Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-11-20
How the Arrest wac made---InteressinG
pnrticularGs

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WAsHmaroN, Saturday, Nov. 10.
This city was made joyful to-day by a ru-
NOR which gained currency about noonJ 70
tbe effect that ex Senators Mason and Slidell,
tho Eavoys Of JEFF. Davis 70 England and
France. respectively, had been taken at sea,
and were now prisoners on board United |
States vessel Of war. An hour later, Mr. |
Alfred Taylor, of the navy, arrived by spec
ial train from Baltimore, bearing dispatches
TO the Government, from Commodore Wilkes.
These official documents, numbering near
dozen. give full particulars Of the capture, and
are at present In the hands OF the Govern
ment, to be fully examined before publication.
| The general facts connected With the arrest
are as follows:
Commodore Wilkes, while returning from
the Coast of Africa, In the San Jscintoi stop
ned at Havana for coal, and while there
learned that Messs. Mason and Slidell were
N leave on the 7th, on the British Nail steam
or Trent, for England. Capt. Wilkes heard,
sbout The same time, that the Sumter was Oh
T.sOuavra. and be determined to capture her
il possible.
While steaming through the Bahama
Channel he encountered the Trent and
brought her to by fiting two sho's across her
how. Lieut. Fairfax OF the San Jacinto, WAS
, Immediately sent on board with boats crew
and marines. and asked the master OF the
Trent TO see his passenger list. This was de-
MED. and Lieut.. Fairfax then stated that MS
e ournose was to take into custody Messrs. Ma
8 son and Slidel, whom be knew to be ABOARD
g and those who accompanied them. The rebel
enyoys were soon recognized, and they retus-
ed Lieut. Fairfax's demand that they should
5 nroceed aboard the Sa1 Jacinto, and imme-
/. diately went below to their state-rooms
g Fhey were followed, and Lieut.. Fairfax tolC
Them that il they refused to go peaceaoly ~
e should be compelled to use force. They still
refused. when the marines stepping forward
n and taking them by the shoulder, they md
! I no further resistance
Nessrs. Eustis and Mcfarland, Secretary
, of the rebel EnVoys, were also arrested. Sli
It dell and Eustis had their families on boar
g. the Trent, and the prospect of separation
= occasaioned an affecting scene. Com Wilke
, subsequently, offered to allow their familie
OF to accompany them, but the ladies refused
at prelering the voyage to England and pro
o. tracted separation from their husbands, tina
: the risk of an Imprisonment in the North
- Slidells family consisted of his wife, iou
y children and two servants Eustis's OF b
or | wife. two children and servant The bag
or gage of the prisoners was transtsred TO u
San JscintO, and it is said that it contain
important documents, and among them the
IN instructions from jeff psvis's GOVernmen
a. Auy mail matter which had been intruste
s TO them had probably been transferred to II
,lo English mail.
'i0 No opposition was offered by the office
he of the Trent to the arrest, other than a ver'
al protest, though one man who has charg
u of the mails on board INDUCED in some ga
:, oonade about the outrage committed, and vi
= loud in his assertions that the blockaC
ila would be raised within a month after th
news reached England.
is After their transfer to the San Jaointt
"a the prisoners united in drawing up stat
ment OF the facts connected with their arres
cn which they addressed to Commodore Wilke
me and accompanied it by request that it |
20 forwarded to the United States Governmen
:. II does not materially offer from the narr
Ie lion | have given above. The signatur
attached to the document were eVidentl
of written while under feeling of trepidaliOl
for and they approximate TO the irregularity
that Of Stephen Hopkins, of lT76.
Slidell and Mason are well known.
EuSlS was loTheEly meMOSA VI OOOB'S
nal from Louisiana. He married daughter
81 Mr.. Corcoran, the Washington banker, wi
ibe it is said, has betrayed much uneasiness +
:, day in reference to the arrest. McFarlaE
ne is a son or nephew Of Wm. Mcfarland,
bank President in Richmond, strong UniC
,on man, and one of the last TO succumb to Il
ant pressure Of the rebellion. He is a bachelo
On the San Jacinto the prisoners wei
ny treated with murked Kindness i'y CUWm
dore Wilkes and his officers. The convers
nd freely upon various subjects, but poi'i
an. were not alluded TO. Wzen they arrive
a. New York, they will be transferred to Fo
Warren.