New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-04-28
THE WAR NEWS.


The Rebel attempt upon Cape Girardeau,
Mo-, was a wretched failure. The last news
ia that the Rebels made hasty retreat toward
Bloomfield; that q part of our forces under
Gen. Vandever pursued them, came up with
them on Sunday night and whipped them
soundly taking q large number Of prisoners,
horses, and arms. The pursuit was still kept
up. Marmaduke, the Rebel commander, has
stripped the country of everything movable,
robbing Unonists and Secessionists alike. His
train consists of $50 wagons loaded with plum
der. The very latest dispatch say, that in the
Sunday attack from SIS to 60 Rebels were
killed, and over 200 wounded. There was a
prospect that Marmsdukes entire force would
be taken.
Gen. Curtis has issued orders in his
Department (St. Louis, Arkansas, &C., SINH
lar to- but much more strict, than those Of
Gen. Burnside. with regard to intercourse
with Rebels.
From Nashville we have news Of the capture
Of force of Rebel Cavalry known as the
Texas Lagoon, numbering l2e men, including
eight commissioned officers. The affair took
place eight miles south Of Franklin. Tenn,
where the Legion was suddenly surrounded BY
$50 Union Cavalry, commanded by Col. Wat
kins of the 9th Kentucky. The Rebel Colonel
was taken, but managed to escape. Five
Rebels were mortolly wounded; no casualties
on our side,
-New-Orleans papers give apparently good
evidence that the Rebel gunboat Webb, the
most formidable craft of theirs on the Mis-.
sissippi, was destroyed during the fight at Port
Hudson on the 18th ult. An officer Of the
Union war steamer Monongahela says that
when that vessel was aground during the fight
a craft resembling an iron.clad came down
rapidly about fifty feet from the Monongahela
and as she passed was treated to broadside;
the crashing of her sides aud the cry ave
are sinking" was heard, but in d moment the
current and her own engines swept her out of
sight. The Webb has not been heard from
since that day at New-Orleans, and the infer.
ence 10 that the craft above mentioned was
her, and that she went to the bottom.
One Of our seamen, just parOled from Port
Hudson heard while there that our feet did
much damage to the Rebel Notifications; that
one of the lower batteries was spiked pre-
paratOry to abandonment; that many persons
were ked--as many as 25 in one battery.
and thatsp few hours Of continued lombard
ment would beyond doubt have given us the
place. He says the Rebel ram Webb was
destroyed during the fight.
Admiral Porter records the success Of a
north Of the mouth of the Arkansas River, by
which the distance between the Arkansas aud
mouth of White River is reduced one-half-
from 20 to 10 miles. This is Of great advan-
tage in defending or attacking those rivers;
the point itself thus cut of is also consider.
able gain, it having been secure lurking.
place for gueTillas, who would attack boat
IN one side, and be ready for her again on the
,ther long before she could get around the
bend.
A rumor was current yesterday at Nash
Tille that Gen. Bragg had been shot end in.
,tantly killed at Tullahoma, on Sunday, by
Con. Breckenridge.
Our Hilton Head correspondence repre-
'ents the monitors and tho army there as
-eady for another movement, and indeed there
seems to be one actually in progress. He
Iays that before the close of this Qast) week
III the iron-clads will be again over the bar
It Charleston, and an attack must soon come
,f-this time in cooperation with the land
orces. The Rebels are hard at work
their land defenses upon the
Islands south of Charleston.
From Florida we learn that there are no
Rebels in arms east of the st. Johns River.
Col. Putnam Of New Hampshire, in command
al 81. Augustine, ia to return to Hilton Head
and take command of q brigade In the division
oil Gen. Terry. A sufficient force will still be
lett az St. Augustine and Fernandina TO hold
them against any force the Rebels can bring
against them.
Warm weather and tho roads improving
IS all No hear from Hooksr's army. Rich.