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Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-12-19

the treason OF its authorities. Bradley T. John
son, to whom the dispatch was sent, soon after
led band of disloyal men to join the rebel army,
as Kane knew he was prepared to do, whenever
occasion required. Probably Marshal Kane is
neither better nor worse than other state prison.
ers who have been placed in restraint through
the exercise of arbitrary power. They had all
offended against the public safety, and were OBJ
noxious to instant and summary punishment
There was never before a government which
dealt so gently with traitors as this one. Men
who should have been shot on the spot where
their crimes were committed, have to thank the
patience and long suffering of an abused govern
ment that their mischievous lives were spared OF
ALL
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General News Summary
MIDDLEsEx COUNTY.

MIDDLESEA COUNTY.
In Lowell, woman, accompanied by a little
elri, has been doing brisk business in the way
VI borrowing letter stamps, having Just lost one
rom letter. and being in strait to get her let
Ter mailed right off before she can have time IN
sec her husband, who is away at his work. The
ietter, ON which the stamp was lacking. al last
accounts had evidently been handled a good
deal. s00U
ESSEX COUNTY.
The Lawrence Courier tells a story of a priyate
IN one OF the companies from that CITY, who was
hauled over the Goals by his captain for being
drunk three several times. Robert" saws the
captain, 81 am tired of this why do you do SOP
We'll, them" replied Bob, in sober innocence
IF you don't like me, give me bill o. me time
an IL lave. His request was politely waived.
BRISTOL COUNTY
ga singular circumstance, which occurred soma
TWO years since, has recently come to our knowl-
edge. Upon eXhumlng the body of Mrs. Sarah
WOOD, wife Of Arnold Wood Of Westport thir-
teen years after burial it was found that petre-
factOn mad taken place. Like Il marble statue
the deceased appeared, perfect in form and fea-
ture, and retaining Il natural and ifclikc expres-
sion. The dress aud INSIDE coffin of pine were
also petrihed and white rs marble. -Ne,v Bedford
Mercury.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY,
Ihe Jewclry business of Hyde, Warren, & Co,
at fayetteville, is to be removed TO New York in
the spring. The Hayden manufacturing com.
pany intend starting up their cotton mills ne soon
as new machinery can be added.
MAINE.
peat meadow near Bath has been on fire
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Con. Fo.tsr at Klng.ton. ". G.

We have rebel dispatch that comes by way
of Nashville, stating that General Fosters little
army, aided by gunboats, attacked Kingston, N.
q, last SATURDAY. Evans, the rebel commander
at Kingston, says he fought Gen Fosters troops
"ten hours" and drove them Ito their gunboats"
In the next breath he states that Gen. Fosters
army was still in front of his lines. Both state
ments can not be true. Small gunboats can 20
up the Neuse river to KingtCn; and it is likely
that his ''ten hours" fight was with reconnot-
ering party that examined his position, under
cover of the gunboats.
As the 5lst and 25h Massachusetts, regiments
are both with Gen. Foster, many people in Wor-
cester and Worcester county will be anxious to
get more accurate and particular account of
what has been done at Kingston. The next
news will probably come from rebel sources BY
way of fort Monroe, although there may be
an arrival from Newbern within day
or two. Kingston is thirty or thirty-five
miles from Newbern, on the railroad from
that place to Goldsboro'. Gen. Evans command
ed the rebels in the fight at Balls Bluff. If Cen
Foster went to Kingston, as the report says, there
has undoubtedly been conflict there, of which
we shall soon get account.
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CAIRO, Dec. 1S.-On Friday last, the gunboats
Cairo, Marmora, and Signal, while ascending
the Yazoo river, reached point mile below
Haynes Bluff, when a torpedo exploded under
the Cairo, SCATTERING her bow. She sunk in ff-
teen minutes, in forty feet of water, and can not
be raised. The Cairo was one of the first seven
iron-cad gunboats built for service on the west
Elm rivers, and participated in the capture of
forts Henry and Donelson
CHICAGO, Dec, 1S-The gunboat Cairo when
twenty-one miles below the mouth of Yazoo riv-
er, on Friday last, was blown up by a torpedo.
No one was hurt. The boat and the entire arm
ament and outfit were lost. 1t is thought THAI
the torpedo was exploded by galvanic battery
on the bluffs opposite.
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NEW YORK, Dec, ls.-STOCKS are active and better;
Chicago and Rock island s} Galena and Chicago sl2
Cleveland and Pittsburg Al; Illinois Central scrip Is;
Michigan Genital So Michigan Southern $50 Michigan
southern g9aTantced 88 uds9n IA Erie Railroad 5S;
PENNSYLVANIA Coal Go ll6}; American Gold 1929; Ten
nessee SKIES 5Ss; ; Treasury 3-lOth notes l.59;
demand notes i2i3; U 5 skies 81 coupons 1881.
COTTON shade easier sales 600 bales at 6b @ 66ac
Tor middling upands.
FLOUR Receipts bbls; sales l2200 bbs state
ana western less actlye supene state Is a $685.
ira state S6IO 625; round hoop Ohio ST ~ a. $50;
pernne western S5t0 % $50; southern unchanged sales
zoUO Darres mixed to coed $50 % 70 fancy and extra
0 Q 81; Canada less actve sales $50 bbls; extra $40
GRAlN-Wheat less active sales 10000 bush. Corn
less active; sales 46 QUO bush; mixed western 762@ Tic
for shipping.
Seet steady; sales 200 bbls; country mess a $40.
pork closed more active and shade rmer; Sl4.
ce quiet and steady; sales 200 bags Java g.
Az bags Rangoon at SIC in bond Sugars dull sales Ha-
Vaa Zbo boxes at % % l0c. Coffee dull M0lasses dull.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-12-19

