Captured arms.
--Among the trophies from the recent battle-fields are a lot of burnt muskets some ten thousand in number, which have been brought to this city and laid on the sidewalk of 7th street, near the Confederate Arsenal. Some of the barrels were exposed to such a hot fire that they melted together. A number of them bear the appearance of having been used in battle and were doubtless the arms thrown aside after the battle of Seven Pines. Many of the barrels, and other parts of the guns, can be made of use. The Confederates captured in the late battles about thirty thousand stand of muskets and two thousand small arms, many of which were broken and disfigured. During the series of engagements that took place in front of Richmond fifty men belonging to the celebrated Pennsylvania Bucktail regiment came out of a swamp entirely unarmed and surrendered themselves up as prisoners. These worthies, on leaving home were armed in the best manner, and the party alluded to doubtless buried theirs in the ground rather than let them fall into the hands of our men. No doubt as the searching now going on for concealed arms continues many valuable specimens of Yankee ingenuity will be exhumed.
