The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-04-22


0 SIXTH DAY OF EXHIBITION.
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: ARMY AND Navy SWORD RACE.
GEN. MCCLELLAN 432 AHEAD.
o From the New York Sunday Herald, April 10
THOSE TWO SWORDS
continue to be the great feature of the Fair.
q The excitement respecting the voting is on
g the increase, and it is expected that thou
sands Of dollars will be realized by this
! newest of Yankee notions" 81 ,...
iw BETTING HIGH ON THE RESULT.
We are informed that great deal of
betting has been made on the result.
There is one wager of six hundred dol
lars between friend of Grant and a
friend of Mcclellan. A number of smaller
bets have been made, and it is said by
parties who have been about the place
constantly, that thousands of dollars will
change hands when the Fair is over in
consequence of this sword contest.
WHEN THE LADIES VOTE.
: Between the hour of opening and six
O'Clock in the evening the ladies form the
largest proportion of the voters. Daring
that period the pressure of crinoline around
the "keeper of the swords" is really APP
palling. The most fashionably dressed,
the more plainly attired, and the unmis-
takably democratically dressed females
are all mixed up in delightful heap, and
keep up a highly exciting struggle in be
half of their army favortes for the sword
The lords of creation are in glorious mi
nority, and are almost swallowed up in the
sea of silks, muslins and calicos surging
through the ROOM Occasionally speci
men of the genus homo, with more cour-
age and perseverance than the ordinary
run of his kind, shoves his way through
the fluttering throng of woman kind, and
is rewarded by the honor of casting vote
or several votes, suffering corresponding
depletion of his pocketbook. a
THE LADIES WAX WARM
sometimes over the contest least so
our reporter was informed by the enter
prising gentleman who officiates behind
the stand as poll clerk, inspector of cleo
ton, canvasser of votes, &c. Once, since
the commencement OF this novel election,
there was danger of serious collision
among some of the female voters. One
lady was rather loudly hostile to Mcclellan,
and was snapped up quite sharply by
another lady who went the "entire ami
NAL +" for the "Young Nap of America. -
FIRST LADY-Hes traitor and con-
ceited coxcomb. II" '- ..
SECOND LADY-No such thing. No man
was ever a truer patriot, and I'm sure ev-
erybody but contractors and fanatics &C.
knowledge that he is an accomplished gen.
eral. a@l
FIRST LADY, don't know what you
mean by everybody. l know good many
ladies who believe very differently. Hes
a humbug. -"' ~ ~ 'a'.
SECOND LADY Every warmly -Hes no
such thing. ~ -
FIRST LADY, say he is. a
The number of che ises " and "he
isnts that followed it is unnecessary to
state The spirit of contradiction might
have led to an open declaration Of HOSTILE
ties had not another lady come up to the
rescue, just in time, by putting in heavy
vote in favor of one of the generals, thus
creating diversion and giving the dis
putants time to take breath and arrange
their sweet little disordered tempe-s 1t
would never do, we fear, to extend the
elective franchise to the women AF
1900" I'LL DO IT IF YOU DO. 'l-.ii3 .
There is good deal of the bluff game
about this voting. Yesterday, during the
height Of the excitement, respectfully
dressed man passed the stand and was
hailed by the keeper. iV7 8" ~" seq
2 KEEPEI-Don't you want to vote, sir?
p GRNTLEMAN-VOtei Vote for what 2
whom? 1j h4" ~ stt t.A3" 't+a
KEEpRR--For one of the Generals or
naval officers. .' 'to 1927 @'f
GENrLEMAN-Ill tell you what I'll do.
young man. If you get some one to fill
up page for one of the generals-I don t
care which-I1l fill up another. .i7 y
The bargain was struck Immediately.
The keeper without difficulty produced his
men, and the challenger was obliged to
lay down twenty-eght dollars, which rep
resents in money the exact amount of
voting it takes to fill page. 80" A..
Last night the excitement ON the sub
ject was more intense than at any time
since the commencement OF the Fair. The
anxiety of everyone to learn how the vote
stood was so great that occasional bulle-
b tins had to be Issued and pasted up in an
elevated position so that they might be
read with ease by al within four or five
feet of the stand. At six o'clock the fol-
lowing bulletin appeared: 10 g.
TOTAL VOTE 1851.
Mcclellan. -. 2,006 Hooker. -.
Grant. 1, 523 McCook... -. l
Roeecrans 80. 8 Sherman. .......
Fremont. Potter. $500.
Butler. .. 5 Thomas. .......
Fitz JOnn Porter Wadsworth. 49,.
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