Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-11-25


and has already had more than foretaste of
its fate from Gen. Gillmore's batteries.
On Sunday night last the monitor Lemgh
ran well up toward fort Sumter, and anchored
for the night as picket boat. Unfortunately
the falling tide left her aground. AT daylight
her position was discovered by the rebels,
who opened upon her from nearly all their
guns on Sullivan's island, and some from fort
Johnson, and battery Simkins. The Lehigh
calamity returned the fire from both her
guns, efforts beng made on board the mean
while to cNtrIcate the vessel from her danger
GUS position, but without success. The fall
ing tide every moment exposed more OF her
hnl, and the enemy's fire seemed to be re-
doubled in intensity Two other monitors,
the Nahant and the PaSsaic at once stood up
to her assistance and Joined in the fight. The
engagement continued until nearly high tide
again, when she was towed off by the mont
tors, and brought out of range. During the
engagement, the officers and crew being on
deck, laboring to get out lines to haul her OFT,
several of the crew were wounded by pieces
of exploding shells. Commander Bryson was
slightly cut in the face by fragment of shell,
and Lieut.. Hopkins, the executive officer of
the ship, was badly hurt in the calf of the leg
by the same cause. The vessel, though fire.
quently hit, was damaged but little.
llC IOll1 lSldilA ltAttI says lliG bblludI u
ment of Charleston is to be maintained; also
that the destruction of the armaments of fort
Sumter having been accomplished, Gen. Gill
more does not design taking possession of its
ruins, as the rebel guns can keep up an en-
| fladlng fire.
We now picket in the immediate vicinity
of Charleston, in addition to Folly and Nor
ris islands, Long island, Coles, Keawha,
Seabrook, Black and Edisto. Tho enemy's
| picketS still confront us on Johns island.
| The works on Sullivan's island are strongly
garrisoned.
On the 18th inst. $50 conscripts for New
| Hampshire regiments were landed at Folly
| Island.
| THE ARMY IN VIRGINIA.
The Heralds Potomac army dispatch of
the 23d says the roads are in a horrible con-
dition. Our cavalry occupy Culpepper and
the country beyond to the Rapidan. From
the lookout stations on Pony and Cedar
mountains the batteries and fortified camps of
the rebels are plainly discernible, stretching
| off towards Gordonsville, as tar as the sight
extends, and to the LETT Of that line in the d.
recuon Of the Fredericksburg and Richmond
railroad. A dispatch of the 23d says the only
| movement made is that one corps has changed
| its camp.
The Worlds Washington dispatch says al
| though Gen. Meade has made no advance yet,
the cavalry is just now very active, and stir
ring news may be anticipated at least from
that branch of the army.
Our men are eager for battle, and conf
dent in an onwonted degree of speedy and de-
cisive victory. a victorious march to the
very gates of the capital seems to be again
among the possibilities.
GEN. sIGEL.
1t is understood that Gen Sigel will take
| the place OF Gen. Scbencl, in command of
| Baltimore, after the latter takes his seat in
| the house.
STIRRING NEWS FROM CHATTANOOGA.
CINcINNArI, Nov. 24,-No further news has
yet been received from Gen. Burnside Can
nonading is still heard. a great battle is an
ticipated between the forces OF Gems. Grant
and Bragg to-day.
The Commercial has a special dispatch,
| dated Chattanooga, 23d which says: Desert
| ers last night reported that the rebels were
falling back OF Chickamauga Station. Their
artillery has been withdrawn from our front.
The whole of the rebel army is apparently in
| retreat.
reconnaissance this afternoon reveals the
enemy apparently in force between us and
Missionary Ridge.
Gen. Wood, in charging up Orchard Ridge,
carried the rifle pits under Il severe musketry
Silu dIlhiSll utG. tdhlllS TWO AulNEEu IGDGl
prisoners. We now hold all the high ground
sn this side of Missionary Ridge Our
troops are in line of battle, and they will lie
on their arms TO night Hard fighting is in
| evitable.
POSITION OF GEN. BURNSIDE.
The Tribunes Washington dispatch SAYS
! the government has nothing later from Gen.
Burnside than that contained in the Cincin-
natl Despatch. 1t is hoped Gen. Burnside
will hold out until Gen. Grant, at whose head
| quarters unmistakable signs of uneasiness are
| observable, can relieve him, and at the same
| time deal Bragg il crushing blow.
AFFAIRS IN ALABAMA.
\ gentleman who recently arrived in Vicks-
burg from Selma, Alabama, where lie had
been employed in the arsenal, which was re-
moved some time since from jackson, Miss,
| gives the following account Of affairs in Ala
| bama =
Since the fall of Vicksburg over thirty
| thousand muskets were brought to the arse
nal for renovation, having been collected in
the woods and country from jackson TO Me.
| ridian and beyond where they had been
thrown away from time to time by deserters
from Braggs and Pemberton's army. 25,O00
Austrian and Enfield rifles have been received
at the arsenal from Charleston in the last two
months, having run the blockade, and becom-
luoly III tIe tdllSll, were Drought there Tor
animation and repairs.
majority Of the negroes driven into the
state from Mississippi are working in the coal
mines in Talladega county. tor which the
rebel government pays twenty dollars ton.
delivered at the Alabama and Tennessee river
railroad, six miles distant The people are
generally in favor of conscription of the ne
groes. Several papers have come out in adj
vocacy OF the abolition of slavery, upon the
ground that emancipation would have the eff
feet of gaining an earlier foreign recognition
of the confederacy.
The crops of corn, sweet potatoes, and peas
are more abundant than they have been for
several years before.
On the 18th October the bodies of six men
were found hanging side by side in the woods.
near Talladega, at which place there is large
conscript camp. 1t Is supposed these men
were hanged for resistance to the conscrip-
ton. Two women were publicly hung at
| Talladega on the 18th, for refusing to divulge
the hiding places of their husbands, who had
| lied at the approach of the conscripting Of
ticers. A perfect reign of terror exists in this
part of the country. The woods are full of
refugees trying to evade the relentless con-
scripting officers.
All men from the age of eighteen to forty
| five, regardless of wealth or station, are CON
scripted for the confederate army. Another
conscripton for state service has been made
of boys from sixteen 10 eighteen, and men
from torty-6ye to sixty, who are at all able to
hold up niusket, and are not otherwise in