Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-03-18

only in the way OF getting drafts ulscouhleu,
drawn on the parties at the west, endorsed by
himself. The banks victimized are the bank
at Rutland about $4,000, banks at Bellows
Falls, Brandon, Middlebury, Vergennes, and
Orwell. about $1,000, making in all over
S25 900 Nothing was suspected of being
wrong till last Friday, when lie had left for
parts unknown.
CONNECTICUT.
Richard Scofeld, employed at the Cove
mills in Stamford, was instantly killed on the
9TH instant, by the bursting of grindstone in
that factory.
Capt Albert II. Miles of the Connecticut
cavalry battalion, died in Baltimore Sunday
morning, at the age of % years. He was
capable and esteemed officer, and participated
in many battles in western Virginia and the
Shenandoah.
RHODE ISLAND.
Some of the adopted citizens of Rhode ISL
and have organized democratic club, which
they have baptized the "McClellan Associa-
ton" 70 secure ''the return of that great
man to the head of the army" and 'his selec-
ton as the next democratic candidate for the
presidency are the two planks in the platform.
Ex-Gov, Hoppn of Rhode Island declines
| the nomination of the democratic and icon
sentative parties of that state for governor
'his expectations of uniting the strength of
those parties in support of the general govern
ment not having been realized
| There has been a man at Portsmouth
Grove, for several weeks past, who was
brought there in a state of great exhaustion,
| and who has since been at 'death's door"
three times, and once, two men came in with
a stretcher to carry him out for burial; but
| signs of life becoming apparent, he was left
for the time being. He is now so far recov-
| cred as to take care of himself.
Personal.
Rev. DIR. Baird, o.e of the most widely
travelled and accomplished lecturers of the
day, died at Yonkers on Sunday last.
Ella Zoyara, having given one thousand
dollar bonds that he has not been drafted, has
obtained passport to Spain, where her eques-
trian performances will doubtless delight the
hidalgos.
Madame Damonreau Chit, famous singer
of the old school, has lately died in Paris in
her sixty third year 1t is twenty years since
she quilted the stage, but her memory never
wholly faded from the minds of operate anna
teurs.
The eldest son of the celebrated Wilberforce
has renOunced Professionalism and united with
the catholic church. OF the four sons of the
great aboitionist, one only still adheres to
Professionalism = DR.. Samuel Wilberforce,
bishop of Oxford, who is accused of Pusey-
ism.
Miss Antonio j. Ford, the Delilah by whom
Col. Stoughton was betrayed into the hands of
the Philistines who now hold him at Rich
mond has been arrested at her residence in
. Fairfax and brought to Washington. In her
possession were found her commission as hon
orary aid-de-camp to the rebel Gen. Stuart,
dated October, 1861. and important letters
; showing that she was in the most intimate re-
lationS with other rebels CT note, and that she
I | had been employed on many occasions for
the benefit of the rebel cause. 1t was ascer-
tanned that a short while before the capture of
Stoughton she had been visited by officers of
the rebel army in disguise, and had with their
aid planned the rape of Stoughton and his
e staff. Miss Ford's house was directly opposite
the headquarters of Stoughton anditi is charg-
ed that the relations between some officers in
: our army and Miss Ford were extremely init
mate.
: Secretary Chase, who was in New York
+ last week on business connected with his de-
: partment, returned to Washington, Monday
having had satisfactory interviews with the
y INST influential bankers and other financial au
thOrities.
MISCELLANEOUS.
o The town of Columbus, Ky, was the scene
d of a terrible tragedy on the morning of the
!. 9th inst Hon. John 2. Rogers, who was
elected a member of congress from the mid
l. die Tennessee district, but on some account
d was refused seat, in a sudden fit of insanity,
commenced an attack upon lieutenant while
in his bed. The landlord, hearing the dis
= turbance, rushed in, when Rodgers attacked
him with knife, stabbing him in terrible
o manner. The landlords wife, hearing her
It husbands cries for help, came running in, and
: was Immediately attacked by the mailman and
gashed in a manner which renders recovery
impossible. During the affray the lieutenant
\ received pistol shot, which, it is feared, will
prove mortal. The guard here rushed in
upon the unfortunate man, who attempted his
d work of murder upon them He finally fell
= dead, being shot with five bullets and ran
through with two bayonets. Mr.. Rodgers was
far advanced in years, a man of high charac-
5 ter and standing, and for ten years was attor-
ney general of the state, an office which his
- father held before him. He was thoroughly
. and earnestly loyal, and the prosecutions he
had to undergo unsettled his reason.
The Harrisburg (Pa.) Telegraph Of the l4th
"a inst announces that Thomas NJ. Chester left
that city on the previous day, in charge of a
number of colored recruits enlisted there for
the regiment now being raised IN Massachu-
= sets. Among the number is former slave
= who had been a soldier in the rebel army, and
y y, while on picket duty at Fredericksburg made
= his escape, and is now anxious to fight his
traitor master Wherever lie can meet MIN IN
the south.
Three fathers went up the Cumberland riy-
er in the same boat, a few days since,
with three metallic collins, to bring away
n the bodies of their sons who had fallen in the
n battle of Stones river. As they stepped
. ashore at GAINESVILLE they met their boys, jolly
and hearty, with no sort of idea of going into
burial cases.
3 At public gathering at the opera house in
r Philadelphia, Thursday evening, when cheers
had been given most heartily for Burnside,
. Butler, and ''fghting Joe Hooker" somebody
in the upper tier called out, ''Now three cheers
fer General McClelan"-a proposition that
was met by deep silence, broken only by
some kissing, and by some below calling
! out, "Why, there is a copperhead!"
Q Martin Van Buren,, negro cook on board
. the sound steamboat City of New York, died
s the other day, and it is suspected his brother
IL John Van Buren,, poisoned him.
negress belonging to Mrs. McNash,
Is near Nashville, Tenn, died on Monday, the
|. 9th, at the advanced age of 100 years. She
# had nursed four or five generations of the
" family of her mistress.
ii On Sunday night Frances Koch, domestic
ID in the family of Mr.. Rothschid of New York
to city, was fatally burned by the explosion of a
kerosene oil lamp. The deceased was sitting
l. in the bedroom, having charge of three chill
o. dren, her master and mistress having gone to
40 | the theatre One of the children in running