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The Daily Dispatch: November 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], The privateer Sumter determined not to be captured. (search)
tive blockade, furnishes the following information in regard to the privateer Sumter: Our Trinidad advices mention the arrival of the Southern steamer Sumter at that island. Her officers were rants. Although the officers of the Sumter were not officially recognized by the authorities of Trinidad, there was no obstacle interposed to the steamer being supplied with coal, stores, &c., &c. She took in seventy tons of coal while in port. A British sloop-of-war came into the harbor of Trinidad whilst the Sumter was there, and, after making inquiries of her Commander, advised him to leave theam and hurried off. Not long after her departure the Federal steamer Keystone State arrived at Trinidad, and after a stay of ten minutes started in pursuit of the Sumter. The following particulars relative to the steamer Sumter are extracted from a letter written by a gentleman in Trinidad to a mercantile firm in New York: "The dread of privateers is so very great in this island that