Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-06-20
Escape OF n Union Refugee from Rich
mond.
INSIDE VIEW OF THE REBELLION.
From the y Y Herald

INSIDE VIEW OF THE REBELLION.
From the y. Y. Herald
The following statement has been made to
us by an intelligent Union refugee, who has
just made his escape from Richmond
GEN. LEES POLICY.
Since the appointment of Gen. Lee as COM
mander-ir- chief of the rebel army. the con-
centration of the scattered commands of their
armies has been vigorously adopted; even
fourteen regiments of Alabama and Mssissip-
pi soldiers, which were sent some ten weeks
ago against Burnside, have been recalled, and
the troops from nearly all parts of Virginia
and North Carolina have been concentrated in
the neighborhood of Richmond. The con-
scripton law is so rigidly enforced that in a
journey of three hundred miles through the
agricultural districts of Virginia l have not
met with more than six or eight white men,
and these only old people. The conscripts
are placed Immediately in the field, in the
midst of the thinned ranks of we'll disciplined
veteran regiments. jeff. Davis is universally
hated by the army, and looked upon as a
stubborn, self-willed tyrant. Men who claim
to be intimately acquainted with him say he is
of an unrelenting and unforgiving character,
besides being hypocrtical, bigoted devotee.
THE BURNING OF RICHMOND.
There is change in the demeanor Of the
negroes, who are about Richmond in alarm
ing numbers. There is a spirit OF insubordi-
nation daily developing itself that to the in
habitants becomes truly alarming. | think
from this and other causes, that the burning
Of Richmond may be calculated upon NTH ce1'
tainty. Whether the property holders will
be powerful enough to defend their homes is
problem the future alone will solve. The
Union army will be received in triumphant
joy by the majority of the remaining popu-
lace, which, thinned by constant draft and
CONSUMPTION, is nearly all reduced to foreign
erS and refugees, who one and all are heartily
tired of the hard times of rebellion. There
are not less than from four hundred to five
hundred of the citizens of Richmond lam
gushing in prison on account of disloyaty to
the rebel government, and their friends, as
themselves, all await the coming of the Union
troops with great Impotence.
THE VIRGINIA TROOPS.
Virginia has now one hundred and seventy
five regiments in the field, including militia
There is some scarcity of efficient arms, with
which the rebel government could at one time
have easily supplied itself The last arrival
took place some two months ago. Since that
time their expected vessels have all fallen into
our hands, much to their chagrin bnt there
are still some steamers on their way to a rebel
port. There are not more than five regi-
mentS stationed in the city of Richmond, and
all these are patroling the city and suburbs,
roads leading to it, &c. The strictness of the
enforcement of martial law, under General
John I'll. Winder, is complete. Every hotel
and every boarding house keeper is, under
heavy penalties and imprisonment daily en-
joined to report at the provost's office every
arrival and departure; each hack and livery
stable proprietor must give the name and des-
tnation Of every person driving beyond the
city limits, &c. The patrols stop every tray
eler on the road and passes are requisite.
GEN. JOE JOHNSTON.
General Johnston is the demi-god of the
rebels 1t is in him that all the rebel officers
have such unbounded confidence and ''old
joe" as he is usually and Familiarity called, is
the most popular man of the whole army.
Beauregard has his partiSans but even they
redily admit that Johnston is his superior in
strategic movements and that rare ''genius of
war" as Napoleon calls it. The late retreats
and excavations are all explained away as
mastery movements, the result of which will
at once show themselves as soon as his great
generalship will have dazzled and confounded
the unwary foe. His forces are to be aug
mented indefinitely from every source availa-
Bile. General LongStreet'S, General Gustavus
Smiths, General Early's, General Bonham's
and other divisions. even part of General
Kirby Smiths brigade, from east Tennessee,
having lately joined this command. The con-
centration of the rebel army, even to the total
abandonment Of all minor points, is an estab-
lished fact.
PACKING UP FOR EMERGENCIES.
The departments of the rebel treasury, and
alsopart of the general post office department,
have had cases of material packed for weeks
ready TO move at short notice; also, there
have been shipments Of mysterious boxes and
ordnance supplies very frequently made. The
destination of such articles is universally Co.
lumbus, Georgia, or Tuscaloosa, Ala, via
Montgomery. How such things correspond
with the undated and daily avowed confident
resolution Of the rebels to hold Richmond till
the last, and to invade the north, l cannot
explain
HOW ''LADY DAVIS" EMPLOYS HER TIME.
Lady Davis" is seen every fine day in a
most gorgeous looking carriage, drawn by
two magnificent bays bedzzened with stream
ing white and red ribboned cockades. When
taking an evening ride she is generally ac-
companied by an elderly lady-the whole
regular Central Park turnout.