Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-04-30
EsouTnERN ITEMS.

The rebel congress has at last fixed upon
national flag. 1t provides that the flag Of the
confederate states shall consist of white
field, with the battle flag red for Union
which shall.be square and occupy two-thirds
of the width of the flag, and blue bar, one
third of the flag inits width, dividing the field
lengthwise. device has also been adopted
for the confederate seal: An equestrian por-
trait of Washington, with wreath c)mposed
Of the chief agricultural productions of the
south; motto: ''God being our leader, we
will conquer"
Garroters have appeared in Richmond. The
Despatch fthe 23d says 10y esterday morn
ing a well known gentleman in this city ar
rived here on the Danvile train about day
break, and, carpet-bag in hand, started for his
residence on Chockoe Hill. On arriving at
the corner of Ninth and Marshall streets, he
was set upon by three ruffians, who, after
choking him till he was insensible, robbed him
of his valise, pocket book and other articles"
Mosby, the celebrated guerrilla leader,
writes to Richmond complaining that the
people OF east Virginia cheat him trightfully
in prices: rs bales of hay impressed by him
in Powhatan county has been apprised at $50
per hundred. Mosby expresses the opinion
that if this price is to be repeated in future
appraisements, the debt incurred by the gov
ernment to sustain the army will reach such
an enormous figure as may endanger its ulti-
mate payment.
The Georgia legislature has passed bill to
enrol in state guard all the men between l6
and 60 left over from the confederate con-
scription.
Mai. Gen Dabny H. Maury is to take com"
mand of the confederate department OF cast
Tennessee.
The Richmond correspondent of the
Charleston Mercury intimates that Gen. Lee
gets his accurate information by acting the
spy himself, as he used to do in the Mexican
war.
The rebels are stripping the wreck of the
Keokuk of many trophies and displaying
them in Charleston The Charleston Cou-
rier of the 18th inst says: 'Reliable infor-
nation received in the city yesterday states
that the enemy are leaving Folly island. 1t
was also rumored and believed that the Yam
kee troops on Edisto, Seabrook's and Kiawah
islands were embarking for Hilton Head.
Hunters grand army, which was to take pos
session of the city after the reduction of the
forts and batteries by the monitor feet, it is
believed, have been leaving for their old quar-
tiers, as fast as their transports could take
them, ever since their disastrous repulse."
The Richmond Enquirer is shocked at the
terrible quality and price Of the whiskey sold
in Virginia. Says the Enquirer :-"Will it be
believed that at one of the stations on rail-
road leading to this city, the present writer
beheld, few days ago, white woman offer
ing cod-liver oil bottles, filed with apple bran
dy tor five dollars each, and this in a loud,
lewd tone and manner, which must have
shocked every lady and gentleman upon the
train. Nor was it to be expected that she
should be discountenanced and deferred from
jokes with the soldiers by the passengers,
most every one of whom Cat least nearly all
who could afford it) had bottle in his carpet
bag"
MISCELLANEOUS.
The city of Chatham has always been noted
| as the center of attraction by the colored pop
ulation of Canada. During the past week q
| Jury was called in one of the courts of the
| city, among whom was colored man. Five
of the white jurymen peremptorily refused tc
act unless he was removed. The judge, how
ever, stated that he recognized no distinction
on account of color, and accordingly tineC
the white men five dollars each for contemp
of court. Four of them paid the fine, but thu
fifth, unable to raise the money, was sent tt
prison, but was subsequently released.
The little prince imperial of France ATTAINED
on the 18th of March his seventh year, and
said to be so yivacious as to have slapped hi
governess more than once on the face, OIL
which account he was short time since trans
ferred to the custody of a male preceptcr, M
Monnier, who looks, like the child's great
uncle, Napoleon l., "not man to be trlfie
with"
A letter from Athens says "a compan,
has been formed in Greece for cutting throug
the Isthmus of Corinth, and thus avoid tn
long and dangerous coasting of the shores o
the Peloponnesus. The width of the cana