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gunboats are held by the masses of the rebel army should have been encouraged by a dashing capture of the rebel batteries, or a determined contest until they were silenced, and a passage forced through to the army of Gen Pope. Gen. Bragg, who is in command, has great confidence in his engineering skill, and will, no doubt, do all that any of their Generals could do under the circumstances. The whole lower Mississippi is looking to him with hope that he will retrieve the misfortunes of Tilghman and Buckner. A dead lock. Things at the present moment seem to be in a sort of dead lock, neither party being able to make any very successful diversion or attack. Very singularly, both armies are out off from their supplies by river, but both have about equal facilities of communication by land. General Pope has no other method than to transport his stores, ammunition, and reinforcements from Bird's Point or Commerce over wretched over flowed swamps. General Bragg, similarl