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explosion of a magazine or gunboat in the direction of Point Pleasant. Officers and men on the watch say they counted more than fifty shoes, and some assert that the flesh of the explosion could be seen clearly. After this the firing ceased. From this circumstance it is conjectured that the report proceeded from a gunboat which was blown up in attempting to run the blockade from below, as if the explosion had been from our magazine it would have been followed by shots from the boat--Commodore Foots has learned nothing of the result as yet, for, though we are only twelve miles apart, it seems to require twice that number of hours to get a communication through. Capture of prisoners--Rebels being reinforced The capture of prisoners a few miles below Hiceman, by cavalry reconnoitering force sent out by Col. Buford, has resulted in the important intelligence that the enemy at Island No.10 is still keeping up a reinforcement by means of the line of railroad between Hiceman an