Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1862-08-04
ARRIVAL OF sEcEsH nEsERTERs AND
A PRIZE

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A REEL MAIL cAPruRRp-INrRRRsrINs PARrIc.
uLARs OF AFFAIRS IN RKsKLpox.
The steamer Wyandank, Master McGowan, ar
rived at the Navy-Yard on Saturday afternoon
bringing up eight prisoners and ave refugee.
from the neighborhood OF the Rappshannock
The prisoners have been taken during the pas,
week engaged In transporting goods across the
Chesapeake and Rappahannock 10 the rebels
The names Of the prisoners are Ed. Winder, Thos.
Hodgkin and Thos. Kelly, Of Matthew'S county;
Grifan Davis, Of Northumberland, and Fleming
Welsh and Thos. Dorsin, Of Cone river
The Wyandank, few days since, overhauled
the schooner Mail, Of Brooklyn, for violating the
blockade by trading with the Inhabitants south
Of the Rappahannock. She u loaded with an as.
sorted cargo, consisting Of shoes, salt, &C., and
also had large quantity Of wheat on board
Martin Rainor, the captain, and II Cham berlaIn,
who appeared to be the business man, were taken
on board the Wysndank and brought up with the
other prisoners. The schooner wa towed up 20
the yard yesterday by the Leslie.
One day Last week Acting Matters Mate Sher-
idan, Of the Wyandank, with boats crew from
the Freedom, captured or Georges Island two
canoes laden with salt, and accompanied by two
men each, who were making their way towards
secesh. They were sent on board the wyan-
dank and brought up to the city.
The Reliance, a few days since, captured .
canoe in the Rappahannock, in the neig hborhood
Of Urbsna, with q mail Of about forty letters,
mostly directed TO ofRcers and men In the s'4Oth
Virginia Regiment, near Richmond The let
tiers seem mostly to be Of private character, and
from the fact that many Of them are enclosed in
envelopes which have been turned aud on the In
side bear directions 70 parties a. Heathsvule,
Northumberland county, Va, it 10 quite certain
that letters have been forwarded from that neigh
borhood. Several Of them have the postmsrk
Baltimore On the inside, and have undoubtedly
been sent from there 10 be forwarded from
Heathsyllle. One Of them, directed 10 Capt. HI
ram Cole, asks him TO send some Of Uncle SAM
greenbacks from Richmond-the writer being
under the impression that the ofcefs and soldiers
Of the rebel army made themselves rich by rob-
bling the killed and wounded Federal troops Of the
money they had on their persons. Another one
evidently from love-sick girl to her lover, from
which the envelop had been lost, has the fellow.
ing:
" dere sam, 'um well and hope you ar the
sumo you no promist to mary you In the fall,
won't 200 IL, unles you stop drinking spereteous
leekes. um your SARTANN.n
The following named refugees also came up on
the Wyandank Thomas Lewis, Noah r. Jack
son, Thomas Windner, E. w. Perry, and Hiram
w. Dugle. These men all reside in Middlesex
county, and were at one time in the 5sth Virgil
MIA regiment, but when that regiment left Fred.
ericksburgh for Richmond, they deserted and
returned to their homes, where they have been
living for two months past, but sleeping nightly
in the woods, and in boat In the river, being In
dread Of rowing bands Of cavalry who have been
securing the country In search Of them and other
deserters. On Monday night last hearing that
the cavalry were to scour the woods for them, all
but Jackson made their escape, and came OF to
one Of the gunbosts for protection.
Jackson, who 10 q mere youth, says that SQUAD
of eleven cavalrymen, accompanied by Dol Jones
and several citizens Of the nsig hborhood who
pass a. Unionisss during the day, came 10 hi,
house on Monday night, took him prisoner, and
carried him to 4 house near Urbana where be v,.
confined and guard set over him. Towards
morning he told the sentry that he wished 70 20
out; but on being refused, he Knocked him down
and ran on-the sentry and guard firing ave shots
IT him, but not striking him. He Il once took 10
The thickes, and succeedsd In making his way 10
the river, where he got on board Of one Of the
gunboan. He says that 10 the secesh citizens
could be arrested, the Rebel cavalry would not
be 20 bold In making dsshes through the coun ]
lies bordering on the lower Rsppahannock. The
Impression 10 thst force Of one % two companie.
Of cavalry, iudiciously Distributed, would AFFORD
mple protection 20 the Unionists The reaaKt a.