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Reprisals on the enemy.
--On the 21st of April a company of New Kenters, under charge of Quartermaster Isaac H. Christian, of the 52d Regiment, took possession of the schooner Electa H. Parker, 199 tons, commanded by Capt. Henry Parker, and loaded with wood.
Col. Jones, of the 6th Regiment, Essex county, took possession of two Northern vessels, loaded with ship timber, on the Rappahannock, on Monday morning last.--The vessels are the William, of Bath, Maine, and the Richmond, of Richmond, Maine.
The timber is valued at $2,000. All the buoys and light boats on the river (Rappahannock) have been removed.
Three independent companies--one of Cavalry, one of Artillery and one of Infantry --have been formed.
From the latest Northern papers we make some additional extracts:
Career of the Tallahassee.
The Northern press have long accounts of the performances of the Tallahassee.
In addition to the William Bell, the barque Adriatic and the Solute, she had captured the brig Billow, of Salem; the schooner R. E. Parker, of Richmond, Maine, (bonded for $10,000); the barque Glenaloon, from Glasgow, for New York, (destroyed); and the Spokane, of Boston.
Captain Sawyer, of the latter, was on board the Tallahassee six hours. He represents her to be from eight hundred to one thousand tons burthen and very fast.
Her officers boast of having burned sixteen vessels in thirty hours, and fifty in all.
Admiral Paulding was notified on Friday evening of the appearance of the new pirate Tallahassee off Fire island, and at once dispatched a tug to the lower bay to send from thence a gunboat in pursuit of her. The Susquehanna was sent to sea on Saturday at daylight.
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