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8 shells and 13 solid shot, some of which must have struck, but with what injury to the enemy we are unable to say. * * * * * * * * * Very respectfully, your ob't serv't, John R. Tucker, Com. C. S. N. Hon. S. R. Maltery, Sec'y Navy, Richmond. Lincoln vessels Entering Pagan Creek--"heavy firing." A correspondent from Suffolk, December 2d, of the Petersburg Express, says: Information reached here on Saturday that two on three Lincoln vessels had entered the mouth of Pagan creek, on which Smith field is situated. This morning, about 4 o'clock, heavy firing commenced in that direction and continued for nearly four hours, firing every half minute and minute. Nothing has been heard as to what the firing means. Some are confident that it was an engagement between the blockading vessels and some of our batteries; others suppose that the firing was on the other side of the James, and was an engagement between the forces of Magruder and the enemy. A gentleman just a