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The privateers

--More Good Work.--The Norfolk Argus, of yesterday, says:

‘ On Sunday last the privateer steamer Gordon, of Charleston, captured and carried into Hatteras Inlet the brig McGilfrey, of Bangor, Me., from Cardenas, bound to Bangor, with a cargo of 300 hogsheads molasses. She also captured the schooner Protector, of Philadelphia, from Cuba, bound to Philadelphia, with a cargo of bananas, plantains, pine apples, and other West India fruits.

On Thursday last the Privateer steamer Mariner, captured at Ocracoke, a schooner loaded with West India fruit.

The Privateer York, captured last week, the brig D. S. Martin, of Boston; loaded with sugar mills and other machinery, shooks, &c.--She was beached near Loggerhead Inlet, and it is reported that the Yankees succeeded in burning her on Sunday last.

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