...ansportation of any free negro or mulatto in any vessel as a slave. On June 28, 1861, the steamer St. Nicholas. Captain Kirwan, that plied between Baltimore and Point Lookout, at the mouth of the Potomac River , left the former place with forty or fifty passengers, including about twenty who passed for mechanics. There were a few women among them—one who professed to be a young Frenchwoman. When, ...