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The Daily Dispatch: April 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], Financial matters. (search)
Montgomery, Ala.,April 13, 1861. At one o'clock this evening, (Saturday,) Gen. Walker, Secretary of War, and C. G. Memminger, Secretary of the Treasury, received telegrams from Charleston, that Fort Sumter had hauled down the once sacred Stars and Stripes and ran up a white flag preparatory to her surrender. Soon an excited multitude surrounded the Government building, and from its highest window, where floats the proud flag that has so signally triumphed, upon which the God of Battles will always smile, General Wagner, an officer in the Department of War, came forward and read the victorious dispatches. The firing of cannon that had been dragged to the spot, greeted their delivery. Cheer after cheer rose joyously from the brave men who fear not the consequences of a struggle that is eventually to secure them their cherished rights. The city rings with applause. The most timid of the women, impressed with the conviction that our cause is a righteous one, seem w