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The Daily Dispatch: January 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], Citizens' State-rights ticket.-- Peachy R. Grattan, P. H. Aylett, Geo. W. Randolph. (search)
the Grand Jury postponed it till this morning, with a view to investigate the circumstances connected with the seizure of muskets at pier 12, North River. Another seizure of arms by the New York police. Capt. Hutchins, of the New York police, on Wednesday afternoon received information that the schooner Caspian, of Rockland, Me., Capt. Raymond Porter, lying at pier No. 23, East River, had on board a quantity of muskets bound to a Southern port. He communicated the fact to Superintendent Kennedy, from whom he received directions to seize the muskets as contraband goods. Procuring a gang of stevedores he went to the vessel, and finding only the mate on board, who made no opposition to a search, he removed the hatches and overhauled the cargo. In the hold, stowed away forward beneath an assortment of other merchandize, were found twenty-five cases of muskets marked "E. B." On inquiry of the mate, Capt Hutchins was informed that the schooner was bound to Carthagena, but a clo