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

THE WAR IN AMERICA.

NEW YORK, YORK, OCT. 24 (-Evening).
(Per City of New York.)

Reconnaissances from General I\l'Clellan'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.

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

Large meetings have been held at Brooklyn, en-
dorsing President Lincoln's proclamation and de-
nouncing the Union as it was.

According to intelligence received here from New
Granada, Mosquera had firmly established hiv 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.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Money abundant. Gold declining; present price
31 per cent. premium. Exchange dull ; 145 to
146. Stock advancing; New York Central, 103/
Illinois, 813-; Erie, 65.
Cotton heavy. Middling upland, 60c.
Flour heavy. Wheat, corn, and sugar steady.
Provisions dull.
Coffee and molasses very firm.

OCT. 25, MORNING.

General Buell has been removed from the com-
mand in Kentucky, and replaced by General Rose-

cranz.

The Southern journals state that the Federals
have evacuated Corinth and Bolivar, Mississippi.
There has been organised resistance to the
draught among the Pennsylvanian miners, but
affairs nave now been adjusted.
The returns of the elections continue to show
considerable Democratic gains throughout the
country.

The New 1 ork, Herald says that another conven-
tion of Governors will meet to consider the removal
of General M'Clellan, and urge the enforcement of
the Confiscation Act.

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

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-
million dollars for capture of the Confederate
steamer Alabama, or 300,000 dols. for her de-
struction.

The New I orb: 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."
EVENING.

At a Democratic meeting held in Brooklyn reso-
lutions were passed pledging Democracy to restore
the Union as it was and to maintain the Constitution
as it is, denouncing arbitrary arrests and interfe-
rence with the freedom of the press. President. Lin-
coln's emancipation proclamation was declared un-
wise 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
relationships 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 bas been killed by negroes. It was ru-
moured that the negroes afterwards revolted, and
that the military were called out_ The disturbance
was quelled after several were killed.
The British stomer 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.

(Per Hibernia, vta Father Point.)
NEW YORK, OCT. 25 (Evening).
The Confederates have been routed at,Pea Ridge,
Arkansas, with loss of artillery and camp equipage.
The City of New York and the Hansa take out
1,000,000 dols.

The Bavaria has arrived out.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, OCT. 25 (Evening).
Money abundant. Gold, 30:. Exchange dull--
144 i to 1441. Stocks steady. New York Central,
107* ; Illinois, 83: ; Erie, 641. Cotton quiet ; mid-
land Upland, 60c. Flour heavy, and 15c. lower.
Wheat 2c. lower, and declining. Corn advancing,
lie. higher. Provisions quiet. Coffee steady.
Sugar—good inquiry. Molasses very firm.

MARKETS-THIS DAY.