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Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-08-28

In the sprinp of the wear if seems as thnugh
almost every one who has a garden feels that
he must have it prepared and planted with
seeds of different kinds 'rhis il ror,, nam,
mandahla and ,Itl,,,,,,,L - 49,, i Ill
niece If yround var Il ,nt,,d ,rj,, ,I ,,od
and the nlants nrnnarly ,or.d t,c tba ,,..,l,,,,t
of ga littIp Garden vaIl t;IaIo n,a,, ha ,,,.
nrisng comfnrt IN :, f,nil, ami nn,, tb,t tha
nrice of meat il ca h;,,h ana tba t,,,l',,,',.i,,
inc inward II ;s ;n,,7nr,,nt +Io+ ,I.., I1.,,,Id
he a Tood snn,lv of vn,atalJas rni,ad put
neopje often oct DISCOURAGED ,bort,rordarin,,
iTbev have h,a, .+ H., 81 All 49,. o 9
dipginr tba eardan INV, ri,nt,,l ,I,, .,,,,1,
and anrlv II, tb, so,so, Lt,, la.,,.I 49,,
annnarnd tn h tho no,.assor, o,It,,v,,. .I'
niapts mt soon,in, IN tln,,.n D"S ''e
pr M returns ,he ,,,rd.,, = '', ,
weeds are suffered fo GROW and ,., ,od
and f,IIing ara vow. e. , 80 w.
f,IIo,r;pn ,,aor yvl|,l,Frr .. - o-. -. w
grove and doos wall nn va S'I i.i - ~ In
very careful and keo tho lrr,,,,aJ ,I,,.,n f.',,,
weeds.
One fruitful source of dioso+isf,o+ior, = nod
seed. MANY pnrsons dannnd nm b,I,,inr ,r,r1
den seeds many ROW nm ,ba Ghor,G;+'? 81
neirhbors. but few typst to sayo raj. c,rn
In this apnarontlv simnio ,rnrl of s.,;,,,r ,r',.
don scnds tbor, i ,,,, r;I ,,,,,,7. 60
gather and Ettln frt,it5' f TN .,,-
den. While others MARI ,,rdr,i', In 49,.
the frst ami f,;r,,,t VIM
bers, sweet corn &C., y1gJ seem. ribs Is die
best plan. Pull the incest radish, remove the
principal part of the top. and set the ra,lish in
the ground in another part of the garden. 10
ga to seed; the radishes crown from his sord
the next year will be less likely 10 RIM TO
stalk and 90 to seed wiibout making - rnod
radish. Save for seed the first fair rrrin,,rr
nearest the root of the Miami. When sweet
corn is about ready for boiling. select the
frsl and host und if tbera arn t,Tn ans ~, =
stalk the better. bend the ton nf tla st,llr
down as a mark that those ears arc. IN HI, loft
for seed; they should he left on,,ba STALL mill
both are brown and drv. The ears with thn
husk on may then be gathered, and hnno m
to the ceiling or laid away in an airy niacn
free from mice and NOT liable to he too ;ntense'
" cold. Great care sLnnId no tal,o, ,,,t -
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no way tnlerfered in the question, and taken
no part in this negotiations relative thereto
The emperor Napoleon, in communication
direct with the archduke, has also maintained
this point of view Negotiations have been
opened solely between the two high person.
ages, and not been France and Austria. The
conduct Of the emperor as thus been marked
both by courtesy and loyalty. The situation
o. Mexico might lead at a later periol to diff
terences, but all this is irrelevant So long as
the matters have a personal character apart
from politics"
The Paris correspondent of the Times says
the Archduke Maximilan's acceptance is
looked upon as certain. Indeed, it is said that
the emperor, in an audience with the ARCH
bishop Of Mexico, pressed his persuasion to
that effect. There are persons who believe
that the acceptance was made sure before the
offer was made. LIZ France is even more pos
tive:
'We learn from an excellent source that
the Archduke Maximlian accepts the crown
Of Mexico. The family council which is con-
voked at Vienna to deliberate upon this meas
ure has only still matters of form and of pri-
waite interest to discuss. The political ques-
tons which are connected with this accept
ance will be examined in a special council,
which will be held under the presidency of
the Emperor Francis Joseph, ON his return
from the congress at Frankfort. The king of
Belgium, who is the father-inlaw of the fu-
ture emperor is favorable to the acceptance,
and it is presumed to hope that the great and
legitimate influence of King Leopold in Eng.
