Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-09-01

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tually ordered three counties-Jackson, Cass
and Bates, and part of Vernon-to be depOp-
| ulated, except the towns Of Kansas City, In
| dependence and Pleasant Hill, or within one
| mile thereof. The semi-seCessl0nistS, copper.
| heads and conservative Union men have al
ready sent delegation here to prOtestagainst
the visits of jim Lane, Jennison and others,
with armed gangs from Kansas to revenge the
injuries inflicted by Quanrell on Missouri.
| They are frightened as tar east us Lexington,
| and in fact no such alarm ever spread along
the border before as now. Had these con-
| ,servatlve MissourianS shown halt as much
energy in breaking up QuantrelPs gang as
they have lately shown in getting out Of Jen-
nisons reach, Quantrell'S never would have
| harmed Lawrence.
| That horrible massacr is still the exciting
theme of conversation here. To-day sub
scription list was started. A few Claybank
government contractors headed the list with
| pltitul sums. The men who have tattened off
| the government since the war broke out are
down for such sums as $50. The first char
coal firm applied to gave $3.50. The mer-
chants have raised $4,000 in few hours for
| the suffering rebel families in Cornth, Miss.
1t will be a burning disgrace to humanity if
they don't raise SIS 200 before Saturday night
for Lawrence. Regarding the responsibility
for the Lawrence RAID, there is only one Opin-
ion. 1t lays the blame at General Schofeld's
door, on the simple principle that depart
ment commander is just as responsible for the
reverSeS as he is entitled to praise for the sue
cesses in territory within his jurisdiction.
The principal is responsible for the sins Of the
subordinate, and whether General Schofield
throws it off on Gen. Blunt, or Gen. Ewing,
or anybody else, he is bound to be censured
for the horrible affair.
The capture Of jeff. Thompson was cOnsid-
cred important enough by one paper here to
| Justify an 'eXtra," but the people don't see it.
JEFF. Thompson and his staff were taken pris-
oners at Pocahontas. Ark, by cavalry eX-
petition under Col Woodson, sent out from
Pilot Knob by Colonel Livingston, post COM
mander. They dashed into Pocahontas at
daylight, and found Gen. jeff. in bed. He is
now at Pilot Knob, and will probably arrive
in st. Louis to- morrow As military officer
jeff. Thompson is OF no earthly account. AS
politician he was one Of the first to raise the
secession ''shute" in Missouri, and was prom
inent in the capture of the Liberty arsenal in
May, 1861. His gasconading pruclamations
and hightalutin appeals to the southern pa
triots OF southern Missouri" used to be the
laughing stock of everybody; but he has
been hiding his calcium light genius under
buShel ever since the capture of Memphis.
Excepting as tussy, brainless adventurer,
Jeh. Thompson has no reputation whatever,
and it is not likely the confederates will groan
over his captivity very seriously.
1t is said Price has sent his agents in Mis-
souri, to organize new Missouri State Guard,
under the law passed in the last hours of the
secession legislature of Claib. jackson. The
| returned rebels, who are now thicker than
feas in nearly every north Missouri county,
are said to be actively empl' yed in this work,
and that the guerrilla gangs who are now SO
savagely engaged all over the interior, ard
starting points III plan for raising another
army of rebels in Missouri. The prospective
enforcement Of the conScriptiOn law is the
potent argument addressed now to rebel SYM
pathlZers by these rebel recruiting officers.
The secessionlsts are urged 10 go into the
southern army, because if they refuse the
Union draft will gObble them into the Union
army; so, if they must fight, it will be better
to tight where their Sympathies incline them
Guerrlllas are plentiful, and the supply is far
greater than the demand. jeff. Davis has
many faithful friends in Missouri, or other
wise his guerrilla friends, Quantrell & Co..
couldn't stay here a day. Col. Cobb, an old
bushwhacker who has been in Arkansas for Il
year, is now at home in Galloway and Boone
counties at the head of three hundred men.
The Union men have heretofore been depriv-
ed of their arms, and are defencelesS against
midnight attacks, although the small cavalry
force IN that vicinity is in the saddle night
and day, chasing the guerrillas. The latter
have lately threatened the north Missouri rail
road, and frightened off the telegraph operator
at Sturgeon.
Gen. Schotield's last grand order is the Sc
verest rebuke to the conservative party of this
state it has ever received. While they have
been urging the restoration of civil law in the
place Of martial law, on the ground that peace
existed in Missouri, the bushwhackers have
turned the interior into trightful condition.
| The general at last admits that fact, and sees
| the horrible state of affairs that has followed
slight relaxation Of the rigors of martial law.
He allows all returned rebels who take the
oath OF allegiance and give bonds to return
home on certain conditions, and outlaws the
balance. The General is finally aroused to a
realization of the fact that radical policy is
the only one which will do in Missouri, but he
has been so longin arriving at that conclusion
that in all probability the senate will cut off
his head by rejecting his nomination at an
early day Of the session.
The recent events on the border have made
more radical voters than all of the political
speeches and conventions in the country could
have done in six years. The attendance at
the radical state convention at Jefferson City
next Tuesday promises to be large and re-
spectacle. The conservative class will wrig-
gle at this manifestation in favor of the intnte-
diate abolition Of Slarery.
The mower mows on, though the adder may
Wrilhe
And the c0pperhead curl round the blade of the
scythe-n
The superintendent of the contra bands, the
Rev. +. Il. Newell, has recently called atten-
ton to gross outrage practiced upon poor
helpless negroes by brutal steamboat captains.
1t has been practice to engage contrabands
as deck hands along the lower river, under the
promise of wages to be paid here. Instead of
paying these just dues, the captains turn the
luckless negroes ashore and refuse them a
cent. These outrages cannot be practiced on
the contrabands with impunity. The weather
is cool and bracing. Fruit is going sonth in
immense quantities every day for our gallant
soldier boys. Nothing further has been heard
OF Gen. Blunt since last week. Good news is
hourly expected from Little Rock.-New York
Tribune.
UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY The
following named cadets were reported to the
war department as ''most distinguished" for
scholarship and military proficiency during
the year ending July Ist:-
FIRST Class, John r. Meigs, at large;
2, Peter S. Niche, Ohio; 3, James d. Rabb,
Kentucky; 5, William w. Twining, Pennsyl-
| yania; D. William r. King, New York.