Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-05-03


the concern down to Dixie, 10 delight the first 1
families of chvalrydom. When last heard |
from the expedition was gaily floating down !
the broad Mississippi, nine miles below Col
umbus.
In the Burlington county court, New Jer'
sey, little girl named Shatt,r, indicted tor
an attempt to poison Elizabeth and Ann
Bunting, pleaded guilty, aud was sentenced to
ten years Imprisonment in the state prison,
The negroes from the near counties OF Ma
ryland steal their masters stock and wagons
to come into Baltimore, and parties in Mary
land have frequently stopped them TO search
the wagons for "contrabands" negro,
drvnga wagon to town a few days ago. was
thus stopped, when he said mo use i0Ok-
ing in this wagon, massa, l halnt got any
COncubines dar."
A black woman in Washington on being
asked why she wished to he Tree, replied
thus :-"Golly, massa," said she, use tried
slavery thirty five years, and now I'd like to
try freedom iist few years and II doesn't
like it so well as slavery III let masSa know
1t. Yaw, haw, haw !" One Of the commits
sioners kindly told her she was free God
bless you, massa dat's goodE
View 81 Rebel Movements from Esichmond.
From the Richmond Examiner April23.
The clouds OF war thicken each moment.
| The enemy are pouring large forces into the
|
rections. Mcclellan is reported to have dis
| patched body of troops up the Rappahan.
| mock from the bay to reinforce McDOwels di.
vision at fredericksburg A citizen of Eau
| auier who arrived yesterday, reports large
army as advancing from WarrentOn. Gen.
| Jackson is said to have fallen back from the
valley to Gordonsvilie, before Banks who fol
lows after him with IA column OF about thirty
thousand men. If Banks and Mcdowell
should combine their divisions, which is prob
ably their purpose, Richmond would be threat
ened from the direction OF the Potomac with
sixty thousand men. Our government has
ordered heavy reintorcements to meet these
approaching columns, and it is very probable
that a decisive battle may be fought north of
Richmond before that on the peninsula has
transpired. Our best fighting generals have
, pursued the policy of giving the enemy
fierce fight before falling back under the pres
sure o superior forces This was tie tactics
of jackson at Winchester; and if he
is let alone, it will doubtless be his
= tactics again before falling back behind
;, the line OF the Chickahominy. The eli
:. tort of the enemy will doubtless be TO effect
a junction Of his forces under Banks and
h Mcdowell somewhere in the county Of Louisa
& or Caroline. We suppose it will be necessary
S for Gen jackson to withdraw until he can get
both of these columns in his front. Tins
ID done, the instincts of the man WILL doubtless,
v induce him to offer battle. Our Corinth ID
on the ChickAhominy, and oar Shiloh some
where in advance in Caroline or Louisa. We
should not be surprised OF hearing, within a
10 week, Of u fierce battle on this advanced
of theater, wherever it may be. We augur well
If for the result of any engagement that may
-, come off in that region of country. IhG
~ enemy will be far from his water base OF ope
- ratons. He will be compelled to meet us OF
n equal terms in every respect, except hi
an superior numbers, and we can manage pretty
-, heavy odds OF those. \ soldier accounted III
~ a soldiers satisfactory way Tor our yielding
~ at last in one of cur most important battles
soa1 v RWPRsbb them !g the best Pg srt ct th
d. they had not "out reinforced" us until ther
as was 10 end to them. They got the better o
as us on the second day at Shiloh simply b,
n. this process OF "out.reinforcing" us, which
their proximity 10 the river enabled then
to do. II they come IN upon us as far a
10 Caroline ul Louisa, they will be SO Tar iron
- their water transportation that this tavorit
of plan OF "ouG reinOI cling" will be Impractical
Bile. Whatever odds they open the battle
with, those odds only will they hold agains
49, us. The men that fight and are whipped on,
a. day will have to fight and be whipped til,
-, next II they renew the encounter A whip
~ ped army will not rest while a fresh arm,
go comes forward to engage our troops, worI
10 and weary with days exertion and excite
- menti as ON other occasions 1t is not for III
~ to diVulge the number of our own men tina
!, are concentrating on the lines moth of Rich
a mOnd. Suffice il to say, that we believe then
~ to be ample to withstand and repulse the enc
}" my There is this further encouraging tea
-. ture OF the campaign in that direction, name
~ ly that both Generals Jackson and Ewel
~ have the reputation OF being fighting generals
81 "a Earnest and vigorous work on our side is al
- that is wanted. Dispute every mile of the
road, soil every foot OF territory with blood
!, are the true tactics. The sage policy of tho
" back track may do very well at times, and the
. virtue of spades and sand bags may be very
. great in the proper place; but Inot in a cam
= paign in open field where numbers will not be
= greatly unequal, and where neither side has
y, had time for engineering and dirt digging
- That country, too, offers many battle fields
- and as this war at last must be decided by
b. battles, better that they should be Tough
" promptly and bravely than postponed
u to more convenient seasons and local.
Z tiles Ii Richmond is to fall by thu
- want OF valOr i'll troops or conduc
- in generals, it may well TALL this month a
:" the next; and If the enemy is to be driven
beaten and dsgraced from our soil, lar bette
u, ", that it should be done when they have fresh
u ly entered than after they have ruined TIN
oGG country by a long occupation of it, We los
'N more by delay than they do Their expense
/, go on, whether their armies are within GU
't territory or hanging upon our borders. w
l. lose thousands OF dollars in value every dal
80 the marauders remain in our midst. Tn
~ strategy OF the back track is very costly on
~ to us. 1t eXhausts the pocket, it crushes tin
", ~" heart OF the country. The wear and tear O
We feeling it entails is fearful 1t prutracts tn
work OF ruin, 1t intensifes and prolongs indie
-, tinltely the agonies OF exile which is the citi
~ zenS living death. Invasion should be tin
VS. signal OF bloody and desperate work; of fierc
-. encounter and wrathful blows; not Of col,
- strategy ana impossible official policy
w BERKSHIRE AT THE THEATRE" Some q
'li EN- DO occasionally go down even from oil
ne Berkshire, lobbying in the village of Boston
On with whose ways they are not over familiar
HS Item ii the Boston papers tell the truth, a so
citizen OF one ofour south county towns visite
od the hub" last week and fell among-lep
es' lsators-a dozen or so-who took linn i
ed the theatre (lIUward Athenaum they cal
or II for SOFT Solid enjoyed the play much
'ds he couldn't help it. No more could he he'll
ed being bored by the intervals between Tin
're acts, everybody is, except young gentlemen
win their doxies ('me and my beaux' they ar
'ut called in the country.) Mr.. Solid was bored
Dh didn't see the use of wasting time, when hi
em friend, the distinguished member for S.. O
gu whose eloquence he was an ardent admirer
was all cooked and prmed with a speech o,
the HoOsac Tunnel. lie proposed to the leg
hg lslatlve party speech from his friend who
Tee really an accomplished speaker, but though
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