land will be actively exerted with the govern
ment Of the queen
The new emperor, Archduke Macmillan is
thirty-one years old He is brother to the
emperor of Austria, and son of the Archduke
Francis Charles Joseph, lie is viceadmi-
raj, member Of the admiralty council, com
mandart Of the Austrian navy, proprietor of
the eighth regiment Of Austrian Lancers and
head Of the third Prussian regiment of the
Neumark Dragons. He married on the 9th
of July, 1857, the daughter of the king of the
Belgians. The archduke was governor gen
eral of the Lombardo Venetian kingdom un-
til 1859.
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CoNcoRD, n. H., Aug. 20, 1868.
The Amerlvou INSTITUTE instruction con-
menred its thirty-fourth series Of annual
meetings at the South Congregational church
in this city, yesterday afternoon at half past
two o'clock. Having been called to order by
the president, A. F. Stone, Esq, of Ply
mouth, prayer was offered by Rev. DR.. Cum.
mings of this city. Addresses Of welcome
were then extended to the institute by Mr.
Sawyer, principal of the high school, and hy
his eXcellency Gov. Gilmore, which were re-
sponded to by the president, who then pro-
ceeded to give his annual address.
A discussion then followed on the question,
What instruction is best adapted to prepare
our pupils to appreciate and discharge their
duties as citizens and patriots? Messrs.
Adams of Newton, Greenlea1 of Brooklyn,
Sheldon of Newton, Crosby of Nashua, DR..
Cutter of the army, Hon. Nathan Hodges Of
Newark, and others, took part in the discus
sion, and all seemed to agree in one thing
that there had been great neglect in our
schools in teaching the genius and principles
of our government; and especially that the
right of all men to the enjoyment OF personal
freedom is fundamental principle of a re-
publican government.
In the evening, Rov. ii. Il. Parker of Con-
cord gave most interesting address on the
importance Of the formation OF right moral
character in schools. A quartette, under the
lead of Professor Davis, gave some excellent
songs during the evening, and an invitation
from Gov. Gilmore, who is also superlntend-
ent of the railroad to Manchester, to visit the
reform school at Manchester, Wednesday
morning, was accepted.
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FROM MATAMoRAs AND TExAs.-We have
received through private channel, important
news from Matamoras and Texas At this
time, and for the last three months, the rebel
force guarding the Mexican border of Texas,
consists of Duti's battalion, numbering less
than three hundred men. The rebel officials
have taken all the cotton on the Rio Grande,
without regard to its ownership, and are try
ing to sell it, while officials of Tamaupilas-
some of whom are heavy creditors to the rebel
governmcnt-threaten to seize it rs soon as it
crosses the river. The state government has
placed war tax on all capital which the for
eigners refuse to pay.
E% President Miramon, Gen. Cobus, and
other leaders of the church party, in alliance
with the French, have for two months been
the guests OF confederate state officials at
Brownsville. A few weeks since an agent of
Aliramon made an unsuccessful pronuncia-
mient1 at Tamaupilas. With few armed
men he LETT Matan0ras, and marched up the
river, taking their arms from all whom he
met, and publicly announcing that he was
''authorized to conquer Texas" sc. A
large force was sent against him by Gen.
Lopez, and he was arrested and imprisoned in
Matamoras, but our informant believes that
when the French force arrives in Matamoras,
which is daily expected, most serious compli-
cations will occur.
For years there has been a bitter and grow
ing enmity on the part OF the MeXicanS of the
Rio Grande States toward the Americans in
habitng the opposite side of the river; and
while there is no doubt the leading rebels of
Texas would much prefer French protecto-
rate or almost any form of government to a
restoration to the Union, it is equally certain
that no movement would be SO popular in
Mexico, or so tend to uniye all parties, as the
remuneration of Texas, by diplomacy or force
to the government of Mexico.
