New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-07-30

uower az the Atkansas and 1oc'ar,s she can sink an
entire foilla whenever she desires TO do so-a view
however in which other officers on The neet do not
coincide Commodore Davis Commodore FarraSui,
Clrf. PheIrs and other hIfh naval authorities, be-
Iievc we can destroy the formidable Rebel If she
wi come cut from under the batteries that protect
her; and that she would have been sunk OF captured
on Tuesday il the Union vessels had been prepared
TO receive her, or iuily advised Of her coming.
Size has been deservedly called the Ierrlnac o!
the Mississippi and should not be surprised, if che
would initiate her llustIOus predecessor III more
instance thaa one.
The Mefrimac made one glorious fight, but never
made another. The Arkansas has accomplished u
brilliant feat. VIII che perform another Or will
she be DESTROYED By her friends IN the full flush OF
her pride aud in the youth OF her fame
THE ARKANSAS ANTI-RAM PROCLWITY.
The Arkansas, from her manifestation on Tues
day morning, must cherish great luminosity against
the fleet, remembering doubtless their prowess
az Me nphis with no feelings Of gratitude. OF the
xix r8ms in the fleet not one escaped. They were
all fired into and struck by the river monster some
OF them as many as nine or ten times. Saving on
the Lancaster, 10 one was hurt, though there were
maIy narTOw escapes.
Ga the Switzerland, one of the officers had Just
hung up his in his state.roon1 and st-p Ing
ont of the door when 64-pouuder through the
cabin, and carried the garment 10 the other side OF
the river, passing within two feet Of the officers
head.
Col. F'let, Of the ram feet, was standing on the
deck when the Rebel went by, and hinge round
sho, fell within twelve inches Of his feet, and made
hole in tie that good.szed dog could run
through.
The mate Of the Mingos hat was knocked of Bis
head by the wind of n cannon ball. aud two minutes
after he thrown 70 the deck by the conclusion OF
a shell that bust over bis head, without receiving
any other injury than slight confusion Of shout
der from bis fall.
Tie cook of the Eoress WAS going toward, and
within foot o. kettle in the kitchen, when shot
carried the vessel through the partition, and scattered
the hot water in the kettle over his person.
The captain Of tie Fulton had Just risen from his
breakfast, and stepped aside from the table,
when his plate and chair were shattered
into fragments BY a fity-ponnd riiled shot,
THE UNION TRANSPORTS MADE A TARGET.
The transports, harmless and unarmed they
were, appeared n special target for the Arkansas-
which, indeed, fired ut every object on the river.
Tie JObn ii. Diekey, Tor some time the heaGquar-
ters OF number OF the BoLemians, received three
or four shots through her, and the Champion was
likewise hoDored. Whether the hostile gunboat de-
sired to kill of few of the war correspondents or
not, am unpreparod to say but II they had been
board, il is not improbable sEe would have bee
s1ccessfIi rs the shot paced through the quarter
they mostly frequented. The presumption, how
ever, is that the officers of the Arkansas have no
lie. what Bohemian is, or whether such being
ever had existence
number Of desericrs and refugees from the Rebel
forces have arrived on the fleet within day two,
aud Of them give important and interesting
information. A deser,er from tue ArkanEls, who
pressed into the ervice mp the fazoo while en-
dcuvoring TO escapc the CONSUMPTION, and who wns
the guuboat when she ran the gauntlet, says she
very seriously blurred during her passage by the
feet, ard that she had eight men killed and fourteen
wounded. Her commander, Capt. l. " Brown,
formerly Lieuieuant in The United States Navy, aud
now owner Of plantation near Nicksburg, was
wounded twice, though not seriously.
On arriving at Nic.tburg, all the leading officers
Of the Rebel army stationed there, focked to rec the
valiant Captain, and congratulated him on the sue
cess OF his most brilliant enterprise. The Captain
received their congratulations rather lugubnousiy,
and declared he would never undertake. another such
de perate deed; that his vessel could overcome any
one OF gunboats, but che not capable Of ut
lacking our entire fotill.
THE REBEL GuNBOAT's CREW GREATLY DE-
MORALiZED.
The crew had been A. sured Of the comple invul-
nerabllty Of the Arkansas aud were greatly alarmed
when they saw our shot penetrating her sides, and
Killing and wounding their companions
During the bombardment on Tuesday night,
shell killed three and wounded seven OF her
crew, the refugee says, and the next morning the
men were entirely demoralzed, aud vowed they
would not on her any longer; that they lad
been cruelty deceived THAI the gunboat, instead Of
being impregnable was floating coffin. SO much
were they in terror that they swore they would de-
sert and nearly all Of them would have done TO- had
they not been orced to remain on beard OF the boat
at the point of the bayoDet. Our informant states
that no assumed 10 be anxious TO on the Ar
kansas and annihate the Yankees, aud so disarInng
suspicion, soon obtained an opportunity to escape,
and proiiled thereby without delay.
The deserer is an intelligent aud sncere-iooking
man, whose stat ments regarded as entirely
trustworthy by Commodore Davis, and other officers
on the Benton.
THE DISASTERS ON THE ARKANSAS COR
ROBORATED.
The story Of the ex-seanian OF the Arkansas is
cOrroborated by refugees from VIcksburg, who,
however, augment the loss on the Rebel vessel;
stating that they understood ten men had been
killed and eighteen wounded ON the day she deled
our Fleet.
On Thursday, the refugees ray, one Of our l3-ineh
mortar shells tell upon the " Iuvulncrate craft,
and made 1, hole in her IA large the head OF bar
rel killing and wOundiDg four five men OF her
crew and giving her men the idea that she "a Il
doomed vessel, and will be destroyed before the end
OF the month.
The Arkansas was moviog slowly up and down
the river under the batteries this morning, for the
uprpose Of avoiding the shells cur mortars are con-
,tanilv throwing at her, and with which some OF
our officers believe can destroy her; bu, VI
which am free TO confess my most ample skeptl-
clam Her movements indicate The Is in jurod,
though 10 what extent no one can learn, ana sue Ii
diy losing some Of the terrible qualities, cannot
DENY were at first ascnbed 10 her by nervous and
eXcitable persons.
THE REBEL DEFENSES Up THE YhIOO.
Several refugees from up the Yazoo inform us the
dam. or raft across the river at Liverpool Landing
was cut 70 as 10 give the Arkansas room to come
ont. and was then closed again. There were but
two guns mounted by the enemy in the batteries at
that pout ten days go, and the sole ganboats in the
stream were The Mobile and the Express, two small
wooden craft the former carrying four and the
latter Il o guns; both Of which would he no match
for even the Conestoga alone.
To- ara ,L. r.f,Ceee add at leas, forty valuable