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"Well, well, go on!" exclaimed the crowd

To him who thus much read aloud.

"That's all," he said. "What! nothing more"

"Enough for a cheer, though—hip, hurrah!"

"But here's old Baldy come again—"

"More news!"—And now a different strain.

(Our own reporter a dispatch compiles,

As best he may, from varied sources.)

Large re-enforcements have arrived—

Munitions, men, and horses—

For Grant, and all debarked, with stores.

The enemy's field-works extend six miles—

The gate still hid; so well contrived.

Yesterday stung us; frozen shores

Snow-clad, and through the drear defiles