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ol. Powers into Port Hudson is confirmed. There are but two white regiments in Baton Rouge, one of which is an Ohio regiment. They are tired of the war and wish to quit, and say they will whip us this summer. The whole country is full of spies. The negroes are paid to report what ever they can learn. The Yankees themselves can be purchased. An English gentleman from New Orleans told our informant he could buy any Yankee in that city. Six thousand negroes have been sent from Rhode Island, and arrived at New Orleans a few weeks since; six hundred were sent to Plaquemine, the remainder at the former city. A fine steamer from St. Louis, with a large number of horses, mules, sheep, &c., and seven hundred bales of cotton, took fire just as she arrived at Plaquemine, and was a total loss. Banks had stripped the whole section of country of troops for his Red river expedition. The garrison left were mostly negro troops. Trade is constantly going on between the