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all of a sudden, without reaching the grand result in the regular way, by the sweat of the face. Raising the "siege" of Mobile. The siege of Mobile by Farragut's iron-clads is definitely announced to have been raised. The following is the distribution of the fleet, recently employed there: The gunboats and mortar en and an officer, (master's mate.)--The boat, officer and men belonged to the rebel gunboat Selma. A letter thus explains the withdrawal: Although Admiral Farragut remained with his fleet after it was known that Sherman had returned to Vicksburg, engaging Fort Powell with his mortar vessels and gunboats, there was perhag to the shallowness of the water and the nature of the obstructions placed in the channel in every direction. Mobile must be taken by a land attack, or Admiral Farragut must have two or three iron-clads, if for no other purpose than to guard his fleet from the attack of the formidable rams Tennessee and Nashville. Repor