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C. S. Prison Statistics.

--Twenty-two Yankee prisoners, including two negroes, arrived at the C. S. prison yesterday, from Columbia, S. C. Four of them were taken at Manassas, the others on North Island, off the coast of South Carolina, and consisted of the crew of the steamer Osceola. David Martin and Jos. Warson, members of the 3d Pennsylvania cavalry, who were recently captured near Yorktown, were lodged in the prison on Monday. There are now in confinement there, prisoners of war, 435; citizens, 232; deserters, 9; Confederates, 25, negroes, 10 --in all 724.

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