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Successful attack upon a gunboat in Florida.

Savannah, April 9.
--A letter to the Morning News. from Palatka, Fla., says:

‘ On the 27th ult. the Yankee gunboat Ben Deford was attacked in St. John's river by Dickenson's cavalry battalion, driven off, and many Yankees killed and wounded. Among the killed is the notorious Kansas outlaw, Montgomery.

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