The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-10 00:00:00

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THE WAR IN AMERICA.

QUEENSTOWN, Nov. 8.

The Royal Mail steamer Asia, from Boston on
the 20th and Halifax on the 31st of October, ar:
rived hare at 10 a.m. She brings 61 passengers
and 145,210 dols. in specie. She landed all the
mails and five passengers, and proceeded at 10.15
a.m. All well.

NEW YORK, OCT. 27, EVENING.
The Confederate Ger.eral Wise is advancing to
attack Yorktown with 20,000 men.
The Confederp,.
"tes have evacuated Galveston,
Texas. The Federals have since occupied the city.
The Federals have also occupied Sabine Pass,
Texas.

The Confederates occupy the Tennessee shore
opposite Island Number Ten.
General Beauregard officially reports that Aboli-
tiouists had attacked Pocataligo and Yoosawatchie,
on the Charleston Railroad, but were repulsed and
driven to their gunboats, They came in 13 gun-
boats and transports,
General Pleas';nton's cavalry and Burnside's
corps have orrAsed the Potomac, and are moving
on Leesburg,
The F (:deral troops on Bolivar Heights will move
forwP.rd on Monday.
Active movements are making on the Upper
Potomac.

The DerrAocrats have carried the elections in
PennsyNania by 3,500 majority.
In 'Ohio the Democratic State ticket has been
eler,:ted by 8,000 majority.

OCT. 28.

The New Fork. Herald of the 28th gives the fol. I
lowing as the situation of affairs at that date :—The
rumour of an advance of our army into Virginia,
which created some excitement yesterday, has re.
ceived confirmation. by later despatches from vari-
ous points. Ge,u. M'Clellan moved his headquarters '
yesterday the Virginia side of the Potomac. At
daylight. General Pleasanton's cavalry crossed the
river 'at Berlin, and pushed on to Lovettsville in the
dirt-etion of Leesburg, which point he was supposed
to have occupied immediately. Gen. Burnside fol-
lowed with his corps, and took up a position near
Lovettsville. No battle appears to have occurred.
Up to last evening everything was quiet. Gen.
Pleasanton Was said to be within a few hours'
march of the rebel Gen. Longstreet's forces.
The recent pains, which ceased at ten o'clock yes-
terday, have not materially interfered with the
fords at either Shepherdstown or Williamsport. At
Harper's Ferry the water rose two inches, and the
Sbanandoah was increased four inches at the same
point. The rebel cavalry in considerable numbers
continue to show themselves between Martinsburg
and Cherry Run, and a regiment was seen and fired
at opposite Sharpsburg on Monday, but the main
body of the enemy seem to have fallen back beyond
Winchester. It is thought that Gen. Lee is making
as fast as possible for Gordonsville.
The news fr.en Arkansas of another great battle
and victory In the vicinity of Pea Ridge imparts
some life and interest to the news of the day. The
immediate location of the late conflict was at
:NlPAysville, near 50 miles from Pea Ridge. The in-
telligence is conveyed in an official despatch from
General Curtis to General Ilalleck, recounting, in
brief, the rant that General Schofield, finding that
the enemy, under the rebel General Hindman, had
encamped at Pea Ridge, sent General Blunt with
the Ist division westward, and moved towards
Huntsville with the rest of his forces. General
Blunt, after a hard night's march, reached and at-
tackt-td the rebel force, from 5,000 to 7,000 strong,
at Maysville, at seven o'clock on the morning of
the 22d inst. The engagement lasted about an
hour, and resulted in the total rout of the enemy,
with the loss of all his artillery—a battery of six-
pounders, a large number of horses, and a portion
of their transportation and garrison equipments.
The Union cavalry and light howitzers were still
In pursuit of the enemy at last accounts. General
Schofield pursued General Hindman beyond Hunts-
-villa, coming close upon him, when his forees pre-
cipitately fled beyond the Boston mountain. Our
loss in the agair was very small.
Despatches from Cairo, Illinois, tell of a despe-
rate fight which took place at Waverley, In Ten-
nessee, on Thursday last. It appears that a rebel
force, 800 strong, attacked a party of 200 Union
troops at that place, which is located about twenty
miles southwest of Fort Donelson. After a severe
fight our men, though greatly inferior in numbers,
completely routed the enemy, killing 24 and cap-
turing 25 of them. Rumours were rife in Cairo
yesterday of a fight going on at Bolivar, and other
statements would seem to confirm it, for it was re-
ported at Corinth that the rebel General Price was
within four miles of that place on Sunday, with a
very large force. General Rosencranz has arrived
at Cairo en route to join his new command. Great
activity was observed among the rebels in the neigh-
bourhood of Helena, Vicksburg, and Holly Springs.
It was said that 70,000 men were at the latter place
under Generals Lovell and Van Dorn. A report
was prevalent in Memphis on Sunday that a force
of 1,000 rebel cavalry have stationed themselves
nine miles from here, on the Memphis and Charles-
ton road, and have taken possession of the Line,
with their head-quarters in the vicini▪ ty of Non-
conat, and is supposed to be the advance of a
large rebel force, who have designs upon the city.
Morgan's rebel guerillas in Kentucky have met
'with some sad reverses of late. Colonel Edward
M'Cook, with 500 cavalry, left Crab Orchard on
Thursday morning, and encountered several bands
of them and Scott's rebel cavalry at Poi▪
nt Liek and
Zig Hill, killing four or five and capturing their
.telegraph operator, with his apparatus ; also 33
waggons, partly loaded. The remainder of the
rehe;.s.went towards Mount Vernon.
The city of Galveston, Texas, has been evacuated
-by the rebels, and was occupied by our troops on
the sth instant.

