Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-01-15
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Last September Governor Stanley gave a
contract to George w. Taylor, who keeps the
Ocean House at Beaufort, for carrying the
mail over the military railroad between Beau
fort and Newbern, daily for fifteen hundred
dollars per year. Mr.. Taylor is man who,
while protesting Unionism now, f ON motives
of profit and convenience, once kept, or said
he kept, an old shot gun in his house to shoot
Yankees. In his inebriation he imprudently
exposes his real sentiments, and is a ''south-
ern man." This Mr.. Taylor hires a ''poor
white man" to perform the service of taking
charge of the mail for conveyance between
Newbern and Beaufort, at three hundred dol
lars per year, and coolly "sats down" the
twelve hundred dollars annual balance in his
own pocket. Mr.. Taylor himself is authority
for this statement.
Gov Stanly assumes the power to make ar
bitrary arrests. He now has in Imprisonment
one Edward Want, who has been confined in
the Newbern Jail for Seren months without
trial or hearing
Joseph Murphy was in the Mexican war.
and in the United States naval service for
many years. His wife is one of six heirs to a
large property, including thirteen houses in
Newbern. Murphy is strong Union man.
and voted for the free labor candidate in the
late election. He fought on the Union side
at the battle of Bull Run, and was imprisoned
with Gen. Corcoran. Two days after the
election Gov. Stanly sent nown a peremptory
order to him to vacate the house where he re-
sides Gone of the thirteen Of which his wife is
part owner.) His wife, North Carolina la
dy, goes, at the advice of her lawyer to beg
mercy, if not justice, OF Gov, StaDly; but no,
they must go out of doors.
Lewis Bratcher, two weeks ago, carried
safeguard from Gov. Stanly to John Green, a
rebel residing beyond Batchelder's Creek,
outside our lines. Green has never taken the
oath of allegiance. Cannon Smith, who is
my authority for this statement, has taken not
only an oath but musket for the Union, and
is orderly sergeant of company G, LIST regi
ment n. G. Union volunteers. Mr.. Smith
saw the document and read it. By the way,
this company of loyal North Carolina soldiers
are now in considerable trouble, in conse-
quence, as they imagine, of not voting right
on new years day. A house which had been
promised them for use as additional quarters
before election, was refused them immediate
ly after their exhibition of refractory dsobe-
dience to the governors request to vote for
Mr.. Pigott.
l will remark here, in order that the dignity
and import of this organization may not be
underestimate, that it includes every native
North Carolina soldier in the second con-
gressional district, although many of them
are not voters.
This exposition is not designed to be ex-
haustive and complete; for full showing of
the facts would require much too voluminous
a letter. [ entertain no enmity toward Gov.
Staniy, and have no occasion for personal
complaint. What | have written is ''set down
not in malice nor grounded merely upon ru-
mors, but after careful and conscientious
scrutiny, and from an urgent sense of duty.
Before closing will state another fact, never
yet put in print. A brother of Gov. Stanly
was in Jail in Newbern, having been arrested
upon a serious charge. The governor released
him Immediately upon his arrival here last
spring, and sent him back to his residence
near Washington, N. G. This gentleman is
violent rebel, and his house is a rendezvous
for rebel pickets and guerrillas. Although he
has never taken the oath of allegiance, he
comes freely into town; he is the governors
brother, however, and is Of course exempt
from arrest or punishment. Union. soldiers
have even been asSassinated near his prem
ises. In the presence of James and Allen
Grist David Brooks, and other gentlemen, in
r. S. Downell's Office in Washington, he said
he wished every 'danned Yankee in the
country was assassinated in like manner.
N \. Tribune.