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The Daily Dispatch: August 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 10 (search)
From Norfolk.[correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.] Norfolk, Va. Aug. 21, 1861. A Spanish frigate went ashore off Cape Henry beach on Monday evening. The Princes Anne Cavalry, on the beach, in attempting to render assistance, was fired at by the Quaker City. Five shots were fired and one bomb, the bomb bursting just over the head of Captain Fentress, of the cavalry, and came near killing several privates. Fortunately, however, no one was hurt. The Quaker City then steered in the direction of Old Point, where, it is thought, she went to get assistance to tow off the frigate. The frigate succeeded in getting off some time during the night, and sailed up off the Fortress, where she was saluted by 21 guns by the shipping in the harbor. Why this attack upon the cavalry by the Quaker City, we are at a less to determine, except it be jealousy to give aid first to a foreign vessel. She was at first supposed to be a French frigate, and was so reported by Capt. Fentress in
The Daily Dispatch: August 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], Confederate Congress. (search)
Confederate Congress. Richmond, Aug. 21, 1861. The following bills were reported in Congress yesterday as approved and signed by President Davis: A Bill to empower the President of the Confederate States to appoint additional Commissioners to foreign Nations. Sec. 1. The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the President of the Confederate States be, and he is hereby, empowered to determine and designate to what nations the Commissioners of the Confederate States now in Europe shall be accredited, either separately or unitedly, and to prescribe the duties he may think proper to assign to each of them. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President be, and he is hereby, empowered to appoint two other Commissioners to represent the Confederate States, either separately or unitedly, to such foreign nations as he may seem expedient. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the additional Commissioners authorized by this act, shall recei