The Express.
London, England, 1862-11-05 00:00:00

AMERICA.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)
(Per City of New York.)
NEW YORK, OCT. 24, Evasion.
Reconnaissances from General }Velellan's army
continue to be made, but no general advance has
taken place.
General Burnside has been assigned to the com-
mand of the defences at Harper's Ferry.
The Confederates are massed in the Shenandoah
Valley.

General Buell has relinquished the pursuit of
General Bragg, who has passed through Cumber-
land Gap into East Tennessee. The Confederates
carried immense trains of provisions out of Ken-
tucky. The Southern journals declare that Bragg's
invasion of Kentucky was a failure, and the
Northern newspapers denounce General Buell for
not having prevented General Bragg's escape from
that State.

Nashville is entirely cut off from communication
with the North.

Confederate forces, numbering 1,000, crossed the
Cumberland River, and encamped seven miles
north of Nashville, but were driven back across the
river by the Federals.
Semi-official despatches from Washington say
that the Federal government would give half a mil-
lion dollars for the capture of the Confederate
steamer Alabama, or three hundred thousand dol-
lars for her destruction.

The New York Tribune says, "It is believed in
Washington that if the circumstances of the sinking
of the steamer Blanche in Spanish waters by the
Federal steamer Montgomery are as stated, the
Federal government will repudiate the action of the
captain of the Montgomery."

NEW YORK, Ocr. 25, Mosarma.

General Buell hea been removed from the com-
mand in Kentucky, and replaced by General
Rosencranz.

The Southern journals state that the Federal
have evacuated Corinth and Bolivar, Mississippi.
There has been organised resistance to the draft
among the Pennsylvanian miners, but affairs have
now been adjusted.
The returns of the elections continue to show
considerable democratic gains throughout the
country.
The New York Gerald says that another conven-
tion of governors will meet, to consider the removal
of General AUClellan, and urge the enforcement of
the Confiscation Act.

It is reported that the Federals have captured
an island in Galveston Bay. _

The Southern papers affirm that the reported
capture of large numbers of Confederate prisoners
is untrue.

Large Meetings have been held at Brooklyn,
endorsing President Lincoln's proclamation, and
denouncing the Union as it was.
According to intelligence received here from New
Granada, Mosquera had firmly established his go-
vernment throughout the country. The conserva-
tives had been defeated with heavy loss in a decisive
battle.

The Australasian and Kangaroo have arrived out.
NEW YORK, Ocr. 25, Evans.

At a democratic meeting, held in Brooklyn,
resolutions were passed pledging democracy to
restore the lJnion as it was, and to maintain the
constitution as it is ; denouncing arbitrary arrests
and interference with the freedom of the press.
President Lincoln's emancipation proclamation was
declared unwise in policy and bad in principle,
securing an united South, but making a disunited
North.

The name of the Governor of Massachusetts was
hissed by the meeting.
Mr. Horatio Seymour declared that democratic
relationship to the government had changed within
the last few weeks, and that Democracy now com-
manded the situation.

Thirty Federal machine workers at Portsmouth,
Virginia, have gone over to the Confederates.
The superintendent of a plantation near New
Orleans has been killed by negroes. It was
rumoured that the negroes afterwards revolted,
and that the military were called out. The dis-
turbance was quelled after several were killed.
The British steamer Rinaldo arrived at New
Orleans on the Bth. .

Semi-official Washington despatches say that the
Mexicans were making great efforts to resist the
French invasion.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, OCT. 24, EVIENIEG.

Money abundant ; gold declining, present price
31 per cent. premium. Exchange dull, 145 to 146.
Stock advancing ; New York Central,lo6l ; lllinois,
811 ; Erie, 65. Cotton heavy ; middling upland,
60c. Flour heavy. Wheat, corn, and sugar steady.
Provisions dull. Coffee and molasses very firm.

A letter from Rome, in the Paris Prase, says
Your readers have, doubtless, not forgotten the little
Jewish Mortara, who was shut up, after his baptism, in the
convent of St. Pierre•aux-Liens. lam assured that he has
just had conferred upon him the minor orders."
BRIGANDAGE IN SOUTHERN ITALY.—The Espero
of the 2nd inst. states that number of brigandswere

attacked by a small party of (arbioeers, in the vicinity of
Naples, and dispersed, four being taken, including one who
was wounded. And that, on the 26th, four brigands be-
longing to a band of more than one hundred, presented
themselves before the Signori De Peppe, at Lucent, and pro-
mised that if those of them who bad not committed any
criminal acts might count on pardon, all would give them-
selves up. Also, that, in the beginning of 'October, the
brothers Giuseppe and Vicar) Gamed., of Lecinforte, whim
returning to their homes, were shot by persons unknown.
Four of those implicated in the murder bays bees arrested.
At an exhibition given in Troy recently, a
committee of ladies was appointed to make a pil-
grimage through the audience, and select the handsomest
man ir. the room. The fair judges promptly disc=
their duty. for which they were the recipients of the
plaudits of the iuremblage. The lucky man, whom the de-
ciaion of the ladies pronounced the handsomest cat, wee
the major of the Twenty-fourth Regiment.
major reoeived a prise is a reward for his good looknenC
whole affair must hays surprised the gallant maor, who,
it is reported, was conveyed to his residence in a back, hat
whether in charge of the charming committee does not are
peer.—Arnerican paper.
Gold has been discovered in Upper Surinam, in
Dutch Guiana.