Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-09-11
The Rebels in Maryland.
111 IN IN nut
Prom the Washington Republican, 9th.

From gentleman, a resident of this city,
| who was on a visit to Frederick, and who left
| that place on Sunday night, arrived here Lass
night, we are enabled to gather some very i'm
| portant facts in regard to events in that now
| interesting locality.
| Our informant is Union man, but was al
| lowed to visit the camps of the enemy unre-
strained. He saw and conversed with large
| number of Washingtonians who are in the
ranks Of the rebels. They seemed to be in
| good spirits, and were, apparently, determin-
ed rebels.
The advance guards of the rebels occupied
Frederick on Friday night, and took posses
sion in force on Saturday, with ten thousand
men. which number our informant believed to
be in the city when he left. He says that
there are at least one hundred thousand of the
rebels over in Maryland in the vicinity of
Frederick, consisting of the forces of Jack
son, Ewell, LOngstreet and the Virginia cav
airy, under Stewart.
Longstreets division lies at Evansville, and
consists of from thirty to fifty thousand
No pickets are thrown out except at night
and citizens are allowed perfect freedom to 90
and come as they please. The soldiers are
not allowed, under a penalty of death, to
touch a thing or take articles of any kind,
without the consent of the owner, and then to
pay literally for it. The orders are strictly
enforced, and as a consequence not an ear of
corn or a fence rail is disturbed. This for
bearance is shown because, as they say Mary
land belongs to the contedcracy, and is IA part
of their country. But the moment they cross
the line into Pennsylvania, as they feel sure
they will, they will have unreStrained license,
and they swear that not a cornstall1 or
panel of fence shall be left standing, but ruin,
desolatiOn, devastation, and sorrow shall fol-
low in their march. All the horrors of war,
tenfold multiplied, shall visit every acre of
land, every village, and every hamlet of the
free states which they visit.
Our informant says that the rebel army is
sorry-looking set in the way of clothing-being
dirty, ragged, and Of all shapes, colors. and
texture. He saw their cavalrymen riding the
streets with the stars and stripes tied to the
horses tails and trailing in the dust; many
other indignities were freely bestowed upon
the glorious tiag-the glory and pride of their
ancestors.
The rebels say they do not intend to attempt
to take Washington or Baltimore. OF course,
if they wished to take either of those cities they
can do so, but it would involve a tremendous
loss of life in the accomplishment of those OBJ
jects, especially the taking of this city; and
as they could hold the latter but a little
while, they do not deem it necessary to
make the attempt. As they say, our gun
boats would move up to this city and shell
them out and destroy the city, and they do not
think the game worth the powder. So with
Baltimore.
Our informant passed Hartstown on his way
home, and found that place occupied by the
rebels, who had just received notice from our
forces to remove the women and children
from the place, as they intended to make an
attack.
When he left Frederick, jackson had Just
left that place with 5000 or more troops, all
cavalry, and took the road towards Gettys-
burg; and our informant believes the rebels
are now in Pennsylvania in force, as they
were but rs miles from the line on Sunday
night at six o'clock