Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-07-26

in that city. 1t must be called city it is
the state capital but otherwise there is no
reason why, in strict nomenclature, it should
be designated by any such title. 1t is in the
usual style of the "cties" which spring up in
the course OF few years amid the stumps of
half cleared fields in the wderness-wooden
houses, stores kept by Germans, French Irish,
Italians a large hotel swarming with people,
with noisy billiard room and a noisier bar,
the arena and the cause of difficulties :"
wooden houses, with portentous and preten-
tiouS white portlc0es, and pillars of all the Gre
clan orders ; cupola or two, and two or
| three streples too large for the feeble bodies
Observation-Disclosures architecture; a state
house, looking well at distance ragged,
dirty, and mean, within groups of idler in front
Of Exchange" where the business transacted
consists in barter between money or credit,
ana "drinks" Of various stimuauts a seclud.
ed telegraph office round a corner IL forward
newspaper office in the street, and a popula-
lion Of negroes shutting. through the thick
! dust which forms the streets.
MISSISSIPPI HOSPITALITY.
| called on Mr.. Pettus, the governor of the
state of Mississippi, according to invitation,
and found him i'll the state house, in a very
poor room, with broken windows and ragged
carpets and dilapidated furniture He is a
grim, silent man, t)bacco runinant abrupt.
| speechcd, firmly believing that the state of
society in which he exists wherein there are
monthly foul murders perpetrated at the very
seat of government, is the most free and civil.
lied in the world. He is easy of access to all,
and men saunered in and out of his office just
as they would walk into public house. Once
on time, indeed, the governor was a deer
hunter in the forest an lived tar away from
the haunts Of men, and he is proud of the
fact. He is a strenuous seceder, and has done
higl-handed things his way-simple appar-
emily, honest probably, fierce certany-and
he lives, while he is governor, OH his salary of
$4,000 a year, in the house provided for him by
| the state There was not much to say on
either side. | can answer for one. Next day
| being Sunday | remained at rest in the house
| of friend listening TO local stories not con.
| tear de rose, but of a deeper tint-blood red =
| how such man shot another, and was after
wards stabbed by third how this fellow and
his friends hunted down in broad day and
murdered one obnoxious to them,-tale after
tale such as have heard through the south
and seen daily narratives of in the papers.
| Aceldama! No security for life ! Property is
quite safe. lis proprietor is in imminent dan
ger, were it only from stray bullets when he
turns corner. The "bar," the drink" the
savage practice of walking about with pistol
and poniard-ungovernab passions ungov-
erned because there is no law to punish the
deeds to which they lead-these are the causes
OF acts which would not be tolerated in the
worst days Of Corscan 0eadete and which
must be put down, or the countries in which
they are unpublished will become us barbarous
as jungles OF wild beasts
GEN. PILLOWS ARMY IN CAMP.
In small camps Of fifteen or twenty tents
each the Tennessee troops were scattered, for
healtl's sake, over the plateau and On the level
ground few companies were engaged at drill.
| The men were dressed and looked like labor
ing people farmers. mechanics, with
some small, understood lads The majority
were in their shirt sleeves and the awkward
ness with which they handled their arms
showed that, however good they might be as
shots, they were by no means proficient in
manual exercise. Indeed, they could not be,
as they have been only five weeks in the ser.
vice of the state, called out in anticipation of
| the secession vote, and since then they have
been employed by Gen. Pillow on his fortifica-
tons. They have complained more than once
Of their hard work, particularly when it was
accompanied by hard fare, and one end OF Gen.
Pillows visit was to inform them that they
would soon be relieved from their labors by
negroes and hired abOrers. Their tents small
| ridge-poles, are very bad, but suited, perhaps,
to the transport. Each contains six men.
could get no accurate account OF their rations
| even from the quartermaster general, and COM
missary general there was none present; but
| was told that they HAD "a sufficiency-from
ID. to Il lbs of meat of bread, of sugar, cot
| fee, and rice daily" Neither spirits nor TO.
| bacco is served out to these terrible chewers
| and not unaccomplished drinkers--sElleir' pay
witt pc the same as in the United States ar
my or the Confederate States army-probably
| paid in the circulating medium of the latter
Seven or eight hundred men were formed into
line for inspection There were few of the
soldiers in any kind of uniform, and such uni
| forms as | were in very bad taste, and
consisted of gaudy facings and stripes on very
strange garments They were armed with
old pattern percussion muskets, and their
ammunition pouches were of diverse sorts
Shoes often bad, knapsacks scarce, head
pieces of every kind of shape-badges
worked on the front or sides, tinse in
much request. Every man had tin water
flask and a blanket. The general addressed
the men, who were in line two deep (many of
| them unmlstakabe lrshmen), and said what
generals usually say on such occasions-com.
| pliments for the past, encouragement for the
future. "When the hour of danger comes
will be with you" They did not seem to care
much chether he ~ds or not; and, indeed Gen.
Pillow, in round hat, dusty black frock coat
and ordinary "unstriped" trousers, did not
look ike one who could give any great mate
rial accession to the physical means of resist
ance, although he is a very energetic man.
| The major general, in fact, is an attorney at
law, or has been so, and was partner with Mr..
| FOLK, who, probably from some of the reasons
| which determine the actions of partners to
each other, sent Mr.. Pillow to the Mexican
| war, where ne nearly lost him, owing to severe
wounds received in action. The general has