The Louisville Daily Courier (Louisville, Kentucky), 23 April 1861, reported

Seizure of Government Stores in Arkansas

The Memphis Avalanche learns from the officers of the steamer Victoria that the Steamer Silver Wave, laden with Government property from St. Louis, destined for Fort Smith was seized at Napoleon (Arkansas) on Wednesday by Colonel M. W. Johnson of the 6th Regiment of Arkansas Militia. The commander of the Silver Wave refused to show his manifest, but when the artillery was brought to bear upon the craft, he capitulated. By this prompt movement, the South has obtained a vast quantity of service material to prosecute the war. We learn by telegram from Pine Bluff, Ark., that the citizens of that place stopped the steamer Skylark and took from her fifty-one tons of Government freight, which will be appropriated to the uses of the South. The Skylark is a St. Louis boat.

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