Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-01-05

the sequestration laws, embracing over NIL
lion dollars worth of property. Horace May
nard, Andrew johnson, and others, lose all
their property that can be reached.-General
Kirby Smith occupies the residence of Par
son Brownlow as his headquarters
The present week, the first full week in
January, is to be observed as week OF pray
er by christians of every name throughout the
world. The pastors of Evangelical churches
in most of the cities and towns of Massachu-
sets, propose to hold union meetings, in which
the welfare of the country will be among the
prominent topics of prayer.
Major Isaac McCook, army paymaster, has
been arrested at Cincinnati for a defalcation,
amounting to half million dollars. Most of
the money was lost in gambling. Simultane-
GUS arrests of gamblers were made at several
western cities. Seventy thousand dollars has
7 been recovered
Gen. Rains, the rebel officer who was killed
at Murfreesboro was the son of loyal clergy.
man still living in Nashville. He was grad
uate of Yale college in the class of 1854, and
had recently been married to the step daugh-
! ter of that apostate ''union" candidate for the
! presidency-John Bell.
Professor Winchell, state geologist of Mich
igan, reports that the whole central area of
that state, embracing 1877 townships, or 600
| square UllleS, Is uuueCldIu ny Cudl STAINS,
ranging in thickness from three to five feet.
Mines have been opened in several places,
and large quantities are being brought into
the market.
The new Rue Lafayette in Paris, which
sweeps away the Hotel Laftte, bounds the
mansion of the Baron de Rothschild from the
Rue Lafitte to the Rue Tatbout; to secure
his privacy, the wealthy banker is about to
erect row of princely houses of discreet
height opposite his mansion, that he may
have what neighbors he pleases, and have no
lofty buildings overlapping his walls.
| Major George w. Pettigrew of Georgia, a
rebel officer, was buried at Washington,
Wednesday, by the free masons. The major
who was prisoner made known before his
death that he was mason, and instantly all
animosities were sienced. He made his will
and was followed to his grave by more than
one radical republican, indeed the services at
the grave were conducted by republican.
The fifteenth Wisconsin regiment, which
lost seven captains in the battle before Muir
freesboro, was composed entirely of Norwe-
gians, and was the only regimental organiza-
ton of its class in the service. The colonel
of the regiment, Hans c. Hegg, was formerly
state prison commissioner of Wisconsin, and
declined reelection for his present position.
The son of Sir Francis O'Neill, the sixth
baronet of his family, the undoub;ed descend
ant Of a hundred kings, the cousin of duke
and of three peers of the realm, was lately
found in wretched garnet in Dublin, dying
of starvation. Paralyzed and speechless he
had been only tended by daughter-in-law,
mother of SIX children, whose only resource
was a beggars pension of IS. I'd. day.
Mr.. Dudley, our consul at Liverpool writes
to the New York chamber of commerce that
oil Gtt;Y I Il
to follow the piratical example of the Alaba-
ma; and nine other vessels are boldly prepar'
ing to run the blockade. The merchants
have appointed large and influential COM
mittee of their guild to report a plan for I'M
mediate and decisive action.
The guerrillas in southern Missouri have
nearly reached the end of their halter. Horse
stealing raids are occasionally heard Of but
| there are no organized rebel banditti left to
make war upon. Quantrel, tine guerrilla
king, is supposed to have fled to Arkansas, or
in ambush, preparing for another raid upon
| Kansas.
The typhoid fever prevails very extensively
| in the army. One thousand patients are ex-
pected to arrive at the district hospitals from
Aqua creek within the next four or five days,
and nearly all are down with the typhoid fever.
President Lincoln has presented to senator
Sumner for transmission to George Liver
more, Esq, of Cambridge, the pen with which
he signed the emancipation proclamation.
A man aged eighty, and woman aged six
ty-six, were found in the Seine near Paris a
few weeks ago. They were locked in each
others arms, and kept in position by a true
blue handkerchief. They committed suicide
for love.
The shock of an earthquake was felt in
several parts of Algeria at midnight on the
29th of November. All the clocks stopped
which faced north and south. Those which
faced east and west kept going.