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The Daily Dispatch: April 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
k the white flag goes up. You may imagine, but you cannot realize the joy, as the shouts of joy went up from thousands on the decks, wharves, houses, and steeples. Gen. Beauregard sends his Staff to Sumter. They have just returned. Hon. Lewis T. Wigfall being bearer of dispatches. An unconditional surrender is the result. Another boat has gone down, and I will keep this letter open for the result. Virginius. Later.--Major Anderson surrenders unconditionally, and respecthe war steamers to convey him, which has been granted. The fire companies are now in Sumter playing on the fire, and in a few minutes the flag of the Confederate States will be hoists where, a few hours ago, the Stars and Stripe floated. Col. Wigfall brought with him the flag that was cut down, which showed that it had been terribly used. We are expecting that these war steamers are for a blockade. We don't doubt it, but we shall try by some means to get clear of them, too. Our
The Daily Dispatch: April 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Important will case. (search)
into whose hands the destinies of the infant republic have been committed to guard and direct, the war clouds that overhang us are weaving themselves into such a fearful woof, that soon the sun of peace must go down in blood and battle. Senator Wigfall, the idol of the South, who returned the carte blanche tendered him by President Davis, with no name of Wigfall for office written thereon, but declining the best appointments, will be in this city in a day or two, and will excite great enthWigfall for office written thereon, but declining the best appointments, will be in this city in a day or two, and will excite great enthusiasm. Francis Corbin, Esq., formerly of Virginia, now an eminently respectable and wealthy citizen of Louisiana, was here to-day and negotiated for ten thousand dollars' worth of the Confederate States bonds, paying a premium to the Government of three per cent. The Temple of Thespis, where Maggie Mitchell's charming person, laughing wit, and foppish humors, have been delighting crowds, will be closed on to-morrow night, and hereafter the Temple of Janus, with warriors for the playe
The Daily Dispatch: April 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Important will case. (search)
From Montgomery. the Confederate loan taken at par — Piquant reply of President Davis--the Kentuckian Moving, &c. Montgomery, April 15th. --An offer has been made to the Treasury Department to take the whole of the Confederate loan of $15,000,000 at par, by New Orleans parties. The official report states that when Major Anderson's quarters were burning, General Beauregard sent offers of assistance before the white flag was run up. Col. Wigfall received Major Anderson's sword and returned it to him. The United States fleet is still in sight off Charleston harbor. Later. Davis' answer is rough and curt; "Sumter is ours and nobody hurt: With mortar, paixhan and petard, We tender Old Abe our Beau-regard!" Secretary Toombs has received a dispatch from Hon. John C. Breckinridge and Gov. Magoffin, saying that Kentucky is greatly excited, sympathizing entirely with the South. Seven thousand men in the border States are under arms, and have