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The Daily Dispatch: June 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], Criminal trials. (search)
of privateers. "] The captain was very curious to know what "the people of New York thought of him." --He says that he is not over and above anxious about his present condition as a prisoner. He has done nothing more than "is usual," &c.-- "If we had had the right sort of a crew we should have got away from the Perry." His vessel was able to get away from any sailing ship, and he meant to keep clear of the steamers, and indeed of United States vessels generally. The prisoner, Geo. Knickerbocker, brought by the Perry, claims to be a New Yorker and to have been impressed. Baker says he shipped with him as George Livingston, and received $20 as an advance at the time of his shipment. John Harleston is the first officer. He is a South Carolina man, 28 years old, and says he is not a sailor; nor does he look like one, but appears, as he says, like a man brought up in business — a delicate-handed, rather gentlemanly-looking man. The sailing-master, Henry C Howland, is a