THE NEWS FROM EUROPE; Continued Excitement Relative to the Trent Affair; The Tone of the British Press Softening (12/27/1861)

New York Times archives – Times Machine ^ | 12/27/1861

[Homer_J_Simpson]

The steamship Arago, Capt. LINES, from Havre and Southampton on the 12th inst., reached this port yesterday.

Off Cowes passed going in a propeller, supposed to be the Saxonia, from New-York.

Among the Arago's passengers are Gen. SCOTT and Mr. J. GLANCEY JONES, late United States Minister at Vienna.

The Arago left in port at Havre an unusually large fleet of American vessels, numbering 83.

The Royal mail steamship Niagara left Liverpool at 8 1/2 A.M. of the 14th, and Queenstown 15th, and arrived at Halifax at 1 1/2 P.M. of Thursday, the 26th inst.

The Niagara was boarded off Cape Race, from whence a synopsis of her news was sent to the Associated Press.

She has 20,000 in specie, and 24 passengers for Boston, and 351 troops for Halifax.

The Niagara will sail at 7 P.M. for Boston, where she will be due on Saturday morning.

She passed the Asia on the 15th, eleven miles off Tuskar.

The ship John Jay, from Hong Kong for New-York, had put into Singapore leaky.

The ship Coronet, from Deal for New-York, had put back.

The steamship Australasian, which left Liverpool with 1,265 troops, a field battery, large quantities of ammunition, stores, sledges, &c., for North America, also arrived at Halifax yesterday morning.

The West India mail had taken to England news of the escape of the Sumter from Martinique; as also that on the 28th of November the Sumter captured the American ship Montmorency, from Newport, England, with coals for the St. Lawrence, but released her on receipt of a bond by the captain promising to pay $26,000 three months after peace was proclaimed.

The British war-steamer Cadmus had arrived off St. Thomas, to protect vessels against another Trent affair.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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The American Civil War, as seen through news reports of the time and later historical accounts

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The News from Europe: Continued Excitement Relative to the Trent Affair – 2-4
Italy – 4
News from Washington: No New Developments in the Trent Affair – 4-5
Important from Missouri: The Retreat Southward of the Rebel Army Under Price* – 5-9
Editorial: Arbitration in the Matter of the Trent – 9
Editorial: The British Panic – 9
Editorial: The Real Work of the Stone Fleet-The Ship Channels to Charleston – 9-10
Editorial: Troops for Canada – 10
News from Fort Pickens: Twelve Thousand Rebel Troops Now Threatening Santa Rosa – 10
Mason and Slidell Still Fast in Fort Warren – 10
Heavy Cannonading Near Gardner’s Bay – 10
Arrival of a British Prize – 10

*The print is bad for much of this article, so here is a link to it at the Times Machine.

https://www.nytimes.com/1861/12/27/archives/our-sedalia-correspondence-the-late-brilliant-operations-of-gen.html?searchResultPosition=1

[BroJoeK]

Here is a pretty good map of the Civil War as of December 1861.
Note the regions in white are Union territory & states captured by Confederate armies:

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Nice. Now shared with the Twitter gang.