Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-08-03


The War News.
The reports from our forces near Charles
ton do not promise the immediate capture of
fort Wagner. The fort itself is strong and
cannot easily be stUrmed OF knocked to pieces.
Since the last attack il is said the rebel gar
rison has been reinforced, which increases the
difficulty 1t is stated that Gen. Gilmore has
planted heavy guns within $50 yards OF fort
Wagner and 1000 yards of fort Sumter, and
thsthis efforts will be directed chiefly against
the latter, which he hopes to breach and 81
lence without much trouble.
The batteries that knocked down the walls
of fort Pulaski consisted OF ten-inch colum-
biads and rihed torty-two-pounders. The CO.
lumbiads shook and loosened the walls; the
riled cannon, hitting in the same places, made
holes through them. These guns were some
thing over sixteen hundred yards from the
fort. The rfed guns to be employed against
fort Sumter are one hundred and two hundred
FOUNDERS; and even heavier rihed guns nave
been mentioned. Such guns, worked in con-
junction with the heaviest columbiads, may
knock down the walls of Fort Sumter at the
distance of two thousand yards. If they
should fail, it would be difficult to see how
any operations against that fort from Nor
ris Island can be successful while Fort Wag-
ner is held by the rebels.
An indefinite and not very reliable report
states that an expedition from Gen. Grants
army is moving against Mobile. 1t is not
worth while to believe this until we have it on
better authority, and in a more intelligent
shape. We hope to hear that our forces have
captured Chattanooga, aud are moving towards
Virginia by way of East Tennessee. Let our
armies be concentrated against Lee in over
whelming force, and the rebellion will soon
be brought 10 a close. Defeat and strip Lees
army, and the military power of the rebels
will Immediately give way everywhere else.
No great effort will then be required to cap
tu~e either Mobile, Charleston, Savannah, OF
Wilmington.
Our news from the armies in Virginia is
neither definite nor authentic. All the re-
porters at Washington show their ignorance
Of the situation; and some of them delare
that Gen. Meade is about to make very i'm
p0rtant movement, in the course of which he
will make everybody see where the rebels are
and give to the country a sensation. Accord
ing to another report portion of our troops
now occupy Fredericksburg Heights. If there
be any great movement ON foot in Virginia,
the signs of it are not abundant 1t is to be
hoped that the next operations against Lees
army will be so conducted as surely to over
whelm and destroy it,
The Election In Kentucky.
n 1-----Aar have an election in Kentucky
for state officers and members of congress.
The late rebel demonstrations in that state
have been carried on with a view to this cleo
ton. The rebels have intended to disturb it
as much as possible. Gen. Burnside on the
other hand, has taken measures to protect the
polls. The Louisville Journal reminds the
authorities and the election officers that, by
an act Of the legislature, passed March II,
1862, no one who has served the rebels or the
so-called provisional government of Ken
lucky, in a civil or military capacity, or has
given voluntary aid and assistance to those in
arms against the government of the United
y
Of April, 1862, can vote in the state, or exer-
else any right or privilege of citizenship. If
any one is suspected OF having given such
service, his vote may be challenged and be
required to clear himself on oath. If he
swears falsely he subjects himself to the pen
alties of perjury. The journal warns all
election officers, in very plain words, to do
their duty, under pain Of certain punishment.
'They may be temporarily successful on
the day Of election, but the poll lists will be
evidence against them Tor eighteen months
atteTyards, and those lists will be infinitely
examined to ferret out every aggression upon
the elective franchise"
The following are the principal candi-
dates =.
g K Bram.t. Charles P' %isfs
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR.
R T. Jacob ATTORNEY @ srT FL Reed
John NJ Harlan, Thomas Turner
AUDITOR.
w. l. Samues, Grant Green.
j. II. Garrard, H. r. kaltus,
REGISTER.
james a. Dawson, I. J. Frazier.
sUPERNTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.
Daniel Stevenson T. G. Mckee.
CONGRESS.
Dist. l. saml L. Casey, ". N COgin,
}. 5. Irimbe,
2. Geo. IL. leatman, john ii McHenry,
3. Henry GIier, b. 5. Bryan,
K. III Bradley,
"a 4 Aaron Harding, VIM. jackson Heady,
g. Robert Mallory, Nathaniel Wolfe,
q b, Green Clay Smith - Leathers
John w Menzies,
stump,
Z. Brutus }. Clay, Not ascertaned.
s. VIM. X. Randall, \ ot ascertaned
The MILITIA.-Gov. Andrew has issued a
general order, under the act concerning the
militia of the commonwealth calling for
military force TO be known as the independent
Division of the Active Militia of Massachu.
sets, limited for the present to twelve compa-
MES of cavalry, six batteries of artillery, and
one hundred and thirty companies of infantry,
to be organ lied as one regiment of cavalry,
one regiment OF artillery, and thirteen regi-
ments of infantry. These companies will be
apportioned among the counties according to
their population. The service required of this
special division is as follows -