The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-08-08
MATTERS IN THE SHENANDOAH
Browning Brothers take the Oath.

| Advices from Sperryril'e up to July
81, are as follows: Two regiments of in
fantry, one of cavalry, from General
Schenck S division, now occupy Ma alison,
twenty seven miles in advance of here.
The accommodating party sent to Stan
nardsville returned yesterday, after hav-
ing accomplished all they were sent to
do. A battalion o. the LIST Connecticut
cavalry encountered small body of reb-
OILS about seven miles from Madison, who
after resistance, fed. A private Of the
lst Connecticut cavalry, disguised as a
spy, was taken three times by the rebel
cavalry. but managed to escape without
the least injury, The last time he es-
capped by smashing the skull of his rebel
guard with stone.
Nearly all the citizens Of Sperryville
and the surrounding country are taking
the oath of allegiance, in preference OF
being sent South. Col. Robinson. pro-
vost marshal, administered the oath to
seventy to-day. bills and Lloyd Brown
ing brothers of Senator Browning of Hi
nois, who are called influential planters,
came up this morning and took the oath
without having been notified to appear.
At Luray, however, fifteen or twenty ar
rests have been made Of prominent men
who would not swear to support the old
flag, in obed ,sncs to the order OF Gen
Pope. Alk~sieauards have been with
drawn from rebels. About 500 contra
bands are nov employed In the corps as
teamsters and servants.
A rebel mail was captured at Madison
on Wednesday. The letters were all da-
tod Richmond, and gave doleful state
nents of hunger, disease and fatality.
One brother writes to another, Don't
be a fool aud enter the army. would
see the country to he'll before / would
enlist again. The mail carrier was an
erratic old man, who quietly said, II
didn't think you would mind few let
ters." His ideas Of forbearance were
evidently based upon the previous long
suferanoe of the. Union authorities.
Fearful Tragedy AT Sea.
The New York Evening Post Of July
2Sth says:
A letter received in this city this morn
ing BY Ellwood Walter, Secretary Of the
Board of Underwriters, dated Malaga,
July IL, gives the following
A fearful tragedy has just occurred on
these waters. On Wednesday, the 9th
inst, At one o'clock :. m, the American
bark Reindeer, Captain Hewitt, of and
for New York. with cargo Of salt from
Cette. being then about thirty miles to
the southeast Of this port, two Spanish
seamen of her crew surprised and muir
dsred the second mate, carpenter, cook.
and one seaman, wounded the Captain,
chief mate and two others, took forcible
possession of some four hundred dollars
10 specie, and watch which was in the
cabin, stove one of tho boats and left the
vessel in the other one, having set fire TO
the bark, fore and aft.
At s q. m. the ship Minstrel, of Bos-
ton, Captain Clifford, and the British
brig Susanna, Captain Grove, hove in
sight and proceeded alongside Of her, rem
dering every possible assistance; their en-
deavors to exunguish the fire, however,
proved Intellectual. and at 4 p. IN. Capt.
Hewitt and surviving individuals Of the
crew Of the Reindeer we're transferred on
board Of the Minstrel, bound from Adria
to this port, where they arrived this after.
noon.
Active measures are being made by the
American Consul, and the local authori-
ties, in order to procure the capture Of
tho assassins, who are reported to have
landed on the coast q few miles to the
eastward.
/, The conduct of Captains Clifford and
Grove is deserving Of the highest praise
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/ A soldier in Tennessee writes as fol
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