Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-07-10
General News summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

transferred from fort Hamilton, New York
harbOr, to fort Warren.
Charles p Gordon and his four sons have
been arrested in Boston for having on divers
occasions expressed their sympathy with the
rebels. 1t is charged that upon the reception
of the news of the reverse of the Union army
before Richmond, these men were heard to
cheer for jeff. Davis, and over the supposed
defeat of Gen. Mcclellan. Messrs. William
Washburn, Peter Hobart, Jr., and others.
waited upon them, and requested them to dis
play the stars and stripes, which they refused
to do. The case will be examined.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
Mrs. Elizabeth Herrick, wife of Henry Her.
rick Of Nesttord Center, committed suicide
on the It'll, by throwing herself into Il well.
She had been troubled for a few years past
with a nervous difficulty and a depression of
mind, which undoubtedly led her, in mo-
ment of insanity, to commit the act. She
was nearly "A years of age.
little girl aged seven years, daughter of
VIM. Godfrey of Lowell, was drowned on the
9TH, in the Merrimac canal.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
By the arrival of ship Napoleon at this port
we learn that Capt. Wilson and wife, of ship
Atkins Adams, of Fairhaven, were on board
the British barque Avalanche, at Pernambu-
co, 9TH ult., bound to London, they having
left their ship at Auckland, New Zealand.
Capt. Wilson had sold his oil, upwards of five
hundred barrels of sperm, and the naval stores
of the ship, leaving only enough on board for
the homeward voyage and pocketing the pro-
ceeds was bound for Europe, thus defrauding
the owners out of nearly everything, as the
voyage has been a hard one. The ship was to
be brought home by the third officer.-New
Bedford STANDARD.
Two hundred and sixty of the new levy are
to be furnished by New Bedford, and the
Mercury says the city will offer as high a
bounty as Buffalo, n. Y, for volunteers, viz
seventy-ive dollars to each man. Some of
the heaviest tax payers favor such action.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Amanda II. Hall of Ashfield has recovered
a verdict, in the supreme judicial court, of
$1,000 and four years interest against Lucius
Boltwood and the trustees of Amherst col
lege. The case excited great interest.
james Stockwell of Warwick has been APP
pointed deputy sheriff for the county of
Franklin.
The total valuation of Greenfield this year
is 81, 652, 1888, being $3.50, 900 less than last
year; but the savings bank deposits of $780,
900 were last year included, which now the
state taxes and the town loses.
MAINE.
In Portland, the Sth, two girls, aged about
nine years each, named Catherine jenkins
ard Lizzie Carwin, were run over by truck
team. Catherine was probably fatally injured,
her skull being badly fractured. The other
is in a very critical condition, the wheel hav-
ing passed over her shoulder and diagonally
across her breast causing severe internal in
juries.
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unanimously nominated the 9th, by the re-
publicans and union men of the third con-
gresSional district, in convention, as their
candidate for representative to the thirty
eighth congress. The district was fully rep
resented. Mr.. Blaine was present and nc
cepted the nomination by few appropriate
remarks.
CONNECTICUT.
The Norwich Bulletin says 1.-THE Great
Eastern is daily expected to make her appear
ance off Montauk, on her way up the sound
to some point this side of New York. Two
New York pilots came up in the Norwich boat
on the 18th, and took tug from New London
to meet her off Montauk. The New London
committee, appointed year or two ago, to
invite her into that harbor, will now have an
opportunity to discharge the duties of their
appointment"
The United States frigate Sabine has Just
arrived at New London. She is looking after
crew. Cadwalader Ringgold is captain. He
is a brother Of Major Ringgold of Mexican
war fame.
Personal.
Senator Wilson, it is stated, will come to
Massachusetts as soon as he RECEIVERS his
health for the purpose of raising another regi-
ment.
President Lincoln is said to be fully con-
versant with the topography of the country
where our armies now are, and also displays
wonderful knowledge of the officers and men.
Ben Wood has laid copies of late English
journals before the judiciary committee, earn
estly advocating the elevation to the pres-
dency.
Commodore Foote writes from New Haven
under date of July 81 my health is rapidly
improving, and hope soon to be atioat again.
WAR ITEMS.
A despatch from New York states that five
brothers in the fifth Vermont regiment, of the
name of Clayton, were all killed in the recent
Virginia battles.
Report has it that Gen. Bragg has 4O. 900 to
10000 rebels at Tupello, Miss. that they
were short of provisions, &C. 1t is abont
time the "short of provisions story had
furlough. We have had the whole rebel ar
my in state of starvation ever since Bull
Run, but they seem to stand it wonderfully
we'll
By a recent. order of the war department,
neither captains Of companies or colonies of
regiments have authority to grant furloughs.
All soldiers absent from the commands to
which they belong are liable to be treated as
deserters, if they have no other authority for
their absence than papers from those officers
purpOrting to be furloughs.
The Washington correspondent of the New
York Post says the president has within three
days declared that he has the written evidence
that the statement that he has interfered with
Gen. McClelans plans is entirely false, and
the following positive statement is made edito-
rally in the Post ;-"Everybody that knows
anything of the matter knows that Stanton
has withheld no achievements from McClel-
Ian, except as directed by the president; and
we may add to that information that the pres
dent has McClellan's own letters. thanking
nm for relntorcements, and declaring. after
McCalps division arrived on the peninsula.
that he had more than enough troops to enter
Richmond"
Hon. Charles r. Train, in letter dated at
Washington, July 9Th, says 81 believe that
my colleagues and myself have seen every
soldier from Massachusetts sent here from the
peninsula. Their wounds are slight-chiefly
in the arms and hands. They are very COM
fOrtable-havc every attention and dos;ro