Mobile Register

July 9, 1861

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TWO PRIZES CAPTURED—A private dispatch in the Savannah News, dated Cedar Keys, Fla., says:

Four sail vessels appeared off here for several days.  To-day the steamer Madison, fully armed, and manned by two companies of volunteers stationed here, went out to reconnoiter, and up to seven o’clock P. M. succeeded in capturing two schooners.  The schooners are now coming in.  The steamer has gone in pursuit of the others.

 

[Transcribed by Sharon Strout]