Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-06-10

A steam fire engine of New York CITY
named the "Manhattan," is on the wav to
London on board the Great Eastern. Engine
No. 8 is to take part in the great steam fire en-
CINE contest which is to take place in London
on the first of July.
The number of emigrants who arrived at
New York last week is $3.50. Since Jan. LIST,
1862 have arrived
A ''Robinson professorship" has been es-
tablished in Hamilton college, N. Y, by sub
scrptions in New York city, amounting to
twenty thousand dollars.
OF the seventy pictures recently sold at
auction in New York, as the property OF Hen
ry Ward Beecher, but seven, it is said, were
his property, or ever seen by him. But the
purchasers bid high, supposing they were Sc
curing souvenirs OF a great man.
The Troy Times says that enlistments are
progressing in that city at the rate of fifteen
to twenty a day.
The annual regatta of the New York Yacht
Club will come Off on the | of June. There
will be three prizes valued at one hundred
and fifty dollars each.
large meeting Of the most substantial cit
liens of Newark, n. j., was held on the eve
ming OF June 9Th to protest against the late
action of the common council, appropriating
five thousand dollars for the benefit of the Ro-
man Catholic schools of the city. After
number Of speeches condemning the action oil
the council, committee was appointed to
take legal steps to arrest the proposed expen-
diture. An injunction from the Chancellor
will probably be obtained.
The National Union state committee of
Pennsylvania has appointed the 18th day of
July for its state convention, and invite the
loyal citizens, without distinction of party, to
send delegates. Candidates for governor
and Judge of the Supreme Court are to be
nominated.
The La Crosse (Wis.) Democrat says the
granaries OF Minnesota and northwestern
Wisconsin are apparently inexhaustible,
Judging by the heavy loads the steamers arc
continually landing at the depot of the La
Crosse and Milwaukee railroad. Steamboat
men say that the grain is not near all hauled
to the shipping points on the river, and the
quantity so far exceeds the means of transport
tation that large portion of the crop will
have to Ii" over till next year. The shipments
this year will reach millions of bushels.
Several young men were arrested in Balti-
more, June 9th, charged with organizing a
company to join the rebel army. Some of
them are sons of prominent citizens.
The governor of Ohio has authorized bat
TALON to be formed of rebel prisoners at Camp
Chase in that state, who take the oath of allie
glance. Fortyfve joined on the 4th inst
The supreme court of Wisconsin has lately
affirmed the validity of all the farm mort
gnges of the state. These are mortgages
given to the Milwaukee and Mississippi rail-
road and other similar corporations. The
issue involved several millions of dollars, and
the decision is one Of vital interest to thou
sands of the citizens of the state.
Anna White, girl nineteen years of age,
and quite pretty, drowned herself in the East
river, at the foot of Fifty-seventh street, New
York, June T. She walked to the river,
where she found lady and gentleman of her
acquaintance, took off her shawl gave it to
them, and then quickly jumped from rock
into the water, forty feet in depth, and where
there was strong current.
The Toronto board OF trade recently agreed
to recommend to the merchants and traders of
that city generally to receive silver only ut an
increased discount. ''Inls STEP" says the
Globe, "haS been rendered necessary in con-
sequence of the continued influx of American
silver. And to so great an extent has this
been the case that bank bills have become al
most curiosity"