Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-12-24
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THURSDAY, DEcEMHER "a, 1904.


FurlouEhs,
Gen Meade has published an important
special order relating to the granting of fur
loughs to companies and regiments re-cnlist-
ing as veteran troops. Burroughs for thirty
five days will he granted to such men as have
up to the date Of the order re-enlisted,
or who shall at once re-ealist as vet
eran volunteers, with the reservation: when
three -fourths of the men of regiment or
company re-enlist, they will be allowed to go
home in body aud take their arms and
equipments. In other eases tie arms and
equipments will be Kept in charge Of the
proper ordnance officers. Three fourths of
regiment is to mean that proportion of the
men belonging to it, and who are within the
limits of that army, and not including those
who are absent in prisons or in hospitals.
When there are men in veteran organiza-
ton who do not come within the limits for re-
enlistment-all who have joined the army
since July l, 1868, excepted-and are yet
willing to re-enlist. they will be permitted to
go on furlough with their regiment in case it
goes in body, and those only will remain be-
hind who are within the limits and do not re-
enlist. The rest of the order defines the man
ner in which furloughs are to be granted, by
corps or other independent commanders, and
are very minute and elaborate in detail.
Whenever an organization is for the time
broken up, the officers and men remaining
will be temporarily transferred to other regi-
ments and companies from the same state, or
organized into independent battalions.
Furloughed men under this order are enti-
tied to transportation to and from their homes.
The exigencics of the service will not admit
Of furloughs beyond the limits of this order
Men not now embraced in it, who may be en-
tied to re-cnlst, will be granted similar fur
loughs on the return of those first turloughed
to duty.
The BLOCKADE RUNNERs.-The govern
ment has secured another installment of cor
respondence relating to the affairs of the
rebel blockade runners abroad. 1t was found
on board the prize steamer Ceres, recently
captured off Wilmington, and consists of
part of the private letters of Mr.. Lamar,
rebel agent for purchasing steamers, negotat-
ing cotton bonds, &c. They were written
during the months of October and November,
and are full of rich and racy developments
The Matamoras trade was on the carpet.
One of the letters informs "Col." Lamar
that ''the protection of the French empe-
ror has been Obtained which would allow
goods to enter that port, and cotton to come
out without the slightest difficulty. 'The
only condition imposed by the emperor is that
the operation shall be kept in profound Sc
crecy" Mr.. Bgbee had ships to sell; but he
was afraid the confederacy wouldn't pay. He
had funds already due him there, ''locked up
inside; and it would be imprudent to go on
locking up assets in the same box" The
blockade running business, too, had been I'M
fortunate, several captures having been made
about that time off Wilmington; so that risks
were getting feartully high, and the affairs Of
rebel agents and traders very rotten indeed.
Misunderstanding the campaign that
preceded the recent state election in Mary
land there were two distinct and opposing
Union organizations, viz: 1.-The Union state
committee" opposed to making emancipation
an issue, and the unconditional Union state
committee pledged to immediate eman-
cipation. The latter carried the state
by twenty thousand majority. Since the
election the two committees have united on
the basis of immediate emancipation; and at
a meeting in Baltimore on the 10th inst. reso-
lutions were unanimously adopted contenl-
plating that desirable result. Hon. Thomas
Swami Of Baltimore, chairman of the anti
emancipation committee, and candidate for
congress against Henry Winter Davis has
now come upon the advanced ground, and is
the leading advocate Of the proposed conven-
ton.