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The Daily Dispatch: September 23, 1863., [Electronic resource], The navigation of the Mississippi. (search)
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 n