Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-06-13

the fight between EremontS and Stonewall
JackSon's forces near Harrisonbnrg. was
doubtless by far the best cavalry officer in the
rebel service. Brave to recklessneSs,
splendid horseman, and a dashing leader, rid
ing horse that would drop and rise again at
his word, and could not be overtaken, he has
seemed to bear charmed life. If the rebels
shall ever execute their threat of transform
ing the war into mere guerrilla struggle,
they have no man living whom they could
have spared so i'll as Dick Ashby.
Pierre SOule has been arrested by General
Butler and is to be sent north.
Col. Briggs is doing well, at his own resi-
dence in Pittsfeld, according to the Sun, and
hopes to Join his regiment again in two or
three weeks.
\. A. LOvett, formerly connected with the
American telegraph in Boston, has been APP
pointed government censor in the telegraph
office at Washington.
The Nashville Union makes the following
statements regarding the antecedents of JEFF.
Davis JEFF. Davis father lived for num-
Der of years in a log cabin situated in what is
now the town of Fairview, twelve miles from
Hopkinsville, Ky. The house is now wealth
erboarded and used as a tavern. Old Davis
was man of bad character, horse trader,
and swinder, and of very low habits A fine
horse was missing on one occasion in the
neighhorhood under such suspicious circum-
stances that he found it safest to leave the
country Immediately and fly to Mississippi.
jeff. Davis is his Legitimate son, born some
miles distant from his fathers house, and ia
ken home by him when several years of age.
These are notorious facts. Some of Davis
relatives still live in that part of Kentucky.
We would never have alluded to this sinister
T,lfh l
continually prating about southern gentility
and the low breeding of Union people. Our
own opinion is that Jeff.'S birth does him more
credit than any portion of his subsequent life"
WAR ITEMS.
Gen. SchOuler has received from Adiutant
Bradlee of 18th Massachusetts regiment a
copy of his official report for May. The reg
iment was at Front Royal on Sunday, Sth
inst, and expected to leave for Warrenton, a
distance of 30 miles, the next day. The men
had recovered from the effects of their severe
march from Manassas. Col. Leonard had re-
Joined his command. Lieut.. Col. Batchelder
and Capt Scriber are absent on detached SER
vice; Capts. G. II. Hovey, John G. Hovey,
and w. II. JudsOn, are sick at Washington,
and Capt w. L. Clark at Front Royal. There
were at Front Royal S3S non-commssioned
officers and privates, of whom 79l reported
for duty. A large number were sick in con-
sequence of the recent march.
The New York Evening Post says that the
Maine 18th regiment, which passed through
Broadway last November, chanting the halle
lujah chorus, eight hundred and fifty men
strong, nearly all young and sturdy lumber
men, has suffered so much that when they
went into the battle of Fair Oaks, they num-
bered, fit for duty, only one hundred and
eighty men. Nearly one half of this number
were killed or wounded.
The Richmond Enquirer of June 9TH says
that 1900 stands of arms arrived at a confed-
crate port few days previously, and that on
the preceding Sunday, two vessels, with arms
and ammunition, arrived at the same port.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Mrs. John Whitaker and her daughter IA
years Of age residing in Rochester, were so
seriously burned by their clothes taking fire.
on the 9th, that they survived their injuries
but short time. The husband was almost
berett of reason by the calamity.
letter from Amsterdam, Holland, of the
Sth inst, says "A telegram from the man.
utacturing town of Enchede, received here
this afternoon, reports the total destruction of
that town by fire. Fifteen manufactures,
four churches, and the town hall, besides the
dwellings of all the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ten
thousand-are burned to the ground. Every
thing is destroyed or being destroyed without
any means for saving the little property
which the flames may not yet have reached.
Several lives have been lost. The disaster
was caused by lightning"