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of the Southern Confederacy, and it urges upon the Yankee commanders with all the eloquence of which it is master, the absolute necessity of abandoning the defensive attitude to which they have been reduced, and at once entering upon an setive aggressive campaign. What effect this advice may have upon McClellan, who does not seem as yet quite ready to advances, to be seen. But it is very evident that it has already been anticipated in other quarters, and by other Yankee commanders. Coln. Porter, we are told is at St Louis making arrangements to carry a powerful fleet down the river. We may therefore presume that Vicksburg will shortly be attacked once more, for the Yankees have neither forgotten nor forgiven the defence made by that gallant town. Beast Butler has left New Orleans to superintend operations against Mobile, where already seven or eight men of war have congregated, to be followed in due time, no doubt, by a much larger squadron. The late affair near Charleston is bu