Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-12-16

rapidly with the business for which it was called
together. In modifying the militia laws, the
present laws have been made the basis, and the
military committee are hard at work upon the
subject Important matters are before the bank
commissioners, involving large increase of
bank issues, and resolution is before the house,
as'iHg the advice of the judges of the supreme
court on the consttutionality of law authoriz-
ing soldiers TO vote outside the state.
James McCullen, the cigar maker of Suffield,
who murdered James Drake on the evening of
Oct. 25. hung himself in the Jail at Hartford, on
Friday night. The cause Of McCullen's killing
Drake was his criminal intercourse with his Me
Cullens) wife.
RHODE ISLAND.
The bids for the loan of six hundred thousand
dollars, advertised for by the state treasurer of
Rhode Island in Providence, amounted to about
sixteen hundred thousand dollars. 1t was award
ed to parties in Boston and Worcester at 8 26-1 100
premium and upward The Revere bank of Bos-
ton took 1873, 900 at 10S &c; jackson & Butts of
Providence 100000 at 1083S to 10S 12; and
Hartshorn of Worcester, $4,000 at 108 1-2 TO 109.
PERSONAL
A chronological character" of Gen. Banks
says he is destitute of "secretiveness"
Charles DYER for long time one of the most
active and useful citizens of Providence, died in
Brooklyn, Ct, on Thursday, aged eighty-four
years.
Col. Cross fthe 9Th New Hampshire regiment
who was wounded at fredericksburg has prObB-
wy uOCu Ill dS ildIy DdItl6S us any volunteer OF
tcer in the service, and this is the third time he
has been wounded.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Boston Post, in referring TO the reduction
in its size, says:-"Our readers will remark some
mechanical improvements in the Post this morn
ing, but in the profuSeness of our generosity we
shall make no additional charge in consequence
The high price of paper precludes any extended
explanation" .e
During the whole of the bombardment of
fredericksburg several bands of music were dis
courslng sweet strains, contrasting strangely
with the furious cannonading going on oily a
short distance to the front. The sweet simple
strain of "The girl left behind me-" mingled
with the reverherating thunder from the numer
Gus batteries.
Gov. Brown of Georgia, acting under the au..
thory of the Legislature of that state, has seized
from $500, 900 10 $40U, 900 worth of goods in Au-
guSta, for the use of the soldiers to be paid for
of course, at reasonable rates. 1t has caused
great excitement
Richard and Mary Awkward, husband and wife.
for the murder of William Munroe, on the 10th
of May last, were executed at Belvlie, c W.,
on the 9th. Five to six thousand people we've
present. many of whom had remained all night
in order to secure good place.
The magnificent contribution of Nevada Ter
rltOry 10 the sanitary commission, for our sick
and wounded, in eight bars of silver and bullion,
valued at $4,000. was shown at the New York
Academy of Music, on Thursday evening, by
Dr. Bellows, and is on exhibition at Ball, Black,
& Co.'S, in that city
At a religious public meeting not long ago,
speaker was Illustrating the ignorance that pre-
vailed in the country, and said that a colporteur,
gong with tracts into the 10y house of dweller
on the Ohio, asked the woman if they had the
Gospel there She said, "No; but they have it
dreadful bad about four miles below"
Several hundred officers absent in Washington
from Gen. Buruside'S army, it is said, were ar
rested and sent back to their regiments, notwith-
standing they were armed with ''leaves of abb
sence 3"