Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-02-25
General News Summary
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

General News Summary
BOSTON AND VICINITY.
Gen. Wool attended the dinner of the Bos-
ton Light Infantry association on Monday
night, and responded to the toast The Army
and Navy" He attributed the slow progress
of the war to Il want of experience which has
hindered the blows from falling as heavily as
they should on the vulnerable points Of the
enemy. Mr.. Winthrop, the orator of the
evening, declared that 1--WE must stand by the
flag of our fathers, in whatever keeping we
find it."
Tom Thumb and wife will visit Boston
next week They will not be on exhibition
this time, but their presence will stimulate Gu
riosity, and in few weeks they will come
again and take the peoples postal currency
by the wholesale.
DIR. Osgood, a physician widely known in
Boston, died on Monday morning, at the age
of 90 years. He was graduate of Harvard
college of the class OF 1878, and a son of Rev.
David Osgood, ID. d., of Medford.
RHODE ISLAND.
The friends of Gen. Burnside have secured
the services of Mr.. Leutze, the distinguished
artist, to paint tull-length portrait of the
gallant soldier. 1t will be placed in Rhode
Island Hall, Brown University, with the col
| lection of portraits Of distinguished Rhode
| Islanders.
a "Washington ball." given in Providence
| some thirty-tour years ago, was attended by a
snow storm SO furious that the ladies could
not get home until the next afternoon.
A party Of laborers employed on the New
| port and Fall River RAILROAD discovered, in the
course Of their excavations on farm in Mid
dle;own, r. , an ancient Indian burying-
ehtihtSnleu. Inc relics consist of a
string OF colored beads-thrly-four in num-
Der; thin piece of slate stone, about nine by
| twelve inches, beautifully imprinted with the
fern leaf, and round stone pestle, some
eighteen inches in length by eight inches in
circumference, with which the red skins were
probably accustomed to grind their grist."
Hon. Lewis Cass arrived i'll Newport on
Saturday, on a visit to his daughter, MIR. Led
yard
There is drummer in Fort Adams, at.
tached to the fifteenth United States infantry,
who is in his 44th year of service in the regu-
lar army of the United States. He is good at
the sticks yet.
CoPPERHEAD ITEMS.
| In scientific parlance ''COpperhead" is
styled "a trgonocephalus coctortrix. because
these specimens have triangles in the head,
and are remarkable for their contortions
whenever any vigorous war measure is pro-
| posed.
Frank Pierce visits Boston frequently, for
''aid and comfort"
The Knights of the Golden Circle in Indi
ana appear to be giving way before the growth
| OF better sentiment. In a recent meeting
Of the lodges in indianapolis, member said
that unless each knight procured five recruits
at once, in less than forty days the order
would be ruined. The knights dispersed, he
added the democratic party would be gone
| up, and general Generalization would en-
sue. Besides he said, "unless the knights
succeeded, the hopes OF the southern confed-
eracy were gone forever"
a. o. Brewster of Boston, sorehead, is adj
dressing the New Hampshire copperheads.
We smile.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The order for George Francis Train to
leave st. Louis or be imprisoned, has pro-
duced a horrible impression upon his mind.
He sees in that city now what he did not
sac before his arrest IAN organized hand
Of assassins to murder those who do not
submit to have their opinions dictated to
them by the general commanding. He be-
lieves the bed of the Mississippi to be mac
ademlzed with the bones OF men who have
been plunged overheard from steamboats, bv
order Of the military authorities ~
Waltons journal of Montpelier, saws a
ROBIN RED breast has paid his almost daily
visits to the neighborhood of r. r. Keith. of
that village, all winter; even on the coolest
days it perched upon the trees in his ward.
and eating berries from the ''mountain ash"
bid defiance to the elements.
An establishment for the manufacture of
saltpetre on large scale, is erecting in New
Haven.
Peter Wager one of the three directors of
the old United States bank, who sided with
Gen. jackson in his celebrated struggle with
that institution, died recently at his residence
in Montgomery county, Pa, aged eighty-one
years. This veteran, when the rebellion
broke out, took a noble and decided stand in
favor of the country, and, so far as his wide
influence extended, sought to strengthen the
government and successfully prosecute the
war.
GEN. RossEAU.-Gen. Rosseau has been in
town since Saturday. He left this noon for
New York. He has a leave of absence for
twenty days, on account of a severe affiiction
IN the shape of ulcer in the throat which he
finds it difficult to cure. He says that before
the battle of Murfreesboro he was unable to
speak aloud for two weeks or more OF the
democratic convention in this city he SAYS its
authors ought to be imprisoned, but he does
not fear that they will be able to produce a
northern civil war, as they evidently intend
to. The general is six feet two inches, weighs
225 pounds, and looks every inch soldier
Hartford Press, Feb. 23d.