Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-07-03

! lion were sent I'D from White House during
the first twelve hours, and the ears have run
| continuously day and night until nine O'Clock
on Saturday morning. 1t is now apparent
that the raid of Stewart two weeks since de-
termined Mcclellan upon new line of opera
tions if he had not previously decided uponit.
The Call for Troops.
! Gov. Andrews order in response to the
presidents call for three hundred thousand
more troops is published this morning. 1t is
a prompt and patriotic response, and COM
mends itself to the approval of the common
wealth. The quota of Massachusetts on the
scale proposed would be nearly equivalent to
| fifteen regiments. The call is addressed to
the people to fill up to the maximum all their
regiments now in the field, and provide the
new commands as they shall be required.
1t was noticed that the name of Gov An
drew did not appear in the correspondence
with the president in relation to this new call
for troops. 1t is stated, as the reason of the
omission, that he was not informed of the
precise character of the paper he was asked
by telegraph to sign. When he learned the
character of the memorial he telegraphed to
the war department that it met with his hearty
| approval To encourage and facilitate re-
cruiting, Gov. Andrew urgently recommend
ed that the government should pay one-quar-
ter Of the 500 bounty, due at the end of the
war, in adrance-which the government has
given assurance shall be done.
The names of the governors of Rhode ISL
and and Iowa are also wanting, from the cor
respondence of the loyal goyernors-probably
because they could not be reached at the time
when it was necessary it should be published,
| Including these two states and Massachusetts,,
twenty-one states unite in the desire to fur
nish promptly the achievements the govern
ment may need to crush this wicked rebel
lion at once and restore great and good gov
ernment unbroken to the world.
| The Illinois constitution, which the people
of that state have overwhelmingly rejected
was device of the Illinois democracy to re-
store them to power-the last friendly plank
between them and humiliation. They hoped
to revolutionize the state government, placing
ganize an opposition peace party in the heart
of the north The Springfield (Ill.) journal
says, with just indignation, ''there was never
assembled body of men, not excepting the
| Hartford blue light or the last national demo-
cratic convention, which was fraught with
more danger to the prosperity and welfare of
| the nation. Had they succeeded no one can
tell the damage they would have been able to
do to the Union cause, either by factious OPP
position or by indirectly refusing their coop
Grafton"
HOWEVER favorable and cheering the result
of the struggle in Virginia may be, it cannot
be achieved without great suffering and dis
tress. Before the battles of last week, the
available military hospitals were severely
tgXed to meet the wants of the brave unfor-
Inmates who fell to their care. How much
greater must be the burden since the pro-
longed and sanguinary conflicts of last week
and after the more fearful battles which
still await our arms There will be new
call upon the generous humanity of the coun-
try which can hardly prepare too soon or too
much for the needs of those who shall suffer
THE Providence journal publishes a letter
dated 'New Bridge, Va, June 25th"-the
day before the attack on Gen. McClelan's
right wing-in which the writer says; "A
refugee from Richmond told Gen. Mcclellan
that the enemy intended attacking our right
| flank tiI1a I hama tbayr
will receive the same greeting they met at
Hanover Court House and at Yorktown, unless
they attack us in much larger force than our
number and if they do so, are shall amuSe
them here, while on, left f,ots up into Rich
mond. 1t would take $4,000 of them to turn
this flank, and that number I hardly think
would succeed as we would have all the ad-
vantage in ground, and being the defending
party, and $4,000 would weaken the left and
center so that our troops on that flank could
gain an easy victory. The advantage is al
ways greatly in favor of the defensive party,
they having opportunities to choose their
ground and place their cannon
FROM NEwBERN.-0n the evening of the
25th ult, an expedition comprising portions
of the 18th and 25th Massachusetts regiments,
and detachment from the marine artillery
the whole under command of Col. Howard,
left Newbern on the Wheelbarrow and the
gunboat Picket, for Swift Creek, where a re-
bel block house was to be destroyed. One or
both of the vessels grounded some four or
five miles up the river, and were lying there
late on the morning of the Goth, when the let
tiers announcing the expedition were written.
MISUNDERSTANDING Seward, accompa-
MED by Thurlow Weed and other gentlemen,
passed through this city for Boston yesterday
morning, and returned in the afternoon
Miss LIZZIE PARKER, native of Hubbard
ston in this county, has recently made her
debut in opera in the cities of California with
fine success. She is the prima donna, and
her execution is spoken of by the musical
critics on the Pacific with much enthusiasm.
She is the youngest daughter of Dana r.
Parker of Hubbardston, and is rememberedbv
many citizens of that town in her early youth.
as the principal alto of the congregational
choir. Hervoice has since developedinto apure
go.