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The Daily Dispatch: March 29, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the North. (search)
ermont. She had on board sixteen of the crew of the Ocean Monarch, abandoned at sea, and had transferred six others to another vessel. Mr. Yancey not captured. The New York Herald has the following: It turns out after all that Yancey is still at large, and that the statement of his having recently made a speech in New Orleans has some probability in it. We learn from our correspondent at Key West the manner in which the rumor of his capture got started. It appears that Commander Ridgeley, of the Santiago de Cuba, received a letter from the American Consul General at Havana informing him that Yancey had sailed for a Southern port in the William Mallory. On the 9th, after the receipt of this intelligence, the Water Witch arrived at Key West, having on board the captain and crew of this vessel, which she had captured on the 5th off St. Andrew's Bay. The people of Key West were thrown into a state of great excitement by the rumor, which immediately got into circulation,