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r from Vicksburg to the Mobile Register says: The original plan is now being carried into effect, by which the city is to be assaulted under a combination of movements from three different points. While Grant is marching his army up from Warrenton, on the road running parallel with the river and close to it, the fleet is to come up and shell our batteries, as well as cover the land forces. While this is going on, the fleet from above will come down and assault our upper batteries, and tse a weak point, which they hope to carry by storm.--That this is now the plan is evident from the appearance of the gunboats below. Farragut's two vessels and seven of Porter's gunboats are on hand to convey the land army along the river from Warrenton to Vicksburg, and while the army engages our men in the trenches the navy is to be occupied in shelling our batteries. This plan has been foretold ever since the first commencement of work on the canal a year ago. To land a force and to ma