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f death were extended to the detention or transportation 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 twenrenchwoman was suddenly transformed into a stout young man, and the twenty mechanics into well-armed Marylanders, who demanded the surrender of the St. Nicholas. Kirwan had no means for resistance, and yielded. The other passengers were landed on the Virginia shore, and the captain and crew kept as prisoners. Then 150 armed accchwoman. A few days afterwards some of Kenly's Baltimore police were on the steamer Mary Washington, going home from a post on the Chesapeake. On board were Captain Kirwan and his crew; also Thomas and his associates, who had captured the St. Nicholas, evidently intending to repeat their operation on the Mary Washington. The ca