--On Saturday evening a flag of truce left this city in charge of
Lieut Borstens, carrying off 402 Abolition prisoners of war. On arriving at
City Point they were placed on board the Yankee steamboat "
State of Maine" which had been sent to the
Point for that purpose.
One Yankee officer,
Lieut Suck, who had been permanently disabled by the loss of a leg in the
battle of Cross Keys, was permitted to go North on the occasion.
The "
State of Maine" brought to
City Point twelve C. S. Army Surgeons, one private, and the body of an officer, a relative of
Hon. W. H. Macfarland, killed in the
battle of Sharpsburg.
To-day week the
Yankee captain of the boat said he would return with a large number of Southern citizens, heretofore detained in the
North.