Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-07-22

days SINCE by having a roller thrown upon
nm IN consequence of pair of cattle run
ming which were attached TO it.
In the draft in New Haven the Courier of.
flee "got EN- bad" James N. Woodward and
five otheSs of its force, editorial and mechan-
ical, having been gobbled up by the inscruti
BILE fates. Cyrus Northrop, of the Palladium.
is another fdvorite with the gods, as are also
seven gentlemen connected witlrthc mail ser.
vice, to wit three clerks, two letter carriers,
and two route agents.
large barn belonging to Henry Hall, sit
uated on Trench hill, Middetown, was de-
stroyed by fire on the 18th inst.
RHODE ISLAND.
Mr.. VIM. Griffiths of Providence, was
drowned at Newport on the Goth. The body
was found in about three feet of water.
Quite 'stif business" has been going on
of late in stealing hawsers and portions of rig
ging from vessels lying at the wharves in
Providence.
Admiral Goldsborough, commodore Huff,
and other distinguished naval officers, are in
Newport on business connected with the ma
val school. The examination of candidates
for admission to the naval school commenced
on the 2lst. There are about one hundred
and seventy appointments to the institu-
ton.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Late Richmond papers are full of advertise
ments of runaway negroes, whose affection
for their masters has induced them to get out
OF the way of coming danger.
They had thanksgiving in Maryland, on
the 18th, in gratitude for delivcramce from in
vasion.
Col. Higginson, with the second South
Carolina (colored) regiment, went up to burn
the (,Ombahpp hritiTa nc nj tbn UpOprnl
plan, to keep troops from coming from Sa-
vannah. field battery stopped them, sink
ing the steamer Governor Milton, putting
fourteen shots through the Enoch Dean, kill
ing three negroes and one white man, and
wounding several, including Col Higgnson.
Hon. John j. Crttenden has not been taken
prisoner by the rebels. He was in Louisville
on the 18th inst.
Humphrey Marshall of Kentucky has laid
aside his sword ana opened law Office at
Richmond, Va.
The sum of six hundred dollars has been
received at Beaufort, S. c., at the hand of vice
president Hamin, the same being a contrbu-
lion from colored women on Vancouvcrs ISL
and, for the benefit of the contrabands at that
point.
The Baltimore city council have voted to
eXpel from the schools all children who will
not learn to sing the national airs. The
Council also voted to give the christian COM
mission $500 and the cost of a salute
In New York, onthe 18th, Rev. Mr.. Froth
ingham preached sermon at the Third Uni
tartan church, on the riot: his text being,
Father forgive them, for they know not what
they do"
Three horse thieves and murdercrs were
hung I'm very orderly manner, to quote
the st. Louis Republican, one day last week
in Monroe county, Illinois. The proceedings
were u la Lynch.
Subscription papers have been put in cir
culatiOn in New York for the purpose of OBJ
tanning aid for the members of the police,
military, and fire department who have sus-
tanned injury while cndeavoring to quell the
late Disturbances, and tine families of such as
have been killed thereby. Upw nd of TWEEN.
ty-tve thousand dollars have already been
subscribed.
The c0lored people Of New York hold a
state convention at Poughkecpsic last week.
Resolutions we're adopted for the sing OF a
cOlored legion, and to proceed at once to
thorough canvass Of the state. The resolves
also defined the duty of the black man in the
present crisis, and pledged the entire colored
population to the cause of the nation.
The police of Chicago visited "A gambling
saloon few days ago and arrested twenty of
the occupants, and on the 18th a similar de-
scent resulted in taking twelve more.
a mob of one or two hundred women,
armed with knives, heavy spoons, and other
kitchen implements, entered the court house
at Lancaster Pa. on the l7th, and drove the
provost marshal and assistants, who were en-.
gagged i'll drafting, from the building, but did
not destroy the papers. They were after
wards joined by some men, but the prompt
action of the authorities quelled the disturb
ance, and the drafting was proceeded with
Judge McCunn of New York, who has re-
Gently declared the enrolment act uncOnsti-
tutonal, is the same person who, while colo
mel of avolunteer regiment, was arrested by
Gen. Mcclellan and sent to New York, with
the injunction not to return to the national
capital on peril of his life.
The greatest capture of men mentioned in
modern history was made by Bonaparte at
Austerlitz, where he took 10000 men. Gen.
Grant has taken 81 900 at VickSburg Ma
poleon's spoil at Austerlitz was 100 pieces of
artillery; Gen. Grants at Vicksburg is stated
to be Disseminating nine siege guns and 209
pieces of light artillery.
The curbstones and fences about New York
were covered with posters on the 10Th, bear
ing the inscription in large letters, ''Sam Or
ganize!" No one appeared to know anything
about the object