...ugh the fleet outside without being molested by them. They brought in some 17 or 18 of the prisoners, including Captains Cole and Wulff, who are well known in this city as old traders. In the Mississippi river the Confederates were for some time within speaking distance of the U. S. man of war Portsmouth, 16 guns, and about half an hour previous to their capturing the Boston, a gunboat had passed up within...