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The Daily Dispatch: April 20, 1864., [Electronic resource], Later from Europe — the rebel rams building in France. (search)
the South should be questioned, but he goes for a "vigorous prosecution of the war" now. The Courier and Enquirer is dead. Its proprietor, Col. James Watson Webb, who wanted to head the Seventh regiment and drive the rebels into the Gull of Mexico, has gone off to Brazil as Old Abe's Ambassador. Confederate refugees in Canada. The British Possessions are crowded with refugees from the South, most of them the victims of expatiation from Kentucky, Tennessee and the banks of the Mississippi river. There are a few families from the Atlantic coast. I have met two from Charleston. Donegan's Hotel is the Confederate headquarters. The alliance between England and the Confederacy, was cemented informal style a few weeks ago. Lord Abinger, who is an officer of the Guards, one of the "crack" British regiments now in garrison here, was married to Miss Magruder, the beautiful and accomplished niece of the Confederate commander in Texas.--All that was lovely and chivalrous of the two
The Daily Dispatch: April 20, 1864., [Electronic resource], Capture of a Yankee transport. (search)
Capture of a Yankee transport. --Captains Edwards and Reasons, with sixty-five men, captured a Yankee transport at Friar's Point, on the Mississippi river, on the 6th ult. The particulars of the affair, as given in the Southern (Miss) Motive, are as follows: Captain Edwards dressed himself in citizen's clothes, stationed his command in the cane about a half mile from Friant's Porat, and mounted himself on an old poor horse and rode up in town. --When he arrived there he saw a transport anchored in the river. He walked up to some Yankee traders, and remarked that he had some thirty bales of cotton which he wished to get on that boat, expressing great uneasiness at the same time, if it remained there a great while it might be destroyed by the guerilla bands in the bottom. After conversing a few minutes they told him if he would hurry up his agens they would take his cotton afford. He started as if for that purpose, but went to his command and put on his uniform and ordere