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second train lest evening brought down one hundred and sixty Yankee prisoners, captured, we understand, on Monday evening. They were sent to the Libby.--These captured by Mahone on Tuesday were expected by another train. An affair in Charles City county. Many rumors were in circulation yesterday, of an exaggerated character, concerning an affair with the enemy in Charles City county. On application at head quarters last night we learned the following facts: On Tuesday evening a portiCharles City county. On application at head quarters last night we learned the following facts: On Tuesday evening a portion of Gen. Fitz Lee's cavalry moved into Charles City on a reconnaissance and found the enemy, negroes and whites, under command of Brigadier General Wild, one of the most infamous of the Yankee commanders, near Kennon's, shout forty miles from Richmond. They were strongly entrenched, having a wide ditch in front protected by abattis, and for cavalry to attack them in such a position, was, to say the least of it, a hazardous experiment. In the skirmish which ensued, our men lost some sixteen