The Express.
London, England, 1863-07-04 00:00:00

EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 4, 1863.

LATEST INTELLIGENOIL

(RIVAS'S Tzmiliam.)
AMERICA.
(Per the Africa.)

CAPTURE OF A CONFEDERATE IRON-
CLAD STEAMER.
PROGRESS OF THE INVASION.
NEW YORK, JONI 22, Evirgmo.

The Confederate ironclad steamer Atlanta, for-
merly the Finlay, steamed out of Savannah and
was captured by two Federal ironclad', after 30
minutes' fighting.
The blockading squadron has sunk the steamer
Herald of Charleston. The fate of the crew is un-
known. Broadsides were fired at the vessel till she
sank. It is stated that in future the fleet will not
wait to capture but will fire at blockade runners
till they sink or surrender. A steamer, supposed
to be the Isaac Smith, has been sunk
while endeavouring to get out of Charleston.
A steamer, supposed to be the Beauregard or
Britannia, was sunk on the 11th inst. while endea-
vouring to enter Charleston.
A schooner privateer is cruising off Nantucket,
and a burning vessel has been seen in that vicinity.
The privateer Tacony captured the Liverpool
packet, Isaac Webb, on the 20th, in long. 68 and
lat. 40.35, and bonded her for 40,000 dollars.
The Tacony has also burned the brig Umpire.
Admiral Foote is dying.
The reported fighting at Centreville is not
confirmed, and it is denied that there is any
Confederate infantry force on this side of the Bull
Run mountains.

General Lee does not occupy Thoroughfare Gap,
and his army is not nearer Washington than the
Shenandoah Valley, although there M a Confederate
cavalry force at Middleburg, in the centre of London
Valley.
General Pleasanton attacked General Stuart's
cavalry at Middleburg on the 21st, and reports
that be drove them all day, capturing two pieces
of artillery and 60 prisoners.

The estimates of the Confederate forces massed
on the Upper Potomac at Williamsport,
Hagerstown, Sharpsburg, and around Antietam,
and Frederick, vary from 40,000 to 80,000 men.
General Ewell is said to be fortifying Hagerstown.
The Confederatts have erected a substantial bridge
across the Potomac at Williamsport, and a pontoon
bridge at Shepherd's Town. They have de-
stroyed all the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road bridges from Harper's Ferry to Cum-
berland. The apprehensions of an attack on
Baltimore have not abated. Earthworks are erected
around the west and north aides of the city, and
barricades in the streets. Federal militia continue
to be sent there. General Lee officially reports, on
the 15th inst., that General Ewell's division suc-
cessfully stormed the entrenchments of Winchester.
Milroy's defeat appears to have been disastrous,
since he abandoned three batteries of field artillery,
siege guns, 28 waggons, and 1,200 horses ; 5,000 of
his troops are missing: but they continue to come
in from various parts of the country.
The Federal General Keyes, with a force from
the Peninsula, was within 17 miles of Richmond
on the 15th. A small force of Confederate cavalry
has crossed the Ohio river, with the intention of
making a raid into Indiana, but the greater portion
were captured. The Governor of Indiana has
called out 20,000 militia for six months.

NEW YORK, Sum 23, Evxmnio.

The Confederates have reoccupied Chambersburg,
and apprehensions of their advancing on Harrisburg
are renewed.
In consequence of the slaughter of negro troops
at Milliken's Bend, General Grant has threatened
to retaliate if coloured troops are executed when
captured.
General Johnstone is fortifying the east bank of
Big Black River.
The Confederates estimate their loss during
General Grant's different attacks on Vicksburg at
6,000 men, and the Federal losses at 40,000. They
think that Grant's present force, with the rein-
forcements which he has received, does not exceed
60,000 men. No fears are expressed of a want of
provisions at Vicksburg.
Advices from New Orleans to the 14th represent
the siege at Port Hudson to be progressing
favourably.
Southern journals assert that the Federal steamer
Essex had been captured at Port Hudson, and
several gunboats disabled, and that a battle
occurred at Po,:, Hudson on the 12th, during
which the Confederates left their entrenchments,
drove General Banks from his fortifications, and
spiked his guns.
Sixteen Mobile adventurers have captured the
Federal steamer Boston at the mouth of the Mis-
sissippi, afterwards burning two barques, and
taking the steamer into Mobile.
A Confederate cavalry force, numbering 900, has
invaded Indians, in order to burn the bridges o
the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad.

The Federal General Carter's cavalry is making
a raid in East Tennessee.

The Confederates are reported to be moving on
the whols Federal line from Memphis to Corinth,
and cutting the railroads and telegraph wires.
The Federal expedition from Port Royal has
entirely destroyed the town of Darien, Georgia.

Nothing was known at Newbern of the forces
reported to have concentrated in North Carolina
for resistance to the Confederate government.
The Confederate iron-clad Chattahooeha has been
destroyed by an explosion while making a raid on
the Federal fleet at Palachicols.

The British brig Isabella Thompson has been
captured.

