The Express.
London, England, 1863-04-23 00:00:00

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

The Richmond Whig asserts that the Federal.
have withdrawn their troops from the peninsula
opposite Vicksburg, and have cut the levee, turn-
ing the water into their old oamping ground.
Commodore Farragut with three vessels remained
above Port Hudson. He has landed and destroyed
the Confederate stores at Bayou Sara. The attack
on Vicksburg is expected this week.
The Federals have contracted their lines at
Memphis.

General Footer's position at Washington, North
Carolina, is still critical. One gunboat from New-
ham is reported to have reached him, but the
others were repulsed. Some accounts say that
Washington was burnt, but do not state by whom.
The Richmond Despakh says :—"TheConfede-

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rata; have captured a battery seven miles below
Washington, and sunk one steamer which was going
to the assistance of General Foster. General
Foster has refused General Hill's demand to
surrender."

The Confederates under Van Dorn have attacked
the Federals at Franklin, Tennessee, and after two
hours' fighting, retreated, leaving their dead on the
field.

General Wright has issued a proclamation to
the people of California, stating, although the
great mass of the people on the Pacific coast are
loyal, there are traitors who are endeavouring to
involve the country in a civil war. He warns such
that retributive juatioe will be their doom.
The arrest of four persons charged with being
Knights of the Golden Circle caused a large mob
to assemble at Reading, Pennsylvania, but order
was preserved. Oue witness swore he was at a
meeting of Knights when the abduction of Mr.
Lincoln and the establishment of the North-
Western Confederacy were proposed, but the im-
portance of affairs seems to have been exaggerated,
and the testimony of the witness not very credit.
able.
News has been received from New Orleans of the
capture by the Confederates of the Federal steamer
Diana in the Outchafalaya River.
The Diana left Brathear on a reconnoitring ex-
pedition, but encountered some Confederate masked
batteries at Patersonville, and after &sharp engage.
ment, in which Capt. Peterson and several gunners
were killed, the Diana surrendered.
A Federal expedition has reached a point on the
west side of the Mississippi, half way between Port
Hudson and Point Coupe, and after destroying a
Confederate steamer loaded with molasses, and
burning Confederate stores, returned to Baton
Rouge.
The Federal expedition to Pontchatonla and Pass
Mancha° is reported to be successfuL The Federal,
had oocitipied both places.
The Confederates are building batteries on the
Yazoo Pass, three miles from Greenwood.

♦ Federal gunboat expedition started for Yazoo
River on the lat.

The Confederates are oonstructing • fleet of
cotton-protected Qoubo•ts at Shreveport, Louisiana.

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