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the steamer Commodore Barney, giving the following particulars of the late reconnaissance up James river: Last Monday we started up the river with one monitor and one small tug, beside ourselves. We got within eleven miles of Fort Darling, when a crowd of sharpshooters fired on our three boats, and the way we poured the canister and shell into those woods was a caution. Well, we shut them up for a while, and went up within nine miles of Fort Darling, and the monitor anchored; but Gen. Hunter and his aids were on the monitor, and they came on board and wanted us to proceed further up the river; so we ventured, and when we got within six miles of Fort. Darling we picked up a white man in a boat, who was making for the bushes. We told him we'd shoot him if he didn't come aboard; so he came on board, and in five minutes after that a torpedo burst under our starboard bow. I and several were right over it when it burst, and such a report you can hardly imagine. I was sent about