Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-06-12

| barn to get some potatoes, when he diScOV-
cred the bedclothes around Libby on fire, and
J on examination found that Libby was dead
| The fire'was extinguished, and it was evident
/ that there had been foul play. The post NOR
| TEN examination resulted in the discovery
I that Libby had been shot, large slug having
| entered the left breast, passed through the
! lungs and heart, and lodged under the right
! shoulder bone. 1t was clear that he had been
instantly killed. and as no gun or pistol could
be found on the premises, it is evident that he
did not shoot himself. The writer of the let
/ ter states that there is very strong circum-
Stantial evidence against young man of the
vicinity. but as he has not been arrested, with
holds the name.
A Mr.. Bishop of Lisbon, was murdered by
drunken man named Young, on the evening
of the 9th. Young was so crazed with liquor
that his wife sent for assistance. Mr.. Bishop
was the first one called upon. As he entered
Youngs house the drunken man shot HIM
through the breast, and he died instantly.
RHODE ISLAND.
The sixteenth annual meeting Of the associ-
ton of medical superntendentS Of American
institutions for the insane took place in Provi-
dence on the 10th and llth.
CONNECTICUT.
In Salem, on the Sth, man named Avery
committed suicide by taking laudnum. Do
nestle intelicity is supposed to have occasion
ed the act.
PERSONAL.
| The C.. S. A. war department accuses Maj
! Gen. Benjamin Huger of arrogating powers
to himself which do not belong to him, and of
misconstruing and violating orders concerning
the exchange of prisoners. He has been or
dered to take the field for active service, and
is now in command of what is called a divis-
ion of rebel troops at Port Walthall junction,
on the line of the Richmond and Petersburg
railroad, between those two cities
An eccentric gentleman recently preached
| in the vicinity of New York. Among many
peculiar things he said in his prayer, this SEN
tence occurred: so, Lord, show us the spot
where Nebuchadnezzar was pastured, that we
may turn out that arch rebel, Jeff. Davis,
! therein"
| Mrs. Mary G. Swayne, lately deceased in
| Cincinnati, left $4,000 to the American Bible
| Society, and $4,000 to the American Coloniz-
| alton Society.
Charles L. Flint Esq, secretary of the
Massachusetts board of agriculture, sailed
from Boston for Europe on Wednesday. He
will employ several months in visiting the To-
caities in Great Britain and on the European
continent which have reputation for the per-
of rural economy.
The editor of the Nantucket Inquirer, Judge
E. NJ. Gardner, talks of opening a law office
in Yarmouth. When he does so we shall ex-
pect to receive his card-for publication
BdgnSta6le Patriot.
private letter received in Boston, from a
miner at Clearwater River Gold Mines, Wash
ingtOn territory, states that one of his part
ners, Mr.. Henry Wellington, formerly of An
dover, Mass, was frozen to death last Janua-
ry. in the mountains.
The departure of Lord Lyons, the British
ambassador, for England, has produced some
sensation at Washington. The knowing ones
have an impression that he has gone home to
consult with his government on matters which
they do not like to trust to manuscript, but
prefer verbal conversation.
A member of the Massachusetts 18th, writ
ing from Front Royal, Va, describes his ex-
| perience in marching for six days in a modern
deluge, and adds at the close :-'Here comes
our daily thunder STORM"
WAR ITEMS.
A woman at Newark, n. j., whose husband
had galantly laid down his life in fighting for
the Union, became so indignant at hearing
rebel sympathizer slur the volunteers who
were passing through in the cars, that she
and beat him until her strength was exhausted
He was glad to escape from the jeers of the
crowd, who loudly applauded the merited
| chastisement by the plucky woman.
| The Toledo Commercial gives the follow
| ing good retort The other day, as a num-
| Der of rebel prisoners were being shipped at
Sandusky for the traitors home on Johnsons
Island, little German made himself quite
prominent with his noisy remarks about the
secesh. One of them, brawny six-footer,
turned savagely upon him and said, awe eat
Dutchmen down south" 'Vy den you no
eat Sigel?" was the instant retort. Secesh
had no reply to give, but passed sadly on.
The National Intelligencer states that Hon.
Bailie Peyton and the Hon. VIM. II. Polk of
Tennessee have been appointed to act as
commissioners by Gov. johnson, to confer
with the president on the important subject of
driving the insurgent forces out of east Ten
nessee, and of releasing the friends of the
Union in that beleaguered section from the
oppression under which they are held by a
hated usurpation.
| The Corinth correspondent of the New York
Post writes Major Taylor, chief of artil-
lery, has discovered a number of wooden can
non, and also a number of cottOn-stufIed sem
tinels on our left, with which the enemy there
adorned his breastworks. They are much
better at this kind Of thing than at fighting"
Among other points of interest now within
the federal lines about Richmond, is 'The
Slashes"-now called Ashland in Hanover
county, the birthplace of Henry Clay-''the
mil-boy of the Slashes."
The st. Louis News says there is little doubt
that the rebels are assembling in the northeast
corner of Arkansas, preparatory to an irrup-
ton into Missouri. The federal forces are in
sufficient strength to meet and defeat them.
There were no ifs about the last naval battle
on the Mississippi; and yet it must be con-
fessed there were a good many butts, as the
feet INDUCED in decided and decisive ''raD1-
page"
The new iron-clad steamer at Philadelphia
has received four tiers of plates upon her sides,
and some idea can now be had of the impreg-
inability of the vessel. AS she now lies in the
water, she does not draw over eight feet, the
remaining seven of her draught will be made
by the use of the remaining plates. She will
be ready for sea by the 10th of July.
MISCELLANEOUS.
1t is said that not less than one tenth of the
slaves of Delaware have disappeared, no one
knows whittier, since the rebellion broke out.
Rebel Graves and Epitaphs.