Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-02-06
THE MONEY BILL-BURNSIDE,s Elk.
PEDITION-MOVINGI IN KENTUCKY.

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the senate is adverse TO it,
1t is stIted that the war department has re-
celved official dispatches from federal officers,
that gunboat expedition is moving up Ten
nessee River, f1anked by infantry on the shore,
| TO attack the rebels, and great anxiety is felt
| to learn the result The assistant quartermas.
| ter OF Burnslde's expedition is here, chartering
more steam and sailing vessels, in which TO
forward ordnance and commissary stores. He
reports the health of the troops good, and when
he left in the Eastern State. there were about
one hundred vessels of the expedition at Hat
teras Inlet.
A Cumberland correspondent of the Cincin.
natl Gazette says Gen. Lander is about to re-
sign, on account of Gen. Mcclellan ordering
him to retreat from Romney and reprimanding
him. Very doubtful.
THE CORCORAN DENOMINATION
BosToN, Feb. 5.-There was an immense
and enthusiastic Co-coran demonstration in
Faneuil Hail. Tonight. Mayor Wightman
presided, and recited the circumstances at
tending the capture and Imprisonment of Col
Corcoran, and lamented that by the act of our
government that noble man and the hostages
with him were now imprisoned in a telon's
cell, because we inss: upon holding the pris.
ouers OF the Savannah as pirates and not as
prisoners of war. The new threat upon the
lives of COrcorau and the others proved that
this meeting was timely. He denounced in
indignant terms the infamous demand made
by jeff. Davis that the brdge-burners of Mis-
souri, should be placed upon the same footing
with the hostages
Col. A. 0. Brewster said that it was sad
that these men should, by the action of the
federal government, be held to exc out their
lives In worse than an Australian prison. The
president could do no more magnanimous act,
none more popular, than to take measures Tor
their immediate release
Hon. Benz. L. Haett sent letter, in which
he claimed that the walchword tonight should
be-"Ifree Corcoran, Lee, Wilcox, and the
other colonels." There was hope for them
now, for since the call for the meeting, the
Hatteras prisoners had been released from fort
Warren. Why not send Barron back to re.
lease Corcoran He commended that the Sa-
vannah prisoners were not pirates by any law
OF war. MIR. Hallett quoted private letter,
which stated that hostages were confined in
cell seventeen feet by eleven. That for two
months these brave men never saw the light
of day, and yet they have never lost their
christian torttude, nor uttered the first COM
plant to the government The president
could not do an act more humane than TO take
immediate measures tor the release OF the
hostage prisoners.
Judge Russell said in time of war he knew
not how to criticise the government He only
knew how to support it, He trusted the
government would move promptly for the
release Of Corcoran and his fellow hostages,
and that the country would one more see that
gallant man at the heal of his regiment
yes, at the head OF brigade, an Irish bril-.
gade, doing deeds worthy the field OF Fonte.
va man hO t,Lro
because there was one military movement he
did not know how to obey-the order for re-
treat-he asked to see released. He asked
tie release of COrc0ran as a proper tribute of
gratitude and justice for the service rendered
by the adopted citizens in this hour of ma
tonal peril. a
Hon. John G. Tucker asked why it was that
Boston called a meeting for Corcoran's re-
lease, and his own almost native state had not.
He would say, it was not the fault of New
York. In December last, ex-Gov. Clifford of
Massachusetts, Judge Denny, and Mr.. O'Gor-
man, visited Washington, and informed the
government that meeting of this character
was to be held in New York. They were toll
that, if they were to iorego their intent, im.
mediate steps would be taken for the release of
the prisoners. They waited, and Corcoran is
not yet released He would say, however, act
with prudence, and not blame the government,
tor ii might be that this night measures were
perfected for III i release. He would not have
the meeting act hastily. In the name of Irish
men, he sal !, let us not show ingratitude, and
call only for the release OF CoIcoran, but for
all the hostages with him. They are all In the
same fight, There is no Irishmen. no Yankee,
nav. They will have the same graves if they
die-the same hospitals ii wounded and there
is one thing Irishmen will have for the next
kt,., H.
men.
Il series of resolutions was reported assert.
ing the regard of the adopted citizens of
Massachusetts for the constitution and union,
laudi;ory OF Col. Corcoran and his brave regi
ment, and concluding, thus =
Resolved, That it is the unanimous voice
OF this meeting that the president of the Uni
ted States should take immediate steps to
facilitate the liberation of the patriot and I'M
complaining Col. Corcoran and his fellow priS.
onels, and this we ask in The name OF the
the thousands Of loyal Irish citizens through.
out the country in the name of his dear kin
bred and faithful friends, and in the name of
his sutierings."
The resolutions were adopted by acclama-
ton, and another, that they be transmitted to
the president, with the earnest request that he
will interpose his executive power to obtain
the release of Colonels Corcoran, Lee, and the
others with them now held as hostages in
rebel prisons.
1t was now 81 o'clock, and the mayor an
nounced that Gen. Butler had asked perms-
sion to shelter the Maine eighth regiment,
just arrived, in the Cradle Of Liberty, and the
meeting was dissolved, after three cheers for
Ben. Butler. There were no less than four
thousand persons who participated in this
demonstration.