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The Daily Dispatch: October 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], Wealth, pauperism, and crime in the North (search)
teams were hurrying them away to be distributed among the different artillery and cavalry corps. Entering a long boat a party of us, accompanied by Gen. Trimble, paid a visit to the prizes. The larger lay some six or seven yards from the shore, and the other but a few rods distant. On approaching, we could read the name on the stern of the former, "Fairfax, N. Y." It has been for some time engaged in trade between New York and Washington, and is one of a regular line of packets owned by Safford & Dodge, No. 52 Front street. The agents here are Stephen Shiner, of Alexandria, and McCobb & Dodge, Georgetown. The vessel is a topsail schooner of some three hundred, or three hundred and fifty tons burthen, painted black, with clean spars and rigging. The sails are new, and in good repair, except in spots where the cannon balls from our batteries damaged them. On approaching the gang-way the marks of the shot were visible. She first struck the side near the stern, but for some re