Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-06-28

side. But it was all in vain; the confscation
=. act swept all away, and his splendid establish
ment was put up and knocked down at a ruin
Gus sacrifce.-N. T. UOrld.
Commodore Hull, naval constructor Hart,
and engineer Shawk have arrived at St. Louis
from the east, to superintend the construction
of seven new iron gunboats at the CarOndelet
docks. The other two, the Choctaw and Fort
Henry, have five hundred men at work on
them, and will be launched i'll three weeks.
The Choctaw will have turret like the Mon
itor, and will be put in command Of Lieut..
Winslow The Fort Henry will be 300 feet
long, pierced for twenty-five guns, and will be
so constructed us to be serviceable as sea-
! going steamer. Lieut. Hall will command
her.
Some fifteen or twenty officers have been
sent home by fag-oflicer Farragut, for habit
ual drunkenness.
Mrs. Martha Tyler, widow. living in Hen
rico county, Virginia, ten miles west OF Rich
mond, has eight sons in the service of the con-
federate states.
The Chicago Tribune is informed that over
three hundred.of the confederate prisoners at
camp Douglas were recruited into the ranks
Of the Irish brigade on Saturday last, and left
with it for Washington.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The productive capacity of New England
and New York exceeds that Of the entire fif-
teen slave states by SOL 100000 while the
state of New York alone is in this respect
S65, 100000 in excess of the ten cotton states
together; and the annual products of the little
state of Massachusetts exceed in value the
entire cotton crop of the southern states, at
the average price.
The Fredericksburg (Va.) Christian Ban
nf limo 81 saws tho StamDa1p of negroes
continued with increased numbers. On last
Thursday one hundred and fifty crossed over
to the north side of the Rappahannock river.
They are going, going, and will soon all be
gone.
About week ago a man named Hicks, lv-
ing in Alexandria county, Va, near Balls
Cross Roads, in moment of intoXicaton
undertook to whip his wife. While in the act
Of beating her. his little son. lad ten years
of age, seized a dirk or large knife, and ran
behind his father and plunged it into his back,
inflicting wound which has since proved
fatal.
Nathaniel Howe of Hopkinton, an eccentric
clergyman of the Calvinistic school, once
made an ordination prayer which contained
the following valuable hint as to the best
mode of dealing with theological opponents
80 Lord, may thy young servant put down
the Methodists, and Baptists, and Episcopal
Gans, and Universalists, by preaching better,
and praying better, and living better than
they"
At the recent commencement of Princeton
college the name of JEFF. Davis was by a unan-
imous vote stricken from the rolls OF the Gil
osophian Society.
The Washington Star publishes large
number of extracts from Maryland papers,
all showing the rapid progress of emancipa-
tionism in the state of Maryland. Ex-Gov
Hicks, Hon. Reverdy johnson and senator
Sellman are said to be open advocates of the
new order of things. The Baltimore Ameri-
can, the ablest paper in the state, keeps up its
fire in support of the presidents policy on this
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