New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-04-18
THE WAR NE VS..

The studied silence Bs 70 movements -
Gen. Hocker's army is broken at last. Our
Washington correspondent states that our
forces comprising cavalry infantry, and ar
t;llerv. under Gen. StonomaD. tho Chief ct
Cavalry, after making feint OF crossing at
Kelly's Ford, crossed the Rappahanuock some
distance higher up, and rapidly pushed on to
Culpeper and GordOnsville. They now occuP!
the latter place, having driven out the enemy.
This movement took place day before yester-
day. we presume. What more might have been
done but for the i0Opportune storn-the third
or fourth that has fallen upon the Army OF
the Potomac at most critical moment-we
can only guess BY the occupation of Cor
louisville. the Rebels lose the use Of the Viz
ginia Central Railroad, and are practically
fanked at Fredericksburg Perhaps this move
ment mny account for the otherwise unaccount-
able suspension of the grand Rebel effort to
capture Foster and retake Newbern, Suffolk
and the Sounds.
The Navy Department has received an nc
count of a little fight in the Nansemond River
on Tuesday last. (The Nan'emond rs the
stream running into the James, next above
Elizabeth River, and is the regular water COM
munc.ton with Suffolk, in which neighborhOod
the Rebels have been operating oil the week. }
The report states that on Tuesday morn
L ing some of our vessels came down-from
Suffolk, probably-the Mount Washington,
steamer, being disabled. About noon tho
Rebels opened, and our vessels ct once got
into action. At l o'clock the Mount Wash
inCton got aground, and the Rebels made her q
special target at 700 only yards At high water
the steamer Stepping Stones hauled the Mount
Washington Off and at 5 p. IN, the Rebel
batteries were silenced. Our loss was slight,
only five killed and eighteen wounded. Our
vessels were TO anchor for the night just
where they had fought all day. The object Of
the enemy was TO cross the river, so as to get
in the rear of Suffolk; but at the date Of this
report they had not done so, and it was
thought that they were in retreat Our letters
from Suffolk are up 10 the 10th. No import
ant military events had taken place. 1t was
supposed that a fight would come OF very
soon, unless Longstreet's. Rebel force should
withdraw.
From Richmond papers Of the 10th We learn
that all was quiet at Charleston (on the 18TH
we presume). Union troops occupy Coles
HAWAII, and Seabrook Islands. sesbrook lies
at the mouth Of the North Edisto River. Kia-
wah lies Immediately above Seabrook, from
which it ia separated by narrow creek.
Coles Island lies at the junction OF the Folly
and Stone Rivers, separated from Hawai- by
Stono Inlet. Coles Island was occupied before the
late attack by two or three Union regiments
who advanced inland some distance, driving
the Rebel pckets before them. The Richmond
papers also report that the Rebels have destroyed
two gunboats and three transports on the
Cumberland River. This is evidently an en-.
argement OF an old story.
BY way Of st. Louis we have word from
Arkansas. A dispatch from Col Phillips, dated
the 18th, at Park Hill, in the Cherokee Nation,
states that he Ia, cleared the Rebels from the
north side of Arkansas River, and part of his
command now hold Fort Gibson. Park Hill is
on the road from Fayetteville to Tahlequah,
and Fort Gibson is al old Government post
beyond Tablequah. on the Neosho, near it,
junction with the Arkansas Col. Phillips had
received overtures OF loyalty from the Creeh
Indians. The Rebels were in force on the
south side Of the Arkansas, and held all the
fOrds.
CWARLEsTON AGAIN.