The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1912-01-04
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CIVIL WAR
FIFTY YEARS AGO
THIS WEEK
December 81, 1861.

December 81, 1861.
The New York Times of date printed +
the following: "The Canadian press
comments upon the release of Messrs.
Mason and Slidell in the same spirit
which has prompted its various repre-
Bentations hitherto in their treatment
Of the rebellion. The Leader uses
the most abusive language at its COM
mand. It pronounces the surrender
one of the greatest collapses since the
beginning of time and has much to
say of the Humiliation of the national
government. The Globe talks much
more moderately, and heartily con-
graduates its readers on the result;
and the Montreal Gazette speaks Of it
al "a bitter, bitter pill for the fire.
eaters to down their noisy
throats.'"
The United States gunboats under
Commander Melancthon Smith left
Ships Island, in the Gulf of Mexico,
with a heavy force of marines and
proceeded to Biloxi, Miss. Although
there was a battery at the place, it
was not manned, and Commander
Smith took possession of the town
without meeting resistance. He car
ried the guns from the batteries
aboard the gunboats and returned to
Ship Island, having meanwhile captur-
ed a schooner loaded with hard pine
flooring that e%ndeavored. to slip be-
hind the island or the way to New
Orleans.
The term of enlistment in the north
ern army was extended during the
month from one to three years, and a
bounty of $50 wal offered.
January I, 1862.
Messrs. Mason and Slidell were sur
rendered by the United States gov
eminent to the British government.
They were taken III the tug Star
light from Fort Warren, in Boston
,harbor, where they had been detain-
ed as prisoners of war, to Providence.
town, on Cape Cod, where they were
delivered on board the British gun.
boat Rinaldo. The Rinaldo immedi-
0ISAy pun W oOd, O0oA4u6 N4dSOu anu
,slidell to the posts toward which
they had been travelling when taken
off the British mail steamer Trent by
Captain Wilkes, u. S. N, two months
before.
A joint expedition of United States
gunboats under Commander C. R. P.
Rodgers and infantry under General
Stevens, which had left Port Royal
.Harbor, S. c., the previous evening,
crossed the Coosaw river and attack
ed the Confederate fort at Port Royal
ferry. The Confederate garrison
was driven from their works by the
heavy she'll fire of the gunboats, but
subsequently returned and made a de-
.termined attack on the Union forces
who had occupied their recently aban-
''doned position. The gunboats again
decided the issue with their shell fire.
The United State Fort Pickens, in
Pensacola harbor, again opened fire
on the Confederate steamship Time.
The response was taken up by the
!Confederate Forts Fisher and Bar
;rancas. Little damage was done on
either side, beyond a fire that broke
out in Warrington as a result of the
explosion of Union shells.
The British bark Empress of Hull,
which was captured by the United
States sloop Vincennes at Pas a
'POutre in an attempt to run the
blockade of New Orleans, arrived in
New York with a.. prize crew. She
was from Rio Janeiro with $500 bags
of coffee.
the Confederates from Charleston, s.
&C., arrived at Columbia, S. G.
January 2, 1862.
The C~onfederates resumed their at
tack on the fort at Port Royal Ferry,
from which they had been driven and
subsequently held by the Federal ex-
petition under Commander Rodgers
and General Stevens, and succeeded
in d%islodging the Union force. I'm
der cover of a heavy fire from the
gunboats, the Federals recrossed the
Cootaw and withdrew to Port Royal
iHarbor, leaving the fort in the pos
session of the C~onfederates.
The Confederate battery at Cock
pit Point, on the Potomac, was at
tackled by the Union gunboat Ana
costa and the steamer Yankee. The
Anacostia took a position out of the
range of fire from the battery, but the
Yankee vas hit by a Confederate shot
that knocked away two of her knees
forward and pierced the f~orecastle.
The steamship Ella Marley, for
merly the Isabel of Nassau, made a
successful attempt to run the block
ade of Charleston, and arrived there
early in the morning. She carried a
valuable miscellaneous cargo. One
of her passengers was Mr.. Bisbie,
formerly a delegate to the Virginia
legislature, bearing important dis
patches from Mr.. Yancey.
General Stone, U. s. A., issued an
order at Poolesville, Md, warning
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