Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1861-07-04

New ORR. June 81
The 22nd and 9Th regiments left this CITY last
evening for Washington.
/ 4 bov seventeeh named f.. = Ru ge, son Of
/ Colonel Ruggles. late OF the United States ar
my and now commanding body of rebels at
Fredericksburg Va was arrested here a, an
| emmlssarY fJehi Davis.
4 dispatch from Washington 70 the rIbune
says the whole number Of rebel troops in Viz
! gina by rebel estimates is 10000. bat not over
2j.OyO can be cortentra,ed at any given point.
/ The lar est number now al point is 5 600
/ at Manassas Junction. 900 choice men are at
Yorktown. The number at Richmond don't
exceed six Thousand.
Norfolk forti6catons are regarded impregna
bic They don't Intend % make stand against
| Government troops at any point, and viii only
hold position at Manassas a short time If attack
ed 1t is not their purpose TO engage in pitched
battle, but to hart1ss and pick off men in
guerrilla warfare.
Beauregard's advance is camped from Spring
field to Fairfax Court House, mostly in a dense
forest between the railroad and Little Z yer
turnpike. Into ibis labyrinth they no doubt
wish 10 draw Federal troops.
There are promises that the farms in the vi
cinIty will be ransRcked and all the grain taken
without equivalent
The 25th Pennsylvania regime nj has been
sent to enforce Col Stone also a battery \
messenger reports Col Stone with the New
York 9th, few miles this side OF Point of
Rocks.
John Williams has been promoted TO Masters
Mate for bravery. Lieut.. Chaplin will doubt
less receive promotion.
Garibaldi Guard will shortly march 10 Alex
andra or beyond.
a dispatch TO the Herald SAYS the Oidinance
Department at the Navy Yard are working all
night principally on brass rihed guns and boring
heavy iron cannon cast at West Point
All United States ships that sail have riled
guns and in few weeks the heaviest caibre of
guns will be afoat.
The Navy have borrowed of the War Depart
ment the IS inch Redman gun at Fort Monroe
and are preparing a vessel 10 receive It for ope
rations near that Fortress, and especially upon
Sewells Point
Capt. Harris of the 2nd Ohio, has bee n cleo
ted Col in place of Col. Wilson, who is ap-
pointed Captainjn the regular army
Information has pcen received from Texas to
the effect that the Western frontier of that State
was preparing 70 follow the example of Western
Virginia, and East Tennessee by organizing
formidable movement against secession, and ad
herring to the Union in the hoEe Of a new State
Fortress Monroe, June IS.
The Massachusetts Sd aud 4th regiments are /
under orders 10 march to morrow morn [
ing. They will probably entfench themselves .
beyond Hampton bridge and form the advance .
of an important movement toward Yorktown.
The naval brigade will probably accom- pany
them to Hampton.
J w. Bennett of the LIST Vermont Regiment
died Yesterday at the hospital Of typhoid fever
Over 100 sick men are in hospital
Large numbers of contraband OF war have
come in o day.
The rebels this morning fired two or three
shots from a new battery on James River di.
rectly opposite Newport News.
The weather is intensely hot.
New York, June 29th.
The Worlds special correspondent at For
tress Monroe states that Col. Allen of the New
York LIST regiment was arrested to day by order
Of Gen. Butler.
Allen and other officers have arrested MANY
armed secessionists lately who have been re
leased by Butler Friday word came that n
field of wheat belonging to Major Thompson of
the rebel forces wa, being gathered to be sent TO
orktown for aid to he rebels, and some had the
assurance to ask Col. Allen for horse, which had
been confscated to convey the wheat to the enc
my, which were refused, and a squad Of men sent
20 prevent the wheat from being taken.
Soon af'er, the wheat field was in flames. and
"enty acres destroyed. Maj Gen. Butler there
Upon ordered Col. Allen to report at head quar-
ers, under arrest, and placed his regiment un
Ter command of Llent Coz. Dykeman
his and Othe; acts OF Gen. Butler causes
ome anxiety about his loyalty. The arrest
,r, Baltimore, June 29th. !
ne new police OF this city have found at the :
astern police station house, several drums b. e
on2lng to the Massachusetts Retiment which
we're taken with other articles from their bao {
age car the day Of the rot