Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1862-08-01

The VERMoNTERs AT NEW ORLEASs.-An
article in the Sunday Della of New Orleans
headed "Paying their way" furnishes testi-
mony that the 9Th Vermont regiment have
carried s iuth with them into the wa, the
zeal and industry with which they prosecuted
their business aifurs among the Green Noun
tains. This is the record and Uncle Sim
will please note that he has 10 better or moIe
profitable W0rkmeu in his immense gang
"a small, ,ietac ,ment Of the 9Th Vermont took
uossos.ioa OF Fort Pike on May jth, when they
found the fort di ntled aud robbed OF every tllng
movable the guns dismOunted al spiked, AMI al
the buildings either torn down or burned. Dutihs
| the two months they have garrisoned the ioft'
they have removed the spikes from all the guns
| mounted them a. far as they had the carriages,
| cleaned up the rubbish, retaken large Quantities
! Of the ordnance, quartermastcr and ccmmisslry
stores stolen during the inteTreEnum, and captured
/ any number of small boats, one launch, one
| schooaer, one steam pile-driyer, Tie steamer }.
! Moran Brown, aud were a party - the capture
| Of the steamer Gray Cloud. These two It. amef-
are valued al $50 900 each, snd are now used by
! Government as transports
The c4pture Of the J. Morgan Brown had tome-
/ what Of the "9aairt sast enterprise and novelty
| which char acterizei the movements Of tue Grcen
| Mountain boys under old Ethan. The steamer be-
int, in the service Of the Confederate, was slowed
| away by its owners seven miles up a narrow,
| crooked bayou of Pearl river, hidden BY over
| hanging trees, and forty miles from Fort Pike
some cloudy intimatlons Of er whereabouts beng
obtained from clntrabaLds, an cXpedlt. Of ttiry
| men in i've small b ats under the joint command
Of Lieuts. Parker ami Dickinson, was fitted out to
search the wilderness. They stell.hily passed the
| guerrilla pickets at Pennington and the jackson
| plantation and roWcd between sunset and sunrise,
a distance which, with the opposing current would
/ make over fifty miles, found the skulker and took
it without a chance for fight, as the picket guard
| skei1d3is9 at their approach. They, however,
had the precaution 70 remove a small piece Of the
machinery which was indispensable 10 steam loco
motion and 50 this little band was driven T. desc
crate the sacred soil OF Mississippi, by performing
a quantum Of free labor within her limits Ac-
| cpTdingly, by dint If getting cut iines, roElus
and polling, they dragged her safely out and
bros .ht her to Fort Pike il just hours
They dill not sIua the picsets so oosequiously on
their return; bat instead Of this Lieut. Dickinson
went ashore at the Jackson plantation vita small
| SQUAD, drove in the pIckets, and brought away
one OF their hats with a Yankee bullet mole
through II. two secession flags and quantity Oh
the furniture belonging to the boat secreted there
lie aso took on the same scout $500 worth ot rope
and hose belonging 10 the sscesh gunboat hieu-
| vile. The Government Will doubtless have llcnty
Of use for this here.
They have lost only one man in all these trans
| actions though tley have had two or three shirm-
ishes. AT one time twenty-five men, under Lieuts.
ThralI ami Dickinson, were attacked by mounted
guerrilla force OF one hundred and thirty-hve men,
which was repulsed with the loss Of three men and
four horses. The Vermont boys had single SIX
FOUNDER gun, but no fixed ammunition, s1 they
improviaei few charges Of canister by tying ~
twenty two ounce bullets 10 canvas Ols and tf-
ing away in true underbrush style. Under cover
Of this fire they landed and took away a schooner
| tied MP at the Wtsi and towed !, 90 the feet
Lieut.. Dickinson and one Of hls company were
cut of ty the sudden charge Of the cavalry, but
escaped uniijurel by swimming 60 Tirosue AID
padding down Goo the steamer With their hands
! exposed ail the way % their Ere.
Their latest caterprise is in thin- up the chain
and anchors on bonn whisl -'cc-l ullif scrH-
the Kigll-ts 90 guard the approach nI lanke s
They fauni there twenty large anchors ami gSe'
twenty thousand f,tbous of uew chain lacy
had taken up nearly halt of the bon when they
were ordered 10 rrJoiu their regiment up the
Mississippi. The fort is 90 De -a-ris4uet hy Capt
Bucks company Of The l3th Maine regiment.
] Srttf as rms M,rfu We learn from tIH