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The Daily Dispatch: December 21, 1861., [Electronic resource] 5 1 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: December 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
be made to compromise the differences, or else to procure a truce, that foreigners might save themselves and property.--Col. Buchel immediately dispatched Captain P. L. Buquor to open negotiations. Captain Buquor went first to Gen. Caravajal's camp, where the proposition was immediately accepted. Capt. Buquor found some difficuCaptain Buquor went first to Gen. Caravajal's camp, where the proposition was immediately accepted. Capt. Buquor found some difficulty in entering the lines of Gen. Garcia, but ultimately succeeded in effecting a parley, which resulted in his being introduced to Gen. Garcia. The proposition for an armistice was not very favorably received at first, but was finally agreed to, and twenty-four hours set as the limits of the armistice. As a matter of courseCapt. Buquor found some difficulty in entering the lines of Gen. Garcia, but ultimately succeeded in effecting a parley, which resulted in his being introduced to Gen. Garcia. The proposition for an armistice was not very favorably received at first, but was finally agreed to, and twenty-four hours set as the limits of the armistice. As a matter of course, this truce was instantly inaugurated, and hundreds of people made a simultaneous rush to rescue from the town of Matamoras the goods and property which they had fondly considered beyond the reach of harm. Our citizens, unfortunately, had quite as large stocks of goods in Matamoras as in Brownsville, and the trouble was that