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The Daily Dispatch: April 25, 1862., [Electronic resource], $100 reward. (search)
ain, and the first use of it should be to demand equivalents for those who obtained their freedom from captivity by means of the perfidy of the Government under the broken arrangement of last month. It is particularly gratifying that we have obtained an officer of the rank of Gen. Prentiss, to be made the security for the good treatment, as prisoner of war, if not for the immediate exchange, of Gen Buckner. It has been the threat of the Federal Government that Gen. Buckner should be treated, not as a prisoner of war, but as a prisoner of State, and for his acts as Confederate General brought to trial as a traitor to the Federal Government. Major General Prentise may be held as the hostage for Gen. Buckner's security against such a villainous treatment — as Major-General Prescott, of the British army, was held during the Revolution as a hostage in the American camp for the treatment of Gen. Charles Lee, who had been threatened with trial as a deserter from the British service.
The Daily Dispatch: April 25, 1862., [Electronic resource], European news. (search)
ccessfully run the blockade at Charleston, which port they left on the 2d of March. --They had between them about 1,400 bales of cotton, 200 boxes of tobacco, and a considerable quantity of rosin. They left Charleston in company with the bark Etewan and four schooners, all laden with cotton and rosin. They report the sunken stone fleet fast breaking up, Charleston harbor being full of floating timber. They also represent that Charleston and Savannah were well fortified, and in command of Gen. Lee. Great Britain. The proceedings in Parliament on the 2d were unimportant. In the House of Commons, Sir F. Smith called attention to the engagement between the Monitor and Merrimac, and urged the consideration of future prospects of defensive warfare. He urged the favor of small vessels, like the Monitor, in preference to stationary forts, and advocated the cessation of work on fortifications and the construction of iron gunboats or batteries instead. A general debate ens