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Col. Prentis, the commanding officer at Cairo received the following despatch from three of the most prominent citizens of Cincinnati:

General Pillow has several steamers ready at Memphis. He meditates an immediate attack on Cairo, Illinois.

Col. Prentiss replied:

Let him come. He will learn to dig his ditch on the right side. I am ready.

--Portsmouth (N. H.) Ballot.

Van Nostrand. New York, New York. 1862.

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