Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-06-23

At the anniversary of the Sigma Phi Fra
ternity, at Hamilton college, N. July Nth,
Hon. Charles B. Sedgwick will deliver the
Grafton.
John Mitchell, the Irish secessionist, now
editing the Richmond Enquirer, is mentioned
for brigadier generalship in the confederate
service.
venerable white haired man with a hand
cart, is proclaiming to the people of New
ark his belief in the approaching end of the
world.
Nashville, Tenn, contains twenty four hos
pltals, accommodating on an averagetwo hun
bred each
General Dix has restored civil law and gov
eminent over Norfolk county, and the cities
of Norfolk and Portsmouth, as far as it can
be done consistent with public safety and in
terest.
The propr1etors of the Dayton Journal
whose printing office was lately sacked by
copperhead mob, are being reimbursed for
their loss by military assessment on the
parties by whom the riot was instigated and
directed.
The first company mustered into the milf
tia service under Gov. Curtin's call for troops
to repel the invasion of Pennsylvania, was
the college Guards" composed of students
of Gettysburg College, who were organized in
twenty -four hours after hearing the call, I'M
der the command of Mr. Klinefelter-a theo-
logical student-who was in the three months
service.
The new king of Greece will remain anoth-
other year in Denmark to complete his edu
cation. At the end of next May he will be
married to the daughter of queen Victoria, and
on the LIST of June, 1864, he will set out for
Greece.
Another Intellectual attempt has been made
to sound Niagara river at the suspension
bridge, by letting ten pound weight fall from
a height of two hundred and twenty.fv feet,
but the plummit made its appearance in a sec
ond after striking the water, skipping on the
surface on hundred feet down the stream.
rebel correspondent OF London paper
estimates the cotton crop this year in the south
at from SOC, 900 to 700, 900 bales.
John Neal, of Portland, is nothing if not
quaint. In one of the down east journals
lately, abiding to the head of Hon. +. 0. J.
Smith, modelled by Simmons, the sculptor, he
says it is more like the original ethan Mr..
Smith is like himself, for two days together"
A new monthly magazine, devoted solely
to the interests OF the young gentlemen and
ladies who have imbbed the rage for postage
stamp collecting, may certainly pass for lit
erary curiosity. 1t is entitled the Stamp Col
leCtOT h1d5dLlHt, llIuslTdleu. ne HTSI NUM-
Der contains articles on ''The Rise and Pro-
gress of Postage Stamps" by Dr. j. E. Gray,
of the British Museum; "Stamps Lately Is
sued; !" ''Postal Chit Chat; )" "Reviews of New
Works on Postage Stamps" &c.
The report that 10000 six months men have
been called for in Indiana, on account of a
rebel raid in that state, is absolutely ground
less.
The gunboat Cincinnati, lately sunk at
Vicksburg, has had an unfortunate experience.
In May, 1862, she was sunk at Fort Pillow
in January last was badly damaged at Arkan-
sas Post, and now lies helpless under the reb-
el guns at Vicksburg. 1t is thought however
that she can be raised with little difficulty.
The seventeen year locusts have appeared
in the neighborhood of Wheeling, va.
petition was presented to the house Of
commons recently, signed by 36,l03 persons,
for opening the botanical gardens of Edin.
burgh on SUNDAYS. Last year the petition
only obtained 14,600 signatures.
The rebel Colonel Lawrence Williams, who