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

Editor Rutland Herald The steamer
New York, flag of truce boat, Capt. CHS
holm, in charge Of Maj. Milford assis-
tant agent of exchange of prisoners, left
here last night for City Point, with 651
rebel prisoners, 81 of whom were Off
GERS. The rebel General Fitzhugh Lee,
son of Gen. Robert E. Lee, has gone on
the same boat to endeavor to effect his
exchange for Gen. Neal Dow. OF the
600 Union soldiers brought from Rich
mond this week, 30 were sent to the
hospitals Immediately on their arrival
at Annapolis. They were all very weak
and emaciated, and gave very palpable
evidence of the i'll treatment and hard
fare they have been compelled to endure
from the rebel authorities.
Twenty-three Union men, as you have
doubtless heard, were recently hung by
the rebels, at Kinston, North Carolina,
for the alleged offence of desertion.-
They were North Carolina men and had
been forced into the rebel ranks by con-
scription As soon as dead they were
stripped of every shred of clothing.
According to the Wilmington Journal
of late date, Gen. Duff G, Green has in
vented a method Of spinning cotton
without the usual process of carding.-
The Journal says, "The General exhibit
ed a specimen equal to any coarse thread
made from the carded roll, and for max
ing coarse cloth will answer the same
purpose. We think if this is found to
Ue pIa.tioablo, farmers will be in
duced to abandon cards entirely in the
manufacture of negro clothing. For
their benefit we will give the modMs oper-
and Of preparing it, Gin the cotton
slowly so as to throw large flakes
through the due, which are caught in a
hamper basket placed under the fue and
taken to the spinning wheel without
pressing the cotton" As common hand
cards are $75 per pair in Rebellion this
invention will prove quite an object.
A reward of $4,000 is offered by a
Wilmington firm for the arrest and con-
viction of the persons who set fire to
large quantity Of cotton, which was con-
sumed at that place on the night of the
9th of February. 1t would seem from
this that higher value has been
placed upon that material than when
the rebels were so anxious to destroy it
themselves on the approach Of Union
troops. Perhaps it is something of an
object to pay their foreign debts in what
they can succeed in running through
the blockade.
We learn from rebel sources through
Union officers, that the body of COL
Dahlgren was stripped naked, and bu-
ried face downward in an obscure spot
where it will be impossible to recover it.
The men captured from Fitzpatrick have
been confined in dungeons, in Richmond.
w. B. Rogers, 9thVt., died at Mansfield
General Hospital, Newbern, March 1,
aged 81 years.
THE ENGAGEMENT OF THE ID U. s. CoLoRED
CAVALRY.
On the 9th inst. an advance was made
on Suffolk by the I'd U. s. Colored Cav
airy, commanded by Col Cole The
Col. with seven companies advanced on
the Sutherton road-Lieut. Col. Pond
with two companies in front, and Lieut..
Snyder on the South Quay road. Lieut..
Snyder first encountered the enemy con
sisting of infantry, cavalry and artillery,
commanded by Ransom in person. Lieut..
Snyder Immediately dispatched a cour
Ter to Col. Cole, who turned to go to
their assistance and encountered the en-
envy at Suffolk. where a severe hand to
hand fight of an hour took place. Col.
Cole shot the rebel cavalry commander,
and attempted to cover the retreat of
1t. Col. Pond, but the enemy with his
superior numbers intercepted him, and
forced him to retire across the Jericho
Canal, where he reorganized. Lieut.
Col. Pond then advanced on the Suther-
ton road and attacked the enemy in the
rear, Col. Cole in front, thereby cutting
their way through, and saving
their command. Deserters who came in
the next morning, reported the enemy's
los ut IS killed. Our loss, killed wound