Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-05-21

The ATLANTIC MoNTHLY.-The Atlantic
for June is issued today, with list of articles
adapted to the events of the season. James
Russell Lowell contributes an article on the
''Pickens and Stealin's Rebellion the march
of "The Seventh Regiment" to Washington
is recorded by one of its privates, in which,
ALSO the Massachusetts Eighth receives It's
share of honor; Oliver Wendell Holmes con,
tributes can Army Hymn" which we pub
lish, this morning T. w. Higginson gives an
account of the attempted insurrectlon in South
Carolina in 1922 under the title of Denmark
Vesey :" Napoleon the Third is furnished
by C. C. Hazewell american Navigation"
by g. H. Derby; Mrs Stoves agnes of
Sorrento" is continued, and other articles, in
prose and verse, add to the peculiar attractive
ness of the number.
"TnE SABLE CLOUD; A Southern Tale
with Northern Comments" is a new work on
the slavery question, by Rev. DR.. A.ams of
Boston. new version of the "South Side
View" with the coors frightened as much
as possible. 1t came to us from Messrs.
Ticknor & Field, about the time Of the cap
ture of fort Sumter. That occurrence was
rather unfortunate for the book, and it took
away our attention from it, The Sable Cloud
that has so long troubled this republic. is now
discharging its lightnings and threatening
general ruin. We do not need TO have DIR.
Adams tell us about this cloud, and seek to
| deceive us as &c its real character. 1t is
speakinr plainly tor itself and needs no inter.
prefer. South-side views, south side politics,
and outh.side theology, are all played out
AFLoAT AND AsHoRE.-A Sea Tale, by j.
Fennimore Cooper. Illustrated from Draw
ings by +. o. C. barley. New York, w. A
Townsend & Co. For sale here at Sanford's
Cooper's sea stories are invariably good. This
probably is less known than some OF the 9th
ers, such as the Red Rover, The Waterwitch
and Wing Wing. This volume, like the
its predecessor OF this splendid edition, is
beautifully printed, illustrated, and bound. a
sequel must follow this story to complete it,
IMPORTANT FROM THE SOUTHWEST
The Rebels Taken In the Rear.
The New Orleans papers of Saturday and
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regarding movement upon the Texas from
tier. The Picayune of the 18th says:
1--WE learn by the steamer j. NJ Sharp
which arrived this morning from jefferson
Texas, that news reached that place on Tues.
day last, by express, in a letter to j. NJ. j.
G Murphy, that Montgomery, of Kansas no.
toriety, at the head OF 5000 men, had taken
Fort Washitaw. Messengers had been sent
| N hail NJ nd Ot bnr pta ipr
guns, powder and lead. Capt. Bill Young,
with about 600 men, was on the march trying
to oppose Montgomery. This news was cor
| ruborated last Wednesday at Shreveport.
The greatest excitement prevailed throughout
the country. The bells were ringing when
the Sharp left Jefferson, for the purpose of
calling town meeting. Already large
meeting had been held at Shreveport
a correspondent Of the Picayune writes -
In connection with the reported taking of Fort
Washila by the notorious Montgomery OF Kan.
sas abolition fame, it may be as well to state
that three weeks ago | learned in Galveston
on uEdoubted authority from St. Louis via
New Orleans, and published in the Galveston
News, that Mr.. Lincoln's secretary of war hs d,
about week before sent dispatch to Major
Montgomery, U. S. A., at st. Louis, to instruct
| MAJOR Emery (who has something TO do with
the overland mail route) TO concentrate all the
| force he could at Forts Washita, Cobb, and
Arbuckle, which posts are just outside of the
northern frontier Of Texas, and are parallel
with it.
Major Emory was to use his own discretion
as to when and how to carry out the order
This news has doubtless ere this reached the
Texas frontier.
Major Montgomery, you will remember, was
taken prisoner the other day by the Arkansas
state troops, at or near Fort Smith, on the
western frontier of that state, and the point of
departure OF the overland stages.
Fort Washita is on the Camanche Reserve
to the northwest of Texas, and will afford
Montgomery an excellent opportunity backed
by those Indians, who all hate the Texans, to
| depredate i'll our own state.
Col. Baylor and some thousands of expe-
rienced Texas Rangers are on that frontier,
and now that the C. S. government gives these
brave men and indomitable Indian fighters the
authority and means to protect themselves,
Montgomery and his band will stand but little
chance of holding the fort.