DIR. Kadway's PllIs.-SuPERIoR To ALE Oru-
ERs'-Pnrgaive medicines, used by Ply sicians and
prepared in accordance with the American and FuroDe
an Phsrmecop@ias and all Purgative Pills during their
operation, weaken the patient In cases of Yellow Fee
Ver Fever and Aeue, Typhus, Typhoid, Scarlet Fever
Small Pox, Measles Erysipelas and many other dam
gerous diseases purgation which in fact highly essen
ta becomes dangerous from the fac that the purga-
TIVE medicines and pills of the old system produce too
Sudden depletion of the vital powers and waste of the
body. ROADWAY REGULATING PILLS provide against
this difficulty The medicinal properties of their COM
position possess wonderful nutritious powers Six of
Railways Pills Will impart much nourishment TO the
blood and strength to he wasting body as one ounce of
the best wheat four that in all cases where purga.
ton is requied RADwAY's PILLS will In less time than
any other medicine, secure evacuation and at the
same time, noursh and strengthen the sy stem This
pecul ar power is possessed alone by Railways Regu-
lating Pills.
In attacks of BilliOusness Inflammation of the Bow
els Liver Kidneys, dose of from six TO eight of RAD
WAYS REGULATING PILLS. will, in few hours restore
the patient to and comfort. There is no purgave
medicine in use that will these complaints so quick
Railways Pills. Persons subject Costiveness In
digestion, Dyspepsia, Biousncss. JbunGice Liver Com
plant, Apopexy, Headache, should take two or three of
these PILLS or twice week. Price 25 cents per
box.
Sold by Druggists. For sale in Worcester by NJ. b
GREEN Il CO., and GEO. p. HARLOW. d2w dl9-
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FROM THE ARKANSAS BORDER.
THE BATTLE AT PRAIRIE GROVE.

