Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1864-03-17

A kinston correspondent of the Raleigh
Confederate, in speaking of the hanging
on the 9th inst, in Kinston, of the TWEEN
ty-three captured soldiers, belonging &c
Col, Charles Henry Fosters command
AS deSerters from the rebel CONSUMPTION
says;
] The prisoners Were accompanied Ia
the place Of execution by a large con
coarse OF people and strong military es-
cort, They assembled the scafiold with
hrln ana elastic step, and met their
late win uhilinchi Z foI Ii, lde and de-
termination. They asked for no quar-
Ter and scornfully spurned all overtures
of concession ON condition of returning
TO duty IN the Confederate service. AZ
ter making their peace with their God
they iearleSsly proclaimed their readi-
ness to die for their country, against
which they said they had been forcibly
conscripted to fight. A more sublime
exhibition of loyalty to the old flag was
never witnessed. The multitude were
moved to tears and openly denounced
this cruel massacre, which is causing de-
sertions from the confederate service by
the wholesale, and creating an indigna-
ton which it is feared will be unac-
countable.n
A Union soldier who recently escaped
from the Goldsboro prison, informs Gen.
Peck that great riot occurred at Ra-
leigh on the occasion of hanging the ma
tive Union soldiers at Kinston, and that
Gen. Picket's troops from that place
passed through Goldsboro, with all pos
sible dispatch to quell the outbreak in
that city, where the stars and stripes
were conspicuouly displayed and th&t
much violence and excitement pre-
vailed. The press was not allowed
to speak of the matter. The Raleigh
Standard was suppressed soon after this
affair
Refugees from the interior bring the
intelligence of the rebels garrisoning the
whole State of North Carolina with
troops at all the prominent points, for
the purpose of checking the Convention
movent and keeping the people in sub
lection.
1t is reported that the rebels intend
hanging the entire number of Union
soldiers captured by them from Col. Fra
zer's command, tifty-one in number,
half of whom have never been in the
rebel service. Ira Neal, drummer boy
fifteen years of age, who had never
been in the rebel service was among the
number hung at Kinston, on the 18TH
The native Union soldiers have decided
to take the question of retaliation into
their.own hands. They have given such
of their officers who did not approve of
severe measures an opportunity to resign
and have also given warning that imme-
date death will be inflicted upon any
officer who offers hereafter to sur
render to the enemy or ask for any quar-
ter.
szg The following from the New York
Examiner, is applicable to the readers
of the Weekly Herald, as we publish
therein the reports mentioned by the
Examiner:
Farmers and dealers in Produce, as
well as the consumers of it, ought, we
think, to be especially grateful to MeSsrs.
w, S. Mcclure & Co, for the full and &C
curate reports to be found in our col
umns from week to week, of the state of
the markets. No better reports are pub
lished, and the firm that makes them
are among the largest and most reliable
Produce Commission Merchants of the
city"