Weekly national intelligencer., 1864-03-10
A SUCCESSFUL REBEL EXPLOIT
CAPTURE OF TWO STEAMERS.

daring and successful expedition by band of Con-
federaes took place at early on Saturday morning
last The scene of the expedition Cherrystone Creek
Eastern Shore of Virginia in Gen Buffers department
and the facts ~ stated in the Baltimore Sua are as follows
The steamer Iolas Capt Webster and steam transport
Titan were lying In the above-named creek just OF Cher
rystone Point about four O'Clock last Saturday morning
when the officers and Of tn vessels awakened
from sleep to od themselves under arrest and their vss
sells 10 possession Of armed men, who announced them
selves as Conledeate and that they had sexed the
ts IN the name OF the Confederate States Of America
There was no alternative for tho officers and but to
surrender.
he Ioas is medium sized steamer, and il owned by
Capt Webster who has been engaged from time to time
70 collecting produce, 60 from the Eastern aud Western
Shore counties Of Maryland and the Eastern Shore conn
ties Of Virginia, and carrying it to Fortress Monroe for
the use OF suffers and at intervals his would be-
specially chartered for the of the Government Capt
WEBSTER OF the loas, compelled TO give up thou
sand dollars in money besides other vauables The en-
gneer OF the vessel Informed the ConIederates that 1t
w"aa take four hours for them 10 get up and they
concluded to bond the Ioas which they did 10 600
They released Capt Webster and his crew EXCEPT three
colored men, on parole
The Confederates then put their in number
on board the steamer Ttan and placed the officers and
crew OF that vessel together with the three coored men
from fhe lolss under surveillance proceeded m the
bay into the kspPahannock nyer Nothing Of any conse
quence was taken from the IoA. The Titan was loaded
with commIsary stores and had put into Cherrystone
Point ON Friday night account of stress Of weather
Vessel was valued at $aO 900 and the cargo
Inc most important part of the damage sustained from
the expedIfnn from their destruction the telegraph
station at Cherrysone Point and the destruction OF the
submarine telegraph cable running from that point To
Fortress Monroe, and which the only Of te
graphic communication between Fortress Monroe Ealti
more and Washington. How far out from the .,ont the
cable Is destroyed could not be ascertained as portion
OF the Confederates at work this destruoop whilst
the remainder were sezng the steamers The light house
near Cher Point thought to be- DESTROYED
BY them but this latter statement has received no Official
Inc ConederSt.s numbered about thirty meI aud were
under the command of Capt Ftxhugh and Capt Ta,lor
tnephew OF General Zachary Tsylor both of the
Confederate navy. Gen Lockwood received dispatches
rom tne Secretary Of War announcing the fact OF the
OF the submarine cabe aso that the work
oi repair would be at once commenced. 1t was also
aed that several gunboats had left Fortress Monroe for
the Rappahannock river for the purpose of recapturng
or destroying the steamer Fitan. At late hour last
evening nothing had been heard from them The scene
where the above mentioned raid took place now in Gen.
Buffers department