Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-06-12
NEWS FROM THE SOUTH.


LATE NEWS FROM MEMPHIs.-From resi-
dent of Memphis Tennessee who left that
place on Wednesday morning and arrived in
chicago yesterday morning, we obtain some
information OF interest in relation to that re-
beiouS and sinful portion Of the republic.
Our informant is man of intelligence who
states that his means of knowledge in he
matters OF which he speaks have been unus-
ualy good, he having been engaged extensive.
y IN the manufacture of tent pins fosthe reb-
ell volunteers. He claims to be loyal citizen,
and from his conversation we judge he is one
when it don't pay better to do something
else,
The insurrectonsts, he says, have not less
than sixty thousand troops already encamped
In the state OF Tennessee. In Memphis and
suburbs there are 5000; i'll and around Jack
son, 10000; at Union City, 5000; and near
the state line OF Kentucky, 1900 Making
$1,000 troops on the lines Of the Mobile and
the Memphis and Ohio railways, between
Memphis and the Kentucky line. All these
our Informant says he has seen, but he does
not state that he counted them.
Along the river there are 1000 troops in
Randolph, and he thinks half that number at
Fort Harris; 5000 at Camp Rector in Arkan-
sas, Opposite Memphis and two encamp
ments between Randolph and Memphis. A
river battery is erecting six miles above Mem
phls and another at Memphis, near the old
navy yard. This account makes the number
OF reDel soldiers now between Cairo and Mem
pins about 10000, which number our inform.
ant is confident is not Tar from correct.
de says they are making preparations for
desperate struggle. AT Union City, in partic.
ular, preparations are going forward with great
ACTIVITY. They have already considerable
armament OF heavy guns-32 Founders, he
thinks, and are expecting more. Five miles
below Randolph on the Arkansas shore. a
masked battery has been erected which he
thinks the federal authorities at Cairo are not
aware OF. His idea of the amount OF informa
tlon possessed by Gen. Prentiss may not be
altogether correct.
The troops between Cairo and Memphis are
nearly all from Mississippi and Arkansas, not
outstanding which they will all be permitted
TO vote in the election tomorrow, to transfer
tennessee to jeff Davis & Co. Such is the
wise provision made by the traitors who ar
ranged the programme i'll the Tennessee legis-
lature, and Gen. Pillow has promulgated or.
ders tor carrying out the arrangement.
Virginia Letter to the n 0. Delta. 25b.
REBEL STRENGTH IN VIRGINIA. am
persuaded that exaggerated estimates are made
OF the forces OF both belgerents. | do not
thlnk that the whole strength of the Washing.
,on government, from Fort Monroe, through
Maryland to Washington and Alexandria. is
much outside Of $4,000; while the confederate
force, actually under arms, and mobized for
instant service, can scarcely exceed 40, 900.
II is distributed at Norfolk, on York river, at
Manassas junction, at Acyuia Greek, at Har-
per's Ferry, and at Richmond. But reinforce
ments are constantly pouring in, and we shall
doubtless have, in a short time, sixty or sew.
enty thousand troops ON the Virginia border;
and that number could be increased in a week
to more than hundred thousand, if the emer.
gency demanded it to be done.
HE AFFAIR AT PHILIPPI.-The Richmond
Examiner gives the following version of the
affair at Philippi "A government messen.
ger, who arrived in Staunton on Wednesday
night, reported that our troops-patriotic vol
unteers OF the neighboring counties. were at
tackled at the place called Philippi in Barbour
county, on Monday morning, about daybreak
ny oOOO OF the enemy, whose forces consisted |
principally OF the execrable submission Marty
OF the northwest, but were mingled with reon.
lar troops of the United States army. The at
TACK was surprise, and our troops were
.hro"h INTO omentary confusion But thew
reformed IN excellent order, and retired with.
OUT loss to place called Sperm's Hill. abont
TWO miles from Philippi Here they were again