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The Daily Dispatch: January 6, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 21 (search)
f Representatives to gratitude.--This act is thus dealt with by Mr. Gidson Welles; "Capt. Cons Wilkes, in command of the San Jacinto, while searching in the West Indies for the Sumter, received information that James M. Mason and John Slidell, disloyal citizens, and leading conspirators, were, with their unite, to embark from Havana in the English steamer Trent, on their way to Europe to promote the cause of the insurgents Cruising in the Bahama channel, he intercepted the Trent on the 8th of November and took from her these dangerous men whom he brought to the United States. His vessel having been ordered to refit for service at Charleston, the prisoners were retained on board and conveyed to Fort Warren, where they were committed to the custody of Colonel Dimmick, in command of that Fortress. The prompt and decisive action of Captain Wilkes on this occasion merited and received the emphatic approval of the department, and, if a too generous forbearance was exhibited by him in not