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urg--General Mahone Makes a Clean Sweep of a picket line. The following dispatch was received at the War Department yesterday morning: "Headquarters army of Northern Virginia,"October 31, 1864. "Hon. James A. Seddon, Secretary of War: "General Mahone line last night near Petersburg, and swept it for half a mile, capturing two hundred and thirty officers and men without the lost of a man. "The total number of prisoners captured on the 27th below Petersburg, according to General Hill's report, was seven hundred. R. E. Lee." It is reported by persons who came over from Petersburg last evening that most of the prisoners taken at this swoop say they are McClellan men; and as it is clear the Lincolnites do not intend to allow them to vote, they desired nothing more than an opportunity to surrender themselves. The prisoners also declare that a greater degree of disaffection now exists in the Yankee army than at any previous period of the war. This statement f