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nto plates at the iron works in Richmond. Four new gunboats had been launched at the Navy Yard, and four more are in course of construction at Norfolk. A portion of them will, it is supposed, be covered with the iron plates above mentioned. The previously reported engagement between the troops of Gen. Burnside and a Georgia regiment took place on Saturday. The Union troops are said to have numbered 500, (not five thousand) The rebel troops consisted of the Third Georgia regiment, Colonel Wright, and the engagement took place, not an first stated at Elizabeth City, but on the canal above that place. The rebel loss was 15 killed and 35 wounded. They were only partially equipped, and many lacked muskets and ammunition, and they are said to have run on being attacked. The Union troops held their ground until they had buried their dead and carried away their wounded, when they retired. Eleven graves of Union soldiers were subsequently counted on the battle-field. One of the