New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-10-06
NEWS OF THE DAY.
THE WAR.

Ir,O-no.;on is received of the destruction ol
Or. ,.o.,de.runnef Night Hawk IN the night 81 the
ooth s,tenbcr off Chew Inlet South Carolina oy the
49,, sb. Was run ashore on the Federal shoai"'
The Rebel captain officers and part of the crew. III al
,ws,,v.,hree were brought OFT tho remainder having
oscoped 10 shore The Night Hawk was an Engl'H
Steamer with a general cargo for Wilmington 'r"m
Be,muda; sailed from Liverpool Aug ~ anu WAN
owned in that place Her OF speed was fourteen
md sho was Of 600 tons burden cost S3oOo ard
had cspaoty for carving bales Of cotton. Finding
the eieaer cogld not be got off the shoas she was set
FIRE TO- aud TINS destroyed 1t appears that another
vessel succecdea earlier in The night in escaping from
NcxInlet although fired at by the Nphon aud appar-
emil, struck several times The Daylight drove OF
bocasde.runner which was attempting TO enter New
Iplei on the same morning.
The regular news dispatch from the mead
Quarters Of the Army Of the Potomac, dated TUESDAY!
says, "The utmost quiet has prevailed IN iroh' VI
Petersburg since SUNDAY. In passing over tho srou"u
where the Second Division OF the Ninth corps no'
the reverse on Saturday dead we're "uru e"'rc''
stripped Of clothing, and two or three OF the oo''
were horribly muiilated. Several men had e''"o"'!
been murdered sfcr being wounded nnd one o"ay Pre-
sented spectacle too horrible even to DO descroed
The steamer IRON Point % Rocks which arrived AZ
Fortress Monroe on Tuesday. reports that Gen Terry
had assaulted and captured Rebel battery on tho
Newmarket Read.
Rcar-Admiral Lee incloses sundry North Car
olna papers the Navy Department to show that tho
s,rngency Of the blockade Is felt aud Acknowledged py
the Rebels The Fgya'eriIs Cdrorisn says ine loss
Of tho A. d. Vance is pretty severe blow to our 9'ac'
Sac has done noble service for North Carolina SOL
diors, aud has paid for herself twenty times Inc
Lynx is tbe name Of the steamer bl'ckaderunhe'
chs ed TO shore by vessels on the North Csrciina
coast Oh the 2Jth nt and which was destroyed by IRE
The published official record of court-martial
cse for the pas, weak shows the conviction OF one
colonel one rutoaant. colonel four naors two assist
ant Surgeons fourteen captains and twenty-ono hrs'
and second .lieutenauts Nearly all Of them were dis
missed the service for various oenses including ten OF
twelve cases Tor drunkenness and four on account OF
cowardicc or u,isbehayior before the enemy.
The United States steamer Neptune sailed
from the Phadelphia Navy Yard yesterday Afternoon
for the East Gulf Blocsadlng sQuedron. Among
her passengers is Commodore Siribsng. late Com
mspdsnt of ,he Philadelphia Navy Yard. appointed Il
the command of tho squadron. 1oe San Jseinto vii
be bis Flagship.
The L. s. steamer Connecticut arrived Of
Boston yesterday from the Southern oiocfHdlne
spuadrons having delivered coo men to the different
vessels on the coast She stopped nj Hampton Roads
TO mail dispatches for Admiral Farrsgut she bring
no news of Importance.
One hundred and siyty-two men of the loth
Connecticut Volunteers Capt Goodyear In command
left Baltimore yesterday morning at O'Clock en- route
Tor Connecticut their term Of service having expired