The Daily Dispatch: December 21, 1864., [Electronic resource]

Presentation at Bermuda.

‘ "The Government of the Confederate States presented the Hon. J. W. Ritchie, to-day, with a beautiful and massive service of silver plate, as a testimonial of their gratitude for his valuable and gratuitous professional services in connection with the Chesapeake case. The presentation took place in the Halifax Hotel, in presence of a large number of our leading citizens, and others whom sympathy with the Southern cause, or a spirit of curiosity, called thither. Mr. Holcombe, well known as one of the late Niagara peace negotiators, prefaced the ceremony with a very appropriate address. He had been sent by President Davis to inquire into the particulars of the Chesapeake affair. He was delighted to find that the Confederate interest had been looked after, and Confederate rights asserted with as much zeal and ability as if their own law officers had been present; and that, too, without any official or unofficial retainer."

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