The Pete rhoff trial has been postponed.
NEW YORK, Juaa 23, EVINII4O.
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Money easier. Gold, 431 per cent. prern.—Ez-
change on London : Bankers' bills, 156 k. Stocks
very firm. New York Centrals, 119} ; Illinois,
103} ; Erie, 051 ; Siz per Cent. United States
Bonds, 104.

NEW YORE, Juxz 24, Ilforermo.
(By Telegraph to Halifax.)
General Ewell is reported to be in Bonneaboro'
Valley, Maryland, with from 30,000 to 40,000
men. He crossed at Antietam ford and Shepherds-
town. The Federals have reoccupied Frederick.
General Hooker was in Washington yesterday,
where a council of war was held.

Mr. Vallandigham ran the blockade at Wilming-
ton, in a vessel bound to Nassau.

One thousand citizens are said to be encamped
at Bloomington, Indiana, with pickets extending
eight miles around, for the purpose of resisting the
draft.

An enrolling officer has been shot dead in Penn-
sylvania while arresting deserters.
Two men have been shot dead in Maine while
arresting two deserters, who afterwards committed
suicide.

General Schenk has forbidden the Baltimore
papers to publish extracts from the New York
World and Express.
The privateer Tacony burned six schooners and
three ships off Nantucket, on Monday last

The steamer Ruby has been driven ashore off
Charleston.

It is reported that Captain Semmes has trans-
ferred his command from the Alabama to the
steamer Georgia.

LATER NEWS.
EXCITEMENT IN PENNSYLVANIA AND
MARYLAND.

RUMOURED ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN THE
ALABAMA AND THE VANDERBILT.
NEW YORK, Jaws 25, Evniata.
(By Takgraph to Halifax.)

The panic and apprehension caused by the Con-
federate invasion continue throughout Pennsylvania
and Maryland. The citizens from the border are
hurrying to Harrisburg, and thousands of men are
working on entrenchments in Baltimore and Pitts-
burg.
General Hailed has visited Baltimore, and in-
spected the defences.
This morning the Confederates were within 16
miles of Harrisburg, and were reported to have 10
regiments, with artillery and cavalry, in South
Mountain, beyond Gettysburg.
Lee's object in threatening various points in
Pennsylvania is still supposed to be to draw
Hooker's army from Washington.
Generals Lee and Loogstreet, with 100,000 men,
were reported to have been at Winchester on
Friday last, and it is supposed that Lee's whole
army has creased since ',Friday into Maryland at
Antietam, Sheppardstown, and Williamsport.
On Sunday large Confederate trains were moving
north through, Hagerstown, Martinsburg, and
Boonesborough.

Rhodes' Confederate division, 12,000 strong with
13 pieces of artillery, crossed at Shepparctstown on
Sunday. Half of them moved northward on
Tuesday, and the other half went to Williamsport..
The Baltimore American says that General Ewell
is advancing in the direction of Frederick.
General Hooker's army occupies the whole Vir
ginia shore of the Potomac up to Harper's Ferry,
and it is supposed that General Hooker will
cross the Potomac at the same fords where Lee
entered Maryland last year, and place himself be-
tween Lee and Washington and Baltimore. The
garrison at Maryland heights now forms the
right wing of Hooker's army. Ewell's advance
towards Frederick is supposed to be to prevent the
junction of Hooker with Harper's Ferry, but this
junction is said to have been accomplished.
The New York Herald thinks that General Lee's
forces will cut the different railroad lines, and iso-
late Maryland and Washington from communication
with the North and West, and that Lee, with his
main army, will occupy some central point between
Baltimore and Washington, and compel Hooker to
corns out and fight, under pain of being isolated
from the Eaat, North, and West.
Twenty thousand of General Bragg's troops are
reported to have reinforced Richmond.
The Governor of New Jersey has recalled the
troops of that state from Pennsylvania. A dispute
between himself and the Governor of Pennsylvania,
and the fact that the Jersey troops were abused as
copperheads, caused him to take this step.
General Milroy is reported to be superseded.
The Federals were to commence firing hot shot
into Vicksburg on the 20th.
Southern journals report that a heavy engage-
ment was progressing on the 21st between the
Confederate cavalry and the Federals at Big Black
Bridge.
General Banks officially reports on the 14th that
he had established batteries within 350 yards of
Port Hudson. After a vigorous cannonade he
summoned the garrison to surrender. The Confe-
derates having refused, an assault was made, and
General Banks gained and held a position within
50 to 100 yards of the enemy's works.

General Banks is confident of imams,.
The reported capture of the steamer Essex is
denied.
Advices from Havannah state that it was rumoured
there that an engagement occurred on the 3rd be-
tween the Alabama and the Vanderbilt off Santa
Cruz.

The privateer Tacony continues her depredations
off Nantucket. Since the 12th she has burned 17
vessel+ among which were the ship Byzantium,
bound from London for New York, and the bark
Goodspeed, from Londonderry for New York.