NP, DP 7/6/1861

From the Daily Picayune (New Orleans, La.)
 
July 6, 1861
 
Depredations in the Sound
The Mobile Evening News, of the 3d inst, says:
   We have conversed with a gentleman who witnessed the capture of some of the vessels named below, whose account is that on last Sunday week a craft, supposed to be the captured schooner Aid, ran the schooners John Arthur, Major Rainey, Pelican and California into Biloxi, and captured the Fanny, loaded with railroad iron for Mobile the Olive Branch, with naval stores for New Orleans, Basalide with brick for Fort Gaines one with salt and hay, and another with railroad iron for Mobile, and one or two more not distinctly remembered also a Mexican schooner with flour for a Mexican port. We had heard of this last capture before, but our information has been questioned. It now seems that it was correct.

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