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nny, the Three Brothers, the Basilide and the Olive Branch. There was also a Mexican schooner taken at the same time, the name of which we could not ascertain. They were all small vessels, of fifty or sixty tons, and were employed in the lumber and carrying trade along the coast. After making this haul, the Massachusetts towed the prizes to the Brooklyn, when the four named were placed in charge of Lieut. Solden, and nineteen U. S. sailors as a prize crew, with orders to take them to Tortugas — The captains and men all refused to aid in the navigation of the prizes, and Lieut. Selden, left to his own resources of sailorship, made a sad mess of it in trying to get to Tortugas, and after a great deal of blundering and casting about turned up quite unexpectedly off Cedar Keys, which is about 300 miles from his destination. Here the vessels were becalmed within sight of the land. The Floridians, of which there happened to be an encampment in the vicinity, soon descried the becalme