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From Charleston.

Charleston, Oct. 12.
--A small boat, containing two Yankee soldiers, was captured early yesterday morning in the harbor, between Fort Sumter and the city. They were probably reconnoitering, but professed to be bearers of dispatches from Gilmore to Dahlgren, and to have mistaken Fort Sumter's light for that of the Ironsides.

The firing was more rapid than usual yesterday morning.


[Second Dispatch.]

Charleston, Oct. 12.
--The firing to-day has been slower. A fifteen-inch shell was exploded to-day by some boys near Gen. Ripley's headquarters, killing two negroes and two boys, and wounding others.

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