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A proclamation from a Yankee Commodore.

Vicksburg. March 5th.
--Commodore Porter, commanding the Yankee fleet, has proclaimed that if any persons firing on unarmed vessels in the river were taken in the act, they would be hanged; also, all persons caught burning cotton, levying contributions, &c. The answer of Gen. Stevenson has not yet transpired.

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