FAYETTEVILLE, ARK, Dec Is, via Elkhorn,
Dec. 17.-Great activity prevails in the Union
army. A campaign OF much interest is on the
taps. The following additional particulars of
the battle of Prairie Grove have been received:
lie Official report puts the loss in killed and
wounded i'll General Herron's command at 8l3;
General Blunts, 1j2-total, 995. Later accounts
increase the rebel loss to 2700 and nearly 600 by
deserton. Thirty-fve commissioned officers in
Gen Heron'S command were killed or wounded
The following is the latest information by
spies General Hindman is on the south side of
the Arkansas river, with all his infantry and artil-
leIy. Gen. Marmaduke is on the north side with
heavy cavalry force. Our outposts watch with
in twenty miles of Van Buren,. Forage south of
the Boston Mountains is said to be entirely con-
sumed. Gen. Heron had only three thousand
five hundred men in battle, the remainder of his
force failing 10 come un on account of excessive
fatigue. Maj. Hubbard, of the first Missouri
cavalry, who was prisoner in the hands of the
enemy on the day of battle, counted twenty-five
regiments OF infantry, ten regiments of cavalry
and twenty-five pieces OF artillery on the retreat.
Gen. Hindman yesterday had the impudence
by flag of truce, 10 ask the privilege to send
typographical engineer to make drawings of the
late battlefield of Prairie Grove and its approach
es. Gen. Blunt replied that he would grant the
request when be was allowed an engineer to make
survey of Van Buren, and surroundings.
ST. LOUIS, Mo, Dec. l7.-Gen Heron tele-
graphs that Gen. Curtis victory at Prairie
Grove was much more complete and the enc
my's loss far greater than first reported. Over
1900 rebels were killed and buried by us. Their
wounded were found scattered through the
woods for miles in the rear of their position,
which had been carried during the action and
left wien they retreated. Many consequently
died for want of attention Our cavalry pursued
the retreating rebels closely, driving them be-
yond Van Buren, The position and condition of
our forces are excellent. The campaign has
been most illiant, rejecting great credit on the
officers and men of the army of the frontier.
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The ARMY OF MARTYRs."-The leaders of
the opposition in congress still exercised about
the arrest and restraint of northern secessonists
expecting to make the blood of these precious
martyrs the seed of the democratic church. The
suffering of the innocents has been their sole
theme of discussion and denunciation since the
assembling of congress. Loyal men, fighting
for the life Of the country, have fallen in the
meantime by thousands-as the cost of the ter
rible war which these northern personal lib
erty" traitors have encouraged and prolonged
But their terrible and bloody sacrifice excites no
indignation to be compared with that which they
have for the temporary restraint of men who
made the sacrifice necessary. Here is speci-
men of the virtue of one Of them. The dispatch
was sent to Fredericksburg secessionist by mar
shall Kane of Baltimore when all connection be-
tween the loyal states and the national capital
had been cut off by treachery at Baltimore, and
when national soldiers Fastening to the relief of
the capital had been murdered in the streets -
Thank you for your offer. Bring your men
BY the hrst train, and we will arrange with the
railroad afterward. Streets red Nth lfaruland
otood oenu expresses over the mountains and
valleys Of Maryland and Virginia for tho r;aa-
men 10 come without delay. Fresh hordes GoF
Union VOLUNTEERED will be down upon us ton Or
row (the 2Oth.) We 0iH fight them, and Win
them, or die. GEO. p KANE"
Marshal Kane endeavors TO explain his con-
duct by saying that he was attempting to place
the city in an attitude Of selfdefence against the
abolitionists, who were threatening in intemper-
ate language that the city should be destroyed
This dispatch, however, was written and sent
on the 10Th Of Aprils-a day before any northern
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From San Francisco.

SAN FRANCIsco, Dec 17-Both houses of the
Nevada legislature have passed corporation
bill, which requires majority of the stock of all
mining companies to be owned by actual resi-
dents of the territory, and all the companies and
offices to be located there. 1t was passed under
the influence of an intense local pressure. Most
of the stockhel Iers now reside in San Francisco
and all the officers are located here Strict COM
pliance with the provisions of the bill would ma
terially increase the population of Nevada. The
governor may veto it. 1t is also contended that
it is unconstitutional
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-12-19

NEW YORK, Dec. 1S.-The steamer Cahawba
from New Orleans Dec. 10TH has arrived. .
Among the passengers are Hons. b +. Flanders
and M. Hahn, members of congress from Louis.
ana.
Gen. Butler, finding the fund raised for the
poor was exhausted, has levied an assessment
amounting to $2S 900, on the cotton brokers'
who have advised the planters not to send their
produce, in order to induce foreign Intervention.
Col French, provost marshal general, has issued
an order that all persons3 arriving at New Or.
leans will be required 10 take the oath of allie
glance before landing. The rebels on the oppo.
site side of the lake were enforcing the conserip-
ton, and out of eighteen who crossed on passes
sixteen were seized and put into the rebel army
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About Covode md Kerrignn.

