ry STANTON shows to Mrs WApswoRTH the
greatest courtesy, and has put at her disposal
the Government steamer Diamond for visit
to Point Lookout, where are confined some re-
bel prisoners who saw the General after he
was wounded and were with him when he
died. i' ~ H'+t# fi.HH'
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-07-22
Treatment of Federal Prisoners In
Georgia..

There are some Is, 900 Federal soldiers
confined in miserable quarters at Ander-
son, Sumter county, Georgia. The Sa.
vannah Ne,cs, virulcnt rebel paper, says
our poor boys there are without tents,
many of them are naked, half fed on pu.
trid meat, and the heat is so great that
they have to burrow in the ground. They
are dying at the rate of 500 per day. The
editor of the Ne,os, malignant rebel that
he is, asks, "Why in the name of God is
not something done to alleviate the suffer-
ing of these men? If they are our enc
mics, they are human beings" The same
can hardly be said Of the barbarians who
hold them. .l.r.a -.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-07-22
The Case of Gen. Dix.

The argument on the question of the arrest
of Gen. DIX and his subOrdinates, on a warrant
issued for an alleged misdemeanor in suppress
ing the World and Journal of Commerce news
papers growing out of the publication of the
bogus proclamation, was made in New York,
on Saturday, before Judge RUSSELL. Attorney
General CocHRANE, District Attorney HALL.
and Messrs. PiERpoNr and EvARTs took part
in the discussion. The Judge will render his
decision on the LIST of August. During the ar
gument the following document was pro-
duced: ...5 ......
THE PRESIDENTS ORDER SURPRISING THE
st. JOURNALS.
EXECUTIVE MANSION,
WASHINGTON, D. c.. May 10 1861
WHEREAS, there has been wickedly and
traitorously printed and published. this MORN
ing, in the New York World and the New
York Joarnal Of Commerce, newspapers printed
and published in the city of New York, false
and spurious proclamation, purporting to be
signed by the President and to be counter
signed by the Secretary of State, which publ
cation is IF a reasonable nature, designed to
give aid and comic to the enemies of the
United States, and the rebels now at war
against the government, and their aiders and
| abettOrs, you are therefore hereby commanded
forthwith to arrest and imprison, in any fort
or military prison in your command. the edi-
tors, proprietors and publishers of the aforc-
said newspapers, and all such persons as, after
public notice mas been given of the falsehood
of said publication. print and publish the same
| with intent to give aid and comfort to the
| enemy; aud you will hold the persons SO ar
| rested in close custody until they can be
brought to trial before q military commission
! for their offence. You will also take posses
sion by military force of the printing estab-
| lishments OF the New York World and Journal
| of Commerce, and hold the same until further
orders. and prohibit any further publication
| thereof. r., ., i,...,, w.
| Signed by the Secretary of State, and 4.
| Lincoln, President of the United States.
| Major General John A. Dix.
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-07-22
The Tender of the secresaryshtp

The following is the correspondence between
Secretaryship Of the Treasury: 81. ,f .
MR.. L1NCoIN's DISPATCH.
..t.. q, r.4. a. WASHINGTON, June 10.
Hon. Darid Tod, Youngstown: - 49,. "a, .,,
! have nominated you 10 the Office of Secre-
tary of Treasury in place of Gov. Chase, who
has resigned. Please come without a moments
delay. .A.zsu .a A. LINCOLN.
GOV. ToD's REPLY.
2 %" YoUNGsTowN. o., June 80.
To the President, Washington City:
The condition of my health iorbids my ac-
ceptance of the distinguished position you offer
ence am sincerely yours, 80
An army correspondent thus speaks of the
amenities of war at Petersburg How very
quickly this war would terminate if its SETTLE
mept were left for the soldiers to make.
sTired of the war; is the sentiment of both ar
mics, echoed by that We wan: to go home,
and with such a friendly, generous feeling as
is now existing and manifested between the
two lines OF pickets in cur 'front.' Is 1t unreal
sonable to suppose that TIE Two sloes would
come together aud that the two parties would
coalesce and become one, refoimil & the Union
that had been So long broken and cemenling
it with stronger ties and bonds than ever
Would there DC any hard, humilisting, u, just
exactions demanded spirit OF aln right and
you are wrong you must listen 10 my terms
and must agree to them, for can't have any
thing to do with yours Nothing OF this sort
we venture to say; but mutual concessions,
reasonable compromises. honorable negOlia-
ations, a yielding and giving on bolh sides.Di
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-07-22

