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Capture of a Slaver.

--Letters from Zanzibar, received at Salem, Mass., state that the ship Sunny South, with 846 slaves on board, had been captured by her Britannic Majesty's ship Brisk, in the vicinity of Mozambique, and sent to Mauritius. The Sunny South was built in New York in 1854, by the late George Steers, and was 702 tons burthen. She was cleared at the Custom-House in New York, on the 5th of August.

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