The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-01-20
Ihave exhausted all the power Of picks, pou0-
derand profUsity and shall be obliged to aban-
don the job unless you issue proclamation,
which know you win gladly do at once for
aTso Your Fellow-Soldier, Il 1905 ID. 81
BEN, BUTLER Major General.

ing of your Fair, Make it ',..res magma est"
which, in English, means q big thing" It will
tell upon the destinies of the country. would
send my photograph, but am not able to pro-
cure one in the market.
I suggest that the proceeds should be equally
divided between the wives and children of the
soldiers and the noble army of exempts of st.
Paul
Yours for the next four years.
A. LINCOLN.
Z. S.--That last remark about the exempts
Is sarcasm. r -, s-.---. ',a4aa- +. .g.
.a!czq aE WASHINGTON, Jan. II, 1865.
Hon. w. d. Washbuxe. = Y,.,sfst, .,,. -
4 DEAR BRorHER-I received yours enquiriug
ceive contributions Of money and goods from
Democrats in st. Paul for the Fair. ,, 49,. ..
l referred it to the President. While he pro-
toundly respects your conscientious scrupies,
and while he believes that the spirit of the con-
stitntion forbids such mercy to Democrats, yet
he thinks they may come in under his Procla-
Ny honorable colleague has been absent from
the city about three weeks. Have you heard
anything of him? ,a'd,, a. ..-r.l ,.t,--.
.n-,9 -, - : ALEX. RAMSEY.
',, '' WASHINGTON, Jan. r. 1866.
10 Coz. Miller, of M,Snesdt0: i- '-i .-
I am happy to inform you that Washington
is fafe. A splendid army of A, 900 patriots has
arrived, armed each with carpet bag and two
shirts. M 30 r.aHs 9gie-!1-. = r f
They talk sweet to the President. They will
stand by to the death. "- -. I'D =
They are In charge of all the hotels, and de-
partments and sidewalks.
I am happy to inform you that st. Paul's
quota is now full. pa =, .iagen5 ..~-s.-
Yours, ..-.,. STANTON.
THE RESULT.
n Thus has closed, virtually, our Sanitary Fair,
and its occurrences its statistics and its result
have become matter of history. A bright page
it will be, too, in our citys history-a brilliant
Renaissance to look back to- when the winter
Of sorrow and the dark clouds of war and woe
lowering on our house, are driven away by the
summer sun of Peace.
Wei have made glorious record for our
young city. We had always Wanted loud of
our iberality and public spirit, but we have
made good these boasts. We have earned q
right to glorify ourselves, and can fling down
the gauntlet to all creation, to enter the lists
with us. ~. -... .s... ......
1t is true that the profits Of our Fair seem
small beside the enormous sums raised by Fairs
in Eastern cities. But oar pro rata of receipts
to our population exceeds, perhaps any Of them !!
They WERE in essence, State Fairs. All New
England contributed to the Boston Fair. All
Pennsylvania to the Philadelphia Fair. All
the West to the St. Louis Fair. We sent from
st. Paul to that Fair several hundred dollars in
cash and donations.
But in our st. Paul Fair we have had to de-
pend on our local population. We have no
thickly settled region around US to pour in
contributing population quadruple our own.
There were no radiating lines of railroads to
bring them in in crowds daily. No tide
travel and transient visitors as in the above
mentioned cities, bound on sight seeing and
money spending.
Move have spent our oson money, and our
receipts are the measure of our means. Our
hearts would have made it tenfold greater. if
our purses could have borne the draft. so
THAT IN PROPORTION TO OUR POPU-
LATION, AND OUR WEALTH AND RE.
SOURCES, THE ST. PAUL SANITARY
FAIR HATH EXCELLED THEM ALL, as
the widows might out-weighed the costly Of
ferings OF the ancient shOddyites.