Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-01-14

| from the houses was too severe, and they re-
tired with severe loss. A4 p. NJ they oc-
cupied school house opposite the cemetery,
| on the Ozark road, where they concentrated
for final attack. Our particulars of the pro-
| gress of the fight are necessarily meager,
having been telegraphed at various times and
under circumstances not at all calculated to
| give us any very elaborate statements.
The rebels had six pieces of artillery, and
| with unparalleled atrocity opened fire with
| shell upon the town, without allowing the
slightest time for removing the women and
children. The cannonading, however, proved
comparatively harmless, as the aim was bad,
and the shells failed to explode. A few chin
neys were knocked over, and a temporary
panic caused, but no further damage. The
rebels then charged upon the six-pounder
held by our forces, which discharged grape
and canister into their ranks with great ra-
pdity. They were repulsed the first time,
but, taking advantage of an interval, drove
back the rebel advance and captured twelve
prisoners, who reported the rebels 5000
strong, and that reinforcements were expected
an assertion set down as falsehood.
General Brown was wounded about four
o'clock in the afternoon, in the arm above the
elbow. Amputaton will be necessary to save
the life of the sufferer. The telegraph ope-
rator says General Brown behaved with great
bravery. He seemed to be ubiquitous, and
inspired his men with his own courage
With this exception, no disasters to our men
are reported. On the contrary, in every dis
patch the statement was reiterated, ''No cas-
ualties." At last accounts our troops had
nearly all retired, excepting few szirmish-
ers. to Fort Lyon, where the supplies of am.
munition, small arms, &C., are exhaustless. 1t
is asserted by military men that this fort is
impregnable to assault.
NoTE.-The rebels were finally repulsed,
but no particular accounts of the closing
scenes of the strife have yet been received I
LADY's LETTER FROM NEW ORLEANS.
The American correspondent of the Daily
News encloses a letter from lady of high So
cial position in New Orleans and married to
an Englishman, written to a friend in New
York. 1t gives an account of Cutters rule"
in New Orleans, which is Numerically oppo-
site to that lately published in the Times from
a secessioniSt woman. The following are in
tereSung passages =
''NEw ORLEANS, Nov. ~, 1862.
"1here is great satisfaction to me in feel
ing that there is less prospect of any attack,
and that the city will remain as it is until
there is some settlement of the existing troub.
les. Since the end of September there has
been less outward excitement and talk; but
from whatever cause the oath was taken, it
seems to impose upon the taker little more
reticence, and little less freedom of speech.
a great gain to those situated as | am.
Many masters have told
their slaves to seek employment. as they can
10 longer take care of them. The British
steamship Rinaldo and the Guerrero are here.
/ have not seen any of the officers, though
Capt. Hewitt (of the Rinado) has been much
noticed. Hearing that they talked very open
ly and strongly as to their sympathies, | did
not feel disposed to receive them, except as a
northern woman and the wife of an English
man, not as a southerner. In justice to my
self l could not receive them in any other
way; of course, presuming they were too
gentlemanly to make their visit unpleasant to
me.
Mrs. Polk and her family have left New
Orleans and are i'll Mississippi. den. onppiry
gave them papers and did all in his power to
facilitate their arrangements. see that the
English papers speak of a lady's letter from
New Orleans, giving fearful account of the
reign of terror | wonder who this imagina-
tive lady was. / hare get to hear of q respec-
table female arh0 has been moleStcd. Ny life
lcns nerermOre free quiet, or the city IN bet
ter ORDER Mrs. Folks daughters, who were
rabid in every way, talked to their hearts
content, and no one interfered with them. l
have no patience with such eXaggeration."
SLAVERY IN MARYLAND.
The proposition in congress to give finan-
cial aid to Maryland, in the contingency of
emancipation, brings up the general subject
anew in that state. The Baltimore American,
always Of the most conservative tendencies,
has become the leading organ of the enamel
pationlsts, and is doing noble work. 1t
warns the shareholders Of the summary fate
which overlook slavery in France and Mexi-
co, where not a fraction of the proyocation
existed which is now felt by our government,
and it advises them To embrace the generous
offer which is now to be extended to them.
The American adds -
''The truth is the government has been for
bearing beyond measure, when we look upon
the means adopted by other governments in
any great crisis like our own; and although
the proclamation may be deemed as coming
short of the needs of the occasion-be deemed
in some senses futile demonstration, because
not adequately backed by the power properly
handled by the government, slavery has moth
ing to complain of on the score of any needed
forbearance. Blind and deaf, the world sees
it rushing forward to that precipice which, if
THIS contest cOntlnueS, is sure TO see 1t en-
gulphed, for-as we have said long since-it
has made a thousand foes where it had but
one when it commenced this onslaught for
| power.
To recur. A last chance seems to be af-
forded it here, in what we have given from
Washington, to make terms with the antagon-
isms it has taken so much pains to provoke !;
but that it will heed it we can hardly expect.
To the truly loyal-to those who properly
value the worth of free government as ex-
empifed in this last hope of the human race
here, the negro, in any condition, is not to be
considered in competition with the thirty mil
lions of whites who claim this portion of the
American continent as their home and as the
home of their children. Let slavery be es-
tablished in Boston, if need be- or rubbed out
in South Carolina; but let it never be told to
the thousand generations who are to dwell
upon the annals of these times, that four mil
lions of an inferior race could be made the
instrumentalities for trampling out the light of
civil liberty on earth"
The CONNECTICUT TENTH.-We find the
following scrap in Newbern, N. C. paper =
'"rhe New Jersey ninth captured the regimen
| tai flag of South Carolina regiment before
crossing the Neuse bridge, and now carry it
as a trophy of their gallanty." Now the facts
| in the case are these: The flag was captured
| by corporal Edwin d. Ayres of company A,
tenth repiment Connecticut volunteers for