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The Daily Dispatch: December 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], Late Northern news. (search)
ls in the West India trade, and with a favorable wind, Capt. Lyon is confident he could have escaped the Sumter, even with her powerful engines. The officers of the steamer were highly pleased with the staunch build and superior sailing qualities of the schooner, and the sacrificing of the craft was owing to their inability to take care of it. On board the Sumter Capt. L. found the captain and crew of the John Parks, which had also been captured and burned. All hands were taken to Port Royal, Martinique, where they signed a parole not to bear arms against the Southern Confederacy.--This they consented to do in preference to an indefinite detention on board. Capt. Lyons was thirteen days aboard the Sumter, during which he was treated with the utmost kindness by both officers and crew. Of her armament or number of men he is not communicative — his parcel of honor especially forbidding any information on this point. Released from confinement. We learn from the Loui