Our news from the Southern papers to-day is
very important. The Richmond Dispatch has an
official report from General Beauregard, announcing
an attack by the Union troops on the Charleston
and Savannah Railroad at Yoosa watchie and Poco-
taligo, on Thursday, and were " gallantly repulsed"
by the rebel forces.
The enemy, he says, had come in 13 transports
and gunboats. The Charleston Railroad is unin-
jured. The " Abolitionists" left their dead and
wounded on the field.

General Bragg has furnished an official report.
of the battle at Perrysville, Kentucky, in which he
claims a great victory, which, he says, only for the
approach of night, wouldy' have been completed by
the
rhtroops from their position. The Dis-
patch of
retired to ae 24th says that Bragg's army has
im-
prudent to
astafe position, which it would be im-
secured 4,7,30 ate. General Bragg, it says, has
which have been
loaded with provisions,
with his army. brought away in safety,
lie lost 2,500 barrels of pork
which was left at t e "ingtoo, and fell into the
hands of the Yank, r
felt among the offiaeres reat, dissatisfaction was
ing back, and man .
ttragg's army at the fall-
they nsf of
order was given. them literally wept when
'rho conclusions to be drawn
antsp, are that
in our possession, contin,a-ern fro
Diatchm all the news
Bragg has either met such
of the enemy and successfall overwhelming force
retreated
wit t large stores of provisionYß before it
too timid and made forced mo-cehoresthat he has been
wearied his troops for an object which
fought and
daring enough to accomplish, ich he had
not
Governor Vance, of North Carolina
Pathetic appeal to the generosity of the ' makesPeole a
to
assist in clothing:the rebel soldiers before the winter
sets in. He describes them as already suffering for
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want of socks, shoes, and blankets. He calls upon
the farmers who are tanning hides to supply the
shoes, the mothers of North Carolina to knit the
socks, and the wealthy to give their parlour carpets
for blankets.
NEW YORK, OCT. 28, EVENING.
General APClellan has established his head-

quarters in Virginia.
The Confederates are reported to have evacuated
Winchester, and to ha moving in the direction of
Staunton, Virginia. General Burnside is advancing
to Winchester.

A body of Confederates visited Manassas Juno
tion on Friday last.