New YORK, Dee. 16.-The Herald'a Washing.
ton dispatch mentions that Hon. John Covode
went to Fredericksburg to see the battle and has
not since been heard from 1t Is expected that
he has been taken, prisoner. The dispatch says
quite an Excitement was occasioned at Wizards
hotel last evening, by The arrest of Colonel Ker-
Iigan, member of congress from New York. He
was openly denouncng president Lincoln as IL
traitor. His remarks drew about him a crowd,
many of whom shouted 'kill him, j." "shoo him."
&c. He was finally walked off by policeman
TO save him from the menaced violence of the
Infatuated bystanders.
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1t is believed that these figures will fall under
rather than exceed the official reports The Sc.
verify of the battle may be inferred from the fact
that while Buttertield was engaged but half an
hour he lost nearly three thousand men.
General Hancock lost forty officers killed and
ont hundred and sixty wounded. His total loss
embraces fifty per cent of his entire division
His conduct and that of Humphreys and Howard
receive special commendation; but where all did
SO WELL it is perhaps invidous to individualize
Though Hooker was originally opposed to cross
ing at this point he led his troops in person, be-
having splendidly, and is generally spoken of as
the hero of the battle.
The reports that Col. Cross of the 5th New
Hampshire is morally wounded prove untrue
He is doing we'll and will recover Though this
is the tenth wound he has received during the
war, he says the rebels will have to shoot MIN at
least o1ce more before they kill him His vet
eran regiment went into the battle with 250 men,
and came out with IS.
The reports that Gen Banks is not to operate
against Richmond cause intense dissatisfaction
through the army. Gen. Burnside will visit
Washington. to consult personally with the gov
eminent, within day or two.
Gen. Franklin suffered somewhat from the en-
emy'S shells while crossing the river. Had he
remained day longer his position would have
been most periOus. One of our brigadeS left its
tents and knapsacks behind, in Fredericksburg.
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For the Spy.

The DRAMA AIDING THE ARMY.-The recol-
lection of the charming theatrical entertainment,
which was given to the public by a few amateur
performers in behalf of our soldiers relief COM
mitee, is fresh in our minds. 1t has been pro-
posed that another evening should be devoted to
the same cause, with enlarged accommodations.
For this purpose, the theatre on Front street has
been hired. and a few Of my young friends have
nobly risen above prejudice, and with the purest
of motives dedicate themselves, for one evening
at least, TO this work of humanity. This theatre
is as truly ours for the time, as any mans Gown
hired house" is his; and We invite the people of
Worcester and vicinity who never slack when
good work is to be done, to enter and pay tribute
not unto Caesar, but for the holy cause for which
the sanitary committee exists.
MRS. JOHN DAVIS.
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The SORGHUM CROP "A state sorghum con-
vention is to be holden in Columbus, Ohio, on
the 9th of January next. 1t is estimated that
twelve millions OF gallons of syrup have been
made within the past year. We see it stated that
in the central part of the state parties are ready
to buy up all the syrup that is offered to supply
the Cincinnati market. The retail price general
~ ranges from fifty 10 sixty cents per gallon In
all parts of the state the sorghum crop has been
remarkably good this year. There have been
i've thousand mills sold in the state during the
past summer, which, added to those sold in for
lner years, make an aggregate of about eleven
thousand Toledo (OhiO) Commercial. =
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-12-19

SALUTARY DIsCIPBINE.-We had two men
drummed out of the regiment I'D Rhode Island)
last Friday for deSertion Their respective names
are Farnum and Westgate. Bill Farnum was
drummed out for desertion. Edwin Westgate
was also charged with stealing. He is to be con
fined in the provost guard house for one year
at hard labor, with sixty pound ball to his leg,
the first week OF each month solitary contine-
ment, and all pay stopped from both-Letter to
NeW Bedford Mercury.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-12-19

NOEL AND THoMAs.-Mr. NOEL of Missouri
made strong administration speech to-day in
the house, advocating the most vigorous meas
ures to crush the rebellion. He spoke with much
feeling of the treatment of loyal citizens in the
border states, arguing that Tenderness on the
cruelty to the patriots. Mr. NOEL has suffered
great pecuniary losses and other hardsbips
through the rebellion. While Mr.. NOEL was Ia
boring TO show that the anti-war party of to-day
is identical with tho Massachusetts anti-war par
ty in 1872, Judge Thomas interrupted him and
created something like a sensation by declaring,
with warmth, that the New England federalists
were the most honest and patriotic party that
ever lived beneath the throne of Cod Washing
tan Letter Of Dec. II.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-12-19

