Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-11-18
BY TELEGRAPH.
NIGHT DISPATCHES.
Further Particulars Of the Ar.
rest OF Mas0n and SlidelI.
Interesting Washington Items
IMPORTANT FOREIGN NEWS.
60. &c. &c.

just arrived from the coast of Africa, via the
West Indies, where she has been cruising six
weeks.
Old Point was electrified by the tidines
that the San JdciHto had on board Messrs.
Slidell and Mason, who were going abroad as
ministers Of the Southern Confederacy. Com
mander Wilkes reported the news at head
quarters in person. and will forward his dis
atches o.night
NEW YORK, Saturday, November 16.
Fortress Monroe special of the 18th says
Slidell and Mason were taken from the Eng.
lish mail steamer, on the 9Th, off Bermuda.
Lieutenant Fairfax and 35 armed men went
aboard from the San Jdcinto, with five officers,
and picked out the Commissioners. They
made but feeble resistance, but were induced
to leave. The Captain of the steamer raved
and swore, calling the officers piratical Yam.
KEGS, &c. Eustis, one of the rebel secretaries,
also resisted, but himself and colleague accom-
panied their employers into confinement. Sill
dell had his wife and four children aboard, who
were allowed to proceed to Europe. Com
mander Wilkes had an interview with General
Wool, and expressed the opinion that he did
right, and said that, right or wrong, these
men had to be secured, and if he had done
wrong he could do no more than be cashiered
for it, 81
WARRINGTON, Saturday, November I6.
Captain Taylor, who has arrived here with
dispatches, reports that when the San Jdcinto
stopped at Cienfuegos the escape Of Slidell and
Mason was ascertained. Proceeding thence
to Havana, it was understood they had taken
passage, on the 7th instant, on the British mail
steamer Trent, plying between Vera Cruz, by
way of Havana and st. Thomas and Southamp-
ton. While the San Jacinto was in the narrow.
est part Of the Bahama Channel about twenty
four miles to the westward, she mot the packet,
ard, as usual in such cases, fred shot across
bows and brought her to.
90 haw la 81
Of Lieutenant Fairfa <, who, boarding the
packet, arrested Mason and Slidell, who were
personally known to him. They at first OBJ
jected to being removed without the employ
ment Of force for that purpose. However, they
were soon after removed without further trou-
BILE, and conveyed to the San Jacinto. Their
respective secretaries, Eustis and McFarlau,
were also brought on board, and are now on
their way to New York. The packet had no
other save her own flag. The remainder of her
passengers, including the ladies connscted.with
the Slidell and Mason party, we're not molested,
aud were therefore left free tof.pursue their
journey. =" ..
Official dispatches are voluminous, and in
clude several accounts of the capture, together
with a protest of Mason and Slidell against
being taken from British steimer.
WASHINGTON, Saturday, November l6.
Intelligence of the capture of Slidell and
Mason has diffused the greatest possible joy
among all classes, including, Of course, Gov
mt officers from the President down.
| The brilliant exploit at Port Royal was Ger.
taiply not il quite as electric in its effect
upon the public mind as the taking of these
generally regarded unprincipled and danger.
GUS emissaIies.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Saturday, November I6.
Price and McCulIoch's armies have retreated
| into Arkansas. 1t is understood they have
| gone to Fort Smith, where supplies have been
| collected and winter quarters are being built.
| Before leaving Missouri they fred all the hay
stacks, corn. cribs, &c, in their vicinity, to
prevent our forces from obtaining forage in
case We purtued them.
Previous reports regarding the imminency Of
a battle on the I'd, originated in a large for.
aging party Of rebels on Wilson's Creek being
mistaken for the advance guard of the enemy
NEW YoRK, Saturday, November l6.
A Washington special of the 10th says
"There is reason to believe that Government
adheres to its determination to make Beaufort
an open port. -...
"ihe Treasury Department emphaticalIy
denies that counterfeis Treasury Notes have
been put in circulation.
"Last night was the cOldest of the season il
the camp"
WASHINGTON, Saturday, November l6.
The Eleventh and Fourteenth Regiment
United States Infantry are to be hutted durinl
the winter at Perryville, Md. Sixteen hun
dred troops will thus be quartered and form
camp Of instruction. Eight hundred are Their
already.
Fort MONROE, Friday, November Is.
The Belridere. having been repaired, viii
leave for Port Royal early tomorrow, wit
mails and dispatches.
A flag of truce from Norfolk brought dow
to day $50 refugees.
The rebels assume to make light Of the aHai
at Port Royal, but at the same time beHa
their apprehensions of its results.
J A report from Norfolk thinks there are nearl
$4,000 troops in and about that city. Tb
Merrisaac is not yet completed.
CAMP PIATT, VA, Saturday, November l6,
The following are the names Of the lost {
Captain Bells Company, Forty fourth Regi
mtnt, by the upsetting of skif on the Ka
nawha River, this morning: Captain John y
Bell, j. Hurld, ]. G. Milburne, Jas. Hogu
and y. T. Greensteed, Of Washington, Fayett
County, and Abram Cristman, Orderly Sci
geant, Of South Charleston.
a BALTIMORE, Saturday, November I6,
The Norfolk Day Book says the steamer FL
gal has arrived at Savannah with cargo
war munitions, &c.
J. The Richmond Dispatch says we have il
| formation that the authorities of South Care
lima have communicated with the Governmel
upon the subject Of, hoisting the black hal
! to which alIusion has been made, since the q
tack on the coast Of that State.
. It is believed that General Lee has receive
: orders from the War Department urging thI
8 those captured must bs regarded as prisone
3 Of war. It is said this win be disregarded
' the authorities of South Carolina, and that Il
same colife will be pursued as that adopted
Governor Wise at the time Of the John Brow
I raid, and that when South Carolina Is dol
. with the invaders the confederate GOVernmsl
q can have them. ... .,,-L4.
. Petersburg ys.l papers Of the l4th insta
are received. They appear very much In q
dark as regards the opetations OF the heet.
n. n LYACHBURo, VA, Wednesday, November ls
! "a Is reported but not confirmed that Il
' Union men Of Tennessee have possession
d BIistols ---'-..--
d The panic ct Savannah, in consequence
the victory Of the feet, was 50 great that ev
men were running away Small ware m'
70 chants who were packing up their goods
q leave, had been notified by the authorities Il
s they would not be permitted to carry on tn
goods. -'. .a.fI.--I ,- .,...,..
f, The Savannah RepubEean Is indignant
10 this cOWardly desertion in time Of danger, a
le urges General LaWton to issue an order p
l. venting any able bodied man under sixty yel
of age from leaving. frf 7. ~
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