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Nothing decisive is yet known as to Arch
duke MaXimian's acceptance of Of the MeX-
can crown. 1t was rumored that the Arch
duke intended paying visit to the emperor
Napoleon at BlarrtZ. The London Morning
Post says that the Archduke Macmillan is
reported to have accepted the crown Of MeXi-
CO, and that arrangements will be concluded
by which France will be Unidentified for the
cost ofthe war, and will be paid the sums Of
money due to creditors, for the recovery of
which the French expedition was despatched
to Mexico.
1.-The probability OF au alliance between the
southern confederacy and France has not only
been spoken OF IN America, but in Paris and
If 1t should take place 1t will be attributable
perhaps more than to any other cause. to fine
Monroe policy, which prohibits the interyen-
ton Of European powers in American affairs
The south will be compelled to dismiss ali
other considerations In presence of the nara
mount one of securing its indepence France
if threatened by the government at Washing-
ton, would gladly avail herself of so important
an ally as the infant contederacy. At present
we cannot pass out of the field Of conjecture.
but it is certainly far from improbable that
the French. occupation of Mexico may lead to
a more intimate connection between France
and the southern states, and may in time to
come, exercise considerable influence over the
character of American institutions-at least,
in the southern portion Of the American
continent"
The Paris correspondent of the Morning
Pest writes that, with the exception of the
clerical party, public opinion in France does
not support the policy in reference to Mexico,
and any alliance with the confederate states
is looked upon as involving France in future
difficulties. The Osterrechsche Zeitung of
Vienna, in an article on the election Of Arch
duke Maximillian, says:
'The acceptance or refusal of the throne is,
up to thepresenttime, a personal affair with the
archduke. The Austrian government has in
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-08-28

CHINESE TEMPLE IN CALIFoRNIA.-A
correspondent of the Hartford Times, writing
from Sinsum, Napu Valley, in California, has
the tolowing;-
yesterday l stepped into a Chinese tenn
pie. There sat their brazen idol, which they
called Josh, about the size of life, and sur
rounded by all the giided trapplngs of Goyal
majesty, in hall adorned in the most eXqui
site style of Chinese art. AS entered the at
tendant Bowed and beckoned me to come into
the inner court, near the royal idolatrous pre-
sence. Que nin WAS waiting upon his. mute
majesty, offering him large dish OF eggs and
other eata5les He thenpoured from Il bottle
something into little china tea-cups holding a
few thimblcS full, which after a few moments
was turned upon the floor. He offered one OF
the cups to me, and said, good | tasted,
and found it really was first rate brandy.
| bowed and repeated good at which he
politely and smilingly conducted me out of
the winding apartment. The Cinnamon here
are an honest, faithful set of people, and
are employed to do all kinds of housework,
wash iron, &c. The women are never
seen in the streets. They never 60 out at
work. | saw in the temple building one
man shaving the head of another close to the
skin with blunt piece of steel about an inch
long and 0ne-tourIh Of an inch thick on the
back. A curious razor"
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The most complacent class along the river
are the American citizens of African descent,
once lorded over on the plantations, but now
lords of the same. Collected at the different
military posts are TO be found hundreds and
thousands of former slaves, the male portion
having enlisted in the federal army-the fe-
males and children for the present having
settled near our camps until provision shall
have been made for their colonization. or
preparation made to relieve them from state
of dependency. | visited camp of negroes
near Memphis on Sabbath last, and was agree
ably surprised to find so much of neatness
and order in all their arrangements. The SOL
diers are scrupulously clean, well clad, regu-
larly and rigidly drilled, compelled to keep
within the camp, and, above all, anxious to
learn and perform the duties of good soldiers.
