Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-07-18

was drawn.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
When the announcement of the fall of
Vicksbur was received at Plymouth, n. H.,
young ladies fastened to the academy and
commenced ringing the bell. Other young
ladies caught the spirit and soon all the bells
of the village were ringing merrily. The cit
liens rallied and fired a hundred guns, accom-
panied with hundred cheers.
VERMONT.
At Burlington the drafted men paraded the
street with drum and fife, full of valor and
fight among them is one of the Catholic cler-
gymen; also H. L. Lamb and c. A. Hoyt,
editors of the Burlington Times and Burling-
ton Sentinel; r. S. Taft state attorney, and
b. B. Smalley, S. c. Moore, and john B.
Wheeler.
CONNECTICUT.
The funeral of Col. Richard Il. Holcomb
of the LIST Louisiana (white) volunteers, who
was killed in the assault on Port Hudson on
the l4th ult., took place at his old home in
CRANKY and at Trinity church, Tariiville, on
the 10th.
Several families from New York have fled
to Hartford to avoid the dangers of mob law.
While other poor fellows connected with the
press are shiverng in the draft, John z. Brace
of the Hartford Courant has received wind
fall of $4,000 He couldn't expend it better
than in exempting his brethren.
RHODE ISLAND.
The new church at Mohegan, in Burrll-
vile, will be dedicated on the 10Th inst.
A salute of one hundred guns was fired in
Providence on the 10th in honor of Gen.
Banks and the fall of Port Hudson.
MISCELLANEOUS.
mutual ecclesiastical council is in session
in Georgetown for the purpose of consider
ing the alleged anti-orthodox doctrines taught
by the pastor, Rev, Charles Beecher. The
Ncwburyport Herald says :-"Rev. Charles
Beechtr holds to the same opinions with his
BROTHER Dr. Edward Bcccher, that we have
had state of pre-eXiSte lce-of which we re-
tain no remembrance-and that the sins of
that state in their influence attach to this
Millions story Of the war in heaven is no tic.
ton with him, though to most people it is no
more reasonable than any of the old mytho-
logical tlbles.'
The north pole has been sold A foreign
company, called the international Financial
Soclety,' has purchased all the rights and ter
ritory of the Hudson Bay Company, paying
l,5000, 900 for the same.
A rldlsh has been raised in Lawrence. Kan
sas, that is II inches in circumference, %
inches in length, and weighs three pounds
Kansas heats the world for large vegetables
The Washington Star says the figures thus
| far indicate that the receipts of the revenue
office for the present month will far exceed
those of last.
While we have been praying for rain, Kan
sas has had superabundance delaying har-
vesting and damaging the ripened grain.
number of influential and wealthy Cubans
are about to form an agricultural society in
Havana, for the purpose Of Introducing I'M
provemcnts in this branch of science.
A Dutch copperhead in Pennsylvania
charged Gen. Sickles five dollars for nights
stay ON his premises, while on his way to
Washington, after losing his leg in the de-
feace OF the life and property of the swim
ding coward.
One of the most curious features of the rebel
lnva ion was the holding of Il prayer meeting
| by one OF the regiments of General Ewell's
| corps in the streets of Boonesboro,' Mary
land whose loud prayers and singing pro-
claimed the truth OF the report previously
| published that revival had taken place in
| Jacksons corps.
The drafted men at Plattsburg, New York,
numbering three hundred, celebrated their
detection" by music, procession, repeated
cheers for the president, Gen. Meade and
others.
An East Tennessee refugee who recently
oiil' W ~ A'"ShNiilS ICpOlJo bIldt liIC TtDtl
Gen. Wheeler was drowned in crossing Duck
river. He married Bragg's daughter few
days before.
The estates of Gen. Sterling Price, Clai-
borne +. jackson, and John B. Clark, well
known Missouri sccessonistS, have been CON
Iscated by the federal government.
General Lee was severely wounded near
| Willamsport, by citizen, who watched his
chance and fired at him. The information
was conveyed by rebel colonel to an ac-
quaintance in the town named. The man who
fired the shot was taken prisoner and con-
veyed across the Potomac.
Smith, the razor strOp man, now in the
140th N. Y. regiment, was badly wounded in
the leg at Gettysburg. But he has '.just one
more left"
Police superintendent Kennedy, who was
injured by the New York mob on Monday,
is not only out OF danger, but is now so near
ly recovered that he expects soon to be at his
post.
The court martial in the case of Major Bel
ger, late quartermaster at Baltimore, of which
Major General Hitchcock is president, has
closed its labors after sitting of about six
weeks.
Albert Gallatn Brown, the colleague of JEFF
Davis in the United States senate, has taken
the oath of allegiance. He says he never be-
lieved in secession
In less than four hours after the capitula-
ton of Vicksburg the levee was lined with
steamers as far as the eye could reach. The
city, after being two years shut out from the
world, instantaneoualy assumed the appear
ance of great inland commercial metropolis.
Dates from Valparaiso to June 18th, state
that confederate steamer had been seen off
the coast, and had been abreast the port of
Valparaiso.
There are several regiments of Massachu-
sets troops with Gen. Banks at Port Hudson,
whose time expired some time ago, but who
nobly determined to remain until the last
rebel stronghold on the Mississippi should
fall, and their valor has at last been rewarded
by the consummation of their most ardent
wishes. These men will be held in grateful
remembrance, and upon their return will be
enthusiastically welcomed.
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