Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-11-21

the numerous batteries they had to encounter.
becoming discouraged, were falling back. An
officer rode up in haste to Burnside and asked
! if he would order a retreat. Retreat said
/ Burnside: yes, right into the face of the en-
envy. That is how | want you to retreat A
forward movement was Immediately ordered.
and, by forward retreat, our troops carried
all before them, driving the enemy from their
entertainments, and capturing all their strong
holds"
Gen Sigel says he has one regiment-the
l36th New York-which would take Rich
mond, could it once be encamped within three
miles Of it, in one nightly stealing it.
The 9Th New York regiment. which has
been sneered at for avoiding ''hard knocks"
has furnished over 700 commissioned officers
TO the army since the war broke out 1t is
SAID there are not SO many graduates of West
Point in the service
The ram fleet which did such effective SER
vice under Col. Alfred ElIet is now at Mound
City, Ky, undergoing repairs Seven of the
boats are there. Col Ellet has been appoint-
ed brigadier general, with power to raise a
brigade.
1t is stated that no less than thirty-nine of
Uncle Sans uniforms were lately found in a
wood near one of the encampments in this
state The owners thereof, having received
their bounty, concluded to desert and proba-
bly, deposited the uniforms where found, re-
ceiving snits of citizens clothes from aiders
and abettOrs from without.
The Danish ship Jupiter, which arrived at
Plymouth, eng on the I'd, reports having
met, Oct 18th, an iron screw steamship. Of
six guns, English built, 700 or 500 tons bur-
then, with three masts, schooner rugged, and
flying the confederate flag. The confederate
steamer was then in lat. At N, lon. $3.50 w.
of Greenwich
The New York Commercial Advertiser saws
1t Is not improper to state that which must be
already known to the enemy, that Gen. Burn
side is not the only commander who is NOV
ing on Richmond. There is, or will be, active
cooperation, and in such force and from such
points as will cause dismay to the foe when the
advancing columns converge toward the COM
mon centre.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The bank of England is having another Sc
rious alarm, which puts that occasioned bv
the theft OF the water-marked paper from the
Savistock mills into the shade. The art of
photography has reached such degree of
perfection that bills can be photographed with
all the private marks, and the counterfeit will
defy detection, even by the bank authorities
themselves.
The poorest kind of whisky is selling for
forty dollars per gallon at Holly Springs, Mis-
sissippi.
The question Of the legality of the United
States notes was brought before the Supreme
Court of New York on the 18th The main
question involved is whether such notes are
legal tender or not Geo. T. Curtis, for the
defendants, stated that congress had not the
power under the constitution to create bills
OF credit, or to coin money out of any other
substance except metals. The court took
the papers, and will render decision in few
days.
1t is proposed in Virginia City, Nevada, to
ship Immediately to the east for the benefit of
the sanitary fund the sum of $4,000, and in
the novel currency of silver bricks The
Territorial Enterprise says :-''This shipment
will be made in solid silver bricks, stamped
with an appropriate inscription, and will prove
the biggest advertisement for Nevada terrific
ry that ingenious brains have yet conceived
These silver bricks will be curiously examined
and commented on by many man in New
York who would forget in fifteen minutes at
ter he heard it, the fact that $1,000 in gold
coin or treasury notes had been sent from the
unknown land Of Nevada
1t is said the postmaster general will lay
before congress a plan for abolishing the small
offices in the immediate vicinity of large cities,
making them branches of the city offices.