New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-08-24
NEWS OF THE DAY.
THE WAR.

We have q little later good news from Charles
ton by the arrival u correspondence up 70 the 1874
rs: wednesday morning. The attack o. Sumter CON.
menccd on MONDAY morning by Gen. 0llmc.es siege
batteries ard tie naval shore battery The Mcritor
feet aided 10y the wooden yossals, at;scscd FORTS
Wagner and Gregg with great lrF! sencine he former
and almost seacg the la:.el has enabling ihe shore
batteries 70 Ia. Oh Sam.c. The Norto.a HfapSco
and Passaic were within i.lDO .yai,s o. rtcr, and
Waved into il with considerable havoc. not from
Wagner broke a piece Of the iatesio. liir@ OF the
Moiitor Caskn when within l50ysrds % that crt Tie
piece striking tie heads Of Commodore 70 se1e and
Pcymastor Woodbury. instantly Killing boil u. ilesi
These were the o-.y plis9as injured. TIE -lasseto
the walls Of Sninter by the shore b1scTics and TIE
Monitors is yib, without De aid Of glass. 1Aes1un
and east face Of the fort looks Ike honeycomb and it,
entire de.no..shnie-t viz be soon ac,oapial d. No
damaee TO oar acc.. TIE shore batteries coltuuc an
incessalt fre.
The destruction Of Lawrence, Kansas, BY Guam
trei and bis band " mgilerols was most horrible piece
ofwork The Isl Of killed and wounded citizens saidto
nuubo: $50 the majority of whom iiled outright.
Among those killed were the Mayor and lis SON. and
number Of other prominent cizens-all shot down IN
their own houses ia the midst OF their families PIiage
acc murder has before during tie war been carried
10 srch fearful extent ly tic miscrcants v no
cor rose Quantrcrs band. General jim Lane II now
arpcars succeeded il making bis escape ron the town
or horseback ana rallied twenty men, with whom he
po.sued the InuTderers though with success 1t Is
dcrotul Whether they cen be oyertaken before they
viii have sposed % Ae.r plnder and dispersed. The
,oss AZ Lawrence !, is estimated viii amount 10 about
tvo millions. which VIII FIJI heavily on Newyork as
well as Lawrence merchants. The people Of Lovrence
II arrears, were wholly prepared 20. ls attack and
shey received no assistance ron the miiia! IL the
district until too late to avert tie calamity.
Adyices from Gen. Roiocrans's amy TO the
le.h and from Gen. BCrnsdes to tie !s.i state thai
both were then on the mo,e-.ie fofaor bound for
Chattanooga and tAe latter for Knoxye. Tie C'@e'~
All Ga.eue of Friday says 1--WE h4ye private advices
ftom the Army Of the Cumberland up 10 Monday even
yre the 18th inst A movement was in progress, and
re rrbic NAV soon look for important news iiom East
Tennessee The oyaliss Of that SECTION so long bound
s.d 40 terribly crushed by Rebel tyranny viii soon be
uhcratcd or if not the Army ofthe Clmb aFand which
has reyer been defeated will fail 10 accomplish its
object
A few DAYS ago an expedition from Gen. HUH
,,.,s command was sent ont from Lagrange Tenn, to
A,,t,oy lot of Rebel railroad material at Grenada
Aiss It. Col Philips Of the 18th Illinois Mounted III
Antry was entrusted with the job He LETT Lagrange
ON ,hs 18th and reached Grenada the l7th drove
;ou. slemmer with 900 out Of the place and de-
orcd 81 locomotives 400 cars all the depos and shops
a.. captured number Of prisoners.
A communication from Beauregard's Chief OF
,r oubl,shed In The CAarieaon Mercury, announces
,e negroes in arms captured on Morris Island are
ia srb,oct to the order Of the Governor Of South
n.ecus in accordance with the act Of the Rebel Con
directing the delivery Of such captured negroes u
0ovsrpors Of the States in which the capture might
- mado.
rour hundred more Rebels, captured at Fall
TX Waters and incarceratcd In prison IN Da %.,
Ian that city on Thursday for Point Loo.ou' m
makes nine hundred prisoners now ~ RUM 80, y.
osr,ared at the battle Of Failing "S'''' ""''''
Aays was never fought