Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-05-18
BY TELEGRAPH.
F'o, Latest dispatches see Second Page.


L 0RT MONROE, May l5.-IhiS morning the
steamers S. r. Spaulding Georgia, and Bel
videre, arrived from City Point with about
5000 exchanged prisoners, including Gen.
Hayes and several other officers; and about
1000 other prisoners are expected to arrive
within the next twenty-four hours. This
cleans out all our officers and men in Rich
mond
The Richmond Enquirer of May l4th is re-
ceived, containing dates from Charleston to
May 18th, which say 1.-The enemy is show
ing unusual activity. He is building large
and formidable batteries on Folly Island,
bearing on the southern extremity of Morris
Island. Several Yankee regiments are also
terrifying on Seabrook Island. Five iron
clads and numerous transports are still in
North Edisto, and several transports remain
- -.U Asvyor. NV uueamer DrJaIH, WIN
merchandise has arrived running through
the blockade. She started from Nassau on
Thursday, in company with the steamer
NorSeman, which has not yet been heard
from. The steamer Pet, from Wilmington,
had arrived at Nassay, and the steamers Pa
tapsco, Banscl, and Antonica, are there also
to sail.
WILMINGTON, N. c., May l4.-The steam
ers Bashaw and Pet arrived here this morning
from Nassau.
FoRr MONROE, May I5-P. M.-Informa-
ton just received by Col. Ladlow, commits
sioner for exchange Of prisoners, shows that
the whole number of our officers and men cap
tured at Fredericksburg will not exceed 1900.
The balance, stated as about to arrive, nave
been captured at the west and elsewhere.
FIGHTING IN MISSISSIPPI
FORTRESS MONROE, May l6.-The Rich
mond Enquirer of yesterday, says :-'Fight.
ing is going on in Mississippi. The enemy
yesterday advanced one thousand strong upon
Raymond, where Gen. Gregg had four hum
bred and ten infantry and a few cavalry.
SkirmiShing commenced at nine o'clock in
the morning. The enemy was continually
reinforced till one o'clock, when we opened
the battle heavily with musketry. knowing
that the enemy was heavily reinforced and
ready to engage us with their full force, we
retired through Raymond, making a stand at
Mississippi Springs, where we have reinforce
ments. Col. McGavoch of the 10th Tennes-
see, was killed. The firing to-day was heavy
and continuous toward jackson.
REBEL VIEW OF THE SITUATION.
FORTRESS MONROE, May 16.-The Rich
mond Enquirer Of the 18th, contains the fol-
lowing editorial article :-''There is evidently
to be an active summer campaign. The plan
of the enemy seems to be to keep our atten-
ton constantly excited at every point at once,
SO llidJ no part Oh our WHOle WluIn Oh ITODlleT
may be freed from the urgent and immediate
apprehension Of an attack. Then they can
strike where they think our line is weakest or
where our defenders are least prepared, and
if repulsed they can retire and direct a blow
at some other quarter. In the meantime,
they can bag much plumber and cause much
sorrow to our people by expeditions through
thinly peopled regions, destitute OF troops.
They can also force more and more of our
peple within their lines to take their hated
oath for Il quiet life and to save their property
from confscation. Thus they can both de-
moralize and rob us within our own borders,
preparing all the while for serious assault and
delivering them just when they are ready and
where they choose.
alt is hard to say at what point they are most
active, just now. If one looks south west
ward it would seem that the state of Missis-
sippi is the region of most exciting reports.
Immense armies are gathering in and around
Vicksburg, and while preparations are in pro-
gress for new assault upon that place, the
back country is devastated, and the people
haunted by cavalry raids but, at the same
moment, Charleston is kept on the qua gire
by preparations for another attack by sea and
land, or both at once. The object may be
only to prevent Gen. Beauregard from send
ing away any of the troops which now defend
Charleston. At the same instant Burnside
threatens east Tennessee, and Hooker, large
ly reinforced, is expected to cross the Rap
pahannock somewhere or anywhere from
Culpepper to Port Royal, to keep some Of our
forces employed in the defence of Richmond
helntorcements are sent to fortress Monroe,
and lest any part of the country should have
rest, the enemy's gunboats are harrassing
North Carolina. In the Raleigh Progress of
the 18th inst. we read
Gunboats continue to prowl up and down
the Chowan and Parquimous rivers. They
steal i, negroes silver ware, jewelry, and ev-
cry thing they can lay hands on, and have
broken up number of fisheries. They stole
some $1,000 worth Of iewelry from a man
named Cook, breaking up his furniture, and
committing other depredatlons. In one in
stance they entered a soldiers house. and
broke up his crockery and furniture. &c.
Five or six thousand Yankeds are reported in
Plymouth, and several gunboats are in the
sound. There is no enemy at Edenton or Eliz-
abeth City. They recently burned mill on
the Chowan river, and the property of Mr..