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inaugurated when the contest first began. The privateer Dixie. A dispatch from New York, August 11th, says: The schooner Mary Alice arrived here this morning, having sailed on the 21st ult. from Guayadquilla for New York, with 210 barrels sugar. On the 25th ult. she was captured by the privateer Dixie, Capt. Welch, and three of the crew were taken aboard the Dixie and a privateer crew placed aboard the Mary Alice, with orders to take her to Charleston or Wilmington; but on the 3d inst. she was recaptured by the U. S. frigate Wabash, and the privateer crew were transferred to that vessel. While preparing her papers to send the Mary Alice to New York, and with the latter in tow, the Wabash captured the brig Sarah Starr, which had no pairing port or papers, and probably either a privateer or privateer's prize. The pirate Dixie is described as a fore-and-aft schooner of about 180 tons, painted black. She carries three guns and a crew of 40 men. Trouble in