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The Daily Dispatch: February 10, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 7 (search)
e was a growing belief that there would speedily be a determination on the part of the French and British Governments to raise the blockade of the Southern ports. The Sumter at Gibraltar — another American prize burned — Desertion of some of the rebels in Spain. The privateer Sumter having been ordered from Cadiz, reached Gibraltar on the 19th of Jan. During her passage she burned the American bark Neapolitan, from Messina for Boston, with fruits. She also captured the bark Investigator, of Searsport, for New port, with ore, but subsequently allowed her to proceed. Six of the Sumter's crew deserted at Cadiz, and made their submission to the American Consult. The captain of the Sumter claimed them as deserters, but the Spanish officials declined to give them up. It is reported from Algiers that a prolonged cannonade had been heard off that coast, and a vessel was subsequently sighted, believed to be the pirate Sumter. It was supposed she had sunk her adversary