Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-09-18
New York Correspondence
NEW YORK, Sept. Ii.

NEW / OhlA, cLl 10.
You may remember the sensations we
used TO have years ago over The fitting
out of slavcrs at this port and their adj
venturous trips to the African coast,
their loading with negroes there, the
terrible middle passage the sales in
| the West Indies, &c. The horrible and
the romantic were 50 mixed up in these
adventures as to afford foundations foi
sensation novels. Doubtless there are
in this city to-day many men who made
large sums Of money in the dreadful
slave trade. For, according TO the chron-
iclcs of those days, many and many craft
slipped through the gatcways of New
| York and found the Congo Lands. Bat
all this was years ago it just now
seemed back in the past Il long, long
way. II appeared at last that men had
grown Better, that the spirit of the cen
tury had interdicted these raids on the
villages of Africa. AT least, that's what
we thought yesterday, if we thought at
all on this matter. But to-day we find
the century has still something of evil,
that the old will at times crop out above
the new, for here we have quite n little
sensation over the we'll authenticated
reports that the lakish-loohing Clyde
built iron steam, h p Dumbarton, which
was purchased in this city few weeks
ago on behalf of Havana merchants is
now out on a slave cruise. After her
purchase by the Havana merchants
she .'was KEEP, for several weeks at one
pier and another on the East River
without being used. On the Goth fully,
she was cleared at the Custom House for
Pictou, Nova Scotia, and suddenly sail
ed on the I'd of August. Marshal Muir
ray had secret information concerning
her, and suspected her to be SLAYER,
but so adroitly had the real object finer
voyage been concealed that he was pow
erless to prevent her departure During
the late war the Dumbarton was used in
the business of running the blockade of
the Southern ports, but was finally cap
tured by Z. $. war steamer. 1t is now
rumored that second vessel, similar to
the Dumbarton, and intended for the
same trade, is being fitted out at this |
port.
Major-Gon. Judson +. Fitzpatrick
Minister to Chilli, after an absence of
nearly three years, arrived here on Mon
day. He is accompanied by his bride
Senorita Taldivieso, neice of the Minis
ter of War of Chill.
One of the most welcome arrivals for
months for the good people of New !
York was that ofMiss Clara Louise Kel- |
logg, yesterday, in the steamship Rus
STA, from her brilliant and successful |
operate tour in Europe. Last evening,
Mr. James McHenry, one of the princi-
pal officers of the Atlantic and Great
Western Railroad, and who had accom-
panied Miss Kellogg and party on the
steamer to this city, gave a dinner in
her honor at the Westminster Hotel.
After the dinner, Miss Kellogg and her
parents departed for their home in Fifth
Avenue.
The John Aliens and Tommy Had
dons and Kit Burnses OF Water Street
still attract great attention. Everybody
talks about them, and it sometimes
seems that nearly everybody who can
wag pen writes about them too. Daily
prayer meetings are still held at Aliens.
and prayer meeting was yesterday
held at the house of Tommy Had Den
the man who is declared to be even
wickeder than "the Wiokedest Man - of
New York. This Water Street business
has givon rise to regular theological
warfare. On one side stands host of
people who declare the whole thing