Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-03-03
0Ottester 4aiIg SPY,
THE DAILY spy,
NEWS FROM THE WAR, &c.
A SPY CAPTURED.

letter from Hilton Head Says-"AmOng
the passengers who arrived here from New
York by the Arago, on Saturday last, was one
individual who, if he had succeeded in reach.
ing his destination, would have reinforced the
rebel leaders in these parts with information
of the most importan kind. His name is w
Ii. Gladding of Savannah, a naval captain,
military major, and general alder and com.
forter of the enemy. This individual was
formerly lieutenant in our navy, and for
some years commanded the revenue cutter on
the Savannah coast. Subsequently he was
treasurer OF the city of Savannah, and in the
inception Of the rebellion was one of the hot
test OF the original tire-eaters and secession
lists. Immediately upon the inauguration of
hostilities he devoted himself to the profitable
business OF blockade-running for which his
minute knowledge of the South Carolina and
Georgia coasts, gained while eating the bread
OF the United States, peculiarly fitted him.
For many months he has devoted himself to
running between Nassau, the great entrepot,
and ports on these shores, and he enjoys the
chad eminence" of having been the most au
daciOus and successful of all blockade-run-
ners. He has been taken by our blockaders.
and after Imprisonment, was released on pa
role TO go to Dixie by way of Fort Monroe.
lie contrlved to get passage to Hilton Head,
where he meant to "spy out the land" and
then go to Savannah But he was detected
and captured. Among the letters found on
him was one from "EX-Governor T. II. s., of
Hartford, to L. L., Esq, from which the fol-
lowing is extracted;
81 abb0r the lcjtoIe scheme of southern inya-
sion, with all its horrible consequences of ra-
pine and plumber. You cannot help but see.
sir, what thousands of us are beginning to see,
thaJ there can no Union be got in this way
Ihe war might have been avoided and the
Union saved-thls Is getting to be the preya-
lent opinion. And it would have been avoid
ed but for fanatic set of men besieging the
president, and who wanted blood and plum
der. They have got both, and humanity weeps
over the wreck of body and soul. Those who
drive the car of war now have no more idea
OF SoIang the Onlon by their bloody sacrifice
OF TINS sort than they have of changing the
course OF nature. Still they 90 on in pres.
ence Of the appalling fact, which should haunt
theml like the ghost of the damned, that we are
losing our young men at the rate of s2O, 900
mont" aside from those who fall in battle
IN presence Of all this they demand new lives
Tor the hospitals, the marshes, the bitches,
and the gunboat SHAMELESS.
depend on it, Heaven will frown on such
course as this; it o"nnot a'.d 10 viii nUt come
to good. Where you find me in lamenting or
exposing this iniquity, you will find me to the
end of the chapter. | would rather have the
good opinion of fellow citizens who, like your
self, have given me their sympathy in a time of
some considerable trial of ones faith, than be
first among the slayers of kindred, or wear
the bloody laurels they may gather iii fra
tricidal war; | doubt if the Union can be re-
stored at ALL Things have gone so far now,
the only possible chance will be by the adop-
.,4 4
that which prevails at Washington at the pres
ent war.
MoNARCHICAL PRINCIPLES AT THE SOUTH.
One Of the most interesting points in Mr..
Russells recently published diary is the evil
dence which he gives of the prevalence of
monarchical tendencies in the south. The
Raleigh North Carolina) Standard, paper
which is in opposition to Jefferson Davis's
rule, gives the following testimony to the
same point, which may be compared with Mr.
Russel's -
''We have for months had fears that an or
ganzation existed i'll the southern states, or
may be in process of formation, to pull down
the fabric Of the southern confederacy-to
establish i'll its stead despotiSm or monar-
chy...... We assert what we know to be true,
that there are destructive otfice-hoders in
North Carolina who ignore the confederate
constitution and republican institutions. They
are ayowedly in favor of a military despotism
or a king. They are tired OF freedom of
speech and free press, and they would to-
morrow, if they could, vote to change the
character of our institutions. That these
views are entertained by large number of
the secession, destructive otfice-holders, both
in the army and in civil life, we have the best
OF reasons for believing. These views are
held both by the destructives Of the old wing
school, and by fiery, open-mouthed, states
rights democrats"
This development ought not to strike any,
body with surprise, after the philosophical ex-
PLANTATION of the southern theory of society,
given by Hon. l.. w. Spratt of South Caro-
lima, leading advocate of secession and the
African slave trade:-
''The rel contest" says Mr.. Spratt, "is be-
tween two forms of society which have be-
come established, the one at the north, the
other at the south. The one embodies in its
political structure the principle that equality
is the right of man; the other, that it is the
right OF equals only. The one expands upon
the horizontal plane of pure democracy; the
other has taken to itself the form of a social
arlstocracy. In the one there is hireGng Ia
Dor, in the other slave labor In the labor of
one there is the elective franchise in the 9TH
er there is not. In the one the power of the
government is only with the lower classes, in
the other the upper"
THE CoNTRABANDS NEAR FORTRESS MONROE.
letter to the Boston Herald, from Nor
folk, Va, Feb. u, gives the following inter.
esting facts in relation to this subiect:-
The worst Is bad enough, but when the
northern press publish the same statement fire..
quently, that there are $1,000 contrabands AT
Craney Island supported by the government,
in idleness, it is doing an injustice to the con-
servative officers who are interested in max.
ing the labor of these contrabands remunera-
tive to the government, even going beyond
the purpose to render them self-supporting
Beyond the mere cost of rationS, there is
but little cost to the government in sustaining
the contrabands until the estates Of traitors in
arms can be cultivated by these men, women
and children, who are in most instances dc
serted by their masters. Common humanity
forbids that they shall starve. The military
authorities will not pass them to the north
and there is but one course left open-to keel
them alive until they can earn their own sub
sistence and be of sufficient profit to repay
the government. They are kept under tht
strictest discipline and the closest subsection
being even more sternly dealt with than unde
Ordinary plantation governments.
Gen. Dix, Gen. Viele and Gen. Peck, al
conservative democrats, are interested in til
adoption of the present method for the gov