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Privateering.

--The Charleston Mercury, in an article announcing the arrival there of Capt. Coxetter, of the wrecked privateer Jeff. Davis, says:

‘ The number of vessels taken or destroyed by the privateer brig Jeff Davis is considerable, and Capt. Coxetter has earned the title of "the Paul Jones of the war of 1861. " We feel sure he will soon be afloat again, and then if any Yankee skippers are left on the ocean, (and, by the way, the Captain reports them "getting searce,") they had better look sharp for the Jeff. Davis No. 2.

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