The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1849-10-19
ESCAPE OF GEN. TAYLOR.

Since the downfall OF Hungary and the flight
OF Kossuth, no eveutihas caused more Consterna-
ton in the ranks Of protested poliuciaos than the
successful elopement OF Old Zack on the 10Th
inst add his sale arrival at Baltimore, where,
by the aid Of the mag netic telegraph, his pro
gress North was arrested, and he was compelled
TO return TO Washington. The curiosity of the
General to see the Bay Stale is unbounded, and
it requires all the art and vigilance OF his keep.
ers to prevent him from gratifying it ami the
Consequence is, that the cabinet is in continual
agitaton, and the Telegraph sends forth the most
confused and contradictory accounts One day
The word comes that Gen. Taylor will start the
! next morning, but the keepers get wind of it,and
he is butled off, SO the word is contr ddicted.-
Anon word comes again, aud in few hours the
contradiction, and so on Tor week or two, Till at
length il is announced that he has fairly started
but the Reception Committees, and Escort NJ ar.
shals, have hardly time to get their boots brush.
ed, ere the news comes that the plan of escape
has been frustrated, and the old hero is still sub.
je I to the embargo. How many tines this has
been the case we do not remember, but enough
to satisfy people that Gen. Taylor is bound to
come any way you can fix it, and the Wing man
ayers are teiuined to prevent him.
The Gen. has been fully decided 10 visit Bos-
ton ever since he heard of the vote cast here last
November. He had always regarded this city
as the head quarters oil fanaticisnr and abolition.
ism; aud the process OF reasoning which satish
ed the Boston ans that the Slave buying, women
whipping, Louisiana cotton planter was friend
of the laborer and Free Soil man, naturally ex.
cited in his mind the most profound admir- alton OIL
Yankee ingenuity and Puritan conscentio usness
and hence to see With his own eyes such remark.
abe specimens OF the human race has been the
chief aim oil his Administration.
His frequent attempts TO accomplish his pur-
pose led the keepers to have recourse to strata.
gem, and they accordingly consented to his un.
dertaking the tour Great preparations were
made Tor starring; the Mayors OF New York
Boston, ana other cities were notified OF his de.
parture from Washington the military were
called on TO be in readiness, and all the parapher.
MALTA OF parade, aud the incipient fermentation
of bombast, were got ready, just as though the
Presidential tour TO be an actual TACT. But
good care was taken that only the backwoodsmen
oil PeDnsylV ania, and the barbarians OF the Can
adam border, should get glimpse OF the hero Of
Buena Vista; Tor avoiding the direct, easy and
comfortable route, universally travelled by meL
OF busintsi and pleasure, they jolted him along the
breakneck roads OF the semi civilized portion O
the Key Stone State, till, what with exhaustion
cholera bugbears, and calls OF business at Wash
lngton, prepared tor the purpose beforehand, he
was finally prevailed upon to return, not howeye,
until the exhibition, privately as it was IL, aaaged
had CO the party, defeat in the State by the
overwhelming majority OF Eighteen thousand
But the old mans anxiety is in no wise abated
and by some unusually skilltul maneuvre, OF
some oversight on the part of the keepers, Ne
did get the other day as far as Baltimore, bu
was there overtaken and struggled back 10 hi,
old quarters.
Some OF the Wings hereabouts who do not un
derstand the chicanery oil the leaders, are debat
ing plans for the deliyerance OF the General, anC
a memorial to Gov. Briggs, asking the appoint
Inent of w. benson, as Commissioner to pro
#. coed to Washington 10 take out writ OF habea.
corpus is believed TO be the most teasible,- The
damages to be obtained in an action for false.i i'm
prisonment to be appropriated to pay expenses
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