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Florida volunteers.

--The Second Regiment of Florida Volunteers, one thousand men, under the command of Col. Gorge T. Ward, were expected in Richmond yesterday via Petersburg Railroad. The staff officers of this fine body of soldiers are:

George T. Ward, Colonel; Samuel S. Geo. Rogers, Lieutenant Colonel; L. G. Pyles, Major; Lieutenant Thomas, Adjutant; John Timberlake, Chaplain.

’ The regiment is composed of the following companies:

‘ Columbia Rifies, Captain Moore; Madison Rangers, Capt. Pillings; Hammock Guards, Captain Hopkins; Gulf State Guards, Capt. McClellan; Tallahassee Guards, Capt. Brevard; Davis Guards, Capt. Call; Alachua Guards, Capt. Williams; Jacksonville Beauregards, Captain Daniels; Hamilton Blues, Captain Stuart; St. John's Grays, Captain J. J. Daniels.

’ The regiment has in charge twenty prisoners of war, consisting of nineteen men and Lt. George L. Selden, of the U. S. Navy. These men were captured off Cedar Keys, Florida, by a detachment of members of the Columbia Rifies, under the command of Captain Moors, who went out in the small steamer Madison, and recaptured some four vessels which had been made prizes of by the Lincolnite pirates off the Balire, at the mouth of the Mississippi. Selden was the commander of the prize crews, and made the schooner Fanny his flagship.

The prisoners are in charge of a detachment of the Columbia Rifies, under the command of Lieutenant A. T. Banks, formerly of Fayetteville, N. C.

On the arrival of the regiment, the prisoners, who were hand cuffed, were marched down Main street to the prison depot and deposited therein. We could not distinguish the person of Mr. Selden, Lincoln's and the leader of the burly ruffians who were carried to the lock-up, but take it for granted that he was safely secured somewhere, ready for similar punishment to that which may be meted out to our brave lads captured in the Savannah, now in New York.

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