Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-08-02

newshoys,. themselves, were ashamed to try
their hand at a ''sell," outof so barefaced a
fabrication ard even Wall street, which can
be gulledwith what nobody else ever dreams
of believing for a moment, was quite calm
over it. The Memphian genius had better
dry up."
There may have been some arrivals at Mo-
bile out OF which this story grew. A vessel
from Europe ran the blockade there about the
time when these ..ten iron-clad gunboats" are
said to have made their appearance, and this
may have given rise to it. The story came
from the rebels, it is said; after it left them
it came north by a very suspicious route
through the columns of the Chicago Times.l
is7u tFor the Worcester Daily spy.l57sE
e TUE SPRINGFIELD REPUBLICAN, GritieiSing.
in severe manner the way in which the eX-'
.aminations are conducted in the 34th regi-i
meat at Worcester, and soldiers rejected,
says; land one, more than a year ago, from
| the effects Of slow fever had been for a
few days out of his head" The facts are,
this man enlisted early in the war, was taken
crazy, sent to the hospital for insane at Wor-
cester, and remained in the hospital from
Aug 2S, 1851, to March Is, 1862, before he
was cured. 81 @ = '-'
80 e.We hear. that half the Westfeld volun-
lteers, and some thirty of those from Pittsfield,
T have been rejected at Worcester, and many
of them for the most trivial defects"
! The facts are, only three so rejected
I from, D;tte6oIJ mana NV tho surUpOn
Those from Westfield were all received after
waiting short time to get the papers right,
save one of the minors, who gave clear evil
dence of having ''snakes in his boots" Re
port says this one is pauper and a drunkard,
and can walk right smart when he thinks the
''snakes" are after him. Perhaps he might
do for an officer, but such cases make poor
soldiers, as the writer can testify from an eN-
perience in the army since the war began.
''Granby raised her full quota of eleven
men and sent them to Worcester last week,
but eight were rejected by the numbskull
examiner"
Only four men have presented themselves
from CRANKY, and all have been received.
SO says an officer who came with them.
There might be some question (waiving the
politeness of the term,) to whom numbsbuH
should apply in this case.
So much for the truthfulness of the state
ments in this paper The question is fire.
quently asked, why are these incorrect asser-
tons put forth? Can it be because Spring
field authorities paid their bounty before mus
tering in, and lost thirty-two or three hundred
dollars? Or was it to induce the governor to
establish camp in its neighborhood?
One word as to DIR. Clark, surgeon of the
34th regiment. He is in good standing with
the profession, of mature age-about forty
and has had experience in the army, and
knows its needs. From ten to twenty per cent
of many of the first regiments enlisted were
unfit for duty, when mustered in, on account
Of disabilities existing at the time of their en-
listment; and often taxing the government
to doctor, nurse, feed, clothe, and pay them
for several weeks or months, then they had to
be discharged for the very disabilities that
they should have been rejected for at first
During their whole stay they only weakened
the purse and the power of the nation.
The chances fleeing killed in the army are
only as one to four to the chances to die from
disease. The statistics show that in the Cr-
mean war nearly tTee-fourths of the whole
army died the first year. The recruits sent
the next year to Ill their places although a
poorer and fcebler class OF men, died in less
per cent. than the usual rate among the in
habitants at home, SO much had the surgeons,
officers, and men learned of the best way to
take care of troops,
The soldiers stand fifty per cent. less chance
to be killed or die from disease in the old reg
iments than in the new ones. The doctors
know better how to treat them the commissa-
ry how to feed them, the quartermaster how
to clothe them, and their officers how to lead
them into battle, and how to lead them out.
NJ.