Half the discipline among tine white soldiery
would convert our army into a model of mill
tary management. About two hundred yards
from the military camp is a camp of contra
bands, women and children. Where tents
have not been brought into requisition, huts
have been improviSed and furnished in the
most sumptuous manner, without regard to eX
pense, from the extensive decorations of the
palatial residences of their former owners
10 give you am idea of the manner in which
one Oh the nuts is furnished, description will
not DC undressing, at least in showing the
changes fortune makes in war.
Mouerh negro huts are constructed out of
louhu loss; the lnterstices filled with mud, a
chimney OF rocks and mortar creeniny in the
rear OF the building above the roof Within
is moor OF earth, flat upon which is laid a
Brussels carpet, the net cost of which before
the war was from one dollar and tiftv cents
to three dollars per yard! The room. there
is only one, Is generally about ten or t,v I've
feet square. In one corner is a piano. unon
one end of which is guitar, on the other apile
of ''middling," the piano and accompaniment
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ESSEX COUNTY.

Gen. Cowdin, formerly Of the LIST Mass reg
iment, has been appointed paymaster in the
army.
ESSEX COUNTY.
Henry Downing, a shoe manufacturer in
Lynn, aged fifty years, accidentally shot him
self on the 24th, while loading pistol. The
ball lodged in the left lung, and the wound in
ficted is very serious if not fatal.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Rev. William j. Potter, of the Unitarian
church in New Bedford, was accepted as a re-
cruit on the Goth, and declined to furnish a
substitute or pay the communication. Mr.. Pot
ter is going to Washington on the invitation of
the secretary of war;
George w. Hathaway of Dartmouth has
been charged with opening letters belonging
to other persons, with the design of prying
into their correspondence. He has been held
in $1,000 bonds for trial.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
A little eight year old girl, sitting down on
the edge of a sunken water hogshead in Cen
tralville. on the 25th made an involuntary
dive backward. 1t was full of water, but she
managed to get out without help.
Mr.. Abner Kittredge of Lowell was thrown
head foremost to the pavement, en- the 25th,
by runaway team coming in contact with his
own. He was stunned by the fall, his fore
head bruised, and was very seriously injured.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
The fall term at Amherst college COM
mcnced on the 22d. The prospect of a good
class both in number and ability is very fiat
tering.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
The Rev. Mr.. Waylaud Hoyt, of Cleve~
land, Ohio, was ordained and installed as
pastor over the Baptist church in Pittsfeld on
the goth.
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IMPORTANT DECISION Concerning THE
DRAFT.-The war department has decided
that there was no authority under ihe law Of
congress to deduct the surplus of volunteers
which may have been furnished by towns
from the quota now ordered by the draft from
those towns; that congress has not authorized
an apportionment of men to be drafted from
towns, and such an apportionment would be
usurpaton of legislative power, and would be
acting outside of the provisions of the law.
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giving middling musical air to the interior.
Mahogany chairs, spring mattrass, bedstead,
&C., &C., complete the comforts of one of the
negro hutS, of which in this country there are
not a few.
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Norwich university has furnished for the
Union army two major generals six briga-
diers, including tile amente,I Lander and the
gallant Ransom, son of Gen. Ransom. who
was form rly at the head of the institution,
and was killed in the Mexican war; thirty col
onels, and a large number Of officers of other
grades.
Geo. Il. Messer of Lamoilc was sentenced
by the supreme court to three years at the
state prison, at its late session at Hydepark
for horse stealing. His is only sixteen years
Of age.
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TUE CONGREGATIONAL

Il CHURCHES Of Worcester respectfully give notice
that they will enertn the De egates the alto Con-
ference be held in this city sept g. and 20 and such
othurs desire attend the meetings and invite
desire te be present t. send their names to
CHARLES NJ. MILES, Esq ecret3ry of the Commit
tee before the 29th of August Cards indicating the
places entertainment will be returned by nail imme-
diatplv after that date.
committee OF reeepton will be in attendance at the
Chapel the Central Church. the day the opening
of the meeting.
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The yield of fruit this season in Michigan
will be the largest ever known The peach
crop alone will amount to upwards of 250,-
600 baskets.
