Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-02-18
WOrtester Dailg SPY,
THE DAILY SPY.
NEWS FROM TEE WAR.

following terrible account of the condition of
affairs in Mississippi and Alabama:
''Great outrages are now experienced by the
unfortunate residents Of North Alabama and
Mississippi. In the latter state the legsla-
ture recently enacted law embracing as con-
scripts all men not included in the confeder-
ate act. The act Of jeff. Davis includes all
from eighteen to forty years Of age, and that
recently passed takes all from forty to sixty
years of age. The territory Of Mississippi
has been lajd off in districts Of twenty miles,
and recruiting colonies appointed fol, each
district. A thousand colonies hare been ap-
pointed to enforce the conScript act, and the
militia act in north Alabama is worse. Many
Union men in that section state that violent
efforts are made to force them into the confed-
crate ranks. The Union men have long hid
out in the woods and caves, rather than be
taken as conscripts. This induced a novel
hunt for them. Guerrias and WoodhouHdS
have been put upon their track. and many
poor victims have been smelt out in this way.
''Notong since young girl, carrying food
to her father, who was hiding in cave, was
attacked by one of these bloodhounds and
torn to pieces. 1t is estimated not less than
one thousand Union men from Mississippi and
Alabama have made their way to Corinth,
where Cen Dodge made all possible provis-
ions for them. Gen. Dodge sent out and
brought in the families Of the prosecuted and
downtrodden Unionists, and has established a
sort of encampment or home for all these
families at Purdy, where they are likely to be
freed from prosecutions.
abraham Kennedy and j. A. Mitchell of
Hackelbo settlement, Monroe county, Ala,
have been hung by the rebels for indulging
Union proclivites. Mr.. Hollwork and his
daughter Of the same county have been shot;
and Rector Lewis, an immediate neighbor, of
suspected Union procliyities, was hunted
down by the bloodhoundS and captured The
houses of j. A. Palmer, Worry Williams, and
other Union men, were burned over their
families heads, and the people living in the
neighborhood notified that if they harb0red
them their own houses would be burned. Mr..
Peterson, living at the head of Bull Mountain,
was killed for Union sentiments. T'ico CO-
men in TuScunbia comfy gce2e torn to pieces
by bl00dhoundS. In addition to the foregoing,
one hundred families, driven out of Alabama
reached Corinth on foot without food or
clothing. Some of the tugltives are old men
eighty years of age.
"When Jeff. Davis undertook to enforce
the CONSUMPTION in east Tennessee about
four-ftths of the loyal Union men of that sec
ton went through the mountains to Kentucky,
where they joined the Union army. A SINH
lar attempt in north Alabama and Mississippi
is now driving the Union men away from their
families and forcing them to take up arms
against the kingdom of jeff There IS ii per-
feet reign Of terror in north Alabama and
north Mississippi, and daily the Union ar
mics are receiving recruits who gladly enlist
and support the Union and constitution
THE REBEL FORREST IN DISGRACE.
The Memphis letters say :-'Advices from
Mississippi and Alabama to last Friday, have
been received. The news is interesting. Van
Dorm, with cavalry force of $500, crossed
the Tennessee river at Eastport, about a week
ago, and was supposed to be moving on to get
a convenient position to cut Rosecrans' com
muncatons. The precise destination is un"
known, but it is not improbable that the
movements will be closely watched, and that
he will not find another Murphy asleep at his
post.
General Forrest was not in the recent
fight at Fort Donelson nor has he been in
Tennessee since General Jeremiah c. Suli-
van, the Union hero in command at jackson,
gave him such Il logging near the Tennessee
river Forrest came to Tennessee with seven
thousand men and thirteen pieces of cannon,
but after circulating around between Column
bus and jackson, Sullivan fell upon him and
thrashed him well, driving him before him
with much slaughter, taking many prisoners
and capturing eight of his guns. This misad-
venture brought Forrest down with the rebels
who denounced him for remaining in Tennes-
see long enough to get whipped Hence, he
has been ordered to Richmond in disgrace,
to answer for his failure. The information
comes by way of Tuscumba, Alabama, and
may be relied upon"
THE REBEL CONSUMPTION DENOUNCED.
The 'Planter's Banner" a rebel paper pub
ished at Franklin, La, denounces the con-
scrption law authorized Jan. 3, by the rebel
legislature at Opelousas. According to this
paper the rebels in that region are beginning
to feel unfit for heaven, and yet well nigh out
lawed from earth, The Planter says:
''The country is already severely stripped
of its fighting population. Over thirty regi-
ments Of volunteers and large number of
cOnscripts have left their home in the state,
and they are now in the confederate army.
The OpelousaS law makes a clean sweep of
the balance Of the men in the state, and leaves
but little behind besides the slave population
and detenceless women and children. Thou
sands OF plantations will be without owe rSeers
and tens of thousands of families without
protection, if the law should be enforced.
w no "iiI make bread for the army and the
p - H Nolhlig year! w no VIII enforce
ordefF w mo will attend to the suffering fam
lies OF absent soldiers? These even now are
too much neglected.
"Ihe ilard treatment Louisiana has received
from the general government is more than
emLlated by the state government The loo
islature and governor now propose to crucifv
the state, put everybody in the state fron1
seventeen to fifty years, that can handIa a
musket, into camp, and in six months we will
have a state Of affairs all over Louisiana wo.sa
than anything the state has ever seen befono
Most of the men of the state, from fortv-f,1o
to fifty, are utterly unfit for camp life. and e
they are put into military camps, with a scan
ty supply of blankets aad shoes, clothing and
provisions, before the expiration of the time
one third of them will be dead, third in
miserably supplied hospitals, and the other
third may be fit for duty; and the homes of
our people, under the circumstances-Go
protect them! If we could withdraw the veil
aud look at the domestic distress which the
bill would fasten upon the state, we would,
without hesitation, pronounce it bill of
denominations.
1.-The men who voted for the bill saw enough
of its true character to induce them to vote
that they should be excused from partaking of
the sutferings they recklessly doomed others
to. They voted that they themselves should
be allowed to stay at home during the war;
they voted that others should be lions, but
they themselves should be lambs. Place by
the side OF this the twenty million bill, which