AN attempt made in the Democratic
State Convention at indianapolis on Tues
day last, to indorse Valandighaln, met
signal failure. ,o,.y.. : itig..I .j.1
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-07-22
Advance In Prices.

The Chicago Tr6use of Wednesday prints
the following list of the leading articles foond
in its commercial review of same date, with the
advance in prices which has taken place within
q week:
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-07-22

A New PREs1DENr.-1t should never be for.
gotten that MIR. GREELEY, in the Tribune, re-
Gently made the following suggestion -" We
believe the rebellion would have lost some
thing of its cohesion and venom from the hour
10 which it was known that new President
would surely be inauguraed on the 4th of
March next; and that hostility in the loyal
states % the national cause must have eensibly
abated or been deprived of its readiest and
most dangerous weapons. new President is
the want of the country. II has body aud
strength but no head" 9ea a9 fl 'a3
The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-07-22
THE GENERAL SITUATION.
-.Gfant skiI mshing.-Federal He
pulse at CharIeetOu.
Gen. Sherman is O

The latest news from Gen. Sherman is as
fol ows: ..e
, CHATTANOOGA, July 1.-THE rebels burned
the railroad aud ctmmCn bridge across the
ChattahOOchee River yesterday. Sherman
crossed above and be.ow the bridges and Effect
ed a secure Judgment on the south bank.
Rebels have abandoned their strong fortllca-
tons On the ChallahOocbee, they being again
effeclually linked. L. is uncertain what dlrec-
tiol til, y ha\ e gone.
O,ir COMMUNICATIONS are in favorable con-
ditiOn. afi
Inc latest news from Petersburg is up to
Wedi esday mUrning, when heavy shlfnilshing
was going ON. o,
Official dispatches from rebel General Jones
of the 4lb, reports the ,epui,e OF lhe Federal
forces near Charleston, WIN the loss OF 600
men. q, He lep1rls the capture OF TWO rebel
The Ftderuls hastily falling back.
The Mopitors and gunboats were in Stone
River firing on the rebel lines heavily. 81
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1864-10-20
PROPOSALS FOR HAY.

06fse Depot Commissary Of SHbStstexee,l
223 g ST., Washington, Oct: Is, 1854. &
(200) Tons Of Good Merchantable INHALED Hay,
will be received at this Office until THURSDAY,
Oct. n, 1864 at II O'Clock m.
accompanied by an oath of allegiance funless the
bidder has one file in this Office and the usual
guaranty, signed by not less than two respon-
sible persons, whose solvency must be shown By
the official certificate of the Clerk of the near
est District Court or of the United States Attor-
ney.
Parties to whom awards may be mada must at
once enter into contract, and give bonds equal in
amount to one half the sum to be received on the
contract. signed by the contractor and both of his
guarantors.
Government. will proposals Of disloyal parties
be considered.
The right to reject proposals is reserved by the
Government it, in its opinion, the public interest
will be subseryed by their rejection.
Bidders must be present at the opening of their
The Hay must he delivered at the National Mon
ument Grounds. Washington. d. O., unbaled and
free of all cost of transportation Weighing. 1t
will be weighed by q sworn weigher before it is
accepted and will also be ripidly inspected; and
such as is not OF good merchantable quality will
The delivery of the Hay must commence within
ten ll0) days from the execution of the contract,
and be com pleted within forty (40) days from the
date of the iame.
Upon the completion of the contract the Hay
will be paid for in such funds as the Government
may have on hand to disburse, or IS soon there
after as the proper officer may he in funds.
E. T. BRIDGES.
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