The navigation of the Mississippi.
--The Memphis (Yankee) Bulletin, of the 3d inst., gives a good picture of how safe the navigation of the Mississippi is. The following shows that the "father of waters" is not yet open.In our last issue we mentioned that the steamer Emerald, while on her last trip between this city and Vicksburg, had been fired into by guerillas at Gaines's landing.--We have this morning to record two other attacks on other boats.
One day last week the elegant steamer Planet, Capt. M. A. Fisher, left this port for Vicksburg. We yesterday received intelligence that at some point below Napoleon, although the precise location could not be given by our informant, she received a volley of musketry from guerillas or bushwhackers concealed on the Arkansas shore. Without stopping to ascertain the extent of the damage, extra steam was brought in requisition, and the boat was soon beyond the range of the fire. Subsequent examination revealed that, although none of the passengers or crew were injured, five horses on the lower deck had been killed by the volley.
It will be remembered that the splendid packet Atlantic, commanded by the popular Capt. Harry McDougal, left this port for New Orleans. We learn by the arrival of the Sultans, which reached the city yesterday afternoon, that while passing Morgan's Bend, below Vicksburg, she was fired into from the Louisiana shore. Eighteen balls penetrated her works, causing much excitement among her passengers, and wounding one of them, a lady, whose name we have not learned. The guerillas were reported to be twenty in number. The Atlantic reached New Orleans without further molestation, and was announced to leave for this city and Louisville on the 31st ult.
A portion of the Army of the Gulf was to be reviewed in New Orleans on the 1st. --Extensive preparations were in progress to make the review one of the finest affairs of the war.
The Emerald, whose ill luck at Gaines's Landing has already been narrated in the Argus, arrived from below yesterday. From her officers we learn that no one was killed during the attack, as at first reported. One man, however, received a shot which passed clear through his body. It is feared he can not recover. Two others were also wounded, but their injuries are not of a serious nature.