Twelve thousand melons were sent from
Marietta, Ohio, one day last week, in. one
load.
A number of persons in the country W no
own bees, say there has not been, during the
present summer, a single case of swarming
within their observation. They d6 not give a
satisfactory reason for the fact, but it is sug-
gested that the great quantity of rain which
fell during the swarming season, may posi-
bly, have interfered with the operations of the
bees.
A Louisville paper notices the fact that such
large quantities of oil have been emptied into
the Ohio river from the Allegheny, Connect
ing with the Pennsylvania oil wells), the
wheels of the steamers are coated with a
Shiny mixture and retarded in their revolu-
tions Greasing wheels usually makes them
revolve more rapidly, but this case is an ex-
ception.
DIR. Henry J. Childs and James Dixon, both
Eng!i, hmen, have been arrested in New York
for circulating handbills of a reasonable ma
turc The bills were headed "Sons of Liber-
ty," and called upon the citizens of New York
in highly inflated language to subscribe $50
900 to test the constitutionality of the con-
scription law. The prisoners were handed
over to Gen. Candy.
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man named Dimirck HagHn of Provi-
dence was drowned in the camel where it en-
tiers the cove on the 25th. lie committed sui
eide.
shark Of huge dimensions was seen in the
waters Of the inner harLor 1T Newport on the
10th. 1t is very rare that a fish OF that de-
scrpLiOn is seen so near the pnrI
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FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST IS, 1863

Abraham Burbank, the veteran carpenter
and builder of Pittsfield fell from Il window
in the second story of his upper block, dis
lance of twenty-five feet, on the oath, dislo-
eating an ankle. lie was "down town" how
ever next morning..
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
The AmericaU whip company at Westfeld
is not to be closed up, bat has voted to hire
the workmen in the state prison for five
years.
The dwelling house OF Joseph Gibbs of
Blandford was struck by lightning on the
DIST and was consumed, with two barns and
other outbuildngs, and COW and calf.
Loss about $500. An insurance policy for
$3.50 had hut just expired.
Noah b. Tye Of Holland had fine horse
killed by lightning on the 22d
Isaac f. Nutting OF Palmer moved five
acres of good grass one day last week in five
hours, with one-horse machine, and raked
the whole in an hour and half with the same
horse. A man would have to get on his mus.
Gle to beat that time.
James Renwick, Scotchman, about SO
years old, recently from Little Falls, New
York, was found dead under the dam of the
Pittsfeld wooden company, in Piltsficld, on
the 24th, under circumstances which lead to
the belief that he committed suicide or was
murdered.
MAINE.
An unoccuPied building and a blacks mith's
shop belonging 10 Messrs. Maxwell & Jane
son of Topsham were destroyed by fire on
the 9th.
On the 10Th, the commemoration of the set.
Element of the first English colony on the
shores OF New England will take place on the
peninsula Of Sabine, near fort Popham, at the
mouth of the kennebec river.
The Maine Wesleyan Seminary has sent
four hundred of its students to the war. One
hundred and fifteen went during one term.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Mrs May, lady from pittsfeld, stopping
in Manchester, fell down stairs on the oath,
bruising herself badly and emitting her face in
Il shocking manner.
Chas. l.. Pearl of Pennington, one of the
drafted men, was burned out Of house and
home on the 23d. 1t is Il hard case, for he is
not blessed with wealth. while he has fl We lit
tie children, and there was no insurance.
John Cheney of Manchester on the 23d was
seriously injured on the down freight train.
near Wilmington. The accident was caused
by lbs head coningin contact with Il bridge.
Manchester paper says that Gov. Gilmore
of New Hampshire has reapponted Col. Wal
ter Hartman to the command of the llth New
Hampshire regiment
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And - tlg5 sayag the heavy 81 Of exehange rud
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81 would respectfully rem the public that
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mch2i dti j. ;ENBUSu 0Dteian.
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general views Summary
BOSTON AND VICINITY.


Gen. Cowdin, formerly of the LIST Mass reg
iment, has been appointed paymaster in the