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r powder dry, let each man look well to his musket or rifle, preserve it in good order both inside and without, the sabre well burnished, keen of edge and sharply pointed. These precautions are good, wise, even necessary, when we have to contend with the Vandalic hosts of Lincoln. Even now they are hovering above us, from Cairo, like as gathering storm menacing the earth with thunder. But let them come!--we will give them a similar hospitality to that which our people of old extended to Packenham and his British plunderers. Their blood will ensanguine our plans, and their bodies fold an easy grave in the yawning depths of the Mississippi. We have soldiers as brave as any of ancient or modern times, valiant as Leonidas do fending the pass against the Persons, as Horatius Cocles impeding above the advance of the enemy, or as Mucius Scaevola, who, for having missed his aim at the tyrant, thrust his right arm into the fire, Already one glorious name adorns our Confederate escutcheon,