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Lakeport and Hickoxs Landing, on Lake Pontch art rain, of which I take no account. The advertisements of steam and sailing yes- j sels that are U> leave the city within five days I fill six closely-printed columns in the daily I Picayune. The number of steamships in port this morning is fifteen ; the number of ships, nineteen, besides small vessels and river steam boats innumerable. For two miles and a halt*