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From Port Hudson.

Natchez, July 6.
--A gentleman from the vicinity of Port Hudson reports that movements there indicate that Banks is about to raise the siege.

All the flats, etc., were burned at Natchez by order of Col. Smith.

The river is rising and plenty of rain has fallen here. The crops are fine, the weather pleasant, and the people confident. The thermometer indicate of degrees.

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