April 6, 1861; The Illustrated London News
The Government of the Southern Confederacy has appointed the Hon. William Yansey, of Alabama; Judge Rost, of Louisiana; Colonel Mann, and Mr. Botler King, of Georgia, as Special Commissioners to proceed to England and France for the purpose of obtaining the recognition of the independence of the Confederated States, and to make such commercial arrangements as their joint interests may require.
The Congress at Montgomery has adjourned until May without agreeing upon the tariff.
The citizens of Louisiana, through their State Convention, have rejected the proposed Constitution.
We hear, although no authority is vouchsafed, that the Customs authorities at Havre have notified that ships from the seceded States would be received on the same footing as those sailing under the “stars and stripes.”
The design of the flag recently adopted by the Southern Congress is as follows:—Red, white, and red, in three equal parts, horizontally placed-the white between the red; blue union, with seven stars in the form of a circle reaching down to the lower red.