CHARGES AGAINsTA CONGRESSMAN Certain
New York members of congress are said to have
been detected in receiving fees for procuring
commissions in the army, in one case charging
as high as four hundred dollars for their services
in procuring a single commission of a low grade.
Cincinnati Gazette.
We have heard similar rumorS, and they point
to Hon. Alfred Ely, representative in congi ess
from the Monroe district in this state. A case
like this is stated: A young gentleman from his
district was an applicant for position in the
navy. The application was pressed for some
time, but without apparent success, when Mr..
Ely informed the young man that there was an
other applicant for the place, who could be
bought off for $3.50. This amount was handed
over TO the member, and the commission was
soon after secured. Subsequently, as the story
goes, il was ascertained that there was not only
no ether applicant in the way, but that Mr.. Fly
had the commission in his pocket when he bar
gained for the $3.50 Several other cases of a
similar character are being brought to light
One OF Mr.. Ely's brokers-one Brown, of
Rochester-is an applicant for paymaster in the
navy. This position, requiring the highest in
tegrity, is 10 be secured Tor the applicant if pos
sible, 10 reward him for his past services in be-
half of this 'venal congressman" Like mas
ter. like man, is an old adage; and the commu-
nifty in which both master" and imam" live do
them both injustice, if either of them are proper
persons to occupy the responsible position of
paymaster in the navy.-AIbany EUe Journal.
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Ex-SEcRETARY FLoYDs PROPERTY De-
sTRoYED By ONO VoLUNTEERs.-About the
first Of the present month General Crook, com.
handing at Brownstown, in West Virginia, de-
spatched Major Ernst Schache, Of the twenty
eighth Ohio regiment, on a scouting expedition.
They marched one hundred and sixty miles.
and fell in with the traitor Floyd whom they
drove across the big Sandy River into Kentucky
They also burned the town of Logan, along with
the residence and other buildings of the late Sec
rotary, broke up gang of bushwhackers, and
finally returned with thirty-seven prisoners and
a hundred cattle.
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GEN. BANKS EXPEDITIoN.-Tbe Boston
Transcript says" Letters have been received
in this city, from persons on board the tran
sports which put into Port Royal, disabled, di-
recting hattheir future letters should be sent 20
Ship Island" This indicates that Gen. Banks
has gone TO direct an attack on Mobile. He
ought to be aiding the attack on Richmond.
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LATEST NEWS.
BY TEL APH
TO THE WORCESTER DAILY SPY.
From North and South Carolina.
GEN. FOSTER ATTACKS KINGSTON.
GUNBoAT ATTACK NEAR CHARLESTON.

6ONDOAl Allan MAN lON.
BY way of Nashville We have received the fol-
lowing important intelligence from North Caro-
lima, derived from rebel sources =
Maj. General Evans, commanding the rebels at
Kingston, n. c., telegraphed to Adjutant General
Cooper at Richmond, on the 18th, as follows -
Gen. Foster attacked Kingston n. c yester-
day, with $4,000 men and nine gunboats l
fought them ten hours, and have driven them
back to their gunboatS. The army is still in my
front.
The following is copy of despatch from
Charleston, dated Nth inst:-'This morning the
enemy's gunboats in Stone river, few miles be-
low the city, opened fire on our pickets on James
Island below Secessionville. After firing fifty
shells without effect they departed. The demon
stration is considered feint to occupy the atten-
ton of our troops in this neighborhood"
An entertainment came off on the 9th inst, at
Fort Sumter, at which Gen. Beauregard, Gen.
Ripley, and the commander of the French steam
er Milan, were guests.
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CITY AND COUNTY.

THE remains Of surgeon Haven arrived in
Washington Thursday morning. He was struck
by the fragments of shell, which so shattered
one Of his limbs that it was impossible to ampu-
tate it, and he died in about four hours The
body is to be embalmed
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-12-19

TROY AND GREENFIELD RAILRoAD,-The en-.
gineers of this road have been surveying a line.
running from Saltwater, on the south side Of
Deerileld river, and througlPth the south meadows
and Deertield, crossing the Connecticut river
Cheapside, and connecting with the Vermont and
Massachusetts railroad east of the Deeriield riv-
er-Fitchburo ReveiuC
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New YORK, Dec. IS The steamboat Niagara,
which had the 50th Massachusetts regiment on
board, was inspected yesterday at Philadelphia,
and condemned.
New YORK, Dec 18-The coal oil and petro
leum store of j. S. Stanton, corner of Maiden
Lane and Water street, was partially destroyed
by fire tonight. Loss heavy.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-12-19

WORCESTER DRILL CLUB meet for Drill THIS EVE
MING, at City Hall, at q O'Clock. Young men between
the ages of eighteen and foryve wish to Join the
o"o can DO so by making application the Hall This
evening. dit aIo
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Worcester, Dec. Is, 1862.

THE PHILoPUTHEAN" is the title of char
acteriStic journal published by the Highland Ca
diets, of which the second number is Just issued.