Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-11-19
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
arrest OF Mason and sIIdeII.

Baltimore, Nov. 16.
The United States steamer San Jacinto
arrived at Fortress Monroe yesterday after.
noon. havirg on board Messrs. Slidell and
Mason, and their suite Of attendants, with
their documents, &c.
They were taken from an English vessel
near the coast of Cuba.
They remain prisoners at the Fortress.
A special messenger has just passed
through here conveying the news to WASH
ington.
Boston, Nov, 10.
Capt Hunter, of the steamer Delta, from
Bermuda, at Halifsx. reports that when he
left Bermuda the British steamer Fingal
aud the rebel steamer Nashville would in
that port. The Fingal had transferred her
cargo of arms to the Nashville, and the lat
ter had put Messrs Mason. and S!i6ell and
suite on the Fingal, which would take them
to England, while the Nashville would run
the blockade with the arms.
Fortress Monroe, Nov. Is.
The frigate San Jacintu has arrived here
with Mesrrs. Mason and Slidell, rebsl Am
! bassadOrs to Europe. and their suites, as
prisoners of war. They were taken from
an English steamer in the channel Of the
Bahamas. All their papers were captured.
Fortress Monroe, Nov. Is.
The s. steamer San Jacinto has Just
arrived frum the coast Of Africa ria West
Indies, where she has been cruising for the
| last six weeks.
Old Point was electrified by the tidings
TINT the San Jacinto had on board Messrs
Slidell and Mason, who were going abroad
as Ministers of the Southern Confederacy
Commodore Wilkes repeated the news al
headquarters in person. and will forward
Ills dispatches tonight.
The name Of the British vessel they were
taken from has not as yet transpired.
+ All the documents ard papers of Messrs
I Slidell and Mason were seized. Their fam
lies we're allowed to proceed.
The captain Of the British vessel deliy-
cred Up Slideh and Mason under protest.
New York, Nov. 10.
The Tribune's special, Fortress Monroe
Nov. 18th, says:
Mason ard Slidcll we're aboard British
: mail steamer Commodore Wilkes sen
aboard ond demanded their surrender
The reply was: There is not force enough
to take Them
Commodore Wilkes sent additional force
ard put the San Jacinto in convenient pc
sitinn.
Slideil and Mason were then surrender
ed.
The English steamer took them on boar,
not knowing who they were, their bushes
r or destination.
Commodore Wilkes, it il understood, act
ed on his own responsibility.
General Wool has granted SliGell an
, Mason permission to send open letters /
their friends this evening"
, New York, Nov. 16.
A Fortress Monroe, 18th, special Gays
'.Slidell and Mason were taken from a
. English mail steamer on the 9Th, off Der
muda. Lieutenant Fairfax and thirty fiv
+ armed men vent aboard the San Jaci niS
and picked out the commissioners. The
made feeble resistance, but were induce,
to leave. The captain of the steamer rave
> and swore, calling the United States officer
''piratical Yankees" &c. Com. Wilke
had an interview with Gen. Wool, and ex
pressed the opinion that he did right, an
that, right or wrong, these men had to b
secured, and if he bad done wrong, h
could do no more than be cashiered for it.
Washington, Nov. 16.
E The intelligence of the capture Of 81
dell and Mason has defused the creates
: possible joy among all classes, including
OF course, government officers from Pres
dent down. The brilliant exploit at POI
Royal was certainly not more electric i
ITS effect upon the public mind, than tn
taking of these generally regarded unprir
cipled and dangerous emissaries.